Riiiight.
Insurance companies are notorious for using anyting that happens as either -
a) a reason to jack up premiums, or
b) a reason to not pay out.
or both.
Generally, insurance companies write clauses into their contracts to weasel out of paying in the 2-3 most likely circumstances.
and compulsory insurance is just a license for them to print money.
"However, I do think they should make a movie about how all geeks get laid daily!"
They left the laws of science on the cutting room floor, not the laws of probability.
Does anyone else see this as the first step in making RFID tagging of everything acceptable - "See how our RFID system makes your life easier"
As Largo says - "Dude - the government sent us these RFID tags. It says we gotta wear 'em cos they protect us from 3\/1L"
Area 51, Hanger 18, whatever - even if this stuff had been going on, you can bet that they would have been cleared out the second someone official heard people talking about it.
Won't we rue the day when the insectiod aliens come to take over our planet, and the secret fleet of defense spaceships aren't ready yet cos' the govt. kept having to move them...
This has obviously just become another cash cow for the recording industry.
The days of them being able to sell people 9 tracks of crap because they're bundled up with the 2 good tracks on the album are coming to an end. A different economic model is taking shapem and the pigopolists are just trying to skim as much money off the current system as they can. It's not about performer's rights to be fairly paid for their work - it's about producer's rights to snort finest peruvian coaine off the breasts of supermodels.
Nope - helium isn't toxic.
But helium at 100,000,000 degrees celsius might have slightly different effect if you tried to use it to make yourself sound like a munchkin...
Well, if this works it'll solve a lot of the arguments about power sources.
Although I'm not sure if they've actually achieved the energy break-even point yet. First time I heard about this was in school, when they were still having problems with the magnetic coils breaking down and letting the plasma vent. Here's hoping this'll be a little more reliable. Or sited a hell of a long way from any population centers...
Hey - If we go nuclear we can all get irradiated and end the curse of sitting in the dark forever, having become our own personal light sources...
Seriously, I think that there is far too much FUD about nuclear energy. Yes, the consequences of an accident are horrible, yes the spent fuel is very nasty to deal with, but is it really any worse than the current fossil-fuel systems that we rely on now?
"1.09 British pounds"
Lemme guess -
0.20 Tax
0.01 Payment to the artist
0.78 Music industry profits
and now with added -
0.10 DRM administration
And you don't even have a physical object, so if your HDD fries you have to buy it all over again...
My housemate downloads large amounts of music - as he puts it - "I paid for it once on vinyl, once on tape, once on CD. After my CD's were stolen did they really think I was gonna buy them all over again?"
"only minimal regulations to ensure that it does not interfere with the rapid, widespread deployment of new technologies."
Riiiight. Because when you hand a new area of legislation to a bunch of bureaucrats the last thing on their minds is interfering.
Watch this space for a long list of restrictive and unneccesary regulations being pushed through by people who haven't suddenly become the phone companies best friends, oh no.
Hmmm... 1) Spot a new area of technology that threatens entrenched interests. 2) Start to legislate on it. 3) Let it be known your decision could be swayed either way. 4) PROFIT!!!
If the basic nature of time is cyclic as some scientists have postulated, then our future is our past, and this might just work.
Oh god, does that mean I'm gonna have to go through high school, over and over again?
Verisign, who jealously guard their monopoly on domains, suing ICANN for "Restraining competition"
Christ, the guy who cleared that lawsuit must have the hugest set of brass balls in existence
It's almost as bad as a huge company suing somebody cos' their product's name sounds a bit like a word commonly used to describe a hole in a wall.
Oh, and then re-suing them when they change their name because they haven't changed it enough.
I vote for a law that says that anyone bringing a spurious lawsuit should automatically be fined the amount they asked for...
Oh no, let Dubya be the first to land on mars.
I just wanna see the look on his face when he hears "Return plans? Sorry, those got scrapped due to budget cutbacks to fund your war against the wood-hogging Amazonian pygmies..." ;>
Al you have to do is install voice-recognition software, then train it to only understand you when you speak in a broad Glaswegian accent.
Thereby ensuring NOBODY's going to be able to decipher a word you're saying.
I've heard of the inferometry plan before - it's basically a fleet of 7 - 11 satellites flying in near-perfect line abreast formation. That coupled with a lot of image processing gives the effect of a radio telescope with a dish the size of the formation. There's some loss of resolution, but it's a massively cheaper way of doing it.
If they can get the formation steady that is.
Slashdot Mirror
Look at the Related links bar on the right - about halfway down it says:
-Linspire
-Microsoft
-doesn't infringe Microsoft's patent
Well I thought it was funny anyway.
Riiiight.
Insurance companies are notorious for using anyting that happens as either -
a) a reason to jack up premiums, or
b) a reason to not pay out.
or both.
Generally, insurance companies write clauses into their contracts to weasel out of paying in the 2-3 most likely circumstances.
and compulsory insurance is just a license for them to print money.
