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I can't be dead -- I still have batteries! Bill Kendrick writes: "Just when you thought the first Linux-based PDA was dead and gone, someone announces a compatible version, the STVR3 from Softfield Technologies (who actually did the hardware design for the original AgendaVR3). Only $105 for the 8MB, and $135 for a new 16MB version. Not bad if you want a bash prompt in your pocket, and can't afford the $500 for a Zaurus!"
De gustibus non est disputandum. An Anonymous Coward writes: "Mosfet has posted a reply to Bart Decrem's interview regarding Bart's comments on KDE and its looks. Mosfet explains how KDE has a very elegant system for users and developers using the flexibility of C++ and Qt, which creates a more consistent look and feel. He makes many good points that developers and users often disregard when considering desktop environments and their toolkits. Good read, expecially for those who participate in the 'Desktop Wars.'"
Borrowed at gunpoint, but spent much more freely. blankmange writes: "CNet is carrying a followup to a story that was posted here not too long ago. The State of California apparently ordered too many licenses for Oracle's database software: 'A top official in California Gov. Gray Davis' administration has resigned in a growing controversy over a $95 million software contract with Oracle. Barry Keene, director of the state's Department of General Services, quit after a highly critical state audit said the contract--awarded without competitive bids and for software that is little used--could cost taxpayers $41 million.' Sounds like there may be more resignations and a further investigation."
I wish Gary Trudeau would run a few strips skewering these presumptuous bureaucrat wastrels, prodigal even by the standards of the public trough.
Welcome to my secret underground lair. ceswiedler writes: "Salon is running a story that Sen. Hollings' new Online Personal Privacy Act 'would place a congressional stamp of approval on precisely the kinds of practices that purveyors of spyware are eager to engage in.' The writer is particularly concered with the 'nonsensitive' information clause, which is 'a huge gaping loophole' for companies like KaZaA and Brilliant Digital."
Science greatly ups my odds of reproducing. Transcendent writes: "I just recently read an article at SpaceDaily about how there are three women due to give birth to clones. Italian Professor, Severino Antinori, told reporters that two of the women were from the former Soviet Rebublic, and one from an Islamic country. They're keeping specific details from the public, but it's still a huge shake to an ever-changing legal, scientific, and moral society."
A bedtime story for very, very bad children. tulare writes: "Microsoft is hosting Bill Gates' written testimony online. At 42,000 words, it's not neccessarily light reading, but to their credit, it is nicely indexed. Probably a must-read." Also good for European insomniacs to start boring through.
Lobby your library. Lots of readers inquired where they could find copies of The Computer and the Skateboard . Filmmaker Paul David writes: "DVD copies of this movie will be ready to ship in mid-may. The Cinema Guild website will be e-commerce ready by June 1. If you would like to order a copy before June 1, The Cinema Guild will take your order over the phone: (800) 723-5522 or (212) 685-6242. dvds for home use are $59.95. vhs copies (for home use) are available for $79.95."
As the bigest state in the union, california is oftain the target of this shit.
Does "Sharp Zaurus" sound like something a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger would have?
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
So I'm feeling redeemed that someone found a "gotcha" in the fine print of the new bill.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
But for his money, why anyone would care about Gates's thoughts on anything is beyond me. He is sort of like a third world despot with a couple nuclear weapons. If it weren't for the weapons, no one would give a flying F**K what he had to say. I'm mean, hey, it's not like Gates is an Einstein. Say what you will about Richard Stallman, people listen to RMS for his provocative ideas, not because he wields some great financial power.
Privacy is one of those issues where you should watch what people do, not what they say. Everyone *says* they value their privacy online and off. But almost everyone also gives away their privacy for the smallest benefit - like 5% discounts at your local grocery store, in exchange for them tracking everything you ever buy from them...
I'm convinced that until people actually start acting the way they talk, privacy online and offline will continue to get worse.
**If you value your privacy, don't give it up for small discounts, or extra convenience, or anything!**
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You don't here oracle bitching about piracy every other day, perhaps big business are the good guys and lowly aint got no rights anymore consumers are all communists for indulging in free oses like linux.
Cocksmoker.
2:26 a.m. here in Madrid, Spain by my clock (which is always a bit fast). The fact that I'm even CONSIDERING reading Bill Gates testimony says to me that I need to go take a pill and go to bed.
