My oldest daughter Leila's IQ is 65. Her little sister Patty's IQ is 135.
Leila's umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck when she was born. There's no way she could ever have become a neurosurgeoun with that handicap, any more than ny friend Mike, who had polio as a child, was ever going to be a professional football player.
When will their crawlers automatically disqualify ALL sites that contain malware though? That would be nifty.
I don't think it would be possible. I linked to a turing test program I wrote called "art.exe" from my Artificial Insanity page that I hosted on another site I owned (which I since have let lapse). The only way a crawler would know that this program was benign was because it isn't listed in any of the antivirus lists of viral signatures.
What would be nice is if Google would have its crawlers automatically check pages as they crawled. If there were any known malwars the page would be blacklsted. But there's no way I can think of to flag malware that hasn't been identified as such by humans.
-mcgrew
PS:)downside would be that you couldn't find microsoft.com (Foghorn Leghorn says...) PPS: I've been mulling over rewriting the Artificial Insanity program in javascript. But I'm having a hard time finding the time.
He was in a quarry. Seems to me the most likely scenario was he got hit by a big rock, square in the cell phone.
That said, LG is my 3rd least favorite company, right behind Sony and Microsoft, as I had an LG phone with horrible factory defects. I returned it for a replacement, and the replacement was worse.
So I'm conflicted in defending these guys, but I don't think this one was LG's fault.
Come to think of it, my least favorite device would be a Sony laptop running Windows, powered by an LG battery (shudder)
You are not "sharing" downloaded music, you are keeping it for yourself as well as distributing it to X number of people. That is called "having your cake and eating it too...and giving that same cake to X number of people". Whoever calls this sharing is grossly misinformed.
If I have a Star Trek replicator and it makes a cake, and I make a copy of that cake and give it to you, I am sharing that cake, yet I have my cake and am eating it, too.
From the dictionary: "4. to use, participate in, enjoy, receive, etc., jointly: The two chemists shared the Nobel prize."
Now, what happens when they DO come up with a Star Trek replicator? You may think it will never happen, but in my dad's lifetime most people thought we'd never land on the moon. Star Trek's self-opening doors were an impossibility, as were the cell phone communicators, flat screen voice activated computers, etc. I can foresee billions upon billions of nanoscopic robots building devices, food, and everything else a molecule at a time.
When that happens, sharing of physical things will be exactly the same as file sharing is now. Will there be an economic upheval? Undoubtedly, as the only thing of value will be real estate.
The internet changed the distribution of music forever. Before recorded music, the only way to make money with music was performance. Things have gone full circle.
40 million copies of the latest Justin Timberlake song did not suddenly appear out of nowhere
Yes they did. Literally out of nowhere.
certainly the people who have permission to sell his song did not receive 40 million payments
And they wouldn't have recieved 40 million payments if it hadn't been shared. In fact, studies show that sales increase because of P2P; they are recieving payments that wouldn't have been made otherwise.
Meaning that song was stolen from them
If it was stolen from them they would no longer have it. You might as well accuse me of stealing your air, or stealing the sunset, or stealing the rain. If you don't want me to hear your music, don't play it. If you are Justin Timberlake I vehemently urge you and beg you not to sing any more!
9. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
But I don't "willingly, unrepentantly" do so. I fully understand why the injunction against fornication; I have seen the results of it.
But I do what I can. I obey the 10 commandments (which say "thou shalt not commit adultery, and I don't) and I obey Jesus' injunction to treat others as I would have them treat me. I really don't think God asks more of me.
The problem is, people are listening to music contrary to the creators' wishes.
My dad used to say "shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets filled". I don't care what the creator "wishes", if he doesn't want me to listen any way I want, he doesn't have to put his stuff on the market.
Whether sales are up or down is legally irrelevant
"Legally" has nothing to do with the argument. They claim that sales are down because of piracy, I say they're full of shit.
What really can not be had "both ways" is: "your product sucks, but we want to download and share it anyway."
That is the one statement you made that I agree with. Their product sucks, and I neither buy nor download it. I do buy and download non-RIAA indie music.
Translation: God is the Greatest. Even christians would agree with that
Yes, that's true. Christians, Muslims, and Jews all worship the same God. And athiests who pretend to be Muslims, Christians, and Jews use religion and the faith of the faithful, pretending to be faithful themselves, to further their own wealth and power. Pat Robertson, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, and that guy who runs Israel all come to mind. Never trust a preacher in a $5,000 suit.
