Wow, that's annoying. This is just as bad as the sites back in the day (some are still out there) with the "Designed for Internet Explorer" logo. Don't presume to tell your visitors what browser they should use. I could deal with some *subtle* notificationif it's an IE version that you know is broken for your site, but f your site doesn't work in IE 8 or new, it's probably your fault.
Any site with this would be permanently added to my blocked sites list.
Oh, and I'm a Chrome user. I prefer it to IE for many reasons. I still find this annoying as hell.
Shouldn't all 'historical fiction' at least require the permission of the persons involved (or the people/institution representing that person) ?
So, um, most dead people are incapable of giving this permission. So does this mean that historical fan fiction involving any dead person is only allowable if said deceased person thought to give permission to the use of his likeness after his death. Doesn't that sound rather silly to you?
On the other hand, the Bible, as the most popular piece of fiction in the world, would be banned, unless someone can come up with a release signed by Jesus, as well as a whole host of other dead religious luminaries.
I don't know why all vendors haven't adopted hardware full disk encryption. This has become an absolute must in my opinion. And compared to software-based encryption, it works so well, and seamlessly - the bios asks for the passphrase at boot time, and after that it's transparent to the OS and doesn't degrade performance either.
It has some uses, but for corporate use (where the vast majority of hard drive encryption is done, this is an inadequate solution. There is no provision for backing up or escrowing encryption keys to a central corporate store. Sure the IBM drive supports a user and master password, but this simply isn't workable when you have hundreds or thousand of computers out there with encryption passwords with no central management. Does this support password policies for length, complexity, and aging? I can't say for sure, but probably not.
This is why we currently use McAfee (formerly SafeBoot) at work, and when we transition to Windows 7 this year, we'll use Microsoft Bitlocker. Integration with central directories for password and key management is an absolute requirement for a company of any size.
While perhaps not as invasive and technical as a chip implant that gives the blind the ability to see, I think the day of artificial technological implants of this type are just around the corner.
I think we're a very long way from that type of technology. Yeah, we can build chips and sensors and what not. Doesn't matter if we can't effectively create a technology/brain interface. I've seen nothing to indicate we're even close to this type of a breakthrough. We simply no too little about how the brain actually works.
Is there some particular reason you trust any statement on open source that comes from Microsoft, considering it's long track record of animosity?
Is there some particular reason you trust any statement on Microsoft that comes from the Slashdot community, considering its long track record of animosity?
So we're into tablets that people want to use for, what, one year now, and they are already declaring the PC dead? Not gonna happen anytime soon. The PC business is doing well, and will continue to do well, especially in the very lucrative (for Microsoft, that is) business market. People aren't buying tablets instead of PCs, they are adding a tablet to their existing PCs. Until there is some type of massive shift in business application delivery to tablets, of which I certainly haven't seen even a glimmer yet, there's nothing there to disrupt PCs in the business.
Consider how many businesses cannot even consider a move off of Windows PCs, simply because the vertical market software that makes them go simply isn't available on other platforms. What companies are doing for this isn't rewriting their app for phones or tablets, but just providing a viewer into their application data. That's where the market is going, in my opinion: PCs to do the work, tablets to take their work on the road to review.
I don't think the prosecutors are worried about proving he did it. However, his defense will likely mount an insanity plea. Proof of pre-planning pretty much kills an insanity plea, so any evidence that they have that he pre-planned this is definitely important to the prosecution.
Also, I think they haven't ruled out that someone else was involved in the planning of the attack, so they are still looking for any evidence relating to this. Getting these records is simply competent lawyering by the prosecution.
Off-topic, but I thought I would respond here. While we might think this is silly, I there is some justification for this decision.
Whether most people agree with this or not, the word "faggot" as a reference to gay people is quite comparable to the word "nigger" as a reference to black people. Both are words that are derogatory terms towards a minority with a history of being oppressed. You would be very very unlikely to find a modern song that would get any airplay that refers to gays as "faggots". It is, for very good reasons, a word that is losing favor in civilized societies that value fair treatment of minorities.
Let's say there was a song from the less-enlightened 50s where some country singer referred to a group of blacks as "niggers". Would that be considered by most people as acceptable for airplay? Somehow I don't think so.
I remember when I saw Toy Story, thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if, in addition to a normal DVD release, they released a version with all of the model, action, sound and lighting information, but where you could grab the "camera" and move it anywhere in the story's defined universe?" With live action films, stereoscopic projection is as good as it will realistically get, but there's no reason that 100% CG movies couldn't allow for some more immersive features.
I like that idea. I wonder if the multi-million dollar render farm that each person would have to install in their home to make this would might be a slight limitation?
That is simply wrong. Actually, the top 5% of earners in the US paid 58.7% of the taxes in 2008, and 47% of Americans paid no tax in 2009. In addition, the bottom ~40% earn enough in tax credits that their tax liability is less then their credits, and they get a check from the government. I'm not interested in an argument about who should pay more or less taxes, but that is a very common and very wrong perception.
Why should Amazon pay for police or firefighters in states where they don't have a business presence?
Because Amazon wouldn't be paying sales tax. They are just collecting tax from the customers on behalf of the state. It's the customers who are paying for services in their local area.
Amazon doesn't have a problem with collecting taxes because they think they shouldn't have to pay for services, since sales taxes are always passed on to the customer. Amazon has a problem with it because not collecting sales tax gives them a huge (upwards of 10% in some areas) price advantage over local retailers.
