I'm sure they wouldn't mind producing this 'contract', then. What's that? I didn't sign a contract? Well, that's interesting. Perhaps they meant 'broken business model' and not 'contract'.
Additionally, maybe this fucktard Kellner can explain how I go about stealing something I've already paid for. I'd love to hear that one.
I swear to God, the year that we perfect a method to endlessly duplicate food will be the year in which half of the US population starves to death.
In the rare chance that Slashdot is still here when that happens, I'll post an 'I told you so' message. I'll be the one with a shotgun and a food duplicator, hiding in my basement, posting from the only Apple IIe that survived the circumvention crackdown of 2015. I'm saving this link. I expect a +5.
On slashdot the posters fixate There aren't enough words on their plate If one doesn't believe He'll call one naive Then thousands of slashbots tailgate
There once was a posting to Slashdot By a man wielding plus two who dare not Make plus one the score Of his posting, a door Away from his boredom and skull-rot
There once was a man from Nantucket
Built a ship so light that he could chuck it
At c into the air
Not like Nasa did care
They poured more in to Boeing and said 'Fuck it'
Visit the store at the busiest time of day. At least around here, that's 5:30pm or so. Right after work, but before everyone goes home to sit on the couch, drink whisky, and generally get 'tore up'.
Pick up a loaf of bread or similar staple food.
Find the line whose length appears to be increasing the fastest. Typically, these are the 'express lanes'. They're not 'express' (nor really even 'lanes'), but people seem to think they're quicker.
When you get to the very front of the line, ensure there's a line of angry customers wrapped all the way into the next aisle.
As the total pops up, tell the cashier: "The manager told me you have those cards at this register." Point at the bread. "I need one for this." Glare back through the large line.
Watch as the cashier succumbs to peer pressure and gives you a card from the stack in the bottom of his drawer. Not like he wanted your personal information anyway.
I've done this on several occasions. In the stores that have the automatic cashier machines, you can cut out the barcode and just carry it. Give cards away to your friends, tape them to telephone poles, whatever floats your boat.
Then delight in the fact that you've won, at least for the time being.
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
g g
o / \ \ / \ o
a \ a
t `. : t
s` \ s
e \ / / \\\ -- \\ : e
x \ \/ --~~ ~-- \ x
* \ \-~ ~-\ *
g \ \.--------.___\ g
o \ \// ((> \ o
a \ . C ) ((> / a
t/\ C )/ \ (> / t
s //\ C) (> / \ s
e ( C__)\___/// _/ / \ e
x \ \\// (/ x
* \ \) `---- --' *
g \ \ / / g
o / \ o
a / \ \ a
t / / \ t
s / / \/\/ s
e / e
x x
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Only when you lose your karma are you free to do anything.
But getting the United States to use Passport to authenticate its 285 million citizens online would be a coup for the Redmond software company.
Something tells me that wasn't just a figure of speech.
Re:Jabber : great concept, awful reality.
on
Programming Jabber
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· Score: 0, Offtopic
In other news:
Slashdot's scientists have announced a proof of the Taco/Neal theorem - a long-standing theory which asserts that UIDs are inversely proportional to the jadedness of their owner.
A forthcoming study, based upon the relationship between high UIDs and the horrific disorder in humans known as 'trollism', is expected to be released by the same group later this week.
An individual can do anything they like such that it doesn't infringe on anyone elses rights.
The devil's in the details. Chiefly, defining 'infringe' and 'rights'.
Reminds me of JWZ's "
Peace and Justice for Everyone" bit. I'd be really surprised if people like Hillary Rosen and Co. really wake up every morning thinking "man, I'm going to infringe me some rights today". I'll bet she genuinely believes she's doing some good.
Whoops, sorry. Doesn't interact with patients or talk to patients. It does whine when you step in front of it in the hallway.
It's entirely too early in the morning for real grammar and complete sentences.
We have one of those
on
Hospital Robots
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· Score: 2, Interesting
We have at least one of the Pyxis robots at the cancer research center where I work (names witheld to protect the innocent).
