If you don't know the current abilities of parachutes, now-a-day, you should do your research.
A link to a photo would have been nice. A quick Google search turns up what is evidently competition to Jeb -- someone landing in a wingsuit onto a ski slope. But at least that link (the first hit off Google) has a nice photo.
Thanks, negativeblue, for forcing a million Slashdot readers to type "wingsuit" into Google. Can we now collectively bill you for a dime times a million, for a total of $100,000? A donation in that amount to EFF would be sufficient.
And thanks, Hemos, for doing such a great job as editor. There is evidently some kind of race out there to be the first to land without a parachute, and the story doesn't even touch on it because neither the submitter nor the Slashdot editor took the time to do the Google search imposed by the snotty submitter.
I thought the same thing too when I read "TiVo for the Internet." Nicholas Reville evidently used the wrong preposition. He meant to say "TiVo on the Internet."
What's really confusing is that Nicholas envisions peer-to-peer video authoring and sharing -- like video blogs, but not shared on the web (because that would require too much server bandwidth) but rather shared as a Torrent. The word "TiVo" does not capture the aspect of independent authoring -- "TiVo" implies time-shifting Big Media.
So, Nicholas, the appropriate elevator soundbit would be, "P2P video blogs".
In response to my Slashdot submission a few days ago, a couple of people responded with a non-intuitive way to grab a deep link. But it looks like Google listened, and not only is search-by-date back, but "Show original" is now an option again -- the more intuitive way to grab a deep link.
However, the deep link you get now is a Google article number, similar to the DejaNews article numbers -- which no longer work of course. The old Google deep links encoded the MsgID directly in the URL, thus guarateeing their usefulness in the future.
Depreciation has two components: mileage and age. My guess is each contributes half to the devaluation of a car. So depreciation has a significant -- I say half, conservatively a third -- marginal component. Taking an off-the-cuff estimate calculation done in my head, the AAA cost estimate excluding non-marginal costs still comes out to 25-30 cents per mile.
Online shoping is attractive mostly because of the time that it saves. Another factor is transportation cost, which AAA calculates to be 56.2 cents per mile, which it appears PNC did not account for in its calculations. And from their cost breakdown, it doesn't look like AAA is even taking into account medical costs, which is why I personally try to minimize the number of miles I drive (fear of injury or death).
I submitted the Slashdot story at 8:30am EST. At that time, groups.google.com went to the Beta. Now at 11:15am EST, groups.google.com is the old version, and the Beta has been relegated to a "Preview" link. Sometime in between, Google changed.
indymedia.org started in 1999 to plan and chronicle the "Battle in Seattle" (WTO protest). Since then, the indymedia.org's have been planning and reporting protests around the world. If that's not "leaving the house", I don't know what is.
I heard Ana Marie's testimony live on C-Span radio, and was underwhelmed. She spoke her own personal point of view, which was that bloggers just get on the web and give their opinion on the news. She, her immediate audience, and evidently Slashdot editors, thought she was speaking for all bloggers. She was not speaking for blogs such as mine (underreported.com), thememoryhole.org, libertyforum.org, whatreallyhappened.com, unknownnews.net, propagandamatrix.com, prisonplanet.com, etc., etc. that just try to get at the truth the mass media ignores, hides, or even sometimes buries after the fact.
In terms more peaceful than the Battle, I personally have "left the house" since 2000 thanks to blogs. Disenchanted with Bush and Gore, I discovered the Constitution Party and have gathered ballot access signatures and/or worked the polls ever since (2000, 2002, and 2004). I don't believe I am alone in such active participation, especially if we take the high voter turnout this year as an indicator.
Another way bloggers and those with similar political affiliations have been "leaving the house" is get-togethers through meetup.com. Revolutions start with such meetings.
