Yes indeed; talk about randomly anthropomorphizing computers (and the networks they can constitute as is the case here). Interesting how a term such "researcher" can be commercially re-defined to mean "product-promoting-idiocracy-automaton" with little to no difficulty..
I would really like to see just a few of the player-hater-posters here be victims of a hurricane/mudslide/[insert your favorite natural catastrophe] only to be told by inconsiderate people on/. that they should be allowed to suffer because of their apparent lack of capacity to not live where they live!?
Lastly I find it completely beyond understanding and frankly rather sad for/. on the whole that the parent post (and a few of the equally cold and ignorant replies) has been voted '5, Insightful'..
I know, 4 days old, but still rather relevant,from eff.org (http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_02.php#0051 40):
"Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the government's highly controversial electronic surveillance program that intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans' communications.
When press reports forced the White House to acknowledge the program in December of 2005, the administration claimed that the massive program could be conducted without warrants or judicial authorization of any kind. However, in January of this year, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had authorized collection of some communications and that the surveillance program would now operate under its approval. EFF's suit comes after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records concerning the purported changes in the program (...)"
Seriously.. I echo the former post; join the EFF. Changes are ONLY going to take place through efficient lobbying (but then it also works really well, Halliburton has proved that beyond doubt..)
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Yes indeed; talk about randomly anthropomorphizing computers (and the networks they can constitute as is the case here). Interesting how a term such "researcher" can be commercially re-defined to mean "product-promoting-idiocracy-automaton" with little to no difficulty..
Parent post is in need of up-modding of score, badly!
I would really like to see just a few of the player-hater-posters here be victims of a hurricane/mudslide/[insert your favorite natural catastrophe] only to be told by inconsiderate people on /. that they should be allowed to suffer because of their apparent lack of capacity to not live where they live!?
/. on the whole that the parent post (and a few of the equally cold and ignorant replies) has been voted '5, Insightful'..
Especially, when one takes into consideration that about 20% Louisiana's population is under the poverty limit, it is simply inexcusable to be making these sort of comments - people don't "just move" to another area?! (see http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/food_health/health/hunger_food_security/Faces+of+Poverty+in+Louisiana.htm for further demographics on Louisiana)
Lastly I find it completely beyond understanding and frankly rather sad for
I know, 4 days old, but still rather relevant,from eff.org (http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_02.php#0051 40):
"Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the government's highly controversial electronic surveillance program that intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans' communications.
When press reports forced the White House to acknowledge the program in December of 2005, the administration claimed that the massive program could be conducted without warrants or judicial authorization of any kind. However, in January of this year, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had authorized collection of some communications and that the surveillance program would now operate under its approval. EFF's suit comes after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records concerning the purported changes in the program (...)"
Seriously.. I echo the former post; join the EFF. Changes are ONLY going to take place through efficient lobbying (but then it also works really well, Halliburton has proved that beyond doubt..)