One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment
Call me selfish or humanocentric, but I'd be very interested in a study on this person! That would be incredibly interesting. It's amazing to me that a person has subsisted in this area for all this time.
If you take away their access it's one thing, but if you publically post that this person is a sex offender, that's got nothing to do with "private corporations." That amounts to libel. Myspace screwed up. They made this public domain by publically announcing her as a sex offender. Therefore it does fall under the domain of US law and she can take action appropriately. She doesn't have to get her site back, but she sure as hell can sue for damages and ask for a retraction and apology.
I was probably 2.5 years old, it was the summer of 1977. My parents were taking me to a drive in movie theater (when they still had they all over the place) to see the Muppet movie.
I was in the backseat of his truck, standing on the seat so I could see. But I wasn't watching the Muppet movie. I was turned around, looking out the back window, across the lot, even though I couldn't hear any sound, I was watching a completely different movie on another screen just visible thru the trees, completely engrossed in what I was seeing.
However, if that patent is obtained fraudulently, then I can see a pretty compelling claim that you've abused antitrust law.
I continue to be amazed at how technology people are so astonishly bad with understanding Anti-trust law.
Patents grant you a type of monopoly over the technology you are using, but they do not automatically grant you a monopoly over the marketspace you are in. Therefore you are not in violation of anti-trust laws if you lose a patent. You simply lose the ability to sue someone if they come along and copy your technology. How can you be abusing power you no longer have?
Is netflix in hot water over abusing patent laws? You betcha, but anti-trust laws are not their problem.
The fact that Apple has given in to preannouncing some products lately (Leopard, AppleTV, iPhone) shows that they have given ground on their previously super-secret ways.
Fact: Leopard is just the next version of a product that everyone already knows about. They've always hyped their OS because that's what software makers do, and how they generate buzz and interest. Plus, you can't keep an OS secret because you have to get people to generate software for the OS. That's why you have beta periods, developer networks, and the like to make sure that as many developers who want their products compatible with the next version are ready the day of the official release. Sun, Microsoft, IBM, all do it/did it. It would hurt Apple too much not to.
Fact: AppleTV had about the same lead time as versions of the iPod and other hardware announcements from Apple. No hardware maker makes their product available right this second after it's announced. They announce it at the best time possible to generate buzz, and then gear up to ship. It helps stir speculation and anticipation. Apple TV was no exception.
Fact: As Jobs said, he had to submit the iPhone to the FCC for approval. Jobs only announced it this early because at this point, he couldn't keep it under wraps any longer. It becomes public record once the phone is submitted to the FCC. Therefore, you announce it to keep the thunder away from everyone else.
Myth: Many leading scientists question climate change.Then I find this article.
I find it laughable that you pointed to an article posted on senate.gov.
The government is the #1 source for misleading information about climate change. It's been politicized on BOTH political parties, and you use a highly disreputable source to refute what you think is a highly disreputable source.
I'm not disputing your conclusion, but your evidence is lame.
...is more public transportation. A small group of people who's job it is to think intelligently about transportation rather than trying to change the minds of the entire populace is far more intelligent.
But of course, there's lots more money in cars and gasoline.
CD's average $15 right now. With DRM on iTunes, most albums cost $10 for the whole shebang, regardless of the number of songs. Add 30% and you are up to $13. Which means an album on itunes is less than a CD still.
Jobs is just using the store to promote his iPod and always has. He gets little profits from music sales. If you want music to cost less, break the RIAA first. That's your only choice.
I see your point in terms of the government, NASA and the whole space race.
But are talking about Wally here, not NASA. I think the grandparent has every right to be as nostalgic as they want.
There are plenty of people at NASA, then and now, doing things for NASA because it's science and exploration, not because the government wants to build bigger bombs.
Almost every slashdot editor does this. If you have a particular beef with an editor, your best bet to make them change is to Filter them, and encourage others to do so.
