... military. Nothing can screw things up like some idiot Commander that has to "leave a mark" or "make changes" for an evaluation. Naturally this would include the Commander in Chief...
In more real terms, explain that raises and getting more people (essential for taking vacations) are based off of these reports. As mentioned earlier, you can also explain who the boss is. There are non-confrontational ways of doing it, and you should consider what you say carefully to avoid "hurt feelings" because they get defensive or puff up their pride.
Or you could link this article and point at them. "That's you".
It'll be interesting to see [i]who[/i] the copyright holders are, especially for dead companies. Still, it's nice to see that there's finally going to be some action on this. I hate the idea of folks getting sued/arrested because a company is "defending" the copyright to a game that they won't publish anymore and isn't in the stores. Of course, I'll be equally PO'd if they try to sell them at premium collector's prices too.
"it always traces back to Microsoft's untenable policy of maintaining gaps in Windows security to avoid competing with 3rd party vendors and certified partners. Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore, offsite safe storage through.Mac, and launchd."
I think it's partially because of what gets rolled into it and when. Microsoft gets beat up about bundling because it uses it's status to push crap like IE, MS Office and Windows Media Player on us. Apple definately has similar status on Macs, but that's probably also because not as many people develop competing products. They go for a potentially more lucrative Windows market. As far as the list above, well, these just seem like things that should be included. A note on the AV, though. I don't think one's included with the basic OS. The author seems to be commenting more on coding praticing that makes it harder to do (even if we know that Mac, like linux, viruses just aren't as practical to write because of numbers).
Don't flame. I'm running Suse on my laptop because it keeps viruses and spyware at a good arm's length with less work on my part.
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Technically if you are an active member of the military (active duty, or guard or reserve that has been called up), you can legally drink at 18 with your military ID.
That's not true anymore. I've never been to any base that didn't follow the legal drinking age of the surrounding area (US drinking age vs Overseas bases). I think there's an installation by the Mexican border in Texas that allows it, but that's because there were too many accidents involving troops crossing the border to drink legally and rushing back. I've seen enough people get demoted, fined and forced to make public statements about underage drinking to think it's a good idea for any service member to do.
If you haven't signed up for the military, I'd say don't until you're of legal US drinking age. Get some living and college under your belt. I waited until a few months after my 21st, and the credits qualified me for an early promotion. At the lower ranks, a quicker promotion is money in your pocket and the chance to not have a complete tool trying to pull rank on you.
I would recommend that artist negotiate a seperate contract for digital sales. My band is unsigned, but we get 91 percent of the iTunes cash (after Apple takes their cut). What band could be against that deal? iTunes is a potential cash cow for forward-thinking bands.
Awesome. Would you mind posting your experience with getting put onto iTunes? I'm really curious on how that works in practice. I think that online distribution could be a valuable leveraging tool for bands getting ready to sign or renew a contract if they think about it.
Since record companies have realized the popularity of iTunes and other sites, many reworked contracts to give artists less money per download. Andrews said while record companies once offered artists about 30 cents for each song sold, now musicians are earning less than a dime.
That's so wrong on so many levels. I can see there being lost income because of the album vs track purchasing option, but not everybody was willing to buy a full CD for one good track. Factor in that they don't lose money on digital copies not being sold (unlike CDs), less shipping/damage costs, recovered sales due to album sellouts being a thing of the past, faster distribution and such, this is practically criminal.
I hope this is what leads to changes in the current music system. Bands realizing that the "costs are going up" BS from their respective labels is just another way to get cheated by a company that should be concentrating on their mutual success.
Can anybody comment about getting thier own music onto iTunes or similar online music store? Easy? Hard? What snags were there and how would it compare to trying to get a contract with a label?
"Some people really do need a hypothetical gun to their heads to think about using condoms or monogamy."
this isnt a hypothetical gun. this is a disease that has killed 25 million people.
Until they or somebody they know gets an unexpected pregnancy, HIV or some other bugaboo, it's hypothetical to them. The whole "it won't happen to me" mentality is still very much alive. Examples include crashed drunk drivers, bikers that think they don't need helmets/leathers or the person that leaves unsecured guns where children can get them. By the way, good numbers. For your comment on monogamy, I'm sure you could probably name more than a few people that are mature and responsible enough to handle multiple partners. Great for them. The comment was geared more for those that can't get a handle on responsible, monogamous sexual relations and wasn't intended to purport one lifestyle being flat out better than the other.