This one doesn't talk and doesn't directly interact with patients, has a significantly higher-pitched voice than James Earl Jones, and seems to be used primarily for carting supplies around the facility.
The best thing to do, besides set up a obstacle course of boxes in the hallway (fun stuff, that), is to watch the thing board the elevators. It's consistently able to trigger a stop at its floor, detect when the door opens, and bump over the gap into the elevator without getting stuck. Though it doesn't seem to like getting on an already occupied elevator, it's pretty trivial to sneak on once it's in the car. And I've never seen one get stuck. If I did, I'd probably never be able to laugh at anything else again in the same way.
At least where I am, though, I don't see these ever replacing direct patient care. Everyone loves to emphasize the human aspect of hospital treatment, especially the marketing department. Firing the nurse assistants and replacing them with robots, besides costing a hell of a lot more money, would probably piss everyone off.
No, BeOS is dead. Not dying, dead. The company which owned is was dissolved and all of the code is now the property of Palm, Inc. Palm will continue development on the x86 BeOS during a cold day in hell.
That said, there are a lot of OSS projects trying to create an OS based upon the BeOS APIs and 'kits'.
All of the above is quite a shame. If BeOS rose from the dead today with support for modern chipsets, it'd immediately be the primary OS on my workstation.
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I'm sure they wouldn't mind producing this 'contract', then. What's that? I didn't sign a contract? Well, that's interesting. Perhaps they meant 'broken business model' and not 'contract'.
Additionally, maybe this fucktard Kellner can explain how I go about stealing something I've already paid for. I'd love to hear that one.
I swear to God, the year that we perfect a method to endlessly duplicate food will be the year in which half of the US population starves to death.
In the rare chance that Slashdot is still here when that happens, I'll post an 'I told you so' message. I'll be the one with a shotgun and a food duplicator, hiding in my basement, posting from the only Apple IIe that survived the circumvention crackdown of 2015. I'm saving this link. I expect a +5.
Mars could be full of bacteria
Like the cold, meningitis, diptheria
So we'll permit them to land
But only in sand
In some remote place like Liberia
On slashdot the posters fixate
There aren't enough words on their plate
If one doesn't believe
He'll call one naive
Then thousands of slashbots tailgate
If Slashdot were crossposting all its comments all over usenet, someone probably would sue them. Or ban them.
Hey, there's an idea. Maybe more than one.
Stupid haiku verse
"Needs some refinement", he says
All is GPL
Linuxthess made a decree
To moderate up above three
The post parent to his
A limerick it is
A good one (save the part about c)
There once was a posting to Slashdot
By a man wielding plus two who dare not
Make plus one the score
Of his posting, a door
Away from his boredom and skull-rot
There once was a man from Nantucket
Built a ship so light that he could chuck it
At c into the air
Not like Nasa did care
They poured more in to Boeing and said 'Fuck it'
Nasa space shuttle
Takes off like a pile of bricks
Lighter craft required
SetEnvIf Referer dallasnews\.com bad_domain
Deny from env=bad_domain
And Aqua Teen Hunger Force before it. Episode 4 (with the Moonites) was an absolute work of comedic art.
April, 2002
- Visit the store at the busiest time of day. At least around here, that's 5:30pm or so. Right after work, but before everyone goes home to sit on the couch, drink whisky, and generally get 'tore up'.
- Pick up a loaf of bread or similar staple food.
- Find the line whose length appears to be increasing the fastest. Typically, these are the 'express lanes'. They're not 'express' (nor really even 'lanes'), but people seem to think they're quicker.
- When you get to the very front of the line, ensure there's a line of angry customers wrapped all the way into the next aisle.
- As the total pops up, tell the cashier: "The manager told me you have those cards at this register." Point at the bread. "I need one for this." Glare back through the large line.
- Watch as the cashier succumbs to peer pressure and gives you a card from the stack in the bottom of his drawer. Not like he wanted your personal information anyway.
I've done this on several occasions. In the stores that have the automatic cashier machines, you can cut out the barcode and just carry it. Give cards away to your friends, tape them to telephone poles, whatever floats your boat.Then delight in the fact that you've won, at least for the time being.