Slashdot runs like every other website, hits on their pages, and hits on their ads. This translates to eyeballs generating revenue. Remove the eyeballs, and Slashdot gets hurt, and they begin to learn their lesson. By posting comments you are only doing exactly what the editors want, which is to stir things up and get eyeballs on the articles, which have ads.
I filtered JonKatz a long time ago for similar reasons. I didn't start a protest, but I constantly saw replies to his posts that basically did call for a "boycott" and so that's what I did. His posts sucked horribly (admittedly they sucked ten times worse than this one) and gave me no information or enjoyment to read.
What part of the world are you in? In the philadelphia/delaware area in the US, I've seen remotes at best buy, target, and walmart almost every time I've checked since March. I finally broke down and bought WiiPlay which comes with a remote (basically a reasonably fun $10 game bundled with a $40 remote that they cleverly advertise as a $50 game with a free remote... ha ha ha).
First, let me say I'm an American. Second, let me say that I think the constitution is a great thing, but it's by no means perfect, which why it's important that the constitution can change and can be re-interpreted. Third, I think you can clearly define "hate speech" in the current culture and there's no reason we shouldn't make an effort to stop it.
To me hate speech is a severe form of slander and libel which is pushed upon one entire ethnic group or race. I think laws for hate speech are possible as long as you put strict requirements on it. Should I be able to walk down the street and call you a N*****? Legally, yes I should be able to. Should I be able to create a book detailing with no real scientific proof, that african americans are an inferior race of stupid people who should be shot an hanged on site for merely existing? Absolutely not. To me it's an extention of the same slander and libel laws. I could walk down the street and call you an asshole if you cut me off, but if I cook up some lies and speak about them publically or write an article on the web about you just to damage your reputation and make it harder for you to keep or find a job, then that should be illegal.
No society is absolute. Americans hold up the constitution as the ultimate black and white definition of what should and should not happen, but as time marches on, people evolve and grow ever more savvy about how to game the system.
And to those who think that the hate speech would evolve into squashing all free speech are offering up a red herring. Libel and slander as they are now are laws that limit your freedom to speak your mind, because in those cases you are hurting someone else. Same with yelling fire in a crowded theater. Freedom of political and social speech can been preserved just fine. Free speech is not a simple black or white philosophy and we forget exceptions and how we frame them when look at the freedom of speech.
The EU countries already have bans on hate speech, as does Canada and probably others. Different countries deal with different problems differently, and the US, while it has a strong protection of freedom of speech, also has problems with evil reactionary groups who are allowed to exist and spread what I consider the most evil of lies under the banner of free speech. I don't see the EU collapsing now because they crack down on hatemongers and I don't see it happening any time soon either.
Marketers, execs, and pundits have stolen ownership of Moore's law. What none of them understand is the computer geek culture that the "law" was spawned from. Moore's law is in the same realm as Murphy's law, which is also not a law, but fun to invoke.
However, the paid talking head pundits grab it and start talking about it and dissecting it and taking it literally. It's not a topic for geeks any more, it's not funny, and it's stupid to be discussing it in an article.
I propose a real law. A legal law. A law that states if the editors post another stupid article about Moore's law, the entire slashdot community is allowed to line up and each get to spank all of the editors one by one.
Except for CowboyNeal... he might like that... his punishment is he has to watch.
Here's a snipet from that article about mass extinctions:
There have been at least five mass extinctions in the history of life, and four in the last 3.5 billion years in which many species have disappeared in a relatively short period of geological time. The most recent of these, the K-T extinction 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, is best known for having wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, among many other species.
In other words, don't laugh about the 62-64 million year cycle. We are due for a mass extinction, according to the fossil record. Maybe this phenomenon has something to do with it. Note that when biodiversity goes down in a species, that's not good, biologically speaking. Less diversity means less chance of a species being able to survive a catastrophic event.
Take it for what you want, but all those people laughing about having to wait 64 million years, my point is, I don't necessarily think you have to wait all that long.
...is that expensive military gadgets are big business. Spending money on training a soldier, providing good veterans benefits are all right out because this doesn't make anyone any money, but attaching a playstation 3 to a soldier's helmet is a huge contract that someone could make a huge profit off of (and not just in this administration; this has been true since the start of the cold war).
