that "by hook or by crook" bit seemed a bit un-right to me, so I looked it up a bit. I suspect you meant "inevitably," but the phrase really means "using any method possible" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/by+hook+or+by+ crook
Why are so many of these court cases about someone getting sued for downloading music then
There aren't. I don't know of any (and I'm not seeing links indicating that I'm wrong when I say there have been none). You've been confused by sloppy wording. It's regrettable, and it's exactly what I was complaning about in the ancestor comment.
That secondary definition is very interesting. I can only imagine using it if I were writing something a Lovecraft story. Disambiguating away the Asia-related meaning would be pretty difficult in any other kind of work.
By the way, we do protect Black people. For policies like Affirmative Action, we specifically legislate that they be treated differently from others. Other forms of protection are race-blind policies like equal-opportunity housing and lending. We protect people of all races from discrimination, but the amount of protection needed varies depending on race.
Debian is also good for servers. Depending on your level of experience, it can be easier to administer than Gentoo or FreeBSD, and it's definitely quicker to install. The minimal-install footprint is smaller too, I think (I heard ~200 MB in the new release).
It would be a hell of a stretch to claim that Chinese, Japanese and Korean Americans need the level of protection that we extend to African Americans. There's a whole lot less racial hatred directed at immigrants from Asia than from Africa or even Mexico.
"Oriental" doesn't remotely compare with "nigger." Try to imagine a government employee being let go for saying "oriental."
I find your comment to be disingenuous grandstanding.
So you're saying it makes sense to carry a firearm all day, every day, in case you happen to be near one of random civilian shootings that occur somewhere in the nation every day. No, more like... every few years?
Get real. People don't carry snakebite emergency repair kits, and they're much more likely than a gun to be useful.
Someone paranoid enough to carry a weapon all the time in this country is probably unhinged enough that they shouldn't be equipped to administer deadly force. Maybe if someone had been packing a taser they might have ended this asshole's rampage a bit earlier....
So you think this guy got his guns on the black market? Or through his connection to organized crime?
If they weren't his legally, I bet they were stolen from the owners. The GP's point stands. While restricting gun possession might not disarm the hardened criminals, it would do a lot to keep the psychos in check.
When Asians object to "oriental," it's usually on the grounds that "I'm not a rug." This gripe is as obtuse as it is inane. As the literate among you know, the term means nothing but "Eastern." You don't here them objecting to phrases like "Eastern culture" and "Eastern philosophy," so there's nothing objectionable about the direction alone.
Sure, "oriental" collocates strongly with "rug" (this means that the words appear together frequently), but that shouldn't kill the word.
Whew. I'm glad I don't have to turn off the AJAX (with it on, I can only seem to reply to comments, not articles).
I would be much more interested if some sort of weighting were used. It's nice to know how many people use the internet *at all*, but I'm more interested in how many have a significant amount of their social lives on the web.
I'd like to see statistics just on the blogscape, comparing total readership of male and female blogs.
(2) All modern OSs can use dvorak instead of qwerty.
(3) Every OS I have used enables the use of a hotkey for switching between layouts.
(1) Moving keycaps around is a crutch; the only (potentially) good thing about it is that it makes people do a double-take when they see the keys. One of the reasons your laptop can do this, while mine cannot, is that yours lacks a nipple mouse.
The other mac fanboys should scold you for touting features that aren't unique to your platform. If you're going to act superior, find better justification.
VIM isn't as much fun in Dvorak when you have to switch randomly to QWERTY. For one thing, ":wq" is all done with on one hand.
qwerty: colon is on the right, w and q are on the left.
dvorak: colon and q are on the left and w is on the right.
Niether layout has them all on one side. Do you not have to key the colon in manually? I'm a newbie at VIM.
...my boss thought I was a computer newbie...
I'm having a hard time imagining a situation in which you couldn't casually remark "I'm a little slow on qwerty because I use a different keyboard layout." I always get great reactions when I say that.
you're a sissy if you actually buy a Dvorak keyboard or dare rearrange the keys. Thank you.
You should be touch-typing anyway. I found that dvorak keys' locations are easier to remember than qwerty anyway, because there's some logic relating frequency to distance from the home row and finger strength.
