No one is playing the "Super Hindus" when they use the swastika. It is an inflammatory icon with specific anti-Semitic meaning.
Its use ought to be banned, just as if a group called themselves the "Jew gassers" and tried to claim it was a tribute to a wacky Israeli troupe.
Should anything offensive be banned? Well, MS has decided that they will cater to the lowest common denominator, so that means nothing offensive. These rules are indicated up front, so you don't really have a case that you didn't know about the rules.
I think some cultural imperialism is present here. I suspect that if someone wanted the cross banned because of the Nazi's use of the Iron cross, or the crusades they would not have much luck
Habitual slashdot use bodes well for your insurance rate. Mom's basement is pretty safe and the chances of catching an STD are as limited by the low probability of meeting a female in real life.
So... if I understand correctly, what's actually happening here is that a Utah company claims that NASA cannot meet the legal requirements by using the competition's designs, and the various Utah congressmen are joining in the chorus to support that Utah company.
Company discredits competitors, congressmen support their state's industry. Surprising? Hardly.
That's only half of it - the astronauts have to wear magic underwear inside their space-suits to meet the clothing law
I believe that these days Toyota is the number 1 car manufacturer in the world. Of course, even if their brake problems have been overblown in some cases by people looking for an excuse for their bad driving skills, their recent quality record is not exactly spotless.
How many transactions will I be doing from my pocket on a crowded subway?
I don't know but with any luck you will be paying for my porn site subscription and enough credit to download the videos on my anonymous PAYG phone. I might have enough credit left to call uncle Osama too. I don't know which will be worse, explaining to your wife about the porn or to the police about the calls to suspicious people in Afghanistan.
I always have a dark sense of humour, but I just realised that the above post goes beyond humour and could be really upsetting to people who's relatives were killed in the holocaust. I'm really sorry about posting this without thinking.
It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
Cool; so when someone close to you dies they wont mind if I come along and urinate on their body before the funeral? Given what you just wrote you wont object to that right?
It's about the living; and respect; doofus.
As long as you don't make a mess that needs to be cleaned up.
What the hell is the fuss about. Has the UK suddenly taken to the ancient Egyptian religion or something. It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
When I submit my cv for a job do I really want my email address to say @facebook.com?
Didn't think so.
Even worse, when they look up your profile and see all the "pictures of you" taken by friends at that party you'd rather forget. It happened to me, its really embarrassing. How was I to know that going to the local tea party wasn't going to involve a nice cup of Earl Gray, buttered scones and Jam.
My other buddy did facebook correctly. He used part of his real last name for his first name, made up a fictional last name, and posts nothing.
How is that the "correct" way to use it? What benefit does he get out of having that bogus account that sits idle?
To me, the correct usage is complete non-usage -- as in not even signing up.
Even better sign up accounts as "Barrack Obama" and "Sarah Pailin". In one talk about your conspiracy to make the USA an Islamic nation and in the other talk about how scientists plan to cross humans and monkeys and use them to replace the American population, and how handguns are a useful defence against global warming.
The sad thing is you will get a few supporters as well as the troll-bait who argue against you.
No kidding. My ISP, with whom I've been doing business for 15 years, decided without any input from customers to outsource their email to gmail. My email address is the same as ever, but it's done through gmail. I sent a complaint, never got an answer.
Thats gmail for you.... its probably in your ISP's spam box
Is there any proof that the virus indeed runs on the facility? Is there any proof that the nuclear incident really did take place? Is there any proof that the number of operational centrifuges really went down (as opposed to e.g. bringing the "defect" centrifuges to a secret place, so even if the original place was physically attacked, they could continue with enrichment)?
Maybe it was the Iranian intelligence which created StuxNet (and in that case probably also a special protection system making sure it never hits its "target") in order to make everyone in the world think they are far behind in their nuclear program (and to have a plausible explanation for the reduction of operational centrifuges, so no one gets the idea to look for them elsewhere)?
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No one is playing the "Super Hindus" when they use the swastika. It is an inflammatory icon with specific anti-Semitic meaning.
Its use ought to be banned, just as if a group called themselves the "Jew gassers" and tried to claim it was a tribute to a wacky Israeli troupe.
Should anything offensive be banned? Well, MS has decided that they will cater to the lowest common denominator, so that means nothing offensive. These rules are indicated up front, so you don't really have a case that you didn't know about the rules.
I think some cultural imperialism is present here. I suspect that if someone wanted the cross banned because of the Nazi's use of the Iron cross, or the crusades they would not have much luck
No one is playing the "Super Hindus" when they use the swastika.
I play the great warrior Arjun you insensitive clod
Isn't it interesting that Slashdot edits out svastik characters. There is a line of them below
I've got an STD facebook group.
I didn't know that so many people were interested in telephony and call routing.
Habitual slashdot use bodes well for your insurance rate. Mom's basement is pretty safe and the chances of catching an STD are as limited by the low probability of meeting a female in real life.