We should be spending money on training and intelligence gathering. The military is suffering from the same tech envy as the rest of the population is suffering, and yet they have no one to be envious of. The enemy can blow up your $100,000 humvee with $5 worth of materials available in a third world country corner store. They don't care how big your guns or computers are. Spend some goddamn money on real intelligence gathering and building knowledge and experience of your troops.
The boss once called me on it. I replied "Well, OK I can show up on time, but I'll leave at 5 sharp like everyone else around here.". Never heard about it again.
Off-Topic, but this is what sucks about my position. If I try to use this excuse, my boss will say "I don't care, this position is scheduled, you are supposed to leave at 5, which means you have to show up at 8 sharp."
Then again, I don't have to do much overtime, and I get paid by the hour, so I really can't complain. It's just the snooze button feeeelllls sooooo gooooood.:)
Just a few posts in and already people are spelling doom for youtube and the like. What's odd is that people think this somehow requires you to put an add on your home grown video blog if you use flash, which is ridiculous. This is basically an opt in system. If you want DRM and an ad on your video content, you can do so. Adobe is wooing the media companies with features they want. This isn't for anyone who doesn't want to use DRM, and you should be able to easily turn it off.
What this basically does is make it harder to copy your favorite clips from the daily show and late night with david letterman to Youtube very quickly. Now, you have to be a cracker who breaks the DRM and THEN posts it to Youtube.
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I'm sending care packages to all of his fellow inmates... bottles and bottles of penis enlargement pills.
I'll send one to him as well, but the penis enlargement pill bottles will be emptied and refilled with breast enlargement pills, instead.
I know, I know... they don't work... but I can dream can't I?
One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment
Call me selfish or humanocentric, but I'd be very interested in a study on this person! That would be incredibly interesting. It's amazing to me that a person has subsisted in this area for all this time.
Yes, I post on slashdot. Yes, I have a real, live, breathing girlfriend. :-P
And is she human?
Why the hell did they include a camera? What the hell is the huge business advantage of that?
If you take away their access it's one thing, but if you publically post that this person is a sex offender, that's got nothing to do with "private corporations." That amounts to libel. Myspace screwed up. They made this public domain by publically announcing her as a sex offender. Therefore it does fall under the domain of US law and she can take action appropriately. She doesn't have to get her site back, but she sure as hell can sue for damages and ask for a retraction and apology.
I was probably 2.5 years old, it was the summer of 1977. My parents were taking me to a drive in movie theater (when they still had they all over the place) to see the Muppet movie.
I was in the backseat of his truck, standing on the seat so I could see. But I wasn't watching the Muppet movie. I was turned around, looking out the back window, across the lot, even though I couldn't hear any sound, I was watching a completely different movie on another screen just visible thru the trees, completely engrossed in what I was seeing.
That movie was Star Wars.
Thus another Jedi was born.
... Sharks don't get cancer.
However, if that patent is obtained fraudulently, then I can see a pretty compelling claim that you've abused antitrust law.
I continue to be amazed at how technology people are so astonishly bad with understanding Anti-trust law.
Patents grant you a type of monopoly over the technology you are using, but they do not automatically grant you a monopoly over the marketspace you are in. Therefore you are not in violation of anti-trust laws if you lose a patent. You simply lose the ability to sue someone if they come along and copy your technology. How can you be abusing power you no longer have?
Is netflix in hot water over abusing patent laws? You betcha, but anti-trust laws are not their problem.
The fact that Apple has given in to preannouncing some products lately (Leopard, AppleTV, iPhone) shows that they have given ground on their previously super-secret ways.
Fact: Leopard is just the next version of a product that everyone already knows about. They've always hyped their OS because that's what software makers do, and how they generate buzz and interest. Plus, you can't keep an OS secret because you have to get people to generate software for the OS. That's why you have beta periods, developer networks, and the like to make sure that as many developers who want their products compatible with the next version are ready the day of the official release. Sun, Microsoft, IBM, all do it/did it. It would hurt Apple too much not to.
