While this may stop aging (assuming it works in this scenario), it won't stop things like car accidents and murders, and probably won't stop things like heart failures, strokes, cancer, starvation, and obesity related deaths. Obviously there will still be a large number of people who would have died of old age who will no longer die, and this will change how a lot of things work (like social security, pensions, and such), but it probably won't cause an explosion in the population, just a higher proportion of tragic deaths.
It could do very interesting things with the way people live though. If a bunch of people retire at 60 with stable investments and a youthful body, they could do all sorts of things for the next hundred years or so.
Yeah, and some DVD stores have different categories between drama VS fantasy VS sci-fi. Is 4chan porn? Is images.google.com porn? Why not a violence domain?
The solution is to let people do what they want. This is not a real problem. The only problem is with people who want the government to get involved in this.
Fair enough; I guess scrambling was the wrong word. I'm not saying that movie theaters should be able to violate FCC air-wave regulations, only that theaters should be able to block cell phone service should they choose to do so and inform their customers.
Honestly, I have no problem with individual theaters choosing to scramble cell phones as long as they inform their patrons. There are plenty of places that simply don't have cell phone service, and you can choose not to enter those places.
This, on the other hand, would be a mandate that forces people's actions to be crippled by their own cars. I've been in countless situations where I've been a passenger in a car and called someone up to get directions, many times while on a highway. Forcing us to pull over and stop in that situation would actually increase the risk of car accidents.
You're thinking of The Daily Mail or The Sun. Maybe The Guardian. (As an American, I, too, have trouble remembering which British newspapers are tabloids)
The Register, based on its home page, seems to just be a tech news site.
Well, if 3000 people died in 9/11 and there are about 300,000,000 people in the US, that's a 1/100,000 odds of dying in that terrorist attack (assuming that's the only terrorist attack, disregarding time, etc.). So I assume his statistic is something like that, but does take time into account.
Sorry, I was unclear./Find Bar/ is an extension for Firefox that allows me to perform regular expression searches on the page I'm viewing. It's quite wonderful.
Same here. I used to use Opera, but I switched to Firefox for a couple extensions that Opera was lacking (primarily/Find Bar/). I still miss some of the Opera shortcuts and would love to switch back.
Buses, trains, no problem. Cinemas? Absolutely. If I ran a cinema, I'd encase the theaters in some sort of faraday cage that blocks all cell phone signals.
It's generally not worth pissing off their regular customers (although they did triple charge one of my friends for a $900 purchase and it took her a month to get the extra $1800 back), but when they stand to steal 600 thousand Euros, of course they'll take this opportunity!
Why do you think the judge should be allowed to just ignore the law that says, if a party refuses to defend itself in a lawsuit, they get a judgment against them? Do you think judges should just do what they want even if the law says differently?
If that is a part of the law, it should be changed so the judge has to at least check to see if there's some minimal evidence against the defendant. I mean, if 100 people filed 100 made-up lawsuits against someone, shouldn't the judge(s) at least check to make sure if there's at least some basic evidence before forcing an innocent party to respond or be considered guilty by default if they don't respond to all of them?
I always thought it was weird that they made us use APVector and APString instead of regular Vectors and Strings. Was it just so College Board could feel better about themselves?
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who cares? If you don't like it, don't shop there.
It is, however, useful to be informed in the first place.
he pleaded guilty because he was too dumb to know his rights.
So the uneducated deserve to suffer?
Now that would be a good use of The Jester's botnet!
While this may stop aging (assuming it works in this scenario), it won't stop things like car accidents and murders, and probably won't stop things like heart failures, strokes, cancer, starvation, and obesity related deaths. Obviously there will still be a large number of people who would have died of old age who will no longer die, and this will change how a lot of things work (like social security, pensions, and such), but it probably won't cause an explosion in the population, just a higher proportion of tragic deaths.
It could do very interesting things with the way people live though. If a bunch of people retire at 60 with stable investments and a youthful body, they could do all sorts of things for the next hundred years or so.
Yeah, and some DVD stores have different categories between drama VS fantasy VS sci-fi. Is 4chan porn? Is images.google.com porn? Why not a violence domain?
The solution is to let people do what they want. This is not a real problem. The only problem is with people who want the government to get involved in this.
Fair enough; I guess scrambling was the wrong word. I'm not saying that movie theaters should be able to violate FCC air-wave regulations, only that theaters should be able to block cell phone service should they choose to do so and inform their customers.
Good to know.
Honestly, I have no problem with individual theaters choosing to scramble cell phones as long as they inform their patrons. There are plenty of places that simply don't have cell phone service, and you can choose not to enter those places.
This, on the other hand, would be a mandate that forces people's actions to be crippled by their own cars. I've been in countless situations where I've been a passenger in a car and called someone up to get directions, many times while on a highway. Forcing us to pull over and stop in that situation would actually increase the risk of car accidents.
You're thinking of The Daily Mail or The Sun. Maybe The Guardian. (As an American, I, too, have trouble remembering which British newspapers are tabloids)
The Register, based on its home page, seems to just be a tech news site.
Well, if 3000 people died in 9/11 and there are about 300,000,000 people in the US, that's a 1/100,000 odds of dying in that terrorist attack (assuming that's the only terrorist attack, disregarding time, etc.). So I assume his statistic is something like that, but does take time into account.
And, strangely enough, almost everything produced by Pixar is an instant hit, loved by children, adults, and critics.
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Woah, so the two big desktop environments in Linux put aside their differences and merged together?
Don't post stuff you don't want other people to share.
Except they plan to share your search results on a seemingly unrelated search website with your friends.
Sorry, I was unclear. /Find Bar/ is an extension for Firefox that allows me to perform regular expression searches on the page I'm viewing. It's quite wonderful.
Same here. I used to use Opera, but I switched to Firefox for a couple extensions that Opera was lacking (primarily /Find Bar/). I still miss some of the Opera shortcuts and would love to switch back.
Wow, do any of you people have jobs?
Hi, welcome to Slashdot! You must be new here!
Have you ever read the Slashdot summaries? I'm pretty sure most of them are just excerpts from the articles put through a few online translators.
What happens if for some reason they don't have cell phone service anyway? What would have happened a decade or two ago? Same thing!
Buses, trains, no problem. Cinemas? Absolutely. If I ran a cinema, I'd encase the theaters in some sort of faraday cage that blocks all cell phone signals.
It's generally not worth pissing off their regular customers (although they did triple charge one of my friends for a $900 purchase and it took her a month to get the extra $1800 back), but when they stand to steal 600 thousand Euros, of course they'll take this opportunity!
This is interesting but I am surprised that there is even a demand online for people to download bollywood films.
That's because you obviously have not seen this!
It's time to teach kids what they're eating affects their health.
So basically, tell them not to eat the "food" elementary schools supply at all?
Wow, you own Yahoo!?
Why do you think the judge should be allowed to just ignore the law that says, if a party refuses to defend itself in a lawsuit, they get a judgment against them? Do you think judges should just do what they want even if the law says differently?
If that is a part of the law, it should be changed so the judge has to at least check to see if there's some minimal evidence against the defendant. I mean, if 100 people filed 100 made-up lawsuits against someone, shouldn't the judge(s) at least check to make sure if there's at least some basic evidence before forcing an innocent party to respond or be considered guilty by default if they don't respond to all of them?
I always thought it was weird that they made us use APVector and APString instead of regular Vectors and Strings. Was it just so College Board could feel better about themselves?