yeah, I think you're right..everything became much clearer after actually posting;)
Actually, a little further down in the document, it even says "the sharp and now continuing drop in attacks does give the coalition a much-needed respite whose continuation will be critical...Reinforcing this trend...will be crucial to ultimate success"
So it looks like I was wrong, sorry. Mods, please mod grandparent down.
Have you looked at the actual word document? Here's one sentence in particular that really sounds like they want the attacks to continue:
"Over the past month attacks against the Coalition Forces in Al Anbar province have gone down from over 20 per day to next to none. There are a number of theories for why this is. It is entirely possible that this is merely a blip on the screen or a statistical aberration and we will return to larger numbers of attacks, but it has held for nearly five weeks now."
So they're not merely pondering why attacks have decreased; it would seem that they want them to continue. After all, it would be difficult to justify staying in Iraq if there are no attacks against them.
Hate to be so anal, but wrong. "Response percent" refers to (# of people who voted on option) / (# of people who answered the question). Note how below it says that 6,297 people, or about 23% of participants, did not supply an email address.
Conclusion: about 4/5ths of participants got an email.
But I do find it odd that there are 6 missing people in the "total respondents" section for the question, or the response total for the question is 6 people too high. (look at the 9th page; the bottom two numbers should be the same)
Please, can we stop editorial comments like this: "but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography."
Okay, I know Conserviative-bashing has been "the cool thing to do" in Canada for a while, but at least look who introduced the bill: "Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine)." Click on her name, and you'll see she's part of the LIBERAL party. Believe it or not, the liberals have been responsible for a lot of crap too- stop blaming the Conservatives for every little thing that goes wrong up here.
Actually, in Canada you do not have to disclose these previous crimes if you have been pardoned. You can typically be pardoned after either 3 or 5 years following the completion of your sentence (depending on whether it's a summary/indictable offense), after which even a criminal records search will reveal no record.
I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. has similar rules.
Just to reiterate this, make CERTAIN you drain your pipes COMPLETELY if you're going to shut them off...just shutting them off is incredibly stupid advice that my family followed one winter. We came home to a complete disaster. Pipes burst in multiple places, we had no water for days, and it would've cost a fortune if we didn't have connections to a plumber that someone knows personally. Remember: water expands when frozen, so this isn't as much of an issue if you leave your heating on (which will cost a lot of money unnecessarily).
Stop assuming that "has lots of music on computer" means "downloaded lots of music onto computer." Ever heard of a CD ripper? People have every right to rip CD's onto their computer, whether or not RIAA wants to put their little "copy protection" schemes onto their CDs, and it's a hell of a lot more convenient than organizing and storing a physical collection of CDs.
How about something like this? I personally haven't tried this one (I don't listen to too much music myself), but I'm organizing my movie collection using a mySQL database ("wuff's moviedb"). Incidentally, this looks like it can play your music too, and an awesome plus is being able to access your database from anywhere!
You don't have to use that one...just go to SourceForge and search for something like "movie database". I personally prefer the PHP/mySQL ones, but you may have different needs:)
I don't think that people are upset about this because 'a company' is doing it...IIRC all the other major search engines censor results for searches coming from China. The reason that google is being targetted is because they claim that their motto is "don't do evil." If they don't believe in that anymore, then they shouldn't still advertise it. I personally don't expect most companies to take ethics over profits; however, I expect different things from google for the simple reason that they told me I should.
If you ask me, I think google is far more adamant about internet freedom in the US because doing so will get them more customers than in China. If they defend their customers' rights here, it'll get them more respect and marketshare, as I'm sure a number people look up to google and promote it because of their "don't do evil" philosophy. I, for one, would not use a search engine that I knew would compromise my privacy. On the contrary, following this philosophy in china will guarantee them/less/ customers, as they'll get blacklisted from the entire country. If they really truly believed in their philosophy, they would follow it by hook or crook, regardless of how many customers they'd lose.
But in the end, whether it's defending internet freedom or promising not to do evil, Google's core morals are no longer really a philosophy as much as a way of looking cool to the right people. Oh, how I wish they hadn't gone public...
