By taking them off the voting rolls we have eliminated the possibility that they would vote for public officials that would make their future crimes legal or weaken the punishments. This is clearly a Good Thing(tm).
But in seriousness, I know someone (not in FL) that has been taken off the voting rolls becaus he shares the name of someone that was convicted for something. It would seem like more thorough checking could prevent stuff like this.
Re:Maybe it's someone else's fault...
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"I mean, if we don't use it to help others, what's the point of having knowledge in the first place?"
Umm.... I think that would be, "To hold it over them, and to profit off of it."
Yup, I think this is your first Slashdot post. Welcome to Slashdot!
That reminds me of the people, usually retired, who buy into scams over the phone, and know they're scams, because they're so bored they need someone to talk to.
Hell, before my e-mail address started getting tons of spam this year (not quite sure why) I used to occasionally go four or five days without e-mail. Now there's almost always new mail when I open Thunderbird. Makes me feel so special!
I think people are so used to being bombarded with noise, often in the form of advertisements, in every area of life, that they have a hard time living without it.
If there is data accessible via the Internet that "terrorists" could use to "attack" us then that data needs to be moved off of the Internet. The general public should be allowed to travel around without restrictions or control.
Absolutely! If the Internet is like a highway, and you're a bank, don't put your vault right on the side of the road with neon signs pointing to it saying "BANK VAULT $$$ HERE!"
DD/MM/(YY)YY makes sense because it's listed in ascending order of unit times. Also many people write dates like 11 October 2004.
YYYY-MM-DD makes sense because it's listed in descending order of unit times. It's like a numbering system, with most significant digits first.
MM/DD/(YY)YY makes sense because many people write their dates like October 11, 2004.
If you have to communicate with people, don't be a lazy ass and write out the name of the month, to remove ambiguity. If you have to communicate with machines (or if you like to think this way, like me) then use the YYYY-MM-DD form.
Even so, if parents need that kind of level of reassurance that their kids are safe all the time, they have a bit of a problem letting go. Technology will actually prevent the parents from growing and gaining trust.
Problem with that is that when you're viewing ads on a web page that actually retreiving the ad onto your computer takes another http request.
For one thing this bill doesn't make it illegal to skip commercials and for another, Firefox Adblock doesn't really remove ads from web pages as far as i know, it just selectively neglects to request them from the server. It's a bit harder to force you to request a document from the internet than to force you not to remove an ad from a program. I think.
I'm not saying that you're not justified in trying music before you buy it, and I'm not saying that businesses shouldn't have to adapt to change. In fact I think it's quite silly that so many of the new features of, say, Longhorn, deal with limiting the capabilities of the computer. I just think that calling it a right to try things before buying them a bit strong.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think you so much have the right to try stuff before buying it as you have the ability to do so. For example, if you go to buy a shirt, it's not necessarily your right to try on that shirt before you buy it, it's just something that many stores that sell shirts allow you to do. In 1980 not very many people would say that they have the right to try music before buying it by downloading it from the Internet because it just wasn't possible for very many people to do it. Now that people have this ability, some view it as a right.
I don't think that people have any more of an actual right today to "own music recordings" than they did back when music couldn't be recorded. We are able to "own music recordings" as a result of technological advancement and as a result of the way our society is set up, etc. Rights are something much more fundamental than the ability to download music, and I believe that when every ability is considered a right it cheapens and confuses those things that we consider basic rights in our society.
From the article: Berger said state law only covers "regulated animals" such as native deer and birds and cannot prevent Underwood from offering Internet hunts of "unregulated" animals such as non-native deer that many ranchers have imported and wild pigs.
It wasn't exactly clear from TFA, but it sounds like he might have imported non-native deer onto his ranch for that purpose.
I agree that they can be whiney. Wilco is a band that can write very catchy tunes while sounding like they're trying their absolute hardest not to. And this probably stems from the fact that they often use simple, poppy melodies covered up in a gazillion wacky effects. Ain't nothin' wrong with simple poppy melodies (Elvis Costello forever!) but often there doesn't seem to be any reason for the wacky effects.
Why is it better for small business to shaft people than big business?
Re:He's a what? He's a what?
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One aspect of our culture that's really interesting is our need to record, preserve and take/assign credit for EVERYTHING. I'm studying (a term used loosely) the early history of Western music, and it seems that that ethic evolved through the medieval period and was established by the time of the rennaissance.
