And here's a tip for you: The majority of Australians *want* the Internet to be filtered, and the government is accountable to *them* not *you*. So now what?
What? How on Earth did you come to that conclusion? I'd like a citation please. I doubt very much you can give me one though. Other parts of your comment mention 3G rather prominently for some unimaginable reason. Here's a tip for you: 3G is not the internet. Here's another tip for you: you don't know what you're talking about.
The amount of ice is dependant on altitude. I am sure that the climatologists know this, but just because the rate of melt at sea level is increasing doesn't mean that the amount of melt at moderate or high altitude is as well. If the average global temperature increased then the average air pressure would decrease meaning that snow and ice at higher altitudes would increase (due to the freezing point of water being dependant on air pressure). Therefore there will be an increase in snow/ice as you move up in altitude. So, the rate of melt might even remain constant.
It works fine for me on the Toronto, Canada Craigslist. Out-call prostitution is legal in Ontario though.
Yes. If you'd bothered to read the article you'd have noticed "The section was shut down on Friday night to all users in the United States, but is still viewable by international users."
The distinction is both important and meaningless. File sharing itself is not illegal, but the term is usually applied to what the protocols are used for: copyright infringement. It's a much less loaded term than "piracy" when used in a formal sense.
What are you talking about? The OP is 100% correct. The protocols (as you label them) are not used for copyright infringement. They are used to share files! I cannot believe that your message is modded informative. Your post is not informative, it's myopic. Next you'll be telling me that the primary purpose of hammers is to knock people's brains out. Which I am tempted to use my hammer on you for this purpose, but that's another story...
I'm not sure why this is only just being presented on Slashdot because it's a very old article. Nevertheless it's an important part of history. It marks one of the first points where photography began to move away from chemical reactions on emulsions to light being recorded digitally. For many years of course digital photography was regarded as inferior to images captured on film and some still cling onto that idea. But I am in the group that believes that that idea is no longer true. Digital photography has opened up whole new avenues of expression and allows a range of techniques that would have been impossible or prohibitively impractical using film. An example, I guess, would include focus stacking where a number of photos with a slightly different focal plane are combined into a single image with increased depth of field. Digital photography has, in my opinion, opened up new areas for creative exploration that were not possible with film. So, yeah, the article refers to an important piece of history.
The license simply states "You may expand upon the works of these two programs as long as you distribute your derivative works freely, full source included, upon completion of a stable build of the program."
Then have the two programs simply be a binary 1 and binary 0.
Just get about ten million geeks to sign the thing to make it a solid license, and then start contacting lawyers.
Collectively sue the absolute shit out of everybody. Force change in software licensing/EULA law is guaranteed.
Bold mine. Just never call the build stable. I guess you're not a lawyer.
Crap like this is the result of the US judicial system and your "elected" government. Your government enables this kind of rubbish. In the sentence before my last I surrounded elected with inverted commas. I did this because it seems to me as an outsider that the voice of the US people is incredibly diluted in US elections and things in general. Big business seems to have more of a say than individuals. There will be heaps of comments in this story saying how stupid it is, but your "elected" government doesn't care what you think -- it appears to care more about big business. What a load of shit. US, the land of opportunity? If you say so, but I am glad I don't live there. I'd rather pursue opportunity elsewhere in countries where opportunity really exists and is not an illusion created by a government. It's not facebook's fault that stuff like this can happen -- it's the US population's fault for _allowing_ it to happen.
...Except for the fact when Google audits the broken code and finds the person responsible for putting it in they are out a job, and my guess is, stable employment with a decent paycheck and benefits is better than a quick $3K.
Citation please. I find it hard to believe that a Google employee (or an employee of any company) would find themselves out of a job because of broken code.
Go out and buy some. And then help to make the driver rock-solid, if you're capable.
We've got to reward the companies that do this.
