Personally, I think it should be after 6 pm or so, so that I can eat dinner in peace when I'm home. I mean, what idiot telemarkets in the middle of the night? That's just commonsense. If someone wakes me up with a "courtesy call", I'm not buying their product, unless it is a spaceship that is cheaper than my car ($4600 US). And if that happened, I'd pinch myself and wake up.
No, but the point is that this isn't Microsoft's fault, not entirely at least. No matter the intelligence of the operating system writers, you can't write a system that is immune to someone who wants to screw it up. The operating system can warn people, but if they insist on clicking on something dodgy, they're screwed. The grandparent was trying to illustrate the fact that the virus could easily be rewritten to have the same effect on other operating systems. As long as users ignore warnings and download fishy things, these virii will exist. Sure Windows has a lot of anti-virus and security stuff to do, but this isn't their fault, not entirely.
Just the sidewalk? I mean, we get away with painting a public bridge. And we cover chalkboards in classrooms in the middle of the night, and we flyer anything that doesn't move fast enough to get out of arm's reach. A friend of mine was drunk, and flyered a guy who was leaning against a pillar sleeping (also drunk, I assume). Anyhow, none of this is graffiti. Sure, it may be against the rules, but no one anywhere has gotten punished for it.
Apple subsidizes a major film-making contest every year here at UVA. I so want to do it next year. It you have to write and shoot a film in 72 hours, using a certain phrase, and a certain prop. It has some interesting and semi-successful alumni.
Completely agree. The difference between Rome:Total War and Medieval: Total War is like maybe 20%. And Civ III is entertaining, you don't really need Civ IV. Then there is the fact that you can enjoy great games like Starcraft, Warcraft III, Diablo IIx, any of the Sim-games (Tower, City, etc) on a non-cutting-edge system. Then throw in the shareware, especially SillySoft (Lux, their version of Risk, is good) and Ambrosia (need I say more), and you can have a dozen very fun games, even if they are a bit non-traditional.
Don't worry, it's on the list. But first I have to exile Bill Gates, cure world hunger, etc... But rest assured that Slashdot is, was, and always will be, on that list.
Yeah, but the hope is that in 33 years, we have something newer. I mean, by then, we'll hopefully have three-dimensional chips, or quantum stuff, or something we haven't even thought up yet. And I'll be reading this article's clone on Slashdot, and we'll have the exact same discussion. Except I'll have taken over the world by then.
When Google and Yahoo get done with this, I'm going to search for all instances in the public domain of the word "a". Any wagers on the number of search results?
Yes, digital databases can be stolen, but then again, I could digitize books and bit-torrent them (I don't use bittorrent or fileshare, for the record) or whatever. I think you're overestimating people's motivations. Getting a book four sentences (or even a page) at a time would take days. Buying/Borrowing it and scanning it would be much faster, and when you add in time and power costs, probably cheaper.
I don't see what the threat is from either search engine, as I would never, ever buy a book to read a couple of 4 sentence excerpts. At best, I'd check it out at a library. I mean, I couldn't read a novel or textbook like this, but I could check a quote from any book instantly, and it would help me get all the info on a book I read part of and forgot, or wanted to buy after reading a bit of it somewhere.
Ah. but then wouldn't the better goal be to reduce the amount of transitions above 10 ms, or whatever the human noticeability threshold is? I mean, if it is 4ms or 3ms or 2ms optimally, but all three of those have "failure" rates of 10%, then why pay more for a 3ms over a 4ms? So then this becomes SUV > Porsche in terms of speed, because I can always get a decent speed, as opposed to a high speed I can never use, and crappy speeds half the time.
This monitor can handle 3-4 ms, but the resolution settings or whatever are maxing at like 8-10 ms? Making this pointless, right? Not to mention, we can't even see the difference, because we can't detect that quick of a change? Does this strike anyone as driving a Porsche in rush-hour traffic? I mean, if you have a Porsche or a Toyota Camry in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it'll still take just as long to get home.
