Fine a submitter for filing a frivolous patent, or patent squatting. Betcha that backlog clears out overnight. But in the meantime, I want to patent a method of diffusing particles across a semi-permeable membrane and then sue people for breathing. brb.
A) What is not "child safe"? Nudity? Hardcore sex videos? Potentially adult jokes? Newgrounds.com? Political ideas that aren't mainstream? Anything that might lead to these subjects? Blogs of people who run sites involving these subjects? Job sites offering positions in these services? Abortion clinic websites? Slippery slope is a terrible defense, but it is the most obvious one here. The second you block something because a few people find it offensive (the real reason - anything 'for the children' automatically gets filed as bullshit for me because its an emotion evoking tactic).
B) It puts in place an infrastructure not unlike China's great internet firewall. And we know how bullet proof that is...lol.. sorry... couldn't say that with a straight face.
C) It is opt in now. No one can say for sure that it will always be that way. What if a government body suddenly starts saying that for ISP's to be granted a business license thay have to put in place similar technology?
D) What about free speach? What if someone on their "G" network starts hosting porn? If theres no contract the customer has technically not done anything wrong. Its a legal can of worms.
Actually according to Facial Feedback, you're not far off OP. Thinking you won't be depressed may not help, however forcing yourself to smile does help put you in a better mood. Now you may not be able to just "will yourself" happy, but if you can will yourself to smile theres a large body of evidence showing it will make you happier. Other things that will make you happier are exercise, sex, and pretty much anything which creates endorphins.
Agreed, no one in their right mind would spend 600-1000$+ for photoshop to remove red eyes. If they did, they are morons. There are a vast number of cheaper or free programs out there that can do the same thing without the bloated price tag. Both Gimp and Photoshop are professional tools and they both honestly have a learning curve that makes them pretty darn unfriendly to a lay person for anything beyond "hey look what I can do!" I mean, does the average person need 5839 different types of gaussian blur? No, I don't think so.
Ok, so once this becomes permanant, hopefully they just use a dumb form to add a number to the list.. in which case... I'll give a bag of cookies to whoever writes the first perlscript to add every single number in existance to the database. I mean, thats only what, 000-0000 to 999-9999?
Plates move about 1 inch a year (at least thats what I remember from geology classes at the university). So unless the cables have been there for 100 years or so, I doubt theres been enough movement to break the cables (barring a suboceanic earthquake which could go completely unnoticed - a la the one in Indonesia a few years back).
Given that I can't recall in recent memory when one of these cables has been cut before the liklihood of these cables being cut one a day for 3 days, purely by chance, to be almost nil. A ship captained by a reactionary who hates the net? Possible. Goverment surveillance? Possible but strangely high profile. You better believe any sensitive data going through those tubes is gonna be monitored by warhawks in every one of the affected nations. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if China at the very least sends a sub out to verify the integrity of the cable over its full length. The fact that we conspiracy nuts are thinking it means that the conspiracy nuts in the affected nations' departments of defense were probobly taking action yesterday.
Not to mention FF 3 is able to at least *mostly* render Acid3, and once its out of beta i wouldn't be surprised if it was fully compliant. Also, Acid 3 is still in testing. I just don't get why microsoft insists on eschewing standards. They exist for a reason, so people only have to do something once. Ugh, idiocy, thy name is microsoft.
What is the enterprise management utility? Is it like the enterprise manager in oracle? In which case I'm all for it. MySQL is amazing even in its "free" incarnation, and everything you need to manage it can be done with either front ends or from the command line. However if there is a supported manager utility like in Oracle, I think it'd totally be worth the purchase - ESPECIALLY if its as useful as the oracle one. Sun is a company who has made a ton of strides towards working with the open source community, but first and foremost they are a company.
browse WoW forums, check out slashdot, and if my supervisor is around I pop in certification training CD's that I download off mininova. I've gotten 3 certifications this way... nothing quite like getting paid to become a more valuble (and better paid) employee:)
Yes it does since they're organic compounds (I believe thats the difference between chemical and biological warfare).
Anyways, it doesn't count when the US renigs on nonproliferation treaties because our skin isn't brown. Our poop doesn't smell either.
The French government has posted a reply, best summarized as, "Ribbit, ribbit. Ribbit ribbitribbit RIBBIT! Ribbit!"
Go drink some wine and leave amazon alone Frenchy.
In all seriousness though, what about companies such as Walmart and Circuit city who offer online discounts and then allow the product to be shipped directly to a store? That to me would equate to the same as free shipping.
Actually on the ground the lowest light one can be exposed to is still much brighter than natural darkness - you simply cannot escape the light pollution on the surface of the planet save for possibly in antartica or the middle of the pacific. The was actually a slashdot article on the subject a few months ago. Also, the telescopes are made to compensate for clouds and smog, but they can't slice through it. They're also subject to weather.
Does it make as much sense to give back a failed drive though? With a car, getting back a core (a failed part) makes some sense because with a little bit of machining knowledge you can remachine it and turn it into something usable. With a hard drive, you'd need an anti-static clean room, and a whole lot of advanced degrees to get anything even remotely usable off of the drive. I understand the privacy concerns, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of practical purpose to give back the drive. My main concern would be privacy however most companies tend to destroy the devices, or run them through a degausser.
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They're making it even faster? FF3b1 was already scary fast... hehe, this is exciting! :)
Fine a submitter for filing a frivolous patent, or patent squatting. Betcha that backlog clears out overnight. But in the meantime, I want to patent a method of diffusing particles across a semi-permeable membrane and then sue people for breathing. brb.
Fact: One cannot defeat technology with more technology. Any bored geek, hacker, cracker, or phreaker could tell you that.
