Roger's has officially rolled over and plays ball with the troll's. They have a system where they will automatically forward a legal letter or something.
Scurrilous behaviour, and I'd be changing ISPs if I were a Rogers customer and had confirmation of this. Not that I infringe; I just think it's no part of an ISPs business to actively aid and abet in the extortion of its own customers. Of course, Rogers has never sided with its own customers.
I wonder what fraction of the US population lives within 100 miles of the national border. I'd guess it's well over 50%, but I don't see any easy way to find the number.
I'm just glad it doesn't extend 100 miles beyond the border. Easily 90% of the population of Canada lives along a 100 mile-wide strip of the Canada-US border -- including me.
If you hadn't previously heard about ANIL POTTI and his shenanigans -- well, now you have. So if this was some misguided attempt to shield the tattered remnants of his reputation worldwide, it has backfired big time! This is Slashdot; now the whole world is hearing about it.
There is no actual evidence this particular bit of virus DNA does anything to you when you eat it.
From TFA itself:
The researchers themselves concluded that the presence of segments of Gene VI “might result in unintended phenotypic changes”. They reached this conclusion because similar fragments of Gene VI have already been shown to be active on their own (e.g. De Tapia et al. 1993). In other words, the EFSA researchers were unable to rule out a hazard to public health or the environment.
I myself thought sufficiently of their work to send the PDF of their article to my wife and adult children. Your own opinion on the matter notwithstanding, the jury is most definitely still out on Gene VI.
The commander of the ISS, currently in orbit and staring down at you as he does so, is Chris Hadfield -- fighter pilot, test pilot, engineer, CSA astronaut, guitar player... and Canadian.
I spend my life at a desk. My recommendation: find a class -- any class -- to join in on. It'll be much easier to stay motivated than going to the gym by yourself, you'll meet a few people (depending on the context, don't expect them to want to socialize, however), and it'll give you something to do with your time other than work. The class thing is important: there's a herd psychology that keeps motivating you to attend and to exert yourself during class.
I've been doing karate for about 20 years now plus other fitness classes after work plus yoga either during my lunch hour or also after work. All have a great deal to offer and are to some extent complementary with one another. All are things you can do with your special other -- a big plus for me.
Look, I know a lot of people here claim to know things they don't, but I am posting as Annonymous [sic] Coward because I don't have a slashdot account so you can trust that I know a lot more about women than most people her[e].
Well, anyone could claim that, really. But since you're actually posting here, you've rather undermined your own credibility.
I learned to program in FORTRAN on a time-shared Multics system with punched-card input and a printer operator behind a wall of cubbyholes to return me the compiler's verdict and my output. At times of system backlog (CS grad students monopolizing the system), I sometimes had to wait for hours to see the results of my efforts.
HOWEVER... Ada Lovelace wrote her program in 1843 and it was only actually compiled and tested in 2002, which makes for a latency of 159 years, making my own waits pale in comparison. I believe this must be some kind of record.
I had an interesting experience just a couple of days ago.
I searched on YouTube for Rhonda Vincent videos (using Firefox v17) and watched a couple of them. That's all I did. I did not search on Google (I knowthey own YouTube). I did not access Amazon's website at all.
The next time I went to Amazon, just a couple of days later, lo and behold: their recommendations for me were all Rhonda Vincent CDs and DVDs. In other words, Amazon was sniffing and scooping my browsing history and then storing and using it. To me, that's downright creepy.
I searched around online for how and why this could happen. The majority of postings discussed the Invisible Hand add-on in the Chrome browser, neither of which I use. Eventually I ended up just going to Amazon and turning off their browsing history setting -- but the next time I delete my cookies, apparently, Amazon's ability to probe into my browsing history will be restored. This sucks.
And how many of those 4+ million articles are just stubs?
There's no way that Wikipedia is anything near to "complete"; there's a huge amount of work left to do to fill in the blanks, correct errors, add detail to existing articles, etc. The large number of stubs I run into when I read almost anything is testimony to that.
But this isn't the sexy work of adding a whole new article, so many people lose interest at this point -- as evidenced by the drop in the rate of recruitment of new editors (see: I did RTFA) and the numbers of edits per article. It's very much like the process of debugging a piece of software to make it functional and useful; many developers just aren't all that into the whole process, the grind that it takes to turn a first-pass into a usable product.
