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Of course, given the depth of indoctrination in our society, speaking about such things is 21st century blasphemy. After all, we know what "works" - even though what "works" is pushing us all over a cliff of ecocide.

sigh....

RS

Yeah it's kind of sad that someone might actually think that.

Well, I said it because violent criminals have been released to make space for drug offenders. It's sad when a murderer or rapist serves less tyme in gaol than nonviolent drug offenders do. But that's what the US's fake War on Drugs has done.

In high school we played a similar game, only we called it "shoulders". Someone would start, and say a number, and at the same time tap their shoulder (use your right arm to hit your left shoulder, and vice versa). Whichever shoulder you hit would determine the direction. You could reverse it at any time, and if someone wasn't quick enough, or went out of order, they drank.

A more complete description can be found at: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/401358/drinking_games_how_to_play_shoulders.html

I don't know how much fun this game would be now, but I think that link described it perfectly as "which may simultaneously be the dumbest and most brilliant drinking game ever invented."

Well, you could point to a feature comparison or something like that. I'm not very fond of that article because it only looks at what features other clients have if Outlook has it and ignores the many excellent features that Kontact has on it's own, but that would be a nice start at rational discussion. Alas, it was eaten by a domain squatter that blocked access to Archive.org like so many other free software sites. That seems to be the M$ way of talking.

Here are some other useful Kontact reviews:

• The KDE Kontact page
• Wikipedia page
• Someone's blog
• Associated Content

There are many other such references because anyone who likes Outlook loves Kontact. The replacement is more sensible than you imagine. You should try it out some time and think of the money your company could save replacing the entire stack of software it takes to make Outlook work. The larger the organization, the more money and heartache you will save.

The second case concerns Antigua and Barbuda, a small Caribbean country home to all sorts of online vices, including gambling and DRM circumvention. Antigua took the US to the WTO years ago over charges that the US was unfairly criminalizing access to Antiguan gambling websites... => Legal gambling outfits in the US follow strict gambling laws that regulate, among other things, machine calibration, payout ratios, etc. Online gambling from other countries is outlawed in the USA because the mechanisms to ensure fairness can not be physically confirmed by government representatives.

It would be downright hypocritical of the Congress to pass a law imposing Free Trade Violations that benefit American companies while at the same time disallowing the same activity to other countries. We all know that congress would never do that.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/498603/wto_us_internet_gambling_ban_illegal.html I'm sure the author would have used better examples, if there were some. The WTO is usually pretty fair when it comes to these issues. The Canadian and Antigua examples are excellent references for that. I agree with your Irish fair use argument, but I would go further and say the artist were already compensated for the broadcast usage and has grounds for appeal.

If you travel enough to need a laptop you should understand that if/when you cross to the US from any other country the US security/INS/customs people have recently been given pretty much carte blanche to seize/browse/copy the contents of your laptop (and your MP3 player and video/still camera, cell phone, etc. - in the same way they can look through your luggage) so you should not have things that are secret or "secure" or personal on it anyway.

"Normal" PCs can be bolted down with various devices to keep them from being removed - and in some places should be.

Laptops - even the ones that masquerade as "real" PCs should not be considered primary holders of data - so either you should not care (because they don't hold data) or you should not be accessing them remotely (access the data directly via VPN or... - not via your laptop sitting on your desktop where it should not be)

If all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like it should be put together with nails - if all you have is a laptop the world looks like it should cater to your inadequacy. You're asking the wrong question.

The question should be "why is my employer forcing me to only use a laptop?"

You take the word right out my mouth, whoever you are. After all, a great source of ID theft come from illegal immigrants[1], which is exactly what BOA help creating. Not only that, BOA has the audacity to sue identity theft victim[2]. This proves once and for all that BOA is a genuine criminal organization.

[1] http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/03/hidden_cost_of_.html
[2] http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/254176/bank_of_america_sues_id_theft_victim.html

Second, Ive heard this theory BS so much I felt compelled to write. Evolution: Just a Theory? Just so I wouldn't have to type it out every time.

Ron Paul is not going to surrender, and John McCain will not take the Republican nomination without the fight of his life. Your donations and work as Precinct Leaders are needed now more than ever. Thank you all for everything you've done so far -- the revolution has just begun.