There have always been "broad and constant streams" of every sort of propaganda available to "United States citizens" because of that pesky Constitutional "right" called "freedom of the press."
And the Corporate Republicrats of the United Plutocracy of America didn't worry about it because until recently, "freedom of the press" was limited to those with the money to buy a printing press; i.e., the rich bastards who finance campaigns.
The internet is a threat to our corporate overlords because old punks like me now have a voice. "No! We can't have people TALKING PUBLICALLY about pedophile policemen preachers who are big-brothers and CLOWNS! We must talk about the pressing issues of the day, like American Idol and the NFL!"
Consponsored by 10 other Democrats (and 4 Republicans).
What people don't seem to understand is that we have ONE viable political party in the US, the Corporate Republicrats.
How many Senators voted for the Bono act? ALL of them. How many voted against the PATRIOT (AKA "Cowardly Congress is Scared Shitless Act)? Three. Which wing of the Corporate Republicrat Party voted for the Bankrupcy Deform Bill last year? Both of them. How many Senators are for legalizing marijuana? Zero. How many Representatives? Zero.
There is less difference between the Republicans and the Democrats than the various factions of the old USSR's Communist Party.
But when Sony can "contribute" tem milion to the Democrat and another ten million to the Republican, what do you expect? We have the best politicians money can buy.
Don't like it? Then go to the polls and split your votes between the Greens and teh Libertarians, as I do.
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Marxists reject das capitalization
Groucho or Harpo?
The article is saying that consistently telling a child that they are 'smart' will lead them to be stupid.
They constantly told me I was smart, and it never made me stupid. Oh wait...
My oldest daughter Leila's IQ is 65. Her little sister Patty's IQ is 135.
Leila's umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck when she was born. There's no way she could ever have become a neurosurgeoun with that handicap, any more than ny friend Mike, who had polio as a child, was ever going to be a professional football player.
You can only work with what you have.
I, for one, welcome our new IE pwned overlords!
When will their crawlers automatically disqualify ALL sites that contain malware though? That would be nifty.
I don't think it would be possible. I linked to a turing test program I wrote called "art.exe" from my Artificial Insanity page that I hosted on another site I owned (which I since have let lapse). The only way a crawler would know that this program was benign was because it isn't listed in any of the antivirus lists of viral signatures.
What would be nice is if Google would have its crawlers automatically check pages as they crawled. If there were any known malwars the page would be blacklsted. But there's no way I can think of to flag malware that hasn't been identified as such by humans.
-mcgrew
PS:)downside would be that you couldn't find microsoft.com (Foghorn Leghorn says...)
PPS: I've been mulling over rewriting the Artificial Insanity program in javascript. But I'm having a hard time finding the time.
Google had removed tens of thousands of malware - hosting pages from its index.
Wierd, usually it's tha pages that are hosting malware, rather than the other way around. OW! Stop hitting me!
Take off, eh?
-Bob & Doug McKinzee
OK. I admit that [wikipedia] is not an authoritative source
This is slashdot, you heretic! Attention slashdotters, we have a heretic! Stone him!
No wait, stone ME, I haven't had a toke in weeks...
I'm not sure one of those could even break the spine through the chest of a small child let alone adult.
Adult bones are a lot easier to break than childrens' bones. The older you get, the less pliant and more brittle the bone.
He was in a quarry. Seems to me the most likely scenario was he got hit by a big rock, square in the cell phone.
That said, LG is my 3rd least favorite company, right behind Sony and Microsoft, as I had an LG phone with horrible factory defects. I returned it for a replacement, and the replacement was worse.
So I'm conflicted in defending these guys, but I don't think this one was LG's fault.
Come to think of it, my least favorite device would be a Sony laptop running Windows, powered by an LG battery (shudder)
-mcgrew
What do you want, the damned bill? I have no idea why it went up. I do know they lost a customer.
In reality, Verizon is an absolutely vile service provider, equally bad if not significantly worse than the rest
This is the only part of your comment that matters, and I thank you for it.
Hmmm, I'll have to check into T-Mobile. Thanks!
I stand corrected.
You are not "sharing" downloaded music, you are keeping it for yourself as well as distributing it to X number of people. That is called "having your cake and eating it too...and giving that same cake to X number of people". Whoever calls this sharing is grossly misinformed.
If I have a Star Trek replicator and it makes a cake, and I make a copy of that cake and give it to you, I am sharing that cake, yet I have my cake and am eating it, too.
From the dictionary: "4. to use, participate in, enjoy, receive, etc., jointly: The two chemists shared the Nobel prize."
