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I call BS. Lego has been selling the big brick-shaped boxes of 500-1000 pieces of Lego for years, for around $20. You can't walk through a store without tripping over stacks of them. Basic Lego has never been easier to buy (or cheaper).

"this is basic data security 101 - never trust inputs without validation"

There was another really goofy guy - Richard Reid. You may remember him from exciting life moments as "I have to take my my shoes off in the airport?!"

Yet even that bumbling moron managed to aquire explosives and get them on a plane. If he managed, why not the Florida guys eventually as well? Why should we not take someone seriously when they claim they want to blow up something no matter how inept they seem? Would you leave them wandering without supervision until they did manage to succeed?

• The 20km route-march to get to the battlefield.
• Injury and loss of limbs is typically permanent, and tends to impair your functionality much more than simply reducing a little red "health" bar.
• There is no respawn.
• The T-rex has long been made extinct, and not by 9mm-wielding overweight teenage boys living in their parents' basement. Likewise, orcs, imps, cacodemons, dragons, monsters and even Santa Claus are pretty hard to come by too. Instead reality is populated with endless qualtities of boring people.
• Sure, military bases have large munitions dumps, but you would never be able to simply walk in and take it all. Even if everyone else on the base was already mysteriously dead. Perhaps Doom 4 should be set in a Wal-Mart instead.
• etc...

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_ query=.22+long+rifle&search_constraint=0&ic=40_40& ref=+125872.125884

here are the consumables you will need:

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/standard_dad.htm

Cheap. Easy. Quiet. If everyone did this there would not be a toad left. If the govt. put a $0.25 bounty a toad, the toads would be on the endangered species list in a month.

For really quiet:

http://www.gem-tech.com/twenty2.html

For really loud, with spray:

http://www.serbu.com/shorty.htm

Added benefit: Kids will stay off your damn lawn. :P

Are you kidding me? You've never seen one? How insular are you? Do you never go more than a few miles from your house in any direction? Ever? They're everywhere.

I live in boston, we dont have walmarts here. Heck, I've never even seen one before.

*ahem*

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Can you, for example, please point out where the forced-labor camps in the US are?

http://www.walmart.com/cservice/ca_storefinder.gsp

I don't know where you do your shopping, but my math comes out to $369.47 for Windows Xp Home and Office 2003 Pro.
Even if I made it Xp Pro it would still be only $487.65.
If you have a kid in school or are in school then you can get the Student and Teacher edion of office. That saves you an extra $100.

http://www.viosoftware.com/Office+2003+Professiona l/Office+2003+Professional+Promo+OEM+with+Bonus+On eNote+2003.html Office 2003 -$189.65

http://www.viosoftware.com/Office+2003+Professiona l/Office+2003+Student+and+Teacher+Edition+OEM.html Office S&T edition -$89.99

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3405538Win Xp Pro -$298.00

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3405555Win Xp Home -$179.82

I don't know where you do your shopping, but my math comes out to $369.47 for Windows Xp Home and Office 2003 Pro.
Even if I made it Xp Pro it would still be only $487.65.
If you have a kid in school or are in school then you can get the Student and Teacher edion of office. That saves you an extra $100.

http://www.viosoftware.com/Office+2003+Professiona l/Office+2003+Professional+Promo+OEM+with+Bonus+On eNote+2003.html Office 2003 -$189.65

http://www.viosoftware.com/Office+2003+Professiona l/Office+2003+Student+and+Teacher+Edition+OEM.html Office S&T edition -$89.99

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3405538Win Xp Pro -$298.00

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3405555Win Xp Home -$179.82

How the hell is this the _ONLY_ post which mentions this? Ever since this stupid revmote thing was let out, people have been saying "oo! This would be perfect for a lightsaber game!" ignoring three key facts:

1) as mentioned above
2) most people dont have room-sized TVs, so all this "motion detection" would amount to a fancy 2-state on/off trigger button. A button that you need to swing around instead of pushing with your thumb. Resolution needs to match the weakest link, and while it would certainly be /capable/ of more, there just isnt more available yet.
3) There is already a motion-capture lightsaber game. It's crappy, it has obvious flaws, and you don't own one because it's crappy and has obvious flaws. This point applies to all Wii games, and has been all I've been saying since hearing about the revmote.

RCA 52" Widescreen Projection HDTV, HD52W59 $ 894 USD

I think the point is moot since Wal-Mart is CURRENTLY selling desktop PCs with Xandros and Linspire installed.http://www.walmart.com/search/browse-ng. do?ics=12&ico=0&ref=125875.126125+500500.429429600 3

They don't appear to sell any boxed distros (at least I haven't seen any), but they sell lots of Linux books that include distroshttp://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?p roduct_id=4324056.

