But you're not green unless everyone "knows" you're green so you have to go out of your way to look like you are green. If you were actually green no one would notice or pay attention since you wouldn't look "green".
I'm more concerned about what kind of date calculation and/or storage these things are doing that would cause a hard freeze at the end of a leap year. It's not like there aren't already dozens of perfectly-working timekeeping systems out there.
That's a neat idea, but I've never heard of a generic period of time having a morning and an evening, as in "and the evening and the morning were the nth day."
Don't read much poetry or literature? I've heard the term "twilight" used many times to refer to the late years of a person's life. Or there's that whole Sphinx thing.
According to an article, "Papa Smurf took pity on her and took her to his laboratory, where they locked themselves in for several days before emerging."
I wonder what happened?
Reprogramming. People always find it weird that there's only one female Smurf in the whole place. It's even worse when you realize that she's not even a real Smurf.
If you give something away for free, you no longer technically own it. It's impossible to prove ownership and also impossible to claim it. As it is intangible it makes it ever more difficult.
If that were true for copyrighted work, wouldn't that make the GPL (and really any distribution license) completely unenforceable?
I am not trying to be a smartass here but what does theft of service actually mean? Is it signing a contract for work done and then not paying?
More or less, but it doesn't necessarily have to involve actually signing a contract. In general, it means gaining some benefit that you normally have to pay for without paying. Sneaking onto a bus or not paying a taxi fare would probably be considered theft of services. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary:
This category encompasses a wide variety of criminal activity including, but not limited to, tampering with (or bypassing) a utility meter so that the true level of consumption is understated; leaving a hotel or restaurant or similar establishment without paying for the service; and "turnstile jumping" or other methods of evading the payment of a fare or fee when using a public transit vehicle or entering a private facility normally requiring payment (e.g., amusements).
Of course it is. It's also frequently murder. But it only really counts if you use a cutlass and wear an eye patch.
In order for something to constitute theft, somebody has to be permanently deprived of property. Not profits, not the possibility of profits. When somebody's deprived of profits, that's not theft, that's copyright infringement.
That's not necessarily true. Many, if not all, states have laws concerning theft of services. I'm not saying that copyright infringement is or is not theft, but I get really annoyed when people keep repeating the incorrect statement that theft must involve loss of physical property.
Isn't socialism/communism by definition evil because it's based on violence and coercion? How can this be good in any way?
You've confused socialism and communism with authoritarianism again. Communism is a primarily economic model; authoritarianism is a political model. It's okay, though, lots of people get confused on this point, do it isn't just you.
Religions don't pay their fair share of taxes on their income.
In theory, religious institutions (how can a religion have an income?) are non-profit organizations, where you don't have a dozen executives getting paid millions of dollars and owning a different mansion for every month of the year. Other than the one or two religious leaders and office and custodial staff, nearly all of the work is done voluntarily by members of the congregation.
In reality, there are a few assholes that make the rest look bad, just like any other group.
And just to answer the kinda-obvious question, the other parts of the Old Testament are the books of Prophets (Nevi'im) and the books of Writings (Ketuvim).
Right... so how is that different from Google putting servers in local ISPs around the world?
Paying money for something physical (e.g. servers or bandwidth) is fine, because anyone is allowed to pay the same money for the same hardware and the same bandwidth. Paying money to an ISP so that they configure their routers to give your packets higher priority than their competitors (i.e. an artificial limiter) is not fine.
It's about removing packet shaping and other Quality of Service restrictions so my game data packet has the same amount of playtime as your business proposal packet.
That isn't what Net Neutrality is about at all. Net Neutrality is about fairness in traffic priority regardless of source and destination. True Quality of Service configuration is not against Net Neutrality. Different types of data have different latency requirements. Large file transfers, such as FTP or BitTorrent, can have lower priority than something like HTTP or streaming media. Nobody should care if getting the disk image for the latest Linux distribution release takes 125 minutes instead of 120 minutes, but people get annoyed if web pages take 10 seconds to load instead of 2 seconds or streaming video stalls waiting for frames every few seconds.
Because - oh god, this will cost me karma! - Star Trek autors are pretty pathetic themselves. (The best example is that nearly all extraterrestrial life [not just "humanoids"] is like earth, just extremely different where you can't look at.)
To be fair, they did explain why every race looks similar and are genetically compatible with each other. All of the major races were created by a single race.
I guess that just supports your hypothesis that the writers suck, huh?
But with a cloud, you can tie all of those kids into a network that Microsoft will be able to monetize, propogandize, etc.
Isn't that a bit "conspiracy theorist"? Why can't the explanation be something normal, like Microsoft making sure that every kid in Australia grows up believing that computer == Windows.
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But you're not green unless everyone "knows" you're green so you have to go out of your way to look like you are green. If you were actually green no one would notice or pay attention since you wouldn't look "green".
And as we all know, it's not easy.
The only reason people pay taxes is that people with guns will come and take the money if you don't.
Yeah, you can just live someplace with no government or laws, where people with guns can come and take your money.
If you thought arguing with the insurance company was bad just wait until you get to argue with a bureaucrat instead.
You say that as if there's a difference.
Never played Starcraft on Battle.net, huh?
I'm more concerned about what kind of date calculation and/or storage these things are doing that would cause a hard freeze at the end of a leap year. It's not like there aren't already dozens of perfectly-working timekeeping systems out there.
That's a neat idea, but I've never heard of a generic period of time having a morning and an evening, as in "and the evening and the morning were the nth day."
Don't read much poetry or literature? I've heard the term "twilight" used many times to refer to the late years of a person's life. Or there's that whole Sphinx thing.