So... if I understand correctly, what's actually happening here is that a Utah company claims that NASA cannot meet the legal requirements by using the competition's designs, and the various Utah congressmen are joining in the chorus to support that Utah company.
Company discredits competitors, congressmen support their state's industry. Surprising? Hardly.
That's only half of it - the astronauts have to wear magic underwear inside their space-suits to meet the clothing law
i used to write a long and complete answer to every slashdot article. But now I have less time so I
I believe that these days Toyota is the number 1 car manufacturer in the world. Of course, even if their brake problems have been overblown in some cases by people looking for an excuse for their bad driving skills, their recent quality record is not exactly spotless.
You might say they are a runaway success.
How many transactions will I be doing from my pocket on a crowded subway?
I don't know but with any luck you will be paying for my porn site subscription and enough credit to download the videos on my anonymous PAYG phone. I might have enough credit left to call uncle Osama too. I don't know which will be worse, explaining to your wife about the porn or to the police about the calls to suspicious people in Afghanistan.
Just so long as SCOracle doesn't kill it.
Well, since Verizon and Comcast harbor 10% of all user customer PC's all by themselves, this is not so impressive.
I was thinking the same thing. What percentage of all PCs doe these 50 ISPs "harbour"? If it is arround 50% there's no story.
I always have a dark sense of humour, but I just realised that the above post goes beyond humour and could be really upsetting to people who's relatives were killed in the holocaust. I'm really sorry about posting this without thinking.
I think the world is divided into people who recognize the Jewish problem and people who don’t.
Why is this modded offtopic, surely he was talking about a zyklon cloud.
What the hell does a company actually do, if it outsources even it's own knowledge management?
The good news is that they don't have to know what they're doing, someone external will know for them.
What does "cloud" mean? It means that I will eat you alive if I see it on your resume.
Tell them you worked on Cloud computing on "Plan 9". If pushed just say "I've been on cloud 9 for years now".
I'm pretty sure no other Nuclear worker held open the eyes of the other Nuclear workers while yelling into the sky...
I can see Homer Simpson doing it if the guy was due to buy a round at Moe's.
"Cool; so when someone close to you dies they wont mind if I come along and urinate on their body before the funeral?"
Not really. They're dead, why would I care?
I'm willing to guess you either have never experienced real loss, or have an inability to feel empathy. That, or you're trolling.
It will be an affirmation of my beliefs. You will have to pay your own airfair though
It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
Cool; so when someone close to you dies they wont mind if I come along and urinate on their body before the funeral? Given what you just wrote you wont object to that right?
It's about the living; and respect; doofus.
As long as you don't make a mess that needs to be cleaned up.
What the hell is the fuss about. Has the UK suddenly taken to the ancient Egyptian religion or something. It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
When I submit my cv for a job do I really want my email address to say @facebook.com?
Didn't think so.
Even worse, when they look up your profile and see all the "pictures of you" taken by friends at that party you'd rather forget. It happened to me, its really embarrassing. How was I to know that going to the local tea party wasn't going to involve a nice cup of Earl Gray, buttered scones and Jam.
My other buddy did facebook correctly. He used part of his real last name for his first name, made up a fictional last name, and posts nothing.
How is that the "correct" way to use it? What benefit does he get out of having that bogus account that sits idle?
To me, the correct usage is complete non-usage -- as in not even signing up.
Even better sign up accounts as "Barrack Obama" and "Sarah Pailin". In one talk about your conspiracy to make the USA an Islamic nation and in the other talk about how scientists plan to cross humans and monkeys and use them to replace the American population, and how handguns are a useful defence against global warming. The sad thing is you will get a few supporters as well as the troll-bait who argue against you.
No kidding. My ISP, with whom I've been doing business for 15 years, decided without any input from customers to outsource their email to gmail. My email address is the same as ever, but it's done through gmail. I sent a complaint, never got an answer.
Thats gmail for you .... its probably in your ISP's spam box
The entire membership of the Firewire committee.
They are the hellfirewire club.
Uhh, the Russians would like a word: LUNA 16. Why do we forget the accomplishments of the Russians? So I hope "the Moon missions" includes the Russians, not just Apollo? Yes? Spaceeba!
And the Vatican City claims to have sent and recovered a probe up Uranus.
Is there any proof that the virus indeed runs on the facility? Is there any proof that the nuclear incident really did take place? Is there any proof that the number of operational centrifuges really went down (as opposed to e.g. bringing the "defect" centrifuges to a secret place, so even if the original place was physically attacked, they could continue with enrichment)?
Maybe it was the Iranian intelligence which created StuxNet (and in that case probably also a special protection system making sure it never hits its "target") in order to make everyone in the world think they are far behind in their nuclear program (and to have a plausible explanation for the reduction of operational centrifuges, so no one gets the idea to look for them elsewhere)?
And maybe George Bush ordered the 9/11 attacks...