It's more like a pizza devilery service paying in order to be allowed to drive 20 mph over the speed limit while the limit is lowered for all the other delivery companies.
Mmmh, pizza.
This is one of the things that religions got right.
Actually, religious methods have been a revolution in mental transmission strategy and shouldn't be dismissed just because the message is false.
Transmitting information from human generation through generation is incredibly effective (for example, making youth learn the Koran by heart at the age of 10 years).
The only problem is that you have to decide what to teach to the future generation. But if continued in a consistent way, knowledge can be transmitted in this way for centuries and even millenniums.
Of course, digital storage is the way to go if you want to store arbitrary amounts of information with the hope that future generations will be able to choose themselves which information inside this ocean of knowledge merits their attention.
But most essential wisdom can only be acquired through personal experience. So maybe we should try to confer only the fundamental, essential knowledge (which is necessary to effectively acquire wisdom trough experience) to our offspring.
BP is a corporation. What's the point of suing them or making them pay? All that's going to happen is an increase in your petrol prices (orchestrated together by all oil companies). I think charging BP/subcontractors of criminal negligence is more likely to be a deterrent.
Sounds like you just want to go after the smaller fish. The party organizing, planning and supervising the whole operation and making the largest part of investment and profit (BP) holds the greatest responsibility in this case.
This Spill is something that has to be prevented in the future at all costs, so if the oil companies want to continue their drilling operations, they should be forced to have a water-tight backup scenario in case the same problem arises.
Allowing Google to enter the wholesale energy market is surely a huge boon to Google.
But shouldn't they already be trying to make their data centers the most efficient possible, anyway?
If they could reprocess some of the heat from the data centers in to electric current, shouldn't they be able to use it themselves in the cooling of the datacenter?
What do you mean by "energy negative"? That the data-centers will start generating energy instead of consuming it?
Movable type: Definitely first invented by the Chinese, see sources.
Automobile: A (western) jesuit designed a steam-powered vessel for the emperor, nobody knows if it has ever been built (clearly stated in the article).
Abacus: What should I say? Seems like the Chinses were first.
Do you have a problem admitting that the Chinese made some inventions before the west?
Let's just give credit where credit is due.
Just because your history class told you otherwise because it ignored inventions made by other civilisations than the "west" doesn't mean that the wiki articles aren't true.
You call it "infiltration of Chinsese history", I call it "accurate and complete information".
And when watching TV there's still some decision-making involved in choosing which channel to switch to.
Also let's not forget video game consoles, making the point about PC games moot.
Thanks for letting us know that you are A Good Person (TM).
Some people might object of a megacorp using their creations for profit without even giving them notice.
But turning off immediately only when already stopped doesn't add to the security of the vehicle.
Anyway congrats to showing off your cars on slashdot!
You're talking like American "IT-powerhouses" are superheroes or something. It's all about power and self-interest with these guys. You have been lied to.
The biggest efficiency problem in the electric energy supply is transport (dissipates about 50% of the originally produced energy or so I've heard).
Localization of electric energy production could greatly enhance efficiency.
Maybe the AC was offtopic, but no need to slam him just because he doesn't like the icons and gives advice on how to remove them. I personally hate them too, slashdot looks more than ever like the cheap slut it has become.
Since when does "not being allowed to transmit contents copyrighted by a 3rd party" equal universal censorship? You're still able to transmit anything you are allowed to transmit by law, like now. Do you think sounding uber-alarmist makes you cool?
It's easier if you can file suit in the US.
Always go after the weakest preys first, you'll have it easier once you have set a precedence.
The **AAs are being paid a lot by the studios and needs to look busy doing something, but without piracy a lot of the **AA dudes/dudettes would probably be out of work.
If indexing is a crime, then it is only a very very small step... Keep walking down that path, and soon we loose all our digital freedoms...
Massive exaggeration?
Newsbin handpicks warez (or even posts them themselves), then creates nzb files and garnishes them with detailed descriptions, only to charge a small fee from everyone who wants access to their "catalog". Quite different from a simple aggregator.
The proliferation of NZBs is destroying the usenet community (most current usenet lusers have probably never even read a group. It's just something equivalent to rapidshare to them, but with moar 1334).
"Round" is an adjective. So itsarectangular would be more correcter;-)
(PS: Does the first letter of a phrase have to be capitalized if it's inside quotes?)
Make it automated to save costs, if a customer is suspected of infection, try to contact him trough any means possible (including a one-time redirect to a isp-created info page, but without phone number to call, and after the user has loaded the page once you let him continue using the net normally). If truly unable to contact the customer (allow a generous response time, say 30 days), use a heuristic to block all the suspect connections the user is trying to make at the ISP level. the customer can continue to use the net more or less normally (of course the heuristic has to be fairly successful and I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to use a huge whitelist for known harmless IPs, e.g. well-known websites), and send him notices using his contact information about once a month.
Maybe most people would have cleaned their computers of malware a few months after the implementation of such a policy, and the ones who for wathever reason don't change their behaivour
would experience the smallest possible amount of discomfort?
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It's more like a pizza devilery service paying in order to be allowed to drive 20 mph over the speed limit while the limit is lowered for all the other delivery companies. Mmmh, pizza.
Human.
This is one of the things that religions got right.
Actually, religious methods have been a revolution in mental transmission strategy and shouldn't be dismissed just because the message is false.
