Even if this leads to another world war, it is justified if terrorism is eradicated from the Earth.
You've got to be kidding. You can no more "eradicate terrorism from the Earth" by destroying countries than you can "eradicate herpes from the Earth" by shooting everyone who has it. The results will be the same: you'll end up shooting/destroying half the population and the herpes/terrorism will still survive.
In fact, eradicating a virus might be easier, because terrorism is a concept, and not exactly a novel one at that. Someone will think of it again.
It has everything to do with Party politics, but you idiots out there believe in this "far-right" bogeyman, so the Democrats play you, convincing you that they are "standing up for their principles" rather than playing a silly game of vindictive tit-for-tat.
You call it "tit-for-tat", I call it Karma! Suck it up.
Man, I've got the Law & Order blues...I want to hear the judges' decision NOW! If Jack McCoy had argued this case, instead of Lessig, I'm sure the Supes would be back in like 30 minutes with their decision.;^)
Hey! If Ben Stone had done the arguing, the Justices would have decided before they even left the room! Ginsburg would have been in tears fer christs sake!
f one country or company jealously hordes the cable and doesn't lease out usage to everyone else, that country or company will:
1. Risk considerable reprisal, both in the form of economic sanctions by the rest of the world, possible military threats, and very likely terrorist threats
2: Miss out on a fantastic opportunity to enhance the economy of the entire planet, and line its own pockets considerably in the process.
Don't forget 3, which is: If we don't make the Space Cable, The Terrorists Will Have Won (TTWHW).
What happens when you see "8 for a dollar" ramen noodles? You stock up, right? If you don't ever go in the store to see the prices, you'll likely be a lot less inclined toward impulse purchasing of stuff like that.
Not necessarily true. A well designed interactive ordering app would be able to do all that. Hell, they could even arrange things by "aisle" (dairy aisle, cereal isle, produce aisle, etc.) with the "aisle-end-specials" promenantly displayed on your palm.
I was looking into Lasik. My optometrist recommended new contacts instead.
Apparently, (IANAOD) my old Focus contacts used a material that was a high percentage of water (70%?) in order to facilitate oxygen transfer. [College Biology factoid: your corneas are the only part of your body besides the lungs that breathe by exchanging oxygen directly with air.] Apparently, Bausch and Lomb developed a new lens material that requires a lower percentage of water (30%?) because they transfer oxygen so well. Up to 4x as well as my previous lens's material. Because of the low water content, they don't dry out as easily, and because of the high oxygen transfer, you can leave them in for up to 30 days at a time.
Personally, I have to take them out about every 2 weeks on average because of Foriegn Object Disorder. I also have about -3.75 power lenses with a minor (-.50) astigmatism. So, YMMV.
First things first: it may be -1 Redundant, but Mr. Brandt, you're a crybaby who wants everybody to stop what they're doing because you think you can do it better. You're article is full of hand-waving, unproven hypotheses, and propaganda.
Google is so important to the web these days, that it probably ought to be a public utility. Regulatory interest from agencies such as the FTC is entirely appropriate....
Bullshit. If Google went away tomorrow ("we're taking our ball and going home!") the web would not fall to pieces. There are other (not as good) search engines, and the void left by google would be quickly filled.
Google's success directly stems from the fact that it works. Want a better search engine? Write it yourself. If it works better than Google, then it will succeed.
I remember reading somewhere that work was underway to make form auto-filling more intuative, similar to what IE does, but I don't know if any work has actually been done or not -- it may have just been talk.
I didn't even know about the "Edit->Fill In Form" till I went looking for it. Previous to that, I'd been double-clicking in the input fields to fill in data.
It's getting interesting, but _not_ for overclocking or something like that, but rather for noise reduction
Absolutely. There's a rule of thumb in the DIY computer market right now: "Fast. Cool. Quiet. Choose two." But watercooling allows for another choice: "All of the above."
I'm pricing a new computer as we speak. For $1450 (incl. tax+shipping) I can put together a machine that's about 3-4 months off the bleeding edge (i.e. pretty fast). Would I spend another $250 for a watercooling system that would eliminate the need for 4 high speed fans to cool off that BTU belching monstrosity? Absolutely.