I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart, but they are simply NOT "anti-Linux". If anything, their emphasis on minimal cost makes them Linux-friendly .

I think the point is moot since Wal-Mart is CURRENTLY selling desktop PCs with Xandros and Linspire installed.http://www.walmart.com/search/browse-ng. do?ics=12&ico=0&ref=125875.126125+500500.429429600 3

They don't appear to sell any boxed distros (at least I haven't seen any), but they sell lots of Linux books that include distroshttp://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?p roduct_id=4324056.

I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart, but they are simply NOT "anti-Linux". If anything, their emphasis on minimal cost makes them Linux-friendly .

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It's a mistake to think that the circumlocutions Best Box, Circuit Max and all of the other big box stores put you through are efficient. Clip the coupon, time the trip, gather the receipts, prosecute a deliberate mail and phone tag campaign for six months to save $20 on a flash drive? That's not sales, it's marketeering. When I'm looking for a hard drive, I don't need a three cornered deal with conditional execution of optional term relationship components. I'll take a square deal for cash on the counter, no questions, when I can get it. That they stand behind their products is just a bonus about which I had suffered some nostalgia after chatting up the sales drones at the CalcUSA over some planned purchases [notebook, camera, PDA]. Do you that remember that innocent era when if you bought something and it didn't work you could take it back to the store without paying a ton of money and/or hiring a lawyer? Apparently that sort of thing still goes in Wally World, but almost nowhere else.

I've read the comments about knowlegeability of the salesforce, as if Wal-Mart could be worse than the pimply kid at Fray's. This is laughable.

No, I don't work there.

People get emotional about Wal-Mart, but the fact is if they didn't have great prices, execute perfectly and treat customers with respect, people would shop somewhere else and they wouldn't be the world's largest retailer any more.

Plus, Walmart + Linux = lol.

LOL is right! That'd certainly never happen!

The point is that you can pay a nationally recognized company to build you a computer and install Windows XP on it. It's much harder to find a national OEM vendor that sells machines that have been preloaded with Ubuntu.

Only if their time is worth nothing. If the time to learn how to get Linux working is worth more than the price of a copy of Windows XP and its successor, then the masses will choose Windows XP and its successor.

HDTV is in 19% of American households: Early Salvos in the High-Definition DVD Format War One in five in less than five years. It took ten years for color tv to become mass market.

But HDTV isn't your grandad's 21" RCA. Movies @ 1280i are more than "pretty" when projected on your $2000 56" Widescreen Panasonic The theatrical experience is what sells.

The players may cost hundreds of dollars. But HD-DVD at Amazon.com is $20-$25 for mainstream titles like Apollo 13. The conplete Firefly bundled with Serenity in HD will set you back $50.

Ever hear an ad for Wal*Mart? I haven't, but I sure know who they are.

(if they advertized a lot, they'd spend enough to have to raise prices)

(no need to start an anti-Wal*Mart vs. pro-Wal*Mart flamewar here)

And here's one you can buy at you-know-where (of course, some "after-market" scaling may be required if you want it to deflect bullets, etc.)

This is already happening in one way at least.

Wal-Mart Version: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC)

Unrated Version: Frontal nudity via an online mod (Yes, I know it shipped with the game, but it is not activated without manual editing/moving of the files.)

(Argh, preview for teh win) I am truly no fan of Walmart,particularly with their union-busting tactics, but I think the censorship alegations of the article are over-done. Consider that Walmart stocks F.E.A.R. This is a thoroughly violent game with lots of swearing, splattering blood and flying body parts. If Walmart is willing to stock this, what exactly aren't they willing to stock? Surely being unwilling to stock even more violent, more profane games than this is hardly a sign of virulent censorship, but more a case of genuinely looking out for what their customers' interests?

I am truly no fan of Walmart,particularly with their tactics, but I think the censorship alegations of the article is over-done. Consider that Walmart stocks F.E.A.R. This is a thoroughly violent game with lots of swearing, splattering blood and flying body parts. If Walmart is willing to stock this, what exactly aren't they willing to stock? Surely being unwilling to stock even more violent, more profane games than this is hardly a sign of virulent censorship, but more a case of genuinely looking out for what their customers' interests?

Excuse me I'm foreign - do they still sell ammo? I was under the impression after seeing 'Bowling for Columbine' that they were not going to do that anymore..

And that's what you get for believing a Michael Moore movie!

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=4665576

let the "market" determine what they should stock.