I liked your insight about special interest groups and their agendas working against the interest of the general public. Bad stuff, that. Still, it's more than just right-wingers. For the most part, though, I agree with your post. No need for AC, I think, but that's just me (public terminals suck!).
I agree. Education and availablity of protection needs to be increased. When I was in the military, our dorm/barracks manager left her door open and had a big bowl of condoms that people could swipe one or two from with just a quick grab from the hall. I think college campuses could benefit from vending machines with condoms in them as well. The ones that sell gum as well as soda would do well. The only trick is to lower the cost. $1 for a rubber might pass at the club, but I think they should just be a $0.25-0.50 each from a regular vending machine. A smaller margin in exchange for more sales and a healthier (or less pregnant) campus wouldn't be so bad.
As for high school... parents with religous objections need to realize that sexual urges begin at puberty, not the alter. Teaching their kids the real facts about sex and emotional intimacy would be a lot better than letting them figure it out themselves or trying to find "loopholes" in thier belief systems.
Off topic note: Help out Melanie Martineze. Her role in the Technical Virgin PSA parodies have gotten her fired from a job that she was doing very well at. Find more info at http://bringbackmel.blogspot.com
Hate to burst your bubble, but most people I know don't use condoms to avoid disease, they use them to avoid pregnancy. Condoms only reduce the transmission of a subset of STDs. Crabs and herpes are just a couple of examples that condoms won't block.
No bubble burst, and you're right about the STD transmission. I'm still fairly sure that rates on the applicable (condom blocked) STD rates may go up, even if it's not a skyrocket. Pregnancy isn't an issue for gay men, nor is it an issue if the female partner in a heterosexual relationship is on another form of contraceptive. Exposure to something by either partner puts the other at risk. STD safety and awareness isn't really hyped in US media outlets aside from HIV. When's the last time they held a fund raiser or march for people with syphilus or genital warts?
I'm curious if this vaccine is being set up for one-time immunizations with possible booster shots, or if it'll be a more frequent thing like the flu shots. One of the vexing traits of HIV is it's rapid mutation rate. The flu and cold viruses are pretty much the same.
"Spring break is coming up! Get your annual HIV immunizations here!"
The only real downside is that if this (or another) vaccine is effective and reliable, then there's the risk of other STDs becoming more prevelant again as people relax their safe sex practices. That includes unplanned pregnancies. Some people really do need a hypothetical gun to their heads to think about using condoms or monogamy.
I think CR just needs to provide the source code to the AV vendors for definition updates. In a reasonable world, that, plus keeping the software isolated (the virus code and infected test machines/networks) should be enough. Of course, that's a moderate approach, and nobody likes those. Call the lawyers and PR machine!
... now get the rest of the RP games out there off the preorder list. If you're going to do it for violent or racier games, then I expect to see every unrated, family safe Disney game get the same treatment before release.
I was shooting for an example of dumb parenting, not so much hardcore porn's morality. How about sueing a company that makes cleaning chemicals after buying their product and feeding it to the kid who gets sick and dies? The blame would go to the parent for whatever happens afterwards, not to company (which had warning labels) or the store (which sold it to an adult). My point focused on the parents that buy and complain about what their kids are exposed to, not the parents that are only buying the game.
You know, try to find out what their kids are playing. I think parents that buy games for thier kids and complain about all of the ESRB labeled "mature" issues in said games, such as sex and violence, should just be brought up on child neglect charges. Not the stores. Not the game companies. It's about the same as buying a 12 year old hardcore pornography and then trying to sue the publisher.
I think the sad part of American culture right now is that I'm probably not the only one to think that's not so implausible.
"The biggest problem is unlikely to come from businesses abusing the system. It is going to come from the "volunteers" yes the people with all that free time on their hands and an indepth knowledge of patent law. Let's face it, the only people who have enough free time are sitting in their parent's basement right now, yes you Slashdot users who have demonstrated time and time again that they don't know anything about patent law, can't read a claim to save their lives and wouldn't know prior art if it hit them."
Actually, I'm curious how much patent law knowledge is going to be needed by the volunteers. I would think that the main thing needed to disprove something's patentability is the knowledge of prior inventions that did the exact same thing. You don't need to be a lawyer to say "my grandpa showed me an XYZ that did that when I was a kid, so it's not new".
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm... kill the mood, not enhance it.
Thank god for these laws. I was out of control!
And what population of web users actually know how to verify the information? Besides, and fakedbankofsomewhere.spoof can be verified as being "that" site, but only one is the bank.
... military. Nothing can screw things up like some idiot Commander that has to "leave a mark" or "make changes" for an evaluation. Naturally this would include the Commander in Chief...