Slashdot: The nightime sleep remedy.
-Russ
Me
Ass-clown.
Bash should be more associated with GNU utilities than with the Linux kernel.
From the Softfield website:
We accept PayPal and Money Order payments for all our products, parts and services. Please contact vr3@softfield.com with the items you wish to purchase.
Does that seem very shady to anyone else? Maybe I'm just overly paranoid, but whenever a company only accepts money orders and/or paypal, it makes me a little wary. Plus there is not one mention of an "ST VR3" on their site, just a picture of a VR3 "H2O" model.
Personally, I think I'll pass and see if anyone else is brave enough to order and actually gets their PDA. Something about the combination of Paypal and the low low price tag make me cautious.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants an Agenda VR3 and wants to be assured that they will receive it, Agenda Germany is still taking orders! Check out their site here (http://www.agendacomputing.de)
Aaargh, damn you slashdot, damn you!
This will now be my 3rd pot of coffee today...local time: closing in on 2.30am
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KDE 3 is the first version to actually be pleasant enough to look at. There was no good reason for it not to happen earlier, but the KDE environment was ugly by default, and KDE/QT applications followed suit.
This isn't against Mosfet particularly, but as it was such an easy and superficial change it makes me wonder why in hell they didn't do it earlier.
It seems that if anyone should get how to deal with people's personal data, it should be someone who cares deeply about protecting the content industry.
/. crowd, I'd imagine) who believe that there isn't anything wrong with trading copyrighted oggs/mp3s but will blast a company for doing something nasty with people's personal data.
Simply put, my private data *is* property in the same way that N'Sync's newest crapfest is property. When I give my information to a company, it is analogous to the record label selling an N'Sync CD. I have given my information to them and they have limited rights as to what they can do with it. If they sell my data to another company, it's piracy in the same manner as if a consumer were to rip a cd and AIM it to his/her friend.
I'm always amazed at the amount of corporate types who will rant about people pirating music/software/other content yet defend a company's right to use my private information however they choose. I'm also surprised by the number of people (much of the
Pick one or the other. I'll take privacy.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
Is it just me, or is this whole thing about KDE being ugly a tempest in a teapot? I thought that it was quite clear from Mr. Decrem's comments that his biggest objection to KDE was that the icons were ugly, not that the software itself was in any way bad. He specifically said that he thought that KDE could improve itself a lot just by making the icons prettier. I'm inclined to agree, and I'll even admit that one reason that I chose (and since have stuck with) GNOME over KDE was that I thought that KDE just wasn't aesthetically pleasing. Is there really a need to write an elaborate reply article just to answer the complaint that the icons could use some work?
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
Fucktard.
Shitmonger.
When they make Linux clusters out of cellular phones, that'll worry me. You could destroy a building by programming 15000 portable devices to beep at the same time.
Just remember that the power to do so is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
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turd burgler
sister Frieda, and this is my other sister Frieda, and...
<shriek>
Shit still steaming from the heat of the ass it came out of.
Aint that a pretty picture.
Just thought I'd toss that into the mix.
fudge packer
I always thought it was "De gustibus non disputandum est." At least, that's why my high school philosophy teacher told me back in the day. And that bitch was never wrong... maybe.
Don't Bogart the fish sticks
ass pirate
So do we expect to see the same problems that Dolly the Sheep has had. Or did Dick(PK) nail it with replicants burning out quick?
Might be more useful as vict^H^H^H^HClones be able to tell us what's going on. "My arm stopped working thursday at lunchbreak..." etc.
I agree completely with the parent poster. We need to realize that you're either with us or you're with them. In order to keep America rolling, we need to fight terrorism with identification. Ellison's plan will ensure that no explosions ever again disgrace our holy soil.
This is the dawn of a new age. We must fight the evils of Islam and keep our rights to their oil from being violated. However, I must emphasize that while fighting Islam, we must apply our laws against Islam equally and in the true tradition of our forefathers. If during our unfettered extinction of the Islamic people, we fall into discriminatory practices, then the terrorists have already won.
With that said, let's roll.
Reading the various documents by Stallman, I've come to the conclusion that he's every bit as delusional as Gates. To Gates' tinpot dictator, RMS makes a great Marxist revolutionary, but his tactics are flawed by petty things like the GPL.