I don't think it's necessarily good or bad, but by now this is such a part of us that we immediately think that something passing out of human knowledge is a tragedy. Maybe that's part of what's responsible for what one might call our success. (when you think about it that way, collectors don't necessarily "suck", they just have a certain strain of the urge to preserve. Those who get the records and immediately scratch them up and play them in public get more to the root of the music itself and its purpose, to be performed and to be observed).
So, not only would preserving rare records (or in SuperPirateMan's case, downloading like there's no tomorrow) be preserving the music itself, it would be preserving our culture's tradition of preserving stuff.
I've never seen anyone be confused by R for thursday. In fact, I LIKE R for thursday, it's easier to read ESPECIALLY in the context of it being in a fixed-width font in a terminal window. That old terminal system gave logical-looking schedule outputs that could be easily read and used. I still type up my schedules in approximately that format for my own use. Yeah it was a pain in the ass sometimes, but it was faster than the new system and it must have been easier to override (a friend of a friend got kicked out of some wierd double major program because the new computer system didn't allow it, and when she went to get it resolved they said they had no way of letting her do that even though she'd been planning to do both majors since before the UIntegrate system was in place. I know that's more the fault of the administrators in her college than the computer system, but those kind of things really should be figured out before a system is deployed. They cause a lot more pain than having to remember that 'r' = thursday)
And I'm off campus this year, and I think my internet connection is worse here than it was in the dorms. Don't know if it's better or worse this year there, but...
If WebDAV doesn't work in Firefox, there definitely are unix commandline tools that allow you to connect to WebDAV and basically use it like ftp. There might even be a way to mount WebDAV directories, though I'm not sure (at UIUC we have a universal web interface for the WebDAV system also, and since I don't use the thing too much I always just use that). It's not some proprietary thing, and it actually works pretty well. It's just silly that to access student websites you need https.
Re:Disconnect and motivation
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Yes. The media is "pirated". It became "pirated" by the act of "piracy". The person performing the "piracy" (making the media "pirated") is the "pirate".
As a U of I student myself, I wonder the same thing. The whole "netfiles" WebDAV system (which replaced the good ol' unix accounts we used to have) is all https, even for webpages.
This means that if you have image references on your webpages to external sites web browsers bitch about having some secure and some non-secure elements on a page, for one thing.
But, in short, yes, we at the U of I are trying to shoot ourselves in the head with this, just as we're shooting ourselves in the head with our new web-based registration system that's not designed to handle half the number of students we have and makes getting permission to register for certain classes a lot more work for everyone involved.
Yes, one of my professors talks almost every day about how it won't be long before all lights are LEDs because of the low power. They just have people working on how to make them suitable for lighting rooms.
The version of Opera I used a few months ago would act much like FF if you typed a slash; it never occurred to me to try typing an apostrophe to see if that brought up a link search (which I find much more useful). Opera has too many other useful keyboard shortcuts on the letter keys for it to work the way it does in FF. But for my purposes it worked fine.
It's pretty easy to configure Opera's handling of new windows and tabs. Not a hidden option. Using Multizilla back in the day it was quite easy to configure handling of new window requests, and there probably are similar extensions these days, but for my current FF use the defaults suffice.
I've never seen the yellow URL bar thing in FF; does it only work if you have the default skin?
I don't remember if it has adblock, obviously there's no flashblock. However, flashblock is a bit annoying because it requires javascript to be enabled. There's no way I know of to both block javascript and have flashblock working.
Not to mention that the gesture recognition in Opera is much better than that of Moz-based apps. I learned gestures in Opera and it takes a lot more precision to do them in FF/Moz/Tbird (at least with the Optimoz plugin, don't know about others). And you can do a mouse gesture on any Opera window and it does the logical action, whereas in FF and particularly in Thunderbird gestures are picky about where they apply.
So why am I posting this with FF? It's not worth $40 to me, and it's not worth ads (although I do give the Opera folks credit for getting rid of ads with sound a few years back when they started to appear. Hopefully they're still gone.).
Well they might be smoking marijuana, but... when the people in DC got a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana, congress did some black magic to prevent the vote from ever being counted, so that it could not pass.
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By taking them off the voting rolls we have eliminated the possibility that they would vote for public officials that would make their future crimes legal or weaken the punishments. This is clearly a Good Thing(tm).
But in seriousness, I know someone (not in FL) that has been taken off the voting rolls becaus he shares the name of someone that was convicted for something. It would seem like more thorough checking could prevent stuff like this.
