Agreed! The music industry is changing rapidly and their bureaucracy can't deal with it fast enough or clever enough. They are grabbing at straws, like Lala, and are not going to maintain their mostly the top-heavy, overpaid corporate pay scales. Too bad, as the artists are still not getting paid fairly, and every move by the music and movie industry is solely for their own profit margins. Nothing to do with artists, consumers or anyone not sitting in a $1000 chair and driving a high-priced European sedan. This is an industry on the ropes and suing their most prolific cheerleaders, for helping distribute what no one was going to pay for in the first place, is quite humorous. The downfall of the Western Music Industry is happening right now, and it's a laugh a minute! See you in Hell, RIAA! Furthermore, the music industry showed their true colors when they first bitched about people being able to buy a single song, like on iTunes. This couldn't have been more of a message from God himself that *everyone* is fucking tired of paying for a CD that has one good song on it. Hell, I have over 300 discs and I have a hard time counting, on more than one hand, the number of CDs with more that %50 good songs. Even my favorite bands produces a couple of clunkers, and I'm not going to pay for that. So, fuck you RIAA and your fucking CDs. I'll tell you where the best music is...
my_hard_disc Where your music should be
* All your music in one place: on my disc
* Listen online as much as you want, lemmie open a port for you there...
* Share music with your friends! Wanna borrow my drive? Of course, you do! If not I can burn you a MP3/DVD
* Get MP3s for your iPod. yep, that's them alright.
Insightful, yet incorrect. The 'tologists at the helm of El Ron had a similar idea about having a colony at sea; named Sea Org, or some such nonsense, follow the wiki-link if you really care to. The tie in is appropriate as the summarizer decided to mention both types of motives for moving to a sea colony; for freedom from oppressive governments, or to further your power over stupid people who follow convincing, well spoken lunatics. Fair is fair, I think Peter is quite a lunatic too. Pay "Pal" blows!
How about just knocking the monitor and console into the bowl while they're taking their turn? *bzzzzap* Looks like I win.;) If there's a stupider video game idea, I've yet to hear it.
I must say; haha. This will never fly. Anyone with any real computer skills is not going to be wasting their time working for the military or the government when they can get a real job with real pay anywhere else. I'm going to suggest they move straight into the social networking environment before they get in over their heads. Although the thought of millions of semi-educated script kiddies with planes and a couple of supercomputers and access to the major Internet hubs could cause some damage, just mostly to our own infrastructure.
Second that on newegg.com! Also, if you're looking for a true telco-style rack, look no further than http://graybar.com/ , although they probably charge enterprise prices, they do have just about everything. I would suggest if you don't really need a full-on, telco rack that needs to be mounted to a cement or other reinforced flooring go with a rolling 19" guitar effects rack. They are usually sturdy enough to support a 1U or 2U racked computer as well as your sweet guitar effects, plus you don't need to brace the damn thing.
A completely separate network would be awesome, expect for the lack of content. Building a new backbone would be the hard part, but then it could be connected via VPN, as long as you don't mind the very low bandwidth and can keep people from routing back to Internet v1.
Space exploration and the sciences needs better representation in the lawyer-heavy political system. We need more math and science in the schools and people in office who understand the importance of such for the future of our country. Support your local (or state or fed) science-minded candidates. Thank you.
That is correct. In fact; lobbiest $$ == political influence and power. When you can buy any US congressperson for about $6000, the world is your oyster! In hindsight, Nixon does not look like much of a crook...
Back to the topic though; good luck with that! Seriously, just how is the RIAA, MPAA or other enforcement douchen going to find my hard drive again? A hard drive that is filled by local visits to my friend's and family's CD and DVD collections and is about 250GB and growing, and having never been online or gathered from online? One wonders, then one watches the Munsters! Fuck the RIAA and MPAA, they can suck my disc, if they could only locate it... This law does nothing but show how shallow and easily led our alleged state officials are. My files are just fine and I gladly share with anyone who has a collection to share back, and *no one* can do shit about it. No one.
Won't someone please think of the listeners?!? Next time steal Phil Collins' servers instead! Crikey. Here in the States you can't get into a big data center without being spotted by several video cameras. Sounds like an inside job, or very lax security.
I think they mean it will save lives by providing some advanced warning about what lies ahead on the local terrain. On the subject of the possibility of big bro using these devices to do domestic spying... Hooray! I say. It will be trivial to detect these micro-sized, RF transmitting bots, collect them, hack them, then sell them on ebay to R/C enthusiasts! I've got my induction amplifier at the ready! Free bots, everybody!!!1!
