...and for some god-unknown reason, SuSE have already tacked-on Mono dependencies all over the place in SuSE 10 roughly the same bloated footprint as XP for even the most minimal install. Sure, I was able to hunt down the offending bits, but geezuz.
Allow modding of both stories and submitters, not just content. Between the rotating mod points and meta-modding, most of these problems will quickly resolve themselves, including people bitching that it is the staff's fault. So, if a story is out for ten minutes and is quickly modded "-2 Slashverdisement" or "-5 Dupe," people who don't want to see that crap, well, won't. Most people who have made this suggestion have done so half-jokingly, but really, why the hell not?
No, INGSOC is puttering along quite nicely, removing paternalism (where's that story about removing time restrictions on liquor sales in England?). AMFASC, on the otherhand, is getting quite out of control.
Unfortunately, people get wet with glee when they see some asinitronomically huge penalty laid out for someone they hate not realizing that when the punishment for one thing is established, all other things quickly become relative and society becomes increasingly more punitive for everything imaginable.
Imagine if traffic accident penalties were calculated this way. Your tire blows out at 80mph and you cause a 150 car pile-up on a major commercial artery. We then calculate the total economic damage you caused by overinflating your tires and send you a bill for more money than you're likely to make before you drop dead.
This is NOT a good idea, no matter how loathsome the offense.
Literal translation only works for simple statements like "the monkey is in the tree." Anything beyond that requires human intervention as machine translation simply does not yet have enough nuance. You'd be crazy to rely on it for anything but the most trivial work.
...so unless Google releases it, that would be a big "no."
That said, the Google translator is pretty literal and, ergo, practically useless.
For example, the following text is from the French version of BBC news:
ISRAEL Le premier ministre Ariel Sharon est toujours dans un état critique après avoir été victime d'un grave accident cérébral hier. Il a subit sept heures d'intervention chirurgicale dans l'unité de soins intensifs d'un hôpital de Jérusalem.
Which, sure, you can "get" it with the Google translation to English, but good grief:
ISRAEL the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is always in a state criticizes after having been victim of a serious cerebral accident yesterday. It has undergoes seven hours of surgical operation in the unit of intensive care of a hospital of Jerusalem.
Versus the human translation from the English version of the same story:
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to be kept heavily sedated as he fights for his life after suffering a major stroke on Wednesday. Doctors in Jerusalem say they will keep the 77-year-old leader in an "induced coma" for up to 72 hours. Earlier, he underwent seven hours of surgery to stop bleeding in his brain.
"It's the new catch-all word that they're using to try to classify people without a definitive political classification."
For proponents, it conveniently evokes Liberty, and what could be more american than that?
For right-wing opponents, it sounds deliciously like "Liberal," which has become little more than a expletive whose definition has morphed basically into "anyone who is not a Republican and, thus, whose opinions are not a subject of serious discussion between enlightened minds."
For left-wing opponents, one can't help but think "Libertine," and who wants a bunch of reckless savages running around calling the shots? Tres barbare.
For centrists, eh, who cares? All of the above apply in equal measure.
...that's probably the most apt metaphor I've heard. Reminds me of when as a kid, I'd ride with a friend of mine to the drive-in movie theater on horseback. If the security to prevent watching those movies for free was so lax that you could drive two 1300lb animals through without impediment, who's fault is it that they "lost" six bucks? Did we really owe it to them?
The point is that the US via ICANN are self appointed judge and jury over the entire internet!... This isn't about attacking capitalism or even the US or ICANN.
Uhm... The country-code TLDs were designed to be controlled by the recognized governments of the territories represented by those codes. There is absolutely nothing questionable that with a clear, catastrophic change of government in a region that ICANN would "redelegate" that domain to the proper identification of that new government.
What you seem to be saying here is that the US is largely determining who that recognized government is which is a valid criticism and _certainly_ is applicable in the case of.af and.iq to the point that it is impossible to separate the issue. However, that does rather draw question to your claim that this isn't about attacking the US or ICANN.
For that matter, they should have a top-level category on/. for "Why ICANN SUXX0RZ." It would probably comprise 20% of the site.
What is it with people who think that ANY kind of government control of ANYTHING, ANYWHERE is unacceptable? Newflash people, "ownership" is a concept that _only_ exists within the context of a governmental legal system. Remove that and ownership becomes little more than possession.
That someone would complain about giving the Afghani or Iraqi government control of something that is by definition associated with the national state--immediately after the previous government has been removed from power--is simply astounding. Perhaps we should just hand it over to warlords and drug runners and let it descend into a bloody mess.
This anarcho-capitalist "ICANN is evil" saw has reached its nadir. If you want to live outside of government control, I invite you to move to Western Sahara and send us all a postcard telling us all about your newfound utopia.
...not speaking to the caveats of certain pieces of information, just to the paranoia that a government that already possesses said information in numerous forms will somehow become all-powerful and far more evil by printing it on plastic. Meh.
