I don't see how a conviction for possessing child porn is irrelevant or outdated.
Well, if he was a minor with pictures of his girlfriend, it's technically child porn, but somewhat excusable. If he'd received a pardon for the crime (dunno if that's available in his jurisdiction) there might be a case.
The problem, fundamentally, isn't the crime that he's trying to have erased, but that the standard of "irrelevant or outdated" is so subjective; it's insane to suggest that Google just take the word of some random person, and it's insane to actually make Google try to evaluate the merit of each claim.
The Spanish case that generated the ruling is a particularly good example. If the information was irrelevant or outdated, then why was is still on the net? If it was an individual trash talking someone, that's one thing (and maybe better actioned under a libel or harassment claim), but if it's a news archive or public documents like auction records then *someone* obviously thinks it's still relevant enough to continue publishing.
Simply put, Google's in the business of indexing stuff that *other* people consider relevant or important enough to publish on the Internet. It's a low bar, admittedly, but asking Google (or Bing, or any other third party) to evaluate the motivations of publishers isn't fair or particularly viable.
The whole concept that a single wrong letter could mean the difference between success and 200 error messages just made them ask, "You do this all day?"
shrug Some people just can't hack jobs where attention to detail matters. A missing semi-colon in software isn't much less messier than an accountant misplacing a decimal, or a millwright putting an extra turn on a depth wheel, or a carpenter cutting an inch short.
...is the only person in the Senate who seems to have not been bought and sold by lobbyists.
I'm a bit surprised the comedy lobby hasn't gone after him. If he goes too far in bringing common sense to politics, people like Jon Stewart will be out of a job. Late Night will only be able to do a "Top 8" count. Writers will be forced to actually *think*.
Let's say out of a $100 monthly cable bill, $25 goes to non-content costs, $50 goes to content, and $25 is profit. That suggests the minimum bill in an a la carte plan might be around $50, which would preserve the current profit level.
Yes, that's what a company who gives a shit about consumers would do.
More likely, the cable company would increase the average bill to $110 (because *something* changed that they can spin as being a customer benefit), decrease the payout to content providers, and make just slightly over triple the profits.
It's also possible they might take a "grocery shrink ray" approach to it, and just give you less content the same price.
The sneaky ones might drop it to $90/month, and call it "passing on the savings".
But cutting a $100 monthly bill in half? When there's an entire customer base conditioned to sending them $100/month? What major corporation is going to give up that if they don't absolutely have to?
I am convinced that the price per channel would go up if everyone was able to purchase channels a la carte.
Of course it would. The cable/satellite providers aren't going to allow the average monthly bill to decrease. In fact, they'd be more apt to use any subscription model change as a means to ratchet up the monthly billing.
Sure, the most important law of robotics is to protect human life... but if it's going to prioritize, it should probably start with its owner.
Unless the owner is a lawyer and/or politician. In which case, in the interest of protecting human life, it should aim for the nearest solid object as soon as it reaches highway speed.
With a key, you switch it to 1 and can run accessories. You switch it to 2 and the ignition computer is powered. Switch and hold it to 3 and you crank. You decide exactly how to start your engine.
With my wife's hybrid, pressing the button with your foot off the brake turns on accessories. Press the button with your foot on the brake "turns on" the engine. IC engine ignition, obviously, isn't under the manual control of the driver, but otherwise it's not that different from a conventional car.
What this lawsuit requests is that operators of other search engines be allowed to pay phone makers and carriers to make a particular search provider the default on a particular make and model.
So, like the "HTC First"?
Makers and carriers are fundamentally mercenaries. They'll do what will make them money. I suspect the real problem that Microsoft (who I assume is funding this lawsuit) has is that aren't able or willing to pay what it'd take to sufficiently compensate a phone maker to produce and market to carriers something along the lines of a "Samsung Galaxy S5 Bing Edition".
Without seeing how it works on the tough woods I can't tell how useful this new axe would be.
Pretty much my feeling. Straight grained woods like maple, poplar, birch, etc are relatively easy to split by hand. Splitting fibrous woods like cherry or elm without a sledge and wedge is an exercise in frustration, and I suspect the added rotation would do some serious damage to the wrist; it's bad enough having a maul bounce back in a straight line.
They stated that they prefer a known corrupt leadership to an entitled leadership.
They stated that they prefer a known corrupt leadership that will keep the gravy train flowing to a known corrupt leadership that's going to do their damndest to cut if off entirely.
I didn't realize we had annexed Canada recently. I hope we didn't also get Quebec.
I'd be tempted to accept annexation just for the entertainment of watching the Quebecer's try to pull their entitlement nonsense with the US government.
Even though there's a name and history for it doesn't make the ruling any more satisfying: "we're letting him go, but don't get the idea that we want to, it's just because we're not willing to make any sort of actual decision about it."
