Comment Re:Fifth Amendement Right (Score 1) 367
Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him.
Ah, that would require today's students to be able to write six lines... We may have a problem there.
Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him.
Ah, that would require today's students to be able to write six lines... We may have a problem there.
Naked children != Child pornography.
Used to be. Not any more. It would be trivial to find a court to turn anything into child pornography.
That's Russia for you.
Damned if you do,
Damned if you don't.
You go to China but you can't do business unless you pay the bribes but if you (or the person you paid the bribes to) ever piss off the wrong person in government, then they'll hit you with those bribes they demanded. Then the US government will go "gosh, we can't support that", and the hit you with their hammer too as a form of appeasement to various parties.
If the contract is large enough, the government will step in and do the bribery itself (but then it's probably legal).
Which printer are you allowed to send to?
A cloud printer !
Then you can access a page that shows a photo of your printed document on a wooden table !
Truly we live in exciting times !
Spoiler: you're not going to like any of it. At all.
That's assuming they release the real thing...
I wouldn't be too surprised if they released a decoy. Last time there were such talks, they were killed when they came under the public eye. So a bland document would be a good way to defuse the situation.
Of course that's assuming anybody cares about it nowadays which might be a bit optimistic of me.
Apparently their reasoning is that there is a cost attached to creating the demo.
And they believe that [profit of sales from demo players] - [cost of demo] < 0
Which is *very* debatable IMO, unless the demo production is completely distinct from the game itself, which, given the difference in quality between many demos and their corresponding games might be true. And might be something to fix. Unless game engines are way less modular than one would think.
It ignores the alternative of other institutions providing them.
Right, because the alternative of private enterprise investing in, for example, workplace safety, instead of making a quick buck right now is completely plausible and not at all a complete fantasy.
How about, 'we can essentially pick between Franco and Peron?' Both pretty bad, and fascist corporatists like many of today's politicians, but, you know, they didn't murder millions of people.
That's a bit like saying of Hitler, "at least he had table manners"...
Murdering tens (to hundreds) of thousands of people isn't really that much better, except maybe in a purely statistical sense.
If some day that's the choice that has to be made, some thing's very wrong and it's probably time to either get the hell out or to use all of the weapons the US people insist on stockpiling.
Sixteen sheep? This is a terrible study. We're talking about actually electrocuting human beings and their proof that it doesn't hurt humans permanently is a study with only a sample size of 16.
A better study would have been to tase all the stockholders and management of Taser after dosing a significant percentage of them with off the street drugs. That way they'd get a larger sample. And in their interest I'm sure they would all be happy to participate.
I have no idea what the Avengers are but you had me at Summer Glau
I don't have the faintest idea who Summer Glau is but The Avengers had Emma Peel (interpreted by Diana Riggs) and nothing more needs to be said.
People moan and whine because there's Gnome and KDE (although there's increasingly a bit of a norm unifying the whole thing thanks to opendesktop) and now they pull, out of all things, OS/2 services ?
Granted, why not ? But the few who actually worked on OS/2 programming let it go a long time ago. And why OS/2 and not [insert whatever other dead system here] ?
Everybody nowadays either uses Unix or Windows. Come up with something new or work with the crowd. Out with the IT necromancy I say. Bring out the torches and pitchforks !
They're originally telco's. They're not used to being dumb pipes because only a decade or so ago, they mostly weren't.
I don't get this "dumb pipe" thing. What other kind of pipe do they hope to sell ? In Europe ISPs typically sell three services when they hook you up via ADSL : Internet access, telephone (via VOIP) and TV (as streamed MPEG2 or 4). Some of them separate those offers but increasingly, you tend to just get the whole package, whether you want it all or not.
My ISP only has one offer with all 3 services on top of ADSL2+ (and a WiFi and video-recording set top box thrown in) for 30 €/month (in France). No cap or limit on anything. You also get IPv6 if you like and a user settable reverse DNS.
But behind this is really just a dumb tube. They do have streaming video servers and VOD services (which I never tried) that could be seen as a kind of update to the useless portal page each ISP feels like it needs to have. Although strictly speaking that data isn't on the Internet. Just on their network.
Are there *any* ISPs that have anything of value to add to their "Internet tube" ? I doubt it. They can offer services to piggyback on the connection but that's pretty much it I think. Mostly, what they seem to have to offer is restrictions these days...
How is this a book review? It is a chapter-by-chapter summary followed by a one-liner that the guy likes the book.
That's the review bit right there : "I liked this book because [...]"
Not much of a review, granted, but a review nonetheless.
They skipped 13 for superstitious reasons. Just like floor numbers in a building.
It's a trick from builders to have "higher" buildings, just like skipping the ground floor and counting from 1 instead of 0. Before they even started breaking ground they already have two more floors !
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
