I'm sure it's being tied in. All the new rules for driver's licence photos (don't smile, remove glasses, no bangs) are there for facial recognition software, not for traffic cops.
I'm not criticising American ideals or the American people, but this kind of behaviour is made possible by unregulated free-market capitalism.
Nope. It's made possible by regulated near-free-market capitalism and worse. If it were a truly unregulated free-market, there wouldn't be things like IP that Apple could use to prevent competitors from cloning Apple hardware and software and selling at a lower price or adopting a more free (as in speech) version of iTunes service. Only the power of law keeps the competitors at bay.
AC, I don't think you read the GP fully. It says that public (state) workers are increasingly becoming unionized in the US. In that vein, they're not rallying against "the 1%" to demand better wages and pensions, they're rallying against the 99.99%: the rest of society.
and they didnt say shit about anything like the deficit when republicans were in power
Lies
just when a black muslin
and slander.
The folks who make up the tea party were unhappy with W's left leaning rubber stamping of borrow-and-spend, but were silent until a worse spender (whom they rightly assumed would okay mote taxes) came up to the plate. His color and fabric(muslin?) have nothing to do with the subject.
Yeah I mean, they should have joined the peaceful OWS. Then they could join in with the public property destruction, theft, and rape. Can't forget the arsons, and attempt to blow up a bridge in Ohio a week or so back either. The Tea Party folks though? They're the terrorists.
A single user here, Using bittorrent since the beginning to download dead shows. But the majority of my usage is piracy.
Whether or not you want to believe me, thats all you, but my use is almost all illegal.
That's you. There are plenty of WoW players out there. Every last one of them uses bittorrent for updates, whether they know it or not (most don't even know what bittorrent is). Other update programs are using bitorrent too according to the scuttlebutt.
Sorry, I'm not going to be scared of any new technology without some scientific basis for how the new thing could possibly cause me harm. I'm damn conservative for a/.er, and even I get that right.
It uses Tera-hertz radiation. That's what the TSA uses for the nudie scanners they use to grope you!
If we can't even chase the Luddites off/., what good is this place?
It's a safe bet that no one on/. is a luddite. It is a website after all.
As commander and chief he could order the US troops guarding the facility to withdraw, and just leave the whole mess for Cuba to clean up. (This is basically the same loophole that lets the President bomb places without a formal declaration of war).
I think I'm missing something. How is that the same loophole? Are the bombers ordered to carry a bomb over enemy territory, then ordered to stop carrying the bomb and return? Oops, gravity took over. Sorry!
Originally, status updates were for anything, up to and including "Hey, this is Jim. I'm using Megan's account because she's in the hospital. Call us there at 555-5555 for details", and everyone who was friends with Megan would see the status. Now it's a shot in the dark.
It started about a couple years ago, I missed some big announcements from close friends, and found out that FB started limiting the news feed to only certain friends' statuses. There was temporarily an option to expand it to everyone again, but that disappeared more than a year ago to. Now if you're narcissistic enough, you can ensure that your friends see your status message. FB will cease to become a source of communication soon because people like free, but they like free+works better, and there are other free communication methods that don't arbitrarily drop your messages and offer to charge you to resend them.
Remember when the FB news feed used to list everyone's statuses? Then you had to explicitly tell it to show everything, and now even that option doesn't exist; you have to deal with whatever random crap shows up, missing important statuses. All the data's still there, but they needed an environment where there would be an artificial scarcity of statuses to make promoting one's own status on others' news feeds valuable enough to make people want to pay for it (although only the most narcissistic would want to).
The Olympics was supposed to be an event promoting amateur sports competition to solidify friendship and peace between nations.
In all honesty, the concept of amateur sports was originally introduced to keep out the working class. Amateur sports were to be performed by gentlemen of leisure, i.e. people with no training, thus without an advantage. Being a working joe was considered being a professional, because they got paid to train, sometimes paid to play (to compensate for having to skip work) and had an unfair advantage of being in shape. I don't know how that idea solidifies friendship and peace between nations, or within nations, come to think of it.
Because it was a gathering place for the upper crust of all nations to rub elbows with each other back when travel was difficult and communications slow. They actually got to see each other and start off conversations with a known mutual topic (the sport they entered).
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Why not both?
Add:
What is your MS Office license key?
Don't know off-hand? Pirate!
Happen to know and provide it? Pirate! Disseminated a license key!
You filthy Pirate!
Do you use free software?
You filthy Pirate!
Do you know where your purchase receipt is for your software?
You filthy Pirate!
I bet those were some of the questions.
How many contestants entered in with volcanoes and solar system dioramas.
Apparently one of them is going to have a paper mache volcano diarrhea. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2864855&cid=40068557
I'm sure it's being tied in. All the new rules for driver's licence photos (don't smile, remove glasses, no bangs) are there for facial recognition software, not for traffic cops.