There was a guy a last year in West Virginia who got shot in the head and didn't notice it for hours.

I'm just sayin'

This is easily proved by the fact that China (no "intellectual protection" at all) is a world leader in piracy but isn't a world leader in new product development (state censorship might explain a lot - but in any case there is no incentive to "think" at all). The current system may not be the best way to do it, but there needs to be some method

Software copy protection on the other hand is irritating to consumers. Anyone else remember all of those idiotic methods tried in the 90's? Match up the wheels (or search the manual), find the code, enter the code THEN play the game.

Requiring the game cd be in the drive is still common (and still irritating) - I've always been on the "if they want to steal your software, then there isn't much you can do about it" side of things

How many years have brick and mortar stores tried ways to eliminate shoplifting? Better to not irritate your paying customers than to worry about some vague idea of "lost potential profits"...

It is possible to http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/539013/how_can_you_make_money_giving_something.html make money giving stuff away, but that is another subject ;-)

The guys that cut Kucinich out of the debate. Surely to prevent any "information overload" that might divert public attention away from the front runners of their choosing. All before the very first primary. I would hope that there will be noise about that on the social sites.

0. Nokia N810 1. Eeeeee pc 2. ? ... 9. ? Thats how they came it mine too. I just couldn't number them though, But I'm pretty sure the n810 comes up #0 no matter how many times I wrote it.

Here is a list of tech gadgetry, I'd like to see under the tree. This year on my list 3 items run on a Linux OS, including the Nokia n810, Asus eePC and the XO Laptop. I fully expect twice as many next year, with the imminent release of Google's Android. Of course, there is no shortage of Xmas Tech Lists.(Links to Articles)

What do you, the Slashdot Tech Geek, want to open up this Christmas/Kwanzaa/Chanukah/Pagan Winter Solstice Holiday?"

You're right AFAIK, the case referred to in the PDF was about an artist suing an NBA player and Nike for a commercial they made featuring his design, hardly the case presented in the article. Still, I managed to track down the BSAs inky dopplegangers, the Artist Legal Alliance with some anecdotes about their ebay antics here.

It wasn't designed as a "diet" but...

http://www.webmd.com/diet/ornish-diet-what-it-is?page=3/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/399570/study_ornish_diet_weight_watchers_score.html?page=2/

Yes, because nothing looks as natural as a Japanese man with a mustache.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/19497/japans_new_royal_son.html

Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this plan of yours. It's probably easier to get a passer-by to stand in front of the machine for a moment, instead.

---PCJ

I have read about it before, found a quick link about someone who wanted to challenge the foundation and figure out how the money is receieved etc.:

http://www.mind-energy.net/archives/163-About-the-James-Randi-Million-dollar-challenge.html

I don't want to waste much more energy on this, but reading about the testing & such makes it seem very unserious bussiness:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/89173/exposing_the_unfair_truth_about_the.html

Maybe I am wrong about the money, but from intensive scouring the net before I was convinced they really don't have the money on the line either way. Sportsmanship is something unknown in this territory it seems.

Well age is definitely a factor. A 4 year old can benefit from group play much more than 2 year old or, obviously, a 6 month old baby. Even then, who said kids who stay at home have to be alone all day? I think there are groups for stay at home parents where they can get together and let their kids play for a few hours a day. That only makes sense, since who would want to be alone all day? So I really don't see any social advantage that daycare has over a situation like that.

Also, why do you assume that not putting your kid in daycare results in overprotection? I'm sure many parents are overprotective, just like many parents with their child in daycare will be constantly complaining to the teacher that their child is being made fun of, not played with, or bored. But when you have your child at home at least you have the potential to do cool non-overprotective things, whereas most daycares are probably too concerned about their legal liability to do much stuff other than babysitting.

Further, I don't think there's any doubt that kids in group daycare are sick more often. That's just much more likely when you're around 30-odd kids (maybe constantly rotating too) who *have* to go to daycare whether they're sick or not, whereas in the above situation, if your kid is sick you wouldn't take him to group play that day.

