Assuming that my memory card or my current wi-fi or some other component will be obsolete in 5 years...$100 dollars amortized over 5 years at 4% comes to $1.84 per month. Heck, I tip more than that to have two burgers delivered to the table rather than get up and walk to over to the counter and get them myself.
This is a no-brainer.
I think you may have just started and ended the entirety of the possible (intelligent) debate on this topic single-handedly in the first post I disagree. While the FP is articulate and comprehensive, there is stll the debate about whether or not scuttlemonkey is incompetent for posting such a pointless and easily-refuted article.
"I don't like the supreme court because they seem to have forgotton that the constitution is a document that is intended to limit the power of government. And almost every 'cause' I name is an instance of the legislature or exec going to far and the supremes failing to stop them."
As far as I understood it, a person is rated by a website with some rating procedure the website worked out. All by itself? Just a website doing things on its own?
Some human made a decision somewhere.
From TFA:
Can a computer program be considered defamatory?" Programs can not be defamatory. Their output may be.
If I use a hand-held calculator to get a result, and then publish it and that publication defames someone, I can't blame it on the calculator.
In this case, a computer is just another tool used to calculate something - perhaps a tool that many people don't understand as well as they should - but a tool nonetheless. You use it, you take responsibility for the results. You don't understand how it works? Hire a consultant. The fact that it is a complex tool does not excuse you if you libel someone.
( NB: The above paragraphs presume that there is indeed libel, a fact not yet proven.)
I RTFA. It was a quarter of a cent each. As parent says, that makes it too expensive to spam. But it is a not even a blip on my budget to send all my email ( 50+/- per month )
...wouldn't it be safer/smarter to have it INSIDE the tank its self? The problem is, I think, simply a decrease in volume for fuel. The tank has two separate sub-tanks ( H2 plus LOX, plus a third section for control stuff ). Each one would have to be lined. They would probably want to line the third compartment too to prevent stresses from unequal thermal expansion.
Then there is also the problem of foam acting chemically with the fuel or oxidizer. It now needs a liner.
That is a lot of volume, and now the shuttle does not have enough room for fuel and oxidizer.
I think that GP has a point. With most of the we-found-a-way-to-aquire-new-information-isn't-thi s-neat type of articles, the reaction on slashdot is usually favorable. But when it comes to genetic data, it does seem that paranoia arises.
Asking GP to answer all the posts begs the issue. GP is talking about a trend. It is one thing to tell someone on five different occasions that he really has had too much to drink. It is a completely different thing to confront him and tell him that he is an alcoholic.
"The group apparently told MPs that their air space extended even further - to the outer limits of the universe." So their property rights sweep across the universe as the earth rotates...which means for about 10 minutes a day each they own Antares and Rigel. Are they Sirius?
Books don't recycle well. The problem is that the binding - with all the glue - must be removed first. You can't run any bookbinding glue through the paper recycling process or it will gum it up. The cost of the labor to remove the binding makes a book have a negative value for a recycler.
1)Make a bot that scans tech-related sites.
2)Upon seeing new content, bot posts it to slashdot.
3)Bribe the editors regularly.
4)Put ads on your site.
5)Link everything to your site.
6)Profit!!
I can't disagree with anything that you or Mr. Chompsky said. And I agree with you that it's important. Maybe important enough to have its own word or phrase.
I want to save the word 'censorship' for describing the possible event that really is old-styte forcible and complete suppresion of information. Right now, if Bush & co resorted to doing it, it could be labeled censorship and nobody would even notice.
Sixty years ago censorship was a powerful word. I want to restore it.
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Assuming that my memory card or my current wi-fi or some other component will be obsolete in 5 years...$100 dollars amortized over 5 years at 4% comes to $1.84 per month. Heck, I tip more than that to have two burgers delivered to the table rather than get up and walk to over to the counter and get them myself.
This is a no-brainer.
After the fine first post, parent seems to have raised the only issue worth discussing.
