No, fishing as been around for ages. Fishing on a computer on the other hand...
Has also been around for a while, since 1982. "In 1982, Taito released an early golf game, Birdie King,[29] Tehkan released an early swimming game, Swimmer,[30] and Data East released an early fishing game, Angler Dangler.[31]"
Even fishing _inside_ a computer theoretically could be done, as long as you had a MacQuarium or something similar.
Fox has and has had its share of reality/gameshow filler as well. American Idol? Temptation Island? Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Cops? The Simple Life? [Okay, Cops isn't so bad.]
And since you mentioned science fiction... how did they do airing Firefly? For a show with self-contained episodes, airing them out of order would be fine... but shuffling the order of episodes for a series that contains story arcs that cross multiple episodes? Really?
But is Facebook objecting to companies asking applicants for their passwords and denying them the job if they refuse? Or is Facebook objecting to companies asking, regardless of whether the applicants provide them or not? My understanding is the latter.
"Facebook have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries — why should they be able to ask them for their email account passwords [as part of the Find Friends feature] and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?"
And this is a practice to which Facebook is opposed and over which Facebook is willing to take legal action? Hmm. Sounds like *checks his Facebook account's Find Friends page* Google, Microsoft (Windows Live Hotmail), Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, Skype, SBC, and Verizon now have grounds to take legal action against Facebook, by Facebook's own reasoning.
There's also sort of another, since we haven't reached the point in her timeline where she dies, sweetie. Oh, sorry, "spoilers."
Not that she has any regenerations left, but if she and her husband were to have a child, that child would be at least half Time Lord with (I expect) a full allotment of regenerations. That's one way I was suspecting they would circumvent the old "12 regenerations" limit that may or may not have been rendered moot by a comment in the Sarah Jane Adventures; leave the TARDIS as an inheritance to the next generation.
Actually, Mogh is the (deceased) father of Worf on Star Trek: the Next Generation. You're thinking of the Face of Boe, and one of Jack's comments to the Doctor and Martha strongly suggests that he will become the Face eventually. The video on YouTube showing how Tennant and Barrowman learned of this plot twist is hilarious.
SInce a journey to mars will take 9-10 months with a convenient alignment between the planets, travel time would be at least 1.5 years, and the spacecraft would have to carry all its own supplies, it would have to be quite massive.
If you're going on a cross-country car trip, you don't fuel your car up with hundreds of gallons of gasoline at the start, do you?
One possible approach would be to set up "rest stops" stationed along the route the capsule would follow. If the capsule had the capacity to hold enough supplies that a missed station or even two wouldn't be fatal to the crew, all you'd need is sufficient fuel to travel from one station to the next plus some extra to maneuver. Rather than carrying a year and a half's worth of supplies, the capsule would need to carry two months of supplies (with stations set up a month apart.)
What would a criminal need to fake your fingerprint at a crime scene?
What would a criminal need to fake your DNA at a crime scene? A piece of hair from a brush or comb or from your last trip to the barber shop? A few flakes of skin that they could collect from you as they brush past you in on a crowded subway terminal or restaurant?
Homosexual Marriage has NEVER existed in history until very recently. Marriage was for the purposes of a man an woman(women/polygamy) having a family and defining the rights and responsibilities thereof. Homosexuals are incapable of producing children therefore aren't given the protection of Marriage.
By that argument, heterosexual marriages should end at death of either spouse ("'til death do you part"), when the wife enters menopause, when the husband becomes impotent, or when either suffers an injury or illness that renders them infertile.
In that scenario, marriage licenses would also require signed notification from a medical practitioner certifying the fertility of each spouse, which would require one of: * the prospective wife currently being pregnant and the prospective husband being the father as determined by DNA testing * the prospective husband providing a sample for testing with his own hands and the prospective wife undergoing medical testing to ensure her fertility * a medical practitioner performing testing on both prospective spouses to ensure their fertility
None of those options seem particularly palatable to me. Taking that one step further, you would also need to show that same evidence to an IRS auditor if you filed a joint tax return and were audited. If you wanted to visit your spouse in the hospital after a serious accident and the hospital had a "relatives only" visiting policy, you wouldn't be allowed to visit until the doctors were certain their reproductive capabilities had not been damaged. And don't adoption agencies favor married couples when deciding who is allowed to adopt? Then people who had one of the best reason for wanting to adopt would no longer be favored.
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
But please, won't someone think of the children that may be in the vicinity of the site where the space vehicle was forced to make an emergency landing?
... Senator Paul is not going to hijack or down an airplane - though with his Libertarian leanings, he might not help prevent an incident but rather allow the Free Market to decide the plane's fate.:-) Neither are celebrities. And, on that note, will go on the record saying that I *want* Samuel L. Jackson on the plane in case there are snakes...