In more real terms, explain that raises and getting more people (essential for taking vacations) are based off of these reports. As mentioned earlier, you can also explain who the boss is. There are non-confrontational ways of doing it, and you should consider what you say carefully to avoid "hurt feelings" because they get defensive or puff up their pride.
Or you could link this article and point at them. "That's you".
QFT!!! lol
It'll be interesting to see [i]who[/i] the copyright holders are, especially for dead companies. Still, it's nice to see that there's finally going to be some action on this. I hate the idea of folks getting sued/arrested because a company is "defending" the copyright to a game that they won't publish anymore and isn't in the stores. Of course, I'll be equally PO'd if they try to sell them at premium collector's prices too.
I'm guessing she actually just flushed the files before SWAT moved in.
FTA:
.Mac, and launchd."
"it always traces back to Microsoft's untenable policy of maintaining gaps in Windows security to avoid competing with 3rd party vendors and certified partners. Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore, offsite safe storage through
I think it's partially because of what gets rolled into it and when. Microsoft gets beat up about bundling because it uses it's status to push crap like IE, MS Office and Windows Media Player on us. Apple definately has similar status on Macs, but that's probably also because not as many people develop competing products. They go for a potentially more lucrative Windows market. As far as the list above, well, these just seem like things that should be included. A note on the AV, though. I don't think one's included with the basic OS. The author seems to be commenting more on coding praticing that makes it harder to do (even if we know that Mac, like linux, viruses just aren't as practical to write because of numbers).
Don't flame. I'm running Suse on my laptop because it keeps viruses and spyware at a good arm's length with less work on my part.
Technically if you are an active member of the military (active duty, or guard or reserve that has been called up), you can legally drink at 18 with your military ID.
That's not true anymore. I've never been to any base that didn't follow the legal drinking age of the surrounding area (US drinking age vs Overseas bases). I think there's an installation by the Mexican border in Texas that allows it, but that's because there were too many accidents involving troops crossing the border to drink legally and rushing back. I've seen enough people get demoted, fined and forced to make public statements about underage drinking to think it's a good idea for any service member to do.
If you haven't signed up for the military, I'd say don't until you're of legal US drinking age. Get some living and college under your belt. I waited until a few months after my 21st, and the credits qualified me for an early promotion. At the lower ranks, a quicker promotion is money in your pocket and the chance to not have a complete tool trying to pull rank on you.
Now that's what I call a plan with potential!
I would recommend that artist negotiate a seperate contract for digital sales. My band is unsigned, but we get 91 percent of the iTunes cash (after Apple takes their cut). What band could be against that deal? iTunes is a potential cash cow for forward-thinking bands.
Awesome. Would you mind posting your experience with getting put onto iTunes? I'm really curious on how that works in practice. I think that online distribution could be a valuable leveraging tool for bands getting ready to sign or renew a contract if they think about it.
Since record companies have realized the popularity of iTunes and other sites, many reworked contracts to give artists less money per download. Andrews said while record companies once offered artists about 30 cents for each song sold, now musicians are earning less than a dime.
That's so wrong on so many levels. I can see there being lost income because of the album vs track purchasing option, but not everybody was willing to buy a full CD for one good track. Factor in that they don't lose money on digital copies not being sold (unlike CDs), less shipping/damage costs, recovered sales due to album sellouts being a thing of the past, faster distribution and such, this is practically criminal.
I hope this is what leads to changes in the current music system. Bands realizing that the "costs are going up" BS from their respective labels is just another way to get cheated by a company that should be concentrating on their mutual success.
Can anybody comment about getting thier own music onto iTunes or similar online music store? Easy? Hard? What snags were there and how would it compare to trying to get a contract with a label?
"Some people really do need a hypothetical gun to their heads to think about using condoms or monogamy."
this isnt a hypothetical gun. this is a disease that has killed 25 million people.
Until they or somebody they know gets an unexpected pregnancy, HIV or some other bugaboo, it's hypothetical to them. The whole "it won't happen to me" mentality is still very much alive. Examples include crashed drunk drivers, bikers that think they don't need helmets/leathers or the person that leaves unsecured guns where children can get them. By the way, good numbers. For your comment on monogamy, I'm sure you could probably name more than a few people that are mature and responsible enough to handle multiple partners. Great for them. The comment was geared more for those that can't get a handle on responsible, monogamous sexual relations and wasn't intended to purport one lifestyle being flat out better than the other.
