What, Daily Kos is full of professional counterintelligence personel??
No, but interestingly the site is filled with batshit crazy loons. Which kind of makes it hard to take their allegations of same against others seriously.
We know you dirty liberals hate America, but we also know that you love the rain-forest, Che Guevara, latino prostitues, and Mexican marijuana. You even seem to like the Canadians fer chrissakes! Ergo, America = The US. It's simple logic!
The one and only thing you can possibly deny is that maybe those two points weren't put together to steal the 2004 election -- except that there is that nasty little problem of explaining away the peculiarly large exit-poll discrepancies that correlated with the use of those voting machines.
Except that there is no exit poll discrepancies. The highest discrepancy I've seen for any of the contested states in the 2004 election is a difference of 5% between the exit-poll result and the final result. Well within the margin of error. What's more, the conspiracy nutcases, as always, have chosen to latch on to the exit polls that best match their theory of voter fraud. Selection bias, yada yada. Take Ohio for example; Slate's exit polls actually show a result closer to the end results (2%) than for states with papertrails. (link)
And as for the general accuracy of exit-polls, well, suffice to say it's usually not all that good.. (link)
That's because the kind of histrionic posturing you espoused in your original post deserves to be mocked and derided. The US has survived the War of Independence, the Mexican-American war, the Civil War, two worldwars, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Korea, Vietnam, and it sure as hell is gonna survive the current monkey in the White House and his petty squabble in Iraq.
I agree that Firefox isn't suffering from any memory leaks unless there are poorly programmed extensions involved. A memory leak usually implies an ever-growing usage of memory until the dreaded pagefile is invoked and everything bogs down, while Firefox usually tops out at 100-200MB (depending on number of windows, tabs, and length of history in the individiual tabs). It's hard to deny that Firefox is a memory hog though. Call it a feature if you will, but it's kind of silly to have so high memory demands for a browser that is marketed as light-weight.
I tried installing Firefox on the old PII/III computers on the school I work at, but had to scrap the project because Firefox simply didn't perform well enough under those conditions. Opera, on the other hand, worked like a charm, so don't come dragging with the "IE has an advantage because it's embedded into the OS" lark.
As an addendum, right now Firefox is using 65MB on the computer I'm sitting at with only two tabs open, and the only extensions I've got installed are Tab Clicking Options, New Tab Homepage and Antipagination. I have the luxury to don't care much though, since I've got 2 gigs of system memory, but the Firefox development team would be well adviced to remember that not everybody has that luxury..
Heh, the first response to a story is almost always a snarky putdown; I think it's become something of a tradition. God forbid the story is a dupe, then there's going to be snark overload.
I swear to God, if a news-item such as this would appear on the frontpage..
Bill Gates has announced that he's realizing that Microsoft Windows is an inferior product and has decided to rebuild Windows Vista on a Linux kernel and release it under a FOSS license. Additionally, he is reported to have bitchslapped Steve Ballmer repeatedly claiming that "[sic] Man, I've been fucking longing to do that."
.. it's a pretty safe bet that the first reply would be something like this:
Yeah, so why didn't he hit him with a proper blunt weapon or shoot him in the face or something like that?
One of Norway's largest daily newspapers Dagbladet was first published on the web, March 8th 1995, beaten only by two days to be the first Norwegian newspapers on the web. First out was the rather insignificant Bronnoysund Avis. (A preemptive sorry to anyone from Bronnoysund reading this thinking I'm an insensitive clod!)
We already have Linux for that. Oh, wait, you mean that MS.
I'd say it's probable that this kind of treatment may prove beneficial for MS-patients, seeing as MS is caused by myelin not being reproduced fast enough by the oligodendrocytes. I'm not a neurologist though, so there may be problems with using this kind of treatment on MS-patients that I'm not aware of.
It didn't look like something that'll engage the attention of anyone that matters. By that, I mean that it isn't a particularly well-done, entertaining cartoon sequence that also raises questions or drives a call to action. It's boring, the characters are uninteresting, the "story" is only the message.
