I, for one, hope it doesn't flop. If it is successful, we might see some of the other carriers offer 3G phones in the US sooner than they otherwise might. I have an unlocked RAZR and a T-Mobile contract counting down to month to month. Success of the iPhone might push T-M into offering a competing phone like the MotoRizr Z8. Of course, they'd have to finish their 3G network too.
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It's amusing to me that the summary tosses around words like "wrongly brand", when MySpace hasn't "branded" - which implies a public, overt identification - anyone as anything. And even if the woman's friends ask why her profile is gone, it's not as if they're going to accidentally and arbitrarily believe she really is a sex offender.
Your optimism that "wrongly branded" individuals such as this woman will not be publicly harmed from this is touching. While her own efforts to clear her name have lead to her public identification in a relatively positive light, others who just shrug it off may find it coming back to haunt them later. Her friends may not believe she is a sex offender, but potential future employers may not be so charitable. I have zero confidence that lists such as this will not enter the public domain.
>What I don't get is, why do creationists have such an obvious hatred for science, and yet they have a compulsion to explain their own beliefs using scientific-sounding words and scientific-looking venues?
The short answer is Argument From Authority. Fundamentalists in particular are taught not to think for themselves; to accept the teaching of the preacher. Although they claim to be "Bible based," it is the authority of the preacher that tells the fundamentalist congregant what the bible means. This creates a problem with scientific authority.
The solution, for these folks, is to try to create an alternative argument from scientific authority, hence the oxymoronic "creation science." Look at how many of these charlatans sport cereal box "doctorates" from diploma mills. A good example is Kent Hovind, Dr.Dino. Other examples abound.
This is sort of like trying to decide who to root for in an Alien vs. Predator duel. My preference is to toss them both into the Thunderdome and then nuke it from orbit.
>The cable company will replace the Microsoft technology with GuideWorks software -- Comcast is a part owner of GuideWorks.
The issue is not that Comcast is particularly unhappy with Microsoft. It is more that they are going with software they own a piece of. In my experience, that usually turns out badly.
Even that can provide information. If it is on, and the screen is still black, you know your problem is with the monitor or cable or video card or such.
>Would this be the dumbing-down of Wikipedia -- or would it be a better resource for everyone?
There is plenty of dumbed-down, inaccurate, out of date, stupid shit science out there for everyone. If an article is too difficult for you to understand, educate yourself. My first thought on seeing the title of this was, "Yeah, Wikipedia sucks; it's not technical enough."
What it is about is my legal right to make a legal backup copy of something I purchased legally. I've been doing this since I started copying vinyl LPs onto top quality tape. The media and the methods have changed a bit since then, but I'm going to keep doing it. I have absolutely no sympathy for their efforts to prevent this.
>they should go see a shrink. There's therapies available that can assist with irrational fears.
There are whole departments of the US government dedicated to creating irrational fears. The same goes for the "Christian" right. Irrational fear is a means of controlling the electorate. People like you need to be locked up in a dark place full of rats and asked some pointed questions for a few decades until you wise up.
UW Madison should reply using the immortal words of our esteemed Attorney General, "'I have no recollection' of the passphrase to that encrypted file."
>France Election company belong to the brother of the small hitler candidate:)
Do you think if you say the words "Le Pen" he will appear in a cloud of sulphur smelling smoke brandishing a pitchfork?:-) I agree that the idea of the little weasel's family controlling the voting machines is rather frightening.
>it's not that man's ancestor was an ape, it's that apes and man have a common ancestor that was neither ape nor man.
Any objective taxonomy of primates includes Homo, Australopithecus, and the other human ancestors among the African great apes (family Hominidae). Not only was our ancestor an ape; we are apes.
As a Canadian I can assure you that our ever-vigilant Customs and Immigration officers would ask several sternly worded questions before they admitted such a person.
"Just a Calgary Flames supporter trying to get home from the thrashing in Detroit, eh? My match get-up got a bit extreme, but if you pour this Labatt's over me, eh, I'll just drink the other five on the way home, eh?"
"Even though this test is not being done on Earth, it is still being done pretty far down a deep gravity well. It might be interesting to repeat this test at the Lagrange point between the Earth and sun (L1). The only other choice to find flat space is to shoot the sucker out of the solar system, which would take too long."
Actually thats not a bad idea - have a contest to see how much spam you can ATTRACT with a fresh email account in a given time period. My Verizon account would win hands down. (And to you spammers out there - no, my email address is NOT CrazyTalk@verizon.net)
The poor bastard who actually does have CrazyTalk@verizon.net is really, really pissed about now.
Every digital photograph I take is copyrighted. Many of them are posted online in various places. I am concerned that various employees, directors, board officers, and others associated with the RIAA, MPIAA, and their member companies may have violated my copyrights and are sharing my intellectual property without compensating me. After all, these folks have a lot of computers. I assume that this would make my pretexting of these assumed criminals legal. I need to look at their phone records, email, bank records, and the like to make sure they aren't violating my property rights. After all. everyone knows these people aren't to be trusted.
Politics is all about the machine, or party if you prefer. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is neither, has ruled Japan since 1955, except for one brief interregnum in 1993. Nothing will be tolerated that threatens the established rule of the oligarchy. The election laws are there to insure LDP control. YouTube threatens that in Japan. It's probably not much of a threat, but it's easier to stomp on a little bug than Mothra.
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Meh! Everyone knows the summary bears no relation to the article.
