Being too clueless to realise that a story is satire is *insightful*? If anyone doubted that the moderation system here is completely broken, here's Exhibit A.
With the 20 second delay that Slashdot enforces between hitting 'Reply' and 'Submit', it's going to take me at least two hours to post "You have been trolled" to everyone who took this utterly obvious piece of satire at face value.
"Cohen forged a letter to Internet authorities to gain control of the address, which he transformed into a highly profitable site for pornography ads."
Thus depriving the original owners of the ability to turn sex.com into... a highly profitable site for pornography ads.
Really, aside from the technical aspects of Network Solutions screw-up here, who gives a rat's who owns this domain? it's going to be a sleaze-fest whoever has it.
They're more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Shakespeare is full of double negatives, and I defy anyone to misinterpret Al Jolson's "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Language is not math or formal logic. The only reason to completely avoid the double negative is because it annoys people who have been brainwashed by doctrinaire grammarians in school. Hang, on, that's a reason to use it more!
Nevertheless, it can't be that hard to meld 'clear' and 'believable' in a movie depiction of technology. Way too many of use computers in our daily lives for a daft computer element in a movie to be anything but grating. Bad computer tech in movies is as irritating as would be a car that you start by twisting the rear view mirror.
"There is no such thing as 'magical invisible contracts that apply when you do something'. Contracts do not work that way."
A few years ago I had to sue an employment agency to get some money I was owed by a client of theirs for whom I'd done some work.
I had been verbally instructed by the agency to invoice them for my fee, and they would recover it from the client (plus, I assume, their fees).
When the client went belly-up and refused to pay them, the agency tried to weasel out of paying me because we had not signed a contract.
At the subsequent court hearing, the magistrate practically laughed at the guy from the agency when he attempted to make this argument. The court found that by telling me to invoice them, the agency had entered into a contract to pay me, and that was the end of it.
So it's quite easy to create a contract by 'doing something', and there's lots and lots of examples in the case law. IANAL (I'm a journalist as it happens) but I studied a bit of law at college, and contracts are startlingly easy to create. Anyone who thinks a contract can only be two pieces of paper signed by both parties should get out of whatever business they're in - their ignorance will eventually bite them.
"I usually spend an hour or more straightening out a file before I can get down to looking at the actual text."
Huh? ctrl-a; ctrl-c; ctrl-n; Edit>Paste Special... > Unformatted Text
What do you do for the other 59 minutes and 50 seconds?
One of the few good things you can say about Word is that is makes it pretty easy to discard the garbage produced by people foolish enough to mistake it for a layout app.
"So, *PLEASE* do not script MS Office; let real programmers write real programs."
Oh, go piss up a rope.
Sometimes you don't have the time, money and energy to deal with Real Programmers and the snotty attitudes exhibited here. Sometimes it's just easier to roll up your sleeves, figure out what you can do with the available tools, and do it.
For many of us the most powerful easily available tool is Excel. It has means to input data, it has an IDE and it has a kindergarten level where you can record a macro and look at the resulting code to see how something works.
"However, those that rent or live with another and do not own property, their address (ie: denoting that they live there) is not a matter of public record."
Unless they have a phone with a standard (not unlisted) number, in which case their address is in the phone book.
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I'm a militant agnostic. I'll be round tomorrow evening to burn a big question mark in your lawn. (This joke stolen from Billy Connolly)
Being too clueless to realise that a story is satire is *insightful*? If anyone doubted that the moderation system here is completely broken, here's Exhibit A.
With the 20 second delay that Slashdot enforces between hitting 'Reply' and 'Submit', it's going to take me at least two hours to post "You have been trolled" to everyone who took this utterly obvious piece of satire at face value.
YHBT
Amen.
"Teach the bomb phenomenology."
"hobbit" ...
What is the fetish of present-day media with dubbing scientific discoveries and news with hollywood inspired names ?"
Yeah, damn that well-known Hollywood figure JRR Tolkien, the bounder!
"Cohen forged a letter to Internet authorities to gain control of the address, which he transformed into a highly profitable site for pornography ads."