Given the kind of stuff Adam Savage regularly uses in his job, I think it makes sense for him to go through screening to make sure he didn't forget and bring his work with him. Although I do remember the TSA missing something when they searched him on a previous trip...
But any information about how the security equipment works could compromise our security and thus fall under the umbrella of "state secrets", right? And the manufacturers of the equipment will get the same sort of deal the telecoms got for their participation in the alleged-and-unofficially-confirmed wireless wiretapping incident.
I hope these kooks come to "SSXW" in Spring of 2012 as promised.
Considering the size of this sh*tstorm, if they do... it'll probably be under a name that is not "Ocean Marketing".
Considering the size of the sh*storm, if they do even being in the Witness Protection Program wouldn't be enough to conceal their involvement. All it would take would be one person or group following the tracks from Ocean Marketing to their new name and posting that new name to Slashdot or some other gaming website and they'd be "outed."
Do you really expect the members of Congress, elected from the general public, to be experts in all of those areas? If YOU were elected to Congress, how many areas are YOU an expert in?
No and a few respectively. But if I wasn't an expert in the area covered by a particular bill, I'd listen to the explanations of people that were experts in that particular area -- and if there were different opinions, I'd listen to the various sides.
The Internet is too important to too many people to rush something like this through when there's this much controversy about the proposed change. Passing a bill honoring some sports team for winning a championship? Sure, that can take 30 seconds. Passing a bill where Hollywood is on one side and Google is on the other? Perhaps we better think about it a little.
I'm not a doctor, but you look like your spleen is broken. It's gotta come out. Good thing I have my Swiss Army knife. Now just lie down on that table there, bite down on something, and let's do this.
Now what does a spleen look like again, and where it is? Oh well, I'll just go digging -- I'm sure I'll find it sooner or later!
Surely you don't object to me performing surgery without a medical license or any sort of medical training? After all, like I said, I'm not a doctor... but you're "not a nerd", and that didn't prevent you from backing SOPA, right?
If FTL travel is possible, we could just travel out N light years from Earth and pick up the signal from the original broadcast. Of course, the signal's probably degraded too far for it to be recognizable.
If I were a time traveler, my first stop would be the local convenience store a couple weeks ago, to pick up a "lucky" lottery ticket. Or maybe South Africa a few millenia ago, when there was no De Beers to stop me. It's not as convenient as Corwin's shadow from The Guns of Avalon, where he just picked them up off the ground, but it'd do.
If he's received death threats (as I believe has been reported) then why does the questioning need to take place in Sweden? Surely if the Swedes were willing to pay for a (potentially one-way) plane ticket for Assange and a round trip ticket for an officer to bring him to Sweden, they could pay for a Swedish officer to travel to the UK and question him there; if it turns out that they want to charge him after that questioning, then they just need a second one-way plane ticket for the ride back to Sweden. Or they could make use of videoconferencing and save themselves the cost of the tickets if there's no reason to bring him to Sweden.
Would repeated spam qualify as harassment in Canada? If so, would that volume of spam be sufficient to warrant a restraining order against the company?
As were Jack Thompson, Laurence Canter (of "Green Card Lottery spam" fame), and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon. Wikipedia lists a number of others who suffered the same fate.
somebody tries to send the full list of subscribers to the latter...
This prompts the question "Why did you do that?" If the subscribers list is intended to be internal, keep it internal. Send a link to the list's location on $SOME_INTERNAL_PAGE to the management and let them click through to it. If you accidentally send that internal link to the subscribers list rather than the maintainers, then you've exposed some of your internal site organization details to the list (mildly bad) but you haven't divulged the subscribers list since they don't have permission to access the internal page (very good.) It's the Pimpl pattern for business data.
However, there are a couple of differences. First, Votorola is not anonymous. It is completely open and public. That gives participants 100% validation of their voting: nobody can steal or corrupt or hack or usurp your vote, because you can actually check on it at any time.
This has both benefits and drawbacks. I did a quick scan but didn't see what safeguards, if any, are in place to prevent voter intimidation tactics. The police would step in if I threatened to break your kneecaps unless you vote yes on proposition Q. But what if I (as your boss) subtly imply that the raise you receive this year may depend on how you vote on proposition Q, which I support? Unless there was some way to prevent me from learning how you voted, you're likely going to vote yes on proposition Q rather than risk a lower bonus (or even getting fired.)
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No, fishing as been around for ages. Fishing on a computer on the other hand...
