They're not the university with the most file sharers...they're the university with the most file sharers WHO GOT CAUGHT. The smart thing to do is ensure that most file sharing is within the university, not with outside sources, to minimize exposure to the ??AA. If you're getting caught, you're doing it wrong.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 1300, and I've gotten shocked from the case screws on numerous occasions. Though to be fair, I'm using a cheap third-party power supply; it's certainly possible it lacks some important safety feature.
I was specifically citing O'Reilly's claim to preside over a "no-spin zone" as an example of Fox's sense of humor. The regular news reporting also spins things with a somewhat Republican perspective; like I said, this isn't unethical in any way, just somewhat inconsistent if their claim to be "fair and balanced" is supposed to be more than an elaborate joke (which I don't believe it is). Basically, I'm saying that I have no evidence that Fox has done anything remotely inappropriate; it's just that their claim to be "fair and balanced" is in the "It's Funny. Laugh." category.
They may not have done anything actively dirty (hence my hesitation to say if they're more right-wing than CNN is left-wing), but watching the way they spin stories, it's pretty hard to deny that they're fans of the Republicans. Nothing wrong with that, newscasters are allowed opinions too, but when they repeat over and over again that they're "fair and balanced," and O'Reilly touts his "no-spin zone"...I really hope it's a joke on the order of The Daily Show's claim to be the "Most important news program, ever." That is to say, they don't believe it and they don't really expect their viewers to believe it, but it's funny to say anyway.
I never claimed that the media actually has a liberal bias, just that the Republicans claim it does. My personal opinion is that most news outlets do have a left-wing bias, but that Fox's claim to be "fair and balanced" is a running gag that American has fallen for. The only interesting question is whether CNN is as left as Fox is right.
You'd think with their constant complaints about the liberal media, Republicans would be all in favor of a law requiring CNN et all to present their side fairly.
Is it really fair to compare, say, MIT and Caltech, given that the former has 1,554* faculty members and the latter has 300*? I'll grant that if you're trying to compare the amount of revolutionary work going on at a given school, the fact that one school is larger is a legitimate reason for them to do a larger amount of work. However, comparing the fraction of the school doing revolutionary work seems to be more useful when, for example, considering where to go for undergrad, grad, or postdoc, since it's more likely you'll get to work with one of those individuals conducting revolutionary work.
* Data from USNews Best Colleges 2007 listings for number of instructional faculty at both schools.
Sheesh, none of you moderators have seen Family Guy? I thought this was a 5, Funny for sure. I guess this is why such comments often have "Oblig. Family Guy/Simpsons/Futurama Reference" in the subject.
All I know is, my brother was having problems with Flash 9 in Firefox 2.0, and did some research, and figured out that this was the problem. I didn't ask him why he had been running at 16 bit to begin with; something about Ubuntu's default settings. Or maybe he had problems at some point and didn't remember to change the settings back. I don't know.
Rumor has it that you need to make sure you're running your xserver with 24 bit color depth, not 16 bit, in order to get Flash 9 Beta working with Firefox 2.0 on Linux. Good luck.
All species diverge into separate species if some sort of reproductive barrier springs up to prevent two groups of such a species from interbreeding. Examples include the founder effect and natural disasters. Unless you think that the "Proto-Eloi" and "Proto-Morlocks" really will have no interbreeding whatsoever for thousands of years, the two groups won't diverge. In the case of humanity, I would actually argue that we're becoming less diverse. With more people moving from continent to continent in the past five hundred years than at any time in history (except maybe the Bering Strait), there's more inter-racial breeding and humanity is moving towards a center, rather than diverging into different sub-species.
Note: I'm casting no judgment on inter-racial couples; if you really wanted to look at things from a biological standpoint, arguments from hybrid vigor would favor such pairings.
Does this ruling actually affect sales of the game, or is it just to let the judge play the game himself and see if it's actually as bad as Thompson claims?
This is dovetailing. Epileptic patients are the only humans you can ethically insert brain probes into nowadays, so neuroscientists love to use these patients to test various theories of direct neural measurement and response. Basically every time you hear a news story about scientists reading people's minds with direct measurement, you should think, "At least they can't read my mind. I'm not epileptic."
A whitelist is strictly better than a blacklist in this context. Out of the box, NoScript will block Yahoo, MySpace, and any number of other sites which shouldn't get JavaScript. In fact, it'll only allow JS on sites you explicitly allow. How is that worse than a blacklist? The only problem with a whitelist is that you need to change settings to make stuff work (for your bank, or whatever), but I feel more comfortable only needing to change settings when I know there's a problem, rather than when I don't.
Saved by NoScript again. If you're not using it, you really should; it can block exploits before anyone knows they exist! (Since they may require JavaScript, and this would block them. My statement is strictly true.)
Yep, Ch 1a. This was made last year (i.e., in the fall of 2004) by some friends of mine; I can't claim actual credit. The one guy who did the most work on it has a rather low opinion of Slashdot (he believes himself to have "grown out of it" during high school), so I won't post his name.
...is that it makes you unable to use sites which actively block known Tor exit ports. Of course, I'm sure no one here uses suchsites...
And yes, I know that both of those sites allow Tor-based browsing, just not Tor-based posting. However, they both have user login systems, and there's no good reason to not allow those through Tor. If you don't trust your password protections enough to allow Tor-based users to access them, why do you trust regular users?
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They're not the university with the most file sharers...they're the university with the most file sharers WHO GOT CAUGHT. The smart thing to do is ensure that most file sharing is within the university, not with outside sources, to minimize exposure to the ??AA. If you're getting caught, you're doing it wrong.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 1300, and I've gotten shocked from the case screws on numerous occasions. Though to be fair, I'm using a cheap third-party power supply; it's certainly possible it lacks some important safety feature.
