IANAL, but as I understand it, you are given more leeway when your speach involves a public figure. If you print something untrue and defamatory about John Doe, he can sue you. But if you publish something untrue about a politician (or any public figure), he has to prove malicious intent. There was a libel case sometime in the past couple of years where it had to be decided if a company executive was a public figure or not. It was decided that he was not, so he could sue the publication.
for example, I've just visited bomis.com, and had it not been referred to in this article as potentially a porn or soft-porn site, I never would have guessed by scanning the home page -- his "correction" is probably warranted.
I had the opposite reaction. At first, I was suprised that he would be involved in one of those sleazy search pages. You know, the ones where you type popularwebsite.com instead of popularwebsite.net and you find several useful links to gambling, porn, and viagra. If I had come across that page on my own, I would've written it off as just another one of those moron traps. Upon further inspection, it doesn't seem to link to any porn or gambling, but their advertisers certainly do. I still can't figure out what it's purpose is. So, Jimmy was right to correct that error in his bio, but I can also understand the original editor's mistake in classifying it as a porn site.
When are./ users going to be able to display graphic ads in their sigs? Hell, the blink tag doesn't even work around here. I mean, I've got a mountain of ipods just sitting around waiting to be claimed.
Just because you've visited the touristy areas of a huge Chinese mega-city, that doesn't make you an expert on China. Did you happen to visit the slums while you were there? How about the rural farmers that can barely feed and clothe their families?
And guess what, the McDonalds in my small US town will also bring your food to your table if it's not ready right away. I've seen this at a few other fast food joints too. This means nothing other than that particular store's manager cares about running the place and the kids who work there aren't too retarded.
Your view of China is about as real as that of someone who forms an opinion of the US solely based on a visit to New York City.
High concentrations of oxygen won't combust, it's the lower-middle concentrations (especially mixed with certain other chemicals) you have to watch for.
I believe you're confusing oxygen with a fuel. Oxygen won't combust at all. But putting a solid or liquid fuel in contact with pure oxygen and an ignition source is a recipe for disaster. It's true that if the oxygen concentration were to reach such a high level that all other flammable gasses present were below their LFL the mixture wouldn't burn, but that wouldn't make the situation safe because a more concentrated fuel source could be introduced and you'd have a huge fireball on your hands.
LAMP is a collection of technologies for making web apps, whereas Java is a programming language that is useful for creating web applications (both on the server side and the client side. Even if Java isn't used as much for the web, it's still useful for making cross-platform standalone (sort of) applications.
...using power tools to cut almost-but-not-quite into one of the most toxic substances around, which, not at all incidentally, we are advised to just "dispose" of when we're done with it. Gee, I wonder what the author did with his? Tossed it in the garbage, or throw it into the sewer?
I assume you're referring to mercury. Mercury is found in all fluorescent light bulbs, and it is legal for consumers to dispose of fluorescent bulbs in the garbage. A broken fluorescent bulb should be taken seriously and thoroughly cleaned up immediately, but you don't exactly have to call in a hazmat team. As for the "mercury vapor" mentioned in the article, I don't know what he's talking about. Mercury has a very low vapor pressure at room temperature. If you break a fluorescent bulb while it's on, then you need to worry about the fumes.
I didn't RTFA, but I don't think it's as bad as it sounds. Mercury has a very low vapor pressure at room temperature. Fluorescent light bulbs have mercury too.
What's this? Someone posted some intentionally false information about a public figure as a joke on Wikipedia!!! What's the world coming to? We must take Wikipedia offline at once and hold ISPs responsible for all their customers' actions. Next, let's sue the phone company everytime someone calls in a bomb threat.
Seigenthaler is such a stupid whiney bitch. The article didn't actually say he was known to have been involved in the assassinations, it just said that for a certain period, he was suspected of involvement. Chances are, that is factually correct, since everybody and their sister has been suspected in the Kennedy assasinations by someone. Anyone that would use such a vague reference with no sources for anything is a moron. You don't see the Whitehouse throwing a hissyfit everytime some dork replaces the content of the G.W. Bush article with "BUSH IS TEH GHEY!!!!111".
Why is it that so many American jews claim to be champions of free speech, but the moment someone says anything bad about them, they start calling for (selective) censorship.
In your example, there is a professor that speaks unrespectfully about a group that does no harm to anybody.
First, the Chinese government sees all religious groups in their country as a threat to the government and, by extension, to the people. Are they right in supressing all religious expression? Second, the professor's comments were very coarsely worded and referred to "fundies" and "their big fat faces". Not all religious fundamentalists are trying to destroy the educational system. Comments such as his could offend Christians even if they were opposed to the recent educational reforms. It would seem the majority of his department agrees with me since they asked him to step down.
