That hope has been dashed for a long time. Unless we resort to heavy weapons (the A in ABC), it will be a difficult (aka impossible) to win this. Let's just leave them be and pull out.
P.S. We could have a reality show out of this, watch Iraq tears itself a new one from civil war.
Let's just leave them along. It's much worse for those soldiers over their hearing that we're not going to send reinforcement. Like it or not, we're in a war, let's just finish this quickly (a few dozen megatons of bombs would work nicely)
Um... I seriously doubt they'll draft people who ABSOLUTELY do not want to be in the military. Its a waste of their resources trying to train those people, and those people make lousy soldiers. Unless they're going for the cannon fobbers, then general asylum population will work better.
Because in military, your focus is on killing people of other nations. When you drink alcohol, the people you kill tend to be of the same nationality. Beside, joining the military is sort of a crash course in understanding the life and death decisions they're making. You can't learn how to drink-and-drive.
I think they're trying to find out who's most likely to accept an enlistment offer.
Think about this, students that does extremely well in academics (minus sports) might be more willing to accept an analytical position in the military. Tracking what classes students take can allow the military to decide what's the best offer for said student, provided he/she is willing to join the military.
That's a pretty good list of what not-to-do. However I might contest number 4 (although it might get tied into number 3). Animated ads that stay within its boundary and aren't to flashy (aka epileptic inducing) should be okay.
I'm just going to reply because I find your view offensive. I believe the purpose they're doing this is to postpone or eliminate the need to draft people. If they can find enough willing participants, then they won't draft people. And you are contributing to the problem by not registering.
P.S. When you say Fight the system and die free, HOW DO YOU THINK WE WERE FREE IN THE FIRST PLACE? It's because those people who entered the military services and fought for it. Fine, the current war by Bush is a big screw-up, but don't take it out on the military.
Well, like it or not, said Student B might actually welcome this scholarship if given the chance. It's not like they're going for mandatory enlistment, they just want to make more efficient recruitment system to raise the chance that they'll actually offer enlistment to people who might want them.
Of course, the extended amount of information they gather is worrying...
The point they're making is a valid one. For one, "free" online content still costs money to host in term of bandwidth and storage space. For the majority of the online content, those costs are covered by 4 sources.
1. Webmasters themselves. 2. Donation/Subscription of users. 3. Selling site related stuffs (self-advertising). 4. Advertisement.
Of the four, advertisement is probably one of the more stable source of income to cover the cost of webhosting. Hence the widespread use of ad-blocking devices could severely hinders webmasters' ability to solicit funds from advertiser.
HOWEVER... Doubleclick.com is not the right company to argue about this. They had been notorious in creating highly intrusive and annoying ads. Even worst are their use of spywares/adwares. My opinions on online ads are that they should follow a few guidelines. 1. NO SOUND! Maybe a one-time sound, BUT NO REPETITIVE SOUND THAT GETS NERVE GRINDING. 2. No "in your face" pop-up ads. New browser, flash or otherwise. 3. Graphics banner/sidebar ads is tolerated. Even those with somo animations (I kinda grew fond of those flash sidebar ads here in slashdot, they look cool, now that's effective advertising). 4. Relevant ads as much as possible.
So instead of blocking all ads, punish those who pisses you off and let other that you find tolerable, or even likable (found an even cheaper harddrive because of google TextAds, gotta love those things) through.
They point they're making is that advertisements are what's paying for the free content on the web (at least, a substantial portion). I'm all against them plastering ads all over the place, but some webmaster do depend on advertisements as a source of income to fund the bandwidth they need to host a webpage.
It happens to the best people. Once in a while, they'll have an idea that doesn't work. But I'm confident that this isn't one of those downward spiral he's in... at least... I hope. I enjoy his other works (Mononoke, Spirited Away, Totoro and Naussica) were some of my favorite (I still got the Tororo song stuck in my head).
I think its more of a trade-off argument. In one hand, rewriting the software from scratch pretty much guarantees that there will be bugs (maybe not a small ones). However, large software tend to be ridiculously hard to maintain and fix when there's a bug. I think what he meant was to recycle the codes and reorganize them once in a while (or I think that's a better idea).
They are not even trying to get the the center of the earth. They're merely trying to get 6 miles down to get some samples. 6 miles are NOT even remotely close to the center of the Earth.
Well... let's cross our finger and hope that if they actually do one (or three), it'll be the one to make us proud.
