"The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." The solution is obvious: Move your servers to a more free-speech friendly country. When the US and Canada start to see that taking down sites at the drop of a hat is very harmful to their hosting businesses, then maybe they will do something about it.
"We predict that Acrobat Reader will be the top hacker target in 2010, and that is why we are distributing our report in a format that can only be viewed by using Acrobat Reader!"
Yes, the argument "Why would anybody buy a $300 tablet when they can get a netbook for less?" is a valid argument. I was actually referring to my Android G1 phone which has both a swing-out keyboard and a touchscreen keyboard; while the hardware keyboard accuracy and speed suffers (I have to type with my thumbnails) the software keyboard is completely unusable, at least without a stylus. The software keys are simply too close together to accurately hit with human-size fingertips. The iPod sold when there were much cheaper MP3 players available; the iSlate has a slight advantage in user interface over a netbook if it includes the touch screen, compass, and tilt sensors found in the iPhone/iTouch. As far as I'm concerned, Google Maps is the killer iPhone/Android app, and a larger screen would make it even better. It would also make it a better game machine. And of course, the larger screen would enable them to go after the emerging eBook reader market as well. (Interesting fact: for the first time in history, Amazon sold more eBooks than paper books this Christmas day.)
Getting a lot of meat from one kill does you very little good when you have no refrigeration. I was of course joking, almost all the large land mammals in North America went extinct about 10,000 years ago, which just happened to coincide with a new wave of immigration from Siberia. For herd animals, it is theorized that hunting techniques like driving the whole herd towards a cliff may have contributed to extinction, but for sabre tooths, cave bears, and giant sloths that almost certainly wouldn't have worked, so environment is a much more likely explanation.
Sure, cutting off botnet access to C&C machines works now, but what happens when they adopt a true peer-to-peer control structure, rather than the primitive centralized control structure they are using now?
Well, the uppity little bitch SHOULD HAVE CHANGED HER NAME when she married Reed Richards!!! (Seeing corrections made by authoritative experts on the cast of old comic books is just one of the reasons I read slashdot.)
Seriously this sounds like the event that made the Fantastic Four, maybe some astronauts or cosmonauts need to be checked. Well, there was that good-looking astronaut named Sue Richards that was in orbit at the time, but they can't check her because for some reason nobody can find her. When asked about it, NASA's only reply was "We haven't seen her."
The first generation IS a hybrid, but then you implant that with extracted DNA, and so forth so that after several generations you get something that is pretty much equivalent to the extinct species. Problem is, the process can take a hundred years. I'm still waiting for them to do this with the wooly mammoth; logic dictates that if my ancestors hunted this species to extinction, they must have been REALLY tasty!
Wait... you're saying if I stop shopping a Walmart, the Chinese will stop jailing anyone who exercises their legally protected right to petition the government?!? Mind-bending!
The Iraquis were about to sign a deal promising all their oil to the Russians. The Canadians know that their best customer lies just south of their border. Plus, the Canadians don't wear towels on their head or speak funny languages (well, except for those damn Quebecois!) Point well made, though -- the Iraq invasion wasn't just about oil.
Here, the Indians have been replaced by those little blue smurf-y things. You must be using a definition of "little" that I am unfamiliar with; the "smurfy" aliens are in fact 10 feet tall (and play a mean game of basketball).
I don't think it is a fair comparison because we're not stealing oil in Iraq. No, what we're doing is even worse -- our tax dollars are being spent to kill people to assure huge corporations access to oil; in effect subsidizing the oil companies and diverting public funds into private hands. I'd far prefer that if the oil companies want to invade other countries to get access to "cheap" oil, they do it with their own private armies, not the military I'm paying to protect our country. If the oil companies had to pay ALL the costs of protecting their access to oil, perhaps it would change their costs/benefits analysis... and after all, that is all they really understand.
The iPhone has two flaws: 1) No hardware keyboard, and 2) Not large enough screen to use for reading eBooks (at least for my eyes). The iSlate solves problem 2. It competes not with touchscreen phones, but with Kindle and Nook, while providing an MP3/video/game player as well. The only question is whether or not it will have cell phone capability; the iTouch does well enough without a cell phone. I suspect the iSlate will just be a large-screen iTouch.
Funny, I called it "Dances With Alien Wolves", 'cause it was obvious from the start that our hero was going to "go native". Aside from the neural "network" that apparently connects all living beings, there wasn't much in the way of new ideas in this movie. However, the ideas that were used were put together very well; I predict Avatar will be the younger generation's "Star Wars". Some things that still bother me: how could Unobtainium possibly be valuable enough to justify shipping all that hardware to another star system, mining it, and shipping it back to Earth? Also, although the planet supposedly had lighter gravity and appeared to be a binary system which would have wrecked havoc with the gravity, I still don't understand what kept the mountains floating in the air... unobtainium = anti-gravity??? Did Eiya (the planet's version of Gaia) arise as a consequence of the network, or was Eiya guiding evolution from the very start?
Instead, they will be using the "a" (for "Apple") prefix instead. Also, they will be introducing a device that combines all the features of all of their portable devices, tentatively named the "aWhole".
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No, no, that's not it... they are dumping toxic waste in the rivers and feeding fish oil to seals.
"The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." The solution is obvious: Move your servers to a more free-speech friendly country. When the US and Canada start to see that taking down sites at the drop of a hat is very harmful to their hosting businesses, then maybe they will do something about it.
"When somebody can commit an atrocity and no laws are changed as a result, only then will I agree that we have achieved maturity as a society."
That was my first take: how could they leave out this classic Microsoft "ad".