If you actually read the ruling, footnote 5 strongly suggests that if they'd actually had to make a decision on the actual purported crime, they don't believe the government actually produced any evidence suggesting the New Jersey law was violated.
The abuse of medical and press credentials is really bad.
If the first sentence of his response,
As all of my close friends know, I have not always been a drug free citizen.
... didn't imply that we might not be talking about a "good citizen", the second and third sentences should nail it:
Prior to 1983 I was a synthesis of corporate manager and drug dealer. The drug dealer profession took priority, and for a period of time that was my only occupation.
Really, "corporate manager" is nothing more than a euphemism for "psychopath".
Besides, the abuse of medical and press credentials were well-established practices in espionage circles since long, long before McAfee discovered them. I suspect that the second ever laminated card saying "Press" was likely issued to an intelligence agent.
What bothers me about this is that there seems to be this idea that there are "school rules" that can conceivable cover ANY off-campus behavior, actions or activities.
There's an argument that certain off-campus behaviours should be covered by school rules; cheating (i.e. hiring someone to do a school project, etc), kids on a school team using performance enhancing drugs, possibly bullying. But there's not much, and certainly any kind of the speech, "decorum" or association school rules should never be enforceable outside of official school activity.
However, the idea that any private or public school administration has the authority to get the passwords for someones online service account and search the content is ludicrous, and for the organization to actually put that kind of thing into writing as standard procedure (if we think they're up to something, we'll coerce a student or parent into violating the terms of service of an online account) into writing is just begging for a lawsuit.
I don't. Those of us who've been around for a while remember when the current batch of editors came onboard, and compared to the original crew they're useless; about as effective at editing as patent examiners are at examining patents.
I used to have most of them filtered out, but unfortunately if I kept those filters Slashdot would be (more) content-free.
Heaven forbid that we become a bunch of commies like those Canucks. I've heard that even the snow is red up there.
Only where we do our seal clubbing (it's okay, we only kill the capitalist seals). Everywhere else, it's the orange of our socialist masters, the New Democrat Party (AKA: The Party).
And since the white season can take up to 6 months, not only are people experienced with driving in such conditions, but they are also choosing their vehicles according to their winter driving experience and skills.
We'd like to think so, but I live next to a stretch of highway 401 that's been shut down about 3-4 times this week due to major accidents. There was a 70-ish vehicle pileup yesterday, and a 15-20 vehicle pileup Monday. I've driven past something like 15 vehicles that went off the road the few times I've went out since Monday, and there's many more tracks in the snowbanks and ditches where someone spun off and got hauled out.
The roads haven't been great, but you can generally get around okay if you aren't doing anything stupid and keep speeds reasonable (which, actually, isn't much below the speed limit), and be aware of the crazy amounts of blowing snow.
But people are doing stupid, stupid shit, getting into accidents, and I'm pretty sure most of them are Canadians.
If Amazon wants a 'Kindle Couch', $300 is silly high, given the very very strong odds that it would be a screenless or screen-reduced variant on a relatively cheap mobile design.
How about $300 for a Kindle tablet integrated with a decent HDMI media dock? Functionally, something like a Nexus 7 plus charging dock and a Chromecast (which, coincidentally, totals about as close to $300 as my caffeine deprived brain wants to count at the moment), but with Amazon integration and maybe a little more hardware polish.
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Well, if he was a minor with pictures of his girlfriend, it's technically child porn, but somewhat excusable. If he'd received a pardon for the crime (dunno if that's available in his jurisdiction) there might be a case.
The problem, fundamentally, isn't the crime that he's trying to have erased, but that the standard of "irrelevant or outdated" is so subjective; it's insane to suggest that Google just take the word of some random person, and it's insane to actually make Google try to evaluate the merit of each claim.
The Spanish case that generated the ruling is a particularly good example. If the information was irrelevant or outdated, then why was is still on the net? If it was an individual trash talking someone, that's one thing (and maybe better actioned under a libel or harassment claim), but if it's a news archive or public documents like auction records then *someone* obviously thinks it's still relevant enough to continue publishing.
Simply put, Google's in the business of indexing stuff that *other* people consider relevant or important enough to publish on the Internet. It's a low bar, admittedly, but asking Google (or Bing, or any other third party) to evaluate the motivations of publishers isn't fair or particularly viable.
shrug Some people just can't hack jobs where attention to detail matters. A missing semi-colon in software isn't much less messier than an accountant misplacing a decimal, or a millwright putting an extra turn on a depth wheel, or a carpenter cutting an inch short.
It's more accurate to say that we have summer on occasion.
I'm a bit surprised the comedy lobby hasn't gone after him. If he goes too far in bringing common sense to politics, people like Jon Stewart will be out of a job. Late Night will only be able to do a "Top 8" count. Writers will be forced to actually *think*.
Yes, that's what a company who gives a shit about consumers would do.
