This is just crap. If I ask a cop for directions, should I ask another one, even if the first one seemed sure?
I wouldn't, but my girlfriend would.
Do you carry two companies maps of the same area in your car?
As funny as it might seems, I usually carry two maps of the same area in my backpack. One has better coverage of buildings numbers, and the other one better described public communication.
Do slashdotters advise other slashdotters to consult two lawyers independently for legal advice?
No, but I am a lawyer and so is my girlfriend, and I frequently consult with her, so effectively I consult two lawyers: myself and my girlfriend.
How many households own multiple dictionaries?
Mine do.
How many people have the time to read two daily newspapers, or watch two channels' weather forecasts on TV?
I do read two or three daily newspapers and consult two different online weather forecasts.
Actually in Poland this is already done -- see this Google search or this. When people use 10k PLN; when they mean 10,000 PLN, and 1,2m PLN; means 1,2E6 PLN; (1 zl; (PLN) = 0.3 USD).
Visa Electron is similar, but slightly different in implementation. The Electron payment process checks your account balance before allowing payment to proceed. It will not let you continue if paying would make you overdrawn. This is so the cards can be given to children. Banks are not, by law, permitted to loan money to minors and so an Electron or similar card is all you can get as a child (unless the bank decides it is willing to absorb any overdraft you run up). For some reason there are a significant number of places that won't accept Electron (even though any Visa machine will take it). I don't know why this is, perhaps something due to liability or fees?
The reason for many places not accepting Visa Electron is that basically VE is (usually) a Visa debit card with MO/TO/IO (Mail Order/Telephone Order/Internet Order) disabled. I have Visa Electron with MO/TO/IO enabled, and I use it succesfully everywhere where they are accepting plain Visa. Never my card was rejected.
That is just another reason to not to live in the USA. In Poland it is illegal to unreasonable refuse service to a customer -- one can get fined for that. So, in your case, in Poland, proper answer should be: "Go, ahead, call the police!"
Seriously though. Even cell phone service maps are nothing but a bunch of disconnected circles like the chicken pox in between interstates and cities.
In the US. In Europe there is hardly a place when there is no mobile service, and there are plenty of places where one can not have broadband. So this WiMax would solve it.
I concur. I have degree in Physics (engineering), and in Law. And I work as a System Administrator in small software developer company, and as a volunteer prosecutor trainee in local District Attorney's office. (Yes, in Poland we do have such position as a volunteer prosecutor trainee;-)
Mixing Law with IT (or generally any computer aware job) is a blessing to a person. Computer geeks don't understand law, lawyers don't understand computers. Both communities adore you. Lawyers, because not only you could fix their computers, but also because you actually understands all those computer crimes, how valuable is a computer-based evidence and can operate that horribly complicated legal software. Not to mention, that you are not scared of DA's office IT department folks.
And computer geeks adore you for actually understanding all those EULA's, and occasionally receiving free legal advice.
I mean, in both professions there is serious lack of persons understanding the other one. Many lawyers wish they would understand computers and many IT specialists wish they would understand law.
Or look at Poland: first voted for it, then decided to be against it, and now in a status of "oh, in case we're the only ones against we'd also vote for it".
No, our government is currently in status "we are not going to upset other countries and risk huge lossage of EU financial support for our unemployment stricken country, by acting alone for the 3th (or 4th) time".
Sort of reminds me of that saying (which I can't properly remember now): Beware of he who would control access to information, for in his heart, he wants to be your master.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would
deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
I'd rather say, that this is a display of how Western Culture is becoming Brand Culture.
I mean, corporation logos became a normal part of our enviroment. They are everywhere. People are used as a walking ads.
I am outraged by the actions of IOC. But let's ask ourselves, how those logos get on people's bags, shirts etc. Those people are not paid for advertising, and yet they are (uncounciously) advertising them.
It's because "I'm feeling lucky" in Google for http;// goes to microsoft.com. Just type http;// , press "I'm feeling lucky" and see for yourself. Firefox by default feeds "I'm feeling lucky" when something that is not an valid adress is typed. This behaviour is controlled by keyword.URL preference in about:config
I never thought that I was going to write post asking for Modding Parent Up, but here I am.