I don't think this film was intended to be a box office hit. This seems like one of those things that most people see on DVD. People go to movie theaters to turn their brains for a couple hours and be entertained. There have been a few exceptions lately, but I don't think the subject matter of this movie interests most people enough to see it at the theaters. People it does interst enough will seek it out, and will be able to find it at a movie rental store or a library.
I thought the whole point of these laptops was for people in far poorer countries who could not possibly hope to afford anything remotely as good as these anyway...
If they're selling them to governments in poor countries for $100 and to consumers for $200, then obviously they can't be manufactured for $100. Apparently, that MIT guy is counting on these things being subsidised by consumers in more affluent countries. So if consumers don't like 'em, then they won't continue to be produced.
Paul Mirecki resigned as chairman of the religious studies department. He still teaches at the university.
So he resigned as chairman of religious studies, and he cancelled the course, but he still teaches at the University. I'm certainly not condoning the physical assault, and I'm not even religious, but I have to say this guy used pretty poor judgement for a chairman of a religious studies department. If a professor of East Asian studies referred to Buddhist monks as a bunch of chanting idiots running around in bath robes, that wouldn't be tolerated, and his statements shouldn't either.
Yeah, I'd like to see more than a 6-fold increase in storage, but we need a HD medium for movies now. Actually, we needed it at least a year ago. There are more and more people getting HDTVs, but there are no HD media to store movies on. And the ratio of the number of pixels in the 1080 HD formats to the number of pixels in the NTSC DVD format (720x480) just happens to be exactly 6.
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IANAL, but as I understand it, you are given more leeway when your speach involves a public figure. If you print something untrue and defamatory about John Doe, he can sue you. But if you publish something untrue about a politician (or any public figure), he has to prove malicious intent. There was a libel case sometime in the past couple of years where it had to be decided if a company executive was a public figure or not. It was decided that he was not, so he could sue the publication.
for example, I've just visited bomis.com, and had it not been referred to in this article as potentially a porn or soft-porn site, I never would have guessed by scanning the home page -- his "correction" is probably warranted.
I had the opposite reaction. At first, I was suprised that he would be involved in one of those sleazy search pages. You know, the ones where you type popularwebsite.com instead of popularwebsite.net and you find several useful links to gambling, porn, and viagra. If I had come across that page on my own, I would've written it off as just another one of those moron traps. Upon further inspection, it doesn't seem to link to any porn or gambling, but their advertisers certainly do. I still can't figure out what it's purpose is. So, Jimmy was right to correct that error in his bio, but I can also understand the original editor's mistake in classifying it as a porn site.
Google it. Duh.
When are ./ users going to be able to display graphic ads in their sigs? Hell, the blink tag doesn't even work around here. I mean, I've got a mountain of ipods just sitting around waiting to be claimed.
How many of you remember the articles in QST and Ham Radio from the 1970's about...
I'm willing to wager: not many. For most slashdotters, the first season of Friends is retro kitsch.
"H3y, r3m3mbr wh3n w3 w3r3 k1d5 wh3n 7hey 1nv3n73d dvdburn3rs?"
"n0, dvdbyrn3rs h4ve 4lw4y5 3xis73d. PWN3D!!!!11"
"0h y34h, i f0rg0t."
I heard this on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on NPR yesterday morning. Apparently it's a pretty widely reported lie.
When are geeks gonna learn? Just because a girl gets a restraining order against you, that doesn't make her your girlfriend. ;)
As you can see, this is a totally blanant plan.
blanant (adj.): 1) Shrouded in secrecy. Clandestine. 2) Being represented by three question marks.
antonyms: blatant.
Just because you've visited the touristy areas of a huge Chinese mega-city, that doesn't make you an expert on China. Did you happen to visit the slums while you were there? How about the rural farmers that can barely feed and clothe their families?
And guess what, the McDonalds in my small US town will also bring your food to your table if it's not ready right away. I've seen this at a few other fast food joints too. This means nothing other than that particular store's manager cares about running the place and the kids who work there aren't too retarded.
Your view of China is about as real as that of someone who forms an opinion of the US solely based on a visit to New York City.
High concentrations of oxygen won't combust, it's the lower-middle concentrations (especially mixed with certain other chemicals) you have to watch for.
