I clicked on here hoping someone with an astrophysics or cosmology background might be able to have a stab and guessing what this thing might be, or have something interesting to say about Hubble.
Or even a link to a credible science source. Googled, but nada. Possibly a hoax?
The reality of off site backups alone might make a lot of hosting/managed server customers cringe. How many companies go to the expense of security to deliver the off site backups to a safety deposit box in a bank or somewhere similarly secure? How many have the backups sitting for free in the trunk of an employee's car?
The really interesting statistic which they don't know is how many people won't go anywhere near their games because of the DRM shite.
I sometimes think I should explore the amazing world of computer gaming, but then I remember that a) it's infested with DRM, and b) I run Linux. Even if I was willing to put Windows on a separate computer, 'a' would discourage me from going to the trouble.
Probably just as well, keeps me safe from what could potentially be an incredibly time wasting obsession.
Now excuse me as I waste some time mindlessly playing Nexuiz
Christianity is way too big a term to classify as for profit or not. Some elements are somewhat mercenary, others totally, some not at all.
But is there any element of Scientology that isn't mercenary? Even their writings are copyright. Though perhaps that's a good thing. If Saul of Tarsus has said "No, you can't see my letter unless you pay me a drachma", Christianity wouldn't be around today.
But I'm hoping that in trying this case, the court takes into account the media levy and clarifies the whole thing, pretty far on the side of the consumer.
Unlikely given their current strategy. They aren't trying to justify Canadians accessing copyrighted content without fee, but rather are essentially saying to CRIA, "Hey, guys, we're on your side. Just point out any torrents pointing to copyrighted material, and we'll take them right down".
But CRIA doesn't want to do that. Perhaps they feel it would be easier to just shut down isoHunt completely, rather than having to monitor it and report every single infraction they find.
isoHunt would win this one in a rational world. They host torrents, not copyrighted material. Not all torrents point to copyrighted material, and they not only stated, but demonstrated, a willingness to remove torrents which do point to copyrighted material.
The only argument CRIA could make is that isoHunt should be responsible for policing the torrents themselves, and have been negligent in this duty.
Let's hope the situation stays identical for a long time.
No, lets hope the NDP form a majority government.
Ah ha ha ha, kidding, I know that some things just aren't possible, esp. when people who might have voted NDP vote Liberal because they're justifiably frightened of Harper and his Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party.
You're always free to build your own alternative to Facebook
Easier still, just put up a personal web site somewhere. You can stick what you want on it, and old friends (and enemies) can look you up with a search engine.
Granted, it would lack some of the social networking elements, wouldn't notify you of friends birthdays, and linking to others with similar interests would take a bit more effort. But if you want to be spoon fed by a large corporation, you're kind of stuck eating what they dish out.
Facebook will have to continually make its interface more intrusive in order to please their investors and advertisers. As that happens, they will loose users.
Normally misuse of loose makes my hackles rise, but this almost works. However, at this point I think it would take a lot to shake facebook users loose. They stick to it like aphids to cotton candy (never take your cotton candy into a swarm of aphids).
Eventually another site will pop up that has the same functionality as facebook.com only without all the BS. People will begin to use it
It already has, and here it is. Unfortunately I no longer have enough hair to cover my entire forehead and one eye, which appears to be a membership requirement for males.
Why shouldn't people do this instead:
Blockbusters HQ / iTunes Store / etc -> internet -> Home
Eventually, perhaps, but sneakernet (or tirenet) may be faster for large file sizes depending on distance and speed of connections. For me it would be faster to nip down to the video rental place with a usb stick for anything over 1 GB.
Theatre people, they're almost as bad as carnies. If you have to do on site support for theatre people, make sure there are people who know where you are going and how long you should be. If they don't hear from you after that, they should call the police.
As said the team leader, 'robots that are better at following could be easier for people to work with.' With this system, an hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds."
Cool. Sounds like we're not far from the development of a real life H.E.L.P.eR.
H.E.L.P.eR. has a wide range of devices in him and knowledge. He can perform surgery (as he once did to retrieve a kidney each from the boys), can fly the X-1, and holds a number of various gadgets in his body -- enough that Dr. Venture could even use him as a makeshift kidney dialysis machine.
Don't use math as punishment - she will only grow up hating it and probably end up as a hairdresser.
If I had mod points, I'd mod that insightful. It applies to anything good used as punishment, from push-ups to practicing scales on the piano. Don't train kids to have an aversion to what's good for them.
I don't think the issue is really one of mass so much as amount of science being done. Without the science, ISS is just a big manned sputnik orbiting the earth and going ping. Construction began in 1998, and it is still not finished. Once done with a crew of six, it will have sufficient staff for some to focus on operation and others to focus more or less exclusively on science, but for the moment it appears to be in some sort of precarious limbo -- if it can't be committed to fully, then there is strong argument to scrap it, which I think would be a shame. It would likely be decades before there was sufficient will to try again and do it right.
But the problem with that is some random jackass could see "Oh, so-and-so is PROBABLY going to be picked, so I'll edit it to say they were picked, since it's going to happen anyway."
