If it is Islam that says "The infidel must be killed or converted." then quite possibly, Yes.
There are many including myself who would love it if these moderate Islamics that we hear so much about would come out and publiclly denouce the Wahabbist extremists. Yet the most you hear is a sort of clucking of tongues while they silently hand money to them.
I am sure that the large percentage of muslims do not want to destroy everyone else, but they are kept quiet by the high ranking clerics and the theocracies that they control with a near iron fist.
These rulers must be brought to heel to prevent a disaster.
You mean censorship like how Dan Rather published a report critical of George Bush he was dragged out into the street and shot?
Oh wait he wasn't.
Please note that people pointing out your mistake and demanding you correct it is not censorship. When you do a protest by doing something illegal. It is not censorship when you are arrested for that activity, or shouted down for outright lies and inaccuracies.
I for one welcome our theoretical, Google branded firefox based, custom internet browser overlord. I'd like to remind it that as a trusted slashdot poster, I can be helpful in criticizing anyone who dare use any other browser.
On October 28, 2003, the Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The four classes of works exempted are:
(1) Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to protect against damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to prevent receipt of email.
(2) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
(4) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized format.
All geek disputes should be solved by a mix of junkyard wars and D&D.
In the junkyard wars both teams are given a pile of old computer parts and outdated software. Then both teams must assemble their own server with the resources they can scrounge up. The two servers then attempt to hack each other into exploding. (Well really just to shutting down, but the computers are rigged to blow when they do so without the player's knowledge)
Afterwards the two teams meet for a game of D&D. They flip a coin to determine who gets to play the evil team, and then have 2 hours to make up their characters. The characters are given points on backstory, and then are forced to battle each other to the death. The winners get a number of points, but more points are also given for roleplaying their characters well.
All of your problems are with the implementation not the actual idea. If you are just going to nitpick over every possiblity then even normal credit cards are useless. I mean what if you forgot to bring your card with you?
A better way of doing it would be instead of having the call to authorize payments, you had a biometric scanner and a smart card, but that would have its own problems.
Except that the teller wouldn't be the one making the call. Which is kind of the whole point. You know the whole not allowing the teller to steal the number and all thing.
The numbers could be pregenerated by the customer beforehand.
If you know you are going to go shopping then call the bank on the way to the mall and get say 10 transactions ready. Write the numbers down and give them out instead of your credit card number.
And $50 is plenty for most quick purchases such as gas or snacks (unless you have an SUV) they could also allow you to up your minimum if you need to.
Thats why I think the credit cards should work with a preapproval system.
Basically for any purchase larger than say $50 you have to call the company and get the purchase approved. The company then gives you a transaction number that will charge to your card number once, but then never work again.
The phone system could have a voice identifier and maybe a limit to what numbers could call to approve things. (Home phone only so people would have to break into your house or at least hack your lines to accomplish much.)
The phone system would be a point of failure for security, but at least it would be a centralized point of failure rather than trusting basically everyone on the planet not to steal your card.
If my bank had put this much thought into their system I would certainly pay to use it if I made many credit purchases.
I've found that using the nukeanything extension on the blank space works well to fix the problem with all the text being off the right side of the screen.
The funding issue was basically to prevent one thing and one thing only.
The possibility that people might simply accept semen and egg donations(Or purchase them), and then fertilize the eggs for the sole purpose of harvesting them for stem cells. That would be an extremely unethical thing comparable to adopting kids just to harvest them for their organs.
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Maybe because unions aren't the champions of free speech and expression?
The purpose of a union is to make money for its members.
If it is Islam that says "The infidel must be killed or converted." then quite possibly, Yes.
There are many including myself who would love it if these moderate Islamics that we hear so much about would come out and publiclly denouce the Wahabbist extremists. Yet the most you hear is a sort of clucking of tongues while they silently hand money to them.
I am sure that the large percentage of muslims do not want to destroy everyone else, but they are kept quiet by the high ranking clerics and the theocracies that they control with a near iron fist.
These rulers must be brought to heel to prevent a disaster.