Has also been around for a while, since 1982. "In 1982, Taito released an early golf game, Birdie King,[29] Tehkan released an early swimming game, Swimmer,[30] and Data East released an early fishing game, Angler Dangler.[31]"
Even fishing _inside_ a computer theoretically could be done, as long as you had a MacQuarium or something similar.
Fox has and has had its share of reality/gameshow filler as well. American Idol? Temptation Island? Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? Cops? The Simple Life? [Okay, Cops isn't so bad.]
And since you mentioned science fiction ... how did they do airing Firefly? For a show with self-contained episodes, airing them out of order would be fine ... but shuffling the order of episodes for a series that contains story arcs that cross multiple episodes? Really?
But is Facebook objecting to companies asking applicants for their passwords and denying them the job if they refuse? Or is Facebook objecting to companies asking, regardless of whether the applicants provide them or not? My understanding is the latter.
"Facebook have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries — why should they be able to ask them for their email account passwords [as part of the Find Friends feature] and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?"
And this is a practice to which Facebook is opposed and over which Facebook is willing to take legal action? Hmm. Sounds like *checks his Facebook account's Find Friends page* Google, Microsoft (Windows Live Hotmail), Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, Skype, SBC, and Verizon now have grounds to take legal action against Facebook, by Facebook's own reasoning.
For one, I'm guessing the woman that pulled out the pepper spray last Black Friday won't be welcome at that Walmart again.
There's also sort of another, since we haven't reached the point in her timeline where she dies, sweetie. Oh, sorry, "spoilers."
Not that she has any regenerations left, but if she and her husband were to have a child, that child would be at least half Time Lord with (I expect) a full allotment of regenerations. That's one way I was suspecting they would circumvent the old "12 regenerations" limit that may or may not have been rendered moot by a comment in the Sarah Jane Adventures; leave the TARDIS as an inheritance to the next generation.
Actually, Mogh is the (deceased) father of Worf on Star Trek: the Next Generation. You're thinking of the Face of Boe, and one of Jack's comments to the Doctor and Martha strongly suggests that he will become the Face eventually. The video on YouTube showing how Tennant and Barrowman learned of this plot twist is hilarious.
SInce a journey to mars will take 9-10 months with a convenient alignment between the planets, travel time would be at least 1.5 years, and the spacecraft would have to carry all its own supplies, it would have to be quite massive.
If you're going on a cross-country car trip, you don't fuel your car up with hundreds of gallons of gasoline at the start, do you?
One possible approach would be to set up "rest stops" stationed along the route the capsule would follow. If the capsule had the capacity to hold enough supplies that a missed station or even two wouldn't be fatal to the crew, all you'd need is sufficient fuel to travel from one station to the next plus some extra to maneuver. Rather than carrying a year and a half's worth of supplies, the capsule would need to carry two months of supplies (with stations set up a month apart.)
What would a criminal need to fake your fingerprint at a crime scene?
What would a criminal need to fake your DNA at a crime scene? A piece of hair from a brush or comb or from your last trip to the barber shop? A few flakes of skin that they could collect from you as they brush past you in on a crowded subway terminal or restaurant?
Homosexual Marriage has NEVER existed in history until very recently. Marriage was for the purposes of a man an woman(women/polygamy) having a family and defining the rights and responsibilities thereof. Homosexuals are incapable of producing children therefore aren't given the protection of Marriage.
By that argument, heterosexual marriages should end at death of either spouse ("'til death do you part"), when the wife enters menopause, when the husband becomes impotent, or when either suffers an injury or illness that renders them infertile.
In that scenario, marriage licenses would also require signed notification from a medical practitioner certifying the fertility of each spouse, which would require one of:
* the prospective wife currently being pregnant and the prospective husband being the father as determined by DNA testing
* the prospective husband providing a sample for testing with his own hands and the prospective wife undergoing medical testing to ensure her fertility
* a medical practitioner performing testing on both prospective spouses to ensure their fertility
None of those options seem particularly palatable to me. Taking that one step further, you would also need to show that same evidence to an IRS auditor if you filed a joint tax return and were audited. If you wanted to visit your spouse in the hospital after a serious accident and the hospital had a "relatives only" visiting policy, you wouldn't be allowed to visit until the doctors were certain their reproductive capabilities had not been damaged. And don't adoption agencies favor married couples when deciding who is allowed to adopt? Then people who had one of the best reason for wanting to adopt would no longer be favored.
Shapeshifting in the Bible? No.
Incest in the Bible? Genesis 19:30-38.
But please, won't someone think of the children that may be in the vicinity of the site where the space vehicle was forced to make an emergency landing?
... :-) Neither are celebrities. And, on that note, will go on the record saying that I *want* Samuel L. Jackson on the plane in case there are snakes...