The problem is that "the market" is being ravaged by "the mass market". It's near impossible to get furniture I would consider to be quality (will my grandchildren be arguing over who gets to keep it when my children die?) in large part thanks to people I've spoken to who can say with a straight face that they believe Ikea sells "quality" furniture. Money can no longer buy quality because the market for quality has been consumed by the market for "cheap". And by cheap, I mean cheap... I'm in possession of my grandfathers' dining room furniture which has yet to break, and my father told me that his father had bought all the furniture at a discount store. Meanwhile, I've been through three build-it-myself computer desks: the cheap veneer peels off and the fiberboard beneath swells up and basically dissolves. But where do I get a computer desk that would last? I've thought of building one myself, but a trip to the lumberstores discouraged me. Sure, I could buy some mahogany at $20 a piece, as long as I tolerate a few loose knots and the "slight" warp. Maybe if I went around to 20 stores, I'd be able to put together a desk my great grandkids could play on 60 years from now, using the one piece of usable wood buried in the pile of crap at each store.

To stay on topic, look at the difference between the Kitchenaid mixers WalMart sells vs. the ones stocked at Sears or anywhere else. Sure, you pay less at WalMart, but for what looks like the same model, you get less: Compare 4.5 qt 10 speed mixer here and here: in saving $30 by buying at WalMart, you end up with a weaker motor.

Actually the sad truth about Wal-Mart is that they only have a problem with nudity and violence in games is because video games are kids toys and nobody can tell them otherwise. Clearly Wal-mart doesn't have a problem selling nudity (Basic Instinct) or rape (The Accused) or murder by lesbian prostitutes (Monster) or gratuitous violence (Kill Bill) or racism (American History X) if it's in A MOVIE. But when Duke Nukem has a poorly pixelated boob viewable it gets pulled from the shelves.
I'd love to know why video games (and CDs too) are held to a different moral standard than DVD movies at Wal-mart, but we'll never really know.

My guess is that they are considerering movies as art, while video games are just toys for kids. Of course it's probably just because the MPAA is lining the pockets of Walmart execs, but oh well.

Actually the sad truth about Wal-Mart is that they only have a problem with nudity and violence in games is because video games are kids toys and nobody can tell them otherwise. Clearly Wal-mart doesn't have a problem selling nudity (Basic Instinct) or rape (The Accused) or murder by lesbian prostitutes (Monster) or gratuitous violence (Kill Bill) or racism (American History X) if it's in A MOVIE. But when Duke Nukem has a poorly pixelated boob viewable it gets pulled from the shelves.
I'd love to know why video games (and CDs too) are held to a different moral standard than DVD movies at Wal-mart, but we'll never really know.

My guess is that they are considerering movies as art, while video games are just toys for kids. Of course it's probably just because the MPAA is lining the pockets of Walmart execs, but oh well.

Actually the sad truth about Wal-Mart is that they only have a problem with nudity and violence in games is because video games are kids toys and nobody can tell them otherwise. Clearly Wal-mart doesn't have a problem selling nudity (Basic Instinct) or rape (The Accused) or murder by lesbian prostitutes (Monster) or gratuitous violence (Kill Bill) or racism (American History X) if it's in A MOVIE. But when Duke Nukem has a poorly pixelated boob viewable it gets pulled from the shelves.
I'd love to know why video games (and CDs too) are held to a different moral standard than DVD movies at Wal-mart, but we'll never really know.

My guess is that they are considerering movies as art, while video games are just toys for kids. Of course it's probably just because the MPAA is lining the pockets of Walmart execs, but oh well.

Actually the sad truth about Wal-Mart is that they only have a problem with nudity and violence in games is because video games are kids toys and nobody can tell them otherwise. Clearly Wal-mart doesn't have a problem selling nudity (Basic Instinct) or rape (The Accused) or murder by lesbian prostitutes (Monster) or gratuitous violence (Kill Bill) or racism (American History X) if it's in A MOVIE. But when Duke Nukem has a poorly pixelated boob viewable it gets pulled from the shelves.
I'd love to know why video games (and CDs too) are held to a different moral standard than DVD movies at Wal-mart, but we'll never really know.

My guess is that they are considerering movies as art, while video games are just toys for kids. Of course it's probably just because the MPAA is lining the pockets of Walmart execs, but oh well.

Actually the sad truth about Wal-Mart is that they only have a problem with nudity and violence in games is because video games are kids toys and nobody can tell them otherwise. Clearly Wal-mart doesn't have a problem selling nudity (Basic Instinct) or rape (The Accused) or murder by lesbian prostitutes (Monster) or gratuitous violence (Kill Bill) or racism (American History X) if it's in A MOVIE. But when Duke Nukem has a poorly pixelated boob viewable it gets pulled from the shelves.
I'd love to know why video games (and CDs too) are held to a different moral standard than DVD movies at Wal-mart, but we'll never really know.

