Well, on Chrome as far as I've seen your only option is to kill the plugin for all tabs anyway - they don't have per-tab instances of plugins - so does it really matter which it is?
You can hate Israel all you want, and they are dicks, but they still have (with loud minority exceptions) the most gender-neutral society in the entire world.
I guess, to be fair, that only some Jewish areas of Israel force women to literally sit at the back of the bus, and there aren't that many violent attacks on young Jewish women by other older women, and that politicians are a tad embarrassed about the fact that because some parts of religious law are enshrined in Israeli law Jewish men are to allowed to divorce their wives but women need permission from their husband to get a divorce (though not enough to change the law), and...
It's not exactly gender-neutral, which shouldn't be surprising given that a lot of the really nasty ideas in Islamic law were outright nicked from Jewish religious law. (Muhammed did remove some of the worst bits, including women not being able to get divorces, but in other ways Islam is worse mostly because it's far more rigid a religion. Judaism apparently has a long tradition of working around inconvenient religious laws.)
That would be because they used evidence of obvious copyright infringement as a reason to not pay out rewards to uploaders - look slightly further down in the indictment or search for forum posts from around that time.
If statistics prove repeatedly that terrorists are exponentially more likely to be males of age X, from nation of Z
Then chances are that the people most able to provide information about potential terrorist attacks will also be males of age X, from nation Z, and you're much better off if they are willing to co-operate with the state and don't have an entirely justified belief that it'll screw them over at every opportunity.
The intention as I see it is to "punish" sites where, on common browser window sizes, you need to scroll before you see anything that isn't advertising of site logos.
That's funny. For a while Google were paying computer OEMs to set a modified version of Google with exactly that problem as the default search engines on an awful lot of PCs.
MediaFire claim to delete encrypted files unless you're on one of their paid plans on the assumption that you're probably hiding pirated content in there. Expect other providers to follow suit.
If you actually look at statistics - you know, data; hard cold facts and figures - nuclear is the safest way of producing electricity we've come up with.
If you actually look at the statistics that get used to prove this on Slashdot, they systematically understate the risks of nuclear and overstate the risks of other forms of power. It's not just hydroelectric - nuclear proponents make a big deal about deaths from coal mining whilst not counting deaths from uranium mining (in fact, I'm not sure anyone bothers to count deaths from uranium mining). Or they come up with "evidence" that coal plants release more radioactivity than nuclear ones that not only don't count nuclear accidents but are also based on figures from plants that wouldn't be allowed to operate now due to modern pollution restrictions - and their comments get moderated up to +5 whilst comments pointing this out are ignored.
I think you're getting confused. Pretty much all the pro-choice groups and individuals are pro-contraception - in fact the biggest boogeyman of the anti-abortion movement in the US, Planned Parenthood, actually puts most of its resources towards providing contraception. It's the anti-abortion groups that tend to be against contraception, and in favour of telling kids in school that it doesn't exist and making it harder to obtain in general.
Also, it took a combination of an earthquake bigger than the plant was designed to withstand and the biggest tsunami wave in recorded history and the backup pumps flooding and failing and still there was no radiation-caused loss of life at Fukushima.
I like how you cherry-picked my sidenote to reply to and just completely and utterly ignored the part where even if the Chinese government had chosen to go completely nuclear and not bothered with hydroelectricity at all, they'd still have needed to have built a dam there and it would still almost certainly have failed for the same reasons.
I also notice your comment attributing all the flooding-related deaths to hydroelectricity got modded up to +5 and my comment pointing out the multiple reasons why this is utterly dishonest that you replied to is mysteriously rather less popular with moderators. Pro-nuclear bias at Slashdot anyone?
That is four keypresses for quoting a single expression.
For some real fun, try and figure out how to get Google to search for a phrase rather than keywords and not automatically rewrite your query to what it thinks you really meant. Yay, nested quotes!
It's not just a question of cloud services, from TFA:
In 2005 we acquired Urchin, whose online web analytics product became the foundation for Google Analytics, helping businesses of all sizes measure their websites and online marketing. We’re fully committed to building an industry-leading online analytics product, so we’re saying goodbye to the client-hosted version, known as Urchin Software. New Urchin Software licenses will no longer be available after March 2012.
So basically they're killing off the non-cloud self hosted version of their web analytics software in favor of the cloud version.
Oron.com is also I believe one of the sites that (unlike Megaupload) does actually pay uploaders for files that are blatantly infringing - Megaupload had a reputation for denying payouts and if you read what the indictment against them actually says none of the evidence they list contradicts that. Additionally, they pay referral fees when someone buys a premium upload, they have much tighter restrictions on free downloads than Megaupload or most of the other similar sites in order to encourage users to go premium, and there were plausible rumors that they'd directly paid off major pirate download forums to become Oron-only. They seem to be obviously, directly profiting from copyright infringement as part of their business model in a way that Megaupload never was.