I, for one, hope it doesn't flop. If it is successful, we might see some of the other carriers offer 3G phones in the US sooner than they otherwise might. I have an unlocked RAZR and a T-Mobile contract counting down to month to month. Success of the iPhone might push T-M into offering a competing phone like the MotoRizr Z8. Of course, they'd have to finish their 3G network too.
Or does this thing look too much like the Planet Express ship for comfort.
>Just the government is getting it's cut in the action from all sides usually there.
And that would be different from the US how?
> It's amusing to me that the summary tosses around words like "wrongly brand", when MySpace hasn't "branded" - which implies a public, overt identification - anyone as anything. And even if the woman's friends ask why her profile is gone, it's not as if they're going to accidentally and arbitrarily believe she really is a sex offender.
Your optimism that "wrongly branded" individuals such as this woman will not be publicly harmed from this is touching. While her own efforts to clear her name have lead to her public identification in a relatively positive light, others who just shrug it off may find it coming back to haunt them later. Her friends may not believe she is a sex offender, but potential future employers may not be so charitable. I have zero confidence that lists such as this will not enter the public domain.
>What I don't get is, why do creationists have such an obvious hatred for science, and yet they have a compulsion to explain their own beliefs using scientific-sounding words and scientific-looking venues?
The short answer is Argument From Authority. Fundamentalists in particular are taught not to think for themselves; to accept the teaching of the preacher. Although they claim to be "Bible based," it is the authority of the preacher that tells the fundamentalist congregant what the bible means. This creates a problem with scientific authority.
The solution, for these folks, is to try to create an alternative argument from scientific authority, hence the oxymoronic "creation science." Look at how many of these charlatans sport cereal box "doctorates" from diploma mills. A good example is Kent Hovind, Dr.Dino. Other examples abound.
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This is sort of like trying to decide who to root for in an Alien vs. Predator duel. My preference is to toss them both into the Thunderdome and then nuke it from orbit.
>The cable company will replace the Microsoft technology with GuideWorks software -- Comcast is a part owner of GuideWorks.
The issue is not that Comcast is particularly unhappy with Microsoft. It is more that they are going with software they own a piece of. In my experience, that usually turns out badly.
>(the blue "ON" LED on my monitor, for example)
Even that can provide information. If it is on, and the screen is still black, you know your problem is with the monitor or cable or video card or such.
>Would this be the dumbing-down of Wikipedia -- or would it be a better resource for everyone?
There is plenty of dumbed-down, inaccurate, out of date, stupid shit science out there for everyone. If an article is too difficult for you to understand, educate yourself. My first thought on seeing the title of this was, "Yeah, Wikipedia sucks; it's not technical enough."
Agreed. It isn't about free speech.
It isn't about piracy.
What it is about is my legal right to make a legal backup copy of something I purchased legally. I've been doing this since I started copying vinyl LPs onto top quality tape. The media and the methods have changed a bit since then, but I'm going to keep doing it. I have absolutely no sympathy for their efforts to prevent this.
>they should go see a shrink. There's therapies available that can assist with irrational fears.
There are whole departments of the US government dedicated to creating irrational fears. The same goes for the "Christian" right. Irrational fear is a means of controlling the electorate. People like you need to be locked up in a dark place full of rats and asked some pointed questions for a few decades until you wise up.
UW Madison should reply using the immortal words of our esteemed Attorney General, "'I have no recollection' of the passphrase to that encrypted file."
I haven't seen a Wii for sale in any store for months.
>France Election company belong to the brother of the small hitler candidate :)
Do you think if you say the words "Le Pen" he will appear in a cloud of sulphur smelling smoke brandishing a pitchfork? :-) I agree that the idea of the little weasel's family controlling the voting machines is rather frightening.
Or the amiable and sympathetic androids of Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
>it's not that man's ancestor was an ape, it's that apes and man have a common ancestor that was neither ape nor man.
Any objective taxonomy of primates includes Homo, Australopithecus, and the other human ancestors among the African great apes (family Hominidae). Not only was our ancestor an ape; we are apes."Just a Calgary Flames supporter trying to get home from the thrashing in Detroit, eh? My match get-up got a bit extreme, but if you pour this Labatt's over me, eh, I'll just drink the other five on the way home, eh?"
"Welcome home, citizen."
>Who moded this person a troll, without posting a response?
You can't mod and post. One or the other, but not both.
Jargon/Bogon Filter output to console:
"Even though this test is not being done on Earth, it is still being done pretty far down a deep gravity well. It might be interesting to repeat this test at the Lagrange point between the Earth and sun (L1). The only other choice to find flat space is to shoot the sucker out of the solar system, which would take too long."
The poor bastard who actually does have CrazyTalk@verizon.net is really, really pissed about now.
Find a creative and unique solution (cheat):
Every digital photograph I take is copyrighted. Many of them are posted online in various places. I am concerned that various employees, directors, board officers, and others associated with the RIAA, MPIAA, and their member companies may have violated my copyrights and are sharing my intellectual property without compensating me. After all, these folks have a lot of computers. I assume that this would make my pretexting of these assumed criminals legal. I need to look at their phone records, email, bank records, and the like to make sure they aren't violating my property rights. After all. everyone knows these people aren't to be trusted.
Politics is all about the machine, or party if you prefer. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is neither, has ruled Japan since 1955, except for one brief interregnum in 1993. Nothing will be tolerated that threatens the established rule of the oligarchy. The election laws are there to insure LDP control. YouTube threatens that in Japan. It's probably not much of a threat, but it's easier to stomp on a little bug than Mothra.
I keep hoping that someone will set a game in the Snow Crash universe. The Wiimote would be great for a lot of things, including katana duels.