What's wrong with having the M there? I'm assuming your remark is completely guileless, which might be wrong.
M isn't as important as H,T,N or S, so it shouldn't be a home key. It's more important than W or V or Z, so it gets a stronger finger than those. The placement is totally logical.
(dvorak user for three years; only issue is hotkeys, and it's just an annoyance. Also, you have to keep a "switch to qwerty" hotkey, so you can play games without manually remapping, and so that other people can use the computer)
Yes. My understanding is that the RIAA are not employing any man-in-the-middle attacks (or if they are, they can't admit to it because it's cracking). Since they aren't in the middle, the only way that they can be aware of the piece of string is to be at one end or the other. When you hear about people getting in trouble for uploading, it is because they uploaded to an agent of the RIAA, who was collecting evidence of infringement.
When they go to court, they present two kinds of evidence: a screenshot showing a list of the files that the infringer was sharing (some protocols, like kazaa and DC, make it very easy to get this list) and a small set of files that were downloaded to check that the filenames accurately represented the content.
Anyhow, the gist is that when you upload, they can use this tactic to gather evidence on you. Downloading doesn't put you at *any* risk at all, as far as I know.
I haven't yet RTA, but I expect to find that the difference between downloading and uploading music has been forgotten by whoever wrote the summary. It's terribly frustrating have repeatedly to explain to people that they can download with impunity as long as they don't upload.
Why can't people get this right even on slashdot???
I think you're confused about what a shill is. They're not Microsoft shills if they're not being remunerated. Most of the MS defenders are probably just innocent, clueless fanboys and maybe some more mature supporters.
To accuse someone of being a shill is a very serious thing. Please don't de-fang the word by broadening its meaning to include innocent fanboyism.
(If you really do think that there are dozens of paid Microsoft employees surreptitiously posting pro-MS comments, then your use of "shill" is correct. I'm assuming you're not that paranoid.)
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that "by hook or by crook" bit seemed a bit un-right to me, so I looked it up a bit. I suspect you meant "inevitably," but the phrase really means "using any method possible" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/by+hook+or+by+ crook
Since MS has a new OS out, they are better-equipped than usual to abuse their position in this way.
That secondary definition is very interesting. I can only imagine using it if I were writing something a Lovecraft story. Disambiguating away the Asia-related meaning would be pretty difficult in any other kind of work.
By the way, we do protect Black people. For policies like Affirmative Action, we specifically legislate that they be treated differently from others. Other forms of protection are race-blind policies like equal-opportunity housing and lending. We protect people of all races from discrimination, but the amount of protection needed varies depending on race.
Debian is also good for servers. Depending on your level of experience, it can be easier to administer than Gentoo or FreeBSD, and it's definitely quicker to install. The minimal-install footprint is smaller too, I think (I heard ~200 MB in the new release).
It would be a hell of a stretch to claim that Chinese, Japanese and Korean Americans need the level of protection that we extend to African Americans. There's a whole lot less racial hatred directed at immigrants from Asia than from Africa or even Mexico.
"Oriental" doesn't remotely compare with "nigger." Try to imagine a government employee being let go for saying "oriental."
I find your comment to be disingenuous grandstanding.
Thank you!
Mod parent "kneejerk."
... every few years?
So you're saying it makes sense to carry a firearm all day, every day, in case you happen to be near one of random civilian shootings that occur somewhere in the nation every day. No, more like
Get real. People don't carry snakebite emergency repair kits, and they're much more likely than a gun to be useful.
Someone paranoid enough to carry a weapon all the time in this country is probably unhinged enough that they shouldn't be equipped to administer deadly force. Maybe if someone had been packing a taser they might have ended this asshole's rampage a bit earlier....
So you think this guy got his guns on the black market? Or through his connection to organized crime?
If they weren't his legally, I bet they were stolen from the owners. The GP's point stands. While restricting gun possession might not disarm the hardened criminals, it would do a lot to keep the psychos in check.
Your comment is a burrito, and sometimes a burrito makes you feel all bloated and gassy.
When Asians object to "oriental," it's usually on the grounds that "I'm not a rug." This gripe is as obtuse as it is inane. As the literate among you know, the term means nothing but "Eastern." You don't here them objecting to phrases like "Eastern culture" and "Eastern philosophy," so there's nothing objectionable about the direction alone.