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Just a clarification, what the physicist said is a beam of energy (pure EM wave), not particles. With that aside, the idea for this is interested and will (or already) being developed for weapon purposes (maybe those particle beam cannon in sci-fi space shows).
Dude, anyone who read this (unless you're an obsessive starwar fan living in a fantasy and delusion) will recognized this as sort of a joke. Why do you think they have books on how some Star Trek technology works? In a way, its interesting look into how people think things work. In another way, its funny.
I doubt they think that for long when they check the log. DDOS attack has the property that the same IP keep making request (in this case, 10,000 IPs constantly making requests) to different services. What they would see is that hundred upon thousands of IPs making a few requests at a time, indicating that for some bizzare reason, a ton of people wants to ask for the same page.
That's because ALL traffics from the Slashdot effect are real and legitimate traffic. In another word, we're not attacking them so they don't filter us out.
I agree with out on many points, however, despite being an evolutionist, evolution is not a fact. It's a very good theory that's supported by a numerous evidences of its validity, but with being observed directly, it cannot be a fact. Theory will always stay as a theory, and very few became law (the only "law" we got, gravitation and conservations were both over thrown by the relativity theory).
Sorry, it did appear I made a mistake in confusing subpoena with a warrant. Yes, they did obtained a subpoena. However, a subpoena merely requires the entity to show up in court, not force them to divulge information (in Doctor/Patient situation, a doctor is legally binding NOT to divulge information). In another word, unless the court issue a court order to force them to divulge information, an entity could refuse to (I think that falls under the Fifth amendment).
It's true that School/Student isn't a legally priveleged relationship. But all previous pair you mentioned were at a time not priveleged. It is through legal precendences, which later codified into laws, that they become a legally priveleged relationship (the priest/parishoner is more or a tradition that got codified). The current situation is that schools are trying to established the same level of priveleged relationship with its students.
Furthermore, all the above relationship stem from the need to have near absolute trust. I believe the same holds true for school/students.
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That hope has been dashed for a long time. Unless we resort to heavy weapons (the A in ABC), it will be a difficult (aka impossible) to win this. Let's just leave them be and pull out.
P.S. We could have a reality show out of this, watch Iraq tears itself a new one from civil war.
Let's just leave them along. It's much worse for those soldiers over their hearing that we're not going to send reinforcement. Like it or not, we're in a war, let's just finish this quickly (a few dozen megatons of bombs would work nicely)
Um... I seriously doubt they'll draft people who ABSOLUTELY do not want to be in the military. Its a waste of their resources trying to train those people, and those people make lousy soldiers. Unless they're going for the cannon fobbers, then general asylum population will work better.
Because in military, your focus is on killing people of other nations. When you drink alcohol, the people you kill tend to be of the same nationality. Beside, joining the military is sort of a crash course in understanding the life and death decisions they're making. You can't learn how to drink-and-drive.
I think they're trying to find out who's most likely to accept an enlistment offer.
Think about this, students that does extremely well in academics (minus sports) might be more willing to accept an analytical position in the military. Tracking what classes students take can allow the military to decide what's the best offer for said student, provided he/she is willing to join the military.
That's a pretty good list of what not-to-do. However I might contest number 4 (although it might get tied into number 3). Animated ads that stay within its boundary and aren't to flashy (aka epileptic inducing) should be okay.
I'm just going to reply because I find your view offensive.
I believe the purpose they're doing this is to postpone or eliminate the need to draft people. If they can find enough willing participants, then they won't draft people. And you are contributing to the problem by not registering.
P.S. When you say Fight the system and die free, HOW DO YOU THINK WE WERE FREE IN THE FIRST PLACE? It's because those people who entered the military services and fought for it. Fine, the current war by Bush is a big screw-up, but don't take it out on the military.
Well, like it or not, said Student B might actually welcome this scholarship if given the chance. It's not like they're going for mandatory enlistment, they just want to make more efficient recruitment system to raise the chance that they'll actually offer enlistment to people who might want them.
Of course, the extended amount of information they gather is worrying...
The point they're making is a valid one. For one, "free" online content still costs money to host in term of bandwidth and storage space. For the majority of the online content, those costs are covered by 4 sources.
1. Webmasters themselves.
2. Donation/Subscription of users.
3. Selling site related stuffs (self-advertising).
4. Advertisement.
Of the four, advertisement is probably one of the more stable source of income to cover the cost of webhosting. Hence the widespread use of ad-blocking devices could severely hinders webmasters' ability to solicit funds from advertiser.