And the "legal notice" links to a very fat man's web page on copyright and IP.
Oddly appropriate.
Timex has hookers now? Sign me up!
*Wayne's world dream sequence...*
Oh yeah...
Mmm... lower...
It 4:20pm, and a hotttt sixty-nine degrees.
Oh yesss! You're currently going south!
*Fade back in*
Okay. Maybe the Timex hookers aren't quite a great idea...
For six hundred plux tax, that chick on their website better come with it.
Shit. If I had six hundred and wanted to piss it away, I think I'd be buying the Timex and a really good hooker instead.
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * .--------.___\ g /\ C )/ \ (> / t /\ C) (> / \ s // _/ / \ e
g g
o / \ \ / \ o
a \ a
t `. : t
s` \ s
e \ / / \\\ -- \\ : e
x \ \/ --~~ ~-- \ x
* \ \-~ ~-\ *
g \ \
o \ \// ((> \ o
a \ . C ) ((> / a
t
s /
e ( C__)\___/
x \ \\// (/ x
* \ \) `---- --' *
g \ \ / / g
o / \ o
a / \ \ a
t / / \ t
s / / \/\/ s
e / e
x x
* g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
Only when you lose your karma are you free to do anything.
But getting the United States to use Passport to authenticate its 285 million citizens online would be a coup for the Redmond software company.
Something tells me that wasn't just a figure of speech.
In other news:
Slashdot's scientists have announced a proof of the Taco/Neal theorem - a long-standing theory which asserts that UIDs are inversely proportional to the jadedness of their owner.
A forthcoming study, based upon the relationship between high UIDs and the horrific disorder in humans known as 'trollism', is expected to be released by the same group later this week.
:)
An individual can do anything they like such that it doesn't infringe on anyone elses rights.
The devil's in the details. Chiefly, defining 'infringe' and 'rights'.
Reminds me of JWZ's " Peace and Justice for Everyone" bit. I'd be really surprised if people like Hillary Rosen and Co. really wake up every morning thinking "man, I'm going to infringe me some rights today". I'll bet she genuinely believes she's doing some good.
With that said: she isn't, and I agree with you.
Piracy is when you take music that didn't belong to you
No, piracy involves bearded men with hooks, ships, theft of durable goods, and one or more bodies of water.
/. is a site for SERIOUS INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSION
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
As do I. A correction is attached to the other reply. As for James Earl Jones, someone else mentioned that the voice on their model sounded like him.
Whoops, sorry. Doesn't interact with patients or talk to patients. It does whine when you step in front of it in the hallway.
It's entirely too early in the morning for real grammar and complete sentences.
We have at least one of the Pyxis robots at the cancer research center where I work (names witheld to protect the innocent).
This one doesn't talk and doesn't directly interact with patients, has a significantly higher-pitched voice than James Earl Jones, and seems to be used primarily for carting supplies around the facility.
The best thing to do, besides set up a obstacle course of boxes in the hallway (fun stuff, that), is to watch the thing board the elevators. It's consistently able to trigger a stop at its floor, detect when the door opens, and bump over the gap into the elevator without getting stuck. Though it doesn't seem to like getting on an already occupied elevator, it's pretty trivial to sneak on once it's in the car. And I've never seen one get stuck. If I did, I'd probably never be able to laugh at anything else again in the same way.
At least where I am, though, I don't see these ever replacing direct patient care. Everyone loves to emphasize the human aspect of hospital treatment, especially the marketing department. Firing the nurse assistants and replacing them with robots, besides costing a hell of a lot more money, would probably piss everyone off.
No, BeOS is dead. Not dying, dead. The company which owned is was dissolved and all of the code is now the property of Palm, Inc. Palm will continue development on the x86 BeOS during a cold day in hell.
That said, there are a lot of OSS projects trying to create an OS based upon the BeOS APIs and 'kits'.
All of the above is quite a shame. If BeOS rose from the dead today with support for modern chipsets, it'd immediately be the primary OS on my workstation.