I think you failed to catch what the original post was about (not that I'm saying it's your fault). I assume the original post is talking about the poor performance of the official app, not the removal of Scrabulous.
Putting mentally unstable people in minimum security is a bad idea
Did law enforcement and/or the courts have any reason to believe that he was mentally unstable? And no, sending out spam doesn't make you mentally unstable, it just makes you greedy.
No... based on the fact that there is zero evidence of it, despite much active searching.
It's kind of like saying that "there are no pink elephants on top of the Eiffel tower... based on the current level of technology and scientific understanding". No, it's based on the fact that lots of people look at the top of the Eiffel tower and none have seen a pink elephant there (except for my uncle, once, but he was on LSD).
Except that we can observe the entire top of the Eiffel Tower. Try your claim again when you've observed every body in the galaxy. Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.
I wouldn't rely on just being able to tack "I think" on to any statement as a defense against libel lawsuits. If a judge sees a clear pattern of you doing so purely to try to avoid libel lawsuits, they could reasonably rule that you are indeed making statements of fact. Libel is very much an issue of intent, and judges have to do a substantial amount of interpretation when dealing with libel cases.
And... Wouldnt you consider Firefox 3.x to be the newest/latest version of Firefox?
The paper probably doesn't. Assuming the summary is correct (I know, I know), the paper is "as of June, 2008", which is the same month that Firefox 3.0 was released.
Have you even seen the original 10 commandments? It's not just like 'thou shalt not kill', each command is quite verbose.
Actually, the Hebrew for "thou shalt not murder" is even shorter- it's only two words ("No murder"). Most of the second half is like that; it's really only the first few that are longer sentences.
Oh, as for the topic, better flash memory == good.
It took some effort for me to get one a month or two ago. At the time, though, I was told that the release of WiiFit was the cause, and that stock was decent a couple months earlier. It might be better by now.
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The OS is useful without X / desktop managers but irrelevant without a compiler/toolchain.
People using it as a desktop system might disagree with that statement.
Great, a flake is in charge of naming, just as I suspected. "Makemake"? Come on...what a dumb name. Oh, but you're supposed to pronounce it differently than "make" twice. Yeah right, like anyone is going to do that.
I really wish that scientists would be professional. "Easterbunny"? Let me guess, his kid loves the Easter bunny. This is the equivalent of making your own magazine so that you can be the cover model every month.
You are aware of where the names for the rest of the planets and satellites come from, right?
To say that the first release of Dolphin will be binary compatible with all future releases of KDE 4.X (which is what the quote is implying) just doesn't seem right.
What's wrong with it? All it means is that nothing that's in the API in 4.0.0 will be removed or changed in an incompatible way for the lifetime of 4.x. Plenty of new features will be added, but they won't break any existing code. Programming languages like Perl, Python, and PHP (usually) do this all the time.
That's why you give tests that are short (maybe ~10 lines of code) that demonstrate reasoning and problem solving. You also don't necessarily expect perfect syntax, depending on the level of skill in the particular language you're looking for.
Everything has risks. You (the generic you) walk from your apartment to your car every day, despite the risk of an airplane falling on your head and killing you. It is possible to test for reasonable risks and take reasonable safety precautions without dragging scientific progress to a halt.
The people who *currently* are publishing, that is, the tabloids, are being sued (rightfully, in my mind) for essentially spreading unsubstantiated rumor.
Unsubstantiated rumor would be "I heard from my friend's sister's boyfriend's brother that that rich girl threw an awesome party." A person saying "I threw an awesome party and here are the pictures" wouldn't give a newspaper any obvious reason to doubt that the claim is true. Sure, the newspaper should publish a retraction and/or apology for publishing something that isn't true, but they shouldn't be subject to a libel case from (essentially) the same person.
I wonder if the "compromise" is that newspapers already do add "as reported on [insert blog name here]" on every such story meaning that they would pass responsibility for accuracy to the original source.
The trick is to append a question mark to your headlines.
That way no one can accuse you of anything even when you repeat (and embellish) the most outrageous bullshit.
See also: Faux News, Slashdot, Digg.
I've decided that the technical term for that should be Punctuation Punditry (c/o Jon Stewart). I wish we had that tag for Slashdot stories, but I haven't been able to figure out who/what decides on which tags are shown.
No, but he certainly got far more votes (approximately 20%) than any Green party candidate has. Give that much money to someone that doesn't look and sound like a cartoon character, and they might get elected.
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I think you failed to catch what the original post was about (not that I'm saying it's your fault). I assume the original post is talking about the poor performance of the official app, not the removal of Scrabulous.
Putting mentally unstable people in minimum security is a bad idea
Did law enforcement and/or the courts have any reason to believe that he was mentally unstable? And no, sending out spam doesn't make you mentally unstable, it just makes you greedy.
No... based on the fact that there is zero evidence of it, despite much active searching.