I think what they're trying to tell us is that Wikipedia is nearing maturity... but maturity and completion are two entirely different concepts.
Awesome advice! Wish I had mod points today. (I'm certain, however, that someone else will rate your post up.) Not only will they see you as smart, they may want to work with you again too and, indeed, will probably like you better.
You've managed to distill 10 weeks of Dale Carnegie training into 5 succinct points. Well done!
In Canada, anyway, they simply scooped the entire national DNC list and used that. Nice, eh?
At least the FTC charged them with unfair and deceptive trade practices under the FTCA in addition to DNC list violations. The former probably has more teeth. Enforcement may be a bit more of a problem, however.
5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers
"Substantially unique" - I love that.
I wasn't aware there were varying degrees of "unique". Maybe there's a scale:
Not unique
Slightly unique
Moderately unique
Substantially unique
Very unique
Completely Unique
The best part is that this potentially allows for many moderately unique patents, each patenting varying degrees of uniqueness.
And... and... the bottom end of the scale (or top, if you turn it over): Ununique!
"In summary, the surface at the Schwarzschild radius acts as an event horizon in a non-rotating body that fits inside this radius... MAN, that is one hot student intern! Wonder if she shags -- SHIT, DON'T TYPE THAT! Goddam it, don't type that either!!! Delete all! Delete all!"
Slashdot Mirror
Roger's has officially rolled over and plays ball with the troll's. They have a system where they will automatically forward a legal letter or something.
Scurrilous behaviour, and I'd be changing ISPs if I were a Rogers customer and had confirmation of this. Not that I infringe; I just think it's no part of an ISPs business to actively aid and abet in the extortion of its own customers. Of course, Rogers has never sided with its own customers.
I wonder what fraction of the US population lives within 100 miles of the national border. I'd guess it's well over 50%, but I don't see any easy way to find the number.
I'm just glad it doesn't extend 100 miles beyond the border. Easily 90% of the population of Canada lives along a 100 mile-wide strip of the Canada-US border -- including me.
... is a mini-Hellfire missile to attach to it, and voila! The next generation of battlefield weaponry is born.
If you hadn't previously heard about ANIL POTTI and his shenanigans -- well, now you have. So if this was some misguided attempt to shield the tattered remnants of his reputation worldwide, it has backfired big time! This is Slashdot; now the whole world is hearing about it.
Wish I had mod points.
To summarize what you're saying: it hasn't done it yet, so therefore it won't happen.
Do you happen to work for NASA, by any chance?
There is no actual evidence this particular bit of virus DNA does anything to you when you eat it.
From TFA itself:
The researchers themselves concluded that the presence of segments of Gene VI “might result in unintended phenotypic changes”. They reached this conclusion because similar fragments of Gene VI have already been shown to be active on their own (e.g. De Tapia et al. 1993). In other words, the EFSA researchers were unable to rule out a hazard to public health or the environment.
I myself thought sufficiently of their work to send the PDF of their article to my wife and adult children. Your own opinion on the matter notwithstanding, the jury is most definitely still out on Gene VI.
What kind of plants are we talking about here: Gas plants? Manufacturing plants? Pharmaceuticals plants?
... lightweight.
House plants? WTF???
Oh yeah, it's an iPad
The commander of the ISS, currently in orbit and staring down at you as he does so, is Chris Hadfield -- fighter pilot, test pilot, engineer, CSA astronaut, guitar player ... and Canadian.
Parrots
Galapagos Tortoises
Dogs (small ones tend to outlive larger ones by a factor sometimes approaching 2)
(and those are just the 1st 3 examples which spring to mind in 30 s)
What do you have to say now, Mark Lynas? Maybe you should have waited another couple of weeks ...
I spend my life at a desk. My recommendation: find a class -- any class -- to join in on. It'll be much easier to stay motivated than going to the gym by yourself, you'll meet a few people (depending on the context, don't expect them to want to socialize, however), and it'll give you something to do with your time other than work. The class thing is important: there's a herd psychology that keeps motivating you to attend and to exert yourself during class.