I'll bet HIPAA. Of course, this leak is hardly surprising, given the probability that no one of right mind would want to work for their local government much less for the very low pay and crappy job atmosphere. Their ability to attract the best and brightest is overshadowed by the inability to pay anything close to market wages. If there's any good IT people working in local government then they're probably looking for a better job, or making real money contracting special services back to the gov. It's like trying to find someone knowledgeable at Worst Buy; the blueshirts with any skills are on their way to something less shitty, so all that's left are the bottom of the barrel. In this case, the worst that can happen is much more serious than a defective laptop. My apologies if I offended anyone in local gov who reads/., not so for blueshirts and geek squaters, you are teh suck. Happy Friday!
They did it for budget reasons only. If you bothered to RTFA you would have noted that:
On Tuesday, before Kieckhefer revealed the governor's plans, state Emergency Management Director Frank Siracusa said state and local government search and rescue workers have a long-standing tradition of not charging when they hunt for missing persons, even for multimillionaires such as Steve Fossett.
"We do not charge the rich or the poor," Siracusa said. "There is no precedent where government will go after people for costs just because they have money to pay for it. You get lost, and we look for you. It is a service your taxpayer dollars pay for."
The lesson here is; don't get lost in Nevada because; 1) if your search takes too long they will charge you a shitload, or 2) if you're not important enough for a large search, you're equally screwed as they might not find you. Duh.
True that, but Xerox was first to make it into a commercially available product; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star . Of course, it was a ridiculously overpriced product that did nothing more than inspire two hippy garage hacks.
Back to the topic, I see a huge problem in that this new printing technology breaks the "buy our cheap printer and we'll sell you the ink carts for only 2000% markup!" model. Perhaps they can recoup their profits by charging $1 a sheet? One can only hope.
Mostly, no. There's no real reason or incentive for a coin-operator to install one, other than to cheat while playing themselves. Most of the other "ball-grabbing" magnets are meant to be there, like in Twilight Zone, etc. I've seen electromechanical scoring systems rewired to cheat though. I have 8 pinball machines (decided on pinball after changing mind while attempting to purchase an Atari Tempest machine) and one, Bally Wizard, has the fourth player wired to get more points than the other three players. I think it scores 100 on 10 point target hits, but I never bothered to fix it as it was a clever hack.
Pinball is a good multi player game even when broken, as everyone plays with the same disadvantage.
The point is to hold it out in the open so people start to see it, and the rats who tried to cover it up are exposed. After awhile people (real Americans) will also be disgusted by the actions of our out-of-control administration and start to question it and do something, anything, about it. Hopefully before they grant themselves retroactive immunity. Another sickening thought. Then we vote and hopefully we make a change for the not-as-worse. I can't say better because we're still stuck with a corrupt two-party system that continues to allow its power to be sold to the companies with the most lobbyists and money. Could be worse, we could not have the ability to question and try and hold our government accountable for their actions while trying to "protect us." It does need a lot of work though. Perhaps when we're done playing Team America World Police we can concentrate on problems here at home.
Those of you who like to give up a little more freedom for more security... please leave your email accounts and passwords so we can check you out. You don't have anything to hide, do you? Call me root@mailinator.com
Exactly. This is why I'm subscribing to your newsletter. Is not the Solar System also in motion, as is the Milky Way Galaxy, and our local galactic cluster, plus the expanding of the known universe via the Big Bang? The placement of Earth in timespace is not just about figuring out where it is in orbit around the Sun. Think bigger. Many other motions are to be accounted for before we can land the Tardis on good old Earth, in the past at the correct timespace location.
And if he had nothing to hide, why was he trying to protect his password? People who use passwords are trying to hide something. I say leave open your accounts just in case the FBI or CIA need to check to make sure you're not a terroristo!!1!
Welcome to *world. Everytime you see a URL that ends with...world.com you're in for a shite load of badly designed pages with a minimum of technical content strewn about a myriad of ugly web-widgets in an attempt to outwit adblock+. Good luck with that! No need to RTFA when that's the case, it's safe to assume anything from the summary.
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Agreed! The music industry is changing rapidly and their bureaucracy can't deal with it fast enough or clever enough. They are grabbing at straws, like Lala, and are not going to maintain their mostly the top-heavy, overpaid corporate pay scales. Too bad, as the artists are still not getting paid fairly, and every move by the music and movie industry is solely for their own profit margins. Nothing to do with artists, consumers or anyone not sitting in a $1000 chair and driving a high-priced European sedan. This is an industry on the ropes and suing their most prolific cheerleaders, for helping distribute what no one was going to pay for in the first place, is quite humorous. The downfall of the Western Music Industry is happening right now, and it's a laugh a minute! See you in Hell, RIAA!