It's kind of like saying that "there are no pink elephants on top of the Eiffel tower... based on the current level of technology and scientific understanding". No, it's based on the fact that lots of people look at the top of the Eiffel tower and none have seen a pink elephant there (except for my uncle, once, but he was on LSD).
Except that we can observe the entire top of the Eiffel Tower. Try your claim again when you've observed every body in the galaxy. Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.
Bank of America also doesn't allow special characters in your password.
I wouldn't rely on just being able to tack "I think" on to any statement as a defense against libel lawsuits. If a judge sees a clear pattern of you doing so purely to try to avoid libel lawsuits, they could reasonably rule that you are indeed making statements of fact. Libel is very much an issue of intent, and judges have to do a substantial amount of interpretation when dealing with libel cases.
I like the explanation I heard a while ago, I think on Slashdot: 50% of advertising is effective; the trick is figuring out which 50% is effective.
People love the Geico ads with the duck.
Geico is the gecko. Aflac is the duck.
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I like watching advertisements that are funnier than the program.
And... Wouldnt you consider Firefox 3.x to be the newest/latest version of Firefox?
The paper probably doesn't. Assuming the summary is correct (I know, I know), the paper is "as of June, 2008", which is the same month that Firefox 3.0 was released.
Have you even seen the original 10 commandments? It's not just like 'thou shalt not kill', each command is quite verbose.
Actually, the Hebrew for "thou shalt not murder" is even shorter- it's only two words ("No murder"). Most of the second half is like that; it's really only the first few that are longer sentences.
Oh, as for the topic, better flash memory == good.
I believe there have been buffer overflow exploits in things like JPEG renderers.
It took some effort for me to get one a month or two ago. At the time, though, I was told that the release of WiiFit was the cause, and that stock was decent a couple months earlier. It might be better by now.
The OS is useful without X / desktop managers but irrelevant without a compiler/toolchain.
People using it as a desktop system might disagree with that statement.
Great, a flake is in charge of naming, just as I suspected. "Makemake"? Come on...what a dumb name. Oh, but you're supposed to pronounce it differently than "make" twice. Yeah right, like anyone is going to do that.
I really wish that scientists would be professional. "Easterbunny"? Let me guess, his kid loves the Easter bunny. This is the equivalent of making your own magazine so that you can be the cover model every month.
You are aware of where the names for the rest of the planets and satellites come from, right?
Good.
I really hate it when you do that.
To say that the first release of Dolphin will be binary compatible with all future releases of KDE 4.X (which is what the quote is implying) just doesn't seem right.
What's wrong with it? All it means is that nothing that's in the API in 4.0.0 will be removed or changed in an incompatible way for the lifetime of 4.x. Plenty of new features will be added, but they won't break any existing code. Programming languages like Perl, Python, and PHP (usually) do this all the time.
That's why you give tests that are short (maybe ~10 lines of code) that demonstrate reasoning and problem solving. You also don't necessarily expect perfect syntax, depending on the level of skill in the particular language you're looking for.
Everything has risks. You (the generic you) walk from your apartment to your car every day, despite the risk of an airplane falling on your head and killing you. It is possible to test for reasonable risks and take reasonable safety precautions without dragging scientific progress to a halt.
The people who *currently* are publishing, that is, the tabloids, are being sued (rightfully, in my mind) for essentially spreading unsubstantiated rumor.
Unsubstantiated rumor would be "I heard from my friend's sister's boyfriend's brother that that rich girl threw an awesome party." A person saying "I threw an awesome party and here are the pictures" wouldn't give a newspaper any obvious reason to doubt that the claim is true. Sure, the newspaper should publish a retraction and/or apology for publishing something that isn't true, but they shouldn't be subject to a libel case from (essentially) the same person.
I wonder if the "compromise" is that newspapers already do add "as reported on [insert blog name here]" on every such story meaning that they would pass responsibility for accuracy to the original source.
Fixed that for ya.
The trick is to append a question mark to your headlines.
That way no one can accuse you of anything even when you repeat (and embellish) the most outrageous bullshit.
See also: Faux News, Slashdot, Digg.
I've decided that the technical term for that should be Punctuation Punditry (c/o Jon Stewart). I wish we had that tag for Slashdot stories, but I haven't been able to figure out who/what decides on which tags are shown.
Too many RFCs are being blatantly ignored. To the interweb's detriment. RFC 821/2821, RFC 1178... need I go on?
You forgot RFC 1149
Is Darwinism so sacrosanct that it can never be questioned?
No, it can't be "questioned". It's science. It's fact.
You mean like how Newtonian mechanics is fact?
can you prove, with only science, that all the laws of science have always existed
Of course you can't. Mathematicians work with proofs. Physical scientists work with experimentation and predictive theories.
No, but he certainly got far more votes (approximately 20%) than any Green party candidate has. Give that much money to someone that doesn't look and sound like a cartoon character, and they might get elected.