I'm not sure which is scarier, that the article is a serious article (in The Economist no less), or the no dupes bit. Maybe they replaced the editors with... OMG!! Ponies!! err...
Is the light sabre hotter than the pink of this site?
Could you get it hot enough to melt the OMG Ponies!!
And last but not least...
Does Sailor Moon wield light sabres? if so... *Swoon*!!
(As a total aside, my room mate stuck a mottled My Little pony on my computer
and told me it was my pony because it was all mottled n stuff. So I have my
very own Zombie pony.I pointed out the 'OMG ponies!' and she just stared blankly at the screen for a moment, then wandered off to go to work at a strip club.
It's really sad that no one's going to believe this story. It's even more sad that it's actually true.:)
Planescape: Torment anyone? There was an end to the story, but ultimately, it was the journey that counted. I still play it occasionally over a week or two, simply to enjoy the effort and thought that went into the design and creation of the game.
Yep, watched the clip as well, maybe I'm jaded, but I was like, wow, isn't this boring. For further information, the show is on at 10pm and there has always been an understanding that 'more mature' content is typically shown in shows at that time slot. besides, I'd rather see people writhing against each other like a bad Britney video than seeing a bunch of bloodied bodies and violence.
Barring improper language or nude bodies. How can implying something be considered 'improper'. Personally, I find the mindless violence abhorrant on TV, but I don't see
the FCC giving a damn about that.
South Park had it right: "Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"
Clayton College and State University in Morrow, GA required all students to have laptops starting in 1999. In fact they went one step further, They made it a point to buy all the laptops and give them to the students. Students had a $75 technology fee IIRC per semester, and were required to have their laptops available in class at anytime.
The biggest advantage was instructors/professors knew that all students had access to a computer. For the IT program it was nice simply because there was one less excuse for a student not to finish his or her work. For other programs, the laptop got in the way of the teaching. You had Instructors who were feeling obligated to find some use for the laptops in Math, Music, and Art classes, which didn't always lend a natural fit. The program was modified in 2002 so that students were required to purchase their own laptop. I was no longer involved at that point so I am not sure what happened after that, but I believe it was finally ended in 2004.
But the biggest difference between a paitient and a planet is: there's many paitients and we have a large body of information to draw upon to treat any illnesses. With a planet, we've only had one to work with, so everything really is 'on the fly'. Sure we should keep looking for the 'why', but let's try to treat the symptoms before they become life threatening.
Trauma units treat the symptoms of a victim before they have all the information, why not the same concept with our planet?
Because an influx of freshwater has been theorized by scientists to be the reason the Atlantic Conveyer has slowed down. I know, correlation does not equate to causation.
At this point I don't care who or what is causing the meltdown. What I want are some realistic ways to mitigate the effects. Solutions, not finger pointing.
But then the question comes to mind. How long will it take for the Corporations to manage a media campaign to smear anyone who would spoof or obfuscate or reproduce the RFID tags and information collected? Then spend the money it takes to make any such tampering with RFID tags to be a Felony with punishment on par with Rape and Murder.
And before anyone thinks I think corporations are 'teh evil', It's the corporation being able to legally (the ethics of it is another matter) 'purchase' legislation to enforce their business model with the power of the governments guns creating the problems.
You know, from a Libertarian viewpoint, Democrats and Republicans really are simply two different shades of the same color. Both Parties fundementally believe that Government is the answer.
Personally, I feel Government is the question, and the answer is, 'as small as feasible'. And fundementally, that is why I support and do what i can for the Libertarian party.
I'm sure you're aware that Ron Paul was a Libertarian. He jumped to the Republican Party because he felt he could accomplish more change within the party than from an external third party. Which tells you a sad state of affairs in the US when someone simply changes their label to a major party and has magically gets elected.
The way criminal prosecution works is that the widest possible number of charges are filed in order to get the severest compounding of sentences. No matter how repugnant you may find a person or their acts, this practice of trumping up multiple charges for single offenses is dangerous.
I recently encountered a case where a 24yo claimed that she had been raped by a then friend of hers after they both were out getting completely drunk. He was convicted on separate charges for, basically, every place he stuck it. The definitions of each were such that the jury was compelled to convict on the same act multiple times. So, rather than getting twenty years in prison, he got forty--about what you'd get for first degree murder in most of Europe.
