The government's short-sighted experiment resulted in a large number of people who couldn't spell syphilis, and the science was set back decades when nobody could look up the research in scientific journals any more.
It is noticable that only marketers appear to believe that intrusive advertising (whether you are talking telesolictors, door-to-door salesmen or popups) is something people actually want.
Nobody believes people want intrusive advertising. They just believe it works... because it does.
It sounds more like Opera is lamenting that its usage figures are artificially deflated. To which I have to say: Wahhh, suck it bitch. Opera isn't Open Source. Go home.
Maybe, maybe not. Microsoft has plenty of reasons to want their beta software to stop working after a period of time, simply to get users off a platform that is unsupported and probably buggy.
Reliable, repeatable testing is a great way to prevent fixes in one area from causing bugs in another. When I fix A, I generally only test A manually. I don't test every other conceivable code path, even though my fix for A might well impact them.
An automated test for B will catch regressions caused by my fix in A, making it harder to backslide. Backsliding is very expensive because bugs are far removed from their cause. If an automated test sees that changes in A caused a regression in B, the cause is immediately obvious.
The hosting provider said "We will be better at supporting this system if all the servers run the same OS".
In other words, all Windows would have been fine too. All Linux was their choice because All Windows wasn't an option, having been eliminated by the Oracle vendor.
No need, really. It's not as if anything you said is hard to believe;-)
We should all be asking the biggest questions though: does the registry prevent crimes? What are the statistics, before and after? Has anyone even studied it?
The bottom line is we shouldn't have ineffective laws, regardless of what the law is about. If the registry is indeed effective at preventing crime, then we can have a debate, but if it's not, it should be thrown out, period.
Because sex offenses of a particular kind are actually related to sexual addiction, and there is an extremely high recidivism rate due to the fact that prisons don't treat addiction very effectively, and treating addiction at all is difficult in the first place, and these are people that are extremely deep into their addictions to have committed their crimes.
Having said that: * Why don't we fix the prison system so it does treat addictive behaviors related to sex? * Why don't we distinguish between sex crimes that are connected to an addition and those that are not, and not track sexual offenders who are unlikely to commit a new crime? * Why are there so many people on the list who don't deserve to be there? (Misguided applications of the statutory-rape laws come to mind, as others have pointed out.)
Without fixing these problems I am opposed to the sex offender registry, but I do understand why it exists.
From TFA: . . . whose group discovered 1,500 dead people who were also listed as active registered voters. Fifty of those dead people somehow voted in the last election.
The 1500 are the ones you want to be concerned about, because if they're not removed from the rolls, their votes can be used fraudulently in the next election. The 50 are not necessarily a problem at all. This course was taken over the course of the last semester. I'm surprised it hasn't occurred to anyone that:
Most of those 50 dead people voted in the last election because they were alive during the last election. They probably died during the months following that. People do die, y'know.
Well, Microsoft isn't just some IT company. And I doubt IBM has more lawyers than the entire IT industry if you include Microsoft. You just don't provoke the world's other superpower.
But the article's premise is still BS. IBM has millions of dollars of legal budget, with Eben that will be millions of dollars + 1 lawyer. That won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
IBM will probably continue to not support WINE, for mostly technical reasons.
With this concern, and given the stringent regulations that hospitals and health care providers have to obey, it should be mandatory that this feature be turned off permanently and irrevocably at install time for any system purchased by any health care provider. If this technology is even available on the computers they use, hospitals are opening themselves up to massive liability.
You can a floor nurse working at the same time next to another nurse who has a patient with an unusual disease. If you log in and look up the patient's record--or even look over the shoulder of your coworker when he logs in--the hospital is liable under HIPAA for privacy violations. They can be fined, and they can be sued, and enforcement of these rules happens frequently. Now imagine what could happen if THIS system is used in a hospital computer!
If what you say is true, then it's another reason contributing to the success of AdWords. The service seems designed so that your lunatic product managers can't force bad ads down throats against the advice of their agency.. they have to take targetted advertising, and like it. And just maybe, to their surprise, it will work.
I've done some serious research on what it would take to become a Canadian citizen, mostly because it's America with 40% less fascism. Anything that facilitates travel between the two countries represents a risk that the two countries will begin to become more and more alike, with the American culture eventually drowning out the last vestiges of the Canadian one.
This passport thing seems like a step in the right direction. Don't intermix bad American crap with good Canadian freedom.
Isn't that kind of silly? The American already needs a passport to get back into his country. Take that, you people who are going into Canada on a one-way trip.
And fuel that can be replaced by even cleaner sources. Nuclear, for example. Replacing a dirty power source on the grid is a feasible task to complete in a few years. Replacing a billion power sources in individual cars, no.
1. Ubuntu simply contains the new debian-installer that will be in the next Debian release.
Incorrect. Debian's new modular upkg-based installer is not remotely like Ubuntu's, which is a dream to use and has unbelievably good automatic hardware setup. Debian's "new" installer is crud.
