Why isn't there a "troll" or "flamebait" option in the minus sign menu? These apply to a lot of the journal rants, and several of the submissions too, but the closest thing you can mod them is "stupid".
Is there a way to set the view to show more than 25 entries at a time?
If you click the plus or minus sign, but don't provide a reason in the menu that comes up, does the plus or minus rating still take effect?
It's true. According to documents recently captured by the CIA, some of the plots they are working on include:
"Get up to 375 in Goblin Engineering so we can build better improvised explosive devices"
"Crash epic flying mounts into buildings instead of airliners"
"Build a Mana Bomb like those blood elves east of Shattrath City have"
"Stock up on +sneak gear and enchants so we can stealth past the Secret Service and crit-backstab President Bush"
"Recruit an Enchanter to our cause so we can get Fiery cast on our AK-47's, for the nice glow and DPS increase" (Bin Laden vetoed this one, saying "You can only put enchants on melee weapons, n00b")
if the characters say a name (in English even), then should the subtitle not reflect what was said?
There are several reasons a name might be mentioned in the Japanese dialog and not be used in the English translation. For one, Japanese speakers tend to go out of their way to avoid using second-person pronouns like "anata", so they will often speak in the third person about the person they are talking to. In English this would sound bizarre, and we would just use a word like "you". Also, the level of formality the culture uses for names is different and doesn't always translate well. You might have Japanese students referring to one another as "Yamada-kun" but the most direct translation, "Mr. Yamada", sounds far too stiff and formal for kids to be speaking of one another as, so in English dubs, and sometimes subs as well, a first name might be substituted in.
this sounds a bit like the argument over whether or not one should negotiate with hostages or terrorists
I disagree. The problem with rewarding terrorists and hostage-takers is that it creates financial incentive to perform these actions in the future. A more appropriate analogy would be if I offered to pay $20 for every typo someone finds in my manuscript. Planting typos to make more money isn't really an option since readers have only read access to the document, and finding the problems that I already put in there is a good thing (I'm made aware of the flaws and can fix them), so encouraging that is fine.
You also mention demands going up. This happens because people want to maximize their profits. But the most profitable course of action for an exploit-finder is to sell it to both the vendor and black market simultaneously, double-dipping. This, however makes the exploit less useful to the black market, as the clock is already ticking for a patch being developed. If the vendor is quick about this, black market prices would fall, as the exploits being bought have a much narrower window of usefulness.
That doesn't seem like it would be very useful. How far can someone throw a backpack sized object, and how do they control the orientation of the cameras? Seems like you'd get a 3 second view of your immediate surroundings followed by a picture of the ground.
The backpack-sized UAVs don't actually fly by being thrown into the air (you could do that just tossing a camcorder up), they have a diesel engine and can hover around for about 15 minutes, sending footage back to the guy controlling it. See here and here for more info.
Did you intentionally chnage the word hexagonal from the original article or was it a strange aouto-correct error?
I had a telescope with "12 homosexual segments of the primary mirror for testing and observations" once. Unfortunately, all it was good for is observing Uranus.
Anyone else notice that the threat level is ramping up right before an election year? It's as if the terrorists WANT to keep the Republicans in office. Funny how that works.
Considering any year can be categorized as either:
The year "right before an election year"
An election year
A mid-term election year
The year a new presidential term begins
It seems likely that no matter when something happens, someone will assume its timing to be politically motivated.
Does anyone else find it strange that a/. reader was also reading Fox News?
Not at all. While one could spend all their time reading left-leaning sites (Slashdot, CNN, NYTimes, etc.) I find it's good to also get a different perspective from right-leaning ones like FoxNews. The truth often lies somewhere in between, and it's better to read about things from different points of view, or about news that one side might choose to not run, than it is just to pick which bias you like best and blindly accept that spin.
The purpose of a network is to transmit data. It receives usage when a customer sends packets over it. By AT&T's own admission, a neutral network is twice as useful to customers as a tiered one, but they want the tiered one anyway since it increases profit margins and allows them to blackmail Web sites.