Furthermore, the music industry showed their true colors when they first bitched about people being able to buy a single song, like on iTunes. This couldn't have been more of a message from God himself that *everyone* is fucking tired of paying for a CD that has one good song on it. Hell, I have over 300 discs and I have a hard time counting, on more than one hand, the number of CDs with more that %50 good songs. Even my favorite bands produces a couple of clunkers, and I'm not going to pay for that. So, fuck you RIAA and your fucking CDs. I'll tell you where the best music is...
my_hard_disc Where your music should be
* All your music in one place: on my disc
* Listen online as much as you want, lemmie open a port for you there...
* Share music with your friends! Wanna borrow my drive? Of course, you do! If not I can burn you a MP3/DVD
* Get MP3s for your iPod. yep, that's them alright.
Insightful, yet incorrect. The 'tologists at the helm of El Ron had a similar idea about having a colony at sea; named Sea Org, or some such nonsense, follow the wiki-link if you really care to. The tie in is appropriate as the summarizer decided to mention both types of motives for moving to a sea colony; for freedom from oppressive governments, or to further your power over stupid people who follow convincing, well spoken lunatics. Fair is fair, I think Peter is quite a lunatic too. Pay "Pal" blows!
Not ol' Jack-off Thompson. He's currently working on his big comeback in a huge lawsuit against the makers of urination-themed video games! :P
How about just knocking the monitor and console into the bowl while they're taking their turn? *bzzzzap* Looks like I win. ;) If there's a stupider video game idea, I've yet to hear it.
I must say; haha. This will never fly. Anyone with any real computer skills is not going to be wasting their time working for the military or the government when they can get a real job with real pay anywhere else. I'm going to suggest they move straight into the social networking environment before they get in over their heads. Although the thought of millions of semi-educated script kiddies with planes and a couple of supercomputers and access to the major Internet hubs could cause some damage, just mostly to our own infrastructure.
Second that on newegg.com! Also, if you're looking for a true telco-style rack, look no further than http://graybar.com/ , although they probably charge enterprise prices, they do have just about everything. I would suggest if you don't really need a full-on, telco rack that needs to be mounted to a cement or other reinforced flooring go with a rolling 19" guitar effects rack. They are usually sturdy enough to support a 1U or 2U racked computer as well as your sweet guitar effects, plus you don't need to brace the damn thing.
It says he's using four engines there in the summary. That's 8,000,000,000lbs of thrust by my calculations! ;)
AFAIK he's still in the running!!1! The domain names darwinman and darwin-man both .com and .org are still available... ;)
A completely separate network would be awesome, expect for the lack of content. Building a new backbone would be the hard part, but then it could be connected via VPN, as long as you don't mind the very low bandwidth and can keep people from routing back to Internet v1.
Sounds like these guy's product: http://www.emvelope.com/products/show/1 , a Faraday Cage for your wallet. Could be worse.
Scientists & Engineers for America: http://sefora.org/
Sciencedebate 2008: http://sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php
Space exploration and the sciences needs better representation in the lawyer-heavy political system. We need more math and science in the schools and people in office who understand the importance of such for the future of our country. Support your local (or state or fed) science-minded candidates. Thank you.
That is correct. In fact; lobbiest $$ == political influence and power. When you can buy any US congressperson for about $6000, the world is your oyster! In hindsight, Nixon does not look like much of a crook...
Back to the topic though; good luck with that! Seriously, just how is the RIAA, MPAA or other enforcement douchen going to find my hard drive again? A hard drive that is filled by local visits to my friend's and family's CD and DVD collections and is about 250GB and growing, and having never been online or gathered from online? One wonders, then one watches the Munsters! Fuck the RIAA and MPAA, they can suck my disc, if they could only locate it... This law does nothing but show how shallow and easily led our alleged state officials are. My files are just fine and I gladly share with anyone who has a collection to share back, and *no one* can do shit about it. No one.
Won't someone please think of the listeners?!? Next time steal Phil Collins' servers instead! Crikey.
Here in the States you can't get into a big data center without being spotted by several video cameras. Sounds like an inside job, or very lax security.
I think they mean it will save lives by providing some advanced warning about what lies ahead on the local terrain.
On the subject of the possibility of big bro using these devices to do domestic spying... Hooray! I say. It will be trivial to detect these micro-sized, RF transmitting bots, collect them, hack them, then sell them on ebay to R/C enthusiasts! I've got my induction amplifier at the ready! Free bots, everybody!!!1!