Tin hats are so yesterday. As any true conspiracy buff knows, the latest and greatest fashion trend requires accessorization. Now, it's not just the hats, but foil earmuffs that are all the rage!
All of this is a brutal plot by the foil industry to double their sales to conspiracy nuts, who are about a third of their customer base.
Now, I recognize that the naming rules were already in place, or so we assume, when CmdrTaco signed up. But why couldn't it catch it in advance? I mean, to stop him when he makes the character in the first place, like Blizzard does with DiabloII? If they let him get away with it, and he pays for the game, and a lot of monthly fees with the name, I feel it is wrong to then take it away. I mean, this strikes me as the same issue as a EULA, where the company gets to make rules after you bought the product. I don't like that. I think that it should be minimized. I mean, CmdrTaco needs to start all over in a social sense with the game. Sure, he gets to start as "Violator" at like level 40 or whatever, he still loses his old name. I don't use a "handle" or "nickname" online, because I see no need to create another identity. But Blizzard let him use this identity, and it became his own, then changed it on him. This strikes me as a breach of contract, in a sense.
Now then, I can understand changing rules suddenly to stop some sort of destructive behavior, but that wasn't the case. Blizzard essentially flip-flopped on whether or not to allow his name. I've had groups suddenly change positions on things on me, and it once cost me $100. Needless to say, while it might have been legal, it was unethical.
It was my understanding that the news wires had their own researchers. That was how it was explained to me at the local school newspaper (which I wound up not joining). It is possible that I misunderstood it, or the person describing it was wrong (the newspaper is not especially professional) I know a lot of local stations don't do any form of research. We use the AP stories or CNN stories or whatever.
The constitution applies to Federal laws, and perhaps state and local ones in some cases. It has no applicability to schools, employers, or anything else
Well, there is this thing called the 14th amendment. And there were these Supreme Court cases, called Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (I and II), and Heart of Atlanta Motel, which said the federal government could deal with discrimination in schools and businesses. So it is fully within federal authority to allow free speech.
But this isn't about whether the teacher can yell at me for blogging in class, it's about what I do on my time. And provided that what I do is legal, and isn't slanderous to the school, then I should be allowed to do it.
*Note, the use of "I" was non-specific, as personally, I have had no involvement in these sorts of incidents.
I don't think anything will make the "free press" less lazy. It seems like most of them just get their news from the AP or Reuters, as opposed to actual research. The news is also being dumbed-down. If it isn't on a newswire, or in a press release, then it doesn't get published. This makes censorship and oppression that much easier.
Well, if it is publicly searchable, then all Google has to do is let the FBI search for watch words. Which ought to be easy enough. Even if it isn't publicly searchable, then it'll be just like gmail, they have to let the Feds in when the law says they do.
But Google is itself immune from prosecution under the Betamax decision, and the Grokster case, since all it needs is a legitimate primary use, unless Google like publicly supports the use of the software for illegal purposes. Or something like that. IANAL, nor am I pre-law.
Don't blame me, I addressed it on my radio show. Of course, if you don't listen to the R&B station in the early mornings on Mondays in Charlottesville, you're out of luck.
Well, litigation isn't designed to be useful, it's designed to make the litigants money. In theory, the UN is designed to get things done. Granted, it isn't efficient, but it gets stuff done.
No, that was precisely my point. The harder they make it, the fewer people will be willing to try to pirate it. I never said it'd be hard on Disney to do these steps. What I meant was that no matter how creative they are, there is no way to stop all piracy and allow us to view the stuff at home.
NEWS FLASH: Onion countersues White House for "stealing all the good jokes". Joe Jones, an Onion spokesman, was quoted as saying "They're running us into the ground. How can we make jokes about the White House, when they haven't said something non-humorous in weeks? Harriet Miers as "qualified"? They stole our front page story!!"
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Personally, I think it should be after 6 pm or so, so that I can eat dinner in peace when I'm home. I mean, what idiot telemarkets in the middle of the night? That's just commonsense. If someone wakes me up with a "courtesy call", I'm not buying their product, unless it is a spaceship that is cheaper than my car ($4600 US). And if that happened, I'd pinch myself and wake up.