The lack of a physical presence in the U.S. over the 2004 vote fraud is distressing -- in contrast to Ukraine. ANSWER is planning a U.S. inaugural day permitted protest -- but that's too late. Something (and here I admit I am taking the passive voice) should have been arranged for prior to the electoral college vote. Wonkette may have a small point after all, but it's a cheap shot overall. We're a lot better off and more informed with the blogs, and people are getting more involved, not less.
The same day the Senate was holding a meeting on this in the Dirkson Building (and C-Span was headlining it), Drudge coincidentally was running a story about a 13-year-old boy seemingly reenacting some of those videogames in real life.
I did in fact cut done all video watching to the bone when Hollywood started in with CSS, Sony Bono, and now the HDTV broadcast flag. No TV, and only one movie per year on average. When I go to see a movie, I go in with the knowledge that Hollywood may never again allow me to see the movie (an option often exercised by Disney and Lucas). While those who grew up with movies prior to 1980 might not bat an eyelash, I grew up with the DRM-free and copy-protection-free Beta and LaserDisc technologies and I am not willing to make that bargain often.
Similarly, I grew up with CDs, and I am not willing to make the DRM bargain with music.
From what I understand iTunes has DRM, and I won't use DRM, no matter how flexible. I, and many others, bought into CDs when they came out in the 1980's in a big way, because it was perfect quality sound on a medium that would (supposedly) last forever -- certainly lacking the degradation of vinyl. I have 500 CD's, with the legal ability to rip them to any player I want. When a Nokia phone comes out with 20GB storage, will you be able to load your iTunes onto that?
Songs are memories. I refuse to let a corporation control my memories. It's a shame that the corporations are still forcing us to buy environmentally harmful atoms just to listen to DRM-free music.
And here I thought the story was about once again running a debugger on a Hercules Monographics card while the app being debugged runs on the color card.
I noticed this at the end of TFA attached to an October Slashdot story. That CNN story has scrolled off but charleston.net has a copy (bugmenot.com is a registration-sharing service):
One document obtained by the AP, a 1998 U.S. government business solicitation, mandated that "any color printer must include a tracing system that encodes system identification in any output. This will tie the output to the originating equipment so that forensic identification of the equipment is possible in the event of illegal printing of currency images due to failure or circumvention of the recognition system(s)..."
I've been meaning to report this on my blog (which I've been neglecting), but now I don't have to:-)
What really surprises me is that this didn't break into the blogosphere back in October. It didn't even make it into the Slashdot thread! But at least there's some resiliency in the system of Internet democracy -- at least the story made it out anyway in under two months.
But it does show that we live in a soundbite/headline world. This information was hidden in plain sight on a front-page CNN story. Nobody who cares about privacy saw it (and reported it, mea culpa), or everyone who saw it didn't care about privacy.
It's not abortion that causes breast cancer, it's the lack of childbirth. That's why before 20th century birth control, breast cancer was known as the "nun's disease."
According to a Nov. 2, 1994 Journal of the National Cancer Institute paper abstract:
Among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women
Wow. I give a fact (the Franklin County mishap) coupled with an anecdote -- just like newspapers do -- and you criticize my post for not being up to journalistic standards?
As I said, the jury is still out on whether Bush stole the election, and the mounting evidence is still piecemeal and not yet worthy of a full blown pronouncement and story. In light of this growing evidence, it was way too premature for CBS to pounce on the blogs for reporting "incorrect numbers," for in this era of electronic voting it's going to take a lot of sleuthing to find out what the real numbers really are. But blackboxvoting.org is trying. Where is the CBS story on the massive FOIA effort of blackboxvoting.org?
I could launch into how this is just another mass media story that ignores the stories that blogs break and scoop. I could say how blogs have been critical in keeping track of stories the mass media tries to scrub off the Internet. (See my blog for my "mass media despearately trying to ignore blogs" series.)
