You may be joking, but I don't buy their cover-up. As I see it the robots realized that a world full of oil is a much much better habitat and tried to make it true.
We are going to see an escalation in extraction machine failures all over the world soon.
if you have that old hardware you surely are not upgrading cpu or motherboard, are you? if you are you can get a cheap card that is much better than your old one or just an integrated card.
Ehm, no. First of all he is an attorney general, not a governor. But most importantly a governor can veto an execution for whatever reason. If you don't want a governor to stop an execution on moral grounds you do not vote him, it is that simple.
Funny story; some people would only vote someone who believes in a religion against killings, but would never want him to stop the killings. Actually this story is more sad than funny since people are killed, but it remains a wonderful example of hypocrisy, as the OP stated.
They were not broadcasting, they were sending to a specific device with a specific address. They just happened not to encrypt it. It is fairly reasonable that they expected any other party to drop the packets.
I like your analogy, but I am afraid you forget that every packet has the intended recipient embedded. Some receivers will not even look at other packets and do not have a monitor mode. You have to go out of your way to listen to everything, contrary to the radio broadcast case.
Everything is correct, but in this case also reconrding is not passive. They set up the equipment to record the packets, my computer does not record packets of unencrypted networks unless I tell it to do so.
Yes, you can. And in fact they regularly are, in more complex games, such as D&D. Humans are imperfect and the rules they make sometimes have holes which let some players screw other players.
Humans are not imperfect: that additional feat and skill is better than any other race advantage. Dwarves can move one square less when pushed, big deal.
Of course, since there was a story on Microsoft on the front page, we had to see this baseless speculation of a random guy on the net. I suppose everyone wants this stories, because they keep coming...
As for the subject I understand they have a content distribution network called iTunes and it works quite well. They will produce the iFridge before ever creating two competing products. Is there any point at all in this speculation?
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how exactly Google is controlling my thoughts. Sure, I use google, and gmail, and I have a Droid...
There. Your cell phone sent your thoughts to their HQ who sent you a subtle mail with what you should have been thinking instead. Then a specially crafted gif on their search page destroyed your memory of the process. All in Javascript and HTML5.
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Ah the old "I waste oil so you probably do too" fallacy. I don't drive. I cannot force others not to drive. I don't *want* to force them to stop. But I would like that not to ruin my environment. And I really believe I can have all at the same time.
Actually I kinda expected Steve Jobs to sleep hanging from the ceiling and wrapped in his black wings and even blacker turtleneck. But I read Slashdot comments regularly so I could be biased...
For me, until I have no real alternatives but an iPhone, I do not care if it is open or not. I am still more annoyed by the fact that I cannot go in a shop here and find a computer without windows.
If they commit the crime abroad and against a citizen of another state I guess the local justice can do what the fuck they want. And the foreigner traditionally does not have the same level of protection of a citizen. For this reason treaties are signed that allow him to contact his embassy, for example, have a right to an interpreter, etc. But without a treaty whoever has him in their hands can try him.
Also, one's own country could be too light on punishment with that, or could have no laws against the particular crime. For example Vatican does not recognize some financial crimes, so that their citizens (like cardinals) are not punished for those. Another country that seldom punishes his citizens for crimes committed abroad is the US, especially when the responsible is a military. There is a long list of complaints against US bases around the world for this reason. The US have convicted and imprisoned many foreigners in their history. On the opposite side, in one recent case a US citizen was convicted in Italy for killing an British citizen, and the US acknowledged that the trial was fair.
Finally, if one's own country is not democratic and does not respect human rights, my government should *never* send anyone there. If they commit crimes they will be tried where they can defend themselves.
So there *are* reasons for not trying a person in his own country, sometimes, and each case is different.
OTOH this is what happened to the LHC predecessor at CERN when Fermilab was bleeding edge. I suspect that in 20 years the #1 accelerator will be our fellow Americans' one. (unless they win the race to have short-sighted politicians...)
And I think it is probably better to have only one "best accelerator" at a time. LHC will be able to confirm the data from Tevatron *and* do something more. And so will do the next Tevatron with LHC data.
Fuck the multitouch patents! This is about patents over the standard mobile technology and the ability of a newcomer to enter the market!
I don't care whoever wins (though my dislike of Apple is strong) but the outcome will set a precedent for new companies that want to start producing a mobile phone. At the very least they will have to strong arm old players with some unrelated patents. Why do people read everything in this Apple-centric way?
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You may be joking, but I don't buy their cover-up. As I see it the robots realized that a world full of oil is a much much better habitat and tried to make it true.
We are going to see an escalation in extraction machine failures all over the world soon.
Then it will begin.
You may want to run now.
if you have that old hardware you surely are not upgrading cpu or motherboard, are you? if you are you can get a cheap card that is much better than your old one or just an integrated card.
Really? I don't know the details, why is this more merciful? Cold-blooded killing is quite low in my mercy ranking what did he do that is *far* worse?