No, but the point is that this isn't Microsoft's fault, not entirely at least. No matter the intelligence of the operating system writers, you can't write a system that is immune to someone who wants to screw it up. The operating system can warn people, but if they insist on clicking on something dodgy, they're screwed. The grandparent was trying to illustrate the fact that the virus could easily be rewritten to have the same effect on other operating systems. As long as users ignore warnings and download fishy things, these virii will exist. Sure Windows has a lot of anti-virus and security stuff to do, but this isn't their fault, not entirely.
Just don't hawk wares for companies to your 'friends'.
Is hawking Warez acceptable?
Just the sidewalk? I mean, we get away with painting a public bridge. And we cover chalkboards in classrooms in the middle of the night, and we flyer anything that doesn't move fast enough to get out of arm's reach. A friend of mine was drunk, and flyered a guy who was leaning against a pillar sleeping (also drunk, I assume). Anyhow, none of this is graffiti. Sure, it may be against the rules, but no one anywhere has gotten punished for it.
Apple subsidizes a major film-making contest every year here at UVA. I so want to do it next year. It you have to write and shoot a film in 72 hours, using a certain phrase, and a certain prop. It has some interesting and semi-successful alumni.
Completely agree. The difference between Rome:Total War and Medieval: Total War is like maybe 20%. And Civ III is entertaining, you don't really need Civ IV. Then there is the fact that you can enjoy great games like Starcraft, Warcraft III, Diablo IIx, any of the Sim-games (Tower, City, etc) on a non-cutting-edge system. Then throw in the shareware, especially SillySoft (Lux, their version of Risk, is good) and Ambrosia (need I say more), and you can have a dozen very fun games, even if they are a bit non-traditional.
Didn't they remove Apple Headquarters from their mapping service?
Don't worry, it's on the list. But first I have to exile Bill Gates, cure world hunger, etc... But rest assured that Slashdot is, was, and always will be, on that list.
So is it:
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1) RTFA - Read The F***ing Article
2) Dupe!! - This article has been done before on
3)torrent - short for bittorrent
I think we could use a
Yeah, but the hope is that in 33 years, we have something newer. I mean, by then, we'll hopefully have three-dimensional chips, or quantum stuff, or something we haven't even thought up yet. And I'll be reading this article's clone on Slashdot, and we'll have the exact same discussion. Except I'll have taken over the world by then.
When Google and Yahoo get done with this, I'm going to search for all instances in the public domain of the word "a". Any wagers on the number of search results?
Yes, digital databases can be stolen, but then again, I could digitize books and bit-torrent them (I don't use bittorrent or fileshare, for the record) or whatever. I think you're overestimating people's motivations. Getting a book four sentences (or even a page) at a time would take days. Buying/Borrowing it and scanning it would be much faster, and when you add in time and power costs, probably cheaper.
I don't see what the threat is from either search engine, as I would never, ever buy a book to read a couple of 4 sentence excerpts. At best, I'd check it out at a library. I mean, I couldn't read a novel or textbook like this, but I could check a quote from any book instantly, and it would help me get all the info on a book I read part of and forgot, or wanted to buy after reading a bit of it somewhere.
Ah. but then wouldn't the better goal be to reduce the amount of transitions above 10 ms, or whatever the human noticeability threshold is? I mean, if it is 4ms or 3ms or 2ms optimally, but all three of those have "failure" rates of 10%, then why pay more for a 3ms over a 4ms? So then this becomes SUV > Porsche in terms of speed, because I can always get a decent speed, as opposed to a high speed I can never use, and crappy speeds half the time.
This monitor can handle 3-4 ms, but the resolution settings or whatever are maxing at like 8-10 ms? Making this pointless, right? Not to mention, we can't even see the difference, because we can't detect that quick of a change? Does this strike anyone as driving a Porsche in rush-hour traffic? I mean, if you have a Porsche or a Toyota Camry in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it'll still take just as long to get home.