Transmitting information from human generation through generation is incredibly effective (for example, making youth learn the Koran by heart at the age of 10 years).
The only problem is that you have to decide what to teach to the future generation. But if continued in a consistent way, knowledge can be transmitted in this way for centuries and even millenniums.
Of course, digital storage is the way to go if you want to store arbitrary amounts of information with the hope that future generations will be able to choose themselves which information inside this ocean of knowledge merits their attention.
But most essential wisdom can only be acquired through personal experience. So maybe we should try to confer only the fundamental, essential knowledge (which is necessary to effectively acquire wisdom trough experience) to our offspring.
eventually the relationship will become non-platonic and if allowed will degrade to sex.
I'd consider that an upgrade actually. "Degrade to sex..." You do realize that sex is part of of a quality romantic relationship, do you?
BP is a corporation. What's the point of suing them or making them pay? All that's going to happen is an increase in your petrol prices (orchestrated together by all oil companies). I think charging BP/subcontractors of criminal negligence is more likely to be a deterrent.
Sounds like you just want to go after the smaller fish. The party organizing, planning and supervising the whole operation and making the largest part of investment and profit (BP) holds the greatest responsibility in this case.
This Spill is something that has to be prevented in the future at all costs, so if the oil companies want to continue their drilling operations, they should be forced to have a water-tight backup scenario in case the same problem arises.
I guess you meant force instead of energy?
Allowing Google to enter the wholesale energy market is surely a huge boon to Google. But shouldn't they already be trying to make their data centers the most efficient possible, anyway? If they could reprocess some of the heat from the data centers in to electric current, shouldn't they be able to use it themselves in the cooling of the datacenter? What do you mean by "energy negative"? That the data-centers will start generating energy instead of consuming it?
Movable type: Definitely first invented by the Chinese, see sources.
Automobile: A (western) jesuit designed a steam-powered vessel for the emperor, nobody knows if it has ever been built (clearly stated in the article).
Abacus: What should I say? Seems like the Chinses were first.
Do you have a problem admitting that the Chinese made some inventions before the west?
Let's just give credit where credit is due.
Just because your history class told you otherwise because it ignored inventions made by other civilisations than the "west" doesn't mean that the wiki articles aren't true.
You call it "infiltration of Chinsese history", I call it "accurate and complete information".
And when watching TV there's still some decision-making involved in choosing which channel to switch to.
Also let's not forget video game consoles, making the point about PC games moot.
Thanks for letting us know that you are A Good Person (TM).
Some people might object of a megacorp using their creations for profit without even giving them notice.
That's why I'm always a bit nervous crossing the road!
Oops sorry I misread your post.
But turning off immediately only when already stopped doesn't add to the security of the vehicle. Anyway congrats to showing off your cars on slashdot!
Well, sadly most other Swiss citizens don't have the right to circulate freely in Davos for the duration of the WEF.
The problem are people acting solely out of self-interest while disregarding the impact of their actions to the rest of society.
Waging war is like continuously hitting the jackpot for the part of the economy profiting from the vastly increased military spending.
You're talking like American "IT-powerhouses" are superheroes or something. It's all about power and self-interest with these guys. You have been lied to.
The biggest efficiency problem in the electric energy supply is transport (dissipates about 50% of the originally produced energy or so I've heard). Localization of electric energy production could greatly enhance efficiency.
Maybe the AC was offtopic, but no need to slam him just because he doesn't like the icons and gives advice on how to remove them. I personally hate them too, slashdot looks more than ever like the cheap slut it has become.
Yeah, a usenet full of passworded archives needing 2 separate websites to unlock them sure sounds like win to me.
Since when does "not being allowed to transmit contents copyrighted by a 3rd party" equal universal censorship? You're still able to transmit anything you are allowed to transmit by law, like now. Do you think sounding uber-alarmist makes you cool?
It's easier if you can file suit in the US.
Always go after the weakest preys first, you'll have it easier once you have set a precedence.
The **AAs are being paid a lot by the studios and needs to look busy doing something, but without piracy a lot of the **AA dudes/dudettes would probably be out of work.
+1 funny (sorry 0 MP)
If indexing is a crime, then it is only a very very small step ... Keep walking down that path, and soon we loose all our digital freedoms...
Massive exaggeration? Newsbin handpicks warez (or even posts them themselves), then creates nzb files and garnishes them with detailed descriptions, only to charge a small fee from everyone who wants access to their "catalog". Quite different from a simple aggregator. The proliferation of NZBs is destroying the usenet community (most current usenet lusers have probably never even read a group. It's just something equivalent to rapidshare to them, but with moar 1334).
"Round" is an adjective. So itsarectangular would be more correcter ;-)
(PS: Does the first letter of a phrase have to be capitalized if it's inside quotes?)
Make it automated to save costs, if a customer is suspected of infection, try to contact him trough any means possible (including a one-time redirect to a isp-created info page, but without phone number to call, and after the user has loaded the page once you let him continue using the net normally). If truly unable to contact the customer (allow a generous response time, say 30 days), use a heuristic to block all the suspect connections the user is trying to make at the ISP level. the customer can continue to use the net more or less normally (of course the heuristic has to be fairly successful and I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to use a huge whitelist for known harmless IPs, e.g. well-known websites), and send him notices using his contact information about once a month. Maybe most people would have cleaned their computers of malware a few months after the implementation of such a policy, and the ones who for wathever reason don't change their behaivour would experience the smallest possible amount of discomfort?