Okay, maybe you read the summary before you posted but it sure doesn't look like you RTFA'd:
"by the end of the year some 16 million U.S. households will have HDTV sets"[1] (emphasis added). Last time I checked, US still meant the United States. Like others have mentioned before,/. is US-centric, so the summaries will reflect this.
Why not just upload a ripped & converted copy of a DVD as a pirated UMD movie? That way there would be no quality loss as a result of the multiple conversions (digital->analog->digital)
Another great flash drive if you're looking for something sturdy, is the "Corsair Flash Voyager". It was rated 8/10 on the Ars Technica flash drive roundup [arstechnica.com], and it is actually encased in rubber.
While this may not have the rock hard connotations of words like "Titanium", it is an excellent choice if the sturdiness of the drive is important. You can throw it against walls, bounce it on floors, and even submerge it in a glass of water and it will still work! While I don't actually have first-hand experience of this, it seems very possible if it is completely encased in rubber.
Of course, actually doing this probably isn't recommended, but if this does happen to the drive, it will still work. While it doesn't get any points for its looks, it is probably one of the best drives out there if you're concerned about how much abuse it can take!
Another great flash drive if you're looking for something sturdy, is the "Corsair Flash Voyager". It was rated 8/10 on the Ars Technica flash drive roundup, and it is actually encased in rubber.
While this may not have the rock hard connotations of words like "Titanium", it is an excellent choice if the sturdiness of the drive is important. You can throw it against walls, bounce it on floors, and even submerge it in a glass of water and it will still work! While I don't actually have first-hand experience of this, it seems very possible if it is completely encased in rubber.
Of course, actually doing this probably isn't recommended, but if this does happen to the drive, it will still work. While it doesn't get any points for its looks, it is probably one of the best drives out there if you're concerned about how much abuse it can take!
A typo seen in the first character?! CoyboyNeal, this must be a record!
Oh, and maybe this was a dream, but wasn't Google Scholar launched a long time ago? Nope, wasn't a dream: this entry in the google blog (dated October 18th 2004) announces the launch of the beta version. Although scholar is still in beta, surely it shouldn't be referred to as google's "new" service. This story is also (needless to say) a Dupe.
If you go through the sources, you'll see that AMN's source is GameCube Europe. GameCube Europe's sources is Aussie-Nintendo. Gamesradar says that its info came from Australian internet reports, and it gives a quote that is directly from Aussie-Nintendo, so it's fairly safe to assume that Aussie-Nintendo is their source too. If I had to take a wild guess where this started, I'd say it started there.
Aussie-Nintendo says that they got this info by emailing Nintendo of America. This could definitely be a hoax. If it was official word from Nintendo, wouldn't they have a press release rather than just emailing some random guy?
However, a Nintendo representative could have released that information without knowing that it was a secret, or this could be Nintendo trying to build up hype. It's too late to know for sure, but we definitely don't know for certain whether this is the truth or just a hoax. Right now it's pretty much just internet rumours.
And how does this have to do with my rights online? Seriousyl...isn't/. supposed to be a place for technology-related news? Yes, this is very disturbing, but it's way beyond the scope of slashdot.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, things like that are completely unacceptable! We can't sit back and allow people to take our land just to make an extra buck. I'm not sure what can be done about this, but clearly there is something very wrong with the supreme court if companies are allowed to bulldoze homes to build a condo.
This raises some questions about what the value of real estate will be in the future if companies are allowed to just take it. I don't know what kind of compensation the families received, but surely it isn't as much as they would have gotten otherwise. Needless to say, this is completely and utterly unfair...something has to be done.
I used to be all for ads. I didn't mind them, and from a moral point of view, I felt that it was wrong to be using companies' bandwidth unless I saw their ads.
Then things started to change. I started to see ads popping up in every damn place I went. Now with gmail, they scan your emails and give you ads based on that in an effort to get you to click on ads as much as possible. Well I, for one, am sick of ads being shoved in my face every second of the day.