Senator Paul is not going to hijack or down an airplane - though with his Libertarian leanings, he might not help prevent an incident but rather allow the Free Market to decide the plane's fate.
Given the kind of stuff Adam Savage regularly uses in his job, I think it makes sense for him to go through screening to make sure he didn't forget and bring his work with him. Although I do remember the TSA missing something when they searched him on a previous trip ...
But any information about how the security equipment works could compromise our security and thus fall under the umbrella of "state secrets", right? And the manufacturers of the equipment will get the same sort of deal the telecoms got for their participation in the alleged-and-unofficially-confirmed wireless wiretapping incident.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
IANAL but as an example, calling someone a thief is libelous in some jurisdictions, I believe.
I hope these kooks come to "SSXW" in Spring of 2012 as promised.
Considering the size of this sh*tstorm, if they do ... it'll probably be under a name that is not "Ocean Marketing".
Considering the size of the sh*storm, if they do even being in the Witness Protection Program wouldn't be enough to conceal their involvement. All it would take would be one person or group following the tracks from Ocean Marketing to their new name and posting that new name to Slashdot or some other gaming website and they'd be "outed."
Do you really expect the members of Congress, elected from the general public, to be experts in all of those areas? If YOU were elected to Congress, how many areas are YOU an expert in?
No and a few respectively. But if I wasn't an expert in the area covered by a particular bill, I'd listen to the explanations of people that were experts in that particular area -- and if there were different opinions, I'd listen to the various sides.
The Internet is too important to too many people to rush something like this through when there's this much controversy about the proposed change. Passing a bill honoring some sports team for winning a championship? Sure, that can take 30 seconds. Passing a bill where Hollywood is on one side and Google is on the other? Perhaps we better think about it a little.
I'm not a doctor, but you look like your spleen is broken. It's gotta come out. Good thing I have my Swiss Army knife. Now just lie down on that table there, bite down on something, and let's do this.
Now what does a spleen look like again, and where it is? Oh well, I'll just go digging -- I'm sure I'll find it sooner or later!
Surely you don't object to me performing surgery without a medical license or any sort of medical training? After all, like I said, I'm not a doctor ... but you're "not a nerd", and that didn't prevent you from backing SOPA, right?
The bug report popup should give the user the option to save the information to a file (plain text, XML, HTML, etc.) in that situation.
If FTL travel is possible, we could just travel out N light years from Earth and pick up the signal from the original broadcast. Of course, the signal's probably degraded too far for it to be recognizable.
If I were a time traveler, my first stop would be the local convenience store a couple weeks ago, to pick up a "lucky" lottery ticket. Or maybe South Africa a few millenia ago, when there was no De Beers to stop me. It's not as convenient as Corwin's shadow from The Guns of Avalon, where he just picked them up off the ground, but it'd do.
If he's received death threats (as I believe has been reported) then why does the questioning need to take place in Sweden? Surely if the Swedes were willing to pay for a (potentially one-way) plane ticket for Assange and a round trip ticket for an officer to bring him to Sweden, they could pay for a Swedish officer to travel to the UK and question him there; if it turns out that they want to charge him after that questioning, then they just need a second one-way plane ticket for the ride back to Sweden. Or they could make use of videoconferencing and save themselves the cost of the tickets if there's no reason to bring him to Sweden.
Would repeated spam qualify as harassment in Canada? If so, would that volume of spam be sufficient to warrant a restraining order against the company?
As were Jack Thompson, Laurence Canter (of "Green Card Lottery spam" fame), and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon. Wikipedia lists a number of others who suffered the same fate.
somebody tries to send the full list of subscribers to the latter...
This prompts the question "Why did you do that?" If the subscribers list is intended to be internal, keep it internal. Send a link to the list's location on $SOME_INTERNAL_PAGE to the management and let them click through to it. If you accidentally send that internal link to the subscribers list rather than the maintainers, then you've exposed some of your internal site organization details to the list (mildly bad) but you haven't divulged the subscribers list since they don't have permission to access the internal page (very good.) It's the Pimpl pattern for business data.
However, there are a couple of differences. First, Votorola is not anonymous. It is completely open and public. That gives participants 100% validation of their voting: nobody can steal or corrupt or hack or usurp your vote, because you can actually check on it at any time.
This has both benefits and drawbacks. I did a quick scan but didn't see what safeguards, if any, are in place to prevent voter intimidation tactics. The police would step in if I threatened to break your kneecaps unless you vote yes on proposition Q. But what if I (as your boss) subtly imply that the raise you receive this year may depend on how you vote on proposition Q, which I support? Unless there was some way to prevent me from learning how you voted, you're likely going to vote yes on proposition Q rather than risk a lower bonus (or even getting fired.)