Music teacher doubles as the computer teacher apparently.
I'm not criticising American ideals or the American people, but this kind of behaviour is made possible by unregulated free-market capitalism.
Nope. It's made possible by regulated near-free-market capitalism and worse. If it were a truly unregulated free-market, there wouldn't be things like IP that Apple could use to prevent competitors from cloning Apple hardware and software and selling at a lower price or adopting a more free (as in speech) version of iTunes service. Only the power of law keeps the competitors at bay.
Technically "grass roots" is free. Astroturfing costs money because it's fake grass roots.
Minister of parliament. (congressman equiv)
I'm not sure what country Obama thinks he's president of. He campaigned in Europe and thinks naught of other nations' borders.
AC, I don't think you read the GP fully. It says that public (state) workers are increasingly becoming unionized in the US. In that vein, they're not rallying against "the 1%" to demand better wages and pensions, they're rallying against the 99.99%: the rest of society.
Was she flying the bed at them with an army of empty suits of armor?
Bzzt they have threats in their sights (whether man or beast). Are you generally threatening?
and they didnt say shit about anything like the deficit when republicans were in power
Lies
just when a black muslin
and slander.
The folks who make up the tea party were unhappy with W's left leaning rubber stamping of borrow-and-spend, but were silent until a worse spender (whom they rightly assumed would okay mote taxes) came up to the plate. His color and fabric(muslin?) have nothing to do with the subject.
Yeah I mean, they should have joined the peaceful OWS. Then they could join in with the public property destruction, theft, and rape. Can't forget the arsons, and attempt to blow up a bridge in Ohio a week or so back either. The Tea Party folks though? They're the terrorists.
I highly doubt that, but this one is an engineer.
A single user here, Using bittorrent since the beginning to download dead shows. But the majority of my usage is piracy. Whether or not you want to believe me, thats all you, but my use is almost all illegal.
That's you. There are plenty of WoW players out there. Every last one of them uses bittorrent for updates, whether they know it or not (most don't even know what bittorrent is). Other update programs are using bitorrent too according to the scuttlebutt.
Do you actually read the comments much?
Haven't you heard? Not RTFC is the latest in geek chic!
Sorry, I'm not going to be scared of any new technology without some scientific basis for how the new thing could possibly cause me harm. I'm damn conservative for a /.er, and even I get that right.
It uses Tera-hertz radiation. That's what the TSA uses for the nudie scanners they use to grope you!
If we can't even chase the Luddites off /., what good is this place?
It's a safe bet that no one on /. is a luddite. It is a website after all.
As commander and chief he could order the US troops guarding the facility to withdraw, and just leave the whole mess for Cuba to clean up. (This is basically the same loophole that lets the President bomb places without a formal declaration of war).
I think I'm missing something. How is that the same loophole? Are the bombers ordered to carry a bomb over enemy territory, then ordered to stop carrying the bomb and return? Oops, gravity took over. Sorry!
Originally, status updates were for anything, up to and including "Hey, this is Jim. I'm using Megan's account because she's in the hospital. Call us there at 555-5555 for details", and everyone who was friends with Megan would see the status. Now it's a shot in the dark.
It started about a couple years ago, I missed some big announcements from close friends, and found out that FB started limiting the news feed to only certain friends' statuses. There was temporarily an option to expand it to everyone again, but that disappeared more than a year ago to. Now if you're narcissistic enough, you can ensure that your friends see your status message. FB will cease to become a source of communication soon because people like free, but they like free+works better, and there are other free communication methods that don't arbitrarily drop your messages and offer to charge you to resend them.
Remember when the FB news feed used to list everyone's statuses? Then you had to explicitly tell it to show everything, and now even that option doesn't exist; you have to deal with whatever random crap shows up, missing important statuses. All the data's still there, but they needed an environment where there would be an artificial scarcity of statuses to make promoting one's own status on others' news feeds valuable enough to make people want to pay for it (although only the most narcissistic would want to).
just because he thinks you're guilty
If he's pseudo-framing you, your perceived guilt is irrelevant. He probably thinks you're carrying cash, or he doesn't like you.
Is iceweasel still version 2.5?
The Olympics was supposed to be an event promoting amateur sports competition to solidify friendship and peace between nations.
In all honesty, the concept of amateur sports was originally introduced to keep out the working class. Amateur sports were to be performed by gentlemen of leisure, i.e. people with no training, thus without an advantage. Being a working joe was considered being a professional, because they got paid to train, sometimes paid to play (to compensate for having to skip work) and had an unfair advantage of being in shape. I don't know how that idea solidifies friendship and peace between nations, or within nations, come to think of it.
Because it was a gathering place for the upper crust of all nations to rub elbows with each other back when travel was difficult and communications slow. They actually got to see each other and start off conversations with a known mutual topic (the sport they entered).