More likely, the cable company would increase the average bill to $110 (because *something* changed that they can spin as being a customer benefit), decrease the payout to content providers, and make just slightly over triple the profits.
It's also possible they might take a "grocery shrink ray" approach to it, and just give you less content the same price.
The sneaky ones might drop it to $90/month, and call it "passing on the savings".
But cutting a $100 monthly bill in half? When there's an entire customer base conditioned to sending them $100/month? What major corporation is going to give up that if they don't absolutely have to?
Of course it would. The cable/satellite providers aren't going to allow the average monthly bill to decrease. In fact, they'd be more apt to use any subscription model change as a means to ratchet up the monthly billing.
You mean they actually show up, eventually? That *is* impressive. Comcast should hire some of those monkeys...
Unless the owner is a lawyer and/or politician. In which case, in the interest of protecting human life, it should aim for the nearest solid object as soon as it reaches highway speed.
With my wife's hybrid, pressing the button with your foot off the brake turns on accessories. Press the button with your foot on the brake "turns on" the engine. IC engine ignition, obviously, isn't under the manual control of the driver, but otherwise it's not that different from a conventional car.
It makes even more sense to decouple them when you consider another (now Google) product, Quickoffice.
So, like the "HTC First"?
Makers and carriers are fundamentally mercenaries. They'll do what will make them money. I suspect the real problem that Microsoft (who I assume is funding this lawsuit) has is that aren't able or willing to pay what it'd take to sufficiently compensate a phone maker to produce and market to carriers something along the lines of a "Samsung Galaxy S5 Bing Edition".
Pretty much my feeling. Straight grained woods like maple, poplar, birch, etc are relatively easy to split by hand. Splitting fibrous woods like cherry or elm without a sledge and wedge is an exercise in frustration, and I suspect the added rotation would do some serious damage to the wrist; it's bad enough having a maul bounce back in a straight line.
They stated that they prefer a known corrupt leadership that will keep the gravy train flowing to a known corrupt leadership that's going to do their damndest to cut if off entirely.
Exactly.
I'd be tempted to accept annexation just for the entertainment of watching the Quebecer's try to pull their entitlement nonsense with the US government.
If you actually read the ruling, footnote 5 strongly suggests that if they'd actually had to make a decision on the actual purported crime, they don't believe the government actually produced any evidence suggesting the New Jersey law was violated.
If the first sentence of his response,
Really, "corporate manager" is nothing more than a euphemism for "psychopath".
Besides, the abuse of medical and press credentials were well-established practices in espionage circles since long, long before McAfee discovered them. I suspect that the second ever laminated card saying "Press" was likely issued to an intelligence agent.
There's an argument that certain off-campus behaviours should be covered by school rules; cheating (i.e. hiring someone to do a school project, etc), kids on a school team using performance enhancing drugs, possibly bullying. But there's not much, and certainly any kind of the speech, "decorum" or association school rules should never be enforceable outside of official school activity.
However, the idea that any private or public school administration has the authority to get the passwords for someones online service account and search the content is ludicrous, and for the organization to actually put that kind of thing into writing as standard procedure (if we think they're up to something, we'll coerce a student or parent into violating the terms of service of an online account) into writing is just begging for a lawsuit.
I don't. Those of us who've been around for a while remember when the current batch of editors came onboard, and compared to the original crew they're useless; about as effective at editing as patent examiners are at examining patents.
I used to have most of them filtered out, but unfortunately if I kept those filters Slashdot would be (more) content-free.
So, fuck 'em. And fuck beta, of course.
If you consider living next to a pig farm to be fresh country air, then I guess you could call it that.
So... back when Compaq bought Compaq... ?
Only where we do our seal clubbing (it's okay, we only kill the capitalist seals). Everywhere else, it's the orange of our socialist masters, the New Democrat Party (AKA: The Party).
We'd like to think so, but I live next to a stretch of highway 401 that's been shut down about 3-4 times this week due to major accidents. There was a 70-ish vehicle pileup yesterday, and a 15-20 vehicle pileup Monday. I've driven past something like 15 vehicles that went off the road the few times I've went out since Monday, and there's many more tracks in the snowbanks and ditches where someone spun off and got hauled out.
The roads haven't been great, but you can generally get around okay if you aren't doing anything stupid and keep speeds reasonable (which, actually, isn't much below the speed limit), and be aware of the crazy amounts of blowing snow.
But people are doing stupid, stupid shit, getting into accidents, and I'm pretty sure most of them are Canadians.
How about $300 for a Kindle tablet integrated with a decent HDMI media dock? Functionally, something like a Nexus 7 plus charging dock and a Chromecast (which, coincidentally, totals about as close to $300 as my caffeine deprived brain wants to count at the moment), but with Amazon integration and maybe a little more hardware polish.
Fair enough. Although I'd say that offering "root access" is a tremendous understatement in the context of a complete operating system replacement.