What aspect of the GPL is it that you feel needs to be upheld in court? The notion that software can be protected by copyright is pretty well established (there would be no end to the chair-throwing if a court overturned that part). So you need the permission of the copyright holder to distribute copyrighted software. Sure, getting that permission traditionally involves money (you want to put Vista on the laptops you build, Microsoft wants some cash), but there's nothing about contract law that says consideration has to be monetary. Sometimes the copyright holder asks for acknowledgment (photo by CowboyNeal. Used with permission) or to distribute something you own in return.
The copyright owner can ask for whatever they want in return for distributing their stuff, and you're free to take the deal or to pass on it. There are some things contract law won't let you demand, like cocaine or sexual favors, but do you really think saying what you want in return for allowing distribution is that they make the source available is something that would make a court go "OMG you can't ask for something that outrageous!"?
If atheism is a belief system then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
That's a catchy quip, but suppose someone doesn't just happen not to collect stamps. Rather, they go around ridiculing and/or debating stamp collectors, lobbying the postal service to stop printing collectible stamps, encouraging others to start hanging around wehatestampcollecting.org to get a better idea of what anti-stamp-collectors are all about, and so on. It's what they like to do with their free time, kind of like... a hobby. Likewise, if you hold to the belief that there are exactly zero gods, and base your actions in life on that theological assertion, some people might describe that as your belief system.
No, in the god old days, there was no telnet and important communications were sent using a burning bush (great for getting the recipient's attention, though some might question the lack of a heat sink) and the only recordable media available for downloading things like commandments were stone tablets, which got pretty heavy if you bought a whole spindle.
"Yup, Apple has redefined how you make a product. It's not about the features it has, but rather those it doesn't have... iPhone is great since it doesn't have SDK, keyboard, 3G camera and mobile internet, doesn't have Java, and again doesn't have replaceable battery, doesn't have GPS. Safari doesn't have Flash, unlike many other phones, which is a great thing."
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
When the war began, its critics claimed America was just going into Iraq to get cheap oil. That clearly was not one of the effects the war has had, so now the reasoning is America did it to raise the price of oil?
So, human bones can be used to transmit data? Now, not only does my necromantic fortress of doom's decor scare the crap out of my enemies, I can save a fortune on cat-5 and fiber cabling.
I don't get the big deal about spam. Honestly, you get more junkmail than regular mail on a daily basis
One major difference is the effect of bulk mail on the network. With snail mail, spam is paid for by the sender and generates a profit by being delivered, subsidizing the network. While the mailman is dropping off your daily pile of credit card offers, Pottery Barn catalogs, and whatnot, he can also give you that letter from Aunt Martha.
Electronic spam, however, is completely parasitic in nature and paid for by the receiver. Delivering lots of mail increases storage, bandwidth, and administrative costs, but the sender does nothing to pay those costs.
Without junk mail, your Aunt sending you a letter would cost about as much as it does via Fed Ex. Without spam, getting an email from your Aunt would be cheaper, more convenient, and less likely to be lost in a spam filter.
Everyone has some sort of beliefs about what god or gods may or may not exist. Just because one's theological beliefs may state "There is no god" rather than "$RELIGION_01 is the one true path" does not preclude causing suffering through intolerance of other views. Stalin and Khrushchev provided plenty of evidence of that, carrying out the sort of "weeding out" the GGP was suggesting.
Can we please put a clause in GPLv3 that prevents GPL'd software from being used to kill people?
Those kind of clauses could be added, but then GPL'd software wouldn't be open source anymore (check out number 6). Besides, do you really want a Linux where package A can't be used by the military, package B can't be used for commercial purposes, package C can't be used for stem cell research, package D can't be used by black people, and so on?
One of the things I liked about goatse.cx is the clever wordplay... pronounce "goatse cx" and it sounds like "goat sex". Yet, it most references to the site, even the discussion on this thread, it's just referred to as "goatse". People don't generally shorten "del.icio.us" to "icio", because there is a realization that the domain name as a whole has special significance, yet the brilliant and subtle humor of goatse.cx is lost on so many Slashdotters. And with the domain up for sale, soon that comic genius will be lost to the world as well -- a sad day in Internet history. Goodbye goatse.cx guy, you opened up your orifice and our hearts, and made this world a little better place... for posting troll links anyway.
