First floppies, then the Internet, then email within the 'net. Now your video player. Why would you want to turn your video device into yet another... erm... channel for spreading Windows viri?
Yet, when we go in there to "clean it up", the UN et alia start jumping up and down "you can't do that, give inspections more time!" Bullshit.
As far as "typical american attitude", again, you're missing the point. It's the typical liberal attitude I was highlighting. But I guess your hatred of the Prez can't see past that.
I would think Europeans would be the last to send up more space junk for no reason other than to celebrate. Why don't they take their space tech and put it to good human-oriented causes, like curing cancer and fixing the mess the USA supposedly caused in Baghdad?
(Go ahead, mark me a troll. I just had to get that off my chest.)
This isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes.
No, I wouldn't. If someone just plain doesn't like me, they can say so, and call it "free speech," and they have my full blessing to enjoy that freedom. That's something UC seems to have forgotten about.
OTOH, if someone starts making false accusations, then yes, the means are there to shut it down, but only after the accusations have been proven false (temporary injunction notwithstanding).
They already do. Take a look at the Google-cached copy of a page, and you'll see something like "This is Google's cache of ((BLAH)) as retrieved on Sep 21, 2004 05:14:22 GMT" at the top of the page.
But if we want people to learn about programming securely, we need Open Source, with all its visible foibles and its visible fixes. Otherwise, we'll end up with our college students studying the Microsoft agenda, and we all know how secure that codebase is.
I have a paid Yahoo email account. I haven't seen a big obnoxious ad in my email interface since they re-vamped and upped their quotas earlier this year.
Without denying your humor (yes, I wanna be s00p3r 1337 too), there is a practical sense for having shadows along the bottom and right side (or left side, for RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic).
The shadow makes visual delineation of the menu much easier, when the menu background color is the same as the color "behind" the menu. Sure, the menus themselves have borders of one or two pixels, but the drop shadow expands that border, increasing visiblity by an order of magnitude.
Have you noticed how The Sims puts the dark cloud behind their pie menu? It's a similar principle: it makes the menu visible, no matter how brightly-colored the scene.
"Anyone can think of an encryption algorithm that he cannot crack." I forget who said it, though (Ed Felten?). It came up during the SHA-0 discussion here on/.
I would be all for getting these into the hands of one of Mr. Doohan's family members. Real quips from the people he inspired, to put a smile on his face. He's earned it!
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First floppies, then the Internet, then email within the 'net. Now your video player. Why would you want to turn your video device into yet another... erm... channel for spreading Windows viri?
"you made the mess, you clean it up"
Yet, when we go in there to "clean it up", the UN et alia start jumping up and down "you can't do that, give inspections more time!" Bullshit.
As far as "typical american attitude", again, you're missing the point. It's the typical liberal attitude I was highlighting. But I guess your hatred of the Prez can't see past that.
I would think Europeans would be the last to send up more space junk for no reason other than to celebrate. Why don't they take their space tech and put it to good human-oriented causes, like curing cancer and fixing the mess the USA supposedly caused in Baghdad?
(Go ahead, mark me a troll. I just had to get that off my chest.)
Isn't it a little late to be reporting this? How are we supposed to Slashdot Congress at this late hour?
This isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes.
In answer to your topic line question, I'll ask you this in return:
Does Slashdot get public funds?
Because, you see, that's what it really comes down to.
No, I wouldn't. If someone just plain doesn't like me, they can say so, and call it "free speech," and they have my full blessing to enjoy that freedom. That's something UC seems to have forgotten about.
OTOH, if someone starts making false accusations, then yes, the means are there to shut it down, but only after the accusations have been proven false (temporary injunction notwithstanding).
If they try to shut down a protest site, we just turn Slashdot loose on their asses. It may not shut them down, but it'll strain their bandwidth.
They already do. Take a look at the Google-cached copy of a page, and you'll see something like "This is Google's cache of ((BLAH)) as retrieved on Sep 21, 2004 05:14:22 GMT" at the top of the page.
It sounds like this is exactly what scaled vector graphics (the SVG format) was designed to address.
But a world map? That'll be one huMONGous SVG file!
Precisely my point. The terminology was making unintended implications.
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BTW, I disagree sharply with many fundies. Check my weblog: http://gus3.typepad.com/i_am_therefore_i_think/20
Doesn't that imply a Creator?
Oh, you're talking about the formation of the planets!
All the more reason for some critic to prove he can do better.
We have enough computing power on the desktop now, so I'm sure you can do better. Have at it.
Yeah, I'm being snarky. Everyone's a critic, but they watch it anyway.
Their motto is "We watch FOX so you don't have to."
The same kind of thinking that just got CBS into deep, deep doodoo.
But if we want people to learn about programming securely, we need Open Source, with all its visible foibles and its visible fixes. Otherwise, we'll end up with our college students studying the Microsoft agenda, and we all know how secure that codebase is.
I have a paid Yahoo email account. I haven't seen a big obnoxious ad in my email interface since they re-vamped and upped their quotas earlier this year.
Just blob it into the USB ports on the motherboard and be done with it. It stops "boot Knoppix and save it to your USB key" approaches, too.
Mr. Smith? Hi, this is Mr. Anderson over at Fubarco?
Why on earth would Neo be calling an Agent regarding an employee hire?
Without denying your humor (yes, I wanna be s00p3r 1337 too), there is a practical sense for having shadows along the bottom and right side (or left side, for RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic).
The shadow makes visual delineation of the menu much easier, when the menu background color is the same as the color "behind" the menu. Sure, the menus themselves have borders of one or two pixels, but the drop shadow expands that border, increasing visiblity by an order of magnitude.
Have you noticed how The Sims puts the dark cloud behind their pie menu? It's a similar principle: it makes the menu visible, no matter how brightly-colored the scene.
I think we have the mysterious second step in our famous sequence:
1. Invent a free OS that works via HTTP.
2. Find some suckers to rent that OS.
3. Profit!
Okay, so some of the kinks have yet to be worked out.
"Anyone can think of an encryption algorithm that he cannot crack." I forget who said it, though (Ed Felten?). It came up during the SHA-0 discussion here on /.
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Silhouette #1: "Yeah, how pathetic. Slashdot loser."
Or at least a good chunk of it is. Some of the patch is necessary just to take into account how OpenBSD handles various calls.
I would be all for getting these into the hands of one of Mr. Doohan's family members. Real quips from the people he inspired, to put a smile on his face. He's earned it!