They strongly supported John McCain until it became obvious that Palin was sinking his ship.
McCain's ship was already sinking by the time he chose Palin out of desperation. It actually worked for awhile, too, if you remember, until the media tore her apart.
I'm sorry, but if you actually hit the brakes in any car on the road it will come to a stop, assuming there is not a major mechanical problem (which would be relatively easy to discover after the fact). You don't need to switch into neutral or anything else to avoid an accident - you just need to hit the brakes.
Unfortunately for Mark Saylor and his family, you are wrong:
"As a result of the Saylor investigation, the NHTSA reported that:
* it would require 150 pounds of pressure applied to the brake to override acceleration and stop the vehicle,
* that there was no warning indicating that the engine start-stop button installed in this Lexus must be held for three seconds to shut off, and
* neutral was hard to find on the shifter.
Evidence taken from the scene confirmed that brake pressure had been applied for a continued amount of time."
So I'm curious how many of these drivers did any of these.
I'm curious how well you would do if faced with sudden wide open acceleration while frantically pressing down on the brakes and trying to avoid traffic. Also note that in the case of the Lexus crash (the one with the 911 recording that really started the whole media frenzy), the ignition was keyless. To turn off the engine, you had to depress the switch for 3 seconds.
I'm really sick of the assholes talking about Darwin awards because somebody didn't have the presence of mind to switch the car into neutral. Would they have? You can't know unless you've been in the situation.
The posts above you were explicitly talking about the wider Internet. When it comes to free speech, the Web is an important part, but just one part. Famous quote: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Anything from email, to IRC, to instant messaging, to chatting in a game can be used to spread information on the Internet.
This post is so laughably wrong I almost think it's a joke, but I don't think it is. Internet != Web. The Internet was started at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and yes, that's US military.
"Unlike many Internet-circulated warnings, there is a fair bit to this one -- fires at gas pumps are on the rise, and static electricity is considered one of the likely culprits in this increase."
The physical world is described by math too. You might as well say that the because the physical world can be modeled by quantum physics, then it's math all the way down.
I'm against software patents, but I would argue against anybody who calls a random software developer a mathematician.
The lying fuckers even went to court knowing that they were going to sell out not long after and stood there and perjured themselves saying it wasn't about the money. Yeah right. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU
Unfortunately, a lot of people believe them based on empty words and vague promises without actual facts to back them up. Just look at all the posts here defending them. People are so naive.
Communism was, and continues to be, in many forms, a pre-eminent destabilizing force, always in the name of the people, but always bringing them harm, unfortunately.
You can say the same thing about capitalism. No system is perfect. Should Europe invade us because we aren't socialist enough?
Why does every country get to protect its interests, but the U.S. does so and gets a rap?
I have no problem with America protecting its interests, as long as we're upfront about the reasons and we are in the right. Bringing democracy to Iraq was not why we invaded, as an obvious example. Or how about the past American government claiming it doesn't torture, and the current one implicitly acknowledges that we did, but won't investigate, and then wags its fingers at Sri Lanka for finishing their war?
You're talking about the U.S. quelling communism around the world, which it considered as in its interests
This "I know what's good for you and ultimately us" is the same principle used by the communists and Islamic terrorists. Wouldn't it be nice if every country followed your ideals? Then you wouldn't have to worry about their dangerous ideas spreading to you.
And really, when it comes to freedom, America military ventures are more about business interests than "freedom". You notice we didn't care at all about Saddam as a dictator until he invaded Kuwait. In fact we supported him as a counter-weight to Iran.
If/(when?) the 'online advertising' bubble bursts and Google loses 90+% of their income tied up in their AdWords/AdSense programs.
Google could probably afford a 90% reduction in ad income by cutting back to 1,000 employees. Seriously, they went on an incredible hiring binge of expensive high-tech employees. Hell, given that their search infrastructure is already built out, they could probably offshore most of it to India, China, Russia, Romania, etc.
SourceForge delivers RESULTS in the form of hosted source code projects.
Your post makes me laugh. So SourceForge gives away free hosting to open source projects. Now where do they derive income from? They sell ads, just like Google. They also offer paid-for services, which Google does as well.
At the end of the day Google's services are used by untold millions around the planet, whereas SourceForge probably has 1,000s of projects intensively using their resources for free, with plenty of competition from other hosting services. SourceForge is a dotCom zombie. I'd love to see where all their revenue is coming from.
