Or you could live in Japan which gets all of the above!(Well, I don't know how prevalent tornadoes are, but you do get a large mixture of natural disasters!)
No tornadoes, but you do get quite a few typhoons (hurricanes by another name) every year. And while it's the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that has people worried, typhoons are actually a lot more dangerous in the lives lost and property destroyed every year.
It seems a bit perverse, but the very frequencey of typhoons here probably makes Japan safer than, say the south-east coast of the US. They show up every year, more than once, and so everything is fairly well prepared for them. Nobody would dream of putting up something like a trailer park next to the ocean, for instance.
This goes within the country as well, by the way; we had one typhoon walk right across the entire country last summer, and even though it was really weakened by the time it came to Hokkaido, it did a lot more damage there than it did in Okinawa (which looks like typhoons are using it for target practice when you look at a yearly trace map).
Only way to really prevent something like this is to not build densely in high-risk areas in the first place.
Of course, the very features that makes for high risk - river deltas, earthquake areas, active volcanism - tend to produce really desireable areas to live in.
Any substance that, when withdrwn from, gives you headaches, the sweats and severe drowsiness can be classified as a toxin to the body.
Well, of course withdrawing water will give you headaches, drowsiness and even hallucinations. So let's cut down on that as well.
Seriously, point is well taken, but you need to binge on coffee at a pretty pathological level to really get adverse physical effects. It's pretty benign as drugs go.
Another solution, for some of us, is to not take a job in a company known to play legal games with their employes, or in country that accepts such legal concepts.
Hey, I'm sure Stallman would be just as blasé about, say, Microsoft creating a non-free license called (coincidentally) "GPL", issued by a subsidiary called "FSF".
How much of a revenue hit do companies experience because of outsourced support?
When was the last time you chose a computer, DVD player, insurance company or breakfast cereal based on the quality of the phone support? Or, for that matter, on the quality of the written documentation, usability or environmental concerns?
There are many pressures facing religions in the modern world and I think we all need to be more supportive.
Supportive? What's bad about reducing the prevalence of a collective delusion? You want to believe in Santa Claus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever I certainly won't stop you, but I won't be sad if people come to their senses either.
I know you do buy some weapon systems from Sweden. I think your law may be similar to the Swedish one, where you are required to buy domestic, if such a supplier exists. If not, you're free to get it from wherever you can.
If you can't make your customer email contact system safe from systematic abuse, then use a different means of communicating with your customers. Call them, use carrier pigeons, whatever.
Now, confirmation emails sure are borderline cases. _If_ they truly are sent only in response to an individual (checked with captchas or something); and _if_ the confirmation mail really only is confirmation with no advertisement or promotion; and _if_ the confirmation is really, truly, fully opt-in (until I answer that email in a clear affirmative you will not send or contact me ever again), then the very occasional harassment/abuse from a third party is probably my problem and the company's problem in equal amount.
I never said "promotional email"...try bending your mind around something like the "confirm your email" your favorite nerd sites (Slashdot included) send...
Once again: if their system for collecting and confirming email is open for abuse it is their problem to come up with a different system. If confirming emails are open to abuse they should cease collecting until they find a way to stop it.
As much as I hate spam as the next guy, it's wrong to let the government get involved with it. A technology to prevent spam will take care of the problem much better then the government ever can and do we really want the government tell us what we can and can't do with our emails?
As much as I hate murder as the next guy, it's wrong to let the government get involved with it. A technology to prevent murder will take care of the problem much better then the government ever can and do we really want the government tell us what we can and can't do with our weapons?
If so, what should ACME do to verify you are you instead?
I rather believe that is ACME's problem if their opt-in method doesn't in fact work. "I couldn't figure out a way to do what I wanted legally" is generally not seen as an excellent defense.
How about ACME do not send promotional email until they have solved this?
Well, if it's uncolicited and it is bulk. I.e. if an unknown person emails me to take contact (after seeing a picture of mine or something, for example) then that's obviously fine. The problem is mass emailings.
What I find amazing is that at least some places restrict it to _commercial_ bulk email. I frankly don't care who is sending the crap, I just want to get rid of it.
Sounds good - except that all of those are easily trademarkeable in any country using a language other than English. And of course, the names won't sound generic in any other language either.
Of course, you could have all software have different names depending on the country. Won't it be fun for the english-speaking developers to figure out what the "kalkylblad" bug is all about?
Oh, and who decides what software gets to have the generic title? Or will they all have the same name - is "spreadsheet" openoffice or gnumeric?
So basically they're showing you how to use a photo storage service to store private data. I think this is immoral and is probably against the terms of service.
It depends, doesn't it. If the hidden data is a picture, I don't think it's against the terms.
If that was the reason, you'd have the same excellent communication infrastructure at least in your major cities and associated suburbs and satellite communities.