A) What is not "child safe"? Nudity? Hardcore sex videos? Potentially adult jokes? Newgrounds.com? Political ideas that aren't mainstream? Anything that might lead to these subjects? Blogs of people who run sites involving these subjects? Job sites offering positions in these services? Abortion clinic websites? Slippery slope is a terrible defense, but it is the most obvious one here. The second you block something because a few people find it offensive (the real reason - anything 'for the children' automatically gets filed as bullshit for me because its an emotion evoking tactic). B) It puts in place an infrastructure not unlike China's great internet firewall. And we know how bullet proof that is...lol.. sorry... couldn't say that with a straight face. C) It is opt in now. No one can say for sure that it will always be that way. What if a government body suddenly starts saying that for ISP's to be granted a business license thay have to put in place similar technology? D) What about free speach? What if someone on their "G" network starts hosting porn? If theres no contract the customer has technically not done anything wrong. Its a legal can of worms.
Actually according to Facial Feedback, you're not far off OP. Thinking you won't be depressed may not help, however forcing yourself to smile does help put you in a better mood. Now you may not be able to just "will yourself" happy, but if you can will yourself to smile theres a large body of evidence showing it will make you happier. Other things that will make you happier are exercise, sex, and pretty much anything which creates endorphins.
Agreed, no one in their right mind would spend 600-1000$+ for photoshop to remove red eyes. If they did, they are morons. There are a vast number of cheaper or free programs out there that can do the same thing without the bloated price tag. Both Gimp and Photoshop are professional tools and they both honestly have a learning curve that makes them pretty darn unfriendly to a lay person for anything beyond "hey look what I can do!" I mean, does the average person need 5839 different types of gaussian blur? No, I don't think so.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hxo5KvvTzXY - Because computers don't always tell planes the right thing.
I don't trust people to do this job, so why the hell would I trust a computer?
Ok, so once this becomes permanant, hopefully they just use a dumb form to add a number to the list.. in which case... I'll give a bag of cookies to whoever writes the first perlscript to add every single number in existance to the database. I mean, thats only what, 000-0000 to 999-9999?
For sony, yes. For end buyers? Nope. To sony this just means their profit margin got bigger.
Plates move about 1 inch a year (at least thats what I remember from geology classes at the university). So unless the cables have been there for 100 years or so, I doubt theres been enough movement to break the cables (barring a suboceanic earthquake which could go completely unnoticed - a la the one in Indonesia a few years back).
Fair enough :) I hadn't realized they were quite so numerous, suppose this sort of thing doesn't normally make big headlines. eh?
Given that I can't recall in recent memory when one of these cables has been cut before the liklihood of these cables being cut one a day for 3 days, purely by chance, to be almost nil. A ship captained by a reactionary who hates the net? Possible. Goverment surveillance? Possible but strangely high profile. You better believe any sensitive data going through those tubes is gonna be monitored by warhawks in every one of the affected nations. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if China at the very least sends a sub out to verify the integrity of the cable over its full length. The fact that we conspiracy nuts are thinking it means that the conspiracy nuts in the affected nations' departments of defense were probobly taking action yesterday.
Wait, so how *do* you use fibre-optic cabling then if its not for getting your jollies?
Cobra Commander was a Pawn, Serpentor and Destro were the *real* leaders :-P
Wouldn't mosaic technically get the patent then, IE Netscape?
Not to mention FF 3 is able to at least *mostly* render Acid3, and once its out of beta i wouldn't be surprised if it was fully compliant. Also, Acid 3 is still in testing. I just don't get why microsoft insists on eschewing standards. They exist for a reason, so people only have to do something once. Ugh, idiocy, thy name is microsoft.
What is the enterprise management utility? Is it like the enterprise manager in oracle? In which case I'm all for it. MySQL is amazing even in its "free" incarnation, and everything you need to manage it can be done with either front ends or from the command line. However if there is a supported manager utility like in Oracle, I think it'd totally be worth the purchase - ESPECIALLY if its as useful as the oracle one. Sun is a company who has made a ton of strides towards working with the open source community, but first and foremost they are a company.
Please chemically castrate yourself, or jump off of a tall building before you have a chance to reproduce. Thanks.
The first aid training missions actually do cover some first aid basics that could save a life if its something simple enough.
browse WoW forums, check out slashdot, and if my supervisor is around I pop in certification training CD's that I download off mininova. I've gotten 3 certifications this way... nothing quite like getting paid to become a more valuble (and better paid) employee :)
Yes it does since they're organic compounds (I believe thats the difference between chemical and biological warfare). Anyways, it doesn't count when the US renigs on nonproliferation treaties because our skin isn't brown. Our poop doesn't smell either.
The French government has posted a reply, best summarized as, "Ribbit, ribbit. Ribbit ribbitribbit RIBBIT! Ribbit!" Go drink some wine and leave amazon alone Frenchy. In all seriousness though, what about companies such as Walmart and Circuit city who offer online discounts and then allow the product to be shipped directly to a store? That to me would equate to the same as free shipping.
Actually on the ground the lowest light one can be exposed to is still much brighter than natural darkness - you simply cannot escape the light pollution on the surface of the planet save for possibly in antartica or the middle of the pacific. The was actually a slashdot article on the subject a few months ago. Also, the telescopes are made to compensate for clouds and smog, but they can't slice through it. They're also subject to weather.
Does it make as much sense to give back a failed drive though? With a car, getting back a core (a failed part) makes some sense because with a little bit of machining knowledge you can remachine it and turn it into something usable. With a hard drive, you'd need an anti-static clean room, and a whole lot of advanced degrees to get anything even remotely usable off of the drive. I understand the privacy concerns, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of practical purpose to give back the drive. My main concern would be privacy however most companies tend to destroy the devices, or run them through a degausser.