Bruce
That seems like a fair enough strategy and I won't debate that. I have to stick with the closed source nVidia drivers though because I think that they currently offer a better experience on Linux and I don't have the time to mess with the source code of ATI drivers at this point in my life. I'm in favour of "rewarding" ATI for this, it's just that I can't:(
If people taking personal pictures were being harassed, I would be right with you on this, but this guy is just putting his sense of entitlement ahead of people's wishes. The law doesn't dictate what is right (see copyrights and patents)- sometimes discretion is needed.
Well, that's just it, isn't it. People's "wishes" play no part. I wish people like you didn't post, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to.
This doesn't seem to be a "The man is restricting our rights", more of a "people are nicely asking for some attempt at privacy", and this asshole (Jens Best) wants to say "FUCK YOU, I'm going to go against you because I can, even though you were nice enough to ask otherwise"
I don't know why this is modded +5 insightful. He (Jens Best) is not being an asshole. He is doing what is right and legal! The fact that the people asked otherwise is irrelevant -- THEY are the ones misguided. And, despite what you seem to think taking a photo of a house or whatever is not illegal. Nor should it be illegal.
Despite being completely ignored by most people he lives in this world in his head where the current president would subject himself to a dark and moldy basement in order to get a half-assed hologram taken.
And that, my friend, is what separates the visionaries, the great artists, the great scientists, the great writers, and the great innovators from the rest of us.
But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course.
What if the reader is a male? Or, is this absurd example of political correctness meant to suggest that only females will use this application. What is wrong with the word "their"? Using the word "their" actually lets the sentence makes sense rather than sounding idiotic.
Change the phrase in the summary to: But from that point on, the reader chooses their own course. It's common sense, not fucking rocket science. It also keeps everyone happy because it's genderless.
Yes, and it doesn't impress me. Writing isn't hard.
He also promptly called UNIX dead, and pretty much trash talks about everything that isn't his and how his is better, yet no one seems to give a shit and no one that matters uses it.
Anything he's contributed too that people actually use, they use because of what other people did, not his contributions
Your professional female colleagues "suddenly received pay status and seniority top ups" today? More women "applied for STEM undergraduate positions, post-graduate research, and achieved professional outcomes in line with their performance at University and at work, both institutions suddenly began dismantling their cultures of aggressive hyper-masculinism" today? I'm sorry but you are full of shit. I am not sure how you got modded insightful. In the real world (i.e. that space outside of your brain) things move a lot more slowly. None of the things you mentioned happened "today"; no matter how right or worthy those things are. Please get off your hyperbolic soap box and step back into reality.
because this makes it look like it will take more time before every third-world country will be able to produce intercontinental missiles
Your comment is great and I agree with most of it. But, damn, I take offence to that phrase "third-world country". What exactly do you think "third world" means?
I look at the desktop a lot because most of the applications I run I don't run maximised. This is especially true for my web browser, pdf viewer, word processor, etc. Why don't I run them maximised? Because I can read faster and more accurately when the line lengths are shorter.
Interestingly the drawing shown in the article looks remarkably like some drawings and descriptions of bunyips that I've seen and read about that the indigenous Australians described to colonial settlers (When I say some drawings I mean some of the earlier drawings post-colonisation. As time progressed after European settlement the drawings and descriptions seem to have diverged from the earlier descriptions). To me it does not seem too far fetched that remnants of this creature have been passed down through the generations eventually becoming myth or legend. So, have we found the bunyip?
I thought the travel blackout was a little too knee jerk. I don't know how high the ash got in the atmosphere, but I'm thinking that there would be a more or less safe zone either above or below the main concentration of ash. Then there is the bigger safe zone away from the main corridor the ash is traveling. They might have needed to make adjustments to flight plans, but I think that they could have had a much smaller no-fly zone. Of course I am not even an aerospace janitor, so what do I know?
I am pretty glad you're not in a position where the life of a LOT of people depends on your decisions.
Slashdot Mirror
And here's a tip for you: The majority of Australians *want* the Internet to be filtered, and the government is accountable to *them* not *you*. So now what?
What? How on Earth did you come to that conclusion? I'd like a citation please. I doubt very much you can give me one though. Other parts of your comment mention 3G rather prominently for some unimaginable reason. Here's a tip for you: 3G is not the internet. Here's another tip for you: you don't know what you're talking about.