One thing for sure is that internet advertising isn't going away, and sites that you like (this one included) stand a much better chance of staying subscription-free if the advertiser pays/. more for every impression or click. More optimized delivery = more money for publisher = less ads for you.
Or, you can do what I did and install adblock. After a few days of training it, maybe one site per week gets through. And it would've been faster if I had known of the pre-written text files for adblock. I'm sorry it's come to this, but the millions of ads were driving me nuts. I had reached my threshhold, and, as a result, had to disable ads completely.
If my behavior reflects what most web users feel, then sites with huge amounts of ads, especially graphic ads and popups, will only be able to do this for a limited period of time. We're already seeing ie block popups, and it could become more of an issue later depending on how things evolve.
I agree with you...which is why it's so important that we boycott these PDFs NOW, so it's stopped in its tracks. If people had generally decided that surveillance cameras didn't serve the public good, and boycotted them, we wouldn't have them today. Similarly, if we boycott PDFs with this technology before it becomes the only PDFs available, then I doubt they'll be a problem in the future.
Nobody ever listens to me when I tell them things like this! Want to live forever? Here's a good way of increasing your chances:
Most people die in their beds; obviously, beds are a major cause of death. So sleep in a sleeping bag! Or on the floor! Heck, I'd bet you'd even have a better chance in the coffin.
Well, there was a Japanese study12 that linked computer use to glaucoma, but it doesn't seem to distinguish between people who use LCDs and CRTs.
We probably don't know the full effects of what we're doing. Doctors often don't know the root cause of problems, but it's typically considered a success if you can reduce people's chances of getting it by even a few percent.
I'm no doctor, but it would make sense that looking at close objects for long periods of time might increase your risk of myopia- countries with heavy computer use have high rates of myopia, and places like 3rd world countries where people have to look at far objects more have lower rates. It's a known fact that you adapt to changes, maybe people like myself have glasses because we use computers so heavily? But I would imagine that reading books at an early age might also cause that...so there's not much we can do about it:-) Oh well, glasses fix the problem anyways;)
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yeah, I think you're right..everything became much clearer after actually posting ;)
Actually, a little further down in the document, it even says "the sharp and now continuing drop in attacks does give the coalition a much-needed respite whose continuation will be critical...Reinforcing this trend...will be crucial to ultimate success"
So it looks like I was wrong, sorry. Mods, please mod grandparent down.
Have you looked at the actual word document? Here's one sentence in particular that really sounds like they want the attacks to continue:
"Over the past month attacks against the Coalition Forces in Al Anbar province have gone down from over 20 per day to next to none. There are a number of theories for why this is. It is entirely possible that this is merely a blip on the screen or a statistical aberration and we will return to larger numbers of attacks, but it has held for nearly five weeks now."
So they're not merely pondering why attacks have decreased; it would seem that they want them to continue. After all, it would be difficult to justify staying in Iraq if there are no attacks against them.
Hate to be so anal, but wrong. "Response percent" refers to (# of people who voted on option) / (# of people who answered the question). Note how below it says that 6,297 people, or about 23% of participants, did not supply an email address.
Conclusion: about 4/5ths of participants got an email.
But I do find it odd that there are 6 missing people in the "total respondents" section for the question, or the response total for the question is 6 people too high. (look at the 9th page; the bottom two numbers should be the same)
Link in parent NSFW (contains hentai).
The rule is: "Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it. No exceptions."
Please, can we stop editorial comments like this: "but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography."
Okay, I know Conserviative-bashing has been "the cool thing to do" in Canada for a while, but at least look who introduced the bill: "Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine)." Click on her name, and you'll see she's part of the LIBERAL party. Believe it or not, the liberals have been responsible for a lot of crap too- stop blaming the Conservatives for every little thing that goes wrong up here.
Oh yeah? Well I don't see you posting your full details openly on the web either. Most don't, and it's certainly not because they're cowards.
Actually, in Canada you do not have to disclose these previous crimes if you have been pardoned. You can typically be pardoned after either 3 or 5 years following the completion of your sentence (depending on whether it's a summary/indictable offense), after which even a criminal records search will reveal no record.