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Why isn't there a "troll" or "flamebait" option in the minus sign menu? These apply to a lot of the journal rants, and several of the submissions too, but the closest thing you can mod them is "stupid".
Is there a way to set the view to show more than 25 entries at a time?
If you click the plus or minus sign, but don't provide a reason in the menu that comes up, does the plus or minus rating still take effect?
It's true. According to documents recently captured by the CIA, some of the plots they are working on include:
I design high end interfaces for home theaters (where the remote it's self costs around $2500.00US or more.)
For $2500, I'd want an android catgirl in a maid outfit who goes over and changes the channel for me.
if the characters say a name (in English even), then should the subtitle not reflect what was said?
There are several reasons a name might be mentioned in the Japanese dialog and not be used in the English translation. For one, Japanese speakers tend to go out of their way to avoid using second-person pronouns like "anata", so they will often speak in the third person about the person they are talking to. In English this would sound bizarre, and we would just use a word like "you". Also, the level of formality the culture uses for names is different and doesn't always translate well. You might have Japanese students referring to one another as "Yamada-kun" but the most direct translation, "Mr. Yamada", sounds far too stiff and formal for kids to be speaking of one another as, so in English dubs, and sometimes subs as well, a first name might be substituted in.
this sounds a bit like the argument over whether or not one should negotiate with hostages or terrorists
I disagree. The problem with rewarding terrorists and hostage-takers is that it creates financial incentive to perform these actions in the future. A more appropriate analogy would be if I offered to pay $20 for every typo someone finds in my manuscript. Planting typos to make more money isn't really an option since readers have only read access to the document, and finding the problems that I already put in there is a good thing (I'm made aware of the flaws and can fix them), so encouraging that is fine.
You also mention demands going up. This happens because people want to maximize their profits. But the most profitable course of action for an exploit-finder is to sell it to both the vendor and black market simultaneously, double-dipping. This, however makes the exploit less useful to the black market, as the clock is already ticking for a patch being developed. If the vendor is quick about this, black market prices would fall, as the exploits being bought have a much narrower window of usefulness.
That doesn't seem like it would be very useful. How far can someone throw a backpack sized object, and how do they control the orientation of the cameras? Seems like you'd get a 3 second view of your immediate surroundings followed by a picture of the ground.
The backpack-sized UAVs don't actually fly by being thrown into the air (you could do that just tossing a camcorder up), they have a diesel engine and can hover around for about 15 minutes, sending footage back to the guy controlling it. See here and here for more info.
Did you intentionally chnage the word hexagonal from the original article or was it a strange aouto-correct error?
I had a telescope with "12 homosexual segments of the primary mirror for testing and observations" once. Unfortunately, all it was good for is observing Uranus.
From my home, I have only 56kdialup available. From the South Pole, I have more.
You're in a land populated by penguins and surprised they have good Internet connections? Where do you think Linux comes from?
Anyone else notice that the threat level is ramping up right before an election year? It's as if the terrorists WANT to keep the Republicans in office. Funny how that works.
Considering any year can be categorized as either:
It seems likely that no matter when something happens, someone will assume its timing to be politically motivated.
Does anyone else find it strange that a /. reader was also reading Fox News?
Not at all. While one could spend all their time reading left-leaning sites (Slashdot, CNN, NYTimes, etc.) I find it's good to also get a different perspective from right-leaning ones like FoxNews. The truth often lies somewhere in between, and it's better to read about things from different points of view, or about news that one side might choose to not run, than it is just to pick which bias you like best and blindly accept that spin.
The purpose of a network is to transmit data. It receives usage when a customer sends packets over it. By AT&T's own admission, a neutral network is twice as useful to customers as a tiered one, but they want the tiered one anyway since it increases profit margins and allows them to blackmail Web sites.
What aspect of the GPL is it that you feel needs to be upheld in court? The notion that software can be protected by copyright is pretty well established (there would be no end to the chair-throwing if a court overturned that part). So you need the permission of the copyright holder to distribute copyrighted software. Sure, getting that permission traditionally involves money (you want to put Vista on the laptops you build, Microsoft wants some cash), but there's nothing about contract law that says consideration has to be monetary. Sometimes the copyright holder asks for acknowledgment (photo by CowboyNeal. Used with permission) or to distribute something you own in return.