Correction: the average pressure would increase
The amount of ice is dependant on altitude. I am sure that the climatologists know this, but just because the rate of melt at sea level is increasing doesn't mean that the amount of melt at moderate or high altitude is as well. If the average global temperature increased then the average air pressure would decrease meaning that snow and ice at higher altitudes would increase (due to the freezing point of water being dependant on air pressure). Therefore there will be an increase in snow/ice as you move up in altitude. So, the rate of melt might even remain constant.
If you'd bothered to read the article
You must be new here...
No, not new. Just forever optimistic :)
It works fine for me on the Toronto, Canada Craigslist. Out-call prostitution is legal in Ontario though.
Yes. If you'd bothered to read the article you'd have noticed "The section was shut down on Friday night to all users in the United States, but is still viewable by international users."
The distinction is both important and meaningless. File sharing itself is not illegal, but the term is usually applied to what the protocols are used for: copyright infringement. It's a much less loaded term than "piracy" when used in a formal sense.
What are you talking about? The OP is 100% correct. The protocols (as you label them) are not used for copyright infringement. They are used to share files! I cannot believe that your message is modded informative. Your post is not informative, it's myopic. Next you'll be telling me that the primary purpose of hammers is to knock people's brains out. Which I am tempted to use my hammer on you for this purpose, but that's another story...
I'm not sure why this is only just being presented on Slashdot because it's a very old article. Nevertheless it's an important part of history. It marks one of the first points where photography began to move away from chemical reactions on emulsions to light being recorded digitally. For many years of course digital photography was regarded as inferior to images captured on film and some still cling onto that idea. But I am in the group that believes that that idea is no longer true. Digital photography has opened up whole new avenues of expression and allows a range of techniques that would have been impossible or prohibitively impractical using film. An example, I guess, would include focus stacking where a number of photos with a slightly different focal plane are combined into a single image with increased depth of field. Digital photography has, in my opinion, opened up new areas for creative exploration that were not possible with film. So, yeah, the article refers to an important piece of history.
Call it the Zero-One Distribution License.
The license simply states "You may expand upon the works of these two programs as long as you distribute your derivative works freely, full source included, upon completion of a stable build of the program."
Then have the two programs simply be a binary 1 and binary 0.
Just get about ten million geeks to sign the thing to make it a solid license, and then start contacting lawyers.
Collectively sue the absolute shit out of everybody. Force change in software licensing/EULA law is guaranteed.
Bold mine. Just never call the build stable. I guess you're not a lawyer.
Crap like this is the result of the US judicial system and your "elected" government. Your government enables this kind of rubbish. In the sentence before my last I surrounded elected with inverted commas. I did this because it seems to me as an outsider that the voice of the US people is incredibly diluted in US elections and things in general. Big business seems to have more of a say than individuals. There will be heaps of comments in this story saying how stupid it is, but your "elected" government doesn't care what you think -- it appears to care more about big business. What a load of shit. US, the land of opportunity? If you say so, but I am glad I don't live there. I'd rather pursue opportunity elsewhere in countries where opportunity really exists and is not an illusion created by a government. It's not facebook's fault that stuff like this can happen -- it's the US population's fault for _allowing_ it to happen.
...Except for the fact when Google audits the broken code and finds the person responsible for putting it in they are out a job, and my guess is, stable employment with a decent paycheck and benefits is better than a quick $3K.
Citation please. I find it hard to believe that a Google employee (or an employee of any company) would find themselves out of a job because of broken code.
Go out and buy some. And then help to make the driver rock-solid, if you're capable.
We've got to reward the companies that do this.
Bruce
That seems like a fair enough strategy and I won't debate that. I have to stick with the closed source nVidia drivers though because I think that they currently offer a better experience on Linux and I don't have the time to mess with the source code of ATI drivers at this point in my life. I'm in favour of "rewarding" ATI for this, it's just that I can't :(
That I may not be important in your eyes doesn't mean I don't have a right to privacy.
Get over it. You have no right to privacy in a public place. You're not as important as you think you might be anyway.
If people taking personal pictures were being harassed, I would be right with you on this, but this guy is just putting his sense of entitlement ahead of people's wishes. The law doesn't dictate what is right (see copyrights and patents)- sometimes discretion is needed.
Well, that's just it, isn't it. People's "wishes" play no part. I wish people like you didn't post, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to.
Call me old-fashioned or idealistic, but I think that may just make the world a better place, in some small way.
You're not old fashioned or idealistic, so I won't call you that. You're either delusional or an idiot.
This doesn't seem to be a "The man is restricting our rights", more of a "people are nicely asking for some attempt at privacy", and this asshole (Jens Best) wants to say "FUCK YOU, I'm going to go against you because I can, even though you were nice enough to ask otherwise"
I don't know why this is modded +5 insightful. He (Jens Best) is not being an asshole. He is doing what is right and legal! The fact that the people asked otherwise is irrelevant -- THEY are the ones misguided. And, despite what you seem to think taking a photo of a house or whatever is not illegal. Nor should it be illegal.
Despite being completely ignored by most people he lives in this world in his head where the current president would subject himself to a dark and moldy basement in order to get a half-assed hologram taken.
And that, my friend, is what separates the visionaries, the great artists, the great scientists, the great writers, and the great innovators from the rest of us.
But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course.
What if the reader is a male? Or, is this absurd example of political correctness meant to suggest that only females will use this application. What is wrong with the word " their "? Using the word "their" actually lets the sentence makes sense rather than sounding idiotic.
Change the phrase in the summary to: But from that point on, the reader chooses their own course. It's common sense, not fucking rocket science. It also keeps everyone happy because it's genderless.
Yes, and it doesn't impress me. Writing isn't hard.
He also promptly called UNIX dead, and pretty much trash talks about everything that isn't his and how his is better, yet no one seems to give a shit and no one that matters uses it.
Anything he's contributed too that people actually use, they use because of what other people did, not his contributions
Maybe writing is harder than you think :)
You spelled humor wrong.
And you failed grammar. "You spelled humour wrongly" is the correct phrase. Or, "You spelt humour wrongly". Either would be acceptable.
Your professional female colleagues "suddenly received pay status and seniority top ups" today? More women "applied for STEM undergraduate positions, post-graduate research, and achieved professional outcomes in line with their performance at University and at work, both institutions suddenly began dismantling their cultures of aggressive hyper-masculinism" today? I'm sorry but you are full of shit. I am not sure how you got modded insightful. In the real world (i.e. that space outside of your brain) things move a lot more slowly. None of the things you mentioned happened "today"; no matter how right or worthy those things are. Please get off your hyperbolic soap box and step back into reality.
1010 = 10 in binary
because this makes it look like it will take more time before every third-world country will be able to produce intercontinental missiles
Your comment is great and I agree with most of it. But, damn, I take offence to that phrase "third-world country". What exactly do you think "third world" means?
I look at the desktop a lot because most of the applications I run I don't run maximised. This is especially true for my web browser, pdf viewer, word processor, etc. Why don't I run them maximised? Because I can read faster and more accurately when the line lengths are shorter.
Interestingly the drawing shown in the article looks remarkably like some drawings and descriptions of bunyips that I've seen and read about that the indigenous Australians described to colonial settlers (When I say some drawings I mean some of the earlier drawings post-colonisation. As time progressed after European settlement the drawings and descriptions seem to have diverged from the earlier descriptions). To me it does not seem too far fetched that remnants of this creature have been passed down through the generations eventually becoming myth or legend. So, have we found the bunyip?
I thought the travel blackout was a little too knee jerk. I don't know how high the ash got in the atmosphere, but I'm thinking that there would be a more or less safe zone either above or below the main concentration of ash. Then there is the bigger safe zone away from the main corridor the ash is traveling. They might have needed to make adjustments to flight plans, but I think that they could have had a much smaller no-fly zone. Of course I am not even an aerospace janitor, so what do I know?
I am pretty glad you're not in a position where the life of a LOT of people depends on your decisions.