The GNU General Public License, to put it in one word, sucks. Much better licenses exist, ranging from the Mozilla Public License to the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. Because of Stallman's inane "demand" (we'll call it) to use nothing but the GPL, or to assign all IP rights to his Free Software Foundation, he scares away many of those thinking that open source might be the solution they're looking for.
It is perhaps best for the Open Source Revolution (if it still is a revolution) that both Microsoft (with Bill Gates) and the FSF (with Stallman) go away and never return.
Chris 'coldacid' Charabaruk Meldstar Entertainment
Cockgobbler.
The way things stand now, it's a very simple dichotomy, really. Owned by a big corporation -> private property forever. Owned by you -> public domain, until the big corporation aggregates it for resale, at which point it becomes theirs. From the corp's' view: what's mine is mine, what's yours is mine too.
I agree that recognizing a person's ownership rights in the data stream that they generate when going about their everyday life should become the core of future privacy laws.
Meanwhile, I'm putting a EULA on my bitstream.
Get your teeth into a small slice: the cake of liberty
stop being so lame. if you want to troll, do so properly. that shit only makes people want to beat the shit out of you.
The music industry is making a big mistake in trying to prevent people from downloading mp3s and such. If people are able to hear a couple songs from an album and they like it their probably more likely to buy it. Would you buy a book if all you know about it were the chapter titles? Or to carry the analogy to the extreme, would you buy a car without test driving it?
The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
Is Prof. Antinori cloning Osamma???
The shadows are just transparent parts of PNGs, they're not generated from the shape of the object. I think KDE supports them now. If it doesn't it's to do with the rendering of PNG/SVG icons in KDE.
Let's spell "surprise" together.
S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E
Let's BAN human cloning. It's immoral.
But let's pump trailer park trash FULL OF FERTILITY DRUGS and watch them pop out septuplets and call it a MIRACLE.
ALLELUJAH!!!!
That's just great! We're already running 6 billion, by 2021 there'll be 7. That's what we really need: More people.
Why can't we just work with what we got?
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
Are you on crack or something? It's entirely true. Stallman is a horrid person to be leader. We should be under the banner of ESR, Linus, or even Larry Wall. Those three are actually sane, competent people who truly make open source shine.
For all we know, behind the closed doors of the FSF, they plot to turn themselves into another Microsoft. Where will you all be then, huh?
you have no privacy
Truer words were never spoken. I bet the tinfoil hat wearing slashbot that started this loves his Kroger card, his bank debit card, and all his little conveniences, little understanding that the fact that he disables cookies does absolutely nothing for him.
If you don't want them to track you then don't use the card. How hard is that. The discount you receive by using the card is the store paying you for the privelege of tracking your purchasing habits.
Its really kind of amazing to me that people get this worked up over someone keeping track of how many potatoes they buy or what kind of ice cream they like. Seriously, get a life. That line of reasoning is not rational or balanced. It always leads to the insipid slippery slope argument that implies that if you let them track your groceries today, then tomorrow they'll be putting a camera in your toilet.
In short, I don't care if companies what to track this type of information. I don't consider it critical private information. I don't believe that it will lead to an eventual erosion of privacy involving more critical information. I buy my gorceries in public, I don't expect a total lock on my privacy in public places. If you want total privacy then buy a shack in Montana, grow your own food and stfu.
Why on earth do people freak so badly over this concept? A clone (theoretically) is no different than an identical twin. It is a fetus until birth, and thence a person. Done. Are identical twins truly identical people? No. Could this offer tremendous hope for both stem cell research and infertility? Yes.
I do not buy objections based on religion. I do not buy objections based on overpopulation.
So what's the big freaking deal?
"Avast! Prepare for the rodgering!" THWACK! "Arrr.. me nards.."
It's pretty clear that most KDE developers did not come from the deep south. I can't look at all those K words without thinking about the Klan.
It seriously does bother me.
