I'm sorry, but when they cancelled the monorail here in Seattle, the Big 5 Automakers had to cancel production of the Flying Car, due to concerns over personal injury lawsuits.
But you can still use your jetpack, so no problems!
I remember last century wondering if IPv6 would ever get implemented.
Guess a few billion Chinese with email addresses and IP-enabled devices probably forced the issue, huh? That plus the fact that my fridge, toaster, TV, computers, and microwave oven all have IP addresses...
The thing is, since the NSA or other agencies can legally get a tap without asking for 72 hours, how can AT&T be liable for anything?
Valid point, but AT&T is joint and separably liable in that they didn't require to see the warrant - which isn't shown to the person being wiretapped or released to the media but is physically viewable by the firm in which the wiretap is placed (e.g. AT&T).
If they had requested to see the warrant by email, phone, or in person and noted on a log that they were refused it, then they would get off scot free.
But they - apparently - didn't even ask, just like the good comrades they are when the KGB shows up.
Slashdot is so far to the left. What does this have to do with anything? Science? I think not...
Genetics is Science.
Intelligent Design isn't.
Wake up and realize it's the 21st century.
And cloning not only is science but it's science fiction (historic) and thus gets two slashdot relevancy points.
P.S.: If you've ever been tested at a lab in the last four years, you have participated in a form of cloning where we take the cells and either use PCR on them or put them in a growth media. So you should promptly report yourself for cloning and disappear in a puff of logic, if you actually believe in what you say.
Okay, so the EFF sues AT&T for letting them do the wiretapping. Lets just say they win. Do you really think they will stop tapping the phones? Instead the NSA has to move the wiretapping from easy (ie, AT&T handing them the keys) to a bit more covert (ie, splicing in somewhere remote) which will cost tons more to the taxpayer than the original plan.
It's legal to tap the phones with a secret spy court warrant - they have a national security court filled with retired judges who agree to 99.99 percent of all requests for such wiretaps.
And, you can start wiretapping 72 hours before you need the court warrant, and it's still legal.
The problem is that - unconstitutionally - they have been wiretapping without a court warrant.
You'll still never see the warrant, nor will you ever be told such a wiretap existed, nor will you be able to use a Freedom Of Information request to find out if such a warrant ever was issued.
Wait; is your suggestion along the lines of stuffing Bush into Cheney? Or the other way around?
No, that would be an invalid experiment. Neither, to my knowledge, has sufficient body hair to test the hypothesis. I was thinking more along the lines of a cold-weather adapted large animal or two, such as a polar bear, especially since they're dying off anyway due to global warming and using them in the experiment might help them adapt to reduced resources.
However, the problem arises in finding the controls. I suggest we just randomly pick up some US citizens and use them, since they seem to have no problems in giving up their rights, as the controls.
We should also retest using non-haired large animals (like seals), and non-insulated non-cold-weather-adapted animals (like say giraffes).
Should all the test subjects (human) die during the trials, we could note if they survived the first (optimal) trial with the large hairy cold-weather animals.
Admittedly, since the T count is fairly low, we couldn't call this statistically significant, but we could use it to design a larger study if there appears to be a possible effect.
In some of the Gaming magazine polls, a large number of people have indicated that there are too many FPS and they all start to feel the same after a while.
Which is why Japanese games involving rolling things to satisfy your dad the King of the Stars, or dancing games, or other simulation games are starting to get more attention.
Now, if we only had a FPS which involved shooting stars as they flashed past on your HDTV, so that they would make musical sounds and flash like rainbows - now THAT would be interesting...
To track visitors you have to implement a small piece of javascript in your HTML pages.
So, if I use Adblocker to block the javascript - which I do for most ad sites unless it's a poll or something I need - then they aren't counting you AT ALL when you use Firefox, since you blocked their ads and their popups.
Every time you download Firefox, you get counted as "buying" Firefox.