I tend to agree. Simplified, hyperbolic, and in the end, unengaging. I think the talk Cory Doctrow gave to the Microsoft Research Group about DRM is a much better way to introduce friends and relatives to the issues at hand. Of course, it requires a slightly longer attention span than what's required from the animation linked to in TFA, but I find that I often underestimate my non-tech friends ability to absorb information. Especially when it comes to issues that very much concerns them. Excerpt:
I am probably one of the few people left who agrees with you, and this raises the question: isn't the meaning of a phrase determined in large part by its usage. If the majority of people use "beg the question" to mean "raise the question" then who are we to say it doesn't mean that. We don't need the phrase "it begs the question" anyways; you can always say "the argument is circular".
Thing is, the Slashdot-crowd is becoming increasingly singleminded when it comes to issues such as Copyright Infringment, Micro$oft (never forget the dollar sign, or you'll never blend in!) and the Bush Administration. I blame the moderation system. Pimping Linux and Booing Bill, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up. Why take the contrarian position if your point of view is going to be modded "Troll" or "Flamebait" in a matter of nanoseconds?
For what it's worth, I agree with you. Microsoft's business practices can be questioned (though they're not much worse than other companies in similar situations), but the humanitarian efforts of Bill Gates should not be underestimated or scoffed at. Sure, he's still filthy rich despite how much he has given, but if he was as evil as many slashdotters would like to have it, why wouldn't he keep it all? Or spend the money to build an evil headquarter in an inactive volcano?
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To configure the way the grass is rendered you have to go into the oblivion.ini file and manually do the changes, and yes, it will significantly affect performance - even on a high-end rig.
Have a look at this page to see some of the manual tweaks that can be done
Well, funny can be good, but I think the Mozilla Foundation should be careful with selecting clips that are involuntarily funny. Most of the people that have sent in clips seem to be good-natured people that just want to "spread the word", not to become the next Star Wars kid. Could easily backfire.
Of course, that doesn't preclude me from making fun of them. Take a look at this guy for instance. Evidently, he enjoys "firefuck". Now, I don't know what a firefuck is, but it sure sounds intriguing! Possibly the word Hemingway was looking for when he wrote the lovescene in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"..
"Why are you copying that text into each cell one-at-time?"
"How else would I do it?"
Ha! Copying you say? That's pretty advanced compared to where I come from:
"Oh, so I can copy this field by pressing Ctrl + C?"
"Yes"
"Well, then what?"
"You place your marker where you want to paste it and press Ctrl + V"
"Ah, ok, what was the key combination to copy again?"
"You want me to write down the steps?"
"Yes, please!"
If you'd walk around the office-space where I work you'd see a yellow post-it note with copy & paste instructions beside every other laptop. Granted, the userbase (teachers) aren't exactly doing advanced CAD-operations on their computers, but still..
So, you point to a study that repudiates previous studies. Sounds like the scientific method in action to me.
A couple of points:
Bjørn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist" isn't a scientific study per se. It's a book written from a layman's perspective questioning some of the more widely held assertions in the scientific community in regards to global warming and environmentalism in general.
Two, the questions in the book hasn't been answered with scientific explanations. Instead the questions has been ridiculed, and the author has been the subject of numerous ad hominem attacks by the scientific community.
Your naivety is touching in the way you seem to think that scientists are somehow raised above general human behaviour. Scientists are usually dependent upon funding to be able to do their work. Do all people who fund scientific work do so with no expectation to a specific end result? Will all scientists be bold enough to draw conclusions that diverge from the expected end result?
Then there's peer review.. To succeed as a scientist, you need to succeed amongst your peers. The easiest and safest way to do that, is of course not to stray too far away from the beaten path. Especially when it comes to issues like global warming, the parochialism of the elite seems to me to be a very significant obstacle to new scientific insight.
Er.. While I appreciate your valiant defence of Bruce Campbell's acting skills (hail to the king, baby!), I'm pretty sure the parent was refering to Tom Cruise. In the article Bruce mentions that he feels Tom Cruise should "shut up and act". You know, reading TFA once in a while might help that temper thing you've got going there;)
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Take your cheese-eating, liberal lies elsewhere!
We know you dirty liberals hate America, but we also know that you love the rain-forest, Che Guevara, latino prostitues, and Mexican marijuana. You even seem to like the Canadians fer chrissakes! Ergo, America = The US. It's simple logic!
Hey, where's the mod -1 "bragging of sexual exploits in front of nerds with little to no sex-life" option? I demand a revision of the mod system!
