You missed the part where parent said "doped", referring to the insanely expensive rare earth metals that are used to create the junctions of current solar panels.
Hey, just because Slashdot doesn't do it well all the time doesn't mean you can categorically condemn all web whatever-point-oh. I suppose GMail sucks too?
It's time we recognized that the interesting things about "life" are all just products of the fact that all kinds of systems can convey self-replicating entities of some sort, and they tend to be interesting and undergo evolutionary processes and etc. Whether they are non-biological DNA bundles, cellular organisms, oddly folded proteins, crystalized clay, etc.
So where are the nefarious / useful engineered prions at?
I think you mean, a Chinese COMPANY's fault, to whatever degree Microsoft tries to claim it didn't know it's Chinese contractors might steal code (pretty absurd given history and Microsoft's own experience in the region).
So, someone anonymously leaks information about shady financial dealing by a businesswoman, and then sends a letter indicating that the press was notified of these dealings. Apparently no request for payoff has been made. Sounds like a whistle blower not a blackmailer.
Just a minor point about having job skills: In allegation 5, where he was working for $50 hours a week - he was working 'digitally restoring films' which 'would normally cost $400,000' per film to restore.
I bet that is a marketable job skill! But I agree that CoS is evil and all that. But for me that is easy, because I think anything that claims to be a religion (accurately or not) is probably mostly evil in the end, no matter the good intents of the people who started/practice it.
I, personally, attended a small private elementary school that was run by a family who were CoS members (atleast, some sort of practicing Scientology, I assume it was mainline). For a long time various L. Ron Hubbard texts were in the curriculum - Learning How to Learn was one I remember pretty distinctly. The most I got from it was that, according to Hubbard, if you lost focus mid-page while reading, it meant you had not understood a word or concept earlier in the page. This principle works pretty well sometimes, even if it just helps you get back into the frame of reference. Other than that, I just remember that proficient use of a dictionary was heavily emphasized, including memorizing the alphabet backwards in order to quickly do an approximate binary search to your word.
But from what I heard years later, there was a lawsuit and all Hubbard texts were removed from the curriculum. The school seems to be doing well.
I think maximum ease of use AND empowerment is the way to go, so good (maximally featured) natural language programming system would be great...
But this just seems like ugly over-verbose shit, like Pascal but MORE unnecessary text.
on setUpAnswer pAnswer
local tAnswer, tHint, tButtonName, tUnderlineName, \
tCharacter, tImageName
put empty into sAnswerCharacters
set the itemDelimiter to tab
put item 1 of pAnswer into tAnswer
put item 2 of pAnswer into tHint
show image tHint
repeat with x = 1 to the number of words of tAnswer
add the number of chars of word x of tAnswer to \
sAnswerCharacters
repeat with y = 1 to the number of characters of word x \
of tAnswer
put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName
put "underline" & x & y into tUnderlineName
put character y of word x of tAnswer into tCharacter
put tCharacter & "Icon" into tImageName
set the cLetter of button tButtonName of group \
"Answer" to tCharacter
set the icon of button tButtonName to the id
of image tImageName of card "Image Store"
set the visible of graphic tUnderlineName of group \
"Answer" to true
end repeat
end repeat end setUpAnswer
Sounds like revolutionary natural language to me!
put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName
Like the 5th post of the first... 6 or 7 I've read to ignore the line in the summary saying "Despite being confronted with publicly available information about the real OEM price of Windows XP Home Edition being $US25-US$30".
That doesn't matter. They say that to save face only. They don't index the torrents, all they have is the hash. That means they have no way of distinguishing the source, and note that they have nothing covered by the DMCA stored on their server.
Oh, and just to note, OBT already has all TPB torrents tracked.
Again, you think that there isn't someone/somewhere else lined up to host in case that host fails? That is like thinking this story means the death of BitTorrent.
Cmon now, this is still 5 insightful? I need to post something logged in now to get a +2 karma/subscription post so people can read: WikiLeaks has a vast community of supporters and maintainers (read the Score:0 anon post under parent).
TPB is a drop in the well of support for WikiLeaks.
What are you talking about? That is an awful argument.
