You come to my house and I ask you to leave your shoes on the mat. You don't take your shoes off, but when I realise, I take them off you and throw them out the door.
Posted by Vapour on 11:43 AM September 21st, 2000 from the stuff-to-talk-about dept. Vapour asks: "There was this article at Wired (which was dull the first time), and I found that it provided an incredible opportunity to post a dull privacy story on Slashdot. This random linkPrivacilla.Org allows me some semblance of intelligence, which moderators love, indeed, here is another:Eric Raymond.' Since I do subscribe in large part to very long words, such as existensialism, more mundane principles atCato Institute, and general bad grammar and incoherenceWebVeil.Com, I would like to read the comments from Slashdotters, because I have nothing better to do."
Police have issued a statement saying they found Amphentamine,
Cocaine & Angel Dust at the flat of Paula Yates. There was no sign of her
other daughter. . ..
Why is this excellent news ?
Yet again, we see here on/. a company near daily denegrated by submitters of posts (Linux 6.2),yet the donation of $4 causes hat throwing.
Does not anyone else find it menacing that RedHat hold so much authority that in providing adonation, that they can force metalabs to redirect it's URL to something unpronouncable, and unmemorable ? . ..
"...[I should be] allowed to rip it apart and tinker with it at my discretion. I think that's my right as a consumer."
But that's not their argument is it ?
They are defending their right not to have their intellectual Property reverse engineered and openly distributed.
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ? Why should this be any different ?
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Nah, this can't be serious, after winning both the World and Eurpean Cups, the French team Les 3 Mousquetaires,Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris, is only second:)
More privacy, privacy, privacy.
Maybe we should request that slashdot is renamed News For Nerds, Stuff about Privacy
It's so dull. I really don't care that Real got to learn that I have a Pentium II CPU.
Or what taste in music I have.
So some Corporation gets my IP address, hmmn, big deal, seeing as I'm probably interested
in that site in the first place.
These stories get hundreds of posts, but I don't see demonstrations on the street
demanding that Tesco stop using loyalty cards.
And why is that ?
Well if I get £30 off my next bill for shopping there and letting them know that I like
Heinz baked beans and buy 4 every week, so be it.
Well here's my thought : No one here really gives a shit. They like to pretend
they do. Just in the same way that everyone pretendsthat they give
a shit about eating GM food, when all GM experiments are carried out in the open anyway and everythings cross polinated.
"Interestingly, he also says he sees good things for Linux as a desktop OS."
Yet yesterday, 90% of slashdot readers berate AOL
for providing their suite of access products for Linux
What's it to be ?
Re:yeah, they do these things to steal from you...
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Actually, it can work in your favour. Because the latest CPU is seen as the next 'gotta have', the previous iteration of the CPU always
tumbles in price.
The English may well beat the Americans to be the first to discover if water exists on Mars.
The Beagle 2, named after the ship used by Charles Darwin, is due to travel to Mars aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission,
also planned for 2003.
The 60-kg, clam-shaped probe is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars on Christmas Day 2003. It will drill into the surface to extract soil samples which will be scanned for signs of water and life.
An artists impression of the probe can be found here
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You come to my house and I ask you to leave your shoes on the mat. You don't take your shoes off, but when I realise, I take them off you and throw them out the door.
;)
How's that for an analogy
It'd serve many people well to have a little understanding of the physics of a black hole.
Here are a three of my favourites:
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page
Jillian's Guide to Black holes
from the stuff-to-talk-about dept.
Vapour asks: "There was this article at Wired (which was dull the first time), and I found that it provided an incredible opportunity to post a dull privacy story on Slashdot. This random linkPrivacilla.Org allows me some semblance of intelligence, which moderators love, indeed, here is another
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vapour
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When will I be able to run Linux on my palm ?
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errr....
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perhaps ?
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really, you must be some interesting fella.
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Why do you need to catalogue your books if you already own them ?Why would you want to do the same for your CD's ? I play mine.
I'm not interested in a barcode scanner. It's rubbish. I have better things to do with my time.
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how cares about CueCat ? How much use can a barcode scanner really be to you at home ?
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I'd have to be really bored to even think about it.
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I would enter a robot that runs Windows. The let it run amok, then crash.
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Police have issued a statement saying they found Amphentamine, Cocaine & Angel Dust at the flat of Paula Yates. There was no sign of her other daughter.
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Why is this excellent news ? /. a company near daily denegrated by submitters of posts (Linux 6.2),yet the donation of $4 causes hat throwing.
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Yet again, we see here on
Does not anyone else find it menacing that RedHat hold so much authority that in providing adonation, that they can force metalabs to redirect it's URL to something unpronouncable, and unmemorable ?
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what does it really matter that Compaq asks you to agree to an additional SLA ?
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The software itself is still covered by the GPL.
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I think that Americans need to take a deep look at their own judicial system before messing with a new court for technology.
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I suspect that the technique used to copy the athlete's DNA was most likely PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction).
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This technique apes the human DNA replication.
For more information, read here or here
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no more scathing mails to bill.gates@microsoft.com using Eudora then :)
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No, I think not.
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An Omega SeaMaster, maybe. Or Chanel, yes.
Tastelesss lump of plastic with horrid LCD screeen, gimme a break.
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You could do worse than check this link at the BBC, which fully explains proven health theories and the fiction behind the others.
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"...[I should be] allowed to rip it apart and tinker with it at my discretion. I think that's my right as a consumer."
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But that's not their argument is it ?
They are defending their right not to have their intellectual Property reverse engineered and openly distributed.
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ? Why should this be any different ?
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Why would anyone in the States be interested in a football match anyway.
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Every other country in the World plays football, yet all the Americans play soccer.
American football is nothing more than a girls rugby, has it's own World league, in which no other countries participate.
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Nah, this can't be serious, after winning both the World and Eurpean Cups, the French team :)
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Les 3 Mousquetaires,Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris, is only second
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I just prefer VT100 :)
More privacy, privacy, privacy.
Maybe we should request that slashdot is renamed
News For Nerds, Stuff about Privacy
It's so dull. I really don't care that Real got to learn that I have a Pentium II CPU.
Or what taste in music I have.
So some Corporation gets my IP address, hmmn, big deal, seeing as I'm probably interested
in that site in the first place.
These stories get hundreds of posts, but I don't see demonstrations on the street
demanding that Tesco stop using loyalty cards.
And why is that ?
Well if I get £30 off my next bill for shopping there and letting them know that I like
Heinz baked beans and buy 4 every week, so be it.
Well here's my thought : No one here really gives a shit. They like to pretend they do.
Just in the same way that everyone pretends that they give a shit about eating GM food, when all GM
experiments are carried out in the open anyway and everythings cross polinated.
"Direct3D emulation under Wine is a little behind"
hmmn, did you fingers slip on the keyboard ?
Shouldn't that be Wine is a little behind ?
"Interestingly, he also says he sees good things for Linux as a desktop OS."
Yet yesterday, 90% of slashdot readers berate AOL for providing their suite of access products for Linux
What's it to be ?
Actually, it can work in your favour. Because the latest CPU is seen as the next 'gotta have', the previous iteration of the CPU always tumbles in price.
The English may well beat the Americans to be the first to discover if water exists on Mars.
The Beagle 2, named after the ship used by Charles Darwin, is due to travel to Mars aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, also planned for 2003.
The 60-kg, clam-shaped probe is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars on Christmas Day 2003. It will drill into the surface to extract soil samples which will be scanned for signs of water and life.
An artists impression of the probe can be found here