I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. has similar rules.
Just to reiterate this, make CERTAIN you drain your pipes COMPLETELY if you're going to shut them off...just shutting them off is incredibly stupid advice that my family followed one winter. We came home to a complete disaster. Pipes burst in multiple places, we had no water for days, and it would've cost a fortune if we didn't have connections to a plumber that someone knows personally. Remember: water expands when frozen, so this isn't as much of an issue if you leave your heating on (which will cost a lot of money unnecessarily).
umm, this is /., we're too pro for HTML.
Stop assuming that "has lots of music on computer" means "downloaded lots of music onto computer." Ever heard of a CD ripper? People have every right to rip CD's onto their computer, whether or not RIAA wants to put their little "copy protection" schemes onto their CDs, and it's a hell of a lot more convenient than organizing and storing a physical collection of CDs.
How about something like this? I personally haven't tried this one (I don't listen to too much music myself), but I'm organizing my movie collection using a mySQL database ("wuff's moviedb"). Incidentally, this looks like it can play your music too, and an awesome plus is being able to access your database from anywhere!
:)
You don't have to use that one...just go to SourceForge and search for something like "movie database". I personally prefer the PHP/mySQL ones, but you may have different needs
I don't think that people are upset about this because 'a company' is doing it...IIRC all the other major search engines censor results for searches coming from China. The reason that google is being targetted is because they claim that their motto is "don't do evil." If they don't believe in that anymore, then they shouldn't still advertise it. I personally don't expect most companies to take ethics over profits; however, I expect different things from google for the simple reason that they told me I should.
If you ask me, I think google is far more adamant about internet freedom in the US because doing so will get them more customers than in China. If they defend their customers' rights here, it'll get them more respect and marketshare, as I'm sure a number people look up to google and promote it because of their "don't do evil" philosophy. I, for one, would not use a search engine that I knew would compromise my privacy. On the contrary, following this philosophy in china will guarantee them /less/ customers, as they'll get blacklisted from the entire country. If they really truly believed in their philosophy, they would follow it by hook or crook, regardless of how many customers they'd lose.
But in the end, whether it's defending internet freedom or promising not to do evil, Google's core morals are no longer really a philosophy as much as a way of looking cool to the right people. Oh, how I wish they hadn't gone public...
Okay, maybe you read the summary before you posted but it sure doesn't look like you RTFA'd: /. is US-centric, so the summaries will reflect this.
"by the end of the year some 16 million U.S. households will have HDTV sets"[1] (emphasis added). Last time I checked, US still meant the United States. Like others have mentioned before,
Why not just upload a ripped & converted copy of a DVD as a pirated UMD movie? That way there would be no quality loss as a result of the multiple conversions (digital->analog->digital)
Another great flash drive if you're looking for something sturdy, is the "Corsair Flash Voyager". It was rated 8/10 on the Ars Technica flash drive roundup [arstechnica.com], and it is actually encased in rubber.
While this may not have the rock hard connotations of words like "Titanium", it is an excellent choice if the sturdiness of the drive is important. You can throw it against walls, bounce it on floors, and even submerge it in a glass of water and it will still work! While I don't actually have first-hand experience of this, it seems very possible if it is completely encased in rubber.
Of course, actually doing this probably isn't recommended, but if this does happen to the drive, it will still work. While it doesn't get any points for its looks, it is probably one of the best drives out there if you're concerned about how much abuse it can take!
Another great flash drive if you're looking for something sturdy, is the "Corsair Flash Voyager". It was rated 8/10 on the Ars Technica flash drive roundup, and it is actually encased in rubber.
While this may not have the rock hard connotations of words like "Titanium", it is an excellent choice if the sturdiness of the drive is important. You can throw it against walls, bounce it on floors, and even submerge it in a glass of water and it will still work! While I don't actually have first-hand experience of this, it seems very possible if it is completely encased in rubber.
Of course, actually doing this probably isn't recommended, but if this does happen to the drive, it will still work. While it doesn't get any points for its looks, it is probably one of the best drives out there if you're concerned about how much abuse it can take!