'nuff said
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for some reason i feel the need to pull certain of mister gates' statements for closer inspection. this covers paragraphs 1 through 223 (i have to stop, ugh) - i think most of us are capable of finding the bugs in each of these statements. this is not to say that there is no valid argument in the entire document; a lot of the issues he raises are really ugly and bear consideration. i'm coming to the conclusion that the states are going about this the wrong way, and that unless there's a miracle of some sort, no one (except perhaps microsoft) is going to get what they really want. (my opinion? it's all about the API's.)
s / 002/billgates/billgates.asp
false assumptions: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitnes
32. In view of the close interrelationships among PC hardware and software products, the industry is often referred to as the PC ecosystem. Microsofts Windows operating system is a key component of the PC ecosystem, and thus the health of the ecosystem depends in substantial part upon the continued health of and improvements to Windows.
47. To make computing more pervasive, the industry needs to build systems that excel in availability, reliability and security, which I call Trustworthy Computing. Today the PC ecosystem falls short in all three respects. Internet connections may fail, software programs may crash, and viruses may infect any computer that interacts with any other. Even when working as designed, computers remain too hard to use. Absent sustained effort to attack these engineering challenges, the problem is likely to get worse, not better, as the computing environment becomes ever more complex with greater interoperation of a broad range of devices via the Internet and other networks.
49. Three overarching aspects of Microsofts business and technology model are imperiled by the NSPR: (i) the considerable benefits provided by Microsofts ongoing development of successive versions of Windows as consistent, well-tested, well-supported platforms for software development; (ii) Microsofts efforts to promote the development of a broad range of hardware and software products that interoperate well with one another; and (iii) the central role played by intellectual property protection in providing an incentive for Microsoft to invest capital, time and energy in software development. I discuss each of these in turn.
82. A third key aspect of Microsofts successful development and promotion of its Windows operating system products that is imperiled by the NSPR is the work Microsoft does to test thoroughly each operating system product it releases. Our testing work is not glamorous, but it is essential to the success of Windows in the marketplace.
94. We work to enable interoperability because the market demands it. Proof of our success is provided by the large number of products that interoperate with Windows today, including server software from Sun and Novell and, of course, tens of thousands of Web sites that run on various versions of UNIX and are accessible from Windows-based PCs.
96. As in any area of technology, room for improvement always exists, and Microsoft is working hard to continue to enhance interoperability in a wide variety of ways. Among other things, we are continuing to build support for industry-standard protocols and other industry-standard technologies into Windows, thereby enhancing interoperability between Windows and non-Windows operating systems. For this and other reasons, Windows XP provides greater opportunities for interoperability than did Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 provided greater opportunities for interoperability than its predecessor, Windows NT 4.0. The NSPR would frustrate our efforts in this regard by authorizing OEMs and others to remove technologies, including support for basic Internet standards like HTML and HTTP, from Windows that are essential to broad interoperability.
103. As shown in Appendix A, Microsoft has steadily increased the number of protocols supported in Windows that it makes available to developers, enhancing interoperability with each new release. We will continue to do so in the future.
104. I understand that the non-settling States believe the Court should enter a disclosure remedy in this matter directed at permit[ting] rival software to achieve interoperability with Microsoft software . . . . (Plaintiff Litigating States First Amended Proposed Remedy, March 4, 2002 at 12.) Section 4 of the NSRP would mandate an extraordinarily broad disclosure of technical information concerning Windows interfaces and protocols. Yet, all the disclosure imaginable will do little to promote interoperability if, as Sections 1, 2 and 7 provide, OEMs and others are free to remove the software that supports the disclosed interfaces and protocols from Windows. If software code is removed, the APIs and protocols supported by that code are removed as well.
116. For the reasons set forth in Section III, the utility of Microsofts disclosures of technical information described above would be greatly reduced if the NSPR were in effect. Among other things, Microsoft would be obligated to devote massive resources to documenting thousands of internal interfaces within Windows that are neither intended nor tested for use by external developers rather than focusing upon delivering documentation that developers actually need to make products that work well with Windows. Even more fundamentally, the NSPR would greatly reduce Microsofts incentive to invest in innovation, so that there would be fewer innovative technologies in the future that would be of any interest to developers.
121. Microsoft would be prohibited from providing information and obtaining feedback via the Open Review Process if the NSPR were in effect. Section 4, read in conjunction with the definition of Timely Manner (Section 22.pp), appears to require that Microsoft disclose technical information to the industry generally (ISVs, IHVs, etc.) at the same time that information is disclosed to any third party. It is not practical to disclose information concerning a new technology to the industry at large before specifications for the new technology have even been prepared, much less before significant development work has been undertaken.