You mean censorship like how Dan Rather published a report critical of George Bush he was dragged out into the street and shot?
Oh wait he wasn't.
Please note that people pointing out your mistake and demanding you correct it is not censorship. When you do a protest by doing something illegal. It is not censorship when you are arrested for that activity, or shouted down for outright lies and inaccuracies.
The real question is...
What would happen if you got a beowulf cluster of zBoxes and had an infinite number of monkeys looking for porn on them. Could you slashdot Slashdot?
The point I believe is so you can serialize actual data in an xml format without having to uuencode it into a CDATA struct.
I for one welcome our theoretical, Google branded firefox based, custom internet browser overlord. I'd like to remind it that as a trusted slashdot poster, I can be helpful in criticizing anyone who dare use any other browser.
The DMCA exemptions explicitly allow emulation of video game systems that are no longer manufactured or widely availible.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
Well I for one hope that they never get it working, because all the "get teh c@m3r@ that sees throough wa||z!!!!!11" spam would drive me crazy.
What is geeky about that?
All geek disputes should be solved by a mix of junkyard wars and D&D.
In the junkyard wars both teams are given a pile of old computer parts and outdated software. Then both teams must assemble their own server with the resources they can scrounge up. The two servers then attempt to hack each other into exploding. (Well really just to shutting down, but the computers are rigged to blow when they do so without the player's knowledge)
Afterwards the two teams meet for a game of D&D. They flip a coin to determine who gets to play the evil team, and then have 2 hours to make up their characters. The characters are given points on backstory, and then are forced to battle each other to the death. The winners get a number of points, but more points are also given for roleplaying their characters well.
May the best geek win!
Thats what the shudder link lead to.
It seems that slashdot killed it in my post.
So you cancel the extras.
Put a timeout on them.
All of your problems are with the implementation not the actual idea. If you are just going to nitpick over every possiblity then even normal credit cards are useless. I mean what if you forgot to bring your card with you?
A better way of doing it would be instead of having the call to authorize payments, you had a biometric scanner and a smart card, but that would have its own problems.
Actually the shudder one had the code for the goatse image.
It just got cut out by the slashdot lameness filter it seems.
Put the img tag in there it works...
We have stuff like that now.
Some primers when painted on a wall will plasticize with little threads running through them to support the paint.
To be fair some crackpots say that Bite-Lover's toaster is a hoax.
Mod parent up.
I believe the word to describe it is pwned.
Except that the teller wouldn't be the one making the call. Which is kind of the whole point. You know the whole not allowing the teller to steal the number and all thing.
The numbers could be pregenerated by the customer beforehand.
If you know you are going to go shopping then call the bank on the way to the mall and get say 10 transactions ready. Write the numbers down and give them out instead of your credit card number.
And $50 is plenty for most quick purchases such as gas or snacks (unless you have an SUV) they could also allow you to up your minimum if you need to.
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shudder
Who the heck the designed that page?
Thats why I think the credit cards should work with a preapproval system.
Basically for any purchase larger than say $50 you have to call the company and get the purchase approved. The company then gives you a transaction number that will charge to your card number once, but then never work again.
The phone system could have a voice identifier and maybe a limit to what numbers could call to approve things. (Home phone only so people would have to break into your house or at least hack your lines to accomplish much.)
The phone system would be a point of failure for security, but at least it would be a centralized point of failure rather than trusting basically everyone on the planet not to steal your card.
If my bank had put this much thought into their system I would certainly pay to use it if I made many credit purchases.
So you are saying that you don't want vast amounts of energy... in your pants?
Or more simply just at bible.com
I've found that using the nukeanything extension on the blank space works well to fix the problem with all the text being off the right side of the screen.
The funding issue was basically to prevent one thing and one thing only.
The possibility that people might simply accept semen and egg donations(Or purchase them), and then fertilize the eggs for the sole purpose of harvesting them for stem cells. That would be an extremely unethical thing comparable to adopting kids just to harvest them for their organs.
Personally I want to dump a few songs out of my memory. Especially when they are stuck on replay for a long time.