One of the Banks I go to, the one near my college, does EVERYTHING instantaneously. You deposit money, it is now in your checking account.
Hah. I love how banks instantaneously deduct card transactions and even checks from your account, but you must wait at least few days for the portion of any deposit over $100 to kick in.
If I didn't have direct deposit I'd ask you where you bank. Citibank dosen't count because they don't have meatspace tellers anywhere.
I believe the majority of what you say is bullshit. You're thinking of the department of Homeland Security, specifically the ICE. But modern cops do tend to be clueless about electronic crime.
I can't get at TFA right now (EFF slashdotted?!) but I suggest you read the actual PDF of the justification to grant the search warrant. The detective's so-called credentials (after he left land management) include a page and a half of fluffed-up 1-hour cybercrime seminars.
The dorm room search stemmed from an investigation into who sent an email to a Boston College mailing list alleging that another student was gay.
Lotta Catholics in Boston, and as we all know Catholics are among the most zealous and hypocritical of all the religious idiots. Pontificate and bash gays by day, homosexually molest by night.
I bet the two were former lovers and had a bitter custody battle over the iPod after the relationship went sour.
-- insulting influx of competion, further invalidating prior certs and attendant costs
Freudian slip? It is true, though: nothing would be more insulting to a skilled nerd than to be replaced with somebody with nothing but a Microsoft voucher being paid 1/3 the salary!
Since the few of you who have responded to my above post seem to lack a sense of association, let me explain why I mentioned Silverlight:
RIAA throws a lot of money at Obama, obama installs their lawyers in DOJ
Microsoft throws a lot of money at the Obama campaign, Obama campaign streams inaguration using Silverlight.
Of course, that's common sense. Now let's hope this example is a sign of things to come:
Microsoft throws a lot of money at MLB, MLB uses silverlight to stream their games...only this time, it dosen't work out after they realize what a stupid move it was.
The RIAA are beginning to have their asses kicked in court because more and more people are standing up and speaking out against them, thanks to the guidance of the EFF and Beckerman types. Obama could have installed them as a favor for campaign contributions, but how long they stay after that is fair game. And if they piss off enough people, they won't stay long. That's why we must keep fighting to have the ACTA revealed.
RIAA lawyers are not necessarily the "cream of the crop", it's just that men will kill their own grandmas if you throw enough money at them. Look at the way Microsoft tries to shove Silverlight down our throats!
Youtube is failing because all of the stuff worth watching was coincidentally all the stuff they removed for DMCA-related reasons.
On top of that, the few videos that I like that they didn't remove are much harder to find using the new search system. When I youtube, I'm looking for something specific and I don't want to have to wade through hundreds of teenagers' insignificant opinions, cretinous hammy behavior, or unimaginative video collages.
Anyone who wanted to actually create a thought-provoking post on it without using falsehood or inflammatory
Truth hurts, buddy. Religion is a moronic and outdated concept and Islam is the filthiest and most savage of the bunch. I too would be full of rage if I were a Muslim and I too would blame the Jews who are very convenient to blame. The Muzzies are filthy parasites who invade Europe and America and attempt to install their 14th-century ass-backwardsness disguised as "political correctness". They'll take advantage of western hospitality and kill and maim your daughter in some back alley because she refused to wear a hijab or burqa or whatever that damn rag is called.
Waste those motherfuckers. They are obsolete in the new world order.
Religious idiots like to say that gay marriage is wrong. I tell 'em that thousands of species practice homosexuality in nature, and then the religious idiots reply that humans are not animals.
Then I tell 'em that nowdays, people get married for reasons other than breeding. Who's the animal now, assholes?!
Also, religious people are delusional fucking retards who foster bigotry, impede progress, and propogate the spread of socially acceptable psychosis.
EULA: any Slashdot reader who has been given mod points and chooses to mod this post down agrees to fellate Ethanol-fueled and swallow his jissom in perpetuity.
Some ATMs are designed to perform in this way - your card is not returned until you have completed whatever function(s) you began.
