Thanks for Slashdot. I don't visit as often as I used to, but I always kept it at the top of my bookmarks list whenever I switched browsers or computers. I could always count on it for some of the most interesting, thought-provoking discussions online or off. You and Slashdot are definitely a big chunk of internet legacy, like 5 touchdowns in a single game.
Have fun,
diggum
Apart from the privacy concerns, I would think police might be against this due to detrimental effects on future investigations. If I'm a victim of a crime and need to look at a group of mugshots to see if I choose the person the police believe is responsible, and I've been looking at every new mugshot that they've taken, I may recognize or be subconsciously drawn to those pictures I had seen before. This could hamper some investigations.
I disagree somewhat. we don't like "syncing." we tolerate syncing because it's the only real solution right now for having our data at our fingertips on any device anywhere. but what we WANT is all of that to just work. the cloud is a fine solution if it secure, reliable, and accessible. it certainly makes sense to have backups of your data, stored locally somewhere safe. but does anyone really want their data duplicated on every device? isn't this wasteful?
i acknowledge this is dreamy, pie in the sky wishes, though. still, i can't get my head out of the clouds.
sincerely,
diggum
Their hostile customer service is why I left years ago. They had overbilled me one month for real estate I did not own. I had my little plot of land and was happily paying the $5 a month or whatever that ran, but one month I got a bill for over $25. I tried calling but never got a real person. Tried e-mailing, but never got a response. Finally, I contested the charge with PayPal.
That got their attention. Within hours, my account was canceled, wiping out the US$100 worth of Lindens I had at the time, and I received one NASTY response from them. I was chastised for contesting the charge via PayPal and it was surprisingly petty and spiteful.
I'll wait for the Snow Crash monorail system to come to life. That's a far more interesting paradigm for this sort of VR anyways.
You're just not creative enough in your thinking. And while no reporter seems willing to mention it, it's not just criminals who might wish to implicate someone by planting DNA at a crime scene or in evidence. And there are some who have far more comprehensive access to DNA databases.
And it's not like replicating DNA into usable quantities is terribly difficult. It was the cover story in Make Magazine last year, and the instructions seemed simple enough to perform in your kitchen at home. So while there are many ways to obtain real DNA, there are easier ways to generate large quantities of it from a small piece, which can then be used as the person sees fit.
Like Barney Frank, who has sponsored or co-sponsored forms of legalization legislation for several decades? Like internet-uberpol and doctor Ron Paul, who has co-sponsored and spoken against prohibition for years?
What about the past three Presidents, all of whom have admitted to using Marijuana? It feels more risky to admit having broken the law for no good reason than to admit having broken the law founded on ignorance, racism, and protection of corporate interests.
Fortunately, the print newspaper industry is almost dead, and they're incredibly responsible for the prohibition in the first place. Took awhile, but good riddance.
> Imagine all the social programs that would benefit.
Not to mention the citizens and businesses who would have significantly reduced taxes - more money to spend and invest - as well as pissing off a lot less of the world, reducing our need for a large military budget in the first place.
Simplistic? Yes. But it can be refreshing how much more effective simple solutions can be than the quagmire of most bills passed.
if you accept money, even in the form of reduced taxes which you may or may not agree to, in exchange for promised services, then do not deliver those services, you can rightly be referred to as a bloodsucker. There are other words that might be better suited, but they are best uttered on a web forum of less class.
sincerely,
diggum
I was there, too. My building was surrounded most of the morning and early afternoon (Union Square.) My office looked directly down onto 6th Ave and into the thick of the events. The people who were PROTESTING were loud, but peaceful and reasonable. The morons throwing bottles and climbing on the Nike Store sign were few and should have been easy to handle considering the hundreds of officers.
Rather than try to get the handful of people disrupting the peace, officers chose to unleash the pellets and tear gas.
I walked through the area around 1pm. The hallways leading outside were thick with the smell. I saw a guy slumped against a wall, his face was completely red and swollen and a woman was washing it with water trying to help him out. The cops came up, yanked her by the arm, and kicked him over until he got up and stumbled away. They were not there to help someone who looked pretty seriously injured by their tactics. They were there to continue their fucking tactics.
If a few bad apples really did ruin things in your opinion, then a WHOLE lot of bad cops did a significant amount of damage to their image as a whole that day.
> Why are we so intend to lynch their stooges when the masterminds are getting away scot-free?
We're not. Honestly, most of us could simply settle things with the Telecoms using our wallets. The biggest issue is that they are potentially the only witness to the larger crimes of the administration. Without the threat of prosecution and liability, they are not compelled to testify against the administration with whom they were complicit, even perhaps simply as unwilling accomplices.
