If the white and black models replicate in equal numbers then it will indeed look grey from a distance. Though this is disregarding the silver back, and the lit screen...
Basically they are saying that at no time that Mr. Lee is alive can he work for any company other that Microsoft because the knowledge that is contained in Mr. Lee's brain is the trade secret property of Microsoft and Mr. Lee will inevitably divulge these secrets to anyone he may work with at any time in the future. That being said it is in Microsofts belief that at no time in the future can Mr. Lee be trusted to work for any other company but Microsoft because to do so he would inevitable be breaking trade secret law or something. Like someone else just said in response to this, All His Base Are Belong To Them. Microsoft is asserting ownership of Mr. Lee.
It seems to me that the primary stab of this is at unions. If you can't get together with your coworkers, then you can't have union meeting. Nevermind that this give corporations control over our first amendment right of free assembly at their discretion... All and all it's a fascist law, and I don't think I'm using hyperbole.
I think a good way to describe it to people that don't understand software versioning is to ask them which is better, the 9th revision of a Ford Taurus, or the 2nd revision of a .
Maybe it's because this fact based medical science has lost much of it's luster due to the pharmaceutical industry lying about test results and pushing their pills through psychiatrists and doctors.
I was seeing a psychiatrist a number of years ago when I was a teen, and they recommended I take a certain medication. The drug they wanted me to take was called risperidone, it has been known to cause *permanent* facial ticks and twitches. My mother and I decided that that was a risk that we didn't want to take. So the psychiatrist proceeded to argue with my mother about this for nearly 10 minutes, nearly reaching the level of yelling, insisting that this was the medication I should take. We walked out and never went back.
I've been on drugs that have made me fat, while they were supposed to help with depression. I've been on drugs that have made me flip out when they were supposed to help with anxiety. The general mantra in the field is that you keep trying stuff till you find something that works. It is basically a sham with regard to most of the psychiatric drugs.
Then there are the other, medical drugs. You've got Vioxx, which kills people, Zoloft which makes people kill people... and a whole lot of other I can't remember. Prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in America.
So you think people are going to believe a system set up to reap your money and sedate your soul over some vitamins and herbs? The simple fact of the matter is that HMO, insurace companies, and the pharmaceutical industry have replaced fact based scientific medicine with corporate profits. It's not that I don't trust science, it's that I don't trust 'science' that comes from the pharmaceutical industry. They have a proven track record of lying, and killing people for profit. Once we get back sensible regulations on the industry to prevent this sort of stuff then public trust will be restored in science based medicine over crap they read online.
But the long red borders would make the katamari too lopsided. You'd be doing rolling pole-vaults for at least 10 minutes till your katamari got big enough to even out. Although I'm sure you could spear some household pets along the way...
I also was thinking about this, but only a few months ago. The thing is you'd have to have wires going up into every single key to have each one light up individually like that, which would seem like a pain in the ass to mass manufacture at an affordable price. Although there's probably a better method that uses some sort of connection that connects when you clip on th key, I don't really know much about this type of stuff. But if you were able to mass manufacture the keys with that printable OLED tech I've heard about it just might make it. It would be cool to see this in ergonimic designs like the ones from kinesis-ergo.com. I'd buy one of those with the picture keys and try out all the different ergomic keyboard layouts I keep hearing about on/.
You could have a bunch of other nifty, eye candy features in it, like being able to display pictures, or even motion over the whole keyboard if refresh was fast enough, though displaying a big picture would be the easiest. I would love to have an EQ going on my keyboard synced to music, that would really spruce up my desk!
Also as an added bonus you can finally have a Breasts Key!
Your argument is slightly flawed. To be more accurate, continuing your analogy if Ford had a monopoly on cars, or at least a market share large enough to control the market as Intel does. So you choose to use a Ford engine in a Chevy Suburban, and the Ford engine deliberately broke, or ran slower after detecting it was in a Chevy or in any other non-Ford car, that is basically illegal, and should be the subject of a lawsuit. They are using their position in the market to stifle competition with one of their products. They are making their competitors look bad in benchmarks, etc. etc...