Except that there is no exit poll discrepancies. The highest discrepancy I've seen for any of the contested states in the 2004 election is a difference of 5% between the exit-poll result and the final result. Well within the margin of error. What's more, the conspiracy nutcases, as always, have chosen to latch on to the exit polls that best match their theory of voter fraud. Selection bias, yada yada. Take Ohio for example; Slate's exit polls actually show a result closer to the end results (2%) than for states with papertrails. (link)
And as for the general accuracy of exit-polls, well, suffice to say it's usually not all that good.. (link)
Mods: Alluding to Nazi Germany when discussing the current government is never insightful. Let that be the Slashdot-corollary to Godwin's Law
That's because the kind of histrionic posturing you espoused in your original post deserves to be mocked and derided. The US has survived the War of Independence, the Mexican-American war, the Civil War, two worldwars, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Korea, Vietnam, and it sure as hell is gonna survive the current monkey in the White House and his petty squabble in Iraq.
I agree that Firefox isn't suffering from any memory leaks unless there are poorly programmed extensions involved. A memory leak usually implies an ever-growing usage of memory until the dreaded pagefile is invoked and everything bogs down, while Firefox usually tops out at 100-200MB (depending on number of windows, tabs, and length of history in the individiual tabs). It's hard to deny that Firefox is a memory hog though. Call it a feature if you will, but it's kind of silly to have so high memory demands for a browser that is marketed as light-weight.
I tried installing Firefox on the old PII/III computers on the school I work at, but had to scrap the project because Firefox simply didn't perform well enough under those conditions. Opera, on the other hand, worked like a charm, so don't come dragging with the "IE has an advantage because it's embedded into the OS" lark.
As an addendum, right now Firefox is using 65MB on the computer I'm sitting at with only two tabs open, and the only extensions I've got installed are Tab Clicking Options, New Tab Homepage and Antipagination. I have the luxury to don't care much though, since I've got 2 gigs of system memory, but the Firefox development team would be well adviced to remember that not everybody has that luxury..
Heh, the first response to a story is almost always a snarky putdown; I think it's become something of a tradition. God forbid the story is a dupe, then there's going to be snark overload.
I swear to God, if a news-item such as this would appear on the frontpage ..
.. it's a pretty safe bet that the first reply would be something like this:
I feel a great disturbance in the Slash-sphere. As if millions of geeks suddenly got a bulge in their pants, and were suddenly stained.
But it's Jesus man! Lovers of fine woodworks always mod down posters who put carpenters in a bad light..
One of Norway's largest daily newspapers Dagbladet was first published on the web, March 8th 1995, beaten only by two days to be the first Norwegian newspapers on the web. First out was the rather insignificant Bronnoysund Avis. (A preemptive sorry to anyone from Bronnoysund reading this thinking I'm an insensitive clod!)
We already have Linux for that. Oh, wait, you mean that MS.
I'd say it's probable that this kind of treatment may prove beneficial for MS-patients, seeing as MS is caused by myelin not being reproduced fast enough by the oligodendrocytes. I'm not a neurologist though, so there may be problems with using this kind of treatment on MS-patients that I'm not aware of.
I tend to agree. Simplified, hyperbolic, and in the end, unengaging. I think the talk Cory Doctrow gave to the Microsoft Research Group about DRM is a much better way to introduce friends and relatives to the issues at hand. Of course, it requires a slightly longer attention span than what's required from the animation linked to in TFA, but I find that I often underestimate my non-tech friends ability to absorb information. Especially when it comes to issues that very much concerns them. Excerpt:
And he does just that..
Your post begs a couple of question-marks..
You must be new here, etc. etc.
Thing is, the Slashdot-crowd is becoming increasingly singleminded when it comes to issues such as Copyright Infringment, Micro$oft (never forget the dollar sign, or you'll never blend in!) and the Bush Administration. I blame the moderation system. Pimping Linux and Booing Bill, if done with some degree of artfulness, is a surefire way to get modded up. Why take the contrarian position if your point of view is going to be modded "Troll" or "Flamebait" in a matter of nanoseconds?