Honestly, is anyone suprised by these efforts to extend and expand criminal behavior? The idea that if I were to make a CD all of material that from
stuff I own, and have a right to, and find that by this horrifying logic that I've suddenly, 'made' a new cd, which means I'm suddenly distributing material that I made for my own personal use and because I don't want my cds to get scratched?
I suspect this one will be overturned higher up. if not, the RIAA and the MPAA are going to have an absolute field day. After all the RIAA already uses the same logic for their legal efforts to maximize their gain.
I suppose we can count ourselves lucky that we aren't seeing people charged with a seperate count of battery each time they punch someone. or for a seperate account of robbery for each individual bill they stole.
I like the idea, but I think if you were to make a toggle like that, make it based on a number of positively modded comments. I say that simply because it's possible that trollers could use the general comment idea to get their spam/flood and cause a mess when articles appear on the front page with 200 comments that are mostly trolls and flamebait..... that are *not* sitting at -1. If you had it so that say 15 or so comments were modded 3 or higher, then you might have something the general slashdot crowd would want to read/check out.
Overt racism is fairly rare in the United States. As much as some people rail against big corporations, the idea of not picking the best qualified people for a job is a terrible idea. Any corporation that decided to make that a part of their corporate culture would find themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
I know that the whole idea of Affirmative Action was to break down the barriers of the GOB system and that corporate culture that stereotypes people into roles. But now we have people who complain that they are being passed over jobs because company x has to 'hire a chick' or some other belief that they are somehow better qualified for a job. Hence the backlash against AA. In a large enough pool of applicants (And I can promise you, the IT field has a large enough field), The differences between person A who is the bottom person to get the job, and person X, the bubble boy/girl, is insiginificant. I'm sure there are exceptional cases out there where a person who was dramaticly more qualified didn't get a job over someone who was significantly less qualified, but they are rare and at best anecdotal cases.Reverse Racism runs into the same problem that Racism would in a Corporate Setting.
We've all head horror stories of someone getting 'shafted' by AA, but an individual case does not a systemic problem, make.
Having a hispanic last name leads to some odd quirks, such as mail and telephone calls that are in spanish, I learned 'no hablo espanol, si habla ingles.' a while ago *laughs*. As far as my experience finding work in the industry, I'd say it's irrelevant.
Are we at a place in society where we are corporate colorblind? I'd say we're pretty close. Individuals may need some work, but there's too much at stake not to hire the best people for jobs.
That's a mighty broad brush you're using to characterize/.ers. I personally would love to see Intelligent Design discussed in an environment where people don't have an agenda and are more than willing to discuss things openly. Oh wait, that's already happened. The scientific community, the vast majority of whom are firm believers in a supreme power, have examined ID and found it lacking any means of verification or validation. It has as much validity as saying the world sprang into existence 2 seconds ago. According to the proponants of ID, that would be just as valid as a theory. Which is utter hogwash. Why can't some people get it through their head that a theory is something that is testable and verifiable. Maybe that's why people on here are so sick and tired of the same old crap being brought up again and again as relgion is being jammed down students throats, each time in a more inisdious guise. Maybe that's why there is such a knee jerk reaction to this debate. It's already been had, and ID was found wanting. Every ID arguement is based on sort of fallacy, and have brought no Scientific Evidence to the table.
Oh, and to bring it back to your origional point about/.ers, What makes you so willing to jump down the throats of/.ers when you're making the same general broad characterizations and misinformations? Oh wait, you must be new here.
hmmmmm, but in that case, would it be more probable to detect a red/blueshift from the local increase/decrease in the gravitational field? so, why cause an intereference pattern when you could simply detect the frequency of the beam after it has travelled the length of the array. Would the equipment be sensitive enough to detect a minute change in frequency that could be caused by that?
No modding for me late at night, instead I'll ask a dumb or not so dumb question, If spacetime is being squished and expanded, would that also not locally change the speed of light, which would render detection impossible (at least with that methodology)? Which is what theory testing is about. but I'm just wondering if that's possible.