So a person distracted with music or a cell phone takes their money from the ATM and for some reason runs off, leaving their card.
Around these parts it used to be that way, now it's the opposite: you make your transaction, and the machine spits out your card and prompts you to take it before it spits out the money and/or receipt. YMMV.
MS and / or Yahoo should be looking at Twitter seriously. It's the real deal.
You're on the right track, but why should Microsoft or Yahoo buy Twitter while both of them have their instant messengers? Add a little paragraph to their EULA saying that all user content belongs to them(if they haven't already, and most people will just click through it anyway) and they have the equivalent of a million Twitters' user data and conversations to strip-mine to their heart's content!
Consolidation of both userbases would be the only thing out of a merger which would make sense!
I think his response was more of an "open letter" to gadget fetishists rather than a specific reply to his parent.
"Apple vs. Microsoft" are your words, not his. Surface is innovative. These toys are not so innovative and I predict that they will be as well-received and successful as the Zunem, should they make it to mass-production.
I don't think that Slashdot's moderation system is a total folly.
Sure, it sucks to see your well-structured Microsoft complaint modded down (especially overrated - Mac/Microsoft bitchboys, religious fuckwits, and other chickenshits love that one), but it's all made better in the end, after GNAA comments are modded underrated and even insightful. I'll take it for what it is.
No, I hope you're joking. Sun's bundling Yahoo Toolbar with java is bad enough. If Oracle were to buy Sun, it would be in their best interests to stop that immediately unless they don't want to be taken seriously. Choice rant from the link:
I find it insulting when applications bundle unrelated crapware like browser toolbars, particularly when the installation selects the extra junk by default...
...software upgrades need to be elegant and streamlined. Bundling in a browser toolbar cheapens the whole experience because it starts looking just like so many other crapware applications that plague the PC industry.
I know nothing of the Swedish language but I'd give my left nut to be able to request that information in America, especially since our governmental attack dogs behave as if they have no responsibility to provide proof of anything to simply go ahead with investigation anyway.
"The amount being paid to the music industry, even though [these] games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small," Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman told analysts last summer.
Guitar Hero drives much more sales than your ad agencies and your lawsuits, assholes. The funny thing is that the recording industry are beginning to attack their own kin, MTV Games!
Right. I'm puzzled at why so many here are knee-jerkedly boo-ing the court's decision. Slashdotters are supposed to be freedom-loving folks who demand that law enforcement and prosecution play by the rules. I bet they'd be cheering the decision if it were Stallman or TBP's asses on the line. Overzealous law enforcement and prosecution is a BIG problem these days, especially since Bush took charge.
It's time we slap their wrists and say "No! Bad lawyer! Bad Cop!" and make 'em sit in the corner for awhile. They don't play by the rules, they face punishment through the very laws they claim to be upholding. Sanction their asses.
I'd rather see a few O.J.s or Ted Stevens go free than thousands of innocents jailed through miscarriages of justice!
No way. This is not about "national security" in the sense of busting terrorists and preventing catastrophic damage. It's about control, plain and simple. There are no credible threats. Is this, busting some loser ice cream man after paying a shady informant a quarter-million bucks (commonplace even while many Americans are jobless and starving), the best that they can do?
Sweeping powers like rampant warrantless wiretapping will always be abused. Why care if you're not up to anything? Surely you won't mind if I follow you around and read over your shoulder, or even follow your wife into the restroom to make sure that she's not doing anything illegal. Huh. You'd think that we would be better than to allow state-sponsored voyeurism. But it's for your own good - the terrorists and pedophiles are out to get you!
more blogging/editorials/crap (like fashion and celeb news).
Like Newsweek? I took theseexamples from the website but the print editions are worse - more than half the mag is dedicated to ads and pop culture BS. If they don't want the internet to eat their lunch then they should print a magazine worth reading. Sure, Newsweek isn't exactly the New Yorker or Foreign Policy magazine, but it's really went downhill from being the respectable news rag I read as a kid.