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Wow, that's annoying. This is just as bad as the sites back in the day (some are still out there) with the "Designed for Internet Explorer" logo. Don't presume to tell your visitors what browser they should use. I could deal with some *subtle* notificationif it's an IE version that you know is broken for your site, but f your site doesn't work in IE 8 or new, it's probably your fault.
Any site with this would be permanently added to my blocked sites list.
Oh, and I'm a Chrome user. I prefer it to IE for many reasons. I still find this annoying as hell.
Shouldn't all 'historical fiction' at least require the permission of the persons involved (or the people/institution representing that person) ?
So, um, most dead people are incapable of giving this permission. So does this mean that historical fan fiction involving any dead person is only allowable if said deceased person thought to give permission to the use of his likeness after his death. Doesn't that sound rather silly to you?
On the other hand, the Bible, as the most popular piece of fiction in the world, would be banned, unless someone can come up with a release signed by Jesus, as well as a whole host of other dead religious luminaries.
I don't know why all vendors haven't adopted hardware full disk encryption. This has become an absolute must in my opinion. And compared to software-based encryption, it works so well, and seamlessly - the bios asks for the passphrase at boot time, and after that it's transparent to the OS and doesn't degrade performance either.
It has some uses, but for corporate use (where the vast majority of hard drive encryption is done, this is an inadequate solution. There is no provision for backing up or escrowing encryption keys to a central corporate store. Sure the IBM drive supports a user and master password, but this simply isn't workable when you have hundreds or thousand of computers out there with encryption passwords with no central management. Does this support password policies for length, complexity, and aging? I can't say for sure, but probably not.
This is why we currently use McAfee (formerly SafeBoot) at work, and when we transition to Windows 7 this year, we'll use Microsoft Bitlocker. Integration with central directories for password and key management is an absolute requirement for a company of any size.
While perhaps not as invasive and technical as a chip implant that gives the blind the ability to see, I think the day of artificial technological implants of this type are just around the corner.
I think we're a very long way from that type of technology. Yeah, we can build chips and sensors and what not. Doesn't matter if we can't effectively create a technology/brain interface. I've seen nothing to indicate we're even close to this type of a breakthrough. We simply no too little about how the brain actually works.
Is there some particular reason you trust any statement on open source that comes from Microsoft, considering it's long track record of animosity?
Is there some particular reason you trust any statement on Microsoft that comes from the Slashdot community, considering its long track record of animosity?
We're all close friends here on /.
So anyway, how much DO you make?
So we're into tablets that people want to use for, what, one year now, and they are already declaring the PC dead? Not gonna happen anytime soon. The PC business is doing well, and will continue to do well, especially in the very lucrative (for Microsoft, that is) business market. People aren't buying tablets instead of PCs, they are adding a tablet to their existing PCs. Until there is some type of massive shift in business application delivery to tablets, of which I certainly haven't seen even a glimmer yet, there's nothing there to disrupt PCs in the business.
Consider how many businesses cannot even consider a move off of Windows PCs, simply because the vertical market software that makes them go simply isn't available on other platforms. What companies are doing for this isn't rewriting their app for phones or tablets, but just providing a viewer into their application data. That's where the market is going, in my opinion: PCs to do the work, tablets to take their work on the road to review.
It's way to early to plan the funeral for PCs.
I don't think the prosecutors are worried about proving he did it. However, his defense will likely mount an insanity plea. Proof of pre-planning pretty much kills an insanity plea, so any evidence that they have that he pre-planned this is definitely important to the prosecution.
Also, I think they haven't ruled out that someone else was involved in the planning of the attack, so they are still looking for any evidence relating to this. Getting these records is simply competent lawyering by the prosecution.
Off-topic, but I thought I would respond here. While we might think this is silly, I there is some justification for this decision. Whether most people agree with this or not, the word "faggot" as a reference to gay people is quite comparable to the word "nigger" as a reference to black people. Both are words that are derogatory terms towards a minority with a history of being oppressed. You would be very very unlikely to find a modern song that would get any airplay that refers to gays as "faggots". It is, for very good reasons, a word that is losing favor in civilized societies that value fair treatment of minorities.
Let's say there was a song from the less-enlightened 50s where some country singer referred to a group of blacks as "niggers". Would that be considered by most people as acceptable for airplay? Somehow I don't think so.
...not until I can afford to keep a spare digital magazine reader next to each of my toilets.
I remember when I saw Toy Story, thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if, in addition to a normal DVD release, they released a version with all of the model, action, sound and lighting information, but where you could grab the "camera" and move it anywhere in the story's defined universe?" With live action films, stereoscopic projection is as good as it will realistically get, but there's no reason that 100% CG movies couldn't allow for some more immersive features.
I like that idea. I wonder if the multi-million dollar render farm that each person would have to install in their home to make this would might be a slight limitation?
That is simply wrong. Actually, the top 5% of earners in the US paid 58.7% of the taxes in 2008, and 47% of Americans paid no tax in 2009. In addition, the bottom ~40% earn enough in tax credits that their tax liability is less then their credits, and they get a check from the government. I'm not interested in an argument about who should pay more or less taxes, but that is a very common and very wrong perception.
Why should Amazon pay for police or firefighters in states where they don't have a business presence?
Because Amazon wouldn't be paying sales tax. They are just collecting tax from the customers on behalf of the state. It's the customers who are paying for services in their local area. Amazon doesn't have a problem with collecting taxes because they think they shouldn't have to pay for services, since sales taxes are always passed on to the customer. Amazon has a problem with it because not collecting sales tax gives them a huge (upwards of 10% in some areas) price advantage over local retailers.