Of course:
1. if you have twenty boxen like we do, you only download Firefox once and then roll it onto each boxen internally - 20 copies, one download.
2. if you stop using IE on your laptop and use Firefox, noone REDUCES the count of IE users by one, they only INCREASE the count of Firefox users. Thus, IE will always have more users, since they never LOSE them when you switch to Firefox or Opera.
...wasn't how they survived the entire evening. It was just to keep Luke warm while Han built the shelter... Geeze
Well, two things.
One, the warmth was more useful in that he was already partially frozen and his core temperature was much reduced, in trying to avoid frostbite.
Second, putting him inside a warm animal reduced the wind chill to nil by protecting him from the bitter cold - until the temperature of the animal insides dropped significantly.
The concept is that a cold-weather animal would have a hide that reduced heat loss more than his current heat state.
I suggest we field test it using Emperor Bush and Lord Cheney in the coldest climate we can find and see if either survives a 72-hour period of temperatures below -40 centigrade/celsius/fahrenheit.
I'm willing to risk it if we use them as test subjects.
As to the wisdom of it... we are surely obliged to trust to the good intentions of our elected representatives, and to watch the buggers!
Not sure if that's enough. In today's Wall Street Journal, they pointed out that many anti-privacy advocates count on us trusting them to work for our good, and use that intentionally against us.
However, since the IE7 beta includes the Google search, we have a mixed level of privacy indications. It's more likely media attention that will impact that.
Most governments, including China, USA and my country, the UK spy on their citizens. Within the laws of these countries, this is legal.
I believe I never said it wasn't legal.
It's fairly easy to get sheep to pass a law to ignore the wolves reducing their numbers - or to not permit the media to report how many sheep are eaten by wolves.
Except in China, the United States of America, and other countries which spy on their citizens illegally.
But, don't worry, under opt-out DRM that you already agreed to by clicking on Install, you have agreed to have your browsing history, email use, and home searches and occupations by military personnel as part of your Default Rights.
Enjoy, Citizen!
Trust the Computer: The Computer Is Your Friend! No electrons were harmed in this posting, but if they were, they were cheerfully complying with Directive THX-1984.
Strange, then why do I own 10,000 ADR shares of the Japanese stock market holdings as well as direct ADR shares of Nintendo, Sony, and Konami?
Since I'm American, with an American stock market account (Morgan Stanley for these trades), that means they do sell their companies to Americans, since I own them and vote on them.
heck, I even watch the annual shareholder's meetings - I have great CEOs there who make less than I do as a university researcher - not overpaid greedheads like my US CEO/exec employees who rip me off.
Everyone and their brother has a friggin' Linksys wireless router (never configured with default SSID).
You know, when I pull my laptop out of my backpack around here, I have about a 50 percent success rate in finding lots of "secure" networks using the default SSID... why pay for wireless when it's free?
Ignore the blinking light on your cable modem, it works for me.
But I used to date someone who orignally had tens of millions in Cisco shares, but luckily diversified so she only had 20 percent left in Cisco before the crash. They're fairly easy to find in the Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Seattle area.
and other fine game products, it's fine by me if they buy me out of my shares of NTDOY (Nintendo ADR shares).
I'm still waiting for the first Star Wars Lego version for the Nintendo Revolution console - looking forward to using the Revolution wand controller as a virtual light saber...
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you don't need always on, because the power drains from your battery if you have your mouse or printer connected via the USB ports.
... ]
So, why bother with always on technology - just get WinXP!
[caveat - I own WinXP on my AMD eMachine laptop - and man does it drain the batteries
Actually the Chinese are using IPv6 in quite a few places already.
/. story!
Now, that would make a great
See, I didn't know they were already using IPv6 in China.
I'm sorry, but when they cancelled the monorail here in Seattle, the Big 5 Automakers had to cancel production of the Flying Car, due to concerns over personal injury lawsuits.
But you can still use your jetpack, so no problems!
