More time spent on this pointlessness means less time available for their normal job of ruining things. Yeah the USA is "outrageously fucked up", but Congress can pretty much only make it worse, so the more they get out of the way, the better.
Wolf's my congressman btw. If someone better wants to run I'd be all for it, but the ones who actually run against him are much worse.
So the Slashdot groupthink's anti-law enforcement stance has extended to the Secret Service now? Which part are we in favor of: counterfeiting money or assassinating the president? Personally I'll go ahead and take a bold anti-counterfeiting/anti-assassination position and say that this is a bad thing.
I completely remember this debate. And my feelings haven't changed from that day to this: If you let the Government get involved in this issue, in ANY way, you will live to regret it.
What TWC and Verizon (the instigators of that roe as I recall) wanted to do was to charge large content providers (Google, Time, CNN, etc.) to have "priority" throughput on their networks. If they didn't pay, they'd be given a lower QoS and therefore, because of the number of requests to their servers, they would effectively be throttled.
What I pointed out all those years ago (with many years experience RUNNING an ISP) was that if you get the government involved, it will give them an avenue to moderate the Internet for political reasons. Further more, all the "kiddies" at that time were bitching about how Torrent, etc. was being throttled by Joe's Wireless company or some such, and they just couldn't understand the difference between what TWC/Verizon were doing and what Joe was doing trying to maintain a basic QoS on his limited bandwidth network.
In the end, it appears that two things have happened: The kiddies have drowned out the voices of people who actually have a clue, and the politicians have heard their cries and have come running.
"We're from the government, and we're here to help." -shiver-
Yes, *this*.
(Quoting your entire post since someone seems to have modded you down for contradicting the groupthink.)
... what is the Xbox other than DRM writ large? Consoles are much more restrictive than any PC DRM could ever be. If you like console gaming, go for it, but citing DRM as an issue doesn't make sense.
The bank will have them. Just walk in and ask the teller to hand some over.
It might be loud in there, so you might want to write it on a note and pass it over.
Also, tellers like it when you add some friendly conversation while they're getting your money. Many tellers are interested in firearms; you may want to mention that you have a gun.
And yes, I realize some OLDER person will get on this thread and say "I'm a train engineer - a real engineer - unlike these punks with engineering 'degrees'"
Of course, engineers existed before train drivers; but that's another story...
Somehow I doubt ballista-building Romans are going to be posting on Slashdot, though.
This happens occasionally. Sometimes it's Carlos (not "Carlo"); I think once it was Ingvar Kamprad (who founded IKEA), etc. Bill will be back on top eventually.
I've assumed that time is actually just speeding up. Based on research that consisted of watching lots of Star Trek: TNG, I decided a spatial anomaly is to blame. As a bonus, this also explains the Pioneer anomaly; the probe appears to be slowing down because it's getting out of reach of the speedy-time anomaly.
Sadly, DOS emulation in XP didn't include the graphics modes, so all those programs (which I still have, somewhere) are useless.
Dosbox!
The only thing Dosbox won't get you is the overscan "border" you could set in BASIC. (At least the older BASICs, though I'm pretty sure Q-Basic had it too.) But all your other BASIC graphics will work in Dosbox.
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Even if you could turn "virus" into an -i plural, it'd just be "viri". I don't know where people get this extra i from. It's not "virius".
But yes, just use "viruses" for FSM's sake.
More time spent on this pointlessness means less time available for their normal job of ruining things. Yeah the USA is "outrageously fucked up", but Congress can pretty much only make it worse, so the more they get out of the way, the better.
Wolf's my congressman btw. If someone better wants to run I'd be all for it, but the ones who actually run against him are much worse.
As long as it works, just fire it off and forget about it. If it sucks, that's a maintenance programmer's problem.
we are supposed to be proponents of network neutrality
We don't like governments mucking with DNS servers
Self-awareness just complete eludes "net neutrality" supporters, doesn't it?
Slashdot used to lean libertarian, but has been pretty much just liberal since, I don't know, at least 2004.
Actually I would say the decline in quality at Slashdot is correlated pretty closely to the decline in libertarian leanings.
Where the OP got "conservative" I have no idea, Slashdot has never been that.
Uh, I think your sarcasm detector needs work.
Google+: For people who thought, "You know, I wish there were some way I could give even more personal information to Google!"
You cannae change the laws of physics.
But the laws of biochemistry are open, I guess.
Were console kiddies even born when the original Duke Nukem games came out?
We come in peace, shoot to kill.
So the Slashdot groupthink's anti-law enforcement stance has extended to the Secret Service now? Which part are we in favor of: counterfeiting money or assassinating the president? Personally I'll go ahead and take a bold anti-counterfeiting/anti-assassination position and say that this is a bad thing.
Yes, *this*.
(Quoting your entire post since someone seems to have modded you down for contradicting the groupthink.)
... what is the Xbox other than DRM writ large? Consoles are much more restrictive than any PC DRM could ever be. If you like console gaming, go for it, but citing DRM as an issue doesn't make sense.
The bank will have them. Just walk in and ask the teller to hand some over.
It might be loud in there, so you might want to write it on a note and pass it over.
Also, tellers like it when you add some friendly conversation while they're getting your money. Many tellers are interested in firearms; you may want to mention that you have a gun.
...so? Let them do it. There's eleventy billion other sites I can go to instead.
Ubisoft DRM becomes self-aware. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
DRM fights back.
Somehow I doubt ballista-building Romans are going to be posting on Slashdot, though.
"I invited your best friend Geocities, only he couldn't come, because you murdered him."
Yes there is: states can choose their own government, but it has to be a "republican" form of government. No state monarchies, sorry.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government" - Article IV Section 4.
what is the price of buggy whips nowadays?
This happens occasionally. Sometimes it's Carlos (not "Carlo"); I think once it was Ingvar Kamprad (who founded IKEA), etc. Bill will be back on top eventually.
Here's a good past prediction: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
There's also the debate about whether or not I can take a mass of lead and expel it at high velocity into a mass of cells that's walking around.
I've assumed that time is actually just speeding up. Based on research that consisted of watching lots of Star Trek: TNG, I decided a spatial anomaly is to blame. As a bonus, this also explains the Pioneer anomaly; the probe appears to be slowing down because it's getting out of reach of the speedy-time anomaly.
Sadly, DOS emulation in XP didn't include the graphics modes, so all those programs (which I still have, somewhere) are useless.
Dosbox!
The only thing Dosbox won't get you is the overscan "border" you could set in BASIC. (At least the older BASICs, though I'm pretty sure Q-Basic had it too.) But all your other BASIC graphics will work in Dosbox.