/b/ and a/xyz/ back to ya!
I don't get the internet or sewage in my backyard, and never have.
4chan can back up their own sewage servers to their own backyard, thank you.
Have advertisers sued VCR manufacturers, Tivo, etc?
Yes.
NBC, ABC and CBS filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in California against Sonicblue, claiming the ReplayTV 4000 would violate their copyrights by allowing users to distribute copies of programs over the Internet.
The networks also complained that technology in the personal video recorder can automatically strip out commercials.
In a joint statement, the networks said the device "violates the rights of copyright owners in unprecedented ways" and "deprives the copyright owners of the means by which they are paid for their creative content and thus reduces the incentive to create programming and make it available to the public."
you still have to look at the screen to check your output multiple times, distracting you from the road.
Like flipping through the radio stations? Here here! Let's call all radio station flippers names and ban radio station flipping!
Honestly, the cell phone, or the texting, isn't the problem. There are times when it is perfectly safe to text (long empty roads on the way to the coast, for example). As someone above said, the rule should be that you "drive with due care and attention." Banning a particular technology because your view can't apply it in a safe way doesn't seem to be the right answer.
Just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean that everyone has to share your opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own idea of what's fun. I'd much rather text someone a short message than spend time on the phone, and the majority of my family is the same way.
My argument against would be that folks that're "disabled" like me wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole....
In short, Beethoven.;)
I didn't read anything showing that people with defects would not be allowed to contribute to society. The question is "do you want to limit the chances of genetic defects in your baby?" The question is not "do we regulate people without genetic screening, or people with 'defects', to a separate and lower class so that they cannot contribute to society".
A law saying all people are created equal may be necessary.
Driving without a seat belt makes you a dumbass, but it doesn't hurt anyone else and shouldn't be illegal. From what I understand, the reasoning is it hurts everyone else because we have to pay your medical because you flew through a windshield and can't afford the hospital bill.
It would be nice to see but I don't think anyone has release a newer major os release that ran faster on the same same old hardware. IIRC, XP is faster than 98/ME... /shrugs
I am beginning to ask myself: why are we always happy because of such news?
I mean yes, we are all little pirates at the bottom of our hearts and we all liked Robin Hood, but shouldn't we start thinking more responsible towards how technology advancement can occur? We are happy because if we purchase a product, we feel we should be able to use it however we want to. DRM puts restrictions on how we can use the product we own. Removing those restrictions and allowing more freedom makes us happy.
It's popular information already. To quote from the discussion page:
Everything in this picture is basically public knowledge. There is no misdirection OR direction here. One can deduce this much about the interior of Fat Man from the wikipedia articles. The barriers to entry in the implosion nuke market are not basic diagrams of the interior of the weapon, its the fissile material, precision manufacturing, math, detonators, and overall massive infrastructure required to pull a working example OF the design of.
Its all well and good having a diagram of the space shuttle to, but you still need the expertise, technology, and industry to build it.
Hell NK apparently got one to go pop but they couldnt make it go BANG.
Most third world nations would have a much easier time building a gun type weapon (IE little boy), but these weapons are relatively weak, large, and very wasteful of fissile material. They are also inherently dangerous. South Africa purportedly built a few in the 70's (check dates) I believe but dismantled them. Not nearly as hard but not nearly as effective a technology. Diagrams also exist of the little boy setup, but im yet to see Iran test one.
I don't know, but this isn't the Ubuntu help forms. It's slashdot, and this happens to be a story about Google sky now being available in the browser. Why is he asking about why his installation isn't working under completely the wrong area. If you ask questions in the wrong forum, you're going to get smart-ass answers in reply. Not true. You get modded offtopic. Take the flames somewhere else.
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You may find the Collatz conjecture interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
New York Times != Time
Ah, thanks for pointing that out.
AnT is the first spammer I've seen Moot rage on. Would you mind elaborating?
/b/ and a /xyz/ back to ya!
I don't get the internet or sewage in my backyard, and never have.
4chan can back up their own sewage servers to their own backyard, thank you.
Thank you for elaborating my point, Sir.
The Game
Well played, Sir.
womp womp
Moot didn't discuss it at all.
Here's a real article about Moot and Times. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
/b/ may be the cesspool of the internet, but even sewage needs somewhere to go. I suppose you rather all that filth pool up in your backyard?
Three sentences turned into a frontpage story..
You are insightful.
Citation here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110247-2.html Technical details here (I think): http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/gleam-api
Have advertisers sued VCR manufacturers, Tivo, etc?
Yes.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/11/48065
Despite her gratuitous use of the word "shit", she knows wtf she's talking about.
I'm not sure how you were modded flamebite. I like your ideas.
you still have to look at the screen to check your output multiple times, distracting you from the road.
Like flipping through the radio stations? Here here! Let's call all radio station flippers names and ban radio station flipping!
Honestly, the cell phone, or the texting, isn't the problem. There are times when it is perfectly safe to text (long empty roads on the way to the coast, for example). As someone above said, the rule should be that you "drive with due care and attention." Banning a particular technology because your view can't apply it in a safe way doesn't seem to be the right answer.
Just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean that everyone has to share your opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own idea of what's fun. I'd much rather text someone a short message than spend time on the phone, and the majority of my family is the same way.
My argument against would be that folks that're "disabled" like me wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole.... In short, Beethoven. ;)
I didn't read anything showing that people with defects would not be allowed to contribute to society. The question is "do you want to limit the chances of genetic defects in your baby?" The question is not "do we regulate people without genetic screening, or people with 'defects', to a separate and lower class so that they cannot contribute to society".
A law saying all people are created equal may be necessary.
The link didn't work for me, so here's another: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9069038