I notice that they talk about how we'll all be using ISDN.
Maybe I should turn off the Gigapop Internet we use at the UW, huh?
I guess I can quit holding my breath.
...
I remember last century wondering if IPv6 would ever get implemented.
Guess a few billion Chinese with email addresses and IP-enabled devices probably forced the issue, huh? That plus the fact that my fridge, toaster, TV, computers, and microwave oven all have IP addresses
ever prove their theories they "discovered" during a brainstorming session?
...
My neighbor (one of the guys in the article who's web-savvy) wants to know
The thing is, since the NSA or other agencies can legally get a tap without asking for 72 hours, how can AT&T be liable for anything?
Valid point, but AT&T is joint and separably liable in that they didn't require to see the warrant - which isn't shown to the person being wiretapped or released to the media but is physically viewable by the firm in which the wiretap is placed (e.g. AT&T).
If they had requested to see the warrant by email, phone, or in person and noted on a log that they were refused it, then they would get off scot free.
But they - apparently - didn't even ask, just like the good comrades they are when the KGB shows up.
Slashdot is so far to the left. What does this have to do with anything? Science? I think not...
Genetics is Science.
Intelligent Design isn't.
Wake up and realize it's the 21st century.
And cloning not only is science but it's science fiction (historic) and thus gets two slashdot relevancy points.
P.S.: If you've ever been tested at a lab in the last four years, you have participated in a form of cloning where we take the cells and either use PCR on them or put them in a growth media. So you should promptly report yourself for cloning and disappear in a puff of logic, if you actually believe in what you say.
cloning for research purposes will just relocate to the country that permits it.
Just ask all the scientists who actually use it.
Okay, so the EFF sues AT&T for letting them do the wiretapping. Lets just say they win. Do you really think they will stop tapping the phones? Instead the NSA has to move the wiretapping from easy (ie, AT&T handing them the keys) to a bit more covert (ie, splicing in somewhere remote) which will cost tons more to the taxpayer than the original plan.
It's legal to tap the phones with a secret spy court warrant - they have a national security court filled with retired judges who agree to 99.99 percent of all requests for such wiretaps.
And, you can start wiretapping 72 hours before you need the court warrant, and it's still legal.
The problem is that - unconstitutionally - they have been wiretapping without a court warrant.
You'll still never see the warrant, nor will you ever be told such a wiretap existed, nor will you be able to use a Freedom Of Information request to find out if such a warrant ever was issued.
But it would be legal.
Now that's cool!
Seals have fur. Try something like a dolphin, or a small whale.
Dolpins aren't arctic-climate. How about an orca?
Wait; is your suggestion along the lines of stuffing Bush into Cheney? Or the other way around?
No, that would be an invalid experiment. Neither, to my knowledge, has sufficient body hair to test the hypothesis. I was thinking more along the lines of a cold-weather adapted large animal or two, such as a polar bear, especially since they're dying off anyway due to global warming and using them in the experiment might help them adapt to reduced resources.
However, the problem arises in finding the controls. I suggest we just randomly pick up some US citizens and use them, since they seem to have no problems in giving up their rights, as the controls.
We should also retest using non-haired large animals (like seals), and non-insulated non-cold-weather-adapted animals (like say giraffes).
Should all the test subjects (human) die during the trials, we could note if they survived the first (optimal) trial with the large hairy cold-weather animals.
Admittedly, since the T count is fairly low, we couldn't call this statistically significant, but we could use it to design a larger study if there appears to be a possible effect.
FPS are so last century.
...
In some of the Gaming magazine polls, a large number of people have indicated that there are too many FPS and they all start to feel the same after a while.
Which is why Japanese games involving rolling things to satisfy your dad the King of the Stars, or dancing games, or other simulation games are starting to get more attention.
Now, if we only had a FPS which involved shooting stars as they flashed past on your HDTV, so that they would make musical sounds and flash like rainbows - now THAT would be interesting
To track visitors you have to implement a small piece of javascript in your HTML pages.
