>Additionally, the government's argument that you lose all your property rights by storing your data on the cloud
Bullshit. I don't lose the rights to my property if they are in the temporary posession of a third party. If it was so, then nobody could rent anythiing ever or even check a coat.
The self-importantce and "my shit doesn't stink, but everyone else's does" just bleeds from your posts.
Just... wow.
Martin Luther King's assassination was long after HP Lovecraft died. HP Lovecraft lived in a different world than you do where it wasn't so obvious that racism was bad. Indeed, in most places it was *required.*
Judging the past through the the eyes of the present blinds you to your own faults in the present because you assume that your worldview is enlightened.
>Too bad they don't name hurricanes after men - like Kahn.
What?
Hurricanes have had names from both sexes by the National Weather Service since 1978. Only between 1953 and 1978 were female names the only names given to hurricanes.
Can you prove that you did not make a post just to be a contrarian jerk?
Seriously.
The Enterprise is on topic for this page. Damage to the Enterprise *is* news for nerds. The Mona Lisa is not unless an article is discussing the chemical composition of the paints that is scientifically interesting. The burned out neighborhood of Breezy Point is not. Your first post should be modded into oblivion as flamebait/troll if not your second one.
And calling you out as a troll is not an insult if you've behaved as one. Which you did.
Posting with no karma bonus because meta-discussion is also off-topic.
You are comparing apples to pears. "Mona Lisa" is a chunk of dried paint and canvas that, granted, had its part in the history of art. Being a chunk of crusty paint and canvas, however, it can be replaced; and if it were to go lost, not many humans would spill tears over it. Enterprise, on the other hand, is a work of breakthrough engineering, science, and exploration, held dear by many more humans than said chunk of crusty dried paint on canvas. Moreover, Enterprise was crafted by many indivituals in a cooperative feat of engineering not seen since Apollo, many of those engineers being unsung geniuses who went on to further humanity through their engineering, which cannot be said for Leonardo Da Vinci, now long dead and no longer contributing to humanity. Last but not least, I do believe that you are a troll.
No, his point is that since Lovecraft was a racist that he was a *bad person* and that other people, like the founders of the US who were also racists are "all bad" because people like Jefferson had slaves and that being a product of the times is not an excuse.
Read LK's other post where he calls Lovecraft a "piece of shit"
It is judging the past with the so-called enlightened eyes of the present. It's bullshit. it's bullshit because when we are dead like the founders and Lovecraft, we will also be judged on our failings, even though we consider ourselves enlightened.
If this was just for missiles, you wouldn't hear about it. Indeed, it would have gone to a no-bid contract in a brown paper bag in the dead of night behind the dumpster at the McDonalds around the corner from Textron, Lockheed, or Raytheon.
There are a *lot* of civilian applications for a sensitive gyroscope.
Where once a student would read The Canterbury Tales or Moby Dick, they now read Harry Potter or Twilight. that many now call Legalese.
Legalese is not prose or poetry. It is not Chaucer, Shakespeare, Emerson, or Auster. It is closer to math than prose. While literary English hinges on "deeper meaning," legal English hinges on the logical operators of "and" "or" "not" and "nor" and punctuation. A single "and" instead of an "or" or "not" can change the entire meaning of a contract. Well written legal documents are concise and unambiguous. Prose and poetry are "good" if the reader can read his own opinions into what is written - plain prose is devalued. Due to all this It is extremely easy write a legal document that looks like "Episode 18 - Penelope" and it is incumbent upon the author (a lawyer in this case) to break it down into sensible chunks if one is trying to be unambiguous.
Unfortunately for many people, there are a lot of lawyers who don't know how to do that last bit, and teaching people Chaucer does not prepare them for legal English or how legal English is abused by lawyers.
Literary English and legal English are two completely different languages separated by a common vocabulary.
-- BMO
P.S. Yes, I did group Paul Auster in there with Shakespeare. Deal with it. P.P.S. You claim that the classics are no longer taught. This is clearly not the case. High school students are still subjected to the mind-numbing dessicated analysis of Shakespeare and Melville, thus turning many off to classics forever and into the welcoming arms of J.K. Rowling, if they haven't given up on reading altogether.
Because the real intention here is to put small independent developers with their 'disruptive' technology who can't afford a gaggle of lawyers out of business.
Bullshit. It's not a conspiracy. This is an issue everyone in the 80s running single-line BBSes had to deal with. The ECPA became law 24 years ago. The California AG's message should not surprise you.
Copy someone else's privacy policy. It's what lawyers do anyway. You think they actually work at this stuff? It's all boilerplate.
You can say "we do not collect any user data" and make sure your program doesn't phone home or disclaim all privacy whatsoever. and hope nobody actually reads your privacy policy. Copy Facebook's privacy policy if you want to be evil. They bury the "we own everything you post" in language that you and I can understand but not 90 percent of users.
And at the end of it, say "we reserve the right to change this policy in the future." to further cover your ass.
It's not hard if you're honest and up front. It's only hard if you want to deceive users. That's where the tricky language comes in.