I've been doing karate for about 20 years now plus other fitness classes after work plus yoga either during my lunch hour or also after work. All have a great deal to offer and are to some extent complementary with one another. All are things you can do with your special other -- a big plus for me.
Good luck with it!
Look, I know a lot of people here claim to know things they don't, but I am posting as Annonymous [sic] Coward because I don't have a slashdot account so you can trust that I know a lot more about women than most people her[e].
Well, anyone could claim that, really. But since you're actually posting here, you've rather undermined your own credibility.
Humans are gradually getting less violent.
You obviously don't commute to work every day in city traffic, do you?
I learned to program in FORTRAN on a time-shared Multics system with punched-card input and a printer operator behind a wall of cubbyholes to return me the compiler's verdict and my output. At times of system backlog (CS grad students monopolizing the system), I sometimes had to wait for hours to see the results of my efforts.
... Ada Lovelace wrote her program in 1843 and it was only actually compiled and tested in 2002, which makes for a latency of 159 years, making my own waits pale in comparison. I believe this must be some kind of record.
HOWEVER
I had an interesting experience just a couple of days ago.
I searched on YouTube for Rhonda Vincent videos (using Firefox v17) and watched a couple of them. That's all I did. I did not search on Google (I knowthey own YouTube). I did not access Amazon's website at all.
The next time I went to Amazon, just a couple of days later, lo and behold: their recommendations for me were all Rhonda Vincent CDs and DVDs. In other words, Amazon was sniffing and scooping my browsing history and then storing and using it. To me, that's downright creepy.
I searched around online for how and why this could happen. The majority of postings discussed the Invisible Hand add-on in the Chrome browser, neither of which I use. Eventually I ended up just going to Amazon and turning off their browsing history setting -- but the next time I delete my cookies, apparently, Amazon's ability to probe into my browsing history will be restored. This sucks.
“Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.)
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names Of God, 1953
And how many of those 4+ million articles are just stubs?
... but maturity and completion are two entirely different concepts.
There's no way that Wikipedia is anything near to "complete"; there's a huge amount of work left to do to fill in the blanks, correct errors, add detail to existing articles, etc. The large number of stubs I run into when I read almost anything is testimony to that.
But this isn't the sexy work of adding a whole new article, so many people lose interest at this point -- as evidenced by the drop in the rate of recruitment of new editors (see: I did RTFA) and the numbers of edits per article. It's very much like the process of debugging a piece of software to make it functional and useful; many developers just aren't all that into the whole process, the grind that it takes to turn a first-pass into a usable product.
I think what they're trying to tell us is that Wikipedia is nearing maturity
Awesome advice! Wish I had mod points today. (I'm certain, however, that someone else will rate your post up.) Not only will they see you as smart, they may want to work with you again too and, indeed, will probably like you better.
You've managed to distill 10 weeks of Dale Carnegie training into 5 succinct points. Well done!
It could be years before the average Canadian figures out their country has been taken over.
Wait, what??? When did that happen?
In Canada, anyway, they simply scooped the entire national DNC list and used that. Nice, eh? At least the FTC charged them with unfair and deceptive trade practices under the FTCA in addition to DNC list violations. The former probably has more teeth. Enforcement may be a bit more of a problem, however.
You've nailed it! There's really nothing more to it than this.
5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers
"Substantially unique" - I love that.
I wasn't aware there were varying degrees of "unique". Maybe there's a scale:
The best part is that this potentially allows for many moderately unique patents, each patenting varying degrees of uniqueness.
And ... and ... the bottom end of the scale (or top, if you turn it over): Ununique!
"In summary, the surface at the Schwarzschild radius acts as an event horizon in a non-rotating body that fits inside this radius ... MAN, that is one hot student intern! Wonder if she shags -- SHIT, DON'T TYPE THAT! Goddam it, don't type that either!!! Delete all! Delete all!"
'[Jobs] was an extraordinarily brilliant businessman and entrepreneur. He was also a self-promoter on a level that we have rarely seen,' said Gladwell
And Gladwell should know ... the latter description fits him to a T.
... or Gladwell.
Quick now: who was the president of IBM in 1962? I think in 50 years we won't remember Jobs or Gates