So, if I use Adblocker to block the javascript - which I do for most ad sites unless it's a poll or something I need - then they aren't counting you AT ALL when you use Firefox, since you blocked their ads and their popups.
you get counted as buying IE.
Every time you download Firefox, you get counted as "buying" Firefox.
Of course:
1. if you have twenty boxen like we do, you only download Firefox once and then roll it onto each boxen internally - 20 copies, one download.
2. if you stop using IE on your laptop and use Firefox, noone REDUCES the count of IE users by one, they only INCREASE the count of Firefox users. Thus, IE will always have more users, since they never LOSE them when you switch to Firefox or Opera.
...wasn't how they survived the entire evening. It was just to keep Luke warm while Han built the shelter... Geeze
Well, two things.
One, the warmth was more useful in that he was already partially frozen and his core temperature was much reduced, in trying to avoid frostbite.
Second, putting him inside a warm animal reduced the wind chill to nil by protecting him from the bitter cold - until the temperature of the animal insides dropped significantly.
The concept is that a cold-weather animal would have a hide that reduced heat loss more than his current heat state.
I suggest we field test it using Emperor Bush and Lord Cheney in the coldest climate we can find and see if either survives a 72-hour period of temperatures below -40 centigrade/celsius/fahrenheit.
I'm willing to risk it if we use them as test subjects.
As to the wisdom of it... we are surely obliged to trust to the good intentions of our elected representatives, and to watch the buggers!
Not sure if that's enough. In today's Wall Street Journal, they pointed out that many anti-privacy advocates count on us trusting them to work for our good, and use that intentionally against us.
However, since the IE7 beta includes the Google search, we have a mixed level of privacy indications. It's more likely media attention that will impact that.
Most governments, including China, USA and my country, the UK spy on their citizens. Within the laws of these countries, this is legal.
I believe I never said it wasn't legal.
It's fairly easy to get sheep to pass a law to ignore the wolves reducing their numbers - or to not permit the media to report how many sheep are eaten by wolves.
But the sheep still get eaten.
And it's not a wise thing to do.
Unless you're a wolf.
Oh, and where is the source code - I can't seem to find it anywhere
/windows/temp directory ...
Look in the
Except in China, the United States of America, and other countries which spy on their citizens illegally.
But, don't worry, under opt-out DRM that you already agreed to by clicking on Install, you have agreed to have your browsing history, email use, and home searches and occupations by military personnel as part of your Default Rights.
Enjoy, Citizen!
Trust the Computer: The Computer Is Your Friend!
No electrons were harmed in this posting, but if they were, they were cheerfully complying with Directive THX-1984.
Strange, then why do I own 10,000 ADR shares of the Japanese stock market holdings as well as direct ADR shares of Nintendo, Sony, and Konami?
Since I'm American, with an American stock market account (Morgan Stanley for these trades), that means they do sell their companies to Americans, since I own them and vote on them.
heck, I even watch the annual shareholder's meetings - I have great CEOs there who make less than I do as a university researcher - not overpaid greedheads like my US CEO/exec employees who rip me off.
Everyone and their brother has a friggin' Linksys wireless router (never configured with default SSID).
... why pay for wireless when it's free?
You know, when I pull my laptop out of my backpack around here, I have about a 50 percent success rate in finding lots of "secure" networks using the default SSID
Ignore the blinking light on your cable modem, it works for me.
But I used to date someone who orignally had tens of millions in Cisco shares, but luckily diversified so she only had 20 percent left in Cisco before the crash. They're fairly easy to find in the Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Seattle area.
and other fine game products, it's fine by me if they buy me out of my shares of NTDOY (Nintendo ADR shares).
...
I'm still waiting for the first Star Wars Lego version for the Nintendo Revolution console - looking forward to using the Revolution wand controller as a virtual light saber
640 million email addresses are all the universe will ever need. ...