Now, what happens when they DO come up with a Star Trek replicator? You may think it will never happen, but in my dad's lifetime most people thought we'd never land on the moon. Star Trek's self-opening doors were an impossibility, as were the cell phone communicators, flat screen voice activated computers, etc. I can foresee billions upon billions of nanoscopic robots building devices, food, and everything else a molecule at a time.
When that happens, sharing of physical things will be exactly the same as file sharing is now. Will there be an economic upheval? Undoubtedly, as the only thing of value will be real estate.
The internet changed the distribution of music forever. Before recorded music, the only way to make money with music was performance. Things have gone full circle.
40 million copies of the latest Justin Timberlake song did not suddenly appear out of nowhere
Yes they did. Literally out of nowhere.
certainly the people who have permission to sell his song did not receive 40 million payments
And they wouldn't have recieved 40 million payments if it hadn't been shared. In fact, studies show that sales increase because of P2P; they are recieving payments that wouldn't have been made otherwise.
Meaning that song was stolen from them
If it was stolen from them they would no longer have it. You might as well accuse me of stealing your air, or stealing the sunset, or stealing the rain. If you don't want me to hear your music, don't play it. If you are Justin Timberlake I vehemently urge you and beg you not to sing any more!
9. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
But I don't "willingly, unrepentantly" do so. I fully understand why the injunction against fornication; I have seen the results of it.
But I do what I can. I obey the 10 commandments (which say "thou shalt not commit adultery, and I don't) and I obey Jesus' injunction to treat others as I would have them treat me. I really don't think God asks more of me.
When was MS quality "the best out there"?
When MS had DOS and Apple had BASIC. This would be the IIe days in the '80s; I used an IBM at work and a IIe at the library.
The problem is, people are listening to music contrary to the creators' wishes.
My dad used to say "shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets filled". I don't care what the creator "wishes", if he doesn't want me to listen any way I want, he doesn't have to put his stuff on the market.
Whether sales are up or down is legally irrelevant
"Legally" has nothing to do with the argument. They claim that sales are down because of piracy, I say they're full of shit.
What really can not be had "both ways" is: "your product sucks, but we want to download and share it anyway."
That is the one statement you made that I agree with. Their product sucks, and I neither buy nor download it. I do buy and download non-RIAA indie music.
The point is that you can't be 100% sure that you are following all the laws all the time.
I wouldn't argue with that. I do know I haven't gotten a ticket in a long, long time.
Translation: God is the Greatest. Even christians would agree with that
Yes, that's true. Christians, Muslims, and Jews all worship the same God. And athiests who pretend to be Muslims, Christians, and Jews use religion and the faith of the faithful, pretending to be faithful themselves, to further their own wealth and power. Pat Robertson, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, and that guy who runs Israel all come to mind. Never trust a preacher in a $5,000 suit.
-mcgrew
dick smoking fags
Cheny's not British. And I don't think he smokes.
...is a terrorist threat
Good thing we really don't have much of it here.
-mcgrew
No one wants to "ban" the internet
My dad does.
-mcgrew
There have always been "broad and constant streams" of every sort of propaganda available to "United States citizens" because of that pesky Constitutional "right" called "freedom of the press."
And the Corporate Republicrats of the United Plutocracy of America didn't worry about it because until recently, "freedom of the press" was limited to those with the money to buy a printing press; i.e., the rich bastards who finance campaigns.
The internet is a threat to our corporate overlords because old punks like me now have a voice. "No! We can't have people TALKING PUBLICALLY about pedophile policemen preachers who are big-brothers and CLOWNS! We must talk about the pressing issues of the day, like American Idol and the NFL!"
-mcgrew
Consponsored by 10 other Democrats (and 4 Republicans).
What people don't seem to understand is that we have ONE viable political party in the US, the Corporate Republicrats.
How many Senators voted for the Bono act? ALL of them. How many voted against the PATRIOT (AKA "Cowardly Congress is Scared Shitless Act)? Three. Which wing of the Corporate Republicrat Party voted for the Bankrupcy Deform Bill last year? Both of them. How many Senators are for legalizing marijuana? Zero. How many Representatives? Zero.
There is less difference between the Republicans and the Democrats than the various factions of the old USSR's Communist Party.
But when Sony can "contribute" tem milion to the Democrat and another ten million to the Republican, what do you expect? We have the best politicians money can buy.
Don't like it? Then go to the polls and split your votes between the Greens and teh Libertarians, as I do.
-mcgrew