The argument for legalization of marijuana PREDICTS the further detriment to society from drug abuse becoming more of a problem.
When softer alternatives are prohibited, harder alternatives become more attractive (for example, why bootleg beer when you can bootleg harder alcohol). This leads to more people doing harder drugs.
As if that isn't bad enough, you then foster black market production and distribution of drugs, which is a huge industry that goes untaxed. This also leads to variable purity and supply of the various illicit substances. For drugs like heroin, this means regional rashes of drug overdose.
It is undeniable that drug addiction is a psychological and physiological problem, which should be treated with medical care rather than with the immensely expensive and wholly ineffectual criminalization of people with a disease. As a matter of fact, given recidivism rates of those convicted of drug offenses, it is pretty clear that jailing drug users leads them to continued and harder drug use. I, personally, think a stoner is of less harm to society than a stoner graduated to meth thanks to exposure in prison.
Finally, your argument is awful in regard to the simple fact that, over the last 44 years, marijuana hasn't been legal, so any perceived benefits would not be in effect.
Oh no, that isn't what meant at all. My comment was in response to all the fanfare about TPB coming under legal fire. Of course, it is of interest to most of us here due to the precedents being set. But a large amount of discussion lately is "oh noes teh PB".
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I suppose they get no credit at all then.
You missed the part where parent said "doped", referring to the insanely expensive rare earth metals that are used to create the junctions of current solar panels.
Hey, just because Slashdot doesn't do it well all the time doesn't mean you can categorically condemn all web whatever-point-oh. I suppose GMail sucks too?
$700 for an "internet appliance"? Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Just wait till every single screen is cracked within a year and see how people like it (*COUGH* iPhone *COUGH*).
It's time we recognized that the interesting things about "life" are all just products of the fact that all kinds of systems can convey self-replicating entities of some sort, and they tend to be interesting and undergo evolutionary processes and etc. Whether they are non-biological DNA bundles, cellular organisms, oddly folded proteins, crystalized clay, etc.
So where are the nefarious / useful engineered prions at?
I think you mean, a Chinese COMPANY's fault, to whatever degree Microsoft tries to claim it didn't know it's Chinese contractors might steal code (pretty absurd given history and Microsoft's own experience in the region).
Makes me curious what happened to those tapes in the meantime...
Maybe there is a gap or two a la the watergate tapes.
So, someone anonymously leaks information about shady financial dealing by a businesswoman, and then sends a letter indicating that the press was notified of these dealings. Apparently no request for payoff has been made. Sounds like a whistle blower not a blackmailer.
And L. Ron Hubbard apparently ordered it used on several occasions by Sea Org on certain individuals!
I need to look at the refs on this fucking wikipedia article this is unbelievable...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-45
Just a minor point about having job skills:
In allegation 5, where he was working for $50 hours a week -
he was working 'digitally restoring films' which
'would normally cost $400,000' per film to restore.
I bet that is a marketable job skill! But I agree that CoS is evil and all that.
But for me that is easy, because I think anything that claims to be a religion (accurately or not)
is probably mostly evil in the end, no matter the good intents of the people who started/practice it.
I, personally, attended a small private elementary school that was run by a family who were
CoS members (atleast, some sort of practicing Scientology, I assume it was mainline). For a long
time various L. Ron Hubbard texts were in the curriculum - Learning How to Learn was one I
remember pretty distinctly. The most I got from it was that, according to Hubbard, if you lost focus
mid-page while reading, it meant you had not understood a word or concept earlier in the page.
This principle works pretty well sometimes, even if it just helps you get back into the frame of reference.
Other than that, I just remember that proficient use of a dictionary was heavily emphasized, including
memorizing the alphabet backwards in order to quickly do an approximate binary search to your word.
But from what I heard years later, there was a lawsuit and all Hubbard texts were removed from the
curriculum. The school seems to be doing well.
I think maximum ease of use AND empowerment is the way to go, so good (maximally featured) natural language programming system would be great...