Qwest refused to allow the unauthorized wiretaps. Qwest lost gazillions in government contracts and fell under intense SEC scrutiny. AT&T not only welcomed them in, but set them up a nice, fat, secret office with humongous data pipes and said, "Have at 'em!" Now, AT&T is the only authorized carrier for the iPhone. You do the math....
> And I'm sure my neighbor leaves his front door unlocked because he wants me to come on in and make a sandwich.
Well, if six months ago it was published worldwide that he left his door wide open and anyone could go make a sandwich, and your neighbor was well aware of this, and after a large remodel of his house with press releases the front door was STILL unlocked, one may assume he hadn't had any troubles so far with the sandwich-making activities.
This is what I would do:
1. Two slices of thick Texas Toast, lightly toasted.
2. Thick layer of peanut butter (crunchy)
3. A layer of 1/4" thick banana coins
4. A layer of bacon.
5. Deposit into mouth.
sincerely,
diggum
I heard it was even more simple than that, and Russert simply likes to molest dogs. I would ask him about that first.
"Tim, have you stopped molesting dogs yet?"
Who said we went to war with Iraq for CHEAP oil? Why spend trillions of dollars to make only a fraction of that back from oil sales? The more oil you control, the more you control the price, and they've already learned that Americans will pay practically any price per gallon and will not cut consumption.
As for your second point, please explain your level of expertise that lets you know the impact fighting in Iraq has made to lessen violence on non-Iraqi soil. Before we were in Iraq, al-Qaeda wasn't either. Afghanistan has been out of the news for years now, but if you can find articles it's not super sunny news.
And now, the drums are beating to enter Iran. Please work this into your equation and let me know how this will make me, my family, my country, or the rest of the world safer in any way.
Way easiier than that, at least with the photos the news org were showing. Make a circle selection, taking care to line the edges up with where the twirl circumfremce is, and use photoshops twirl filter to go the other way. We did it in the office and came close to the image interpol released, accounting for the fact we had a very low res source. (and i can assure you that we were not interested in anything higher resolution. That guy is creepy as hell, and that shirt was so ugly.)
> If we go by the anti-copyright crowd, she doesn't have a case. It is "copycat" art. Or, are we going to protect her intellectual property?
She absolutely has a case. No "anti-copyright" person can logically say she doesn't have the right to prevent others from SELLING work she shared on Flickr. She doesn't have a lot of room to complain if I want to print one of her pictures myself and put it on my wall, but she certainly has every right to get pissed if I try to sell those same prints.
Exactly. Apparently, the costs associated with using safer fire-proofing materials must be around a quarter-million dollars. Any more money thrown at the politicans to stop it would have cost more to the industries in the long run.
I love finding out the actual cost of things.
Nope. Historically, they have used third-party payment processors who have been well-regarded and trusted. I've spent probably $150 there and never had a weird charge or problem.
Will AllOfMp3.com do? No DRM, bitrate and format of my choosing, lots of metadata and a huge selection. What's that? The RIAA isn't getting money from any sales there? Oh, it's because of their own thuggishness and refusal to accept payments because by doing so, they'd be agreeing to the compulsory licensing and definition of broadcast media according to Russian Law? Well, that sounds like it's their own damn fault. Weird that the Russians would manage to put together such an amazing business model and service while the major American corporations can't get beyond the starting gate.
Oh well, off to go listen to the Sigue Sigue Sputnick greatest hits album I just downloaded from there. All I have to do now is decide which device I want to listen to it on.. My iPod? My iRiver U10? My TiVO's music streaming tool? Maybe my mac laptop or my windows system down in the basement. I guess that's up to me.
You are a terrible boss, and I am thrilled that I do not work with or for you.
I've heard other managers give the same "No one who is quitting gives 100% those last two weeks" line of crap before, and they were terrible managers, too. Most people I know who have left a job that they enjoyed and was not run by some idiot declaring himself the sole possessor of "work ethics" bust their ass until their last day, making certain everything is wrapped up, and any important information is shared with the appropriate people.
You should definitely be worried about your remaining employees hearing about this wonderful new company the guy is leaving for, because they should absolutely be leaving your employ.
take the big money that's close to home doing boring work. invest wisely, retire early, and spend your long retirement writing Perl in Florida.
OR take the perl gig, and create the perl "killer app" thereby becoming fabulously wealthy and able to write perl code whenever you want.