In Europe there are really many international organisations. There is European Union, European Economic Area, Council of Europe and referenced in the CNN article Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). All of them are important and in fact are making some kind of supranational governemnts. But they are different!
OSCE which is said to be an involved in the conference has NOTHING to do with the European Union beside that all EU members are OSCE members as well!
Well, scientifical theories are different from lay persons theories.
Taken from: Wikipedia article on theory:
In common usage a theory is often viewed as little more than a guess or a hypothesis. But in science and generally in academic usage, a theory is much more than that. A theory is an established paradigm that explains all or many of the data we have and offers valid predictions that can be tested. In science, a theory can never be proven true, because we can never assume we know all there is to know. Instead, theories remain standing until they are disproven, at which point they are thrown out altogether or modified slightly.
So, proven for 99.9999% theory of gravity is still a theory.
liberal != libertarian
That's about as bad as getting "conservative" and "conservationist" mixed up.
I am going for the first time use my karma bonus to set this straight. In every other place than the US, liberal is very similar to libertarian.
Indeed what is called in United States as libertarian in Europe and in political science is called liberal.
Wikipedia Political Liberalism article is saying: Notable among these are "free market liberalism" (the most common use of the term in Europe) and a broad swath of left-of-center United States politics, sometimes called "American liberalism"..
Also Wikipedia's Liberalism article: One usage of the term is for a tradition of thought, that tries to circumscribe the limits of political power, and to define inalienable individual rights. This is the most common usage outside of the United States.
See: classical liberalism or libertarianism.
Political Compass is saying in its FAQ:
20 You've got liberals on the right. Don't you know they're left ?
This response is exclusively American. Elsewhere neo-liberalism is understood in standard political science terminology - deriving from mid 19th Century Manchester Liberalism, which campaigned for free trade on behalf of the capitalist classes of manufacturers and industrialists. In other words, laissez-faire or economic libertarianism.
In the United States, 'liberals' are understood to believe in leftish economic programmes such as welfare and publicly funded medical care, while also holding liberal social views on matters such as law and order, peace, sexuality, women's rights etc. The two don't necessarily go together.
The linked Techworld article says something insightfull, but yet overlooked by posters: To waive the ruling, Monti asked Microsoft to commit not to distort competition by bundling peripheral software programs to Windows in the future. Microsoft, it would appear, declined.
It seems that real problem was not about including WMP in Windows, but Microsoft refusing to stop doing similar things in the future.
I hate Georgia for the misaligned numbers.
As a matter of fact I use Georgia everywhere except programming mostly because of those misaligned (old-style) numerals. They are blend with lowercase letters perfecly and give this cute pre-computer touch to text. In fact I am reading Slashdot in Georgia.
It's obvious that with the gradual acceptance of Linux by the business community, it's time for a stricter security model to be adopted. While OpenBSD has not shared in the commercial success of Linux, it does have one area of technical superiority: its security review process has yet to permit a remote root compromise in a standard install.
Ehem... Isn't OpenBSD motto is Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!? So OpenBSD's security rewiev process already permitted (granted, only one), root compromise in default install.
Besides, as article stated, it was not a remote hole. It was local hole -- exploitable due to an access to the developer's shell account.
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Dear Gamers "threatened" by Ms Quinn and by Ms Sarkeesian,
Get a life! You're mean, and those are just computer games.
Best wishes,
Confused human who is living a life (and treats computer games as mere entertainment)
Hot water doesn't freeze faster.
Sometimes, it does.
Confer:
I have billing address, shipping address and owner's address in Poland (EU) and Google Checkout works for me.
Actually in Poland this is already done -- see this Google search or this. When people use 10k PLN; when they mean 10,000 PLN, and 1,2m PLN; means 1,2E6 PLN; (1 zl; (PLN) = 0.3 USD).
That is just another reason to not to live in the USA. In Poland it is illegal to unreasonable refuse service to a customer -- one can get fined for that. So, in your case, in Poland, proper answer should be: "Go, ahead, call the police!"