And I've always heard that kids in daycare are more likely to have Attention Deficit Disorder (a quick search found this report).

It's unfortunate we've sidetracked so far off of the original thread. Stay focused so I don't have to keep doing this to you.. :(

Stay at home moms play a whole host of games. Why would you possibly think otherwise? Welcome to 2007, my disillusioned friend. Honestly, teenage to 20 something males playing The Sims? 54+ million of them? Are you serious? A report in 2004 showed 2/3 of MSN's 8.7 million users were women.

My earlier statements come from first hand knowledge. My mom is a grandparent, and my sister is a stay at home mom, and they both play The Sims. They both have a whole host of friends within their same demographic that they talk to online about the game, if not play along with them. Myself, I've played with countless non-teenager or 20 something males in numerous games. (WoW, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires, etc.) Since I know my first hand experiences mean nothing to you, I'll continue on.

I could honestly post hundreds of articles that disprove your unfortunately naive view of gaming, but I'll start with just a few to hopefully make it easier to digest.

Have a look at this article which outlines the fact that women over 18 are 38% of all gamers. I don't know, but that doesn't seem like ..what'd you call it.. "in the noise" to me.

Please keep reading and have a look at another article about women playing WoW, and why they enjoy it as an outlet. The article states there are over 5 million stay at home moms, and you're lead to believe that when the kids are gone to school, all they do is cook and clean?

Don't stop now. Read another piecethat outlines all of the myths that you apparently still believe. How about that less than 30% of gamers are under age 18? How about nearly half (48.6%) of the PC entertainment software purchases in 1998 were women. Oh, and nearly half of the purchases of online games of any genre are women. Most of this data is from a few years ago, and the trends were already starting.

I'd agree, you won't find women playing games like Quake, Counterstrike, or Madden as often as men, but you will find them casually gaming, most likely online, as the social aspect seems to be a key factor in attracting women to games. Many of the games women play may not necessarily have DX prerequisite (web based games), but the gaming demographic is not limited to teenage or 20 something males. Not even close.

This is anecdotal to be sure, but close to home for me personally so I am not worried.
As long as China will play a fair ball-game economically, the world will win.

Have you tried fsync? Perhaps it could be adapted?
I do know it is very fast when there are little or no changes.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/298977/ho w_to_synchronize_your_files_between.html

We wouldn't have this:

Approximately $3040 is spent on AIDS research for every one death caused by the disease. In comparison, only $37 is spent on cardiovascular disease per death caused by the disease.

Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/152003/is _too_much_money_allocated_to_aids.html

Americans will stand for anything. Somebody will tell them that it is a way of reducing petty crime, protecting the children...

Oh, you mean like this...?

With the right GPS enabled cell-phone a parent can do more than simply calling their children and taking their word that they our where they are supposed to be. You might say this is a major invasion of your child's privacy, to know exactly where they are at all at all times. But for the safety of our children it is a parent's duty to know who, what, where, when and why at all times.

So then you might say well why not just call them? Any parent knows kids do not always tell the truth. Yes a kid can turn off their phone but if you let them know that you are keeping up with their whereabouts with the phone, most kids will know that turning off the phone will result in punishment. Also having the phone will help keep kids honest as they will know that their parents can find them.

Every Disney Mobile phone is equipped to be used as a tracking device, as are most of the handsets offered by Verizon Wireless and Sprint. The Disney Family Locator, meanwhile, works with any two Disney phones. You get five free searches with any family plan, or unlimited searches for an extra $12.99 a month.

Not only will Americans stand for anything... if you stick a Lilo & Stitch picture on it, have a Hannah Montana episode where the 'phone helps Miley / Hannah from some implied threat, and have them advertised in the Disney resorts ...people will pay over $150 a year for the privelege of BB watching them or their kids. Paranoia is touted as a good parenting attribute.

Here's something for the tin-foil hat brigade: lots of comapnies have cellphones with GPS built in. If someone wanted to track a single person (known person, known cellphone identity), how hard / easy would it be if the person was carrying a device that was able to pinpoint its own position to within a few steps?