130. I believe that the NSPR would greatly reduce Microsofts incentive and ability to develop and deliver new technologies to the marketplace. The consequences would be three-fold. First, all those who build upon or otherwise benefit from Microsofts heavy investment in developing new technologiesOEMs, ISVs and the businesses and consumers who use our softwarewould be harmed. With the loss of the positive feedback benefits provided by Windows, the marketplace would experience higher prices and less innovation.
131. Second, Microsoft would be greatly devalued as a company. Microsofts market capitalization is based on the markets well-founded belief that Microsoft is on a path to deliver a wide range of breakthrough technologies that will generate new sources of revenue.
150. Section 22.w is also very broad because it is not limited to software platforms that run on a PC and thus can provide a substitute for PC operating system functionality. For example, Section 22.w states that a network operating system is an example of middleware, but such products run, by definition, on servers, not on PCs. (Novell is the only company I know of that markets what it calls a network operating system.) For many years to come, however, the thousands of applications that run directly on Windows-based PCs today will continue to run on PCs. For that reason, server operating systems, set top box software, and other software that doesnt run on PCs will not commoditize Microsofts PC operating system software.
160. For example, Section 4 imposes broad obligations on Microsoft to disclose a wide range of technical information concerning interfaces in Windows for the stated purpose of promoting interoperability with Windows. Yet Sections 1 and 2 authorize third parties to remove large portions of Windows, including software that supports the interfaces that must be disclosed under Section 4. If OEMs remove software that supports APIs, disclosure concerning those APIs is not going to promote interoperability. The APIs will not work if the software is removed and developers will be much less likely to use them if that is a possibility.
161. Similarly, Section 16 establishes circumstances under which Microsoft is obligated to comply fully with certain industry standards in Windows (and other products). Once again, Microsoft would be unable to provide any assurance that its operating systems actually comply with industry standards (so that developers writing applications for Windows could rely upon those standards) if third parties were free to remove the software that implements the standards. If an OEM exercises its right under Sections 1 and 2 to remove Microsofts Web browsing software, for example, Windows will no longer comply with the HTTP standard (and other Internet-related standards), in apparent violation of Section 16.
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"The Cinema Guild website will be e-commerce ready by June 1. If you would like to order a copy before June 1, The Cinema Guild will take your order over the phone: (800) 723-5522 or (212) 685-6242. dvds for home use are $59.95. vhs copies (for home use) are available for $79.95."
Let's see. The DVD's are *cheaper* than the VHS's. How's that for a change?
Testicle-shitting rectal-wart
That's a screaming endorsement. I'm critically ambivalent about whether to follow it. I'm bristling with excitement that it may be somewhat non-boring.
Visit the Agenda page. Now click on the "BUY IT!" button. You will see that the VR3 retailing for $250.00. Another note at the bottoms warns you "available after June 1, 2001".
So, is Softfield doing their own thing with this? Or has Agenda kicked the bucket and forgotten to update their web page?
[QVC GUY]: How can the savings be THIS PHENOMENAL?? how can Softfield undercut Agenda by nearly ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS??
Anyone know?
Your
Smegma-spewing ding-dong
More facts about illegal aliens:
1) The kids are filling schools to the bursting point, requiring more support than their parents indirectly paid taxes begin to cover.
2) Since they avoid the medical system as long as possible, they eventually cram the emergency rooms and increase the system's budget deficits.
3) They artificially drive down the going price for labor in an ever expanding sphere of occupations. I don't see many artichokes in bulk mail shops, fast food joints, non-ag warehouses, or janitorial operations, to name a few. They ARE good workers, and that's just the point. Af_Americans were a pretty good labor value when THEY were bought and sold, too. By your logic, if wholesale chattel slavery keeps the lettuce from rotting, it's a good deal.
4) They take pressure away from the fat cats in Mexico and Central America to do much about their own inequities.
5) Sure, if you ripped every last undocumented worker out of their job tomorrow, it'd screw things up. If I ripped every open border apologist out of their job, it'd screw things up too. When's the last time a labor market changed overnight? Right, never. The economy would adjust, probably for the better.
Take your racial bull-baiting somewhere else. You want a reconquesta? Then give Mexico back to los indios.