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One of the Banks I go to, the one near my college, does EVERYTHING instantaneously. You deposit money, it is now in your checking account.
Hah. I love how banks instantaneously deduct card transactions and even checks from your account, but you must wait at least few days for the portion of any deposit over $100 to kick in.
If I didn't have direct deposit I'd ask you where you bank. Citibank dosen't count because they don't have meatspace tellers anywhere.
I believe the majority of what you say is bullshit. You're thinking of the department of Homeland Security, specifically the ICE. But modern cops do tend to be clueless about electronic crime.
I can't get at TFA right now (EFF slashdotted?!) but I suggest you read the actual PDF of the justification to grant the search warrant. The detective's so-called credentials (after he left land management) include a page and a half of fluffed-up 1-hour cybercrime seminars.
The dorm room search stemmed from an investigation into who sent an email to a Boston College mailing list alleging that another student was gay.
Lotta Catholics in Boston, and as we all know Catholics are among the most zealous and hypocritical of all the religious idiots. Pontificate and bash gays by day, homosexually molest by night.
I bet the two were former lovers and had a bitter custody battle over the iPod after the relationship went sour.
-- insulting influx of competion, further invalidating prior certs and attendant costs
Freudian slip? It is true, though: nothing would be more insulting to a skilled nerd than to be replaced with somebody with nothing but a Microsoft voucher being paid 1/3 the salary!
Of course, that's common sense. Now let's hope this example is a sign of things to come:
Don't forget to donate your music allowance to the EFF and TPB.
The RIAA are beginning to have their asses kicked in court because more and more people are standing up and speaking out against them, thanks to the guidance of the EFF and Beckerman types. Obama could have installed them as a favor for campaign contributions, but how long they stay after that is fair game. And if they piss off enough people, they won't stay long. That's why we must keep fighting to have the ACTA revealed.
RIAA lawyers are not necessarily the "cream of the crop", it's just that men will kill their own grandmas if you throw enough money at them. Look at the way Microsoft tries to shove Silverlight down our throats!
Youtube is failing because all of the stuff worth watching was coincidentally all the stuff they removed for DMCA-related reasons.
On top of that, the few videos that I like that they didn't remove are much harder to find using the new search system. When I youtube, I'm looking for something specific and I don't want to have to wade through hundreds of teenagers' insignificant opinions, cretinous hammy behavior, or unimaginative video collages.
The "you" in Youtube will be the death of it.
I just call them MySpace users.
Anyone who wanted to actually create a thought-provoking post on it without using falsehood or inflammatory
Truth hurts, buddy. Religion is a moronic and outdated concept and Islam is the filthiest and most savage of the bunch. I too would be full of rage if I were a Muslim and I too would blame the Jews who are very convenient to blame. The Muzzies are filthy parasites who invade Europe and America and attempt to install their 14th-century ass-backwardsness disguised as "political correctness". They'll take advantage of western hospitality and kill and maim your daughter in some back alley because she refused to wear a hijab or burqa or whatever that damn rag is called.
Waste those motherfuckers. They are obsolete in the new world order.
Religious idiots like to say that gay marriage is wrong. I tell 'em that thousands of species practice homosexuality in nature, and then the religious idiots reply that humans are not animals.
Then I tell 'em that nowdays, people get married for reasons other than breeding. Who's the animal now, assholes?!
Also, religious people are delusional fucking retards who foster bigotry, impede progress, and propogate the spread of socially acceptable psychosis.
EULA: any Slashdot reader who has been given mod points and chooses to mod this post down agrees to fellate Ethanol-fueled and swallow his jissom in perpetuity.
Some ATMs are designed to perform in this way - your card is not returned until you have completed whatever function(s) you began.
So a person distracted with music or a cell phone takes their money from the ATM and for some reason runs off, leaving their card.
Around these parts it used to be that way, now it's the opposite: you make your transaction, and the machine spits out your card and prompts you to take it before it spits out the money and/or receipt. YMMV.