But the greatest irony is that evidence is growing that Bush stole the election -- that the exit polls were in fact correct. I personally worked the polls handing out sample ballots for the Constitution Party, and the Republican standing next to me handing out his sample ballots told me he was expecting Kerry to win 2-1 at our precinct based on all those who preferred the sample ballots from the Democrat standing next to him than to his Republican sample ballots. Bush won in our precinct.
It's too early to make the claim that Bush stole the election. But it's also too early to say that the blogs were wrong for reporting the exit polls. It's doubly wrong the ignore the current blog focus on finding election anomalies, such as the one from kuro5hin that was finally proved out in the mass media (with credit going toward "callers" to Ohio election officials rather than to kuro5hin).
The mass media is supposed to be acting as the fourth branch of government, keeping the other three in check. Instead, the mass media is acting as a department of the executive branch, and it is now it is up to the blogs to keep the media in check.
I had heard or read (but cannot confirm with a quick Google search) that WordPerfect did not pursue Windows early because they had been told by Microsoft that OS/2 was the Next Big Thing, while Microsoft was quietly working behind the scenes to build up Windows and Windows applications in a surprise thwarting of IBM and its OS/2.
As for poor user interface of keyboard-based WordPerfect, we have IBM to thank for that. A function-key-based user-interface was efficient in the days of "standard" keyboards when function keys were on the left. IBM came along and said that their PCs and Mainframes should have the same user interface, and moved the PC function keys across the top. This is what is called an "Enhanced" keyboard. If you've never used a "Standard" keyboard, you have no right to complain.
Even today Windows has remnants "Standard" keyboard legacy. ALT-F4 closes an application and ALT-F6 closes a child window within an application. Notice the keys are both even numbered -- that was because they were adjacent in the two-by-five arrangement of function keys on the left of a "Standard" keyboard.
I have to give the same response I gave to the other poster: judge by actions, not by rhetoric. Campaign rhetoric is meant to give voters easy-to-digest soundbites, not provide in-depth investigation or balance issue nuances.
By Catholic definition, the human soul is that which is immortal. Anything else found that is mortal is not the soul. The best example of "something else" is genetics itself. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Catholic philosopher, suggested that perhaps God did not infuse the soul until the "quickening" (when the mother feels movement). But now we know two things: that the fetus looks like a human much sooner, and that even the single-celled zygote has all the genetic information of a complete human.
The metaphysical philosophy of an immortal soul stems from two points. First, that everything has a soul. Generally, there are four levels. A rock has the soul of existence. A plant has a vegetative soul. A horse has an animal soul. And a human has a rational soul. Second, it is the intelligence that makes the human soul immortal rather than mortal, because knowledge is immortal, because humans have the ability to abstract ideas, and because humans can contemplate the infinite and God. Wherever there is the essence of human, there is an immortal soul.
The presence of complete DNA in the zygote says that a zygote has the essence of human, and from that we know the immortal soul must accompany it. That the DNA is made up of matter that will decay upon death does not disprove the immortality of the soul. In this particular case, it enhanced the theory of soul immortality.
Similarly, any new physical discovery of an aspect about humans where that aspect decays cannot be tied identically to the immortal soul. Any such new discovery may or may not enhance the evidence of an immortal soul the way DNA did.
According to Catholic theology, human souls are immortal -- that is something that can never be proved or disproved through physics. It's metaphysical.
Please tell me -- what is his plan to end abortion-on-demand, and what has he done so far to stop it?
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I don't expect too many Slashdot readers fit this category, but if you know of someone who is voting for Bush for his stance on abortion and life issues, please direct them to my blog article that shows how Bush works behind the scenes to ensure the continuation of abortion in the U.S., while merely spouting pro-life rhetoric to snag those votes.
Recommend the link if you would like (or don't mind) votes transferred from Bush to Peroutka (Constitution Party).
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Thanks, negativeblue, for forcing a million Slashdot readers to type "wingsuit" into Google. Can we now collectively bill you for a dime times a million, for a total of $100,000? A donation in that amount to EFF would be sufficient.