I did not say as passport was a replacement for a driver's license, only that it is a more authoritative ID, e.g., when opening a bank account or establishing right to work wherein you may provide a combination of DL plus SS card, birth cert, whatever, or JUST your passport. I've had several passports over the last twenty or so years, but dang, teach, thanks for the info.
It's called a "Passport" and I use it in just about every circumstance that calls for more than one form of ID, since for ID purposes, it counts for three (Birth Cert+Social Security Card+Drivers License). It has name, dob, sex, id number, image, address (also required to be physical and verified, i.e. on your utility bill etc.), is machine readable and is certain to have biometrics included as well within the year. Sure, you aren't _required_ to have one, but, eh, I don't see how having one authoritative ID card is any more dangerous or scary than having dozens, hundreds or thousands of smaller bureaucracies issuing them, most of which already exchange information, including to their federal parent.
...all the techs that are in widespread use and far superior to those that were predicted in Sci-Fi. You know, like the collection you're using right now to read this.
Yes, if you paid everyone $0.01, you're profit margin would be higher than if you paid everyone $0.02. Did you figure this out yourself or take a class?
The problem with your model, which in certain forms is flatly illegal and I suspect you're skirting legality (not to mention credulity) already, is that in effect you base your employees pay on YOUR performance, not theirs. So, they bust their butts and you lose a client (for whatever reason), which conveniently gets you off the hook for paying them. No matter how well it seems to work when your numbers are up, what matters is if you can survive when your numbers are down--and the good times NEVER last--shifting your business risk to your employees is a formula for instantaneous flight at the first sign of bad times and that is distinctly NOT good for business or the economy no matter what any anarcho-capitalist libertarian extremist nutjob tells you.
Nothing like seeing 95% of the "250,000 jobs TODAY!" just cut-and-paste dupes of fifteen agencies selling the same job. I've had so many headhunters call me for Dice/Monster jobs in swarms, like ten calls on the same day, for the same job from people (using the term loosely) 10,000 miles apart. Then there are the duplicates of those duplicates that they post every week to bump their position up for "jobs" that arguably do not exist for any purpose but bait for resume banking.
I figure, any number touted by Dice or Monster can be made more accurate by moving the decimal one position to the left and dividing by two.
Slashdot Mirror
...and for some god-unknown reason, SuSE have already tacked-on Mono dependencies all over the place in SuSE 10 roughly the same bloated footprint as XP for even the most minimal install. Sure, I was able to hunt down the offending bits, but geezuz.
Allow modding of both stories and submitters, not just content. Between the rotating mod points and meta-modding, most of these problems will quickly resolve themselves, including people bitching that it is the staff's fault. So, if a story is out for ten minutes and is quickly modded "-2 Slashverdisement" or "-5 Dupe," people who don't want to see that crap, well, won't. Most people who have made this suggestion have done so half-jokingly, but really, why the hell not?
"I don't even want to do something that feels GOOD for fifteen hours." -- Rita Rudner
...which is inside a certain agency that sends out the caller-ID 000-000-0000. /jot joking //scares the hell out of friends
No, INGSOC is puttering along quite nicely, removing paternalism (where's that story about removing time restrictions on liquor sales in England?). AMFASC, on the otherhand, is getting quite out of control.
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
Father warned me about men and liquor,
but he never said a word about
women and cocaine.
-Tallulah Bankhead
Unfortunately, people get wet with glee when they see some asinitronomically huge penalty laid out for someone they hate not realizing that when the punishment for one thing is established, all other things quickly become relative and society becomes increasingly more punitive for everything imaginable.
Imagine if traffic accident penalties were calculated this way. Your tire blows out at 80mph and you cause a 150 car pile-up on a major commercial artery. We then calculate the total economic damage you caused by overinflating your tires and send you a bill for more money than you're likely to make before you drop dead.
This is NOT a good idea, no matter how loathsome the offense.
Literal translation only works for simple statements like "the monkey is in the tree." Anything beyond that requires human intervention as machine translation simply does not yet have enough nuance. You'd be crazy to rely on it for anything but the most trivial work.
...so unless Google releases it, that would be a big "no."
That said, the Google translator is pretty literal and, ergo, practically useless.
For example, the following text is from the French version of BBC news:
ISRAEL Le premier ministre Ariel Sharon est toujours dans un état critique après avoir été victime d'un grave accident cérébral hier. Il a subit sept heures d'intervention chirurgicale dans l'unité de soins intensifs d'un hôpital de Jérusalem.
Which, sure, you can "get" it with the Google translation to English, but good grief:
ISRAEL the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is always in a state criticizes after having been victim of a serious cerebral accident yesterday. It has undergoes seven hours of surgical operation in the unit of intensive care of a hospital of Jerusalem.
Versus the human translation from the English version of the same story:
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to be kept heavily sedated as he fights for his life after suffering a major stroke on Wednesday. Doctors in Jerusalem say they will keep the 77-year-old leader in an "induced coma" for up to 72 hours. Earlier, he underwent seven hours of surgery to stop bleeding in his brain.
...but sadly, it is.
"It's the new catch-all word that they're using to try to classify people without a definitive political classification."