MS and / or Yahoo should be looking at Twitter seriously. It's the real deal.
You're on the right track, but why should Microsoft or Yahoo buy Twitter while both of them have their instant messengers? Add a little paragraph to their EULA saying that all user content belongs to them(if they haven't already, and most people will just click through it anyway) and they have the equivalent of a million Twitters' user data and conversations to strip-mine to their heart's content!
Consolidation of both userbases would be the only thing out of a merger which would make sense!
What did I miss?
Obligatory conspiracy theory about how the info of unlimited-bandwidth account holders will be faxed to RIAA lawyers and their private investigators.
I think his response was more of an "open letter" to gadget fetishists rather than a specific reply to his parent.
"Apple vs. Microsoft" are your words, not his. Surface is innovative. These toys are not so innovative and I predict that they will be as well-received and successful as the Zunem, should they make it to mass-production.
I don't think that Slashdot's moderation system is a total folly.
Sure, it sucks to see your well-structured Microsoft complaint modded down (especially overrated - Mac/Microsoft bitchboys, religious fuckwits, and other chickenshits love that one), but it's all made better in the end, after GNAA comments are modded underrated and even insightful. I'll take it for what it is.
Not true. I cut a fiber and looked directly at it and it shined very much. It must have been good copper because I'm now blind in that eye :(
I find it insulting when applications bundle unrelated crapware like browser toolbars, particularly when the installation selects the extra junk by default...
...software upgrades need to be elegant and streamlined. Bundling in a browser toolbar cheapens the whole experience because it starts looking just like so many other crapware applications that plague the PC industry.
BUT shouldn't they be asking vista users to upgrade from it?
No, because nobody in their right mind would buy it unless it came pre-installed on a new computer.
I know nothing of the Swedish language but I'd give my left nut to be able to request that information in America, especially since our governmental attack dogs behave as if they have no responsibility to provide proof of anything to simply go ahead with investigation anyway.
"The amount being paid to the music industry, even though [these] games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small," Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman told analysts last summer.
Guitar Hero drives much more sales than your ad agencies and your lawsuits, assholes. The funny thing is that the recording industry are beginning to attack their own kin, MTV Games!
Right. I'm puzzled at why so many here are knee-jerkedly boo-ing the court's decision. Slashdotters are supposed to be freedom-loving folks who demand that law enforcement and prosecution play by the rules. I bet they'd be cheering the decision if it were Stallman or TBP's asses on the line. Overzealous law enforcement and prosecution is a BIG problem these days, especially since Bush took charge.
It's time we slap their wrists and say "No! Bad lawyer! Bad Cop!" and make 'em sit in the corner for awhile. They don't play by the rules, they face punishment through the very laws they claim to be upholding. Sanction their asses.
I'd rather see a few O.J.s or Ted Stevens go free than thousands of innocents jailed through miscarriages of justice!
No way. This is not about "national security" in the sense of busting terrorists and preventing catastrophic damage. It's about control, plain and simple. There are no credible threats. Is this, busting some loser ice cream man after paying a shady informant a quarter-million bucks (commonplace even while many Americans are jobless and starving), the best that they can do?
Sweeping powers like rampant warrantless wiretapping will always be abused. Why care if you're not up to anything? Surely you won't mind if I follow you around and read over your shoulder, or even follow your wife into the restroom to make sure that she's not doing anything illegal. Huh. You'd think that we would be better than to allow state-sponsored voyeurism. But it's for your own good - the terrorists and pedophiles are out to get you!
more blogging/editorials/crap (like fashion and celeb news).
Like Newsweek? I took these examples from the website but the print editions are worse - more than half the mag is dedicated to ads and pop culture BS. If they don't want the internet to eat their lunch then they should print a magazine worth reading. Sure, Newsweek isn't exactly the New Yorker or Foreign Policy magazine, but it's really went downhill from being the respectable news rag I read as a kid.