I liked your insight about special interest groups and their agendas working against the interest of the general public. Bad stuff, that. Still, it's more than just right-wingers. For the most part, though, I agree with your post. No need for AC, I think, but that's just me (public terminals suck!).
I agree. Education and availablity of protection needs to be increased. When I was in the military, our dorm/barracks manager left her door open and had a big bowl of condoms that people could swipe one or two from with just a quick grab from the hall. I think college campuses could benefit from vending machines with condoms in them as well. The ones that sell gum as well as soda would do well. The only trick is to lower the cost. $1 for a rubber might pass at the club, but I think they should just be a $0.25-0.50 each from a regular vending machine. A smaller margin in exchange for more sales and a healthier (or less pregnant) campus wouldn't be so bad.
As for high school... parents with religous objections need to realize that sexual urges begin at puberty, not the alter. Teaching their kids the real facts about sex and emotional intimacy would be a lot better than letting them figure it out themselves or trying to find "loopholes" in thier belief systems.
Off topic note: Help out Melanie Martineze. Her role in the Technical Virgin PSA parodies have gotten her fired from a job that she was doing very well at. Find more info at http://bringbackmel.blogspot.com
Hate to burst your bubble, but most people I know don't use condoms to avoid disease, they use them to avoid pregnancy. Condoms only reduce the transmission of a subset of STDs. Crabs and herpes are just a couple of examples that condoms won't block.
No bubble burst, and you're right about the STD transmission. I'm still fairly sure that rates on the applicable (condom blocked) STD rates may go up, even if it's not a skyrocket. Pregnancy isn't an issue for gay men, nor is it an issue if the female partner in a heterosexual relationship is on another form of contraceptive. Exposure to something by either partner puts the other at risk. STD safety and awareness isn't really hyped in US media outlets aside from HIV. When's the last time they held a fund raiser or march for people with syphilus or genital warts?
I'm curious if this vaccine is being set up for one-time immunizations with possible booster shots, or if it'll be a more frequent thing like the flu shots. One of the vexing traits of HIV is it's rapid mutation rate. The flu and cold viruses are pretty much the same.
"Spring break is coming up! Get your annual HIV immunizations here!"
The only real downside is that if this (or another) vaccine is effective and reliable, then there's the risk of other STDs becoming more prevelant again as people relax their safe sex practices. That includes unplanned pregnancies. Some people really do need a hypothetical gun to their heads to think about using condoms or monogamy.
That's what happens in a world of "Jack Thompson's Grand Theft Hot Coffee Bully Clone" games.
Ph43r!
I think CR just needs to provide the source code to the AV vendors for definition updates. In a reasonable world, that, plus keeping the software isolated (the virus code and infected test machines/networks) should be enough. Of course, that's a moderate approach, and nobody likes those. Call the lawyers and PR machine!
... now get the rest of the RP games out there off the preorder list. If you're going to do it for violent or racier games, then I expect to see every unrated, family safe Disney game get the same treatment before release.
I wonder if it would be possible to train someone to consciously ignore the pain centre of the brain in this manner?
I would think the number of men that are able to watch chick flicks in order to earn nookie points with their wives would prove it's possible.
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I was shooting for an example of dumb parenting, not so much hardcore porn's morality. How about sueing a company that makes cleaning chemicals after buying their product and feeding it to the kid who gets sick and dies? The blame would go to the parent for whatever happens afterwards, not to company (which had warning labels) or the store (which sold it to an adult). My point focused on the parents that buy and complain about what their kids are exposed to, not the parents that are only buying the game.
You know, try to find out what their kids are playing. I think parents that buy games for thier kids and complain about all of the ESRB labeled "mature" issues in said games, such as sex and violence, should just be brought up on child neglect charges. Not the stores. Not the game companies. It's about the same as buying a 12 year old hardcore pornography and then trying to sue the publisher.
I think the sad part of American culture right now is that I'm probably not the only one to think that's not so implausible.
"The biggest problem is unlikely to come from businesses abusing the system. It is going to come from the "volunteers" yes the people with all that free time on their hands and an indepth knowledge of patent law. Let's face it, the only people who have enough free time are sitting in their parent's basement right now, yes you Slashdot users who have demonstrated time and time again that they don't know anything about patent law, can't read a claim to save their lives and wouldn't know prior art if it hit them."
Actually, I'm curious how much patent law knowledge is going to be needed by the volunteers. I would think that the main thing needed to disprove something's patentability is the knowledge of prior inventions that did the exact same thing. You don't need to be a lawyer to say "my grandpa showed me an XYZ that did that when I was a kid, so it's not new".