HOWEVER...
Doubleclick.com is not the right company to argue about this. They had been notorious in creating highly intrusive and annoying ads. Even worst are their use of spywares/adwares. My opinions on online ads are that they should follow a few guidelines.
1. NO SOUND! Maybe a one-time sound, BUT NO REPETITIVE SOUND THAT GETS NERVE GRINDING.
2. No "in your face" pop-up ads. New browser, flash or otherwise.
3. Graphics banner/sidebar ads is tolerated. Even those with somo animations (I kinda grew fond of those flash sidebar ads here in slashdot, they look cool, now that's effective advertising).
4. Relevant ads as much as possible.
So instead of blocking all ads, punish those who pisses you off and let other that you find tolerable, or even likable (found an even cheaper harddrive because of google TextAds, gotta love those things) through.
They point they're making is that advertisements are what's paying for the free content on the web (at least, a substantial portion). I'm all against them plastering ads all over the place, but some webmaster do depend on advertisements as a source of income to fund the bandwidth they need to host a webpage.
It happens to the best people. Once in a while, they'll have an idea that doesn't work. But I'm confident that this isn't one of those downward spiral he's in... at least... I hope. I enjoy his other works (Mononoke, Spirited Away, Totoro and Naussica) were some of my favorite (I still got the Tororo song stuck in my head).
Ah... the good old days... that's the time when Disney as a whole truly enjoy making fun stories and animations...
Now... it's all about the shareholders...
I think its more of a trade-off argument. In one hand, rewriting the software from scratch pretty much guarantees that there will be bugs (maybe not a small ones). However, large software tend to be ridiculously hard to maintain and fix when there's a bug. I think what he meant was to recycle the codes and reorganize them once in a while (or I think that's a better idea).
They are not even trying to get the the center of the earth. They're merely trying to get 6 miles down to get some samples. 6 miles are NOT even remotely close to the center of the Earth.
Why does this idea sound disturbingly similar to Dr. Octavius' attempt at creating a fusion reaction?
... College student don't talk like that. Maybe those Stanford rich kids do, but not serious Engineers.
Well... let's cross our finger and hope that if they actually do one (or three), it'll be the one to make us proud.
Just a clarification, what the physicist said is a beam of energy (pure EM wave), not particles. With that aside, the idea for this is interested and will (or already) being developed for weapon purposes (maybe those particle beam cannon in sci-fi space shows).
Dude, anyone who read this (unless you're an obsessive starwar fan living in a fantasy and delusion) will recognized this as sort of a joke. Why do you think they have books on how some Star Trek technology works? In a way, its interesting look into how people think things work. In another way, its funny.
I doubt they think that for long when they check the log. DDOS attack has the property that the same IP keep making request (in this case, 10,000 IPs constantly making requests) to different services. What they would see is that hundred upon thousands of IPs making a few requests at a time, indicating that for some bizzare reason, a ton of people wants to ask for the same page.
That's because ALL traffics from the Slashdot effect are real and legitimate traffic. In another word, we're not attacking them so they don't filter us out.
I agree with out on many points, however, despite being an evolutionist, evolution is not a fact. It's a very good theory that's supported by a numerous evidences of its validity, but with being observed directly, it cannot be a fact. Theory will always stay as a theory, and very few became law (the only "law" we got, gravitation and conservations were both over thrown by the relativity theory).
Actually, fascism does have a definition in relation or coporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Except in this case, its not government working for corporation. Its the corporation that controls the goernment.
Sorry, it did appear I made a mistake in confusing subpoena with a warrant. Yes, they did obtained a subpoena. However, a subpoena merely requires the entity to show up in court, not force them to divulge information (in Doctor/Patient situation, a doctor is legally binding NOT to divulge information). In another word, unless the court issue a court order to force them to divulge information, an entity could refuse to (I think that falls under the Fifth amendment).
It's true that School/Student isn't a legally priveleged relationship. But all previous pair you mentioned were at a time not priveleged. It is through legal precendences, which later codified into laws, that they become a legally priveleged relationship (the priest/parishoner is more or a tradition that got codified). The current situation is that schools are trying to established the same level of priveleged relationship with its students.
Furthermore, all the above relationship stem from the need to have near absolute trust. I believe the same holds true for school/students.