That would be part of 50%. Do you always get heads when you flip a coin?
They were having a drought. There were water restrictions. The lake next to the place I was staying at showed severe signs of drought. I went back a few years later, and there was plenty of rain and things looked back to normal.
Not all parts of the state were in drought. Perhaps your area wasn't. There's plenty of coverage on the web. Just one example: http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1295/
"Lower than normal precipitation1 caused a severe statewide drought in Florida from 1998 to 2002. Based on precipitation and streamflow records dating to the early 1900s, the drought was one of the worst ever to affect the State. In terms of severity, this drought was comparable to the drought of 1949-1957 in duration and had record-setting low flows in several basins. The drought was particularly severe over the 5-year period in the northwest, northeast, and southwest regions of Florida (fig. 1), where rainfall deficits ranged from 9-10 in. below normal (southwest Florida) to 38-40 in. below normal (northwest Florida). Within these regions, the drought caused record-low streamflows in several river basins, increased freshwater withdrawals, and created hazardous conditions ripe for wildfires, sinkhole development, and even the draining of lakes. South Florida was affected primarily in 2001, when the region experienced below-average streamflow conditions; however, cumulative rainfall in south Florida never fell below the 30-year normal. The four regions of Florida (fig. 1), as referred to throughout this report, are defined based upon U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data collection regions in Florida."
I've lived here for 30 years. That's always an accurate prediction.
Florida was having a drought when I first visited, around 2000 if I remember right. I was there for a week in June and there wasn't a single rainstorm.
I appreciate the movie's message, but man was there some serious flaws in it. Like how the guy obsesses over scrubbing his skin -- like he can prevent skin cells from flaking off at work! Every day we lose millions. And how he's able to do home surgery to extend his legs, but thirty years of medical advances won't help out his heart condition.
I'm pretty careless with my email and I just don't get much spam. When I do, i make it a practice to bounce my emails.
Almost certainly, when you bounce your email you cause some innocent victim to get backscatter spam because the sender is forged. The only safe way to bounce an email is if you can instruct the server to refuse the message when it arrives -- when you are reading it, it is too late.
By the way, the reason you don't get much spam is because most ISPs run spam filters based on blacklists like Spamhaus. They have gotten quite good.
It sort of seems really really dated and just clueless to me that ZFS and dtrace were somehow supposed to light the world on fire and make it a Sun planet. What percentage of users even know or care what filesystem they are using? How ever small it is, it's probably too many as it is.
It's not targeted for users -- it's targeted for system administrators. Sun was trying to compete with Linux in the server market. And really, it did make a splash, but they aren't enough to switch. If anything, people will just wait until Linux implements similar functionality.
Slashdot is a US-centric site, so unless you qualify your remarks from the beginning I assume you are talking about the United States.
Fair use is limited in the US, as I understand it, to actions that provide a social function (education) and those that do no commercial harm to the authors. Removing ads fits neither of these categories.
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
As a home user viewing the web any way I see fit, (1) certainly applies. I'm not redistributing my modifications. As for (2), the work was displayed on the web to be downloaded, and the whole system is founded on the principle that the end-machine and user is allowed to display the content as it wants. Same for (3).
Now (4) is the biggest argument, but its intention is that you don't redistribute a work making it useless. The fact that VCRs and then DVRs are legal for home use and for skipping stuff like commercials makes it clear that just because there can be commercial harm, personal use at home was still allowed.
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They strongly supported John McCain until it became obvious that Palin was sinking his ship.
McCain's ship was already sinking by the time he chose Palin out of desperation. It actually worked for awhile, too, if you remember, until the media tore her apart.
I'm sorry, but if you actually hit the brakes in any car on the road it will come to a stop, assuming there is not a major mechanical problem (which would be relatively easy to discover after the fact). You don't need to switch into neutral or anything else to avoid an accident - you just need to hit the brakes.
Unfortunately for Mark Saylor and his family, you are wrong:
http://columbia.injuryboard.com/defective-and-dangerous-products/sudden-acceleration-issues-plague-toyota-and-lexus-owners.aspx
"As a result of the Saylor investigation, the NHTSA reported that:
* it would require 150 pounds of pressure applied to the brake to override acceleration and stop the vehicle,
* that there was no warning indicating that the engine start-stop button installed in this Lexus must be held for three seconds to shut off, and
* neutral was hard to find on the shifter.