I believe you're confusing oxygen with a fuel. Oxygen won't combust at all. But putting a solid or liquid fuel in contact with pure oxygen and an ignition source is a recipe for disaster. It's true that if the oxygen concentration were to reach such a high level that all other flammable gasses present were below their LFL the mixture wouldn't burn, but that wouldn't make the situation safe because a more concentrated fuel source could be introduced and you'd have a huge fireball on your hands.
Oxygen isn't dangerous per se, but it becomes deadly when it reacts with hydrogen to form dihydrogen monoxide.
Whether there is a link in the article is irrelevant because there are links in the comments now. Taco knew there would be.
LAMP is a collection of technologies for making web apps, whereas Java is a programming language that is useful for creating web applications (both on the server side and the client side. Even if Java isn't used as much for the web, it's still useful for making cross-platform standalone (sort of) applications.
...using power tools to cut almost-but-not-quite into one of the most toxic substances around, which, not at all incidentally, we are advised to just "dispose" of when we're done with it. Gee, I wonder what the author did with his? Tossed it in the garbage, or throw it into the sewer?
I assume you're referring to mercury. Mercury is found in all fluorescent light bulbs, and it is legal for consumers to dispose of fluorescent bulbs in the garbage. A broken fluorescent bulb should be taken seriously and thoroughly cleaned up immediately, but you don't exactly have to call in a hazmat team. As for the "mercury vapor" mentioned in the article, I don't know what he's talking about. Mercury has a very low vapor pressure at room temperature. If you break a fluorescent bulb while it's on, then you need to worry about the fumes.
I didn't RTFA, but I don't think it's as bad as it sounds. Mercury has a very low vapor pressure at room temperature. Fluorescent light bulbs have mercury too.
For those who don't know what a Freudian slip is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, but you mean your mother.
I'm Jewish.
What's this? Someone posted some intentionally false information about a public figure as a joke on Wikipedia!!! What's the world coming to? We must take Wikipedia offline at once and hold ISPs responsible for all their customers' actions. Next, let's sue the phone company everytime someone calls in a bomb threat.
Seigenthaler is such a stupid whiney bitch. The article didn't actually say he was known to have been involved in the assassinations, it just said that for a certain period, he was suspected of involvement. Chances are, that is factually correct, since everybody and their sister has been suspected in the Kennedy assasinations by someone. Anyone that would use such a vague reference with no sources for anything is a moron. You don't see the Whitehouse throwing a hissyfit everytime some dork replaces the content of the G.W. Bush article with "BUSH IS TEH GHEY!!!!111".
Why is it that so many American jews claim to be champions of free speech, but the moment someone says anything bad about them, they start calling for (selective) censorship.
In your example, there is a professor that speaks unrespectfully about a group that does no harm to anybody.
First, the Chinese government sees all religious groups in their country as a threat to the government and, by extension, to the people. Are they right in supressing all religious expression? Second, the professor's comments were very coarsely worded and referred to "fundies" and "their big fat faces". Not all religious fundamentalists are trying to destroy the educational system. Comments such as his could offend Christians even if they were opposed to the recent educational reforms. It would seem the majority of his department agrees with me since they asked him to step down.
I think it's got potential.
I don't think this film was intended to be a box office hit. This seems like one of those things that most people see on DVD. People go to movie theaters to turn their brains for a couple hours and be entertained. There have been a few exceptions lately, but I don't think the subject matter of this movie interests most people enough to see it at the theaters. People it does interst enough will seek it out, and will be able to find it at a movie rental store or a library.
the Black Sea?
I thought the whole point of these laptops was for people in far poorer countries who could not possibly hope to afford anything remotely as good as these anyway...
If they're selling them to governments in poor countries for $100 and to consumers for $200, then obviously they can't be manufactured for $100. Apparently, that MIT guy is counting on these things being subsidised by consumers in more affluent countries. So if consumers don't like 'em, then they won't continue to be produced.
The caption under his picture reads:
Paul Mirecki resigned as chairman of the religious studies department. He still teaches at the university.
So he resigned as chairman of religious studies, and he cancelled the course, but he still teaches at the University. I'm certainly not condoning the physical assault, and I'm not even religious, but I have to say this guy used pretty poor judgement for a chairman of a religious studies department. If a professor of East Asian studies referred to Buddhist monks as a bunch of chanting idiots running around in bath robes, that wouldn't be tolerated, and his statements shouldn't either.
Yeah, I'd like to see more than a 6-fold increase in storage, but we need a HD medium for movies now. Actually, we needed it at least a year ago. There are more and more people getting HDTVs, but there are no HD media to store movies on. And the ratio of the number of pixels in the 1080 HD formats to the number of pixels in the NTSC DVD format (720x480) just happens to be exactly 6.