Fact: AppleTV had about the same lead time as versions of the iPod and other hardware announcements from Apple. No hardware maker makes their product available right this second after it's announced. They announce it at the best time possible to generate buzz, and then gear up to ship. It helps stir speculation and anticipation. Apple TV was no exception.
Fact: As Jobs said, he had to submit the iPhone to the FCC for approval. Jobs only announced it this early because at this point, he couldn't keep it under wraps any longer. It becomes public record once the phone is submitted to the FCC. Therefore, you announce it to keep the thunder away from everyone else.
Funny. I see this in TFA
.Then I find this article.
Myth: Many leading scientists question climate change
I find it laughable that you pointed to an article posted on senate.gov .
The government is the #1 source for misleading information about climate change. It's been politicized on BOTH political parties, and you use a highly disreputable source to refute what you think is a highly disreputable source.
I'm not disputing your conclusion, but your evidence is lame.
I'm sorry but did anyone else think of a Kolvoord Starburst?
;P
At least one other person was as dorky as you. I'm sure many more will follow.
PS: that other person wasn't me
"C|Net Editor Michael Kanellos offers a potentially contentious opinion piece about patents and copyright on the CNet site.
So we just had to post it on Slashdot in order to get an assload of new hits.
...is more public transportation. A small group of people who's job it is to think intelligently about transportation rather than trying to change the minds of the entire populace is far more intelligent.
But of course, there's lots more money in cars and gasoline.
CD's average $15 right now. With DRM on iTunes, most albums cost $10 for the whole shebang, regardless of the number of songs. Add 30% and you are up to $13. Which means an album on itunes is less than a CD still.
Jobs is just using the store to promote his iPod and always has. He gets little profits from music sales. If you want music to cost less, break the RIAA first. That's your only choice.
I see your point in terms of the government, NASA and the whole space race.
But are talking about Wally here, not NASA. I think the grandparent has every right to be as nostalgic as they want.
There are plenty of people at NASA, then and now, doing things for NASA because it's science and exploration, not because the government wants to build bigger bombs.
"...but it won't run Vista."
And this is a bad thing?
Almost every slashdot editor does this. If you have a particular beef with an editor, your best bet to make them change is to Filter them, and encourage others to do so.
Slashdot runs like every other website, hits on their pages, and hits on their ads. This translates to eyeballs generating revenue. Remove the eyeballs, and Slashdot gets hurt, and they begin to learn their lesson. By posting comments you are only doing exactly what the editors want, which is to stir things up and get eyeballs on the articles, which have ads.
I filtered JonKatz a long time ago for similar reasons. I didn't start a protest, but I constantly saw replies to his posts that basically did call for a "boycott" and so that's what I did. His posts sucked horribly (admittedly they sucked ten times worse than this one) and gave me no information or enjoyment to read.
What part of the world are you in? In the philadelphia/delaware area in the US, I've seen remotes at best buy, target, and walmart almost every time I've checked since March. I finally broke down and bought WiiPlay which comes with a remote (basically a reasonably fun $10 game bundled with a $40 remote that they cleverly advertise as a $50 game with a free remote... ha ha ha).
First, let me say I'm an American. Second, let me say that I think the constitution is a great thing, but it's by no means perfect, which why it's important that the constitution can change and can be re-interpreted. Third, I think you can clearly define "hate speech" in the current culture and there's no reason we shouldn't make an effort to stop it.
To me hate speech is a severe form of slander and libel which is pushed upon one entire ethnic group or race. I think laws for hate speech are possible as long as you put strict requirements on it. Should I be able to walk down the street and call you a N*****? Legally, yes I should be able to. Should I be able to create a book detailing with no real scientific proof, that african americans are an inferior race of stupid people who should be shot an hanged on site for merely existing? Absolutely not. To me it's an extention of the same slander and libel laws. I could walk down the street and call you an asshole if you cut me off, but if I cook up some lies and speak about them publically or write an article on the web about you just to damage your reputation and make it harder for you to keep or find a job, then that should be illegal.