My guess is that they are considerering movies as art, while video games are just toys for kids. Of course it's probably just because the MPAA is lining the pockets of Walmart execs, but oh well.

"That game is too violent, so we don't carry it. But feel free to browse our selection of guns.

They're dictating to us our content!

We won't be able to sell games like Dead or Alive because of the bouncing boobies!

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3985188

Or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas because of the violence and cop killing!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=4665809

Or even that really truly EVIL game, Bully!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3942979

They're dictating to us our content!

We won't be able to sell games like Dead or Alive because of the bouncing boobies!

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3985188

Or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas because of the violence and cop killing!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=4665809

Or even that really truly EVIL game, Bully!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3942979

They're dictating to us our content!

We won't be able to sell games like Dead or Alive because of the bouncing boobies!

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3985188

Or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas because of the violence and cop killing!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=4665809

Or even that really truly EVIL game, Bully!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3942979

I wonder what Walmart would have to say:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp ?cat=231791

The RIAA is over. Apple makes it easy for people to spend their money on music but the RIAA way is not the future. Sales are only a small piece of the picture. More and more, reputations are not going to be built on radio play but on web play. Bands that understand this are going to be here tomorrow and the rest are going to look like slaves to greedy pigs. Portable music devices can hold more songs than the average radio station can afford to broadcast. To the user, it's all killer and no annoying adverts. The "Industry" is fighting back with satellite radio and FM crap flooding but it's not good enough. Players like Apple are going to help transition the industry to it's less centralized and less parasitic future. The free market forces and free software will move in and make life better for everyone, especially the artists.

...lobby Congress for laws that criminalize the sale of amplified headphones to minors.

You already get carded at Wal*Mart if you buy cough syrup or fuel injector cleaner!

Suppose you were looking for electronics to buy and you didn't really care were it came from, as long as it is cheap.

Then http://electronics.walmart.com/ makes a lot more sense, because you see that you are where you are looking for.

Now:
http://com.walmart.electronics/

Most people don't really care whether it is com or org. It also doesn't play nice with autocompletion

Moreover, .com isn't really a hierarchy, anything can be in .com

Anyone who has ever setup a DNS server knows that the domain naming scheme has been backwards! Glad to see someone owning up to the mixup back then! It makes sense to me to have domain names reversed: Today's URL (fake) http://electronics.walmart.com/ which goes from narrow to broad. I don't normally try to think in reverse! Better URL (fake) http://com.walmart.electronics/ lends to a better way to list a web address. broad to narrow, just like the way we think. type of website name of company/organization/network name of department/server inside the company/organization/network When you are working with DNS servers, you'll note that it's not .com - it's com.

...look anything like this?

As long as you use Internet Explorer. Try the above link with Firefox.

The next step with portable music players is to break the link with the home computer. Think something that uses the cell phone network but doesn't make calls.

Then I must ask why then is Apple selling the hell out of iPods when the average joe doesn't know the difference and could easily buy a generic mp3 player at Wal-Mart?

1) Because walmart sells ipods.

2) Average joe walks into CE shop & asks for an 'ipod' meaning 'generic mp3 player' - what do you think he's going to get?

3) Advertising. To average joe, a brand you've heard of is better then any other brand.

Here you go.

There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an (sic) no-OS machines.

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.koobox.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html
http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

Slashdot's lameness filter is actually pretty... well... lame. Defeating it is usually as easy as adding more text. You know, like this sentence. :-)

Here in the UK I've never seen an HDTV CRT --- the push for HiDef came after the LCD/Plasma thing. I didn't realise there were such beasts as HiDef CRT TVs! ian

There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an no-OS machines. http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

You're right. You need to be able to follow instructions, and ask help when you don't understand. Doing one's own taxes requires the dramatic requirement of a high school degree.

And $9.96 to get H&R's "Taxcut" software from Walmart (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product _id=4347458) if you can't handle the questions and the math. It even does a decent job if you own a house, go to college, adopt a child, etc.

Yep. I hate the W-4, and the pre-calculator way income taxes are withheld in general. (Why not a flat percentage of gross wages, after a deduction equal to the taxpayer's expected deduction divided bu the number of paychecks?)

It's not so hard to do on your own. If you have a steady job, you can practically tax this year's "tax due", and divide it by the number of pay periods. Make your W-4 withholding number larger than you need, see what your paycheck looks like, and then have them hold out an extra mount on top of that.

http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information) No OS (Sabio made by Quanta, like Dell-latitudes) http://www.avadirect.com/ http://www.asimobile.com/ http://www.powernotebooks.com/