Online gambling is something people do from home, where one of the big things about prohibition is that it removed a common social activity (going to a bar with friends and to meet people).
Online gambling is a social activity. Have you ever sat at the back of a university lecture hall? One guy does the gambling, while the other takes half assed notes. Then they switch.
Fuck 9/11. Fuck the terrorists. Fuck the people who've used it as a power grab. Fuck the blind sheep who'll let them until its too late. I've had a gut full of this bad behaviour from all sides....And if anyone wants to mod this as flamebait, that's fine be my guest, but before you do read the definition of a flame. I'm not saying these things just to piss people off. This is genuinely how I feel, and I'm not alone.
Very few people have the motivation and skills to do the research like you have. That is probably one of the reasons these companies get away with this sort of thing.. One thing you could do is document your research and post it to a website or something. We the customers can harness the power of information too. (I realize that publishing the info is no small feat either, but I think you've done most of the hard work already.)
Hover your mouse over Mr. Einstein's face; the alternative text says science. They use the picture of Einstein because he is probably the most recognised scientist in popular culture.
How is google video harder to use? I like the the fact that you can double click on a google video and it maximizes to fill your screen. I also like the way you can pause the video by pressing spacebar. Google videos scanning capability seems to be more granular as well.
(I don't know about embedding, but it seems youtube has the market there)
You have to admit, the title is very confusing. It's like one of those optical illusions, some people see the candlestick and some people see two faces staring at each other. I think a clearer title would have been "Cameroon cybersquats all of.cm"
Wouldn't a better solution be to redirect *.om and *.cm to the.com equivalent? or maybe display a page that has a giant link to the correct address... I'm not geek enough to know how to do this, but I assume somone with adequate knowledge of proxies and scripts would be able to suggest something... *hint hint*
Proving P=NP would demonstrate to mathematicians that some of the hardest problems in computer science can be solved in a resonable amount of time. It would be a revolution in complexity theory, because it would prompt new research into complexity theory (or something like that)
The RIAA suing people in developing nations would demonstrate that they are pure evil. It would be a revolution in the music industry, because it would prompt new publicity against the RIAA's tactics.
Can somone explain to me why streaming applications are so bad at buffering enough data before playing? Whenever Windows media player or Real player (when I'm on a computer that has it installed) tries to stream anything, the app buffers some of the stream and yet it still plays too early. The whole company (Real) is built around streaming video; how is it possible that they haven't figured it out yet? Do they always buffer a static amount of data or something (i.e. totally ignoring differences in download speeds)?
The quicktime browser plug-in knows to wait before playing. Google video (relatively) new to the streaming scene, yet they can do it (YouTube is flaky at times).
Re:Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol
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Interesting. In the dialects that I've been exposed to, 'lol' is used as a mild positive response to any statement. Additionally, it is used as a puntuation mark to indicate the end of a (semi) coherent thought has ended. In which the 'lol' takes the place of the fullstop or any preceeding puctionation (such as exclamation or question marks) if they exist.
E.g. "yo.. me and mary r goin to the movies.. u gonna brign your gf 2?? lol" "nah shes meeting me @ my place lol" "lol sweet"
Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol!
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The title of the story has it all wrong. 'lol' does not require an exclamation mark. It is implied. These lingusts should learn how to IM. lol
This just in: A wide-ranging study of the literate population of the world concluded that a mere 5 percent of them use news as their primary topic--a figure at odds with perceptions that literacy is remaking journalism.
I took a look at that Unix Philosophy article and noticed that it links to an intriguing related philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better. I believe Microsoft is following this one.
Quoth the link:
As long as the initial program is basically good, it is easier to port to new machines and situations, and will take much less time and effort to implement initially. Thus, its use will spread rapidly, long before a program developed using the "MIT approach" has a chance to be developed and deployed. Once it has spread, there will be pressure to improve it by improving its functionality, but users have already been conditioned to accept worse than the "right thing". "Therefore, the worse-is-better software first will gain acceptance, second will condition its users to expect less, and third will be improved to a point that is almost the right thing.
(Just replace the bit about "porting to new machines" with "attracting new users")
Microsoft has permanently stuck themselves between steps two and three.
How 'bout we make a deal? I'll give you the packet dumps from my SSL session with [insert_ecommerce_site_here] and I'll even give you 100 years and unlimited computing power. And all you have to do is tell me what I bought, what I paid for it, or my credit card info.
Good thing you posted as AC. With my unlimited computing power, I assign one computer to attempt to use each key in the keyspace. I think maybe you meant polynomial computing power.
But seriously, if you gave me 100 years and unlimited computing power, I'd live the rest of my life in virtual universe where I am omnipotent.
OT: Actually, that's a really interesting question, what would YOU do with 100 years and unlimited computing power?