You should probably read the indictment more critically.
In many cases, Megaupload employees knew that *specific* files on the site were in violation of copyright, but they took no action to remove the content
Could they legally? I can't remember what the law is on this.
Knowing specific files were copyrighted, megaupload still paid out rewards to those files' uploaders
It doesn't actually say this. It mentions e-mailed spreadsheets of users, the payout amounts they would be getting and the kind of content the payout was for - some of which was obviously pirated - but it doesn't actually say whether they were actually paid, with one exception. That exception was a user who was uploading Vietnamese content that the staff couldn't identify. It leaves you to infer that they were paid, but there's nothing saying either way.
In fact, there's a reference to them systematically not paying rewards to uploaders whose content appeared to be pirated. It was spun by the prosecutor to say the exact opposite because it was from an e-mail in which one of the staff talked about being more lax (apparently by not considering other files in the uploader's account that appeared to be copyrighed works but weren't actually being downloaded by anyone and may not have been distributed by them). Presumably there were other previous e-mails in which they'd applied the rules more strictly for cost-saving reasons which were omitted from the indictment because they didn't help the prosecutor's case.
In a few instances, staff members shared links to copyrighted content with eachother and with the internet at large.
They only managed to prove the former: that staff members had used the site to distribute copyrighted content to each other. It doesn't appear that they've managed to find any example of a member of MegaUpload staff giving a link to a copyrighted file to anyone outside the organisation.
MegaUpload's revenue sharing scheme was based on popular content. In fact, I seem to recall lots of people complaining over the years about them refusing payouts because the content in question was pirated; the indictment even references an internal e-mail in which they mention doing this, though it spins it rather interestingly. There were presumably other similar even more clear e-mails not referred to in the indictment.
3) Get jailbreak removed at next minor OS upgrade, with no option to downgrade because Apple have designed all modern iOS hardware with anti-downgrade protection. If you install the next upgrade and then want to jailbreak just forget about it altogether.
No, oxygen is used by plants the way you use oxygen. If I recall correctly, any net consumption of CO2 comes from the plants growing - once they're mature they stop being net consumers of CO2, and once they die off or are killed all that CO2 is released into the atmosphere again as they decompose.
Look up "Banqiao dam failure" on wikipedia, or google it. 26k dead from flooding alone, more than 140k dead from secondary effects. Severe ecological effects and property damage as well. China's got a bad history when it comes to dams.
The Banqiao dam was not just a hydroelectric dam - it was also intended as part of a system of flood control. If you read the rest of the Wikipedia article the Chinese government actually ended up rebuilding it despite the disaster because not having it was causing problems with flooding downstream. We can't really say for sure whether more or less deaths would have occured if the dam never existed in the first place since it was something like a once-in-2000-years flood, but I think it's fair to say that they were if anything a result of the dam failing to control the flooding and not of it being built.
Also, it took a combination a flood bigger than the dam was designed to control and seriously under-designing the dam and shoddy construction of that design and operating it poorly and failure to evacuate the flood-prone regions in order to cause this many loss of lives.
TI's stuff is annoyingly non-compatible with anything except Windows and the development tools are also all crippled versions of really expensive commercial, proprietary ones.
Also, since Arduino boards use gcc and work with standard open-source firmware upload software like avrdude, you don't actually have to use the Arduino software. You can develop code for them using makefiles and the command line just fine. There's even a version of the Arduino standard libraries that you can incorporate into your project if you want to use existing Arduino code. (Not that there's necessarily any reason why you'd have to; since it's uses the full avr-gcc toolchain you can dive right in, bypass the Arduino stuff and access the registers directly if you need to.)
Oh, and if you want to interface your Samsung Galaxy to stuff like motors and other external hardware you'll probably need... *drumroll* an Arduino! A particularly expensive, complex, USB-host-capable Arduino in fact that'll cost you nearly as much as the phone itself.
I'm pretty sure that Arduino has ARM support now, actually, and some of the ARM chips aren't any more expensive than the higher-end USB AVRs these days.
What they did with money turns out to be far more significant than the "piracy" components.
Errm, they paid their hosting companies and they paid a share to some of their uploaders. As far as I can tell, this is the entire basis of the DoJ's money laundering charges - it's not even anything to do with how they paid them.
The locking part isn't actually part of the SATA connector standard. As far as I know it's just something that some cable manufacturers jerry-rigged on when it was obvious the existing design was unworkable.
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Well, on Chrome as far as I've seen your only option is to kill the plugin for all tabs anyway - they don't have per-tab instances of plugins - so does it really matter which it is?
You can hate Israel all you want, and they are dicks, but they still have (with loud minority exceptions) the most gender-neutral society in the entire world.