Luke, help me take this mask off
Agendas were sold at Fry's (on closeout I think) for $100 or so about 6 months ago. Frankly I can't think of many reasons to buy one. They're a cute piece of hardware but a dead end. Meanwhile, you can find developer Zauruses (similar to the retail version but with only 32 MB of memory instead of 64MB) on Ebay, typically closing in the $300 range.
Best part...
Maybe you're comfortable with being lost in a crowd of millions of Internet surfers, enjoying the same kind of anonymity an ant enjoys in his hive.
But did you click on that suggestive banner ad out of random curiosity or because they gotcha?
Sig!
As soon as the VR3 gets ethernet ( the page says june ) I think I'll get one.
Good network testers run for well over $500+, and their not even that hot That's why I still carry a laptop around
A VR3, software like, tcpdump, slightly modified nic driver ( maybe, for an attempt at diagnosising hardware faults ), ping, traceroute, portmap, arp. Would be better than most of the testers I'm seeing right now. All for $150+price of NIC.
The only issue is text entry. I don't think it would be all that bad, if a menu is made available to the user. So the user can click on "broadcast discovery", to discovery host by an ethernet broadcast, arp, then dns ( maybe ), or the user can store a list of known host. For people with small networks, or particularly troublesome servers, that would work well.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
Wouldn't it be just GREEEEAAAT if MSFT just said "Hey, we make enough money off of our office line, let's cancel Windows, and just sell office products and database/server products". It's not like they don't have enough money to do it. It would be a huge cut, but they could do it if the states keep bothering them. I wonder if they could change the EULAs, 'ahem' update the EULAs to make it illegal to even run anything before XP. Make it a manditory upgrade or something. I don't think they could, but, perhaps they could change the license to just a 1 year license for all existing products. That would really screw the public.
I hate to be like this, but Microsoft does alot of good for the public as well. If all of a sudden there weren't any more copies of Windows sold at all, Dell, Compaq, et al, would be really screwed. Their tech support would have to find a new OS to support and train on it. Do we really want to be telling Jane and John Doe what chmod does over the phone? I bet people think that 'cat' would be a little thing that would run arround their screen instead of a real tool. Perhaps MSFT should just not sell in those states that are bothering them. Fair enough. The gov't would be screwed too. A compnay doesn't have to sell a program, they can if they want to. No more upgrades, nothing. All their programs written for MSFT os's would be screwed. Think, since you aren't 'supposed' to move an OEM copy to a new computer, once the old computers got antiqated, they would be screwed for OSes.
Tibbon
(not trying to troll)
At 42,000 words, it's not neccessarily light reading, but to their credit, it is nicely indexed.
Well it's good to know that his speech will fit in 640K of memory...
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
I wonder how cheaply the VR3 could be produced in volume? At ~$50 they could sell them as toys and clean up at Christmas.
Add an mp3 player and a CF slot and I want one.
To trade that card out with like-minded folks every so often. That'll further mangle the data in the database, leaving them with no idea what the hell the person regitered to the card is actually into.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Imagine, our president's wife, having given birth to clones! Twenty one years ago, they were conceived in secret, without any public oversight! Our own president, experimenting with clones. The shock, the horror, the shame of it. Conservatives must be stewing in their juices.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Grayscale and 66MHz are fine, and the form factor is great. But it needs an SD slot and a standard serial port (or Bluetooth) to be really useful. Can that be so expensive to add? Of course, slightly higher resolution would be nice, too.
This smells foul indeed. I would be careful of anybody that only accepts totally anonymous money. No personal checks accepted? No Visa / MC / AmEx?
And, the most damning evidence of all: THEY'RE FROM CANADA!!!
I find it immensely interesting that an advertisement on the same page as the story is suggesting to us that "It's time to rejoin the fight. It's time to take on the right wing!"
Um, I thought that Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C. was on the left wing, being a democrat and everything.
[sarcasm]Does that then mean that we should support President Bush because he is a tree-hugging liberal?[/sarcasm]
"Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Sure and how do you explain how the average ripper has ~60Gigs of mp3's on his/her drive? This is more analogous to test driving the the entire fleet, and then taking all the cars home with you.
So why is it still on your HD? Didya forget to turn in the test vehicle?
I don't give a rats ass for the RIAA, but your rationalizing of the theft of their property is laughable. Taking someone's products or services without payment is theft. Or do you just not get it?