Once again, it is so only in English speaking countries (and China). See Wikipedia
Downloading Windows XP Pro is (in most countries) a crime, while changing few bytes in Windows XP Home is not.
I concur. I have degree in Physics (engineering), and in Law. And I work as a System Administrator in small software developer company, and as a volunteer prosecutor trainee in local District Attorney's office. (Yes, in Poland we do have such position as a volunteer prosecutor trainee ;-)
Mixing Law with IT (or generally any computer aware job) is a blessing to a person. Computer geeks don't understand law, lawyers don't understand computers. Both communities adore you. Lawyers, because not only you could fix their computers, but also because you actually understands all those computer crimes, how valuable is a computer-based evidence and can operate that horribly complicated legal software. Not to mention, that you are not scared of DA's office IT department folks.
And computer geeks adore you for actually understanding all those EULA's, and occasionally receiving free legal advice.
I mean, in both professions there is serious lack of persons understanding the other one. Many lawyers wish they would understand computers and many IT specialists wish they would understand law.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal,
From Alpha Centauri, a game by Firaxis."U.N. Declaration of Rights"
I'd rather say, that this is a display of how Western Culture is becoming Brand Culture.
I mean, corporation logos became a normal part of our enviroment. They are everywhere. People are used as a walking ads.
I am outraged by the actions of IOC. But let's ask ourselves, how those logos get on people's bags, shirts etc. Those people are not paid for advertising, and yet they are (uncounciously) advertising them.
It's because "I'm feeling lucky" in Google for http;// goes to microsoft.com. Just type http;// , press "I'm feeling lucky" and see for yourself. Firefox by default feeds "I'm feeling lucky" when something that is not an valid adress is typed. This behaviour is controlled by keyword.URL preference in about:config
I never thought that I was going to write post asking for Modding Parent Up, but here I am.
In Europe there are really many international organisations. There is European Union, European Economic Area, Council of Europe and referenced in the CNN article Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). All of them are important and in fact are making some kind of supranational governemnts. But they are different!
OSCE which is said to be an involved in the conference has NOTHING to do with the European Union beside that all EU members are OSCE members as well!
Taken from: Wikipedia article on theory:
So, proven for 99.9999% theory of gravity is still a theory.
Wikipedia Political Liberalism article is saying:
Notable among these are "free market liberalism" (the most common use of the term in Europe) and a broad swath of left-of-center United States politics, sometimes called "American liberalism"..
Also Wikipedia's Liberalism article:
One usage of the term is for a tradition of thought, that tries to circumscribe the limits of political power, and to define inalienable individual rights. This is the most common usage outside of the United States.
See: classical liberalism or libertarianism.
Political Compass is saying in its FAQ:
20 You've got liberals on the right. Don't you know they're left ?
This response is exclusively American. Elsewhere neo-liberalism is understood in standard political science terminology - deriving from mid 19th Century Manchester Liberalism, which campaigned for free trade on behalf of the capitalist classes of manufacturers and industrialists. In other words, laissez-faire or economic libertarianism.
In the United States, 'liberals' are understood to believe in leftish economic programmes such as welfare and publicly funded medical care, while also holding liberal social views on matters such as law and order, peace, sexuality, women's rights etc. The two don't necessarily go together.
The linked Techworld article says something insightfull, but yet overlooked by posters:
To waive the ruling, Monti asked Microsoft to commit not to distort competition by bundling peripheral software programs to Windows in the future. Microsoft, it would appear, declined.
It seems that real problem was not about including WMP in Windows, but Microsoft refusing to stop doing similar things in the future.
Wikipedia is always in need of good contributors. Give it a try.
I hate Georgia for the misaligned numbers.
As a matter of fact I use Georgia everywhere except programming mostly because of those misaligned (old-style) numerals. They are blend with lowercase letters perfecly and give this cute pre-computer touch to text. In fact I am reading Slashdot in Georgia.
Besides, as article stated, it was not a remote hole. It was local hole -- exploitable due to an access to the developer's shell account.
So nothing special about that break-in. In long time run such incidents must happen on any machine with publicly available accounts.