I guess, to be fair, that only some Jewish areas of Israel force women to literally sit at the back of the bus, and there aren't that many violent attacks on young Jewish women by other older women, and that politicians are a tad embarrassed about the fact that because some parts of religious law are enshrined in Israeli law Jewish men are to allowed to divorce their wives but women need permission from their husband to get a divorce (though not enough to change the law), and...
It's not exactly gender-neutral, which shouldn't be surprising given that a lot of the really nasty ideas in Islamic law were outright nicked from Jewish religious law. (Muhammed did remove some of the worst bits, including women not being able to get divorces, but in other ways Islam is worse mostly because it's far more rigid a religion. Judaism apparently has a long tradition of working around inconvenient religious laws.)
That would be because they used evidence of obvious copyright infringement as a reason to not pay out rewards to uploaders - look slightly further down in the indictment or search for forum posts from around that time.
If statistics prove repeatedly that terrorists are exponentially more likely to be males of age X, from nation of Z
Then chances are that the people most able to provide information about potential terrorist attacks will also be males of age X, from nation Z, and you're much better off if they are willing to co-operate with the state and don't have an entirely justified belief that it'll screw them over at every opportunity.
Wouldn't that be unconstitutional anyway due to the provision against bills of attainder as it's generally interpreted?
The intention as I see it is to "punish" sites where, on common browser window sizes, you need to scroll before you see anything that isn't advertising of site logos.
That's funny. For a while Google were paying computer OEMs to set a modified version of Google with exactly that problem as the default search engines on an awful lot of PCs.
MediaFire claim to delete encrypted files unless you're on one of their paid plans on the assumption that you're probably hiding pirated content in there. Expect other providers to follow suit.
If you actually look at statistics - you know, data; hard cold facts and figures - nuclear is the safest way of producing electricity we've come up with.
If you actually look at the statistics that get used to prove this on Slashdot, they systematically understate the risks of nuclear and overstate the risks of other forms of power. It's not just hydroelectric - nuclear proponents make a big deal about deaths from coal mining whilst not counting deaths from uranium mining (in fact, I'm not sure anyone bothers to count deaths from uranium mining). Or they come up with "evidence" that coal plants release more radioactivity than nuclear ones that not only don't count nuclear accidents but are also based on figures from plants that wouldn't be allowed to operate now due to modern pollution restrictions - and their comments get moderated up to +5 whilst comments pointing this out are ignored.
I think you're getting confused. Pretty much all the pro-choice groups and individuals are pro-contraception - in fact the biggest boogeyman of the anti-abortion movement in the US, Planned Parenthood, actually puts most of its resources towards providing contraception. It's the anti-abortion groups that tend to be against contraception, and in favour of telling kids in school that it doesn't exist and making it harder to obtain in general.
Also, it took a combination of an earthquake bigger than the plant was designed to withstand and the biggest tsunami wave in recorded history and the backup pumps flooding and failing and still there was no radiation-caused loss of life at Fukushima.
I like how you cherry-picked my sidenote to reply to and just completely and utterly ignored the part where even if the Chinese government had chosen to go completely nuclear and not bothered with hydroelectricity at all, they'd still have needed to have built a dam there and it would still almost certainly have failed for the same reasons.
I also notice your comment attributing all the flooding-related deaths to hydroelectricity got modded up to +5 and my comment pointing out the multiple reasons why this is utterly dishonest that you replied to is mysteriously rather less popular with moderators. Pro-nuclear bias at Slashdot anyone?
That is four keypresses for quoting a single expression.
For some real fun, try and figure out how to get Google to search for a phrase rather than keywords and not automatically rewrite your query to what it thinks you really meant. Yay, nested quotes!
It's not just a question of cloud services, from TFA:
In 2005 we acquired Urchin, whose online web analytics product became the foundation for Google Analytics, helping businesses of all sizes measure their websites and online marketing. We’re fully committed to building an industry-leading online analytics product, so we’re saying goodbye to the client-hosted version, known as Urchin Software. New Urchin Software licenses will no longer be available after March 2012.
So basically they're killing off the non-cloud self hosted version of their web analytics software in favor of the cloud version.
Oron.com is also I believe one of the sites that (unlike Megaupload) does actually pay uploaders for files that are blatantly infringing - Megaupload had a reputation for denying payouts and if you read what the indictment against them actually says none of the evidence they list contradicts that. Additionally, they pay referral fees when someone buys a premium upload, they have much tighter restrictions on free downloads than Megaupload or most of the other similar sites in order to encourage users to go premium, and there were plausible rumors that they'd directly paid off major pirate download forums to become Oron-only. They seem to be obviously, directly profiting from copyright infringement as part of their business model in a way that Megaupload never was.
You should probably read the indictment more critically.