"I mean, if we don't use it to help others, what's the point of having knowledge in the first place?"
Umm.... I think that would be, "To hold it over them, and to profit off of it."
Yup, I think this is your first Slashdot post. Welcome to Slashdot!
That reminds me of the people, usually retired, who buy into scams over the phone, and know they're scams, because they're so bored they need someone to talk to.
Hell, before my e-mail address started getting tons of spam this year (not quite sure why) I used to occasionally go four or five days without e-mail. Now there's almost always new mail when I open Thunderbird. Makes me feel so special!
I think people are so used to being bombarded with noise, often in the form of advertisements, in every area of life, that they have a hard time living without it.
If there is data accessible via the Internet that "terrorists" could use to "attack" us then that data needs to be moved off of the Internet. The general public should be allowed to travel around without restrictions or control.
Absolutely! If the Internet is like a highway, and you're a bank, don't put your vault right on the side of the road with neon signs pointing to it saying "BANK VAULT $$$ HERE!"
DD/MM/(YY)YY makes sense because it's listed in ascending order of unit times. Also many people write dates like 11 October 2004.
YYYY-MM-DD makes sense because it's listed in descending order of unit times. It's like a numbering system, with most significant digits first.
MM/DD/(YY)YY makes sense because many people write their dates like October 11, 2004.
If you have to communicate with people, don't be a lazy ass and write out the name of the month, to remove ambiguity. If you have to communicate with machines (or if you like to think this way, like me) then use the YYYY-MM-DD form.
Even so, if parents need that kind of level of reassurance that their kids are safe all the time, they have a bit of a problem letting go. Technology will actually prevent the parents from growing and gaining trust.
Problem with that is that when you're viewing ads on a web page that actually retreiving the ad onto your computer takes another http request.
For one thing this bill doesn't make it illegal to skip commercials and for another, Firefox Adblock doesn't really remove ads from web pages as far as i know, it just selectively neglects to request them from the server. It's a bit harder to force you to request a document from the internet than to force you not to remove an ad from a program. I think.
I'm not saying that you're not justified in trying music before you buy it, and I'm not saying that businesses shouldn't have to adapt to change. In fact I think it's quite silly that so many of the new features of, say, Longhorn, deal with limiting the capabilities of the computer. I just think that calling it a right to try things before buying them a bit strong.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think you so much have the right to try stuff before buying it as you have the ability to do so. For example, if you go to buy a shirt, it's not necessarily your right to try on that shirt before you buy it, it's just something that many stores that sell shirts allow you to do. In 1980 not very many people would say that they have the right to try music before buying it by downloading it from the Internet because it just wasn't possible for very many people to do it. Now that people have this ability, some view it as a right.
I don't think that people have any more of an actual right today to "own music recordings" than they did back when music couldn't be recorded. We are able to "own music recordings" as a result of technological advancement and as a result of the way our society is set up, etc. Rights are something much more fundamental than the ability to download music, and I believe that when every ability is considered a right it cheapens and confuses those things that we consider basic rights in our society.
From the article:
Berger said state law only covers "regulated animals" such as native deer and birds and cannot prevent Underwood from offering Internet hunts of "unregulated" animals such as non-native deer that many ranchers have imported and wild pigs.
It wasn't exactly clear from TFA, but it sounds like he might have imported non-native deer onto his ranch for that purpose.
And then the Terrans will eat... earth?
Have fun!
I agree that they can be whiney. Wilco is a band that can write very catchy tunes while sounding like they're trying their absolute hardest not to. And this probably stems from the fact that they often use simple, poppy melodies covered up in a gazillion wacky effects. Ain't nothin' wrong with simple poppy melodies (Elvis Costello forever!) but often there doesn't seem to be any reason for the wacky effects.
Why is it better for small business to shaft people than big business?
One aspect of our culture that's really interesting is our need to record, preserve and take/assign credit for EVERYTHING. I'm studying (a term used loosely) the early history of Western music, and it seems that that ethic evolved through the medieval period and was established by the time of the rennaissance.
I don't think it's necessarily good or bad, but by now this is such a part of us that we immediately think that something passing out of human knowledge is a tragedy. Maybe that's part of what's responsible for what one might call our success. (when you think about it that way, collectors don't necessarily "suck", they just have a certain strain of the urge to preserve. Those who get the records and immediately scratch them up and play them in public get more to the root of the music itself and its purpose, to be performed and to be observed).