Ehm, no. First of all he is an attorney general, not a governor. But most importantly a governor can veto an execution for whatever reason. If you don't want a governor to stop an execution on moral grounds you do not vote him, it is that simple.
Funny story; some people would only vote someone who believes in a religion against killings, but would never want him to stop the killings. Actually this story is more sad than funny since people are killed, but it remains a wonderful example of hypocrisy, as the OP stated.
They were not broadcasting, they were sending to a specific device with a specific address. They just happened not to encrypt it. It is fairly reasonable that they expected any other party to drop the packets.
I like your analogy, but I am afraid you forget that every packet has the intended recipient embedded. Some receivers will not even look at other packets and do not have a monitor mode. You have to go out of your way to listen to everything, contrary to the radio broadcast case.
Everything is correct, but in this case also reconrding is not passive. They set up the equipment to record the packets, my computer does not record packets of unencrypted networks unless I tell it to do so.
Yes, you can. And in fact they regularly are, in more complex games, such as D&D. Humans are imperfect and the rules they make sometimes have holes which let some players screw other players.
Humans are not imperfect: that additional feat and skill is better than any other race advantage. Dwarves can move one square less when pushed, big deal.
Of course, since there was a story on Microsoft on the front page, we had to see this baseless speculation of a random guy on the net. I suppose everyone wants this stories, because they keep coming...
As for the subject I understand they have a content distribution network called iTunes and it works quite well. They will produce the iFridge before ever creating two competing products. Is there any point at all in this speculation?
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how exactly Google is controlling my thoughts. Sure, I use google, and gmail, and I have a Droid...
There. Your cell phone sent your thoughts to their HQ who sent you a subtle mail with what you should have been thinking instead. Then a specially crafted gif on their search page destroyed your memory of the process. All in Javascript and HTML5.
Ah the old "I waste oil so you probably do too" fallacy. I don't drive. I cannot force others not to drive. I don't *want* to force them to stop. But I would like that not to ruin my environment. And I really believe I can have all at the same time.
If you don't want to pay people so long and so much you don't sign a contract that says you will do so. Is it difficult?
Actually I kinda expected Steve Jobs to sleep hanging from the ceiling and wrapped in his black wings and even blacker turtleneck. But I read Slashdot comments regularly so I could be biased...
I think the reasoning ends with "life does not need a creator with superhuman powers".
For me, until I have no real alternatives but an iPhone, I do not care if it is open or not. I am still more annoyed by the fact that I cannot go in a shop here and find a computer without windows.
If they commit the crime abroad and against a citizen of another state I guess the local justice can do what the fuck they want. And the foreigner traditionally does not have the same level of protection of a citizen. For this reason treaties are signed that allow him to contact his embassy, for example, have a right to an interpreter, etc. But without a treaty whoever has him in their hands can try him.
Also, one's own country could be too light on punishment with that, or could have no laws against the particular crime. For example Vatican does not recognize some financial crimes, so that their citizens (like cardinals) are not punished for those. Another country that seldom punishes his citizens for crimes committed abroad is the US, especially when the responsible is a military. There is a long list of complaints against US bases around the world for this reason. The US have convicted and imprisoned many foreigners in their history. On the opposite side, in one recent case a US citizen was convicted in Italy for killing an British citizen, and the US acknowledged that the trial was fair.
Finally, if one's own country is not democratic and does not respect human rights, my government should *never* send anyone there. If they commit crimes they will be tried where they can defend themselves.
So there *are* reasons for not trying a person in his own country, sometimes, and each case is different.
OTOH this is what happened to the LHC predecessor at CERN when Fermilab was bleeding edge. I suspect that in 20 years the #1 accelerator will be our fellow Americans' one. (unless they win the race to have short-sighted politicians...)
And I think it is probably better to have only one "best accelerator" at a time. LHC will be able to confirm the data from Tevatron *and* do something more. And so will do the next Tevatron with LHC data.
Man, I wished so much for the collapse... It would mean that all the cool physics at high densities and small distances would happen again...
sure, but we on slashdot know it must be Microsoft's fault after all, and Microsoft is an American company.
Exactly the worst enemy of "perfect" is "good enough". It is why Plan9 died at the hands of Unix.
If multitouch sensors were that easy to create, don't you think we'd have had them in 1980, along with all the craze over touch screens way back when?
We did. Sorry if I don't read the rest of the post.
You never sue when you have the edge, you sue when you lose the edge.
Or when you see that the good manners cannot be successful and your competitor will never pay for your research unless forced. Just sayin'...
Especially since the technology was patented by synaptics much before.
See, Nokia has sued for money only, not for licensing. I don't get this paranoia about multitouch patents: Nokia does not want them.
Fuck the multitouch patents! This is about patents over the standard mobile technology and the ability of a newcomer to enter the market!
I don't care whoever wins (though my dislike of Apple is strong) but the outcome will set a precedent for new companies that want to start producing a mobile phone. At the very least they will have to strong arm old players with some unrelated patents. Why do people read everything in this Apple-centric way?