"We predict that Acrobat Reader will be the top hacker target in 2010, and that is why we are distributing our report in a format that can only be viewed by using Acrobat Reader!"
Yes, the argument "Why would anybody buy a $300 tablet when they can get a netbook for less?" is a valid argument. I was actually referring to my Android G1 phone which has both a swing-out keyboard and a touchscreen keyboard; while the hardware keyboard accuracy and speed suffers (I have to type with my thumbnails) the software keyboard is completely unusable, at least without a stylus. The software keys are simply too close together to accurately hit with human-size fingertips. The iPod sold when there were much cheaper MP3 players available; the iSlate has a slight advantage in user interface over a netbook if it includes the touch screen, compass, and tilt sensors found in the iPhone/iTouch. As far as I'm concerned, Google Maps is the killer iPhone/Android app, and a larger screen would make it even better. It would also make it a better game machine. And of course, the larger screen would enable them to go after the emerging eBook reader market as well. (Interesting fact: for the first time in history, Amazon sold more eBooks than paper books this Christmas day.)
Getting a lot of meat from one kill does you very little good when you have no refrigeration. I was of course joking, almost all the large land mammals in North America went extinct about 10,000 years ago, which just happened to coincide with a new wave of immigration from Siberia. For herd animals, it is theorized that hunting techniques like driving the whole herd towards a cliff may have contributed to extinction, but for sabre tooths, cave bears, and giant sloths that almost certainly wouldn't have worked, so environment is a much more likely explanation.
Now I really know I've been on slashdot for two long... I just translated the rot13 to "Can you hear me now? Why yes, I can!" all in my head!
Sure, cutting off botnet access to C&C machines works now, but what happens when they adopt a true peer-to-peer control structure, rather than the primitive centralized control structure they are using now?
Well, the uppity little bitch SHOULD HAVE CHANGED HER NAME when she married Reed Richards!!! (Seeing corrections made by authoritative experts on the cast of old comic books is just one of the reasons I read slashdot.)
Yeah, but that's because they taste too much like spotted owl.
Wait... in this new time line, I actually HAVE a girlfriend?!? I hope my wife doesn't find out about her!
Seriously this sounds like the event that made the Fantastic Four, maybe some astronauts or cosmonauts need to be checked. Well, there was that good-looking astronaut named Sue Richards that was in orbit at the time, but they can't check her because for some reason nobody can find her. When asked about it, NASA's only reply was "We haven't seen her."
The first generation IS a hybrid, but then you implant that with extracted DNA, and so forth so that after several generations you get something that is pretty much equivalent to the extinct species. Problem is, the process can take a hundred years. I'm still waiting for them to do this with the wooly mammoth; logic dictates that if my ancestors hunted this species to extinction, they must have been REALLY tasty!
Wait... you're saying if I stop shopping a Walmart, the Chinese will stop jailing anyone who exercises their legally protected right to petition the government?!? Mind-bending!
Cigarettes are the currency of choice in most prisons... in a non-smoking system, what do they use? Or do I not want to know...
The Iraquis were about to sign a deal promising all their oil to the Russians. The Canadians know that their best customer lies just south of their border. Plus, the Canadians don't wear towels on their head or speak funny languages (well, except for those damn Quebecois!) Point well made, though -- the Iraq invasion wasn't just about oil.
Use a different grass field in the background... Like this one, for example?
Here, the Indians have been replaced by those little blue smurf-y things. You must be using a definition of "little" that I am unfamiliar with; the "smurfy" aliens are in fact 10 feet tall (and play a mean game of basketball).
I'd imagine the Navi probably had better math and science than us. Naw, just better sex.
I don't think it is a fair comparison because we're not stealing oil in Iraq. No, what we're doing is even worse -- our tax dollars are being spent to kill people to assure huge corporations access to oil; in effect subsidizing the oil companies and diverting public funds into private hands. I'd far prefer that if the oil companies want to invade other countries to get access to "cheap" oil, they do it with their own private armies, not the military I'm paying to protect our country. If the oil companies had to pay ALL the costs of protecting their access to oil, perhaps it would change their costs/benefits analysis... and after all, that is all they really understand.
The iPhone has two flaws: 1) No hardware keyboard, and 2) Not large enough screen to use for reading eBooks (at least for my eyes). The iSlate solves problem 2. It competes not with touchscreen phones, but with Kindle and Nook, while providing an MP3/video/game player as well. The only question is whether or not it will have cell phone capability; the iTouch does well enough without a cell phone. I suspect the iSlate will just be a large-screen iTouch.
Funny, I called it "Dances With Alien Wolves", 'cause it was obvious from the start that our hero was going to "go native". Aside from the neural "network" that apparently connects all living beings, there wasn't much in the way of new ideas in this movie. However, the ideas that were used were put together very well; I predict Avatar will be the younger generation's "Star Wars". Some things that still bother me: how could Unobtainium possibly be valuable enough to justify shipping all that hardware to another star system, mining it, and shipping it back to Earth? Also, although the planet supposedly had lighter gravity and appeared to be a binary system which would have wrecked havoc with the gravity, I still don't understand what kept the mountains floating in the air... unobtainium = anti-gravity??? Did Eiya (the planet's version of Gaia) arise as a consequence of the network, or was Eiya guiding evolution from the very start?
Instead, they will be using the "a" (for "Apple") prefix instead. Also, they will be introducing a device that combines all the features of all of their portable devices, tentatively named the "aWhole".
Nice wish list; too bad it's not based on facts.
P.S. You forgot 7. Not locked to AT&T's network