What I'm thinking is the following, We all know the speed of light is constant for a material (or vacuum). From our frame of reference we will not notice the distortion in spacetime. Our yardstick will shorten and lengthen with the compression and expansion of the waves. which would make it impossible to detect the changes. Of course, I'm probably just not knowledgeable enough to know what's going on here, but then again. I'm curious to see if this idea has been addressed.
If no one has thought of this idea yet, I just did and I claim it!:)
Quite a few people on/. feel that IP copyright and Patent protections are out of line, so support groups like this that actually take the time to make some noise about things. When magazines like Economist pick up on these issues, I hope that it indicates there is some traction in the public eye for the reversal of some of these insane copyright laws.
I think our lawmakers are bought and sold by big corporations, but perhaps, just perhaps, enough of them can be shamed into doing the right thing. And that's to remember that the goal of government is to serve the public interest, not the person with the most money.
Maybe it won't happen, but at least it's worth the try. Because I can promise you it will never happen if we don't *start* trying.
I almost have to laugh at the number of peanut gallery comments I could make on this subject, but I won't (yeah, I'm no fun).
The idea seems sound and having the FAA at least sound like it's giving some sort of approval to the idea tells me that they've got some of the basic kinks worked out to the point that it's not total crack smoking.
of course, the safety issues are going to be brutal to tackle. They can keep drivers safe from some spectacular crashes, but plane crashses have an amazing tendency to be lethal. Add in the whole idea that you would push your vehicle to the limit to get an edge, I suspect you'll see all sorts of liability issues. Let alone the first plane that crashes into the spectators....
A simple solution would be to have an apprenticeship of sorts. Get a couple of people to work under Mr. Morton, have them learn the basics and then let them pick things up from there. Not only do you get a some continuity in the event of a disaster, but you also improve the chances of smoother philosophical transition (and yes, coding philosophy and technique does matter).
Yes, I know I'm spiraling way off topic, but would it have been better to leave the shell of the article up, with the text replaced with something on the order of, "This is a Dupe, there are many like it but this one is gone...". also, leave the person submitting the dupe listed to face the wrath of the karma gods.
Then, not only do people who want to vent and make spiffy comments about dupes and/. doing something constructive about them, but it also reduces the clutter on other very interesting articles that are out there.
Primarily because the Theatres only get a tiny fraction of any box office recipts when a movie first opens, then as the weeks pass, their percentage goes up. Sure, they make a ton of money off of popcorn and candy, But when you're paying 7 or 8 bucks to see a movie, 95 - 99 percent of that goes straight to the Movie Companies. So, if the Movie Companies continue to shorten the life of a first run movie, those Theatre owners are going to have to adapt or die.
So they're fighting to maintain some sort of status quo. It's not right or wrong, it's just why they will fight this so hard.
I suppose the next question is, At what point will major, non sucky, movies get released straight to DVD (or whatever media is in vogue)? Currently straight to video is a pretty strong indication that a movie is sucky. How much longer before that will not be true?
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I'm not sure which is scarier, that the article is a serious article (in The Economist no less), or the no dupes bit. Maybe they replaced the editors with... OMG!! Ponies!! err...
But the real questions:
:)
Is the light sabre hotter than the pink of this site?
Could you get it hot enough to melt the OMG Ponies!!
And last but not least...
Does Sailor Moon wield light sabres? if so... *Swoon*!!
(As a total aside, my room mate stuck a mottled My Little pony on my computer and told me it was my pony because it was all mottled n stuff. So I have my very own Zombie pony.I pointed out the 'OMG ponies!' and she just stared blankly at the screen for a moment, then wandered off to go to work at a strip club.
It's really sad that no one's going to believe this story. It's even more sad that it's actually true.
Planescape: Torment anyone? There was an end to the story, but ultimately, it was the journey that counted. I still play it occasionally over a week or two, simply to enjoy the effort and thought that went into the design and creation of the game.
Well, The Doctor could whip on over in his TARDIS and make a quick rover^w house call!
Yep, watched the clip as well, maybe I'm jaded, but I was like, wow, isn't this boring. For further information, the show is on at 10pm and there has always been an understanding that 'more mature' content is typically shown in shows at that time slot. besides, I'd rather see people writhing against each other like a bad Britney video than seeing a bunch of bloodied bodies and violence.