Tell me, what fps are you playing under linux right now?
For the past year, none. After ten years of the genre I'm fed up. There are only so many variations of corridors, courtyards and weaponry to keep my interest. When I still did play, it was under Linux.
My point was, it's not a lack of packages for me (though of course that has an affect), and it's not any perceived quality issues with the game (the screenshots look nice enough); it is that the game is another me-too in an oversupplied genre that is feeling very old and tired by now.
Why do so few people play Cube [fov120.com]? Is it the lack of debs/rpms?
Because it looks like yet another fps among hundreds of other, confusingly similar games. When the selling point on the front page is "...high precision dynamic occlusion culling..." you know gameplay isn't high on the list for the devels.
You want to make a mark as a game developer? Do something different, not crank out another copy of the same old ideas.
IANAPL, but I remember hearing that in the US, you can in fact file a patent for up to a year after public prior art if you can show that you were in fact working on the patent before that time.
Which sucks, but hey, it's not like your system wasn't broken already.
Robots so far haven't been the best looking things, as their inventors rarely see a need to cover them up with "skin" or something that looks vaguely aesthetic.
Look up "uncanny valley" before you wish too much. Nonorganic, toy-looking is probably a lot better.
I like Google. Excellent search engine, great news aggregator, webmail done right. But I'm getting more than a little uncofortable about the reach of the company. I have been cutting them a good deal of slack, but I'm gradually coming around on that. They have enough data on me and my habits that they probably can map my relationships better than I can myself. They can know my interests, my taste, my foibles, probably what I'm working on, and the only thing standing between potential knowledge and actual mining of it is a non-binding, pretty vacuous "Don't be evil" statement.
And while free Wifi is great and all, that risks becoming another chokepoint - who will be able to compete in practice if the lazy, easy way is to connect to Google Wifi to access your Gmail account and get the latest news in the Google aggregator or perhaps do some comparison shopping with Google. And finding the store is easy - just click the Google maps link and you'll see exactly where it's at.
If the company ever does decide to be evil, they have a huge amount of subtle control over their users at their disposal.
Oligopolies or monopolies are bad, no matter who is holding it.
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Or you could live in Japan which gets all of the above!(Well, I don't know how prevalent tornadoes are, but you do get a large mixture of natural disasters!)
No tornadoes, but you do get quite a few typhoons (hurricanes by another name) every year. And while it's the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that has people worried, typhoons are actually a lot more dangerous in the lives lost and property destroyed every year.
It seems a bit perverse, but the very frequencey of typhoons here probably makes Japan safer than, say the south-east coast of the US. They show up every year, more than once, and so everything is fairly well prepared for them. Nobody would dream of putting up something like a trailer park next to the ocean, for instance.
This goes within the country as well, by the way; we had one typhoon walk right across the entire country last summer, and even though it was really weakened by the time it came to Hokkaido, it did a lot more damage there than it did in Okinawa (which looks like typhoons are using it for target practice when you look at a yearly trace map).
Only way to really prevent something like this is to not build densely in high-risk areas in the first place.
Of course, the very features that makes for high risk - river deltas, earthquake areas, active volcanism - tend to produce really desireable areas to live in.
Informative? Only on Slashdot are such pearls of wisdom to be found...
I know; it's kind of sad, isn't it?
Any substance that, when withdrwn from, gives you headaches, the sweats and severe drowsiness can be classified as a toxin to the body.
Well, of course withdrawing water will give you headaches, drowsiness and even hallucinations. So let's cut down on that as well.
Seriously, point is well taken, but you need to binge on coffee at a pretty pathological level to really get adverse physical effects. It's pretty benign as drugs go.
Too much of a good thing is NEVER beneficial. ... Except sex, that is.
Chafing.
Another solution, for some of us, is to not take a job in a company known to play legal games with their employes, or in country that accepts such legal concepts.
Hey, I'm sure Stallman would be just as blasé about, say, Microsoft creating a non-free license called (coincidentally) "GPL", issued by a subsidiary called "FSF".
So some Intel executive's "niece" got to play in marketing for a week, it seems.
How much of a revenue hit do companies experience because of outsourced support?
When was the last time you chose a computer, DVD player, insurance company or breakfast cereal based on the quality of the phone support? Or, for that matter, on the quality of the written documentation, usability or environmental concerns?
There are many pressures facing religions in the modern world and I think we all need to be more supportive.
Supportive? What's bad about reducing the prevalence of a collective delusion? You want to believe in Santa Claus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever I certainly won't stop you, but I won't be sad if people come to their senses either.
I know you do buy some weapon systems from Sweden. I think your law may be similar to the Swedish one, where you are required to buy domestic, if such a supplier exists. If not, you're free to get it from wherever you can.
