I suppose slashdot should just give subscriber status to Coral and mirrordot to get the pages ahead of time. I think the influx of subscribers will slashdot the site before it even becomes available to the general public.
Much like Hot Coffee and the Oblivion Skins the "Naked Fashion" is already implemented underneath. Commenting out the "fabric" will result in an change in rating.
Heck someone could use their computer to view inappropriate material (I am shocked). Windows should be the next target: it allows you to play games (some M for mature), view pr0n, and even kill people (military systems).
ESRB cannot protect children from things they see or do in the real world - but at least they can keep them ignorant, of the real world, in the virtual one.
It's like announcing that a herd of turtles is reaching the finish line. It's big, it's bulky and everyone knows it's coming. The question is anyone will give a hare's tail once it finally arrives - or will the rabbit (or penguin) finally win the race?
If you're trying to imply that the war in Iraq is the reason for our deficits
No sir, it is merely one of numerous reasons for it. The intention of my statement was to indicate that there are exceptions to expenditures that may not be seen as favorable to the general public. Depending on your POV war may be one.
A third and fourth party wouldn't help at this point in time. Major electoral reform would be required before they would be effective. In Canada, we essentially have 2 Electable parties; the other parties inevitably just split votes away from the other two. Unfortunately the vote splitting hurts the challenging party more then the incumbent if there is change in the air - voters are pushed away from the incumbent towards one of the two other parties and this usually ensures there will not be a majority elected.
One of the Parties is from Quebec and it statistically cannot be elected since it cannot win enough seats in Quebec, the only province where it has representatives.
Yes a 3-4 Party system is ideal, but it will take a whole lot of work to make it effective.
EFF had asked a Federal Judge to order AT&T to cease and desist their co-operation with the DoJ because 'of a possibility that personal and corporate secrets would otherwise be disclosed.'
That is precisely the issue. You have to have enough citizens who: are smart enough, care enough, know enough (of what the current Government is doing), and who isn't afraid to walk out of their door because of the constant threat of terrorists -- which is enforced by everything they see or hear from the media and the government.
On the bright side, the current president's approval rating is quite low so there is only a small chance his brother will get in. The problem is this: The way the American 2-party system has proven to work time-and-again is on "faith-based-economics". Essentially, one government spends insane amounts of money and throws the country into massive debt which the next government has to deal with. Typically these expenditures are popular (war here is the exception). As the other party gets elected to "handle" the debt, they tighten the purse strings and because they are harsh economically they will not get elected the second term. Of course any progress made on this front is spent by the, returning, first party.
The real challenge is to convince people in the West that tightening the purse strings is a good thing. Running such a high debt during a period of wild economic growth will hurt when the economy inevitably fails.
In Summary (To Stay More on Topic): There will be a switch next time, but only for a single iteration of Government. The herd of turtles that is the American people look to have wised up, but the incumbent government has positioned their successors to fail. Look for only a short reprieve, if any.
Sen. Specter emphasized that he doesn't want the issue to fade into the background, saying that he'd like to see 'public concern and public indignation build up.'
And what a more receptive audience then Slashdot? Sen Specter (aka "maotx") is well on his way!
Perhaps the utility will provide a SOAP service that the gadget can call and find out what the cheap times are.
I was thinking also something along that lines. I have seen some work being done on smart metering, and it may be quite posible to create a WS interface along a powerline network. I can see the messages now:
Meter (7:58): r-u-cheap?
Meter (7:59): r-u-cheap?
Meter (8:00): r-u-cheap?
Hydro Company (8:00): i-am-cheap
The real problem will come when all this load balancing succeeds, and there are no peak times....
As another poster below states. This would actually be a good thing since the cost to generate all hydro would be reduced by the reduction in total capacity.
Wouldn't the mass adoption of this product just shift the peak usage time - therefore negating some of the benefits of using it?