South Park had it right: "Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"
Clayton College and State University in Morrow, GA required all students to have laptops starting in 1999. In fact they went one step further, They made it a point to buy all the laptops and give them to the students. Students had a $75 technology fee IIRC per semester, and were required to have their laptops available in class at anytime.
The biggest advantage was instructors/professors knew that all students had access to a computer. For the IT program it was nice simply because there was one less excuse for a student not to finish his or her work. For other programs, the laptop got in the way of the teaching. You had Instructors who were feeling obligated to find some use for the laptops in Math, Music, and Art classes, which didn't always lend a natural fit. The program was modified in 2002 so that students were required to purchase their own laptop. I was no longer involved at that point so I am not sure what happened after that, but I believe it was finally ended in 2004.
But the biggest difference between a paitient and a planet is: there's many paitients and we have a large body of information to draw upon to treat any illnesses. With a planet, we've only had one to work with, so everything really is 'on the fly'. Sure we should keep looking for the 'why', but let's try to treat the symptoms before they become life threatening.
Trauma units treat the symptoms of a victim before they have all the information, why not the same concept with our planet?
At this point I don't care who or what is causing the meltdown. What I want are some realistic ways to mitigate the effects. Solutions, not finger pointing.
But then the question comes to mind.
How long will it take for the Corporations to manage a media campaign to smear anyone who would spoof or obfuscate or reproduce the RFID tags and information collected? Then spend the money it takes to make any such tampering with RFID tags to be a Felony with punishment on par with Rape and Murder.
And before anyone thinks I think corporations are 'teh evil', It's the corporation being able to legally (the ethics of it is another matter) 'purchase' legislation to enforce their business model with the power of the governments guns creating the problems.
Personally, I feel Government is the question, and the answer is, 'as small as feasible'. And fundementally, that is why I support and do what i can for the Libertarian party.
I'm sure you're aware that Ron Paul was a Libertarian. He jumped to the Republican Party because he felt he could accomplish more change within the party than from an external third party. Which tells you a sad state of affairs in the US when someone simply changes their label to a major party and has magically gets elected.
Can't say I blame him for trying really.
The way criminal prosecution works is that the widest possible number of charges are filed in order to get the severest compounding of sentences. No matter how repugnant you may find a person or their acts, this practice of trumping up multiple charges for single offenses is dangerous.
I recently encountered a case where a 24yo claimed that she had been raped by a then friend of hers after they both were out getting completely drunk. He was convicted on separate charges for, basically, every place he stuck it. The definitions of each were such that the jury was compelled to convict on the same act multiple times. So, rather than getting twenty years in prison, he got forty--about what you'd get for first degree murder in most of Europe.
Honestly, is anyone suprised by these efforts to extend and expand criminal behavior? The idea that if I were to make a CD all of material that from stuff I own, and have a right to, and find that by this horrifying logic that I've suddenly, 'made' a new cd, which means I'm suddenly distributing material that I made for my own personal use and because I don't want my cds to get scratched?I suspect this one will be overturned higher up. if not, the RIAA and the MPAA are going to have an absolute field day. After all the RIAA already uses the same logic for their legal efforts to maximize their gain.
I suppose we can count ourselves lucky that we aren't seeing people charged with a seperate count of battery each time they punch someone. or for a seperate account of robbery for each individual bill they stole.
I like the idea, but I think if you were to make a toggle like that, make it based on a number of positively modded comments. I say that simply because it's possible that trollers could use the general comment idea to get their spam/flood and cause a mess when articles appear on the front page with 200 comments that are mostly trolls and flamebait..... that are *not* sitting at -1. If you had it so that say 15 or so comments were modded 3 or higher, then you might have something the general slashdot crowd would want to read/check out.