(BTW, my girlfriend thinks I'm insane, but then again she works 8 hours a day next to a case fan with a failing bearing; I figure her hearing's just going.)
...and assign it a keyword of "lucky" (or similar). Now you can type in "lucky foobar" and be automatically directed to the FooBar Consulting web page.
Cars and other machinery are still the way to go, and those poor decepticons aren't going anywhere if some of the best of them transforms into nothing more than a shark.
The following conversation transcribed from memory:
(Scene: Optimus Prime and Skybite (shark decepticon) are fighting on sea-going research vessel.)
Optimus: What do you want with scientists? Skybite: What do I care about boring science? I much prefer elegant poetry. Would you like to hear my most recent work? It's dedicated to the ancient sea-faring muses:
The cobalt sea roils,
The zephers blow cold, And another hapless foe is ground beneath my heel.
Optimus: You should try limericks. Skybite: (Incredulous) Huh? Optimus: Your imagry is derivitive, lacks semiotic cohesion, and the hapless foe is you! Skybite: (Attacking) AAAAARGH! Optimus: (Ducking) I guess you poets have a hard time accepting criticism of your work.
I laughed my ass off. "Semiotic cohesion"...::giggle::
So, I was walking around downtown SJ, where I spotted a New Beetle, yellow, with the license plate "BMBLBEE".
No AutoBot logo.
I was insensed. I've carried around a AutoBot sticker in my car, just in case I ever see that car again. (To slip under the windshield wiper, with an explanitory note, of course)
...unless it gives 24-hour time. Or if it also displays the date. Or if someone keep screwing with it and all.
Of course, a clock that's moving twice as fast as it's supposed to is also right twice a day. And a clock that's moving backwards is right four times a day.
Does that mean moving backwards is better than standing still?
If you'd bothered reading the article, you'd know that any tampering with the watch would instantly cause a notification sent out with the time and GPS location of the child.
I.e. you wouldn't think that "Johnnie is taking an awfully long time at Sbarro's...", you'd think that "Something bad happened to Johnnie! He was last seen here!"
In my book, Blizzard is no better than the Scientologists, in that both breed cults of ill-manner folk, and then get their dander up when anyone dissents.
Oh please.::rolls eyes:: Apparently "Scientology" is going to be the new "Enron"; a word pendants and pundits use when they want to cast a completely unrelated subject in a tainted light.
The problem with that is your LAN needs to be all on routable addresses. NAT won't work if the firewall has no IP address
Not a problem, so long as that "switch", between the internet and which is the "Invisible Firewall", is one of those newfangled NATing "DSL/WAN" switches.
But just from a quick search on Xilinx's store, a JTAG connector and Prototype board runs about $550. The chips themselves can be pretty cheap (between $5 and $50), and they have stripped down toolkits available online.
"As you have probably realized, you don't have free access to a molecular genetics lab, a radiotelescope, a cyclotron or any of the tools funded by public money. You do have access to a piece of paper (or pdf file) with the description of the project and its results. Why software should be different?"
So because it's difficult to replicate work done in genetics labs, astronomy labs, and particle physics labs, it should be difficult to replicate work done in computer science labs? This sounds like an argument similar to "If it were easy, then everybody would do it!"
So, lets assume State University is releasing a particle physics simulator package, open source. In this package, they use libraries form a commercial, 3rd-party library called "libCyclotron", liscensed from ColliderCorp for educational use only (with a regular developer liscensing fee of $100,000). They release the particle simulator, sans libCyclotron. While John Q. Public doesn't have the spare cash to purchace a libCyclotron just to play around with this open source particle physics simulator, down at University State, they've already liscensed libCyclotron and this new simulator is exactly what they need to complete research on a boson-warp-field generator.
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Even if this leads to another world war, it is justified if terrorism is eradicated from the Earth.