Those are your only two options.
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Thanks for Slashdot. I don't visit as often as I used to, but I always kept it at the top of my bookmarks list whenever I switched browsers or computers. I could always count on it for some of the most interesting, thought-provoking discussions online or off. You and Slashdot are definitely a big chunk of internet legacy, like 5 touchdowns in a single game. Have fun, diggum
Apart from the privacy concerns, I would think police might be against this due to detrimental effects on future investigations. If I'm a victim of a crime and need to look at a group of mugshots to see if I choose the person the police believe is responsible, and I've been looking at every new mugshot that they've taken, I may recognize or be subconsciously drawn to those pictures I had seen before. This could hamper some investigations.
I disagree somewhat. we don't like "syncing." we tolerate syncing because it's the only real solution right now for having our data at our fingertips on any device anywhere. but what we WANT is all of that to just work. the cloud is a fine solution if it secure, reliable, and accessible. it certainly makes sense to have backups of your data, stored locally somewhere safe. but does anyone really want their data duplicated on every device? isn't this wasteful? i acknowledge this is dreamy, pie in the sky wishes, though. still, i can't get my head out of the clouds. sincerely, diggum
Their hostile customer service is why I left years ago. They had overbilled me one month for real estate I did not own. I had my little plot of land and was happily paying the $5 a month or whatever that ran, but one month I got a bill for over $25. I tried calling but never got a real person. Tried e-mailing, but never got a response. Finally, I contested the charge with PayPal. That got their attention. Within hours, my account was canceled, wiping out the US$100 worth of Lindens I had at the time, and I received one NASTY response from them. I was chastised for contesting the charge via PayPal and it was surprisingly petty and spiteful. I'll wait for the Snow Crash monorail system to come to life. That's a far more interesting paradigm for this sort of VR anyways.
You're just not creative enough in your thinking. And while no reporter seems willing to mention it, it's not just criminals who might wish to implicate someone by planting DNA at a crime scene or in evidence. And there are some who have far more comprehensive access to DNA databases. And it's not like replicating DNA into usable quantities is terribly difficult. It was the cover story in Make Magazine last year, and the instructions seemed simple enough to perform in your kitchen at home. So while there are many ways to obtain real DNA, there are easier ways to generate large quantities of it from a small piece, which can then be used as the person sees fit.
Like Barney Frank, who has sponsored or co-sponsored forms of legalization legislation for several decades? Like internet-uberpol and doctor Ron Paul, who has co-sponsored and spoken against prohibition for years? What about the past three Presidents, all of whom have admitted to using Marijuana? It feels more risky to admit having broken the law for no good reason than to admit having broken the law founded on ignorance, racism, and protection of corporate interests. Fortunately, the print newspaper industry is almost dead, and they're incredibly responsible for the prohibition in the first place. Took awhile, but good riddance.
Not to mention the citizens and businesses who would have significantly reduced taxes - more money to spend and invest - as well as pissing off a lot less of the world, reducing our need for a large military budget in the first place.
Simplistic? Yes. But it can be refreshing how much more effective simple solutions can be than the quagmire of most bills passed.
if you accept money, even in the form of reduced taxes which you may or may not agree to, in exchange for promised services, then do not deliver those services, you can rightly be referred to as a bloodsucker. There are other words that might be better suited, but they are best uttered on a web forum of less class. sincerely, diggum
Rather than try to get the handful of people disrupting the peace, officers chose to unleash the pellets and tear gas.
I walked through the area around 1pm. The hallways leading outside were thick with the smell. I saw a guy slumped against a wall, his face was completely red and swollen and a woman was washing it with water trying to help him out. The cops came up, yanked her by the arm, and kicked him over until he got up and stumbled away. They were not there to help someone who looked pretty seriously injured by their tactics. They were there to continue their fucking tactics.
If a few bad apples really did ruin things in your opinion, then a WHOLE lot of bad cops did a significant amount of damage to their image as a whole that day.
> Why are we so intend to lynch their stooges when the masterminds are getting away scot-free?
We're not. Honestly, most of us could simply settle things with the Telecoms using our wallets. The biggest issue is that they are potentially the only witness to the larger crimes of the administration. Without the threat of prosecution and liability, they are not compelled to testify against the administration with whom they were complicit, even perhaps simply as unwilling accomplices.