Overt racism is fairly rare in the United States. As much as some people rail against big corporations, the idea of not picking the best qualified people for a job is a terrible idea. Any corporation that decided to make that a part of their corporate culture would find themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
I know that the whole idea of Affirmative Action was to break down the barriers of the GOB system and that corporate culture that stereotypes people into roles. But now we have people who complain that they are being passed over jobs because company x has to 'hire a chick' or some other belief that they are somehow better qualified for a job. Hence the backlash against AA. In a large enough pool of applicants (And I can promise you, the IT field has a large enough field), The differences between person A who is the bottom person to get the job, and person X, the bubble boy/girl, is insiginificant. I'm sure there are exceptional cases out there where a person who was dramaticly more qualified didn't get a job over someone who was significantly less qualified, but they are rare and at best anecdotal cases.Reverse Racism runs into the same problem that Racism would in a Corporate Setting.
We've all head horror stories of someone getting 'shafted' by AA, but an individual case does not a systemic problem, make.
Having a hispanic last name leads to some odd quirks, such as mail and telephone calls that are in spanish, I learned 'no hablo espanol, si habla ingles.' a while ago *laughs*. As far as my experience finding work in the industry, I'd say it's irrelevant.
Are we at a place in society where we are corporate colorblind? I'd say we're pretty close. Individuals may need some work, but there's too much at stake not to hire the best people for jobs.
Oh, and to bring it back to your origional point about /.ers, What makes you so willing to jump down the throats of /.ers when you're making the same general broad characterizations and misinformations? Oh wait, you must be new here.
hmmmmm, but in that case, would it be more probable to detect a red/blueshift from the local increase/decrease in the gravitational field? so, why cause an intereference pattern when you could simply detect the frequency of the beam after it has travelled the length of the array. Would the equipment be sensitive enough to detect a minute change in frequency that could be caused by that?
What I'm thinking is the following, We all know the speed of light is constant for a material (or vacuum). From our frame of reference we will not notice the distortion in spacetime. Our yardstick will shorten and lengthen with the compression and expansion of the waves. which would make it impossible to detect the changes. Of course, I'm probably just not knowledgeable enough to know what's going on here, but then again. I'm curious to see if this idea has been addressed.
If no one has thought of this idea yet, I just did and I claim it! :)
Bzzt, hate to correct you, but Phobo and Deimos are TINY
Phobos - 22.2km diameter
Deimos - 12.6km diameter
Hardly thousands of kilometers across and if they're going to be "moons" why not Plutos?
I think our lawmakers are bought and sold by big corporations, but perhaps, just perhaps, enough of them can be shamed into doing the right thing. And that's to remember that the goal of government is to serve the public interest, not the person with the most money.
Maybe it won't happen, but at least it's worth the try. Because I can promise you it will never happen if we don't *start* trying.
The idea seems sound and having the FAA at least sound like it's giving some sort of approval to the idea tells me that they've got some of the basic kinks worked out to the point that it's not total crack smoking.
of course, the safety issues are going to be brutal to tackle. They can keep drivers safe from some spectacular crashes, but plane crashses have an amazing tendency to be lethal. Add in the whole idea that you would push your vehicle to the limit to get an edge, I suspect you'll see all sorts of liability issues. Let alone the first plane that crashes into the spectators....
Sadly the picture cut out the important part - the big sign that says "Attack Here"
A simple solution would be to have an apprenticeship of sorts. Get a couple of people to work under Mr. Morton, have them learn the basics and then let them pick things up from there. Not only do you get a some continuity in the event of a disaster, but you also improve the chances of smoother philosophical transition (and yes, coding philosophy and technique does matter).
Then, not only do people who want to vent and make spiffy comments about dupes and /. doing something constructive about them, but it also reduces the clutter on other very interesting articles that are out there.
And whoever pulled the dupe... thank you.
Primarily because the Theatres only get a tiny fraction of any box office recipts when a movie first opens, then as the weeks pass, their percentage goes up. Sure, they make a ton of money off of popcorn and candy, But when you're paying 7 or 8 bucks to see a movie, 95 - 99 percent of that goes straight to the Movie Companies. So, if the Movie Companies continue to shorten the life of a first run movie, those Theatre owners are going to have to adapt or die.
So they're fighting to maintain some sort of status quo. It's not right or wrong, it's just why they will fight this so hard.
I suppose the next question is, At what point will major, non sucky, movies get released straight to DVD (or whatever media is in vogue)? Currently straight to video is a pretty strong indication that a movie is sucky. How much longer before that will not be true?