...is that actually, the link between costumers aof a certain shop, and spending behaviour doesn't change a bit. so they still can use it as a marketing tool.
what they also used to do (here in the netherlands) was to give "bonuspoints" (comparable to airmiles) which were tied to the card. no-one gives away money, and "bonuspoints" could be used to buy things at a discount. fortunately, they got rid of those "bonuspoints" eventually.
cloning is unnatural. there, i said it. i think we should use it to some extent, growing organs for transplantation would be just wonderful (no immune rejection ever again), but cloning complete humans...
evolution has taught us that power lies in diversity. in a world where cloning would be commonplace, the genetic material would become to homogeneous, wich is a very dangerous thing. imagine what a virus could do if we all reacted the same way to it...
please don't even think about it. and this carzy italian doctor should be put away for a long time, just like the one that made it possible to let elderly women become pregnant (we're talking grannies here). i wonder if it's the same guy...
My first post:
Mosfet response
Ilan's counter response to Mosfet A problem with your arguement--sane defaults (Score:2) by Ukab the Great on Friday May 25, @05:55PM (#198350) [Alter Relationship] (User #87152 Info)
"But you can customize it" people say "But if you dig deep enough into the configuration, you can change it" people say Such are the ideas that hold linux from the desktop. Many users starting off will do neither, and shouldn't be expected to try to improve things that should have been improved to begin with. If there's something in an interface that is supposed to be done (e.g. labeling toolbar buttons) and makes an interface more usable, it should be the default.
Mosfet's counter response
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
that uses a PCMCIA or CF ethernet card. You can find stuff like that on Ebay real cheap.
Yes, there are many non-Jews that were killed, far more than Jews, but at the same time there's like a 500:1 ratio of non-Jew to Jew
If by '500:1' you mean '3:2', then maybe. A lot of people died in the hollocaust, the gypsies were also singled out for slaughter, as were gays.
If you mean the war in general, I think it would be about 1:10 jew:non-jew (60 million killed, 6 million jews killed)
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Hrm, I can't seem to read. I still think 500:1 is a bit much though, if that were the case then there would have been 3 billion people in europe.
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WTF!?
ESR might be more practical then RMS, but he's also a self-agrandizing wanker who's main goal in life is to make money and feel important. You can keep your sleazebag, politicaly retarded 'leader' to yourself.
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Do you think we deported all the mexican when we conqured that land?
Or what?
America is not defined by the color of it's citizens. You are a racist if you belive that reconqesta BS.
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Well, technicaly I agree with you. Cloning shouldn't be done now because of all the problems associated with it (namely telomere(sp?) shortening)
However, there is no reason to think that those problems will exist in the future. If we could be assured resonable success rate (at or higher the success rate for natural birth) how would you feel about cloning then? (for instance, if we coudld do it with chimps)
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You don't know what the hell your talking about therapeutic cloning does not, by definition, create a whole person. thearaputic cloning is like generating new hearts and livers and stuff in test tubes (well, really big ones)
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Yup. same guy.
anyway, Homosexuality is 'unatural', and it certanly goes against evolution. Should we ban that too?
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Of course now you're going to be getting coupons for AfroSheen from the printer.
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The only problem I have with these workers is their inability to speak English, and their unwillingness to get their kids to speak English/learn much of anything in school. Then they have 5 kids per family.
I like being able to communicate with the people I work with. I don't want to learn spanish either. but I guess that is the only solution, since they aren't going to change for America. That's ok, America has a long history of absorbing other cultures into it's own, this is just one more.
So learn spanish, teach your new amigo linux (even a child can operate it), and soon he'll be learning english to read the man pages.
Dunno. It's late, I'm coffeed up, and my mouth is dry.
Cheers.
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Is my response unintelligent because it doesn't agree with you?
As for the menus, you said you didn't like the default order menu items occurred. I told you that if you want to suggest a different order you could do so with no programming required because the menus are written in XML. Change things to how you would like and post the results so people can discuss them. How else do you think things get done?
Was this response unintelligent because it required you to do something?
From an overseas standpoint, it appears that US Senators and Congressmen are placed under much less direction from the party than, say, a UK Member of Parliament, who is generally expected to follow the party line. Also regional differences mean that Republican and Democratic parties place far less extreme candidates in certain areas, so thatthe boundaries between the two are very blurred.