"I don't like the supreme court because they seem to have forgotton that the constitution is a document that is intended to limit the power of government. And almost every 'cause' I name is an instance of the legislature or exec going to far and the supremes failing to stop them."
There, fixed that abreviation for you.
Some human made a decision somewhere.
If I use a hand-held calculator to get a result, and then publish it and that publication defames someone, I can't blame it on the calculator.
In this case, a computer is just another tool used to calculate something - perhaps a tool that many people don't understand as well as they should - but a tool nonetheless.
You use it, you take responsibility for the results. You don't understand how it works? Hire a consultant. The fact that it is a complex tool does not excuse you if you libel someone.
( NB: The above paragraphs presume that there is indeed libel, a fact not yet proven.)
Do you really believe that our leaders have not thought of this already?
I RTFA. It was a quarter of a cent each. As parent says, that makes it too expensive to spam. But it is a not even a blip on my budget to send all my email ( 50+/- per month )
...wouldn't it be safer/smarter to have it INSIDE the tank its self? The problem is, I think, simply a decrease in volume for fuel. The tank has two separate sub-tanks ( H2 plus LOX, plus a third section for control stuff ). Each one would have to be lined. They would probably want to line the third compartment too to prevent stresses from unequal thermal expansion.Then there is also the problem of foam acting chemically with the fuel or oxidizer. It now needs a liner. That is a lot of volume, and now the shuttle does not have enough room for fuel and oxidizer.
Anyway, that's my best guess.
Why is is P modded offtopic? A suttle launch IS the topic at hand, and P is commenting on it.
I think that GP has a point. With most of the we-found-a-way-to-aquire-new-information-isn't-thi s-neat type of articles, the reaction on slashdot is usually favorable. But when it comes to genetic data, it does seem that paranoia arises.
Asking GP to answer all the posts begs the issue. GP is talking about a trend. It is one thing to tell someone on five different occasions that he really has had too much to drink. It is a completely different thing to confront him and tell him that he is an alcoholic.
GP claims that there is a trend. Is he right?
If I have speeding tickets, and my auto insurance carrier finds out about it, is that discrimination?
Is it to our long-term interests to force insurers to operate in ignorance?
As I recall, a turbo uses a lot of hot air to set things spinning, and then blows it out the back end. Seems just right for slashdot these days.
Note to moderators: Please read post times before modding redundant. Parent was posted at effectively the same time ( 6:44 ) as OP.
Note to moderators: Please read post times before modding redundant. Parent was posted at effectively the same time ( 6:44 ) as OP.
I assume your friend has seen IBOTs http://www.powerchair-review.fsnet.co.uk/, particularly the model 3000 that looks like a wheelchar, but climbs stairs.
You went through all that trouble to set up a lousy pun?
No. The post was intended to highlight the idiocy of GGP. The pun was a last second impulse.
So, what you're trying to say is that the only good bee is a dead bee?
Am I unduly suspicious, or is there something wrong when an 'anonymous reader' submits an article that is basically a sales pitch?
Thanks.
Books don't recycle well. The problem is that the binding - with all the glue - must be removed first. You can't run any bookbinding glue through the paper recycling process or it will gum it up. The cost of the labor to remove the binding makes a book have a negative value for a recycler.
1)Make a bot that scans tech-related sites.
2)Upon seeing new content, bot posts it to slashdot.
3)Bribe the editors regularly.
4)Put ads on your site.
5)Link everything to your site.
6)Profit!!
I can't disagree with anything that you or Mr. Chompsky said. And I agree with you that it's important. Maybe important enough to have its own word or phrase.
I want to save the word 'censorship' for describing the possible event that really is old-styte forcible and complete suppresion of information. Right now, if Bush & co resorted to doing it, it could be labeled censorship and nobody would even notice.
Sixty years ago censorship was a powerful word. I want to restore it.
Are we assuming that our military isn't attacking them, too? It just seems like standard operating procedure to me.