The copyright owner can ask for whatever they want in return for distributing their stuff, and you're free to take the deal or to pass on it. There are some things contract law won't let you demand, like cocaine or sexual favors, but do you really think saying what you want in return for allowing distribution is that they make the source available is something that would make a court go "OMG you can't ask for something that outrageous!"?
If atheism is a belief system then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
That's a catchy quip, but suppose someone doesn't just happen not to collect stamps. Rather, they go around ridiculing and/or debating stamp collectors, lobbying the postal service to stop printing collectible stamps, encouraging others to start hanging around wehatestampcollecting.org to get a better idea of what anti-stamp-collectors are all about, and so on. It's what they like to do with their free time, kind of like... a hobby. Likewise, if you hold to the belief that there are exactly zero gods, and base your actions in life on that theological assertion, some people might describe that as your belief system.
"Newly Declassified Windows Film" I was like... 'wtf would Microsoft have done that was classified?'
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... with a chair.
Ahh the god old days.
No, in the god old days, there was no telnet and important communications were sent using a burning bush (great for getting the recipient's attention, though some might question the lack of a heat sink) and the only recordable media available for downloading things like commandments were stone tablets, which got pretty heavy if you bought a whole spindle.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When the war began, its critics claimed America was just going into Iraq to get cheap oil. That clearly was not one of the effects the war has had, so now the reasoning is America did it to raise the price of oil?
it took Sony 37 years to concede defeat. ...until not long ago, starting in 1975.
So, Sony finally conceded defeat not long ago, in (1975 + 37 = ) 2012?
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So, human bones can be used to transmit data? Now, not only does my necromantic fortress of doom's decor scare the crap out of my enemies, I can save a fortune on cat-5 and fiber cabling.
If someone was holding you at gunpoint, would you really bet your life it's all a bluff and try to run off?
I don't get the big deal about spam. Honestly, you get more junkmail than regular mail on a daily basis
One major difference is the effect of bulk mail on the network. With snail mail, spam is paid for by the sender and generates a profit by being delivered, subsidizing the network. While the mailman is dropping off your daily pile of credit card offers, Pottery Barn catalogs, and whatnot, he can also give you that letter from Aunt Martha.
Electronic spam, however, is completely parasitic in nature and paid for by the receiver. Delivering lots of mail increases storage, bandwidth, and administrative costs, but the sender does nothing to pay those costs.
Without junk mail, your Aunt sending you a letter would cost about as much as it does via Fed Ex. Without spam, getting an email from your Aunt would be cheaper, more convenient, and less likely to be lost in a spam filter.
Everyone has some sort of beliefs about what god or gods may or may not exist. Just because one's theological beliefs may state "There is no god" rather than "$RELIGION_01 is the one true path" does not preclude causing suffering through intolerance of other views. Stalin and Khrushchev provided plenty of evidence of that, carrying out the sort of "weeding out" the GGP was suggesting.
The more I think we seriously need to consider "weeding out the population" of all the dumb shits too stupid to accept...
Yes! Death to everyone whose theological beliefs don't agree with your own. That will show the religious extremists!
Can we please put a clause in GPLv3 that prevents GPL'd software from being used to kill people?
Those kind of clauses could be added, but then GPL'd software wouldn't be open source anymore (check out number 6). Besides, do you really want a Linux where package A can't be used by the military, package B can't be used for commercial purposes, package C can't be used for stem cell research, package D can't be used by black people, and so on?
One of the things I liked about goatse.cx is the clever wordplay... pronounce "goatse cx" and it sounds like "goat sex". Yet, it most references to the site, even the discussion on this thread, it's just referred to as "goatse". People don't generally shorten "del.icio.us" to "icio", because there is a realization that the domain name as a whole has special significance, yet the brilliant and subtle humor of goatse.cx is lost on so many Slashdotters. And with the domain up for sale, soon that comic genius will be lost to the world as well -- a sad day in Internet history. Goodbye goatse.cx guy, you opened up your orifice and our hearts, and made this world a little better place... for posting troll links anyway.