Well, I was going to post a rant on how these the person writing this, and the academic cited in the headline were calling for the death penalty when far greater crimes against humanity are going unpunished than wasting peoples time and money cleaning virus and deleting spam. But my problem with it goes much deeper. The academic in the article seems to be confused with the terms business and society. He states that hackers do more damage to society, per hacker, than murderers, monetarily. He uses this to say it is more logical to give the death penalty to hackers. In most of the statistics I've seen regarding spam and viruses they usually pertain to businesses, not to society. Since he's using the amount of monetary damage inflicted as a means of determining whether someone should be put to death it would seem quite logical by this reasoning to put several of the board members of Enron to death. They after all stole billions of people's pensions and precipitated a massive drop in the markets and various other large scale effects. The stock market dropped more after Enron than it did after 9/11.
I believe the academic wanted to make a point that perhaps harsher penalties are warranted, but the two crimes he chooses are so different that his argument looses much of it's meaning. He chooses murder, the taking of a life, which capitol punishment has not shown to be a deterrent of, which he compares to an action that is sometimes an immature prank by a teenager or a means criminally disseminating unwanted advertisements or illegally obtaining financial information for the purpose of fraud. I didn't know the two had reached a level where they were comparable in harm to society. If he wanted to bring up another crime to compare it to he should have chosen corporate fraud. It is more similar in it's effect, and it more measurable in it's effect. I seems he just used murder to make it sound more sensational, and to garner more attention.
That's where I have a problem with this academic. He's trying to gain attention for the problem he's studying (and possibly himself), but ends up framing all of society in monetary terms, devaluing life, and everything else society entails in the process. It is not very smart to devalue the thing you are trying to protect in trying to make a point. But this is just more of the monetizing of life which is now so prevalent in this corporate dominated culture.
Murder's price derives from it's effect on the family of the victim, it's effect on the surrounding area, even the effect on the perpetrators family, and I'm not going to try and quantify the cost of a human life here. Areas with high murder rates also can become seriously depressed and impoverished, sometimes extending to effects on entire regions. There are of course monetary costs involving incarceration and court costs, but to bring down human life to level of spam is insulting at best, and shows the weakness of his argument when referring to costs to 'society'.
Here is where I realized I agree somewhat with the author's proposition of what he refers to as 'something worse than death'. While I don't agree with the worse than death portion, I do agree that the punishment should involve undoing or at least repairing some of the damage that was inflicted in the crime. It just doesn't make sense to lock someone up for years on end, encuring yet more financial cost to the government and taxpayers, when a more appropriate form of punishment would be a long term of some sort of community service. It would benefit both society and the individual much more than simple encarceration. As for deterrents, that's anyone's guess.
It also occurred to me in writing this that perhaps the academic's true intent was to make point that would shock people and hence stimulate debate, sort of like Ward Churchil. If that is the case then I might not have a problem with this, but I doubt many people will think that far into this.
I apologize for any bad editing, I've been writing this in between labeling, folding, stuffing and posting 200+ envelopes. Now that is a punishment worse than death...
Well when I first read the title I thought it said "Tech Communist..." and thought it might be interesting. When I realised it was really "Tech Columnist..." I knew it would be completely worthless and let out a sigh.
Slashdot Mirror
"I'm off to read "revelations" to see what's about to go down."
You mean they based a book off that network mini-series?
If the white and black models replicate in equal numbers then it will indeed look grey from a distance. Though this is disregarding the silver back, and the lit screen...
Basically they are saying that at no time that Mr. Lee is alive can he work for any company other that Microsoft because the knowledge that is contained in Mr. Lee's brain is the trade secret property of Microsoft and Mr. Lee will inevitably divulge these secrets to anyone he may work with at any time in the future. That being said it is in Microsofts belief that at no time in the future can Mr. Lee be trusted to work for any other company but Microsoft because to do so he would inevitable be breaking trade secret law or something. Like someone else just said in response to this, All His Base Are Belong To Them. Microsoft is asserting ownership of Mr. Lee.