WHICH Springfield is it?
"However, I do think they should make a movie about how all geeks get laid daily!"
They left the laws of science on the cutting room floor, not the laws of probability.
Does anyone else see this as the first step in making RFID tagging of everything acceptable - "See how our RFID system makes your life easier"
As Largo says - "Dude - the government sent us these RFID tags. It says we gotta wear 'em cos they protect us from 3\/1L"
Area 51, Hanger 18, whatever - even if this stuff had been going on, you can bet that they would have been cleared out the second someone official heard people talking about it.
Won't we rue the day when the insectiod aliens come to take over our planet, and the secret fleet of defense spaceships aren't ready yet cos' the govt. kept having to move them...
Didn't IBM kinda bankroll M$'s early years?
Maybe they're treating this as some kinda penance...
This has obviously just become another cash cow for the recording industry.
The days of them being able to sell people 9 tracks of crap because they're bundled up with the 2 good tracks on the album are coming to an end. A different economic model is taking shapem and the pigopolists are just trying to skim as much money off the current system as they can.
It's not about performer's rights to be fairly paid for their work - it's about producer's rights to snort finest peruvian coaine off the breasts of supermodels.
Ironic, or a well-aimed dig.
I guess the only guy who really knows isn't telling.
Nope - helium isn't toxic.
But helium at 100,000,000 degrees celsius might have slightly different effect if you tried to use it to make yourself sound like a munchkin...
Well, if this works it'll solve a lot of the arguments about power sources.
Although I'm not sure if they've actually achieved the energy break-even point yet. First time I heard about this was in school, when they were still having problems with the magnetic coils breaking down and letting the plasma vent. Here's hoping this'll be a little more reliable. Or sited a hell of a long way from any population centers...
Well, my money is on the company whose ink's price by volume is seven times the cost of a good Dom Perignon.
Hey - If we go nuclear we can all get irradiated and end the curse of sitting in the dark forever, having become our own personal light sources...
Seriously, I think that there is far too much FUD about nuclear energy. Yes, the consequences of an accident are horrible, yes the spent fuel is very nasty to deal with, but is it really any worse than the current fossil-fuel systems that we rely on now?
"1.09 British pounds" Lemme guess -
0.20 Tax
0.01 Payment to the artist
0.78 Music industry profits
and now with added -
0.10 DRM administration
And you don't even have a physical object, so if your HDD fries you have to buy it all over again...
My housemate downloads large amounts of music - as he puts it - "I paid for it once on vinyl, once on tape, once on CD. After my CD's were stolen did they really think I was gonna buy them all over again?"
"only minimal regulations to ensure that it does not interfere with the rapid, widespread deployment of new technologies."
Riiiight. Because when you hand a new area of legislation to a bunch of bureaucrats the last thing on their minds is interfering.
Watch this space for a long list of restrictive and unneccesary regulations being pushed through by people who haven't suddenly become the phone companies best friends, oh no.
Hmmm...
1) Spot a new area of technology that threatens entrenched interests.
2) Start to legislate on it.
3) Let it be known your decision could be swayed either way.
4) PROFIT!!!
If the basic nature of time is cyclic as some scientists have postulated, then our future is our past, and this might just work.
Oh god, does that mean I'm gonna have to go through high school, over and over again?
Yeah, then it'll get /.'ed, just like all mirrors eventually do...
Verisign, who jealously guard their monopoly on domains, suing ICANN for "Restraining competition"
Christ, the guy who cleared that lawsuit must have the hugest set of brass balls in existence
It's almost as bad as a huge company suing somebody cos' their product's name sounds a bit like a word commonly used to describe a hole in a wall.
Oh, and then re-suing them when they change their name because they haven't changed it enough.
I vote for a law that says that anyone bringing a spurious lawsuit should automatically be fined the amount they asked for...
Already.
(Pouts) - now I'm gonna have to wait ages to give their boimetric database a picture of me and my IP address.
Oh no, let Dubya be the first to land on mars.
;>
I just wanna see the look on his face when he hears "Return plans? Sorry, those got scrapped due to budget cutbacks to fund your war against the wood-hogging Amazonian pygmies..."
That's for amateurs.
/. The Earth!
Al you have to do is install voice-recognition software, then train it to only understand you when you speak in a broad Glaswegian accent.
Thereby ensuring NOBODY's going to be able to decipher a word you're saying.
Oh, I'm sure that the "Multi-purpose WoodFixMaster(tm) Applicator and Remover" will help with the identification issue too.
No witnesses!
I've heard of the inferometry plan before - it's basically a fleet of 7 - 11 satellites flying in near-perfect line abreast formation. That coupled with a lot of image processing gives the effect of a radio telescope with a dish the size of the formation. There's some loss of resolution, but it's a massively cheaper way of doing it.
If they can get the formation steady that is.