Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.
Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault.
Without prejudice to the provisions relating to their state of health, age and sex, all protected persons shall be treated with the same consideration by the Party to the conflict in whose power they are, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion or political opinion.
However, the Parties to the conflict may take such measures of control and security in regard to protected persons as may be necessary as a result of the war.
The military vaccinates their people against anything they might face on the job. This includes diseases for which there are commercially available vaccines (measles, etc) and diseases for which there are not (HIV, soon Ebola).
A HIV vaccine? Since when?
Hehe, and interesting to see that you consider HIV something that soldiers might contract "on the job"... I thought that this particular part of a soldier's "job" was against article 27 of the Geneva Convention...
No the summary is awful, when I read it I thought "Oh god, people are going to completely misunderstand that", and it seems by the second post they have.
If my 3rd email to a vendor is ignored, I get a different vendor.
Good if you chose the vendor, rather than your manager.
Good if you are not already "too heavily invested" in that vendor.
Good if that vendor is not the "only game in town".
Good if the competitors are actually any better...
I will send him an e-mail, and expect the same back.
E-mails can be ignored, calls are (usually) answered. So sometimes it's still useful if you can call a vendor (after the 3rd e-mail has stayed unanswered...)
There's nothing stopping corporations conducting their business in international waters, without any government interference or taxation. Hard to see how they make any money though.
Don't worry. The pirate party will see that even these corporations will be taxed...
Lemme fix that for you: since corporations are in fact already comprised of people who individually are already represented in Congress, why should those people receive twice the representation as anyone who doesn't work for said corporation, by allowing the corporation itself explicit representation?
Well, to be fair, those people also pay twice the tax: first, individually as people, then collectively as a corporation. So this argument wouldn't really work...
Re:They should study hype-induced "humor".
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just because it mentions SQL injection,
You mean the famous "Bobbie Tables" one? Yeah, but that one is funny as hell, sorry if you didn't get the humor. And yes, it does not just drop the buzzwords "SQL injection", but actually constructs a small story around it. And I just checked, the strip doesn't even mention "SQL injection", it just shows the consequences of one...
Of course, a webmaster having been called from his weekend because a goat wandered on to his site might find SQL injection less funny, but the same is true of the hunter who just shot his mate.
yet if there's a cultural component to humour that contradicts the "error" theory.
Indeed. Vast categories of jokes make fun of a group (different race, different cultural background, certain hobbies, certain lifestyles, etc.), including this one by the way. The stereotype this plays on is "hunters are stupid rednecks who shoot first and think later". Hunters would probably find the joke less funny but probably the "researchers" didn't define a category for them, so it didn't how up on their stats...
The trick is already well known. There's even a flash app being sent around by mail that does the trick (and baffles quite a number of people...). But as you can execute it as many times you want, in slow motion, and carefully pay attention, eventually many figure it out.
I just want to know how changing the deck lets the magician pick out the right card at the end
The magician never shows you the card you picked. He shows you the 4 cards you didn't pick.
So the trick works as follows:
The magician shows you: queen of hearts, jack of spades, king of diamond, jack of hearts and queen of clubs
You pick one card (say, jack of spades)
The magician collects the cards, does a lot of handwaving etc.
He shows you the cards, only 4 are left: queen of diamonds, jack of clubs, king of heats, jack of diamonds
You look at the cards, notice that the jack of spades is gone, and believe that the magician removed the "correct" card
But in reality, all cards were switched...
The trick works because all cards will be replaced with cards that are very close to the original ones (you'll have "heads" in both sets, and a comparable number of red and black cards). People pay most attention to the card they picked, and not so much to the card they didn't pick. If they look the same "from a distance", they are fooled.
Years ago, the Luxembourgish equivalent of the GEMA (the SACEM) tried to pull off a similar stunt against a band who performed at an event exclusively with music that one of their guys had composed himself.
The SACEM still sent a bill.
The treasurer of the band (not paying attention...) paid it.
After becoming aware of the error, the treasurer tried to reclaim the money, to no avail.
So, then the composer sent a letter to the SACEM, explaining to them that they had solicited money in his name, and that he wanted to have it.
A couple of weeks later, a bank transfer showed up at the band's account (not the composer's personal account) where the fee was reimbursed in full, but no explanation, nor excuse...
Probably, in the German case, it might not be so simple, as they played stuff from multiple composers, and if one composer complains, the GEMA could always claim that they solicited money on behalf of the other composers...
I mean, I know that I would never, ever consider working for Zynga after this news,
But did you ever consider working for them before this news? Did anybody here on Slashdot ever consider working for them?
See? They didn't really lose anything here which wasn't already beyond their reach in the first place.
Now about the people who would consider working for them. Chances are, they don't read much geek news, or else they would have been aware of Zynga's other accounts of poor ethics. Even if previously this wasn't directed against employees (but merely against customers), it was not that big of a stretch of imagination that eventually Zynga would change the focus of their douchiness.
So, those people who were unaware of past transgression will also be unaware of this incident as soon as it will have left the front page of the papers.
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There's nothing in the Geneva Convention about Thai hookers..
Actually, There is:
ARTICLE 27
Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.
Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault.
Without prejudice to the provisions relating to their state of health, age and sex, all protected persons shall be treated with the same consideration by the Party to the conflict in whose power they are, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion or political opinion.
However, the Parties to the conflict may take such measures of control and security in regard to protected persons as may be necessary as a result of the war.