For proponents, it conveniently evokes Liberty, and what could be more american than that?
For right-wing opponents, it sounds deliciously like "Liberal," which has become little more than a expletive whose definition has morphed basically into "anyone who is not a Republican and, thus, whose opinions are not a subject of serious discussion between enlightened minds."
For left-wing opponents, one can't help but think "Libertine," and who wants a bunch of reckless savages running around calling the shots? Tres barbare.
For centrists, eh, who cares? All of the above apply in equal measure.
...that's probably the most apt metaphor I've heard. Reminds me of when as a kid, I'd ride with a friend of mine to the drive-in movie theater on horseback. If the security to prevent watching those movies for free was so lax that you could drive two 1300lb animals through without impediment, who's fault is it that they "lost" six bucks? Did we really owe it to them?
The point is that the US via ICANN are self appointed judge and jury over the entire internet! ... This isn't about attacking capitalism or even the US or ICANN.
.af and .iq to the point that it is impossible to separate the issue. However, that does rather draw question to your claim that this isn't about attacking the US or ICANN.
/. for "Why ICANN SUXX0RZ." It would probably comprise 20% of the site.
Uhm... The country-code TLDs were designed to be controlled by the recognized governments of the territories represented by those codes. There is absolutely nothing questionable that with a clear, catastrophic change of government in a region that ICANN would "redelegate" that domain to the proper identification of that new government.
What you seem to be saying here is that the US is largely determining who that recognized government is which is a valid criticism and _certainly_ is applicable in the case of
For that matter, they should have a top-level category on
So do thieves. Everything that is yours, is mine.
But, thanks for being pedantic.
He chose New Mexico to build a billion-dollar spaceport because the "restrictive" government there wants to foot half the bill.
Al Qaeda.
What is it with people who think that ANY kind of government control of ANYTHING, ANYWHERE is unacceptable? Newflash people, "ownership" is a concept that _only_ exists within the context of a governmental legal system. Remove that and ownership becomes little more than possession.
That someone would complain about giving the Afghani or Iraqi government control of something that is by definition associated with the national state--immediately after the previous government has been removed from power--is simply astounding. Perhaps we should just hand it over to warlords and drug runners and let it descend into a bloody mess.
This anarcho-capitalist "ICANN is evil" saw has reached its nadir. If you want to live outside of government control, I invite you to move to Western Sahara and send us all a postcard telling us all about your newfound utopia.
...not speaking to the caveats of certain pieces of information, just to the paranoia that a government that already possesses said information in numerous forms will somehow become all-powerful and far more evil by printing it on plastic. Meh.
I did not say as passport was a replacement for a driver's license, only that it is a more authoritative ID, e.g., when opening a bank account or establishing right to work wherein you may provide a combination of DL plus SS card, birth cert, whatever, or JUST your passport. I've had several passports over the last twenty or so years, but dang, teach, thanks for the info.
Prat.
It's called a "Passport" and I use it in just about every circumstance that calls for more than one form of ID, since for ID purposes, it counts for three (Birth Cert+Social Security Card+Drivers License). It has name, dob, sex, id number, image, address (also required to be physical and verified, i.e. on your utility bill etc.), is machine readable and is certain to have biometrics included as well within the year. Sure, you aren't _required_ to have one, but, eh, I don't see how having one authoritative ID card is any more dangerous or scary than having dozens, hundreds or thousands of smaller bureaucracies issuing them, most of which already exchange information, including to their federal parent.
So, really, who cares?
Yet, it doesn't run on reel-to-reel tapes and the interface isn't composed of rocker-switches, incandescent light bulbs and klaxons.
...all the techs that are in widespread use and far superior to those that were predicted in Sci-Fi. You know, like the collection you're using right now to read this.
Superfluous labor works for them, doesn't it?
Yes, if you paid everyone $0.01, you're profit margin would be higher than if you paid everyone $0.02. Did you figure this out yourself or take a class?
The problem with your model, which in certain forms is flatly illegal and I suspect you're skirting legality (not to mention credulity) already, is that in effect you base your employees pay on YOUR performance, not theirs. So, they bust their butts and you lose a client (for whatever reason), which conveniently gets you off the hook for paying them. No matter how well it seems to work when your numbers are up, what matters is if you can survive when your numbers are down--and the good times NEVER last--shifting your business risk to your employees is a formula for instantaneous flight at the first sign of bad times and that is distinctly NOT good for business or the economy no matter what any anarcho-capitalist libertarian extremist nutjob tells you.
Nothing like seeing 95% of the "250,000 jobs TODAY!" just cut-and-paste dupes of fifteen agencies selling the same job. I've had so many headhunters call me for Dice/Monster jobs in swarms, like ten calls on the same day, for the same job from people (using the term loosely) 10,000 miles apart. Then there are the duplicates of those duplicates that they post every week to bump their position up for "jobs" that arguably do not exist for any purpose but bait for resume banking.
I figure, any number touted by Dice or Monster can be made more accurate by moving the decimal one position to the left and dividing by two.