It seems to me that the primary stab of this is at unions. If you can't get together with your coworkers, then you can't have union meeting. Nevermind that this give corporations control over our first amendment right of free assembly at their discretion... All and all it's a fascist law, and I don't think I'm using hyperbole.
...need I say more?
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Now begin rants on
They won't need to, they can read it remotely. That's the whole point.
I think a good way to describe it to people that don't understand software versioning is to ask them which is better, the 9th revision of a Ford Taurus, or the 2nd revision of a .
It looks like a combination of fusion, fission and friction... I can only speculate.
Maybe it's because this fact based medical science has lost much of it's luster due to the pharmaceutical industry lying about test results and pushing their pills through psychiatrists and doctors.
I was seeing a psychiatrist a number of years ago when I was a teen, and they recommended I take a certain medication. The drug they wanted me to take was called risperidone, it has been known to cause *permanent* facial ticks and twitches. My mother and I decided that that was a risk that we didn't want to take. So the psychiatrist proceeded to argue with my mother about this for nearly 10 minutes, nearly reaching the level of yelling, insisting that this was the medication I should take. We walked out and never went back.
I've been on drugs that have made me fat, while they were supposed to help with depression. I've been on drugs that have made me flip out when they were supposed to help with anxiety. The general mantra in the field is that you keep trying stuff till you find something that works. It is basically a sham with regard to most of the psychiatric drugs.
Then there are the other, medical drugs. You've got Vioxx, which kills people, Zoloft which makes people kill people... and a whole lot of other I can't remember. Prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in America.
So you think people are going to believe a system set up to reap your money and sedate your soul over some vitamins and herbs? The simple fact of the matter is that HMO, insurace companies, and the pharmaceutical industry have replaced fact based scientific medicine with corporate profits. It's not that I don't trust science, it's that I don't trust 'science' that comes from the pharmaceutical industry. They have a proven track record of lying, and killing people for profit. Once we get back sensible regulations on the industry to prevent this sort of stuff then public trust will be restored in science based medicine over crap they read online.
But the long red borders would make the katamari too lopsided. You'd be doing rolling pole-vaults for at least 10 minutes till your katamari got big enough to even out. Although I'm sure you could spear some household pets along the way...
I also was thinking about this, but only a few months ago. The thing is you'd have to have wires going up into every single key to have each one light up individually like that, which would seem like a pain in the ass to mass manufacture at an affordable price. Although there's probably a better method that uses some sort of connection that connects when you clip on th key, I don't really know much about this type of stuff. But if you were able to mass manufacture the keys with that printable OLED tech I've heard about it just might make it. It would be cool to see this in ergonimic designs like the ones from kinesis-ergo.com. I'd buy one of those with the picture keys and try out all the different ergomic keyboard layouts I keep hearing about on /.
You could have a bunch of other nifty, eye candy features in it, like being able to display pictures, or even motion over the whole keyboard if refresh was fast enough, though displaying a big picture would be the easiest. I would love to have an EQ going on my keyboard synced to music, that would really spruce up my desk!
Also as an added bonus you can finally have a Breasts Key!
I think the reason he suggested it was because the Dutch have been known for some time for their tolerant and free-thinking culture.
I believe to two views are complementary.
Are you suggesting the 'hybernation' option is any better?
Your argument is slightly flawed. To be more accurate, continuing your analogy if Ford had a monopoly on cars, or at least a market share large enough to control the market as Intel does. So you choose to use a Ford engine in a Chevy Suburban, and the Ford engine deliberately broke, or ran slower after detecting it was in a Chevy or in any other non-Ford car, that is basically illegal, and should be the subject of a lawsuit. They are using their position in the market to stifle competition with one of their products. They are making their competitors look bad in benchmarks, etc. etc...