And then because CO2 output dropped, the glaciers come and pare us back to maybe 100,000.
Nice!
The military vaccinates their people against anything they might face on the job. This includes diseases for which there are commercially available vaccines (measles, etc) and diseases for which there are not (HIV, soon Ebola).
A HIV vaccine? Since when?
Hehe, and interesting to see that you consider HIV something that soldiers might contract "on the job"... I thought that this particular part of a soldier's "job" was against article 27 of the Geneva Convention...
No the summary is awful, when I read it I thought "Oh god, people are going to completely misunderstand that", and it seems by the second post they have.
Not really. The second post (...462) fell for the first, and only the third post (...484) fell for the summary.
... and only then will he be truly safe!
The problem with stealing a wallet is that it might turn out to be empty
Nowadays, at least it will contain some credit cards. And maybe the mugger can coerce the owner to give up the pin...
Or observe where the owner is going to/coming from. Nobody goes with an empty wallet into a bar...
Here is a fixed version:
exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n" >&5
cat <&5
Preview is your friend!
Or: Always thoroughly clean the double-ended dildo after usage.
Or: never swap sides on the double-ended dildo...
If my 3rd email to a vendor is ignored, I get a different vendor.
Good if you chose the vendor, rather than your manager.
Good if you are not already "too heavily invested" in that vendor.
Good if that vendor is not the "only game in town".
Good if the competitors are actually any better...
I will send him an e-mail, and expect the same back.
E-mails can be ignored, calls are (usually) answered. So sometimes it's still useful if you can call a vendor (after the 3rd e-mail has stayed unanswered...)
But can it also run CGIs? Can it do php?
Hell, I might even suggest this for my own "work"station (back to the door, and I hate it when the boss sneaks in from behind).
FTFY
There's nothing stopping corporations conducting their business in international waters, without any government interference or taxation. Hard to see how they make any money though.
Don't worry. The pirate party will see that even these corporations will be taxed...
Lemme fix that for you: since corporations are in fact already comprised of people who individually are already represented in Congress, why should those people receive twice the representation as anyone who doesn't work for said corporation, by allowing the corporation itself explicit representation?
Well, to be fair, those people also pay twice the tax: first, individually as people, then collectively as a corporation. So this argument wouldn't really work...
just because it mentions SQL injection,
You mean the famous "Bobbie Tables" one? Yeah, but that one is funny as hell, sorry if you didn't get the humor. And yes, it does not just drop the buzzwords "SQL injection", but actually constructs a small story around it. And I just checked, the strip doesn't even mention "SQL injection", it just shows the consequences of one...
Of course, a webmaster having been called from his weekend because a goat wandered on to his site might find SQL injection less funny, but the same is true of the hunter who just shot his mate.
yet if there's a cultural component to humour that contradicts the "error" theory.
Indeed. Vast categories of jokes make fun of a group (different race, different cultural background, certain hobbies, certain lifestyles, etc.), including this one by the way. The stereotype this plays on is "hunters are stupid rednecks who shoot first and think later". Hunters would probably find the joke less funny but probably the "researchers" didn't define a category for them, so it didn't how up on their stats...
...you will see a white raven with a four-leaf clover in its beak while being hit by a plane that's hit by lightning!
... or you won't see that plane, because the fog's too thick :-) [SCNR]
I'm from Sandweiler. Where are you from?
From Luxembourg city
The trick is already well known. There's even a flash app being sent around by mail that does the trick (and baffles quite a number of people...). But as you can execute it as many times you want, in slow motion, and carefully pay attention, eventually many figure it out.
I just want to know how changing the deck lets the magician pick out the right card at the end
The magician never shows you the card you picked. He shows you the 4 cards you didn't pick.
So the trick works as follows:
The trick works because all cards will be replaced with cards that are very close to the original ones (you'll have "heads" in both sets, and a comparable number of red and black cards). People pay most attention to the card they picked, and not so much to the card they didn't pick. If they look the same "from a distance", they are fooled.
Solution: shell the stock short. Put enough pressure on the price that the sheeple have to realize it's a lemon. And then cover :-)
The SACEM still sent a bill.
The treasurer of the band (not paying attention...) paid it.
After becoming aware of the error, the treasurer tried to reclaim the money, to no avail.
So, then the composer sent a letter to the SACEM, explaining to them that they had solicited money in his name, and that he wanted to have it.
A couple of weeks later, a bank transfer showed up at the band's account (not the composer's personal account) where the fee was reimbursed in full, but no explanation, nor excuse...
Probably, in the German case, it might not be so simple, as they played stuff from multiple composers, and if one composer complains, the GEMA could always claim that they solicited money on behalf of the other composers...
Mafia wars...
I mean, I know that I would never, ever consider working for Zynga after this news,
But did you ever consider working for them before this news? Did anybody here on Slashdot ever consider working for them?
See? They didn't really lose anything here which wasn't already beyond their reach in the first place.
Now about the people who would consider working for them. Chances are, they don't read much geek news, or else they would have been aware of Zynga's other accounts of poor ethics. Even if previously this wasn't directed against employees (but merely against customers), it was not that big of a stretch of imagination that eventually Zynga would change the focus of their douchiness.
So, those people who were unaware of past transgression will also be unaware of this incident as soon as it will have left the front page of the papers.
So, no loss for Zynga...
But wouldn't shaking the cylinder empty the balls?
If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
Also helps against neighbours who play loud music in the middle of the night...