However, it does seem as though the Democrats get a large amount of money from the entertainment industry and thus back it in areas where normally they would represent the people [in a loose sense of the term]
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I could be wrong, but isn't the soemthing created by you copyrighted. My surfing and shopping habits were created by me and are unique to me, therefore are protected under copyright legislation.
Just a thought.
Researchers are puzzled at the sharp increase in the purchase of pornography, beer, and Vaseline in the 55-65 year old, black, female, mother demographic.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
According to Bill Gates' testimony:
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The OEM might want to display Microsoft trademarks to suggest affinity with popular Microsoft software, such as its shipment of a Linux user interface that mimics the Windows user interface (like the Linux KDE interface does).
Well -- no wonder Bart doesn't like KDE -- its just a Windows clone -- and he's an MS basher!
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Actually, that's exactly what they might do. Don't forget, the ultimate reason for all this data gathering is for the gatherers to keep more of the customers' money. They could do it by tracking your purchases and showing you ads for similar stuff. They could also do it by noticing that you buy the same product at different stores for different prices, so it's safe to raise the price on that product.
Safeway is a business; it's not your friend.
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
Who would like to know more about your buying habits? I'll tell you one person who would love to know what you buy at the grocery store. Your insurance provider. Let see... buys a lot of beer, better raise his auto insurance rates. Buys a lot of red meat and junk food. Better raise his health insurance rates. Buys cold medicine instead of going to the doctor, maybe we can lower his rates. Oops. Buying condoms. That's risky. Better raise his rates instead.
The grocery store itself probably couldn't care less about your buying habits. They aren't collecting the personal information for themselves. They are collecting it so they can sell it to other people who do care. And they are not giving you a discount. It's just offsetting other price increases. That's why I don't shop at the stores that do this. Some stores don't feel the need to overcharge people who care about their privacy, and those are the stores I shop at. In a capitalist society, your dollar is your vote. Vote wisely!
In a democracy, you get the leadership you deserve...
I've got to post this anonymously, but let me tell you that they do not need a club card to track your purchases. If one (as most of us do) pays with the same bank instrument (check, or credit or debit card) regularly, then they can track the purchases to *you*. Your name is on the mag-stripe or printed on the check (many retail outlets either use check scanners to pull names off, or employ people to type in the name on the check with the check account number). Your bank number identifies you individually.
And there are (very profitable) services out there to match up the "John P. Doe" near ZIP code 50148 (for instance) with his address and tons of other PII and demographic info. Every wonder why so many stores these days ask for your ZIP code?
Privacy is a myth if you use any other than cash, or give out any personal information. (Even your ZIP code is personal -- ever notice that many CC companies use it as a password into your account?)
The only way to win the privacy battle is to fight it with laws.
Sir, I am an asshole, and I find your likening me to Bill Gates very offensive.
Please choose the name of a different oriface to describe Mr. Gates in the future.
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We'd probably turn to automation for harvesting, wich I'm starting to wonder might be the way it should be done. After the initial investment, wouldn't it be cheaper than paying illegal aliens and high school kids. I used to detassel corn.
If you are born a clone, at least you are born. Better to be born and be able to sue than never to have existed.
...it's called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and since 1945 it has been subject to vertical defecation on humans not cloned. There is no enforcement mechanism for this unless either the locals kill and replace their leaders with nicer people or elect someone nicer or have the Supreme Court designate the new leader. Hmm.
Last, Bitches!
Bonobos chimps do engage in lots of gay sex, but I'm not aware of any other kind that does. Human society is a lot more like that of the Bonobos, but I wouldn't really say it always was.
Anyway, Homosexually is most certainly 'against evolution' Gay people can't have kids. My point isn't that being gay is "wrong" from a moral standpoint, only that evolution shouldn't be taken as any kind of moral compass.
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...it should be here in a week.
However, I suppose quoting myself now would be redundant.
I suppose I shall add instead. He mentions that this power in insignificant next to the force. I say that this power could become the force. With this many devices that emit electromagnetic fields I'm sure someone could figure out a way to synchronize them in such a way that they could lift objects (particularly metal ones) or if they were really ambitious; lift enemies into the air, choking them, then later throwing them into an abyiss.
...hence the delay. The agenda is not here, but I'll call tomorrow to see if it's been sent.
Yes, it is here.