I know this is./, but seriously, RTFA. It's all in there.
Yes, it would be an effective way to treat cancer. That's why it's being developed.
No, it doesn't affect the cancer cells, too.
In the studies, the potential to actually cause cancer is being investigated. In testing so far, it hasn't happened.
This is incredible! For only $299, I can buy the promise of something that is supposed to work when they finally get around to building it. So much better than a product that's actually shipping. I sure hope it can run Duke Nukem Forever at a decent framerate.
Wow... I googled this Parris fellow. So he's the mayor of town, a seedy ambulance-chaser, and has the high school in Lancaster named after him? Holy crap this guy's got his finger in an awful lot of pies...
And you think half a million dollars is a deal-killer? (Don't forget to include pilot(s) salary, aircraft maintenance, etc.) I live in a small township in Ohio with no income tax, and this could fit into our yearly budget, although it wouldn't be an "easy" fit. I'd imagine a medium sized city with an income tax could easily fit this number into their yearly budget Sure they'd have to give up some useless expenditures such as libraries, cultural activities and city sponsored festivals, but then, giving these things up would be well worth the added security of every citizen being under potentially constant surveillance.
I've been playing EVE Online for a year and a half. I stopped reading when I saw "courtesy" and "PvP" in the same sentence. Then I laughed.
For those of you who have never played EVE Online, a large part of it is about non-consensual PvP. A whine like this would draw an extremely high amount of ridicule on the forums.
Einstein is often pigeonholed as an atheist. I'm aware that many atheist groups try to claim him as one of their own, but there are many credible quotes that suggest otherwise. From some of his later writing:
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - October 25, 1950
Or the more direct, but much earlier:
"I am not an atheist." - 1929
May be subtle, but that doesn't sound like a quote from an atheist.
The PDF you linked looks like stimulus dollars from DOE given to states. I know nothing specifically about school funding in CO, but I'm guessing that Federal funding is a relatively small part of the big picture. They could still easily be 49th in per-student funding. Maybe that's why they got so much stimulus money.
... 1 hour later...
I did a little research on the Internets, and turns out per-pupil spending is hotly contested. In my search, no less than 12 states proudly claimed to be in the bottom 3 in per-pupil spending based on whatever data they could find to support their case to get more money. Interestingly, Colorado didn't seem to be one of those. Utah, however, was consistently last so apparently they must hate education there. Either that, or they've figured out a way to do it cheaper. East coast schools are highest, probably because a box of chalk and a ream of paper cost $426.39 in Manhattan. I'd be interested to find a ranking of funding adjusted for cost of living. At any rate, according to this set of rankings from 2001-2002, Colorado is number 34.
I'm laughing my ass off. I've worked with enough government (specifically state) agencies to know that this is not hyperbole. This is probably what actually happened.
According to this website (far from scientific) the largest guild in WoW is maybe 3600 members. BoB was twice that. I don't believe one of those guilds has ever been compromised in one day through a single act of metagaming. WoW servers are splintered. EVE has a single server, (instance) and everyone who plays EVE plays in a single universe. EVE may have a fraction of the players as WoW, but EVERYONE in EVE knows BoB.
I would bet this is the largest fall of an online superpower to date. I think that's newsworthy.
First, thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country. Second, you can't apply this logic so broadly. Compared to real danger, real death and real destruction, NOTHING is important. Games, movies, politics, the economy. It's all just window dressing compared to disarming live ordinance.
You know, I fully respect your right not to care about this news, because it has no affect on you. Sort of like how I don't really care about who is the mayor of Palm Springs or whether Grandville High School won the big football game last night, but like it or not, EVE Online has an active playerbase all around the world, and they're the types of people who read Slashdot. If you played EVE, which I understand you don't, you'd understand that this news is epic. In the scope of the game, it's akin to the fall of the Soviet Union. (Two polarized superpowers, and one of them falls.)
To put in perspective how seriously the people involved (not me) take this stuff, the leaders of the disbanded alliance got on flights at 3am to meet in Washington DC (I believe) so they could pick up the pieces and start getting to work on putting together the alliance. Honestly, I'm surprised it took almost 36 hours for an article to get on Slashdot.