I was specifically citing O'Reilly's claim to preside over a "no-spin zone" as an example of Fox's sense of humor. The regular news reporting also spins things with a somewhat Republican perspective; like I said, this isn't unethical in any way, just somewhat inconsistent if their claim to be "fair and balanced" is supposed to be more than an elaborate joke (which I don't believe it is). Basically, I'm saying that I have no evidence that Fox has done anything remotely inappropriate; it's just that their claim to be "fair and balanced" is in the "It's Funny. Laugh." category.
They may not have done anything actively dirty (hence my hesitation to say if they're more right-wing than CNN is left-wing), but watching the way they spin stories, it's pretty hard to deny that they're fans of the Republicans. Nothing wrong with that, newscasters are allowed opinions too, but when they repeat over and over again that they're "fair and balanced," and O'Reilly touts his "no-spin zone"...I really hope it's a joke on the order of The Daily Show's claim to be the "Most important news program, ever." That is to say, they don't believe it and they don't really expect their viewers to believe it, but it's funny to say anyway.
I never claimed that the media actually has a liberal bias, just that the Republicans claim it does. My personal opinion is that most news outlets do have a left-wing bias, but that Fox's claim to be "fair and balanced" is a running gag that American has fallen for. The only interesting question is whether CNN is as left as Fox is right.
You'd think with their constant complaints about the liberal media, Republicans would be all in favor of a law requiring CNN et all to present their side fairly.
Is it really fair to compare, say, MIT and Caltech, given that the former has 1,554* faculty members and the latter has 300*? I'll grant that if you're trying to compare the amount of revolutionary work going on at a given school, the fact that one school is larger is a legitimate reason for them to do a larger amount of work. However, comparing the fraction of the school doing revolutionary work seems to be more useful when, for example, considering where to go for undergrad, grad, or postdoc, since it's more likely you'll get to work with one of those individuals conducting revolutionary work.
* Data from USNews Best Colleges 2007 listings for number of instructional faculty at both schools.
Sheesh, none of you moderators have seen Family Guy? I thought this was a 5, Funny for sure. I guess this is why such comments often have "Oblig. Family Guy/Simpsons/Futurama Reference" in the subject.
Most of them are already dead inside.
Most of them already dead inside.
Nobody in America remembers what the Dark Ages were, they never had one.
Yet.
Mod parent up.
AIDS has killed AIDS!
AIDS has killed AIDS!
AIDS has killed AIDS!
AIDS has killed AIDS!
(additional stuff to bypass lameness filter.)
All I know is, my brother was having problems with Flash 9 in Firefox 2.0, and did some research, and figured out that this was the problem. I didn't ask him why he had been running at 16 bit to begin with; something about Ubuntu's default settings. Or maybe he had problems at some point and didn't remember to change the settings back. I don't know.
Rumor has it that you need to make sure you're running your xserver with 24 bit color depth, not 16 bit, in order to get Flash 9 Beta working with Firefox 2.0 on Linux. Good luck.
All species diverge into separate species if some sort of reproductive barrier springs up to prevent two groups of such a species from interbreeding. Examples include the founder effect and natural disasters. Unless you think that the "Proto-Eloi" and "Proto-Morlocks" really will have no interbreeding whatsoever for thousands of years, the two groups won't diverge. In the case of humanity, I would actually argue that we're becoming less diverse. With more people moving from continent to continent in the past five hundred years than at any time in history (except maybe the Bering Strait), there's more inter-racial breeding and humanity is moving towards a center, rather than diverging into different sub-species.
Note: I'm casting no judgment on inter-racial couples; if you really wanted to look at things from a biological standpoint, arguments from hybrid vigor would favor such pairings.
Does this ruling actually affect sales of the game, or is it just to let the judge play the game himself and see if it's actually as bad as Thompson claims?
This is dovetailing. Epileptic patients are the only humans you can ethically insert brain probes into nowadays, so neuroscientists love to use these patients to test various theories of direct neural measurement and response. Basically every time you hear a news story about scientists reading people's minds with direct measurement, you should think, "At least they can't read my mind. I'm not epileptic."
A whitelist is strictly better than a blacklist in this context. Out of the box, NoScript will block Yahoo, MySpace, and any number of other sites which shouldn't get JavaScript. In fact, it'll only allow JS on sites you explicitly allow. How is that worse than a blacklist? The only problem with a whitelist is that you need to change settings to make stuff work (for your bank, or whatever), but I feel more comfortable only needing to change settings when I know there's a problem, rather than when I don't.
Saved by NoScript again. If you're not using it, you really should; it can block exploits before anyone knows they exist! (Since they may require JavaScript, and this would block them. My statement is strictly true.)
OpenDocument Presentations, maybe?
Yep, Ch 1a. This was made last year (i.e., in the fall of 2004) by some friends of mine; I can't claim actual credit. The one guy who did the most work on it has a rather low opinion of Slashdot (he believes himself to have "grown out of it" during high school), so I won't post his name.
Already been done at Caltech...Nate Lewis Rap Remix.
...is that it makes you unable to use sites which actively block known Tor exit ports. Of course, I'm sure no one here uses such sites...
And yes, I know that both of those sites allow Tor-based browsing, just not Tor-based posting. However, they both have user login systems, and there's no good reason to not allow those through Tor. If you don't trust your password protections enough to allow Tor-based users to access them, why do you trust regular users?