A typo seen in the first character?! CoyboyNeal, this must be a record!
Oh, and maybe this was a dream, but wasn't Google Scholar launched a long time ago? Nope, wasn't a dream: this entry in the google blog (dated October 18th 2004) announces the launch of the beta version. Although scholar is still in beta, surely it shouldn't be referred to as google's "new" service. This story is also (needless to say) a Dupe.
I searched on google news, and I found a few different sources:
Advanced Media Network, GameCube Europe, Gamesradar.com.
If you go through the sources, you'll see that AMN's source is GameCube Europe. GameCube Europe's sources is Aussie-Nintendo. Gamesradar says that its info came from Australian internet reports, and it gives a quote that is directly from Aussie-Nintendo, so it's fairly safe to assume that Aussie-Nintendo is their source too. If I had to take a wild guess where this started, I'd say it started there.
Aussie-Nintendo says that they got this info by emailing Nintendo of America. This could definitely be a hoax. If it was official word from Nintendo, wouldn't they have a press release rather than just emailing some random guy?
However, a Nintendo representative could have released that information without knowing that it was a secret, or this could be Nintendo trying to build up hype. It's too late to know for sure, but we definitely don't know for certain whether this is the truth or just a hoax. Right now it's pretty much just internet rumours.
And how does this have to do with my rights online? Seriousyl...isn't /. supposed to be a place for technology-related news? Yes, this is very disturbing, but it's way beyond the scope of slashdot.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, things like that are completely unacceptable! We can't sit back and allow people to take our land just to make an extra buck. I'm not sure what can be done about this, but clearly there is something very wrong with the supreme court if companies are allowed to bulldoze homes to build a condo.
This raises some questions about what the value of real estate will be in the future if companies are allowed to just take it. I don't know what kind of compensation the families received, but surely it isn't as much as they would have gotten otherwise. Needless to say, this is completely and utterly unfair...something has to be done.
Then things started to change. I started to see ads popping up in every damn place I went. Now with gmail, they scan your emails and give you ads based on that in an effort to get you to click on ads as much as possible. Well I, for one, am sick of ads being shoved in my face every second of the day.
Or, you can do what I did and install adblock. After a few days of training it, maybe one site per week gets through. And it would've been faster if I had known of the pre-written text files for adblock. I'm sorry it's come to this, but the millions of ads were driving me nuts. I had reached my threshhold, and, as a result, had to disable ads completely.
If my behavior reflects what most web users feel, then sites with huge amounts of ads, especially graphic ads and popups, will only be able to do this for a limited period of time. We're already seeing ie block popups, and it could become more of an issue later depending on how things evolve.
damn! they're taking away my pr0n!
What's next? "FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked News"?!
I agree with you...which is why it's so important that we boycott these PDFs NOW, so it's stopped in its tracks. If people had generally decided that surveillance cameras didn't serve the public good, and boycotted them, we wouldn't have them today. Similarly, if we boycott PDFs with this technology before it becomes the only PDFs available, then I doubt they'll be a problem in the future.
Nobody ever listens to me when I tell them things like this! Want to live forever? Here's a good way of increasing your chances:
Most people die in their beds; obviously, beds are a major cause of death. So sleep in a sleeping bag! Or on the floor! Heck, I'd bet you'd even have a better chance in the coffin.
Well, there was a Japanese study1 2 that linked computer use to glaucoma, but it doesn't seem to distinguish between people who use LCDs and CRTs.
:-) Oh well, glasses fix the problem anyways ;)
We probably don't know the full effects of what we're doing. Doctors often don't know the root cause of problems, but it's typically considered a success if you can reduce people's chances of getting it by even a few percent.
I'm no doctor, but it would make sense that looking at close objects for long periods of time might increase your risk of myopia- countries with heavy computer use have high rates of myopia, and places like 3rd world countries where people have to look at far objects more have lower rates. It's a known fact that you adapt to changes, maybe people like myself have glasses because we use computers so heavily? But I would imagine that reading books at an early age might also cause that...so there's not much we can do about it