Evidence taken from the scene confirmed that brake pressure had been applied for a continued amount of time."
Please stop blaming the victims.
So I'm curious how many of these drivers did any of these.
I'm curious how well you would do if faced with sudden wide open acceleration while frantically pressing down on the brakes and trying to avoid traffic. Also note that in the case of the Lexus crash (the one with the 911 recording that really started the whole media frenzy), the ignition was keyless. To turn off the engine, you had to depress the switch for 3 seconds.
I'm really sick of the assholes talking about Darwin awards because somebody didn't have the presence of mind to switch the car into neutral. Would they have? You can't know unless you've been in the situation.
I don't recall ever seeing anything like these posts about Microsoft or even SCO.
Step out of the Reality Distortion Field.
Why do you put "accidents" in quotes? You make it sound like foul play is going on.
The posts above you were explicitly talking about the wider Internet. When it comes to free speech, the Web is an important part, but just one part. Famous quote: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Anything from email, to IRC, to instant messaging, to chatting in a game can be used to spread information on the Internet.
This post is so laughably wrong I almost think it's a joke, but I don't think it is. Internet != Web. The Internet was started at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and yes, that's US military.
Gasoline really isn't that flammable.
Reread what your parent post said about the venting of vapors. Then read this:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp
"Unlike many Internet-circulated warnings, there is a fair bit to this one -- fires at gas pumps are on the rise, and static electricity is considered one of the likely culprits in this increase."
You can find videos online as well.
The physical world is described by math too. You might as well say that the because the physical world can be modeled by quantum physics, then it's math all the way down.
I'm against software patents, but I would argue against anybody who calls a random software developer a mathematician.
The lying fuckers even went to court knowing that they were going to sell out not long after and stood there and perjured themselves saying it wasn't about the money. Yeah right. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU
Unfortunately, a lot of people believe them based on empty words and vague promises without actual facts to back them up. Just look at all the posts here defending them. People are so naive.
Communism was, and continues to be, in many forms, a pre-eminent destabilizing force, always in the name of the people, but always bringing them harm, unfortunately.
You can say the same thing about capitalism. No system is perfect. Should Europe invade us because we aren't socialist enough?
Why does every country get to protect its interests, but the U.S. does so and gets a rap?
I have no problem with America protecting its interests, as long as we're upfront about the reasons and we are in the right. Bringing democracy to Iraq was not why we invaded, as an obvious example. Or how about the past American government claiming it doesn't torture, and the current one implicitly acknowledges that we did, but won't investigate, and then wags its fingers at Sri Lanka for finishing their war?
Bill Gates wanted the name Microsoft attached to everything, not his personal name.
Except for his charity work. Of course the wife had to be attached too.
stealing an already used name?
If they did it with Windows, why not some piddly little command line tool?
You're talking about the U.S. quelling communism around the world, which it considered as in its interests
This "I know what's good for you and ultimately us" is the same principle used by the communists and Islamic terrorists. Wouldn't it be nice if every country followed your ideals? Then you wouldn't have to worry about their dangerous ideas spreading to you.
And really, when it comes to freedom, America military ventures are more about business interests than "freedom". You notice we didn't care at all about Saddam as a dictator until he invaded Kuwait. In fact we supported him as a counter-weight to Iran.
If/(when?) the 'online advertising' bubble bursts and Google loses 90+% of their income tied up in their AdWords/AdSense programs.
Google could probably afford a 90% reduction in ad income by cutting back to 1,000 employees. Seriously, they went on an incredible hiring binge of expensive high-tech employees. Hell, given that their search infrastructure is already built out, they could probably offshore most of it to India, China, Russia, Romania, etc.
SourceForge delivers RESULTS in the form of hosted source code projects.
Your post makes me laugh. So SourceForge gives away free hosting to open source projects. Now where do they derive income from? They sell ads, just like Google. They also offer paid-for services, which Google does as well.
At the end of the day Google's services are used by untold millions around the planet, whereas SourceForge probably has 1,000s of projects intensively using their resources for free, with plenty of competition from other hosting services. SourceForge is a dotCom zombie. I'd love to see where all their revenue is coming from.
That would be part of 50%. Do you always get heads when you flip a coin?
They were having a drought. There were water restrictions. The lake next to the place I was staying at showed severe signs of drought. I went back a few years later, and there was plenty of rain and things looked back to normal.