We already have a story (today) where iPhone users have a breakdown showing every single moment they requested data from the EDGE network. Not only does this tell you to get that wi-fi network going at home, it shows how individual actions can be recorded. How people can be tracked. And people with OnStar in their vehicles have their location flash up on someone's screen when an airbag is deployed.

I'd LIKE to say it's all tin-foil hat stuff, but people already do it for cash. Just try the demo... and view one of the demo histories. You can even 'set a fence': a location that, if passed, will alert the person with control.

People will pay per month, and DO pay per month, for an ankle bracelet that also surfs the web!

If soda pop leads to Parkinson's and cirrhosis, then smoking tobacco with your Sprite should ease the Parkinson's threat. Even better - switch from soft drinks to hard drinks - your liver is at risk either way, but now your Parkinson's risk is much lower.

Of course, if it's cancer risk you're concerned with, you might smoke pot instead. Those who smoke only pot have less lung cancer than those who never smoke anything (although not that much less), apparently because THC itself prevents cancer. Will genetic engineering give us a smoke in the future that's high in both THC and nicotine, while minimizing the cancer promoters in tobacco? Or would nicotine's blood-vessel-promoting nature, which helps cancers, overcome THC's protective effect and outweigh nicotine's many positive health effects?

In any case, isn't it nice to know that when people like something, there's a good, healthy reason for it - even if there can be unintended consequences. Our instincts, at root, are good. That's how we've gotten so far.

Here you go, the story's little different from what you propose.

Hm, well it seems there are as many sites who claim the poem is about the Plague as those who claim it isn't. I suppose I could instead mention Roald Dahl's book, Danny, the Champion of the World, which singularly failed to create a generation of pheasant and salmon poachers, instead?

I did discover how to build fire balloons after reading that book though. Much fun.

Listen up people: how can you get mad at the EVE Online folks when BLIZZARD DID THE EXACT SAME THING.

No, but it probably exposes a little bit of the ridiculous claims that Sony is losing massive amounts of money per console.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/16/sony-losing-mad -loot-on-each-ps3/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/88295/son y_losing_money_on_ps3_systems.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061116/085020.s html

And it proves the point that as consoles age, they become much cheaper to produce.

Here

Do like everyone else does.....click the "Print Mode".... http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?c ontent_type=article&content_type_id=233123

One page, all of the content, no advertisements.

Done.

Layne

What does the NEA http://www.nea.org/index.html or textbook Lobby http://www.associatedcontent.com/ think? Yep, those are the experts you should be asking.

Although I've never seen him, I can't help but wonder if he looks like a caveman?

Think it has something to do with this?:

A 26 year old, 330 pound, guy from China died after playing online games for 7 days nearly non stop over the Chinese new year said his parents.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165207/yo ung_man_dies_after_a_marathon_week.html

Even more like it: Associated Content. Looks like you can write about anything you want, and get paid. AND it shows up on Google News.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/20327/har d_reality_of_winning_on_reality.html

O RLY? What about Antabuse? Or antipsychotic meds?

Unless you're allergic to that too. Ask the people who are allergic to Benadryl.

Not quite. I still have to interact with it sometimes, like adjusting the volume, and sometimes want to change playlists. The form factor is very important, so it is comfortable in my pocket. I used a shuffle for a long time, and wasn't bothered by the lack of a scroll wheel. However, when I did move to a Nano with scroll wheel, I did like it better, the very light touch it takes, and the ease of scanning through tracks.

I thought that iPods were easier to use because of their superior, patented scroll wheels?

That's one of their benefits. I'm not sure why you have such a one-dimensional view of iPods. Some people like to jump around songs and constantly interfact with their iPod. I happen to listen to many very long recordings, so the scroll wheel is a boon when I want to scan to a particular part of the track. But the iPod is more than just the hardware or the software. It is the way all the parts work together.

Not everyone uses iTunes/iPods in the same way and I'm certain it took you some work to get iTunes to manage your player in the manner you prefer.

Not really, it was extremely easy. I had been using iTunes since it first came out, and even before that, my MP3 files were all meticulously tagged. So, when the "smart playlists" feature was added, it was amazingly simple to set up. Just "create new smart playlist" and then set some rules. Done.