The other problem which may arise is that a hydro company aware of such devices may charge a premium in order to offset "lost revenue".
These are concerns I have. That being said, this appears to be an advantage to both the producer and the consumer. Lets face it, producers want people to reduce consumption at peak hours and thereby reducing the need to import power (I realize this is contrary to my statement above, but the hydro companies are capitalist profit monsters anyways). Consumers like the advantage of saving a little money on hydro - but you will have to save a lot in order to justify the cost of the system. It was going to happen eventually, kudos to GridPoint!
I completely agree. The ONLY reason I have XP on my system is for playing the odd game. Truthfully it will not be a huge loss if I have to switch entirely to Linux. In fact it will be a net gain: of time.
KIA packets are fine, you know they are dead. You have to watch out for those MIA (Missing in Action) packets. I would imagine that your enemy is trying to capture as many as possible and then interrogate them to get some useful information.
There is NO way they will lower the prices in the rest of the world. If they did then all video rental stores would go out of business - or start moving a lot more merchandise. Likewise, direct-to-DVD releases cannot be priced very low; DVD sales are their only form of revenue.
As much as I would like to see movies for $1.50. It will never happen.
Shouldn't the title read: "China's Google Problem"?
I realize that Google is trying to enter a new market, but I wouldn't be surprised if China really wanted Google there too -- on their terms of course.
Much like some of the methods of lossy compression (Temporal Masking). Maybe the point is to provide a loud sound such that your ears cant really distinguish the crappy audio afterwards -- I do realize that temporal masking is generally on the scale of milliseconds. But maybe they know something we don't.
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose slashdot should just give subscriber status to Coral and mirrordot to get the pages ahead of time. I think the influx of subscribers will slashdot the site before it even becomes available to the general public.
No, as far as I remember British spam comes with Bacon, spam, eggs and spam. And if you take it easy on the spam it's actually quite good.
Slashdot.
"Pr-" "-0n"
Pr0n.
My Mistake, I thought you were referring to The Electric Company.
Much like Hot Coffee and the Oblivion Skins the "Naked Fashion" is already implemented underneath. Commenting out the "fabric" will result in an change in rating.
That's a shame. It only had one day left until retirement.
Heck someone could use their computer to view inappropriate material (I am shocked). Windows should be the next target: it allows you to play games (some M for mature), view pr0n, and even kill people (military systems).
ESRB cannot protect children from things they see or do in the real world - but at least they can keep them ignorant, of the real world, in the virtual one.
The Inauthentic Paper Detector Says:
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Nice Try Dvorak!
It's like announcing that a herd of turtles is reaching the finish line. It's big, it's bulky and everyone knows it's coming. The question is anyone will give a hare's tail once it finally arrives - or will the rabbit (or penguin) finally win the race?
Wii don't need no thought control. No more students in the classroom. Nintendo, leave the Rev alone.
He not only finds time to Post Once on slashdot. But at least 2 articles in 24 hours!
More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen
Videogame Remake of 1986's World Series Game 6
If you're trying to imply that the war in Iraq is the reason for our deficits
No sir, it is merely one of numerous reasons for it. The intention of my statement was to indicate that there are exceptions to expenditures that may not be seen as favorable to the general public. Depending on your POV war may be one.
Thanks for the links to some specific $$ figures.
A third and fourth party wouldn't help at this point in time. Major electoral reform would be required before they would be effective. In Canada, we essentially have 2 Electable parties; the other parties inevitably just split votes away from the other two. Unfortunately the vote splitting hurts the challenging party more then the incumbent if there is change in the air - voters are pushed away from the incumbent towards one of the two other parties and this usually ensures there will not be a majority elected.
One of the Parties is from Quebec and it statistically cannot be elected since it cannot win enough seats in Quebec, the only province where it has representatives.
Yes a 3-4 Party system is ideal, but it will take a whole lot of work to make it effective.