I know the majority of the focus of these comments are on the legality of the teacher's actions, whether or not it violates IP law, but how about the morality of it? I take a class to learn, to obtain knowledge, not to pass a test at the end of the term. I kept my notes from college so that now, 10 years later, I can still refer to knowledge that I paid for in college. Essentially, what this teacher is telling the students is that they are to learn and retain the information until the end of the term, pass a test, and then he/she doesn't give a damn what happens to that knowledge. Doesn't this violate the very spirit of education? In my opinion, this teacher should be ashamed. I would recommend that he/she find a new job. And yes, I'm a teacher myself.
I can still purchase both a USB/Parallel adapter and a parallel port PCI card at my local computer store for less than $10. People keep saying that every form of media is going to be obsolete in 20 years. They cite examples like "How many 8" floppy drives have you seen lately?"
This is a poor example. How many 8" disks were ever produced? Maybe a couple hundred thousand total. (Shot in the dark, but not THAT many.)
Contrast that to how many CD's have ever been produced. I don't know that number, either, but I'd guess billions easily. At least several thousand times more than 8" floppy disks. Truth is, I don't think there will EVER be a time (before the rapture, nuclear war or a massive tribble invasion) when something that reads CD's isn't readily available, because the medium is so ubiquitous. Never in human history has a single medium held even a small fraction of the data that are stored on CD/DVD's.
Now, in 10,000 years, long after we're dead and the apes have evolved into intelligent beings, and they find our CD's, they might have a real challenge getting data off of them, but I don't believe in the forseeable future, this will be an issue.
Strange... I read this in many history books. Here in the US. High school and college. I even was required to write a paper on it. Where did you go to school?
So... what you're saying in reality is that DRM will now only currently hinder law-abiding non-technical users. Hmmm.... Weird that nobody's thought of that before...
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It's ./ in /.
./ literally rolls off the fingers.
Too much admin work recently.
I know this is ./, but seriously, RTFA. It's all in there.
Yes, it would be an effective way to treat cancer. That's why it's being developed.
No, it doesn't affect the cancer cells, too.
In the studies, the potential to actually cause cancer is being investigated. In testing so far, it hasn't happened.
This is incredible! For only $299, I can buy the promise of something that is supposed to work when they finally get around to building it. So much better than a product that's actually shipping. I sure hope it can run Duke Nukem Forever at a decent framerate.
Wow... I googled this Parris fellow. So he's the mayor of town, a seedy ambulance-chaser, and has the high school in Lancaster named after him? Holy crap this guy's got his finger in an awful lot of pies...
And you think half a million dollars is a deal-killer? (Don't forget to include pilot(s) salary, aircraft maintenance, etc.) I live in a small township in Ohio with no income tax, and this could fit into our yearly budget, although it wouldn't be an "easy" fit. I'd imagine a medium sized city with an income tax could easily fit this number into their yearly budget Sure they'd have to give up some useless expenditures such as libraries, cultural activities and city sponsored festivals, but then, giving these things up would be well worth the added security of every citizen being under potentially constant surveillance.
(That last bit was sarcasm...)
Actually, it is ironic that the song "Isn't It Ironic" is not at all ironic.
I've been playing EVE Online for a year and a half. I stopped reading when I saw "courtesy" and "PvP" in the same sentence. Then I laughed.
For those of you who have never played EVE Online, a large part of it is about non-consensual PvP. A whine like this would draw an extremely high amount of ridicule on the forums.
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - October 25, 1950
Or the more direct, but much earlier:
"I am not an atheist." - 1929
May be subtle, but that doesn't sound like a quote from an atheist.
Yes, the number of stars must be finite and thus must be countable.
Your initial assumption is not even remotely provable... :)
Wooooooosh!
The PDF you linked looks like stimulus dollars from DOE given to states. I know nothing specifically about school funding in CO, but I'm guessing that Federal funding is a relatively small part of the big picture. They could still easily be 49th in per-student funding. Maybe that's why they got so much stimulus money.
... 1 hour later ...
I did a little research on the Internets, and turns out per-pupil spending is hotly contested. In my search, no less than 12 states proudly claimed to be in the bottom 3 in per-pupil spending based on whatever data they could find to support their case to get more money. Interestingly, Colorado didn't seem to be one of those. Utah, however, was consistently last so apparently they must hate education there. Either that, or they've figured out a way to do it cheaper. East coast schools are highest, probably because a box of chalk and a ream of paper cost $426.39 in Manhattan. I'd be interested to find a ranking of funding adjusted for cost of living. At any rate, according to this set of rankings from 2001-2002, Colorado is number 34.