No society is absolute. Americans hold up the constitution as the ultimate black and white definition of what should and should not happen, but as time marches on, people evolve and grow ever more savvy about how to game the system.
And to those who think that the hate speech would evolve into squashing all free speech are offering up a red herring. Libel and slander as they are now are laws that limit your freedom to speak your mind, because in those cases you are hurting someone else. Same with yelling fire in a crowded theater. Freedom of political and social speech can been preserved just fine. Free speech is not a simple black or white philosophy and we forget exceptions and how we frame them when look at the freedom of speech.
The EU countries already have bans on hate speech, as does Canada and probably others. Different countries deal with different problems differently, and the US, while it has a strong protection of freedom of speech, also has problems with evil reactionary groups who are allowed to exist and spread what I consider the most evil of lies under the banner of free speech. I don't see the EU collapsing now because they crack down on hatemongers and I don't see it happening any time soon either.
Marketers, execs, and pundits have stolen ownership of Moore's law. What none of them understand is the computer geek culture that the "law" was spawned from. Moore's law is in the same realm as Murphy's law, which is also not a law, but fun to invoke.
However, the paid talking head pundits grab it and start talking about it and dissecting it and taking it literally. It's not a topic for geeks any more, it's not funny, and it's stupid to be discussing it in an article.
I propose a real law. A legal law. A law that states if the editors post another stupid article about Moore's law, the entire slashdot community is allowed to line up and each get to spank all of the editors one by one.
Except for CowboyNeal... he might like that... his punishment is he has to watch.
Well, what question should the editors ask?
This is not meant to be a funny post.
Here's an article on extinctions in Wikipedia.
Here's a snipet from that article about mass extinctions:
There have been at least five mass extinctions in the history of life, and four in the last 3.5 billion years in which many species have disappeared in a relatively short period of geological time. The most recent of these, the K-T extinction 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, is best known for having wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, among many other species.
In other words, don't laugh about the 62-64 million year cycle. We are due for a mass extinction, according to the fossil record. Maybe this phenomenon has something to do with it. Note that when biodiversity goes down in a species, that's not good, biologically speaking. Less diversity means less chance of a species being able to survive a catastrophic event.
Take it for what you want, but all those people laughing about having to wait 64 million years, my point is, I don't necessarily think you have to wait all that long.
...is that expensive military gadgets are big business. Spending money on training a soldier, providing good veterans benefits are all right out because this doesn't make anyone any money, but attaching a playstation 3 to a soldier's helmet is a huge contract that someone could make a huge profit off of (and not just in this administration; this has been true since the start of the cold war).
We should be spending money on training and intelligence gathering. The military is suffering from the same tech envy as the rest of the population is suffering, and yet they have no one to be envious of. The enemy can blow up your $100,000 humvee with $5 worth of materials available in a third world country corner store. They don't care how big your guns or computers are. Spend some goddamn money on real intelligence gathering and building knowledge and experience of your troops.
The boss once called me on it. I replied "Well, OK I can show up on time, but I'll leave at 5 sharp like everyone else around here.". Never heard about it again.
:)
Off-Topic, but this is what sucks about my position. If I try to use this excuse, my boss will say "I don't care, this position is scheduled, you are supposed to leave at 5, which means you have to show up at 8 sharp."
Then again, I don't have to do much overtime, and I get paid by the hour, so I really can't complain. It's just the snooze button feeeelllls sooooo gooooood.
Just a few posts in and already people are spelling doom for youtube and the like. What's odd is that people think this somehow requires you to put an add on your home grown video blog if you use flash, which is ridiculous. This is basically an opt in system. If you want DRM and an ad on your video content, you can do so. Adobe is wooing the media companies with features they want. This isn't for anyone who doesn't want to use DRM, and you should be able to easily turn it off.
What this basically does is make it harder to copy your favorite clips from the daily show and late night with david letterman to Youtube very quickly. Now, you have to be a cracker who breaks the DRM and THEN posts it to Youtube.