In many cases, Megaupload employees knew that *specific* files on the site were in violation of copyright, but they took no action to remove the content
Could they legally? I can't remember what the law is on this.
Knowing specific files were copyrighted, megaupload still paid out rewards to those files' uploaders
It doesn't actually say this. It mentions e-mailed spreadsheets of users, the payout amounts they would be getting and the kind of content the payout was for - some of which was obviously pirated - but it doesn't actually say whether they were actually paid, with one exception. That exception was a user who was uploading Vietnamese content that the staff couldn't identify. It leaves you to infer that they were paid, but there's nothing saying either way.
In fact, there's a reference to them systematically not paying rewards to uploaders whose content appeared to be pirated. It was spun by the prosecutor to say the exact opposite because it was from an e-mail in which one of the staff talked about being more lax (apparently by not considering other files in the uploader's account that appeared to be copyrighed works but weren't actually being downloaded by anyone and may not have been distributed by them). Presumably there were other previous e-mails in which they'd applied the rules more strictly for cost-saving reasons which were omitted from the indictment because they didn't help the prosecutor's case.
In a few instances, staff members shared links to copyrighted content with eachother and with the internet at large.
They only managed to prove the former: that staff members had used the site to distribute copyrighted content to each other. It doesn't appear that they've managed to find any example of a member of MegaUpload staff giving a link to a copyrighted file to anyone outside the organisation.
MegaUpload's revenue sharing scheme was based on popular content. In fact, I seem to recall lots of people complaining over the years about them refusing payouts because the content in question was pirated; the indictment even references an internal e-mail in which they mention doing this, though it spins it rather interestingly. There were presumably other similar even more clear e-mails not referred to in the indictment.
3) Get jailbreak removed at next minor OS upgrade, with no option to downgrade because Apple have designed all modern iOS hardware with anti-downgrade protection. If you install the next upgrade and then want to jailbreak just forget about it altogether.
We're suffering a DDoS... no... wait... we don't know how to fix our Cisco equipment... is not something you want to see ever.
I think off-hand - though I don't deal with Cisco kit - that is indeed a failure mode that shouldn't happen ever.
In other words: no data path from outside network to SCADA network, neither a network datapath, nor a sneakernet data path.
Of course, this would make any kind of remote monitoring impossible...
Presumably the point is that the tools required to do this with rogue RA senders or DHCPv6 servers on IPv6 just aren't there yet.
No, oxygen is used by plants the way you use oxygen. If I recall correctly, any net consumption of CO2 comes from the plants growing - once they're mature they stop being net consumers of CO2, and once they die off or are killed all that CO2 is released into the atmosphere again as they decompose.
Look up "Banqiao dam failure" on wikipedia, or google it. 26k dead from flooding alone, more than 140k dead from secondary effects. Severe ecological effects and property damage as well. China's got a bad history when it comes to dams.
The Banqiao dam was not just a hydroelectric dam - it was also intended as part of a system of flood control. If you read the rest of the Wikipedia article the Chinese government actually ended up rebuilding it despite the disaster because not having it was causing problems with flooding downstream. We can't really say for sure whether more or less deaths would have occured if the dam never existed in the first place since it was something like a once-in-2000-years flood, but I think it's fair to say that they were if anything a result of the dam failing to control the flooding and not of it being built.
Also, it took a combination a flood bigger than the dam was designed to control and seriously under-designing the dam and shoddy construction of that design and operating it poorly and failure to evacuate the flood-prone regions in order to cause this many loss of lives.
TI's stuff is annoyingly non-compatible with anything except Windows and the development tools are also all crippled versions of really expensive commercial, proprietary ones.
Also, since Arduino boards use gcc and work with standard open-source firmware upload software like avrdude, you don't actually have to use the Arduino software. You can develop code for them using makefiles and the command line just fine. There's even a version of the Arduino standard libraries that you can incorporate into your project if you want to use existing Arduino code. (Not that there's necessarily any reason why you'd have to; since it's uses the full avr-gcc toolchain you can dive right in, bypass the Arduino stuff and access the registers directly if you need to.)
Oh, and if you want to interface your Samsung Galaxy to stuff like motors and other external hardware you'll probably need... *drumroll* an Arduino! A particularly expensive, complex, USB-host-capable Arduino in fact that'll cost you nearly as much as the phone itself.
I'm pretty sure that Arduino has ARM support now, actually, and some of the ARM chips aren't any more expensive than the higher-end USB AVRs these days.
What they did with money turns out to be far more significant than the "piracy" components.
Errm, they paid their hosting companies and they paid a share to some of their uploaders. As far as I can tell, this is the entire basis of the DoJ's money laundering charges - it's not even anything to do with how they paid them.
The locking part isn't actually part of the SATA connector standard. As far as I know it's just something that some cable manufacturers jerry-rigged on when it was obvious the existing design was unworkable.