You don't need 3 different scholarly references for stub status. It would be nice, but a stub is that, a stub and if it doesn't have a stub tag, it should be tagged as such instead of deleted.
But stubs on "unfamiliar subjects to the editor" get deleted, because they're not complete enough. *table flip*
>children happily used vertical touch screens forty years ago on UIUC's PLATO
Children will jump through all sorts of hoops to learn something new and cool. There was also nothing else like it at the time either.
I mentioned in an earlier post that the only places where you see touch screens these days are in environments that are hostile to keyboards and mice, POS systems, and portable devices, because keyboards and mice are too bulky. It's not like touchscreens haven't been around for decades. If there was a demand for them on desktops, we would have seen them being used. But they don't get used, because touch on vertical surfaces sucks.
Tim Cook is just saying what a lot of us have already said about Metro and touch on the desktop and laptop. It's fine for tablets and small portables like phones. But on the desktop?
Come on, who in their right mind wants a 27in touch interface?
Long filename support on FAT file systems was a joke. I had one FAT filesystem literally blow up on me because Windows forgot how to string together the 8.3 filename kludge to make the long filenames.
>I guess your basic argument is the 10th Amendment doesn't matter. You're wrong.
The 10'th amendment states that powers not granted to the federal government or the states are given to the people. The thing is that the federal government has the ability to sign treaties and be bound by those treaties, and those treaties become federal law by their ratification. Thus, the US is bound by the OSCE treaty as a signatory.
Slashdot Mirror
This is Kimdotcom's next move.
His new project encrypts on the local machine before uploading to the server, and it's transparent to the user to make it easy.
http://kim.com/mega/
I'm surprised it took someone this long to think of this.
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BMO
>Additionally, the government's argument that you lose all your property rights by storing your data on the cloud
Bullshit. I don't lose the rights to my property if they are in the temporary posession of a third party. If it was so, then nobody could rent anythiing ever or even check a coat.
Hurr.
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BMO
The self-importantce and "my shit doesn't stink, but everyone else's does" just bleeds from your posts.
Just... wow.
Martin Luther King's assassination was long after HP Lovecraft died. HP Lovecraft lived in a different world than you do where it wasn't so obvious that racism was bad. Indeed, in most places it was *required.*
Judging the past through the the eyes of the present blinds you to your own faults in the present because you assume that your worldview is enlightened.
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BMO
I got the joke. The premise was just dumb, because the only way it'd be funny is if the policy of pre-78 was continued
You want to see something funny?
Go here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJmP7PcaUw
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BMO
>Too bad they don't name hurricanes after men - like Kahn.
What?
Hurricanes have had names from both sexes by the National Weather Service since 1978. Only between 1953 and 1978 were female names the only names given to hurricanes.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml
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BMO
Can you prove you are not one ?*
Can you prove that you did not make a post just to be a contrarian jerk?
Seriously.
The Enterprise is on topic for this page. Damage to the Enterprise *is* news for nerds. The Mona Lisa is not unless an article is discussing the chemical composition of the paints that is scientifically interesting. The burned out neighborhood of Breezy Point is not. Your first post should be modded into oblivion as flamebait/troll if not your second one.
And calling you out as a troll is not an insult if you've behaved as one. Which you did.
Posting with no karma bonus because meta-discussion is also off-topic.
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BMO
You are comparing apples to pears. "Mona Lisa" is a chunk of dried paint and canvas that, granted, had its part in the history of art. Being a chunk of crusty paint and canvas, however, it can be replaced; and if it were to go lost, not many humans would spill tears over it. Enterprise, on the other hand, is a work of breakthrough engineering, science, and exploration, held dear by many more humans than said chunk of crusty dried paint on canvas. Moreover, Enterprise was crafted by many indivituals in a cooperative feat of engineering not seen since Apollo, many of those engineers being unsung geniuses who went on to further humanity through their engineering, which cannot be said for Leonardo Da Vinci, now long dead and no longer contributing to humanity. Last but not least, I do believe that you are a troll.
*slap*
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BMO
No, his point is that since Lovecraft was a racist that he was a *bad person* and that other people, like the founders of the US who were also racists are "all bad" because people like Jefferson had slaves and that being a product of the times is not an excuse.
Read LK's other post where he calls Lovecraft a "piece of shit"
It is judging the past with the so-called enlightened eyes of the present. It's bullshit. it's bullshit because when we are dead like the founders and Lovecraft, we will also be judged on our failings, even though we consider ourselves enlightened.
It is a blinkered and hypocritical world view.
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BMO
So in your opinion, if someone is bad in one area, they are all bad, and they cannot redeem themselves ever?
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
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BMO
If this was just for missiles, you wouldn't hear about it. Indeed, it would have gone to a no-bid contract in a brown paper bag in the dead of night behind the dumpster at the McDonalds around the corner from Textron, Lockheed, or Raytheon.
There are a *lot* of civilian applications for a sensitive gyroscope.
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BMO
It's spendy ($75) and it's made in China, after AT Cross moved everything there from Lincoln, RI.
You won't see me buying one. I'll buy something German or Japanese before I do that. Yes, I do hold grudges.