Well, I was going to post a rant on how these the person writing this, and the academic cited in the headline were calling for the death penalty when far greater crimes against humanity are going unpunished than wasting peoples time and money cleaning virus and deleting spam. But my problem with it goes much deeper. The academic in the article seems to be confused with the terms business and society. He states that hackers do more damage to society, per hacker, than murderers, monetarily. He uses this to say it is more logical to give the death penalty to hackers. In most of the statistics I've seen regarding spam and viruses they usually pertain to businesses, not to society. Since he's using the amount of monetary damage inflicted as a means of determining whether someone should be put to death it would seem quite logical by this reasoning to put several of the board members of Enron to death. They after all stole billions of people's pensions and precipitated a massive drop in the markets and various other large scale effects. The stock market dropped more after Enron than it did after 9/11.
I believe the academic wanted to make a point that perhaps harsher penalties are warranted, but the two crimes he chooses are so different that his argument looses much of it's meaning. He chooses murder, the taking of a life, which capitol punishment has not shown to be a deterrent of, which he compares to an action that is sometimes an immature prank by a teenager or a means criminally disseminating unwanted advertisements or illegally obtaining financial information for the purpose of fraud. I didn't know the two had reached a level where they were comparable in harm to society. If he wanted to bring up another crime to compare it to he should have chosen corporate fraud. It is more similar in it's effect, and it more measurable in it's effect. I seems he just used murder to make it sound more sensational, and to garner more attention.
That's where I have a problem with this academic. He's trying to gain attention for the problem he's studying (and possibly himself), but ends up framing all of society in monetary terms, devaluing life, and everything else society entails in the process. It is not very smart to devalue the thing you are trying to protect in trying to make a point. But this is just more of the monetizing of life which is now so prevalent in this corporate dominated culture.
Murder's price derives from it's effect on the family of the victim, it's effect on the surrounding area, even the effect on the perpetrators family, and I'm not going to try and quantify the cost of a human life here. Areas with high murder rates also can become seriously depressed and impoverished, sometimes extending to effects on entire regions. There are of course monetary costs involving incarceration and court costs, but to bring down human life to level of spam is insulting at best, and shows the weakness of his argument when referring to costs to 'society'.
Here is where I realized I agree somewhat with the author's proposition of what he refers to as 'something worse than death'. While I don't agree with the worse than death portion, I do agree that the punishment should involve undoing or at least repairing some of the damage that was inflicted in the crime. It just doesn't make sense to lock someone up for years on end, encuring yet more financial cost to the government and taxpayers, when a more appropriate form of punishment would be a long term of some sort of community service. It would benefit both society and the individual much more than simple encarceration. As for deterrents, that's anyone's guess.
It also occurred to me in writing this that perhaps the academic's true intent was to make point that would shock people and hence stimulate debate, sort of like Ward Churchil. If that is the case then I might not have a problem with this, but I doubt many people will think that far into this.
I apologize for any bad editing, I've been writing this in between labeling, folding, stuffing and posting 200+ envelopes. Now that is a punishment worse than death...
"These sites couldn't be served this way anyways, as they have dynamic content that could be different for different users."
So I guess the solution to that would be a distributed database of some sort.
"Does he think people use Access as a spreadsheet too?"
You've obviously never worked in an office have you.
Well when I first read the title I thought it said "Tech Communist..." and thought it might be interesting. When I realised it was really "Tech Columnist..." I knew it would be completely worthless and let out a sigh.
"One day it's "Everyone's addicted to email" The next it's "OMG WHERE'S MY EMAIL?!?!?!" Make up your minds."
It's called withdrawal.
The way they describe it with the electric pulses and such it sort of sounds like a Mag-Lev train system bent into a loop.
"Perhaps this union would better suit the MCSE crowd."
But they already took over the world...
That has got to be the ugliest logo I have ever seen...
Yes but which of these is the original and which is the translation?
--If monkeys of the jump aiming at the fall in that inverni which has with the work of the plate of Moscow of the house in the case him.
--If the crack monkeys fall in winter what flying cup runners will have houses in falling.
You mean you didn't get your foam bat yet?