You are an intrepid Slashdotter on a mission to collect karma points. Armed with only your trusty language skills, you must brave the dangers of trolls and downmodding. Can you do it, or will you be the next to end up at -1...
Look ma, I wrote a story! *rolls eyes*
<whisper>Oh man, he's at (0, Redundant) right now. I can't take this suspense..</whisper>
Nobody in the history of mankind has ever said, "hey, I've got an idea. Let's go out and watch people play computer games. That would be the perfect way to spend an evening!"
I'm no pro Starcraft player, but I was pretty impressed by some of the tactics in the video (even though I don't understand the commentators). I was certainly entertained.
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This paragraph alone deserves a +5 Insightful.
You see, the Internet is not a truck.
It's a series of medieval projectile weapons.
Care to suggest anything?
Very few people have the motivation and skills to do the research like you have. That is probably one of the reasons these companies get away with this sort of thing.. One thing you could do is document your research and post it to a website or something. We the customers can harness the power of information too. (I realize that publishing the info is no small feat either, but I think you've done most of the hard work already.)
How about this. People should use good passwords. Do I get informative too? =P
Hover your mouse over Mr. Einstein's face; the alternative text says science. They use the picture of Einstein because he is probably the most recognised scientist in popular culture.
This post confuses me; as if it's written in a different language..
How is google video harder to use? I like the the fact that you can double click on a google video and it maximizes to fill your screen. I also like the way you can pause the video by pressing spacebar. Google videos scanning capability seems to be more granular as well.
(I don't know about embedding, but it seems youtube has the market there)
How about a laptop with a 20.1" widescreen and a wirerless keyboard? Maybe not the best example of such a device, but my jaws dropped when I found that thing. And it's only 3.5k.
You have to admit, the title is very confusing. It's like one of those optical illusions, some people see the candlestick and some people see two faces staring at each other. I think a clearer title would have been "Cameroon cybersquats all of .cm"
Wouldn't a better solution be to redirect *.om and *.cm to the .com equivalent? or maybe display a page that has a giant link to the correct address... I'm not geek enough to know how to do this, but I assume somone with adequate knowledge of proxies and scripts would be able to suggest something... *hint hint*
A little bit of clarity..
Proving P=NP would demonstrate to mathematicians that some of the hardest problems in computer science can be solved in a resonable amount of time. It would be a revolution in complexity theory, because it would prompt new research into complexity theory (or something like that)
The RIAA suing people in developing nations would demonstrate that they are pure evil. It would be a revolution in the music industry, because it would prompt new publicity against the RIAA's tactics.
Anyway.. Back to studying *sigh*
Having the RIAA sue people in developing nations is like proving P=NP. Seriously.
It would be like the definitative proof that RIAA has no morals.
(I'm hoping that someone out there gets this)
Can somone explain to me why streaming applications are so bad at buffering enough data before playing? Whenever Windows media player or Real player (when I'm on a computer that has it installed) tries to stream anything, the app buffers some of the stream and yet it still plays too early. The whole company (Real) is built around streaming video; how is it possible that they haven't figured it out yet? Do they always buffer a static amount of data or something (i.e. totally ignoring differences in download speeds)?
The quicktime browser plug-in knows to wait before playing. Google video (relatively) new to the streaming scene, yet they can do it (YouTube is flaky at times).
Interesting. In the dialects that I've been exposed to, 'lol' is used as a mild positive response to any statement. Additionally, it is used as a puntuation mark to indicate the end of a (semi) coherent thought has ended. In which the 'lol' takes the place of the fullstop or any preceeding puctionation (such as exclamation or question marks) if they exist.
E.g.
"yo.. me and mary r goin to the movies.. u gonna brign your gf 2?? lol"
"nah shes meeting me @ my place lol"
"lol sweet"
The title of the story has it all wrong. 'lol' does not require an exclamation mark. It is implied. These lingusts should learn how to IM. lol
I can't tell if you're providing supporting anecdote or trying to be funny. I'll assme the latter. It's funnier.
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A wide-ranging study of the literate population of the world concluded that a mere 5 percent of them use news as their primary topic--a figure at odds with perceptions that literacy is remaking journalism.
Clearly literacy has no effect on journalism.
So what percentage of journalists are bloggers?
Quoth the link:
(Just replace the bit about "porting to new machines" with "attracting new users")
Microsoft has permanently stuck themselves between steps two and three.
But seriously, if you gave me 100 years and unlimited computing power, I'd live the rest of my life in virtual universe where I am omnipotent.
OT: Actually, that's a really interesting question, what would YOU do with 100 years and unlimited computing power?
This way we don't even have to read the article if we want to! We can just comment about the comments of the article. =D
I'm no pro Starcraft player, but I was pretty impressed by some of the tactics in the video (even though I don't understand the commentators). I was certainly entertained.