So, not only would preserving rare records (or in SuperPirateMan's case, downloading like there's no tomorrow) be preserving the music itself, it would be preserving our culture's tradition of preserving stuff.
I've never seen anyone be confused by R for thursday. In fact, I LIKE R for thursday, it's easier to read ESPECIALLY in the context of it being in a fixed-width font in a terminal window. That old terminal system gave logical-looking schedule outputs that could be easily read and used. I still type up my schedules in approximately that format for my own use. Yeah it was a pain in the ass sometimes, but it was faster than the new system and it must have been easier to override (a friend of a friend got kicked out of some wierd double major program because the new computer system didn't allow it, and when she went to get it resolved they said they had no way of letting her do that even though she'd been planning to do both majors since before the UIntegrate system was in place. I know that's more the fault of the administrators in her college than the computer system, but those kind of things really should be figured out before a system is deployed. They cause a lot more pain than having to remember that 'r' = thursday)
And I'm off campus this year, and I think my internet connection is worse here than it was in the dorms. Don't know if it's better or worse this year there, but...
If WebDAV doesn't work in Firefox, there definitely are unix commandline tools that allow you to connect to WebDAV and basically use it like ftp. There might even be a way to mount WebDAV directories, though I'm not sure (at UIUC we have a universal web interface for the WebDAV system also, and since I don't use the thing too much I always just use that). It's not some proprietary thing, and it actually works pretty well. It's just silly that to access student websites you need https.
Yes. The media is "pirated". It became "pirated" by the act of "piracy". The person performing the "piracy" (making the media "pirated") is the "pirate".
Yarrrrrr.
As a U of I student myself, I wonder the same thing. The whole "netfiles" WebDAV system (which replaced the good ol' unix accounts we used to have) is all https, even for webpages.
This means that if you have image references on your webpages to external sites web browsers bitch about having some secure and some non-secure elements on a page, for one thing.
But, in short, yes, we at the U of I are trying to shoot ourselves in the head with this, just as we're shooting ourselves in the head with our new web-based registration system that's not designed to handle half the number of students we have and makes getting permission to register for certain classes a lot more work for everyone involved.
Yes, one of my professors talks almost every day about how it won't be long before all lights are LEDs because of the low power. They just have people working on how to make them suitable for lighting rooms.
The version of Opera I used a few months ago would act much like FF if you typed a slash; it never occurred to me to try typing an apostrophe to see if that brought up a link search (which I find much more useful). Opera has too many other useful keyboard shortcuts on the letter keys for it to work the way it does in FF. But for my purposes it worked fine.
It's pretty easy to configure Opera's handling of new windows and tabs. Not a hidden option. Using Multizilla back in the day it was quite easy to configure handling of new window requests, and there probably are similar extensions these days, but for my current FF use the defaults suffice.
I've never seen the yellow URL bar thing in FF; does it only work if you have the default skin?
I don't remember if it has adblock, obviously there's no flashblock. However, flashblock is a bit annoying because it requires javascript to be enabled. There's no way I know of to both block javascript and have flashblock working.
Not to mention that the gesture recognition in Opera is much better than that of Moz-based apps. I learned gestures in Opera and it takes a lot more precision to do them in FF/Moz/Tbird (at least with the Optimoz plugin, don't know about others). And you can do a mouse gesture on any Opera window and it does the logical action, whereas in FF and particularly in Thunderbird gestures are picky about where they apply.
So why am I posting this with FF? It's not worth $40 to me, and it's not worth ads (although I do give the Opera folks credit for getting rid of ads with sound a few years back when they started to appear. Hopefully they're still gone.).
No way. People these days hate everything new.
Ye Olde Internett.
Or maybe we could take advantage of polarization of world opinion and do a ton of differently-branded browsers! We could be the GM of web browsers:
Likud Party Internet
PLA Internet
Republican Internet
Democrat Internet
America Rocks Internet
Fuck America Internet
I'm-so-bored-with-the-USA Internet
Here in the US we have spam e-mails for that.
Well they might be smoking marijuana, but... when the people in DC got a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana, congress did some black magic to prevent the vote from ever being counted, so that it could not pass.
So proabably not.
Well, maybe the seven-day week affects weather.
Or maybe this seven-day weather fluctuation has been in effect for millenia, and it subtly influenced the development of the week.