Not all parts of the state were in drought. Perhaps your area wasn't. There's plenty of coverage on the web. Just one example: http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1295/
"Lower than normal precipitation1 caused a severe statewide drought in Florida from 1998 to 2002. Based on precipitation and streamflow records dating to the early 1900s, the drought was one of the worst ever to affect the State. In terms of severity, this drought was comparable to the drought of 1949-1957 in duration and had record-setting low flows in several basins. The drought was particularly severe over the 5-year period in the northwest, northeast, and southwest regions of Florida (fig. 1), where rainfall deficits ranged from 9-10 in. below normal (southwest Florida) to 38-40 in. below normal (northwest Florida). Within these regions, the drought caused record-low streamflows in several river basins, increased freshwater withdrawals, and created hazardous conditions ripe for wildfires, sinkhole development, and even the draining of lakes. South Florida was affected primarily in 2001, when the region experienced below-average streamflow conditions; however, cumulative rainfall in south Florida never fell below the 30-year normal. The four regions of Florida (fig. 1), as referred to throughout this report, are defined based upon U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data collection regions in Florida."
I've lived here for 30 years. That's always an accurate prediction.
Florida was having a drought when I first visited, around 2000 if I remember right. I was there for a week in June and there wasn't a single rainstorm.
I appreciate the movie's message, but man was there some serious flaws in it. Like how the guy obsesses over scrubbing his skin -- like he can prevent skin cells from flaking off at work! Every day we lose millions. And how he's able to do home surgery to extend his legs, but thirty years of medical advances won't help out his heart condition.
I'm pretty careless with my email and I just don't get much spam. When I do, i make it a practice to bounce my emails.
Almost certainly, when you bounce your email you cause some innocent victim to get backscatter spam because the sender is forged. The only safe way to bounce an email is if you can instruct the server to refuse the message when it arrives -- when you are reading it, it is too late.
By the way, the reason you don't get much spam is because most ISPs run spam filters based on blacklists like Spamhaus. They have gotten quite good.
His ideas (e.g. A new kind of science) are published by normal publishers
It was self-published under his own company.
They decriminalized everything.
No, they didn't. They stopped putting people in prison for using. That's a huge step forward, but not the same as "decriminalized everything".
Everyone caught using is suggested to go to a class (but it's not required.)
That's not what it says in your first link. These are the punishments it lists for criminally using drugs:
Also, trafficking in drugs is still punishable with prison, which no doubt leads to criminal gangs.
Khomeni's been dead for 20 years
I remember when his body fell out of the coffin because of the monkeys fighting to get a look at it. Good times.
It sort of seems really really dated and just clueless to me that ZFS and dtrace were somehow supposed to light the world on fire and make it a Sun planet. What percentage of users even know or care what filesystem they are using? How ever small it is, it's probably too many as it is.
It's not targeted for users -- it's targeted for system administrators. Sun was trying to compete with Linux in the server market. And really, it did make a splash, but they aren't enough to switch. If anything, people will just wait until Linux implements similar functionality.
There is no such thing as "Fair Use" in the UK.
Slashdot is a US-centric site, so unless you qualify your remarks from the beginning I assume you are talking about the United States.
Fair use is limited in the US, as I understand it, to actions that provide a social function (education) and those that do no commercial harm to the authors. Removing ads fits neither of these categories.
You can read the details on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_States_law
In particular:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
As a home user viewing the web any way I see fit, (1) certainly applies. I'm not redistributing my modifications. As for (2), the work was displayed on the web to be downloaded, and the whole system is founded on the principle that the end-machine and user is allowed to display the content as it wants. Same for (3).
Now (4) is the biggest argument, but its intention is that you don't redistribute a work making it useless. The fact that VCRs and then DVRs are legal for home use and for skipping stuff like commercials makes it clear that just because there can be commercial harm, personal use at home was still allowed.
Temple Journal of Science and Tech & Enviro Law Vol.XXIV page 483+, under review of Professor of Law Donald P Harris ( http://www.law.temple.edu/servlet/com.rnci.products.PublishNow.RetrieveSingleArticle?serv=templelawdb&db=templelaw&site=TempleLaw&sction=faculty_Harris_briefbio&article=1&part=2 [temple.edu] )
I wasn't able to access the article from your link. What steps did you take to get to it?
about:config is an abomination. At the very least these preferences should be visible under the Advanced tab via the menu.