"Please come with us Mr. West."
"But I don't even have a computer.
I'm laughing my ass off. I've worked with enough government (specifically state) agencies to know that this is not hyperbole. This is probably what actually happened.
Why are you linking that stuff here? You think anyone from and IT department that lauds the security of IE6 actually reads Slashdot? ;)
According to this website (far from scientific) the largest guild in WoW is maybe 3600 members. BoB was twice that. I don't believe one of those guilds has ever been compromised in one day through a single act of metagaming. WoW servers are splintered. EVE has a single server, (instance) and everyone who plays EVE plays in a single universe. EVE may have a fraction of the players as WoW, but EVERYONE in EVE knows BoB.
I would bet this is the largest fall of an online superpower to date. I think that's newsworthy.
First, thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country. Second, you can't apply this logic so broadly. Compared to real danger, real death and real destruction, NOTHING is important. Games, movies, politics, the economy. It's all just window dressing compared to disarming live ordinance.
You know, I fully respect your right not to care about this news, because it has no affect on you. Sort of like how I don't really care about who is the mayor of Palm Springs or whether Grandville High School won the big football game last night, but like it or not, EVE Online has an active playerbase all around the world, and they're the types of people who read Slashdot. If you played EVE, which I understand you don't, you'd understand that this news is epic. In the scope of the game, it's akin to the fall of the Soviet Union. (Two polarized superpowers, and one of them falls.)
To put in perspective how seriously the people involved (not me) take this stuff, the leaders of the disbanded alliance got on flights at 3am to meet in Washington DC (I believe) so they could pick up the pieces and start getting to work on putting together the alliance. Honestly, I'm surprised it took almost 36 hours for an article to get on Slashdot.
How will you hear your phone ring, or hear someone talking on the phone?
I don't think it's a fair assumption to say that someone with the desire to take pictures in a locker room actually cares if the phone is functional.
Hell, there's really no reason it has to be a phone at all. It just has to look like a phone.
I don't think phones have the ability to extract a single frame from a video.
Once the video is on a computer, there are 6,742 ways to extract a single frame.
I know the majority of the focus of these comments are on the legality of the teacher's actions, whether or not it violates IP law, but how about the morality of it? I take a class to learn, to obtain knowledge, not to pass a test at the end of the term. I kept my notes from college so that now, 10 years later, I can still refer to knowledge that I paid for in college. Essentially, what this teacher is telling the students is that they are to learn and retain the information until the end of the term, pass a test, and then he/she doesn't give a damn what happens to that knowledge. Doesn't this violate the very spirit of education? In my opinion, this teacher should be ashamed. I would recommend that he/she find a new job. And yes, I'm a teacher myself.
I would love it if you could please clarify the connection between recordingindustryvspeople and Scientology.
The RIAA tell a mistruth to make themselves look better in the public eye? I can't imagine...
Wrong.
wired USB might go the way of the parallel port
I can still purchase both a USB/Parallel adapter and a parallel port PCI card at my local computer store for less than $10. People keep saying that every form of media is going to be obsolete in 20 years. They cite examples like "How many 8" floppy drives have you seen lately?"
This is a poor example. How many 8" disks were ever produced? Maybe a couple hundred thousand total. (Shot in the dark, but not THAT many.)
Contrast that to how many CD's have ever been produced. I don't know that number, either, but I'd guess billions easily. At least several thousand times more than 8" floppy disks. Truth is, I don't think there will EVER be a time (before the rapture, nuclear war or a massive tribble invasion) when something that reads CD's isn't readily available, because the medium is so ubiquitous. Never in human history has a single medium held even a small fraction of the data that are stored on CD/DVD's.
Now, in 10,000 years, long after we're dead and the apes have evolved into intelligent beings, and they find our CD's, they might have a real challenge getting data off of them, but I don't believe in the forseeable future, this will be an issue.
Strange... I read this in many history books. Here in the US. High school and college. I even was required to write a paper on it. Where did you go to school?
So... what you're saying in reality is that DRM will now only currently hinder law-abiding non-technical users. Hmmm.... Weird that nobody's thought of that before...