And thanks, Hemos, for doing such a great job as editor. There is evidently some kind of race out there to be the first to land without a parachute, and the story doesn't even touch on it because neither the submitter nor the Slashdot editor took the time to do the Google search imposed by the snotty submitter.
UseNet, IM, and FTP could all be considered P2P.
What's really confusing is that Nicholas envisions peer-to-peer video authoring and sharing -- like video blogs, but not shared on the web (because that would require too much server bandwidth) but rather shared as a Torrent. The word "TiVo" does not capture the aspect of independent authoring -- "TiVo" implies time-shifting Big Media.
So, Nicholas, the appropriate elevator soundbit would be, "P2P video blogs".
However, the deep link you get now is a Google article number, similar to the DejaNews article numbers -- which no longer work of course. The old Google deep links encoded the MsgID directly in the URL, thus guarateeing their usefulness in the future.
Depreciation has two components: mileage and age. My guess is each contributes half to the devaluation of a car. So depreciation has a significant -- I say half, conservatively a third -- marginal component. Taking an off-the-cuff estimate calculation done in my head, the AAA cost estimate excluding non-marginal costs still comes out to 25-30 cents per mile.
Online shoping is attractive mostly because of the time that it saves. Another factor is transportation cost, which AAA calculates to be 56.2 cents per mile, which it appears PNC did not account for in its calculations. And from their cost breakdown, it doesn't look like AAA is even taking into account medical costs, which is why I personally try to minimize the number of miles I drive (fear of injury or death).
Is IBM just going to buy it back after the rise and fall of the Chinese economy?
I submitted the Slashdot story at 8:30am EST. At that time, groups.google.com went to the Beta. Now at 11:15am EST, groups.google.com is the old version, and the Beta has been relegated to a "Preview" link. Sometime in between, Google changed.
I heard Ana Marie's testimony live on C-Span radio, and was underwhelmed. She spoke her own personal point of view, which was that bloggers just get on the web and give their opinion on the news. She, her immediate audience, and evidently Slashdot editors, thought she was speaking for all bloggers. She was not speaking for blogs such as mine (underreported.com), thememoryhole.org, libertyforum.org, whatreallyhappened.com, unknownnews.net, propagandamatrix.com, prisonplanet.com, etc., etc. that just try to get at the truth the mass media ignores, hides, or even sometimes buries after the fact.
In terms more peaceful than the Battle, I personally have "left the house" since 2000 thanks to blogs. Disenchanted with Bush and Gore, I discovered the Constitution Party and have gathered ballot access signatures and/or worked the polls ever since (2000, 2002, and 2004). I don't believe I am alone in such active participation, especially if we take the high voter turnout this year as an indicator.
Another way bloggers and those with similar political affiliations have been "leaving the house" is get-togethers through meetup.com. Revolutions start with such meetings.
The lack of a physical presence in the U.S. over the 2004 vote fraud is distressing -- in contrast to Ukraine. ANSWER is planning a U.S. inaugural day permitted protest -- but that's too late. Something (and here I admit I am taking the passive voice) should have been arranged for prior to the electoral college vote. Wonkette may have a small point after all, but it's a cheap shot overall. We're a lot better off and more informed with the blogs, and people are getting more involved, not less.
The same day the Senate was holding a meeting on this in the Dirkson Building (and C-Span was headlining it), Drudge coincidentally was running a story about a 13-year-old boy seemingly reenacting some of those videogames in real life.
Similarly, I grew up with CDs, and I am not willing to make the DRM bargain with music.
Songs are memories. I refuse to let a corporation control my memories. It's a shame that the corporations are still forcing us to buy environmentally harmful atoms just to listen to DRM-free music.
And here I thought the story was about once again running a debugger on a Hercules Monographics card while the app being debugged runs on the color card.
What really surprises me is that this didn't break into the blogosphere back in October. It didn't even make it into the Slashdot thread! But at least there's some resiliency in the system of Internet democracy -- at least the story made it out anyway in under two months.