But this just seems like ugly over-verbose shit, like Pascal but MORE unnecessary text.
on setUpAnswer pAnswer
local tAnswer, tHint, tButtonName, tUnderlineName, \
tCharacter, tImageName
put empty into sAnswerCharacters
set the itemDelimiter to tab
put item 1 of pAnswer into tAnswer
put item 2 of pAnswer into tHint
show image tHint
repeat with x = 1 to the number of words of tAnswer
add the number of chars of word x of tAnswer to \
sAnswerCharacters
repeat with y = 1 to the number of characters of word x \
of tAnswer
put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName
put "underline" & x & y into tUnderlineName
put character y of word x of tAnswer into tCharacter
put tCharacter & "Icon" into tImageName
set the cLetter of button tButtonName of group \
"Answer" to tCharacter
set the icon of button tButtonName to the id
of image tImageName of card "Image Store"
set the visible of graphic tUnderlineName of group \
"Answer" to true
end repeat
end repeat
end setUpAnswer
Sounds like revolutionary natural language to me!
put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName
Not even the web GUI, the exact visual layout of the GUI, just like people patent other designs (textiles for example).
Not news like 90% of Slashdot today (what the fuck, an OLD VERSIONS OF IE exploit is news here? 10 of those are uncovered a day)
Like the 5th post of the first... 6 or 7 I've read to ignore the line in the summary saying "Despite being confronted with publicly available information about the real OEM price of Windows XP Home Edition being $US25-US$30".
That doesn't matter. They say that to save face only. They don't index the torrents, all they have is the hash. That means they have no way of distinguishing the source, and note that they have nothing covered by the DMCA stored on their server.
Oh, and just to note, OBT already has all TPB torrents tracked.
Touche, but do you honestly think Wikileaks will fall without PRQ? You think the people who maintain the site can't find other good hosting?
Look at the list of mirrors for every file on WikiLeaks: most (if not all) are full mirrors.
fastest (Sweden), current site, slow (US), Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Tonga, Europe, SSL, Tor
.
Also, I already did research this, much more than simply reading the Wikipedia article.
Again, you think that there isn't someone/somewhere else lined up to host in case that host fails? That is like thinking this story means the death of BitTorrent.
Drug prohibition does far more to finance the drug industry than drug legalization. Black markets inflate the price of drugs.
Cmon now, this is still 5 insightful?
I need to post something logged in now to get a +2 karma/subscription post so people can read:
WikiLeaks has a vast community of supporters and maintainers (read the Score:0 anon post under parent).
TPB is a drop in the well of support for WikiLeaks.
Aha, along the lines of "You just got tricktrolled!" or "You just lost the game."
Wait what?
Why would you bake things for your neighbors?
(And yes, I actually have baked stuff and given it to neighbors.)
What are you talking about? That is an awful argument.
The argument for legalization of marijuana PREDICTS the further detriment to society from drug abuse becoming more of a problem.
When softer alternatives are prohibited, harder alternatives become more attractive (for example, why bootleg beer when you can bootleg harder alcohol). This leads to more people doing harder drugs.
As if that isn't bad enough, you then foster black market production and distribution of drugs, which is a huge industry that goes untaxed. This also leads to variable purity and supply of the various illicit substances. For drugs like heroin, this means regional rashes of drug overdose.
It is undeniable that drug addiction is a psychological and physiological problem, which should be treated with medical care rather than with the immensely expensive and wholly ineffectual criminalization of people with a disease. As a matter of fact, given recidivism rates of those convicted of drug offenses, it is pretty clear that jailing drug users leads them to continued and harder drug use. I, personally, think a stoner is of less harm to society than a stoner graduated to meth thanks to exposure in prison.
Finally, your argument is awful in regard to the simple fact that, over the last 44 years, marijuana hasn't been legal, so any perceived benefits would not be in effect.
Oh no, that isn't what meant at all. My comment was in response to all the fanfare about TPB coming under legal fire. Of course, it is of interest to most of us here due to the precedents being set. But a large amount of discussion lately is "oh noes teh PB".
You were probably some sort of "reverse trolling re-troll trolled" or something just now.
What will we do without THE ONLY TORRENT TRACKER?
And we don't even have an alternate tracker that tracks every TPB torrent! If only someone had made OpenBitTorrent.com in time!