The first point is possible, but do you really think "jebba.net" is a "government agency"? It's either a shared server at some hosting company, or his own on a DSL.
It's sort of like forgetting to pay homage to GNU/RMS, boarders on sacrilegious, and they take away your "geek card", and ask you to leave. That sort of thing.
Did you just take 2 sentences, to say you feel more comfortable when the software doesn't bother to alert you when there are security flaws in the software you are running, and it lacks an easy way to upgrade it?
You know, that was my thought for a small fraction of a second until I realized it was a joke...
Although it is more likely that it will serve as motivation to eliminate separation of church and state...
That's what an Islamic state like Iran (and many others) are. That's what Iraq would like to be. But on the other side of the coin, many people think that's the sort of thing GWB has in mind for us here in the USA, a Christian state. He would probably like it for Iraq as well. Remember, just like with Islamic fundies, it is the mission in life of all Christian fundies to either convert or eliminate.
This is certainly an interesting problem for "liberals" like me. Which is better? Pushing Western-style Democracy on people that have said they don't want it, or allow what they do want even though we find it repugnantly oppressive to dissenting views and certainly sexist and homophobic?
If by marketers Utah means the people that are pushing the products, gathering information about customers and tailoring the pitches, then it may be possible to hunt them down.
And, when these investigations all end in far away countries like Russia, China, Hong Kong, South America, all the places most email spammers (both porn and perscription drugs) reside in, what than?
The Scott Richters of this world are actually very few and drying up fast. It's all over seas now. Try going after them, if you like to waste time and money.
That's not a good solution for research paper references. Sorry, doesn't cut it. Wikipedia is good for fun and discussion, but not academic project references.
As usual, the headline is misleading. There is little chance that Utah will attempt to extradite spammers from China / Russia / South America, and so on. While a few (yes, and really VERY FEW) local boys have been hooked by The Feds, most are too slick (slimy?) to fall for leaving readable tracks for law enforcement to follow. In summary, this law is token and nothing more.
I think the point about using a wiki as a reference for a reserch paper is not about Wikipedia's potential content quality, but rather that not only can the content itself change at anytime, the quality of that content at any time can very from total crap to high quality.
Reserch papers need to reference static content of a known quality, and published encyclopedias don't change every few minutes depending on the whim of some random reader who disagrees with a particular point.
And, other than pre-college schools, why would you use an encyclopedia or wiki anyway?
Do it at home on your own time and it will be wholly yours
Not always, and really, not often. Most large universities and corps will clame ownership of all your thoughts on the assumption that even if you do some work at home, you're using knowledge gained at work as well. In any case, it will be in your contract.
I can just see giant problems here. First you position all your supplies to build a moon base, and then you unleash semi-autonomous robots to build it. What happens next is nothing less than the total destruction of human life on Earth, after the robots build their moon base, slowly becoming self aware, and then deciding that all our bases are belonging to them. This is a BAD idea.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/ 27/0324214&tid=222
Yes, but plastic tarp and duct tape ain't the way. In fact it's probably against OSHA rules, for good reasons.
The first point is possible, but do you really think "jebba.net" is a "government agency"? It's either a shared server at some hosting company, or his own on a DSL.
I'll tell you Jeb, if that's how the Nebraska State Patrol runs a datacenter, makes me wonder about their crime lab...
It's sort of like forgetting to pay homage to GNU/RMS, boarders on sacrilegious, and they take away your "geek card", and ask you to leave. That sort of thing.
You know, that was my thought for a small fraction of a second until I realized it was a joke...
That's what an Islamic state like Iran (and many others) are. That's what Iraq would like to be. But on the other side of the coin, many people think that's the sort of thing GWB has in mind for us here in the USA, a Christian state. He would probably like it for Iraq as well. Remember, just like with Islamic fundies, it is the mission in life of all Christian fundies to either convert or eliminate.
This is certainly an interesting problem for "liberals" like me. Which is better? Pushing Western-style Democracy on people that have said they don't want it, or allow what they do want even though we find it repugnantly oppressive to dissenting views and certainly sexist and homophobic?
And, when these investigations all end in far away countries like Russia, China, Hong Kong, South America, all the places most email spammers (both porn and perscription drugs) reside in, what than?
The Scott Richters of this world are actually very few and drying up fast. It's all over seas now. Try going after them, if you like to waste time and money.
Try this: You insensitive clod...
You insensitive clod...
That's not a good solution for research paper references. Sorry, doesn't cut it. Wikipedia is good for fun and discussion, but not academic project references.
As usual, the headline is misleading. There is little chance that Utah will attempt to extradite spammers from China / Russia / South America, and so on. While a few (yes, and really VERY FEW) local boys have been hooked by The Feds, most are too slick (slimy?) to fall for leaving readable tracks for law enforcement to follow. In summary, this law is token and nothing more.
Reserch papers need to reference static content of a known quality, and published encyclopedias don't change every few minutes depending on the whim of some random reader who disagrees with a particular point.
And, other than pre-college schools, why would you use an encyclopedia or wiki anyway?
Maybe, but it is not necessary to run 50 "stories" a day just to run stories. Slashdot could run 5 or 10 really good stories.
But than, advert impressions would go down, drying up the cash cow (they don't call him "RobLimo" for 'nuthin!.
On the other hand, it is US who come here, click on these stupid masturbation stories, and help drive those advert impressions up, so who's to blame?
Not always, and really, not often. Most large universities and corps will clame ownership of all your thoughts on the assumption that even if you do some work at home, you're using knowledge gained at work as well. In any case, it will be in your contract.
Yes well, for a site that has exactly ONE issue of not much to see, well, yeh. Has a lot to do with who you know at Slashdot.
When they say "nothing to see", they really mean it.
It's not the size of the print head that matters...
My plan is to have my essence embedded on silicon and live on forever as a Borg. You?
Juzuz, you fucking karma WHORE. Honestly.
I think Linus should kiss and make up with BitKeeper.
Only on Slashdot does a plagiarized post get modded up.
Automation is the wave of the future, and the Japanese are on the cutting edge of technology. Next question.
I can just see giant problems here. First you position all your supplies to build a moon base, and then you unleash semi-autonomous robots to build it. What happens next is nothing less than the total destruction of human life on Earth, after the robots build their moon base, slowly becoming self aware, and then deciding that all our bases are belonging to them. This is a BAD idea.