Acxiom was the first company listed in Microsoft's
November 1998 parade of members
of their Online Privacy Alliance. The OPA's goal was to keep the feds away:
"The alliance advocates industry self-regulation as the best way to ensure that consumers maintain control of their personal data online."
Acxiom
warned TRUSTe members
in late 2002 that
"conditions look right for the 'Perfect Storm' of privacy legislation next year." Yeah, scary, the government might insist that customers have some privacy.
I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when the government called them up to let them know their own employee had stolen their customers' private data.
"Why did Slashdot reject me when I submitted this myself a couple of days ago?"
Your's not to make reply,
Your's not to reason why,
Your's but to crash and die:
Into the valley of delete
Rode the six hundred submissions.
"The poor little Pentium 600 hosting this has already succumbed."
Alas, poor server! I knew him, Mutantninja: a CPU
of Intelish host, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne clients on his backbone a thousand times; and now, how
abused on my internet it is!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- April 27, 1903 -- A new report today
suggests that human-like automata may replace half of all jobs
in America today, within the next hundred years.
Written by esteemed local author Myron P. Wellsworth, the paper
claims that mechanization can replace the human muscle. "Menial
labor," as he calls it, will supposedly be performed not by honest
sweat and effort, but by the cold application of electricity,
"The human soul is capable of so much more," says the laughable
crackpot, "than mere workhorse-slavery to the wealthy. There is no
reason why one of the great glories of God's Creation, the mind of
a woman, should occupy itself with feather-dusting and rug-beating
in the mansions of the well-to-do, or for that matter, in their
husbands' homes."
Mr. Wellsworth, who holds no college degree, suggests that in a
mere hundred years, rug-beating will be performed with 100%
greater efficiency, requiring the women to merely press a button
to invoke rug-beating machines. Feather-dusting will be performed
by automatic dusting machines, living in the basement of every
home and somehow subjecting all the air in the entire domicile to
a thorough scrubbing all day long, every day.
"Even the 'menial labor' of the brain will be automo-assisted,"
insists the lovable scamp, "with machines performing the drudgery
of accounting calculations, freeing our best and brightest to
manipulate ideas about bookkeeping instead of spending hour after
hour with pencil stub and eyeshade."
But the picture is not entirely rosy, admits this jackanape
gadfly. By the year 2003, one thousand accountants will be booted
from their jobs and replaced by inhuman machinery. Five hundred
livery drivers will be on the streets looking for work, while
steam-driven constructs drive their carriages for them. And the
preparation of our pharmaceuticals, now lovingly performed by hand
by highly educated men of science that take the greatest care to
mix every powder in exacting proportions for their
personally-known customers, will be decided-upon in centralized
factories which stamp out untested remedies in mass numbers deemed
fit for every man, woman and child -- leaving over six hundred
chemists sitting on the streets with their mortars and pestles,
and their heads full of valuable knowledge on the care of ailing
patients, woefully, vainly, sadly looking for work. Such an exodus
of humanity's skill and talent, should it come to pass, will truly
be a crime of the highest magnitude.
I had grabbed the first half of it from an official mirror before I gave up and went to the torrent, so I can guarantee that if it's trojaned, it's trojaned in the second half:)
That's actually worse. CNN puts in the disclosure when they're just reporting on T3's box-office take -- but they don't see the need to do the same when they're giving it a positive review?!
Comparisons of mean time between reboots on Linux and Solaris are very topical, as the top are often thrown head to head in cost benefit analysis of server platforms. It is interesting to review the uptimes of some of the internet's busier servers hosted at Sun, Google and Akamai. Perhaps the most remarkable thing is how few reboots there are on the networks, given the amount of traffic they see, though in absolute numbers the average number of days between reboots is higher at Sun than either of the two Linux based companies.
" What's with the "Older Stuff" link not working anymore? It gives the same stuff you're already looking at. If you change the issue number back a day (from the 6th to the 5th, lets say) it works, but gives you the stuff for the 6th!"
I'm working on fixing that right now. Hopefully the fix will be live sometime tonight.
Worries about "harming social peace" also didn't seem to bother them when the hit Egyptian song "I Hate Israel" hit the charts a couple of years ago. In fact the Egyptian state censors got involved then, too, but for a different reason...
I hate Israel, and I hate destruction, it (Israel) loves destruction
I love Yassir Arafat and he is very dear to me
Egyptians are sad
I hate Israel and I love Amr Mousa
I hate Israel and Shimon (Peres) and Sharon
Why should the children suffer why should they die everyday
People carrying weapons and others carrying slingshot
I hate Israel, and we all do
We are all mad, Al Quds matters to us
I hate Isreal and Ehud Barak because no one can stand him
Egypt puts up and stands till the end but when it got mad it pulled back the ambassador
I hate Israel because of south Lebanon, Al Quds, Iraq, Syria and the Golan?
I hate Israel and I say it even if I will be arrested
In a further twist, the head of Egypt's arts censorship bureau said the song originally ran "I don't like Israel", but Shaaban spiced it up at the request of the censor. "Originally it was 'I don't like Israel', but I made a recommendation that they choose another word equal to the state of people's feelings," said Madkour Thabet, whose office has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive.
"With all due respect, don't you think that one-sided stabs and heavy opinions shouldn't be put on the ends of articles, but should, instead, be placed in the comments?"
Of course not; where did you get this idea? I'm surprised that this stupid meme that Slashdot is just another unbiased news source ever got started. Of course we share our biases, it's part of our charm.
"My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters."