Aye. Had wikipedia existed back in 1948 someone might have written "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday. The early returns showed the Republican ticket leading Truman and Barkley pretty consistently in the western and southern states."
How about they give me it in a lossless format and I get to decide how to compress it.
Why not? If you're willing to pay a bit more for wav or flac, that should be an option. Or if it's like magnatune.com where price isn't determined by format, of course, grab the lossless.
There are three things I want from an online music store.
Reasonable prices (a buck a song isn't even reasonable when you're getting physical media and packaging as with a CD).
Choice of format/quality (oggs at quality 9, please).
NO DRM
So far the only store to do that was allofmp3.com, now mp3sparks.com. Sadly even when mp3sparks.com is up you have to travel some strange paths to fund your account. Magnatune.com has the right idea as well, but their catalogue is much more limited.
Hear, hear! Take what you want, then let beetles deflesh my bones, string them together into a skeleton, and put me up for sale on ebay! I've always wanted to be a part of the goth scene, but never had the energy, too lazy even for emo. But as a skeleton it would take no energy, and nobody would be more goth, nobody paler!
And thirdly because when genuine fluff gets posted to slashdot's main page, everyone bitches about it, so why not try something more serious.
Might be time for the editors to let Idle RIP, they can't win. Perhaps a 'miscellaneous' section on slashdot would be a better catch all for fluff and whatever.
then reach into the victim's skin with sharp nosed dirty pliers and toss the chip on the street. then probably send the victim's family a picture of the gaping wound for proof of untraceability and bonus horror factor
Better still, just send the device itself. It could lead investigators a merry chase through the postal system, and would be a clearer and less unpleasant identifier than a body part.
That's nothing. Through simpler 'he should have changed his password' means, a friend learned that her husband from whom she was separated had taken another wife, without bothering with the inconvenience of first divorcing her.
Personally, I prefer pop to imap, and never leave mail on the server. Yes, it can be convenient to be able to access your mail from any web connected computer anywhere, but it's just as convenient for anyone who has your login details.
If he's given enough confidence that people will have faith in him as liberal leader he'll topple government and call in an election.
Perhaps, but somehow I don't see the Canadian people sending messages of support just to boost his confidence. Perhaps a quick jab in the calf with a testosterone coated needle tipped cane could do as well. Or maybe a confidence inspiring affair with a fabulous babe (He doesn't need to know she was paid).
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I clicked on here hoping someone with an astrophysics or cosmology background might be able to have a stab and guessing what this thing might be, or have something interesting to say about Hubble.
Or even a link to a credible science source. Googled, but nada. Possibly a hoax?
The reality of off site backups alone might make a lot of hosting/managed server customers cringe. How many companies go to the expense of security to deliver the off site backups to a safety deposit box in a bank or somewhere similarly secure? How many have the backups sitting for free in the trunk of an employee's car?
The really interesting statistic which they don't know is how many people won't go anywhere near their games because of the DRM shite.
I sometimes think I should explore the amazing world of computer gaming, but then I remember that a) it's infested with DRM, and b) I run Linux. Even if I was willing to put Windows on a separate computer, 'a' would discourage me from going to the trouble.
Probably just as well, keeps me safe from what could potentially be an incredibly time wasting obsession.
Now excuse me as I waste some time mindlessly playing Nexuiz
Clearly some form of robotic sub-mariner: "Imperius Rex! Kill all humans!"
Christianity is way too big a term to classify as for profit or not. Some elements are somewhat mercenary, others totally, some not at all.
But is there any element of Scientology that isn't mercenary? Even their writings are copyright. Though perhaps that's a good thing. If Saul of Tarsus has said "No, you can't see my letter unless you pay me a drachma", Christianity wouldn't be around today.
Consider purchasing a pocket enigma, or making a donation (link from their home page or as part of order).
Inter-racial? try inter-special. Kirk would screw anything that walked, crawled, oozed, errr...well, ANYTHING that fricking moved.
Not the energy beings. He would have, but he couldn't figure out where to put it.
But I'm hoping that in trying this case, the court takes into account the media levy and clarifies the whole thing, pretty far on the side of the consumer.
Unlikely given their current strategy. They aren't trying to justify Canadians accessing copyrighted content without fee, but rather are essentially saying to CRIA, "Hey, guys, we're on your side. Just point out any torrents pointing to copyrighted material, and we'll take them right down".
But CRIA doesn't want to do that. Perhaps they feel it would be easier to just shut down isoHunt completely, rather than having to monitor it and report every single infraction they find.
isoHunt would win this one in a rational world. They host torrents, not copyrighted material. Not all torrents point to copyrighted material, and they not only stated, but demonstrated, a willingness to remove torrents which do point to copyrighted material.
The only argument CRIA could make is that isoHunt should be responsible for policing the torrents themselves, and have been negligent in this duty.
Let's hope the situation stays identical for a long time.
No, lets hope the NDP form a majority government.
Ah ha ha ha, kidding, I know that some things just aren't possible, esp. when people who might have voted NDP vote Liberal because they're justifiably frightened of Harper and his Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party.
Have we determined that the Sun is definitely not sentient?