I'll bet HIPAA. Of course, this leak is hardly surprising, given the probability that no one of right mind would want to work for their local government much less for the very low pay and crappy job atmosphere. Their ability to attract the best and brightest is overshadowed by the inability to pay anything close to market wages. If there's any good IT people working in local government then they're probably looking for a better job, or making real money contracting special services back to the gov. It's like trying to find someone knowledgeable at Worst Buy; the blueshirts with any skills are on their way to something less shitty, so all that's left are the bottom of the barrel. In this case, the worst that can happen is much more serious than a defective laptop. My apologies if I offended anyone in local gov who reads /., not so for blueshirts and geek squaters, you are teh suck. Happy Friday!
They did it for budget reasons only. If you bothered to RTFA you would have noted that:
On Tuesday, before Kieckhefer revealed the governor's plans, state Emergency Management Director Frank Siracusa said state and local government search and rescue workers have a long-standing tradition of not charging when they hunt for missing persons, even for multimillionaires such as Steve Fossett.
"We do not charge the rich or the poor," Siracusa said. "There is no precedent where government will go after people for costs just because they have money to pay for it. You get lost, and we look for you. It is a service your taxpayer dollars pay for."
The lesson here is; don't get lost in Nevada because; 1) if your search takes too long they will charge you a shitload, or 2) if you're not important enough for a large search, you're equally screwed as they might not find you. Duh.
True that, but Xerox was first to make it into a commercially available product; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star . Of course, it was a ridiculously overpriced product that did nothing more than inspire two hippy garage hacks.
Back to the topic, I see a huge problem in that this new printing technology breaks the "buy our cheap printer and we'll sell you the ink carts for only 2000% markup!" model. Perhaps they can recoup their profits by charging $1 a sheet? One can only hope.
"Speaking of which, are there hidden magnets?"
Mostly, no. There's no real reason or incentive for a coin-operator to install one, other than to cheat while playing themselves. Most of the other "ball-grabbing" magnets are meant to be there, like in Twilight Zone, etc. I've seen electromechanical scoring systems rewired to cheat though. I have 8 pinball machines (decided on pinball after changing mind while attempting to purchase an Atari Tempest machine) and one, Bally Wizard, has the fourth player wired to get more points than the other three players. I think it scores 100 on 10 point target hits, but I never bothered to fix it as it was a clever hack.
Pinball is a good multi player game even when broken, as everyone plays with the same disadvantage.
The RDF emanates from The Steve, not the Apple logo. Unless, of course, The Steve laid hands upon the device bearing the logo. It's all right in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
The point is to hold it out in the open so people start to see it, and the rats who tried to cover it up are exposed. After awhile people (real Americans) will also be disgusted by the actions of our out-of-control administration and start to question it and do something, anything, about it. Hopefully before they grant themselves retroactive immunity. Another sickening thought. Then we vote and hopefully we make a change for the not-as-worse. I can't say better because we're still stuck with a corrupt two-party system that continues to allow its power to be sold to the companies with the most lobbyists and money. Could be worse, we could not have the ability to question and try and hold our government accountable for their actions while trying to "protect us." It does need a lot of work though. Perhaps when we're done playing Team America World Police we can concentrate on problems here at home.
Those of you who like to give up a little more freedom for more security... please leave your email accounts and passwords so we can check you out. You don't have anything to hide, do you? Call me root@mailinator.com
"because soon the world would start depopulating from people only mating with robots"
You say that like it's a bad thing... Bring me zee FEMBOTS!!!
Exactly. This is why I'm subscribing to your newsletter. Is not the Solar System also in motion, as is the Milky Way Galaxy, and our local galactic cluster, plus the expanding of the known universe via the Big Bang? The placement of Earth in timespace is not just about figuring out where it is in orbit around the Sun. Think bigger. Many other motions are to be accounted for before we can land the Tardis on good old Earth, in the past at the correct timespace location.
And if he had nothing to hide, why was he trying to protect his password? People who use passwords are trying to hide something. I say leave open your accounts just in case the FBI or CIA need to check to make sure you're not a terroristo!!1!
No need to expend the powers of the RDF on that old white lady... MJ just needed the cash, *BADLY*.
Welcome to *world. Everytime you see a URL that ends with ...world.com you're in for a shite load of badly designed pages with a minimum of technical content strewn about a myriad of ugly web-widgets in an attempt to outwit adblock+. Good luck with that! No need to RTFA when that's the case, it's safe to assume anything from the summary.