You are free to redefine what constitutes your portable music player in order to meet your "ease of use" perspective. For the rest of us, the player itself is what we use to listen to the music while we aren't at our computer.

I'm not "redefining the player" - just saying that the players are heavy reliant on software support. You need some sort of software to be able to use these players. The quality of that software affecte ease-of-use. I don't think you speak for "the rest of us" - because many disagree with you that software does not affect the portable music experience.

I don't agree with that at all. I hated iTunes when it came to Windows. ... iTunes is successful on Windows only because people own iPods.

Your opinion has no bearing on market-share. Just because you don't like iTunes, doesn't mean it isn't the most popular software out there. The fact is that it did take over from previously popular applications, notably WinAmp. Your argument is like me saying "I disagree that Windows has a large market-share. I hate Windows."

As for the success depending on the iPod, that's a chicken-and-egg argument. The iPod would not be successful without iTunes. They go hand-in-hand. iTunes gave rise to the iPod. The iPod fueled iTunes popularity.

So much for iPods being marketed as "iPod + iTunes".

The box packaging is hardly the most significant part of marketing. Haven't you ever seen the TV ads for the iPod? At the end they have "iPod + iTunes" in huge letters on the screen. Same with many of their billboards. I suspect you might be trolling, or otherwise live in a remote part of society with no advertising if you don't know of this.

If I am, you aren't doing anything to enlighten me. As far as I'm concerned, I'm unaware of them because they don't exist

Now this just takes the cake for spurious logic. "If I haven't seen it, it doesn't exist." Bravo! Clearly you are an intellectual giant. I don't suppose you tried actually looking, or opening your eyes, did you? From a 10-second web search:

iPod Nano review - Another Nano review

Quote from the CNET editor's review:

As far as the 2G Nano is concerned, iTunes continues to

'a conspiracy to maintain the population in a perpetual state of self-righteous rage'

I went through this.

Growing up, in a public school: Government works for our benefit

Then, as an adult I came to understand: Government works for its own benefit

I understand that we VOTE for the government: Government works.

Or as Churchill said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

This is not to say that there is no injustice.

Just because I want our government to:

Free John Murtari! In jail and on hunger strike Since July 31st, 2006!

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/52668/joh n_murtari_receives_feeding_tube.html

Doesn't mean that I don't love my country.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/28201/ren ounce_us_citizenship_process_and.html/ for one.

Thats why the electric car died and why we still have no effective R&D material from the big 'energy' companies that are supposedly putting gobs of money, theirs and ours (grants from the government), into alternative 'energy' sources.
Instead what we get is better oil detection and extraction methods. Fine, but I want my R&D papers that proves other methods. Giving fat paychecks to managers of a supposed R&D project to ensure that X isn't viable isn't how I want my money spent.

It always has been the little guy that has the answer.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/45596/who _killed_the_electric_car.html

Don't be so sure that all these "online sweatshop" workers are in third-world countries. There are large numbers of people in many countries, including the US, Canada, UK, etc. who are happy to "work" for 60 cents an hour, or even less, no matter how boring and repetitive the tasks required. And many of them aren't concerned about issues like ethics or legality.

A lot of it happens in a cottage industry created around what are often referred to as "Paid to Read Email" sites. It's also referred to as the "Get Paid To" or GPT industry. It started with "Paid to Surf" companies like AllAdvantage, and still continues on a much smaller scale today. To get an idea of how many of these sites are out there, a database at GPTInfo contains over 700 different sites.

There was an article about this industry published at Associated Content called The World of Paid to Read E-Mail Sites that offers a basic description of how things work. But it doesn't really look at how these sites can be used to pull off scams like this CAPTCHA data-entry thing and search engine click fraud. SearchEngineWatch describes them as Click Pirates, and in a lot of cases, that's exactly what they are. And they're most definitely not limited to third-world countries.

Bechtel, the engineering corporation hired to oversee the construction of the Big Dig, is also the company currently overseeing the U.S. rebuilding efforts in Iraq. (source).

i was using windows 95 but i recently changed to xp.i found this article about a defect http://associatedcontent.com/content.cfm?content_t ype=article&content_type_id=8704 is this true? should i change my windows software?