"Remember the "artist" Serrano, who got paid $16,000 by Washington to drop a photo in a mayonnaise jar of his own urine"
The National Endowment for the Arts gave $75,000 (matched two-to-one with private money) to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Act. The Center selected a panel. The panel selected Andre Serrano. The Center gave Serrano $15,000 of Endowment money based on the quality of his work.
- "Fact Sheet on American Family Association Fundraising Advertisement," National Endowment for the Arts, February 1990 (as cited in Culture Wars, 1992, p. 152.
Serrano did Piss Christ in 1987. It is a photograph of a crucifix immersed in an amber liquid. In 1988 he won the fellowship from Awards in the Visual Arts, a program administered by SECCA. In that same year, Piss Christ was one of the works included in an SECCA traveling exhibition by AVA award winners.
So: $5,000 of Washington's money was matched with $10,000 in private donations and given to SECCA. That money, along with other sources of funding for SECCA, funds the AVA program. Serrano was given an award for his work which obviously included works besides just Piss Christ.
Slashdot Mirror
Acxiom warned TRUSTe members in late 2002 that "conditions look right for the 'Perfect Storm' of privacy legislation next year." Yeah, scary, the government might insist that customers have some privacy.
I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when the government called them up to let them know their own employee had stolen their customers' private data.
I liked my dept. line better :)
Your's not to make reply,
Your's not to reason why,
Your's but to crash and die:
Into the valley of delete
Rode the six hundred submissions.
Alas, poor server! I knew him, Mutantninja: a CPU
of Intelish host, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne clients on his backbone a thousand times; and now, how
abused on my internet it is!
Written by esteemed local author Myron P. Wellsworth, the paper claims that mechanization can replace the human muscle. "Menial labor," as he calls it, will supposedly be performed not by honest sweat and effort, but by the cold application of electricity,
"The human soul is capable of so much more," says the laughable crackpot, "than mere workhorse-slavery to the wealthy. There is no reason why one of the great glories of God's Creation, the mind of a woman, should occupy itself with feather-dusting and rug-beating in the mansions of the well-to-do, or for that matter, in their husbands' homes."
Mr. Wellsworth, who holds no college degree, suggests that in a mere hundred years, rug-beating will be performed with 100% greater efficiency, requiring the women to merely press a button to invoke rug-beating machines. Feather-dusting will be performed by automatic dusting machines, living in the basement of every home and somehow subjecting all the air in the entire domicile to a thorough scrubbing all day long, every day.
"Even the 'menial labor' of the brain will be automo-assisted," insists the lovable scamp, "with machines performing the drudgery of accounting calculations, freeing our best and brightest to manipulate ideas about bookkeeping instead of spending hour after hour with pencil stub and eyeshade."
But the picture is not entirely rosy, admits this jackanape gadfly. By the year 2003, one thousand accountants will be booted from their jobs and replaced by inhuman machinery. Five hundred livery drivers will be on the streets looking for work, while steam-driven constructs drive their carriages for them. And the preparation of our pharmaceuticals, now lovingly performed by hand by highly educated men of science that take the greatest care to mix every powder in exacting proportions for their personally-known customers, will be decided-upon in centralized factories which stamp out untested remedies in mass numbers deemed fit for every man, woman and child -- leaving over six hundred chemists sitting on the streets with their mortars and pestles, and their heads full of valuable knowledge on the care of ailing patients, woefully, vainly, sadly looking for work. Such an exodus of humanity's skill and talent, should it come to pass, will truly be a crime of the highest magnitude.
http://www.bigfatonline.com/armyops-mac-170.tar.bz 2.torrent
I had grabbed the first half of it from an official mirror before I gave up and went to the torrent, so I can guarantee that if it's trojaned, it's trojaned in the second half :)
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How many more must die due to this dangerous scourge of freedom which takes over the minds of young people like a hideous drug??
I demand that we put an end to freedom!
That's actually worse. CNN puts in the disclosure when they're just reporting on T3's box-office take -- but they don't see the need to do the same when they're giving it a positive review?!
Yeah, someone else pointed that out already. I suck.
Shit, you're probably right. Like I said, ten years since I last watched the first movie so I may be fuzzy on the details.
already answered
I'm working on fixing that right now. Hopefully the fix will be live sometime tonight.
http://www.arabia.com/life/article/english/0,11827 ,46609,00.html
Of course not; where did you get this idea? I'm surprised that this stupid meme that Slashdot is just another unbiased news source ever got started. Of course we share our biases, it's part of our charm.
Welcome to Slashdot.
Thanks (and thanks to the fellow who emailed us)... link added to the story writeup.
hi, I am a test post for testing and such
testing posting
It happens :/
The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life by Robert Wright. A look at evolution and nonzero-sum game theory and how they shaped our brains and our culture. I lent my dad my copy and he kept it to read it twice.
The National Endowment for the Arts gave $75,000 (matched two-to-one with private money) to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Act. The Center selected a panel. The panel selected Andre Serrano. The Center gave Serrano $15,000 of Endowment money based on the quality of his work.
- "Fact Sheet on American Family Association Fundraising Advertisement," National Endowment for the Arts, February 1990 (as cited in Culture Wars, 1992, p. 152.
Serrano did Piss Christ in 1987. It is a photograph of a crucifix immersed in an amber liquid. In 1988 he won the fellowship from Awards in the Visual Arts, a program administered by SECCA. In that same year, Piss Christ was one of the works included in an SECCA traveling exhibition by AVA award winners.
So: $5,000 of Washington's money was matched with $10,000 in private donations and given to SECCA. That money, along with other sources of funding for SECCA, funds the AVA program. Serrano was given an award for his work which obviously included works besides just Piss Christ.
Just FYI :)
That is all.