The Jihadi. It is nominally defined as the rate at which the zealot can destroy knowledge.
1 Jihadi = 1 Burning Library of Congress (BLoC) per fortnight.
Would that make the Crusade the Imperial unit? And if so, what's the conversion equation?
According to an article, "Papa Smurf took pity on her and took her to his laboratory, where they locked themselves in for several days before emerging."
I wonder what happened?
Reprogramming. People always find it weird that there's only one female Smurf in the whole place. It's even worse when you realize that she's not even a real Smurf.
Why is this story a big deal? The same thing is true of Howard the Duck, and Jar-Jar Binks.
Hey, there's two or three of us that liked Howard the Duck.
If you give something away for free, you no longer technically own it. It's impossible to prove ownership and also impossible to claim it. As it is intangible it makes it ever more difficult.
If that were true for copyrighted work, wouldn't that make the GPL (and really any distribution license) completely unenforceable?
I am not trying to be a smartass here but what does theft of service actually mean? Is it signing a contract for work done and then not paying?
More or less, but it doesn't necessarily have to involve actually signing a contract. In general, it means gaining some benefit that you normally have to pay for without paying. Sneaking onto a bus or not paying a taxi fare would probably be considered theft of services. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary:
This category encompasses a wide variety of criminal activity including, but not limited to, tampering with (or bypassing) a utility meter so that the true level of consumption is understated; leaving a hotel or restaurant or similar establishment without paying for the service; and "turnstile jumping" or other methods of evading the payment of a fare or fee when using a public transit vehicle or entering a private facility normally requiring payment (e.g., amusements).
"ZOMG PIRACY IS THEFT". It isn't.
Of course it is. It's also frequently murder. But it only really counts if you use a cutlass and wear an eye patch.
In order for something to constitute theft, somebody has to be permanently deprived of property. Not profits, not the possibility of profits. When somebody's deprived of profits, that's not theft, that's copyright infringement.
That's not necessarily true. Many, if not all, states have laws concerning theft of services. I'm not saying that copyright infringement is or is not theft, but I get really annoyed when people keep repeating the incorrect statement that theft must involve loss of physical property.
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Airst Engrrted Post? Yup, that's definitely a good encryption scheme.
Isn't socialism/communism by definition evil because it's based on violence and coercion? How can this be good in any way?
You've confused socialism and communism with authoritarianism again. Communism is a primarily economic model; authoritarianism is a political model. It's okay, though, lots of people get confused on this point, do it isn't just you.
Star Wars (and Harry Potter) is simply a re-telling of themes found in mythic legends around the world using archetypes common to them all.
So is just about every other epic written in the past 2000 years. Any writer of such stories that says otherwise is almost certainly an idiot or liar.
Yeah, Xmas is the holiday with an evil robot Santa that rains destruction on everyone that's been naughty (and everyone has been naughty).
Religions don't pay their fair share of taxes on their income.
In theory, religious institutions (how can a religion have an income?) are non-profit organizations, where you don't have a dozen executives getting paid millions of dollars and owning a different mansion for every month of the year. Other than the one or two religious leaders and office and custodial staff, nearly all of the work is done voluntarily by members of the congregation.
In reality, there are a few assholes that make the rest look bad, just like any other group.
Find out in the upcoming /. article "Slashdot Editors Have Checked"
At least we never have to worry about them moving on to mating.
And just to answer the kinda-obvious question, the other parts of the Old Testament are the books of Prophets (Nevi'im) and the books of Writings (Ketuvim).
Microsoft could not check whether mshtml.dll was actually in memory before they insisted on a reboot?
Well, since just about everything in Windows uses it, would it ever not be in memory?
Right... so how is that different from Google putting servers in local ISPs around the world?
Paying money for something physical (e.g. servers or bandwidth) is fine, because anyone is allowed to pay the same money for the same hardware and the same bandwidth. Paying money to an ISP so that they configure their routers to give your packets higher priority than their competitors (i.e. an artificial limiter) is not fine.
It's about removing packet shaping and other Quality of Service restrictions so my game data packet has the same amount of playtime as your business proposal packet.
That isn't what Net Neutrality is about at all. Net Neutrality is about fairness in traffic priority regardless of source and destination. True Quality of Service configuration is not against Net Neutrality. Different types of data have different latency requirements. Large file transfers, such as FTP or BitTorrent, can have lower priority than something like HTTP or streaming media. Nobody should care if getting the disk image for the latest Linux distribution release takes 125 minutes instead of 120 minutes, but people get annoyed if web pages take 10 seconds to load instead of 2 seconds or streaming video stalls waiting for frames every few seconds.
Because - oh god, this will cost me karma! - Star Trek autors are pretty pathetic themselves. (The best example is that nearly all extraterrestrial life [not just "humanoids"] is like earth, just extremely different where you can't look at.)
To be fair, they did explain why every race looks similar and are genetically compatible with each other. All of the major races were created by a single race.
I guess that just supports your hypothesis that the writers suck, huh?
#6 item for "How to" -> How to hack It looks like script-kiddies are on the rise! ... or never went away.
Maybe they were looking for a different hack?
But with a cloud, you can tie all of those kids into a network that Microsoft will be able to monetize, propogandize, etc.
Isn't that a bit "conspiracy theorist"? Why can't the explanation be something normal, like Microsoft making sure that every kid in Australia grows up believing that computer == Windows.
I'm not saying we shouldn't use nuclear in the interim, but it is still not a solution as it, like oil is finite.
Name an energy source that isn't finite.