For what it's worth, I agree with you. Microsoft's business practices can be questioned (though they're not much worse than other companies in similar situations), but the humanitarian efforts of Bill Gates should not be underestimated or scoffed at. Sure, he's still filthy rich despite how much he has given, but if he was as evil as many slashdotters would like to have it, why wouldn't he keep it all? Or spend the money to build an evil headquarter in an inactive volcano?
<H3>Publishing clean HTML to your blog </H3>
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<P >That's right. No more verbose Word HTML. The goal for this feature is not pure fidelity, but the right fidelity for your blog. The HTML for this post was created by Word. Go ahead, click View, Source in your browser and look at the HTML starting with "Word is a great tool..." We really are going pretty basic here. Bold become <CODE><strong> </CODE>, Italic becomes <CODE><em> </CODE>, Heading 1 become <CODE><h1> , </CODE>Quotes become<CODE> <blockquote> </CODE> and on it goes. There are definitely kinks in Beta 2. For example we are encoding smart quotes incorrectly so I had to turn off that feature in Word, but the goal is to output just what is needed to make your blog post clean and readable (code and rendered HTML). </P>
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Gee, that's super!
To configure the way the grass is rendered you have to go into the oblivion.ini file and manually do the changes, and yes, it will significantly affect performance - even on a high-end rig.
Have a look at this page to see some of the manual tweaks that can be done
Not to mention "-1 You misspelled when trying to make fun of an unintelligible post"!
Well, funny can be good, but I think the Mozilla Foundation should be careful with selecting clips that are involuntarily funny. Most of the people that have sent in clips seem to be good-natured people that just want to "spread the word", not to become the next Star Wars kid. Could easily backfire.
Of course, that doesn't preclude me from making fun of them. Take a look at this guy for instance. Evidently, he enjoys "firefuck". Now, I don't know what a firefuck is, but it sure sounds intriguing! Possibly the word Hemingway was looking for when he wrote the lovescene in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"..
Oh, and remember,
is your friend!
<br> can be a good friend, but the friend he is looking for is <p>.. Get yourself some new HTML-books and get those semantics right! ;)
Ha! Copying you say? That's pretty advanced compared to where I come from:
"Oh, so I can copy this field by pressing Ctrl + C?"
"Yes"
"Well, then what?"
"You place your marker where you want to paste it and press Ctrl + V"
"Ah, ok, what was the key combination to copy again?"
"You want me to write down the steps?"
"Yes, please!"
If you'd walk around the office-space where I work you'd see a yellow post-it note with copy & paste instructions beside every other laptop. Granted, the userbase (teachers) aren't exactly doing advanced CAD-operations on their computers, but still..
I think you accidently chose the wrong quote from the parent poster. It should probably have been:
"I want this for free, so I'm going to construct a philosophical framework that lets me justify stealing it"
In your case, it's the tired ol' "They're rich and don't deserve it, so I'm entirely justified in stealing from them" fallacy.
You people that want quiet keyboards are insane. There's nothing quite so soothing as the music of an IBM "clicky keyboard" with buckling springs.
When I die and go to heaven, the angels won't be stroking harps; they'll be furiously typing...
A couple of points:
- Bjørn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist" isn't a scientific study per se. It's a book written from a layman's perspective questioning some of the more widely held assertions in the scientific community in regards to global warming and environmentalism in general.
- Two, the questions in the book hasn't been answered with scientific explanations. Instead the questions has been ridiculed, and the author has been the subject of numerous ad hominem attacks by the scientific community.
Your naivety is touching in the way you seem to think that scientists are somehow raised above general human behaviour. Scientists are usually dependent upon funding to be able to do their work. Do all people who fund scientific work do so with no expectation to a specific end result? Will all scientists be bold enough to draw conclusions that diverge from the expected end result?Then there's peer review.. To succeed as a scientist, you need to succeed amongst your peers. The easiest and safest way to do that, is of course not to stray too far away from the beaten path. Especially when it comes to issues like global warming, the parochialism of the elite seems to me to be a very significant obstacle to new scientific insight.
Er.. While I appreciate your valiant defence of Bruce Campbell's acting skills (hail to the king, baby!), I'm pretty sure the parent was refering to Tom Cruise. In the article Bruce mentions that he feels Tom Cruise should "shut up and act". You know, reading TFA once in a while might help that temper thing you've got going there ;)