Sure, "oriental" collocates strongly with "rug" (this means that the words appear together frequently), but that shouldn't kill the word.
Depending on how malignant the thief is, he might destroy the TV out of frustration. It doesn't take much, he could probably do it without waking you.
gadgets have lost their appeal. As for innuendo, it was there. Maybe it was just too subtle for you?
Whew. I'm glad I don't have to turn off the AJAX (with it on, I can only seem to reply to comments, not articles).
I would be much more interested if some sort of weighting were used. It's nice to know how many people use the internet *at all*, but I'm more interested in how many have a significant amount of their social lives on the web.
I'd like to see statistics just on the blogscape, comparing total readership of male and female blogs.
They represent the copyright holder. In the lawsuit the name of the plaintiff is always the record label: Capitol, BMG, Sony.
+1, snarky.
The Army is training a special detachment of "Spartans", who will fight unarmed and in the nude, for deployment against enemy robots.
(2) All modern OSs can use dvorak instead of qwerty. (3) Every OS I have used enables the use of a hotkey for switching between layouts. (1) Moving keycaps around is a crutch; the only (potentially) good thing about it is that it makes people do a double-take when they see the keys. One of the reasons your laptop can do this, while mine cannot, is that yours lacks a nipple mouse. The other mac fanboys should scold you for touting features that aren't unique to your platform. If you're going to act superior, find better justification.
VIM isn't as much fun in Dvorak when you have to switch randomly to QWERTY. For one thing, ":wq" is all done with on one hand.
...my boss thought I was a computer newbie...
qwerty: colon is on the right, w and q are on the left.
dvorak: colon and q are on the left and w is on the right.
Niether layout has them all on one side. Do you not have to key the colon in manually? I'm a newbie at VIM.
I'm having a hard time imagining a situation in which you couldn't casually remark "I'm a little slow on qwerty because I use a different keyboard layout." I always get great reactions when I say that.
you're a sissy if you actually buy a Dvorak keyboard or dare rearrange the keys. Thank you.
This is 100% correct.
You should be touch-typing anyway. I found that dvorak keys' locations are easier to remember than qwerty anyway, because there's some logic relating frequency to distance from the home row and finger strength.
What's wrong with having the M there? I'm assuming your remark is completely guileless, which might be wrong.
M isn't as important as H,T,N or S, so it shouldn't be a home key. It's more important than W or V or Z, so it gets a stronger finger than those. The placement is totally logical.
(dvorak user for three years; only issue is hotkeys, and it's just an annoyance. Also, you have to keep a "switch to qwerty" hotkey, so you can play games without manually remapping, and so that other people can use the computer)
Yes. My understanding is that the RIAA are not employing any man-in-the-middle attacks (or if they are, they can't admit to it because it's cracking). Since they aren't in the middle, the only way that they can be aware of the piece of string is to be at one end or the other. When you hear about people getting in trouble for uploading, it is because they uploaded to an agent of the RIAA, who was collecting evidence of infringement.
When they go to court, they present two kinds of evidence: a screenshot showing a list of the files that the infringer was sharing (some protocols, like kazaa and DC, make it very easy to get this list) and a small set of files that were downloaded to check that the filenames accurately represented the content.
Anyhow, the gist is that when you upload, they can use this tactic to gather evidence on you. Downloading doesn't put you at *any* risk at all, as far as I know.
Source, please. Wouldn't it be something akin to entrapment if they uploaded music to me and then accused me of infringing?
I haven't yet RTA, but I expect to find that the difference between downloading and uploading music has been forgotten by whoever wrote the summary. It's terribly frustrating have repeatedly to explain to people that they can download with impunity as long as they don't upload.
Why can't people get this right even on slashdot???
I think you're confused about what a shill is. They're not Microsoft shills if they're not being remunerated. Most of the MS defenders are probably just innocent, clueless fanboys and maybe some more mature supporters.
To accuse someone of being a shill is a very serious thing. Please don't de-fang the word by broadening its meaning to include innocent fanboyism.
(If you really do think that there are dozens of paid Microsoft employees surreptitiously posting pro-MS comments, then your use of "shill" is correct. I'm assuming you're not that paranoid.)