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Kadin2048's Slashdot CommentsSubmitted by plover on September 25, 2007 - 4:45pm.
Re:And Google does it again!
I bet we wouldn't have half the phishing problems we do now if people just stopped automatically trusting everything they see on the internet. Submitted by AceJohnny on May 3, 2007 - 8:08am.
Why strong IP law is so attractive: I think the answer is staring you in the face: as a nation, the U.S. imports a lot of physical goods, but exports a lot of intellectual property. Therefore, we reward companies who chisel their foreign suppliers into squeezing their employees, because this results in cheap imports here in the States. Likewise, we punish IP 'theft,' because IP is one of the last things that we seem to be able to produce and sell. Now, I'm no fan of the DMCA, because I think it causes more damage and economic loss, here in the U.S., than it can or will ever possibly create in new IP-export revenue. But the logic driving it, when you separate it from the implementation, isn't that hard to understand, at least from a certain point of view. Allow me to illustrate how I think many people see the problem: When we set aside irrational feelings of American exceptionalism -- those warm feelings that politicians always play to, when they talk about the "American worker" being the "best in the world" as if it was self-evident -- it is not immediately clear exactly how our previous success over the past century [1], necessarily translates into continued success in the future. In short, although everyone likes to say reassuring things like "Americans have always been at the forefront of innovation!", those words ring pretty hollow -- it's not clear why we would continue to be. We're not smarter than everyone else, our education system basically sucks, and we have a culture that's increasingly anti-intellectual and in some cases bordering on non-secular. Submitted by phil on February 18, 2007 - 1:24am.
Re:great Look at the bright side: we won't need to fix the Unix date overflow [wikipedia.org] ;-)
Submitted by veridicus on February 13, 2007 - 3:32pm.
Re:Nice. An 'assload' is the metric name for 'buttload', both of which are greater than or equal to 1 'shitload' or 'crapload', respectively. I know the whole Imperial/metric conversion thing is problematic at times, but you could've at least Googled this before asking such a silly question. Re:Nice. Actually, wouldn't the correct metric term be "arseload"? Re:Nice. That's an Imperial assload; it's only used in Britain. It's equal to 1.24 U.S. assloads. Submitted by wizzard2k on January 16, 2007 - 5:10pm.
And we know why they're there. As far as personal profiles go, I'd suspect most people are pretty young, like 20s. But I know of many people in their 30s with MySpace sites also. So, in other words, MySpace's chief demographics are "20-somethings" and "people trying to sleep with 20-somethings." Submitted by samrobb on November 14, 2006 - 12:07pm.
More information needed. I think there should be an international treaty banning all lethal weapons without a brain attached to the trigger. In what way must the brain be attached? Would duct tape work? How about staples? Submitted by natebc on July 7, 2006 - 2:06pm.
Re:Hey, here's an idea! I was thinking the same thing. ABC is missing out on a chance to really increase their advertisement revenue. Here's how: instead of selling regular 30-second commercials, they tell everyone that with the advent of DVRs, that what they really need to do is buy five minute ads, and then play their normal advertisement at 1/10th normal speed for everyone who's watching it in fast-forward. Of course, the obnoxiousness of watching a five-minute commercial would immediately cause the folks still watching normal-speed TV to go out and get DVRs in order to FF through them; the end result would be that everyone would buy a DVR, and everyone would watch the same 30-second clips! |