2. Debian testing (sarge) contain very new packages and is quite stable. That's what I use. And it's more stable than distros whose version numbers can't be stored in a 64-bit float. It contains the new debian-installer. You might claim that testing can not be used on production servers/corporate environment. But servers won't use Ubuntu, and older more tested packages are better for servers. And corporate environments will probably use something like RH. Sarge is fairly new, but it doesn't get security updates. Ubuntu does. Bringing up RH is just silly.
3. AFAIK, many Ubuntu packages are old. In fact only the ones on the CD are newer. All the other available through download are as old or almost as old as Debian. So Debian testing actually contains newer packages. Warty packages are a few months old compared to Debian's current "unstable". Hoary packages are up-to-date, and Hoary is about to be released, because unlike Debian, Ubuntu actually does release. Many packages in sarge are *not* newer than those in Warty because they have RC bugs in them that prevent them from dropping from unstable into testing.
4. There's nothing that makes Ubuntu easier to use that's not in Debian (at least in testing)
If you had run Ubuntu, you wouldn't make a statement like this.
Check your facts before you turn them into a bulleted list.
This is precisely what the Netflix model is. They send you a movie, you keep it as long as you want. Along with the 2 movies we received recently I've got a DVD next to the TV we've been meaning to watch for 3 months. Netflix doesn't care. You send it back when you're done, you get another DVD. The only thing sending the movie back does is refresh the choices you have next to your TV.
Buried underneath those somewhere are a couple of DVDs we had when we closed one of our Netflix accounts to change the name it was under. That was over a year ago. Netflix doesn't care.
Blockbuster introduced "no late fees" as a direct answer to the Netflix model.. at least, that's what people apparently thought. They only wanted to create the impression that they were like Netflix, obviously, without actually doing any of the work.
Give two things a try: try Klooge.Werks for dice handling, miniature display and map obscurement, and try Dundjinni for creating stunning--gorgeous--maps with little effort. These two products deserve tons more users, and they make the game easier to run for the DM and more fun for the players. And those of you talking about "roll playing" -- I hear you, babe. I try to run the most ROLE campaign I possibly can, and KW only helps me do that. Once everyone knows how to use the program, which can be done in a single half-hour training session, play is smooth and you can resolve combat quickly and accurately so you get to the interesting stuff.
I almost choked when I read "Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and 'X' for words ending in the letters C or K is common."
This isn't a parent's primer, it's a fucking retard's primer.
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It's a sacrifice I gladly bear.
The government's short-sighted experiment resulted in a large number of people who couldn't spell syphilis, and the science was set back decades when nobody could look up the research in scientific journals any more.
Only on your last statement do you fall down:
It is noticable that only marketers appear to believe that intrusive advertising (whether you are talking telesolictors, door-to-door salesmen or popups) is something people actually want.
Nobody believes people want intrusive advertising. They just believe it works... because it does.
It sounds more like Opera is lamenting that its usage figures are artificially deflated. To which I have to say: Wahhh, suck it bitch. Opera isn't Open Source. Go home.
Maybe, maybe not. Microsoft has plenty of reasons to want their beta software to stop working after a period of time, simply to get users off a platform that is unsupported and probably buggy.
Reliable, repeatable testing is a great way to prevent fixes in one area from causing bugs in another. When I fix A, I generally only test A manually. I don't test every other conceivable code path, even though my fix for A might well impact them.
An automated test for B will catch regressions caused by my fix in A, making it harder to backslide. Backsliding is very expensive because bugs are far removed from their cause. If an automated test sees that changes in A caused a regression in B, the cause is immediately obvious.
The hosting provider said "We will be better at supporting this system if all the servers run the same OS".
In other words, all Windows would have been fine too. All Linux was their choice because All Windows wasn't an option, having been eliminated by the Oracle vendor.
Sorry for lack of links to back up my quotes
;-)
No need, really. It's not as if anything you said is hard to believe
We should all be asking the biggest questions though: does the registry prevent crimes? What are the statistics, before and after? Has anyone even studied it?
The bottom line is we shouldn't have ineffective laws, regardless of what the law is about. If the registry is indeed effective at preventing crime, then we can have a debate, but if it's not, it should be thrown out, period.
Now we know why the power went out. Everyone had their spambots cranked up too high.
Because sex offenses of a particular kind are actually related to sexual addiction, and there is an extremely high recidivism rate due to the fact that prisons don't treat addiction very effectively, and treating addiction at all is difficult in the first place, and these are people that are extremely deep into their addictions to have committed their crimes.
Having said that:
* Why don't we fix the prison system so it does treat addictive behaviors related to sex?
* Why don't we distinguish between sex crimes that are connected to an addition and those that are not, and not track sexual offenders who are unlikely to commit a new crime?
* Why are there so many people on the list who don't deserve to be there? (Misguided applications of the statutory-rape laws come to mind, as others have pointed out.)
Without fixing these problems I am opposed to the sex offender registry, but I do understand why it exists.
One of the current links on that page is "How to Get Slashdotted." Whatever it says, it must work.
You just burn them, like any fuel source. ;-)
Don't forget, split three ways.
From TFA:
. . . whose group discovered 1,500 dead people who were also listed as active registered voters. Fifty of those dead people somehow voted in the last election.
The 1500 are the ones you want to be concerned about, because if they're not removed from the rolls, their votes can be used fraudulently in the next election. The 50 are not necessarily a problem at all. This course was taken over the course of the last semester. I'm surprised it hasn't occurred to anyone that:
Most of those 50 dead people voted in the last election because they were alive during the last election. They probably died during the months following that. People do die, y'know.
Well, Microsoft isn't just some IT company. And I doubt IBM has more lawyers than the entire IT industry if you include Microsoft. You just don't provoke the world's other superpower.
But the article's premise is still BS. IBM has millions of dollars of legal budget, with Eben that will be millions of dollars + 1 lawyer. That won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
IBM will probably continue to not support WINE, for mostly technical reasons.
With this concern, and given the stringent regulations that hospitals and health care providers have to obey, it should be mandatory that this feature be turned off permanently and irrevocably at install time for any system purchased by any health care provider. If this technology is even available on the computers they use, hospitals are opening themselves up to massive liability.
You can a floor nurse working at the same time next to another nurse who has a patient with an unusual disease. If you log in and look up the patient's record--or even look over the shoulder of your coworker when he logs in--the hospital is liable under HIPAA for privacy violations. They can be fined, and they can be sued, and enforcement of these rules happens frequently. Now imagine what could happen if THIS system is used in a hospital computer!
If what you say is true, then it's another reason contributing to the success of AdWords. The service seems designed so that your lunatic product managers can't force bad ads down throats against the advice of their agency.. they have to take targetted advertising, and like it. And just maybe, to their surprise, it will work.
I've done some serious research on what it would take to become a Canadian citizen, mostly because it's America with 40% less fascism. Anything that facilitates travel between the two countries represents a risk that the two countries will begin to become more and more alike, with the American culture eventually drowning out the last vestiges of the Canadian one.
This passport thing seems like a step in the right direction. Don't intermix bad American crap with good Canadian freedom.
Isn't that kind of silly? The American already needs a passport to get back into his country. Take that, you people who are going into Canada on a one-way trip.
And fuel that can be replaced by even cleaner sources. Nuclear, for example. Replacing a dirty power source on the grid is a feasible task to complete in a few years. Replacing a billion power sources in individual cars, no.
1. Ubuntu simply contains the new debian-installer that will be in the next Debian release.
Incorrect. Debian's new modular upkg-based installer is not remotely like Ubuntu's, which is a dream to use and has unbelievably good automatic hardware setup. Debian's "new" installer is crud.
2. Debian testing (sarge) contain very new packages and is quite stable. That's what I use. And it's more stable than distros whose version numbers can't be stored in a 64-bit float. It contains the new debian-installer. You might claim that testing can not be used on production servers/corporate environment. But servers won't use Ubuntu, and older more tested packages are better for servers. And corporate environments will probably use something like RH.
Sarge is fairly new, but it doesn't get security updates. Ubuntu does. Bringing up RH is just silly.
3. AFAIK, many Ubuntu packages are old. In fact only the ones on the CD are newer. All the other available through download are as old or almost as old as Debian. So Debian testing actually contains newer packages.
Warty packages are a few months old compared to Debian's current "unstable". Hoary packages are up-to-date, and Hoary is about to be released, because unlike Debian, Ubuntu actually does release. Many packages in sarge are *not* newer than those in Warty because they have RC bugs in them that prevent them from dropping from unstable into testing.
4. There's nothing that makes Ubuntu easier to use that's not in Debian (at least in testing)
If you had run Ubuntu, you wouldn't make a statement like this.
Check your facts before you turn them into a bulleted list.
"Ubuntu". Yes, and yes.
This is precisely what the Netflix model is. They send you a movie, you keep it as long as you want. Along with the 2 movies we received recently I've got a DVD next to the TV we've been meaning to watch for 3 months. Netflix doesn't care. You send it back when you're done, you get another DVD. The only thing sending the movie back does is refresh the choices you have next to your TV.
Buried underneath those somewhere are a couple of DVDs we had when we closed one of our Netflix accounts to change the name it was under. That was over a year ago. Netflix doesn't care.
Blockbuster introduced "no late fees" as a direct answer to the Netflix model.. at least, that's what people apparently thought. They only wanted to create the impression that they were like Netflix, obviously, without actually doing any of the work.
Give two things a try: try Klooge.Werks for dice handling, miniature display and map obscurement, and try Dundjinni for creating stunning--gorgeous--maps with little effort. These two products deserve tons more users, and they make the game easier to run for the DM and more fun for the players. And those of you talking about "roll playing" -- I hear you, babe. I try to run the most ROLE campaign I possibly can, and KW only helps me do that. Once everyone knows how to use the program, which can be done in a single half-hour training session, play is smooth and you can resolve combat quickly and accurately so you get to the interesting stuff.
I almost choked when I read "Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and 'X' for words ending in the letters C or K is common."
This isn't a parent's primer, it's a fucking retard's primer.