I think reddit has finally killed slashdot.
Pretty much. I jumped ship to Reddit months ago. Between the perpetual obnoxification of the Slashdot interface, the stupidification of the Slashdot "editors" and their inscrutable logic in approving idiotic stories for the front page, and the hordes of trollish mundanes that have watered down the geek quotient, I hardly bother to check Slashdot anymore. Back when it was CmdrTaco posting cool dork/nerd shit he found on the internet it was pretty fun, but now... meh.
Why does Occam's Razor favor the airliner when there is a very distinct history of missile tests off the coast of southern California and from Vandenberg on the coast of southern California?
Because 1) the military never says "missile? what missile?" when they've done a very obvious launch, and 2) Vandenberg is 150miles northwest of Los Angeles and a launch from there wouldn't be seen to the west of Manhattan Beach. I've seen Vandenberg launches from that area, and they look like they're coming from land, as Vandenberg is effectively behind the Santa Monica Mountains from that vantage point.
They are recent works that would have fallen under the original 14 year copyright terms
That's not as relevant as you'd like to believe. We cannot choose to follow an outdated law in lieu of the newer, more onerous one and still be considered "law abiding". If the law is going to be broken, why follow an arbitrary restriction?
That's not even getting into the greater point, which is that copyright is a favor, a boon granted to creators which they can leverage for some profit, and in exchange the public domain is enriched. Perpetual extension of copyright essentially eliminates the public's gain in that social contract. As there's simply no moral requirement to adhere to a bargain that's completely one-sided, there's nothing wrong with telling the publishers/jailors of our common culture the bargain is invalid and reverting to the natural state of information exchange. In fact, the only ethical course of action at this point is to refuse to obey the law. Because the legislators are all in the back pockets of the copyright industry, the only hope for change is in forcing a collapse of the system. Meekly obeying the law and hoping legislators someday decide the change the law isn't going to work.
What is ironic -- of all the drives, the old SCSI drives are built to last the longest. Reason? When you tell a SCSI drive to do a format, it remembers where all the sector defects are that it relocated...
That's not irony. That's just the nature of SCSI vs IDE. SCSI put the controller in the device because it's only a generic device interface, and since the device already has to be fairly complex and expensive to handle all its own I/O, it might as well do the dirty work error/defect tracking too. By contrast, IDE put it all on the IDE card/chip because it was designed to be solely an inexpensive data storage interface with all the work done in software by the OS. This makes it impossible to have a tailor-made fault detection system.
It sure would be nice if the phone had a web browser that you could go to a search engine where you could find directions and maybe even turn by turn directions from where you were..
I'd pay money for a phone like that! Google should totally make a phone!
hey have guns, too, and probably more training with them than you
If you go to the range and fire more than 50 rounds through your pistol, and/or do it more than once every couple months, you have more training than they do. Police "training" is generally laughably minimal. There's usually more of them, though, so you're still screwed.
What happened to America where the accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty
Sorry, but there's no such rule for the court of public opinion. It exists as part of due process in criminal and civil courts because the courts have the power to deprive you of life, liberty, and property. A few thousand people on Slashdot are under no obligation to follow such restrictive rules.
I got married because I love my wife, not because I get a tax break.
Same here... because we actually don't get a tax break. We're both employed and have our own insurance, and since a married couple is essentially treated as a single entity, we took a significant tax hit. Instead of paying as two separate people making $50K each with one deduction, we now pay as one person with two deductions making $100K. The tax paid on post-tax benefits would be chickenfeed in comparison.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz