Damn, beat me to it. Because when someone says, "beautiful and magical and immersed you in fantastical, peaceful and enjoyable landscape," Pong is definitely the first image that pops into my mind.
"As a result, according to the Congressional Research Service, committing a crime cannot constitutionally disqualify someone from serving in Congress. And the state has no say in determining whether or not someone is qualified to serve in the House or Senate:
"... Once a person meets the three constitutional qualifications of age, citizenship and inhabitancy in the State when elected, that person, if duly elected, is constitutionally âoequalifiedâ to serve in Congress, even if a convicted felon."
Or are you proposing a Constitutional amendment to prohibit felons from public service?
The NY ACLU is only suing them over the database. Not the practice.
And all the public angst and hand-wringing seems to be about the "racial profiling" aspect, as if this crap would be A-OK if only they did it to white people too.
The more paranoid among you are probably preparing a rant about how this is $BIG_EVIL_CONGLOMERATE's wet dream, and something something 1984 something something DRM something from my cold dead hands. But that's not the case. Even *if* you posit a dystopian future where the $BEC controls everything, there will *still* be PCs, because *someone* will still have to produce data. They may become much less common, but a PC, or a PC-functional device, *will* be necessary.
In the post-PC dystopia, content will be produced only by $BEC and its licensees, on expensive workstations taxed and regulated by sprawling government agencies. Naturally developers and their equipment must be registered and tracked, with frequent inspections and audits -- these people and tools are capable of creating VIRUSES!!! and doing PIRACY!!! TERRORISM!!!
Just wait, soon those icky non-whites will invade and overwhelm the A3P party too. The last bastion of the white race, fallen and trampled beneath the colored horde. Alas!
And we want to bring in more people for these jobs that will work cheaper?
Do you want to work in a field, picking vegetables? No? Are you willing to pay twice as much for all of your vegetables? No? Then stop making life even harder for the people with the worst jobs.
We're bringing in STEM people on OPT visas to pick vegetables for us? Really?
The problem is that we're already making stuff using less labor, leaving lots of people unemployed no matter how much growing demand there is for even more stuff. In our current economic system unemployment means poverty, and unemployment is pretty much guaranteed for an increasingly large fraction of the population. Bringing in even more labor certainly does not solve that problem.
We need to find something for all our "surplus labor" to do, so that they can be employed (hopefully doing something useful, not just busy-work making more disposable junk for people to consume), or we need to find some way to provide a decent living for growing masses of chronically unemployed or underemployed people (oh noes, socialism!).
When the Prophet returned from Al-Khandaq (i.e. Trench) and laid down his arms and took a bath, Gabriel came and said (to the Prophet ), You have laid down your arms? By Allah, we angels have not laid them down yet. So set out for them." The Prophet said, "Where to go?" Gabriel said, "Towards this side," pointing towards Banu Quraiza. So the Prophet went out towards them.
Call me obtuse, but I can't seem to find the gory massacre in there anywhere. Maybe something got lost in translation?
There's no simpler way to put it than the article quote above. What is obvious is there is a massive civil contract dispute going on, and its not entirely certain who is right and wrong.
It's not complicated at all. L2N peers with Albany, but the traffic is not balanced so L2N pays Albany for the connection. That's their relationship.
L2N is an ISP; some of their customers use VOIP. Albany thinks they should get an extra cut for the "VOIPness" of L2N's traffic over their network, because they have a local monopoly on old fashioned 20th century style voice telephony services.
This is a very clear-cut standard case of net neutrality violation, an attempt to seek rent from third parties to prop up a nearly obsolete business model.
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
No, they did not succeed according to plan. They wanted to scare him into pleading guilty and going to prison, and they failed. It's pretty clear that the prosecution never expected this case to go to trial, and once it did they had no idea what to do with it. Even though he lost two years and much of his life, the prosecution lost too. The message that people will hear from this story is not "act up and you'll get crushed by the legal system"; rather it's "what this guy did was perfectly legal and OK."
Shortcut keys only have material value when commands are hidden in a menu system.
What the hell? I keep both hands on the keyboard 99% of the time when using a reasonably well-designed UI for a task that isn't inherently mouse-driven. For a word processor I should never have to touch the mouse at all. Shortcut keys are how work gets done.
I'm a parent, I understand, and I agree with both RazorSharp and causality. I sympathize with digitallife but I've found that the parenting advice of experienced parents is every bit as useless, unworkable, and inappropriate as that of the childless. Most parents are pretty crappy at parenting. What they're good at is compromising ideals and rationalizing inadequacies.
In the 7 years since I moved sshd to a different port, I've had exactly zero probes (ssh or otherwise) on that different port. I get about 50 a day on port 22.
Yep, everything is going to be just fine forever. So fill up that SUV and burn burn burn! Consume as much as possible and more then throw "away" the noxious trash; the bounty of mother earth is infinite. There is absolutely no need to change your behavior ever. Just keep doing what you've always done, but faster and harder to ensure economic growth. That's the most important thing.
Obama has speechwriters, and, what, exactly, did he do at Harvard? We know he was named president of the Harvard Law Review (why and by who and what qualified him for that we don't know), and that he graduated from there. Other than that, nothing. He could have been right at the bottom of his class, and taking the easiest classes possible, for all we know.
Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from its target.
However, there is an increase in quality using 24 bit.
True, when the audio engineers push up all the levels to be MORE LOUDER-ER than everyone else, 24-bit gives them more room before they have to squash everything into the top 0.1 dB. An extra eight bits will probably give us another 5 years of level creep before everything sounds like screeching mush again. At that point we can come up with newer, even more improved, 32-bit sound and sell everyone the same albums one more time! Cha-ching!
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Damn, beat me to it. Because when someone says, "beautiful and magical and immersed you in fantastical, peaceful and enjoyable landscape," Pong is definitely the first image that pops into my mind.
Never heard of Usenet, eh? Newb.
You're referring to whom, exactly? The office furniture? The potted plants? The alien crystaline entities?
The future ain't what it used to be ... But then again, it never was.
[citation needed]
Here's a counter-citation for you:
"As a result, according to the Congressional Research Service, committing a crime cannot constitutionally disqualify someone from serving in Congress. And the state has no say in determining whether or not someone is qualified to serve in the House or Senate:
"... Once a person meets the three constitutional qualifications of age, citizenship and inhabitancy in the State when elected, that person, if duly elected, is constitutionally âoequalifiedâ to serve in Congress, even if a convicted felon."
Or are you proposing a Constitutional amendment to prohibit felons from public service?
And all the public angst and hand-wringing seems to be about the "racial profiling" aspect, as if this crap would be A-OK if only they did it to white people too.
In the post-PC dystopia, content will be produced only by $BEC and its licensees, on expensive workstations taxed and regulated by sprawling government agencies. Naturally developers and their equipment must be registered and tracked, with frequent inspections and audits -- these people and tools are capable of creating VIRUSES!!! and doing PIRACY!!! TERRORISM!!!
"The 405" can only refer to a highway in California, because only in California does anybody prefix a highway number with "the".
No, black holes are not entirely dark. They emit Hawking radiation. Dark matter emits nothing.
Just wait, soon those icky non-whites will invade and overwhelm the A3P party too. The last bastion of the white race, fallen and trampled beneath the colored horde. Alas!
We're all dual-core.
According to the summary, the shuttle was being transported by a gust of wind.
We're bringing in STEM people on OPT visas to pick vegetables for us? Really?
The problem is that we're already making stuff using less labor, leaving lots of people unemployed no matter how much growing demand there is for even more stuff. In our current economic system unemployment means poverty, and unemployment is pretty much guaranteed for an increasingly large fraction of the population. Bringing in even more labor certainly does not solve that problem.
We need to find something for all our "surplus labor" to do, so that they can be employed (hopefully doing something useful, not just busy-work making more disposable junk for people to consume), or we need to find some way to provide a decent living for growing masses of chronically unemployed or underemployed people (oh noes, socialism!).
Er...
Call me obtuse, but I can't seem to find the gory massacre in there anywhere. Maybe something got lost in translation?
It's not complicated at all. L2N peers with Albany, but the traffic is not balanced so L2N pays Albany for the connection. That's their relationship.
L2N is an ISP; some of their customers use VOIP. Albany thinks they should get an extra cut for the "VOIPness" of L2N's traffic over their network, because they have a local monopoly on old fashioned 20th century style voice telephony services.
This is a very clear-cut standard case of net neutrality violation, an attempt to seek rent from third parties to prop up a nearly obsolete business model.
My favorite federal law: 18 USC 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
No, they did not succeed according to plan. They wanted to scare him into pleading guilty and going to prison, and they failed. It's pretty clear that the prosecution never expected this case to go to trial, and once it did they had no idea what to do with it. Even though he lost two years and much of his life, the prosecution lost too. The message that people will hear from this story is not "act up and you'll get crushed by the legal system"; rather it's "what this guy did was perfectly legal and OK."
Because SOCIALISM!!!1
What the hell? I keep both hands on the keyboard 99% of the time when using a reasonably well-designed UI for a task that isn't inherently mouse-driven. For a word processor I should never have to touch the mouse at all. Shortcut keys are how work gets done.
I'm a parent, I understand, and I agree with both RazorSharp and causality. I sympathize with digitallife but I've found that the parenting advice of experienced parents is every bit as useless, unworkable, and inappropriate as that of the childless. Most parents are pretty crappy at parenting. What they're good at is compromising ideals and rationalizing inadequacies.
This line in userContent.css will do it too:
a.comment_share_toggle.btn:link { visibility: hidden !important; }
In the 7 years since I moved sshd to a different port, I've had exactly zero probes (ssh or otherwise) on that different port. I get about 50 a day on port 22.
Yep, everything is going to be just fine forever. So fill up that SUV and burn burn burn! Consume as much as possible and more then throw "away" the noxious trash; the bounty of mother earth is infinite. There is absolutely no need to change your behavior ever. Just keep doing what you've always done, but faster and harder to ensure economic growth. That's the most important thing.
Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from its target.
True, when the audio engineers push up all the levels to be MORE LOUDER-ER than everyone else, 24-bit gives them more room before they have to squash everything into the top 0.1 dB. An extra eight bits will probably give us another 5 years of level creep before everything sounds like screeching mush again. At that point we can come up with newer, even more improved, 32-bit sound and sell everyone the same albums one more time! Cha-ching!