But it does show that we live in a soundbite/headline world. This information was hidden in plain sight on a front-page CNN story. Nobody who cares about privacy saw it (and reported it, mea culpa), or everyone who saw it didn't care about privacy.
According to a Nov. 2, 1994 Journal of the National Cancer Institute paper abstract:
For more references, see this biased geocities page.By omitting this important relationship, the Columbia editorial is itself biased.
As I said, the jury is still out on whether Bush stole the election, and the mounting evidence is still piecemeal and not yet worthy of a full blown pronouncement and story. In light of this growing evidence, it was way too premature for CBS to pounce on the blogs for reporting "incorrect numbers," for in this era of electronic voting it's going to take a lot of sleuthing to find out what the real numbers really are. But blackboxvoting.org is trying. Where is the CBS story on the massive FOIA effort of blackboxvoting.org?
But the greatest irony is that evidence is growing that Bush stole the election -- that the exit polls were in fact correct. I personally worked the polls handing out sample ballots for the Constitution Party, and the Republican standing next to me handing out his sample ballots told me he was expecting Kerry to win 2-1 at our precinct based on all those who preferred the sample ballots from the Democrat standing next to him than to his Republican sample ballots. Bush won in our precinct.
It's too early to make the claim that Bush stole the election. But it's also too early to say that the blogs were wrong for reporting the exit polls. It's doubly wrong the ignore the current blog focus on finding election anomalies, such as the one from kuro5hin that was finally proved out in the mass media (with credit going toward "callers" to Ohio election officials rather than to kuro5hin).
The mass media is supposed to be acting as the fourth branch of government, keeping the other three in check. Instead, the mass media is acting as a department of the executive branch, and it is now it is up to the blogs to keep the media in check.
As for poor user interface of keyboard-based WordPerfect, we have IBM to thank for that. A function-key-based user-interface was efficient in the days of "standard" keyboards when function keys were on the left. IBM came along and said that their PCs and Mainframes should have the same user interface, and moved the PC function keys across the top. This is what is called an "Enhanced" keyboard. If you've never used a "Standard" keyboard, you have no right to complain.
Even today Windows has remnants "Standard" keyboard legacy. ALT-F4 closes an application and ALT-F6 closes a child window within an application. Notice the keys are both even numbered -- that was because they were adjacent in the two-by-five arrangement of function keys on the left of a "Standard" keyboard.
As was my blog, but I'm on a shared server so I can't say for sure it was my site :-)
I have to give the same response I gave to the other poster: judge by actions, not by rhetoric. Campaign rhetoric is meant to give voters easy-to-digest soundbites, not provide in-depth investigation or balance issue nuances.
The metaphysical philosophy of an immortal soul stems from two points. First, that everything has a soul. Generally, there are four levels. A rock has the soul of existence. A plant has a vegetative soul. A horse has an animal soul. And a human has a rational soul. Second, it is the intelligence that makes the human soul immortal rather than mortal, because knowledge is immortal, because humans have the ability to abstract ideas, and because humans can contemplate the infinite and God. Wherever there is the essence of human, there is an immortal soul.
The presence of complete DNA in the zygote says that a zygote has the essence of human, and from that we know the immortal soul must accompany it. That the DNA is made up of matter that will decay upon death does not disprove the immortality of the soul. In this particular case, it enhanced the theory of soul immortality.
Similarly, any new physical discovery of an aspect about humans where that aspect decays cannot be tied identically to the immortal soul. Any such new discovery may or may not enhance the evidence of an immortal soul the way DNA did.
According to Catholic theology, human souls are immortal -- that is something that can never be proved or disproved through physics. It's metaphysical.
Please tell me -- what is his plan to end abortion-on-demand, and what has he done so far to stop it?
Recommend the link if you would like (or don't mind) votes transferred from Bush to Peroutka (Constitution Party).