Tin hats are so yesterday. As any true conspiracy buff knows, the latest and greatest fashion trend requires accessorization. Now, it's not just the hats, but foil earmuffs that are all the rage!
All of this is a brutal plot by the foil industry to double their sales to conspiracy nuts, who are about a third of their customer base.
Now, I recognize that the naming rules were already in place, or so we assume, when CmdrTaco signed up. But why couldn't it catch it in advance? I mean, to stop him when he makes the character in the first place, like Blizzard does with DiabloII? If they let him get away with it, and he pays for the game, and a lot of monthly fees with the name, I feel it is wrong to then take it away. I mean, this strikes me as the same issue as a EULA, where the company gets to make rules after you bought the product. I don't like that. I think that it should be minimized. I mean, CmdrTaco needs to start all over in a social sense with the game. Sure, he gets to start as "Violator" at like level 40 or whatever, he still loses his old name. I don't use a "handle" or "nickname" online, because I see no need to create another identity. But Blizzard let him use this identity, and it became his own, then changed it on him. This strikes me as a breach of contract, in a sense.
Now then, I can understand changing rules suddenly to stop some sort of destructive behavior, but that wasn't the case. Blizzard essentially flip-flopped on whether or not to allow his name. I've had groups suddenly change positions on things on me, and it once cost me $100. Needless to say, while it might have been legal, it was unethical.
It was my understanding that the news wires had their own researchers. That was how it was explained to me at the local school newspaper (which I wound up not joining). It is possible that I misunderstood it, or the person describing it was wrong (the newspaper is not especially professional) I know a lot of local stations don't do any form of research. We use the AP stories or CNN stories or whatever.
The constitution applies to Federal laws, and perhaps state and local ones in some cases. It has no applicability to schools, employers, or anything else
Well, there is this thing called the 14th amendment. And there were these Supreme Court cases, called Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (I and II), and Heart of Atlanta Motel, which said the federal government could deal with discrimination in schools and businesses. So it is fully within federal authority to allow free speech.
But this isn't about whether the teacher can yell at me for blogging in class, it's about what I do on my time. And provided that what I do is legal, and isn't slanderous to the school, then I should be allowed to do it.
*Note, the use of "I" was non-specific, as personally, I have had no involvement in these sorts of incidents.
I don't think anything will make the "free press" less lazy. It seems like most of them just get their news from the AP or Reuters, as opposed to actual research. The news is also being dumbed-down. If it isn't on a newswire, or in a press release, then it doesn't get published. This makes censorship and oppression that much easier.
Well, if it is publicly searchable, then all Google has to do is let the FBI search for watch words. Which ought to be easy enough. Even if it isn't publicly searchable, then it'll be just like gmail, they have to let the Feds in when the law says they do.
But Google is itself immune from prosecution under the Betamax decision, and the Grokster case, since all it needs is a legitimate primary use, unless Google like publicly supports the use of the software for illegal purposes. Or something like that. IANAL, nor am I pre-law.
Um, last I checked, the US wasn't much better. I mean, Darfur, Rwanda?
Don't blame me, I addressed it on my radio show. Of course, if you don't listen to the R&B station in the early mornings on Mondays in Charlottesville, you're out of luck.
Well, litigation isn't designed to be useful, it's designed to make the litigants money. In theory, the UN is designed to get things done. Granted, it isn't efficient, but it gets stuff done.
No, that was precisely my point. The harder they make it, the fewer people will be willing to try to pirate it. I never said it'd be hard on Disney to do these steps. What I meant was that no matter how creative they are, there is no way to stop all piracy and allow us to view the stuff at home.
NEWS FLASH: Onion countersues White House for "stealing all the good jokes". Joe Jones, an Onion spokesman, was quoted as saying "They're running us into the ground. How can we make jokes about the White House, when they haven't said something non-humorous in weeks? Harriet Miers as "qualified"? They stole our front page story!!"