You've got to be kidding. You can no more "eradicate terrorism from the Earth" by destroying countries than you can "eradicate herpes from the Earth" by shooting everyone who has it. The results will be the same: you'll end up shooting/destroying half the population and the herpes/terrorism will still survive.
In fact, eradicating a virus might be easier, because terrorism is a concept, and not exactly a novel one at that. Someone will think of it again.
It has everything to do with Party politics, but you idiots out there believe in this "far-right" bogeyman, so the Democrats play you, convincing you that they are "standing up for their principles" rather than playing a silly game of vindictive tit-for-tat.
You call it "tit-for-tat", I call it Karma! Suck it up.
Man, I've got the Law & Order blues...I want to hear the judges' decision NOW! If Jack McCoy had argued this case, instead of Lessig, I'm sure the Supes would be back in like 30 minutes with their decision. ;^)
Hey! If Ben Stone had done the arguing, the Justices would have decided before they even left the room! Ginsburg would have been in tears fer christs sake!
f one country or company jealously hordes the cable and doesn't lease out usage to everyone else, that country or company will:
1. Risk considerable reprisal, both in the form of economic sanctions by the rest of the world, possible military threats, and very likely terrorist threats
2: Miss out on a fantastic opportunity to enhance the economy of the entire planet, and line its own pockets considerably in the process.
Don't forget 3, which is: If we don't make the Space Cable, The Terrorists Will Have Won (TTWHW).
What happens when you see "8 for a dollar" ramen noodles? You stock up, right? If you don't ever go in the store to see the prices, you'll likely be a lot less inclined toward impulse purchasing of stuff like that.
Not necessarily true. A well designed interactive ordering app would be able to do all that. Hell, they could even arrange things by "aisle" (dairy aisle, cereal isle, produce aisle, etc.) with the "aisle-end-specials" promenantly displayed on your palm.
"What's your band called? Memorex?"
No, "Great Quality".
I was looking into Lasik. My optometrist recommended new contacts instead.
Apparently, (IANAOD) my old Focus contacts used a material that was a high percentage of water (70%?) in order to facilitate oxygen transfer. [College Biology factoid: your corneas are the only part of your body besides the lungs that breathe by exchanging oxygen directly with air.] Apparently, Bausch and Lomb developed a new lens material that requires a lower percentage of water (30%?) because they transfer oxygen so well. Up to 4x as well as my previous lens's material. Because of the low water content, they don't dry out as easily, and because of the high oxygen transfer, you can leave them in for up to 30 days at a time.
Personally, I have to take them out about every 2 weeks on average because of Foriegn Object Disorder. I also have about -3.75 power lenses with a minor (-.50) astigmatism. So, YMMV.
First things first: it may be -1 Redundant, but Mr. Brandt, you're a crybaby who wants everybody to stop what they're doing because you think you can do it better. You're article is full of hand-waving, unproven hypotheses, and propaganda.
Google is so important to the web these days, that it probably ought to be a public utility. Regulatory interest from agencies such as the FTC is entirely appropriate....
Bullshit. If Google went away tomorrow ("we're taking our ball and going home!") the web would not fall to pieces. There are other (not as good) search engines, and the void left by google would be quickly filled.
Google's success directly stems from the fact that it works. Want a better search engine? Write it yourself. If it works better than Google, then it will succeed.
I remember reading somewhere that work was underway to make form auto-filling more intuative, similar to what IE does, but I don't know if any work has actually been done or not -- it may have just been talk.
I didn't even know about the "Edit->Fill In Form" till I went looking for it. Previous to that, I'd been double-clicking in the input fields to fill in data.
"Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud
Yes, but can it cut a tin can in half, then slice a tomato paper thin?
Opera never needs sharpening!!!
It's getting interesting, but _not_ for overclocking or something like that, but rather for noise reduction
Absolutely. There's a rule of thumb in the DIY computer market right now: "Fast. Cool. Quiet. Choose two." But watercooling allows for another choice: "All of the above."
I'm pricing a new computer as we speak. For $1450 (incl. tax+shipping) I can put together a machine that's about 3-4 months off the bleeding edge (i.e. pretty fast). Would I spend another $250 for a watercooling system that would eliminate the need for 4 high speed fans to cool off that BTU belching monstrosity? Absolutely.
