How do you know the Sony rootkit is not PRE-INSTALLED on your Vaio when you receive it? How do you know that the Sony rootkit is not embedded in hardware on every Sony USB stick, every Sony memory card, every Sony digital camera...?
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You should read history as well as your biology textbooks. The Black Death was GOOD for European society, and the world would not have had the Renaissance without it.
Not to mention the odd cultural factor. Cockfighting is a popular sport in many parts of Southeast Asia, and it's a common practice to suck mucus out of the birds' sinuses before the fight to give them a slight advantage.
Needless to say, sucking mucus out of an Asian bird's sinuses is not high on my list of things to be doing right now.
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I don't see what everyone is worried about. Everyone knows that organisms don't change from one form to another, so there's no risk of a human-transmissible strain.
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No, it gets better. How about the award to Muhammad Ali? You know, the Muslim. The guy whose career and livelihood the federal government tried to destroy when he spoke out against a war he thought was unjust.
That's gotta rate down there was one of Bush's slimiest moments.
That's like taking some lossy jpgs, printing them out on paper, laying them down on the floor, taking digital photos of the paper photos, and keeping THOSE lossy jpgs.
The USA has always been years, if not decades, behind the rest of the world in mobile technology. While the entire world built mobile networks based on the GSM standard -- with transmissions at 900MHz and 1800Mhz -- the USA refused, since one or both (I forget) of those frequencies was reserved for military use. Rather than coming up with a workaround or joining the international groups and proposing an amendment to the GSM spec, the USA just said "Screw you, commies! We don't need your stinkin' European phone system! Freedom Fries! USA! USA!"
I believe you meant "using Itunes to copy a CD is technically illegal in Australia". Murder is illegal in Australia, but that doesn't mean knives are illegal.
Not since the British and Irish Lions toured New Zealand during 2005 has so much time, money, and effort been devoted to dropping one's pants and grasping one's ankles.
Would have been closer, I think.
As a previous poster commented, here's a reality check for Yahoo: you lost. Gmail won. It's better.
I just wish the rest of the world would show some goddamn RESPECT for the fact that fifteen years ago Tim Berners-Lee, AN AMERICAN, invented the Web while working at CERN, you guessed it, IN AMERICA.
A friend of mine whipped up a custom Debian installation that did just that. Insert CD, automatic CDDB lookup, automatic rip via LAME, automatic file naming and tagging, CD pops out.
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On behalf of the rest of the civilised world, I hereby point at the USA and say in a Nelson Muntz voice,
HA HA!
How do you know the Sony rootkit is not PRE-INSTALLED on your Vaio when you receive it? How do you know that the Sony rootkit is not embedded in hardware on every Sony USB stick, every Sony memory card, every Sony digital camera...?
Newsflash. People are stupid.
You should read history as well as your biology textbooks. The Black Death was GOOD for European society, and the world would not have had the Renaissance without it.
Not to mention the odd cultural factor. Cockfighting is a popular sport in many parts of Southeast Asia, and it's a common practice to suck mucus out of the birds' sinuses before the fight to give them a slight advantage.
Needless to say, sucking mucus out of an Asian bird's sinuses is not high on my list of things to be doing right now.
I don't see what everyone is worried about. Everyone knows that organisms don't change from one form to another, so there's no risk of a human-transmissible strain.
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Please. It's "jigawatts".
No, it gets better. How about the award to Muhammad Ali? You know, the Muslim. The guy whose career and livelihood the federal government tried to destroy when he spoke out against a war he thought was unjust.
That's gotta rate down there was one of Bush's slimiest moments.
I mean, we don't need to know how stuff works. It just does, because that's how God made it.
That's like taking some lossy jpgs, printing them out on paper, laying them down on the floor, taking digital photos of the paper photos, and keeping THOSE lossy jpgs.
WTF?
The USA has always been years, if not decades, behind the rest of the world in mobile technology. While the entire world built mobile networks based on the GSM standard -- with transmissions at 900MHz and 1800Mhz -- the USA refused, since one or both (I forget) of those frequencies was reserved for military use. Rather than coming up with a workaround or joining the international groups and proposing an amendment to the GSM spec, the USA just said "Screw you, commies! We don't need your stinkin' European phone system! Freedom Fries! USA! USA!"
I believe you meant "using Itunes to copy a CD is technically illegal in Australia". Murder is illegal in Australia, but that doesn't mean knives are illegal.
Yes.
How strange... an article dated 1999, about geeks, for geeks, talking about how important geeks are.
Not since the British and Irish Lions toured New Zealand during 2005 has so much time, money, and effort been devoted to dropping one's pants and grasping one's ankles.
Would have been closer, I think.
As a previous poster commented, here's a reality check for Yahoo: you lost. Gmail won. It's better.
I just wish the rest of the world would show some goddamn RESPECT for the fact that fifteen years ago Tim Berners-Lee, AN AMERICAN, invented the Web while working at CERN, you guessed it, IN AMERICA.
A friend of mine whipped up a custom Debian installation that did just that. Insert CD, automatic CDDB lookup, automatic rip via LAME, automatic file naming and tagging, CD pops out.
Cox's Orange Pippin FTW!
This is amazing to watch. A nation is LOBOTOMIZING itself.
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I just tried it. The US store pops up a one-button dialog box:
"Your account is only valid for purchases in the Australian Music Store. Clicking OK will take you to this store. [OK]"
OMG, do you live in the same Australia I live in? Australia is one of the most racist places I've ever spent time in.
I got the reference, that's why I posted :)
Neither will this article, if the Slashtard editors keep duping it.
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/10/16/2046
A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking real masses.
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Nice
We need a moderation of "+1, Reality Check".