EFF had asked a Federal Judge to order AT&T to cease and desist their co-operation with the DoJ because 'of a possibility that personal and corporate secrets would otherwise be disclosed.'
That is precisely the issue. You have to have enough citizens who: are smart enough, care enough, know enough (of what the current Government is doing), and who isn't afraid to walk out of their door because of the constant threat of terrorists -- which is enforced by everything they see or hear from the media and the government.
On the bright side, the current president's approval rating is quite low so there is only a small chance his brother will get in. The problem is this: The way the American 2-party system has proven to work time-and-again is on "faith-based-economics". Essentially, one government spends insane amounts of money and throws the country into massive debt which the next government has to deal with. Typically these expenditures are popular (war here is the exception). As the other party gets elected to "handle" the debt, they tighten the purse strings and because they are harsh economically they will not get elected the second term. Of course any progress made on this front is spent by the, returning, first party.
The real challenge is to convince people in the West that tightening the purse strings is a good thing. Running such a high debt during a period of wild economic growth will hurt when the economy inevitably fails.
In Summary (To Stay More on Topic):
There will be a switch next time, but only for a single iteration of Government. The herd of turtles that is the American people look to have wised up, but the incumbent government has positioned their successors to fail. Look for only a short reprieve, if any.
Sen. Specter emphasized that he doesn't want the issue to fade into the background, saying that he'd like to see 'public concern and public indignation build up.'
And what a more receptive audience then Slashdot? Sen Specter (aka "maotx") is well on his way!
*Computer, Close Browser*
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Perhaps the utility will provide a SOAP service that the gadget can call and find out what the cheap times are.
I was thinking also something along that lines. I have seen some work being done on smart metering, and it may be quite posible to create a WS interface along a powerline network. I can see the messages now:
Meter (7:58): r-u-cheap?
Meter (7:59): r-u-cheap?
Meter (8:00): r-u-cheap?
Hydro Company (8:00): i-am-cheap
The real problem will come when all this load balancing succeeds, and there are no peak times....
As another poster below states. This would actually be a good thing since the cost to generate all hydro would be reduced by the reduction in total capacity.
Wouldn't the mass adoption of this product just shift the peak usage time - therefore negating some of the benefits of using it?
The other problem which may arise is that a hydro company aware of such devices may charge a premium in order to offset "lost revenue".
These are concerns I have. That being said, this appears to be an advantage to both the producer and the consumer. Lets face it, producers want people to reduce consumption at peak hours and thereby reducing the need to import power (I realize this is contrary to my statement above, but the hydro companies are capitalist profit monsters anyways). Consumers like the advantage of saving a little money on hydro - but you will have to save a lot in order to justify the cost of the system. It was going to happen eventually, kudos to GridPoint!
I completely agree. The ONLY reason I have XP on my system is for playing the odd game. Truthfully it will not be a huge loss if I have to switch entirely to Linux. In fact it will be a net gain: of time.
KIA packets are fine, you know they are dead. You have to watch out for those MIA (Missing in Action) packets. I would imagine that your enemy is trying to capture as many as possible and then interrogate them to get some useful information.
Apparantly one of the cluster interconnects on this site failed.
There is NO way they will lower the prices in the rest of the world. If they did then all video rental stores would go out of business - or start moving a lot more merchandise. Likewise, direct-to-DVD releases cannot be priced very low; DVD sales are their only form of revenue.
As much as I would like to see movies for $1.50. It will never happen.
Shouldn't the title read: "China's Google Problem"?
I realize that Google is trying to enter a new market, but I wouldn't be surprised if China really wanted Google there too -- on their terms of course.
I just came back from a dance club and I can say this is true. Right now I can't hear a thing.
Much like some of the methods of lossy compression (Temporal Masking). Maybe the point is to provide a loud sound such that your ears cant really distinguish the crappy audio afterwards -- I do realize that temporal masking is generally on the scale of milliseconds. But maybe they know something we don't.