(BTW, my girlfriend thinks I'm insane, but then again she works 8 hours a day next to a case fan with a failing bearing; I figure her hearing's just going.)
Too bad Slashdot doesn't blacklist based on humor error; we'd have half as many posts.
I thought humor error was "Slashdot Math: 50 karma +1 Funny -1 Overrated = 49?"
In mozilla, make a new bookmark of the following URL:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I'
...and assign it a keyword of "lucky" (or similar). Now you can type in "lucky foobar" and be automatically directed to the FooBar Consulting web page.
Course I live in Oregon now so I bet if they had a 5.2 out here everyone would be out on the street talking about how scared they were.
Course, they do that when the sun comes out too...
The following conversation transcribed from memory:
(Scene: Optimus Prime and Skybite (shark decepticon) are fighting on sea-going research vessel.)
Optimus: What do you want with scientists?
Skybite: What do I care about boring science? I much prefer elegant poetry. Would you like to hear my most recent work? It's dedicated to the ancient sea-faring muses:
Optimus: You should try limericks.
Skybite: (Incredulous) Huh?
Optimus: Your imagry is derivitive, lacks semiotic cohesion, and the hapless foe is you!
Skybite: (Attacking) AAAAARGH!
Optimus: (Ducking) I guess you poets have a hard time accepting criticism of your work.
I laughed my ass off. "Semiotic cohesion"...
So, I was walking around downtown SJ, where I spotted a New Beetle, yellow, with the license plate "BMBLBEE".
No AutoBot logo.
I was insensed. I've carried around a AutoBot sticker in my car, just in case I ever see that car again. (To slip under the windshield wiper, with an explanitory note, of course)
Of course, a clock that's moving twice as fast as it's supposed to is also right twice a day. And a clock that's moving backwards is right four times a day.
Does that mean moving backwards is better than standing still?
TV/Movies/Music may be #4, but Lawyers/Law Firms are #3, and those two groups are who would benefit most from this bill.
If you'd bothered reading the article, you'd know that any tampering with the watch would instantly cause a notification sent out with the time and GPS location of the child.
I.e. you wouldn't think that "Johnnie is taking an awfully long time at Sbarro's...", you'd think that "Something bad happened to Johnnie! He was last seen here!"
Oh please.
Spare me.
"The heat incinerated herds of reindeer and charred tens of thousands of evergreens across hundreds of square moles."
Well thank god the square ones are all gone. Now if we could only do something about the round variety.
DMCA, EFF, win or lose, what it comes down to is this:
This is the last time you'll see Blizzard do a public beta of any of their products.
And that's a damned shame.
Not a problem, so long as that "switch", between the internet and which is the "Invisible Firewall", is one of those newfangled NATing "DSL/WAN" switches.
Try asking on comp.arch.fpga.
But just from a quick search on Xilinx's store, a JTAG connector and Prototype board runs about $550. The chips themselves can be pretty cheap (between $5 and $50), and they have stripped down toolkits available online.
"As you have probably realized, you don't have free access to a molecular genetics lab, a radiotelescope, a cyclotron or any of the tools funded by public money. You do have access to a piece of paper (or pdf file) with the description of the project and its results. Why software should be different?"
So because it's difficult to replicate work done in genetics labs, astronomy labs, and particle physics labs, it should be difficult to replicate work done in computer science labs? This sounds like an argument similar to "If it were easy, then everybody would do it!"
So, lets assume State University is releasing a particle physics simulator package, open source. In this package, they use libraries form a commercial, 3rd-party library called "libCyclotron", liscensed from ColliderCorp for educational use only (with a regular developer liscensing fee of $100,000). They release the particle simulator, sans libCyclotron. While John Q. Public doesn't have the spare cash to purchace a libCyclotron just to play around with this open source particle physics simulator, down at University State, they've already liscensed libCyclotron and this new simulator is exactly what they need to complete research on a boson-warp-field generator.
Doesn't this sound like the ideal situation?