Not my problem.
If you can't make your customer email contact system safe from systematic abuse, then use a different means of communicating with your customers. Call them, use carrier pigeons, whatever.
Now, confirmation emails sure are borderline cases. _If_ they truly are sent only in response to an individual (checked with captchas or something); and _if_ the confirmation mail really only is confirmation with no advertisement or promotion; and _if_ the confirmation is really, truly, fully opt-in (until I answer that email in a clear affirmative you will not send or contact me ever again), then the very occasional harassment/abuse from a third party is probably my problem and the company's problem in equal amount.
I never said "promotional email"...try bending your mind around something like the "confirm your email" your favorite nerd sites (Slashdot included) send...
Once again: if their system for collecting and confirming email is open for abuse it is their problem to come up with a different system. If confirming emails are open to abuse they should cease collecting until they find a way to stop it.
As much as I hate spam as the next guy, it's wrong to let the government get involved with it. A technology to prevent spam will take care of the problem much better then the government ever can and do we really want the government tell us what we can and can't do with our emails?
As much as I hate murder as the next guy, it's wrong to let the government get involved with it. A technology to prevent murder will take care of the problem much better then the government ever can and do we really want the government tell us what we can and can't do with our weapons?
If so, what should ACME do to verify you are you instead?
I rather believe that is ACME's problem if their opt-in method doesn't in fact work. "I couldn't figure out a way to do what I wanted legally" is generally not seen as an excellent defense.
How about ACME do not send promotional email until they have solved this?
If it's unsolicited then it's spam.
Well, if it's uncolicited and it is bulk. I.e. if an unknown person emails me to take contact (after seeing a picture of mine or something, for example) then that's obviously fine. The problem is mass emailings.
What I find amazing is that at least some places restrict it to _commercial_ bulk email. I frankly don't care who is sending the crap, I just want to get rid of it.
Sounds good - except that all of those are easily trademarkeable in any country using a language other than English. And of course, the names won't sound generic in any other language either.
Of course, you could have all software have different names depending on the country. Won't it be fun for the english-speaking developers to figure out what the "kalkylblad" bug is all about?
Oh, and who decides what software gets to have the generic title? Or will they all have the same name - is "spreadsheet" openoffice or gnumeric?
So basically they're showing you how to use a photo storage service to store private data. I think this is immoral and is probably against the terms of service.
It depends, doesn't it. If the hidden data is a picture, I don't think it's against the terms.
How would you know what you need to improve without knowing the weaknesses of current algorithms?
If that was the reason, you'd have the same excellent communication infrastructure at least in your major cities and associated suburbs and satellite communities.
Tell me, what fps are you playing under linux right now?
For the past year, none. After ten years of the genre I'm fed up. There are only so many variations of corridors, courtyards and weaponry to keep my interest. When I still did play, it was under Linux.
My point was, it's not a lack of packages for me (though of course that has an affect), and it's not any perceived quality issues with the game (the screenshots look nice enough); it is that the game is another me-too in an oversupplied genre that is feeling very old and tired by now.
Why do so few people play Cube [fov120.com]? Is it the lack of debs/rpms?
Because it looks like yet another fps among hundreds of other, confusingly similar games. When the selling point on the front page is "...high precision dynamic occlusion culling..." you know gameplay isn't high on the list for the devels.
You want to make a mark as a game developer? Do something different, not crank out another copy of the same old ideas.
IANAPL, but I remember hearing that in the US, you can in fact file a patent for up to a year after public prior art if you can show that you were in fact working on the patent before that time.
Which sucks, but hey, it's not like your system wasn't broken already.
Robots so far haven't been the best looking things, as their inventors rarely see a need to cover them up with "skin" or something that looks vaguely aesthetic.
Look up "uncanny valley" before you wish too much. Nonorganic, toy-looking is probably a lot better.
I like Google. Excellent search engine, great news aggregator, webmail done right. But I'm getting more than a little uncofortable about the reach of the company. I have been cutting them a good deal of slack, but I'm gradually coming around on that. They have enough data on me and my habits that they probably can map my relationships better than I can myself. They can know my interests, my taste, my foibles, probably what I'm working on, and the only thing standing between potential knowledge and actual mining of it is a non-binding, pretty vacuous "Don't be evil" statement.
And while free Wifi is great and all, that risks becoming another chokepoint - who will be able to compete in practice if the lazy, easy way is to connect to Google Wifi to access your Gmail account and get the latest news in the Google aggregator or perhaps do some comparison shopping with Google. And finding the store is easy - just click the Google maps link and you'll see exactly where it's at.
If the company ever does decide to be evil, they have a huge amount of subtle control over their users at their disposal.
Oligopolies or monopolies are bad, no matter who is holding it.