Qwest refused to allow the unauthorized wiretaps. Qwest lost gazillions in government contracts and fell under intense SEC scrutiny. AT&T not only welcomed them in, but set them up a nice, fat, secret office with humongous data pipes and said, "Have at 'em!" Now, AT&T is the only authorized carrier for the iPhone. You do the math....
sincerely,
diggum
> And I'm sure my neighbor leaves his front door unlocked because he wants me to come on in and make a sandwich. Well, if six months ago it was published worldwide that he left his door wide open and anyone could go make a sandwich, and your neighbor was well aware of this, and after a large remodel of his house with press releases the front door was STILL unlocked, one may assume he hadn't had any troubles so far with the sandwich-making activities. This is what I would do: 1. Two slices of thick Texas Toast, lightly toasted. 2. Thick layer of peanut butter (crunchy) 3. A layer of 1/4" thick banana coins 4. A layer of bacon. 5. Deposit into mouth. sincerely, diggum
I am SOOOO gonna hack that thing. sincerely, diggum
I would like to contribute to your campaign.
I heard it was even more simple than that, and Russert simply likes to molest dogs. I would ask him about that first. "Tim, have you stopped molesting dogs yet?"
Who said we went to war with Iraq for CHEAP oil? Why spend trillions of dollars to make only a fraction of that back from oil sales? The more oil you control, the more you control the price, and they've already learned that Americans will pay practically any price per gallon and will not cut consumption. As for your second point, please explain your level of expertise that lets you know the impact fighting in Iraq has made to lessen violence on non-Iraqi soil. Before we were in Iraq, al-Qaeda wasn't either. Afghanistan has been out of the news for years now, but if you can find articles it's not super sunny news. And now, the drums are beating to enter Iran. Please work this into your equation and let me know how this will make me, my family, my country, or the rest of the world safer in any way.
Way easiier than that, at least with the photos the news org were showing. Make a circle selection, taking care to line the edges up with where the twirl circumfremce is, and use photoshops twirl filter to go the other way. We did it in the office and came close to the image interpol released, accounting for the fact we had a very low res source. (and i can assure you that we were not interested in anything higher resolution. That guy is creepy as hell, and that shirt was so ugly.)
> If we go by the anti-copyright crowd, she doesn't have a case. It is "copycat" art. Or, are we going to protect her intellectual property? She absolutely has a case. No "anti-copyright" person can logically say she doesn't have the right to prevent others from SELLING work she shared on Flickr. She doesn't have a lot of room to complain if I want to print one of her pictures myself and put it on my wall, but she certainly has every right to get pissed if I try to sell those same prints.
Exactly. Apparently, the costs associated with using safer fire-proofing materials must be around a quarter-million dollars. Any more money thrown at the politicans to stop it would have cost more to the industries in the long run. I love finding out the actual cost of things.
Nope. Historically, they have used third-party payment processors who have been well-regarded and trusted. I've spent probably $150 there and never had a weird charge or problem.
I'm going to invent a device that makes sarcasm on the internet obvious.
Will AllOfMp3.com do? No DRM, bitrate and format of my choosing, lots of metadata and a huge selection. What's that? The RIAA isn't getting money from any sales there? Oh, it's because of their own thuggishness and refusal to accept payments because by doing so, they'd be agreeing to the compulsory licensing and definition of broadcast media according to Russian Law? Well, that sounds like it's their own damn fault. Weird that the Russians would manage to put together such an amazing business model and service while the major American corporations can't get beyond the starting gate. Oh well, off to go listen to the Sigue Sigue Sputnick greatest hits album I just downloaded from there. All I have to do now is decide which device I want to listen to it on.. My iPod? My iRiver U10? My TiVO's music streaming tool? Maybe my mac laptop or my windows system down in the basement. I guess that's up to me.
You are a terrible boss, and I am thrilled that I do not work with or for you. I've heard other managers give the same "No one who is quitting gives 100% those last two weeks" line of crap before, and they were terrible managers, too. Most people I know who have left a job that they enjoyed and was not run by some idiot declaring himself the sole possessor of "work ethics" bust their ass until their last day, making certain everything is wrapped up, and any important information is shared with the appropriate people. You should definitely be worried about your remaining employees hearing about this wonderful new company the guy is leaving for, because they should absolutely be leaving your employ.
take the big money that's close to home doing boring work. invest wisely, retire early, and spend your long retirement writing Perl in Florida. OR take the perl gig, and create the perl "killer app" thereby becoming fabulously wealthy and able to write perl code whenever you want. Those are your only two options.
Yes, but it's Unix. She knows this! Ah, imdb shows she's had a little work since the JP days. that's nice.
I believe Bat Boy is the sole editorial property of Weekly World News. Not that I've ever read it or anything...