Thus depriving the original owners of the ability to turn sex.com into... a highly profitable site for pornography ads.
Really, aside from the technical aspects of Network Solutions screw-up here, who gives a rat's who owns this domain? it's going to be a sleaze-fest whoever has it.
"I guess we won't be having a Summer in 2012" No different from any other year in the UK then.
Is that like Gore-Tex and Gore-Tices?
Of course they'll show V's face. It'll be Judge Dredd all over again.
Not if you're determined to stay that way, anyway.
orbital circumference (let's assume it's circular; it'll be close enough):
8,000,000 x 1,000 x 2 x 3.14 = 50,240,000,000 meters
Orbit time:
80 x 60 x 60 = 288,000 seconds
Orbital speed = 174,444 m/s
>grammatical rules against double negatives
They're more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Shakespeare is full of double negatives, and I defy anyone to misinterpret Al Jolson's "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Language is not math or formal logic. The only reason to completely avoid the double negative is because it annoys people who have been brainwashed by doctrinaire grammarians in school. Hang, on, that's a reason to use it more!
Allow me to join the dots for you.
The Incredibles > Pixar > Steve Jobs > Apple
Nevertheless, it can't be that hard to meld 'clear' and 'believable' in a movie depiction of technology. Way too many of use computers in our daily lives for a daft computer element in a movie to be anything but grating. Bad computer tech in movies is as irritating as would be a car that you start by twisting the rear view mirror.
"There is no such thing as 'magical invisible contracts that apply when you do something'. Contracts do not work that way."
A few years ago I had to sue an employment agency to get some money I was owed by a client of theirs for whom I'd done some work.
I had been verbally instructed by the agency to invoice them for my fee, and they would recover it from the client (plus, I assume, their fees).
When the client went belly-up and refused to pay them, the agency tried to weasel out of paying me because we had not signed a contract.
At the subsequent court hearing, the magistrate practically laughed at the guy from the agency when he attempted to make this argument. The court found that by telling me to invoice them, the agency had entered into a contract to pay me, and that was the end of it.
So it's quite easy to create a contract by 'doing something', and there's lots and lots of examples in the case law. IANAL (I'm a journalist as it happens) but I studied a bit of law at college, and contracts are startlingly easy to create. Anyone who thinks a contract can only be two pieces of paper signed by both parties should get out of whatever business they're in - their ignorance will eventually bite them.
"is there anything these days that doesn't go obsolete?
Human gullibility, it seems.
"I usually spend an hour or more straightening out a file before I can get down to looking at the actual text."
Huh? ctrl-a; ctrl-c; ctrl-n; Edit>Paste Special... > Unformatted Text
What do you do for the other 59 minutes and 50 seconds?
One of the few good things you can say about Word is that is makes it pretty easy to discard the garbage produced by people foolish enough to mistake it for a layout app.
"So, *PLEASE* do not script MS Office; let real programmers write real programs."
Oh, go piss up a rope.
Sometimes you don't have the time, money and energy to deal with Real Programmers and the snotty attitudes exhibited here. Sometimes it's just easier to roll up your sleeves, figure out what you can do with the available tools, and do it.
For many of us the most powerful easily available tool is Excel. It has means to input data, it has an IDE and it has a kindergarten level where you can record a macro and look at the resulting code to see how something works.
"However, those that rent or live with another and do not own property, their address (ie: denoting that they live there) is not a matter of public record."
Unless they have a phone with a standard (not unlisted) number, in which case their address is in the phone book.
Marketing gone wrong? Best kind. Marketing gone right means convincing people to buy things they don't need.
That's because - usually - extremely bad motorists kill other people; extremely bad cyclists kill only themselves.
And is running an article that contains the lines "the network ad code (Fastclick) that we are using seems to be unchanged."
APPEARS TO FREAKING BE? You are running code on your website over which YOU HAVE NO CONTROL?
Fucking morons.
Venus would be no fun either.
Science fiction writers often say they're not trying to predict the future, but to prevent it.
For the most part, they'er usually not even trying to do that, but rather to build a believable fiction that starts from "What if?"
Would those even be light-emitting LED diodes?