Spock: She has sentience, Jim, but not as we know it. I would recommend you not have sex with this one.
Kirk: But Spock, she's so hot!
Spock: Yes, Jim. Too hot.
Kirk: I've yet to meet...
Spock: Don't make me nerve pinch you, Captain.
You're always free to build your own alternative to Facebook
Easier still, just put up a personal web site somewhere. You can stick what you want on it, and old friends (and enemies) can look you up with a search engine.
Granted, it would lack some of the social networking elements, wouldn't notify you of friends birthdays, and linking to others with similar interests would take a bit more effort. But if you want to be spoon fed by a large corporation, you're kind of stuck eating what they dish out.
Facebook will have to continually make its interface more intrusive in order to please their investors and advertisers. As that happens, they will loose users.
Normally misuse of loose makes my hackles rise, but this almost works. However, at this point I think it would take a lot to shake facebook users loose. They stick to it like aphids to cotton candy (never take your cotton candy into a swarm of aphids).
Eventually another site will pop up that has the same functionality as facebook.com only without all the BS. People will begin to use it
It already has, and here it is. Unfortunately I no longer have enough hair to cover my entire forehead and one eye, which appears to be a membership requirement for males.
Why shouldn't people do this instead: Blockbusters HQ / iTunes Store / etc -> internet -> Home
Eventually, perhaps, but sneakernet (or tirenet) may be faster for large file sizes depending on distance and speed of connections. For me it would be faster to nip down to the video rental place with a usb stick for anything over 1 GB.
Theatre people, they're almost as bad as carnies. If you have to do on site support for theatre people, make sure there are people who know where you are going and how long you should be. If they don't hear from you after that, they should call the police.
As said the team leader, 'robots that are better at following could be easier for people to work with.' With this system, an hospital robot could follow doctors during their rounds."
Cool. Sounds like we're not far from the development of a real life H.E.L.P.eR.
H.E.L.P.eR. has a wide range of devices in him and knowledge. He can perform surgery (as he once did to retrieve a kidney each from the boys), can fly the X-1, and holds a number of various gadgets in his body -- enough that Dr. Venture could even use him as a makeshift kidney dialysis machine.
Don't use math as punishment - she will only grow up hating it and probably end up as a hairdresser.
If I had mod points, I'd mod that insightful. It applies to anything good used as punishment, from push-ups to practicing scales on the piano. Don't train kids to have an aversion to what's good for them.
I don't think the issue is really one of mass so much as amount of science being done. Without the science, ISS is just a big manned sputnik orbiting the earth and going ping. Construction began in 1998, and it is still not finished. Once done with a crew of six, it will have sufficient staff for some to focus on operation and others to focus more or less exclusively on science, but for the moment it appears to be in some sort of precarious limbo -- if it can't be committed to fully, then there is strong argument to scrap it, which I think would be a shame. It would likely be decades before there was sufficient will to try again and do it right.
But the problem with that is some random jackass could see "Oh, so-and-so is PROBABLY going to be picked, so I'll edit it to say they were picked, since it's going to happen anyway."
Aye. Had wikipedia existed back in 1948 someone might have written "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday. The early returns showed the Republican ticket leading Truman and Barkley pretty consistently in the western and southern states."
How about they give me it in a lossless format and I get to decide how to compress it.
Why not? If you're willing to pay a bit more for wav or flac, that should be an option. Or if it's like magnatune.com where price isn't determined by format, of course, grab the lossless.
There are three things I want from an online music store.
So far the only store to do that was allofmp3.com, now mp3sparks.com. Sadly even when mp3sparks.com is up you have to travel some strange paths to fund your account. Magnatune.com has the right idea as well, but their catalogue is much more limited.
Take it all after I croak!
Hear, hear! Take what you want, then let beetles deflesh my bones, string them together into a skeleton, and put me up for sale on ebay! I've always wanted to be a part of the goth scene, but never had the energy, too lazy even for emo. But as a skeleton it would take no energy, and nobody would be more goth, nobody paler!
And thirdly because when genuine fluff gets posted to slashdot's main page, everyone bitches about it, so why not try something more serious.
Might be time for the editors to let Idle RIP, they can't win. Perhaps a 'miscellaneous' section on slashdot would be a better catch all for fluff and whatever.
Better still, just send the device itself. It could lead investigators a merry chase through the postal system, and would be a clearer and less unpleasant identifier than a body part.
That's nothing. Through simpler 'he should have changed his password' means, a friend learned that her husband from whom she was separated had taken another wife, without bothering with the inconvenience of first divorcing her.
Personally, I prefer pop to imap, and never leave mail on the server. Yes, it can be convenient to be able to access your mail from any web connected computer anywhere, but it's just as convenient for anyone who has your login details.
If he's given enough confidence that people will have faith in him as liberal leader he'll topple government and call in an election.
Perhaps, but somehow I don't see the Canadian people sending messages of support just to boost his confidence. Perhaps a quick jab in the calf with a testosterone coated needle tipped cane could do as well. Or maybe a confidence inspiring affair with a fabulous babe (He doesn't need to know she was paid).