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BMO
Where once a student would read The Canterbury Tales or Moby Dick, they now read Harry Potter or Twilight.
that many now call Legalese.
Legalese is not prose or poetry. It is not Chaucer, Shakespeare, Emerson, or Auster. It is closer to math than prose. While literary English hinges on "deeper meaning," legal English hinges on the logical operators of "and" "or" "not" and "nor" and punctuation. A single "and" instead of an "or" or "not" can change the entire meaning of a contract. Well written legal documents are concise and unambiguous. Prose and poetry are "good" if the reader can read his own opinions into what is written - plain prose is devalued. Due to all this It is extremely easy write a legal document that looks like "Episode 18 - Penelope" and it is incumbent upon the author (a lawyer in this case) to break it down into sensible chunks if one is trying to be unambiguous.
Unfortunately for many people, there are a lot of lawyers who don't know how to do that last bit, and teaching people Chaucer does not prepare them for legal English or how legal English is abused by lawyers.
Literary English and legal English are two completely different languages separated by a common vocabulary.
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BMO
P.S. Yes, I did group Paul Auster in there with Shakespeare. Deal with it.
P.P.S. You claim that the classics are no longer taught. This is clearly not the case. High school students are still subjected to the mind-numbing dessicated analysis of Shakespeare and Melville, thus turning many off to classics forever and into the welcoming arms of J.K. Rowling, if they haven't given up on reading altogether.
Because the real intention here is to put small independent developers with their 'disruptive' technology who can't afford a gaggle of lawyers out of business.
Bullshit. It's not a conspiracy. This is an issue everyone in the 80s running single-line BBSes had to deal with. The ECPA became law 24 years ago. The California AG's message should not surprise you.
Copy someone else's privacy policy. It's what lawyers do anyway. You think they actually work at this stuff? It's all boilerplate.
You can say "we do not collect any user data" and make sure your program doesn't phone home or disclaim all privacy whatsoever. and hope nobody actually reads your privacy policy. Copy Facebook's privacy policy if you want to be evil. They bury the "we own everything you post" in language that you and I can understand but not 90 percent of users.
And at the end of it, say "we reserve the right to change this policy in the future." to further cover your ass.
It's not hard if you're honest and up front. It's only hard if you want to deceive users. That's where the tricky language comes in.
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BMO
JOE: Ask the cop on the corner...
DC: Ask the cop in the grocery store...
JOE: Ask the cop in the woodpile...
DC: Ask the cop on the rooftop...
JOE: Ask that cop that's knockin' at your back door...
SOUND: Knocking.
DC: Ask him!
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BMO
You mean like this?
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/10/bananajr6k.jpeg
These days it's not limited by the cord length.
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BMO
That works too...
But the Village People was a NY group...
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BMO
A lawyer, a priest, a rabbi, and a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar ....
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BMO
The question is...
Does the Hahvid Coop have chickens?
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BMO
You don't need 3 different scholarly references for stub status. It would be nice, but a stub is that, a stub and if it doesn't have a stub tag, it should be tagged as such instead of deleted.
But stubs on "unfamiliar subjects to the editor" get deleted, because they're not complete enough. *table flip*
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BMO
>children happily used vertical touch screens forty years ago on UIUC's PLATO
Children will jump through all sorts of hoops to learn something new and cool. There was also nothing else like it at the time either.
I mentioned in an earlier post that the only places where you see touch screens these days are in environments that are hostile to keyboards and mice, POS systems, and portable devices, because keyboards and mice are too bulky. It's not like touchscreens haven't been around for decades. If there was a demand for them on desktops, we would have seen them being used. But they don't get used, because touch on vertical surfaces sucks.
Tim Cook is just saying what a lot of us have already said about Metro and touch on the desktop and laptop. It's fine for tablets and small portables like phones. But on the desktop?
Come on, who in their right mind wants a 27in touch interface?
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BMO
That one is a valid criticism.
Long filename support on FAT file systems was a joke. I had one FAT filesystem literally blow up on me because Windows forgot how to string together the 8.3 filename kludge to make the long filenames.
File.001
File.002
File.003
Dir.001
Dir.002
Dir.003
And so on...
Try finding your data after this happens.
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BMO
>Obviously we who dont carry weapons or explosives around with us know that we are clean and free,
>free
You don't know the meaning of the word.
Make sure you make those boots shine with your tongue!
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BMO
>Whatever happened to, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death?"
The same thing that happened to Thoreau's words on civil disobedience. Forgotten.
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BMO
>Linsux
Anyone who says this or "loonix" or a variation on this is just as bad as someone who spells Microsoft as Micro$oft and variations thereof.
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BMO
Disclaimer: I had that habit but then I grew up.
>I guess your basic argument is the 10th Amendment doesn't matter. You're wrong.
The 10'th amendment states that powers not granted to the federal government or the states are given to the people. The thing is that the federal government has the ability to sign treaties and be bound by those treaties, and those treaties become federal law by their ratification. Thus, the US is bound by the OSCE treaty as a signatory.
You are retarded.
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BMO