In passing, do you enjoy playing sports? As a child, did you ever play any organized sport with other children?
I'll golf and play ball with workmates or swim in my pool. Played baseball when I was younger. I'm not down on sports per se, I'm down on the mockery of the game (any game) that advertizing has turned it all into. It can't be good for society; we're fatter and in worse shape than ever.
Nope, there's much more info on the net which I can access whenever I want (through a privoxy/squid combo to rip out ads). TV is a one-way medium requiring no thought which is why it's perfect for sports.
Sports bring in viewers. Star athletes sell stuff people. Advertising corrupts anything it touches.
Which is why I say it fuels consumerism, same thing in as many words.;) (I cancelled my cable as there is so little useful information on TV these days)
thanks for slashdotting the site already, you ugly hairy subscribers
Most underpaid job? 1) Slashdot editor When a site see a small flurry of referals from/. the admins know they've got ~30 minutes to increase their bandwidth with their providers. It's like an early warning system which so few heed...;)
I have to think about 9) Pilots for major airlines. If the plane
hits inclement weather or other serious issues arise do you really
care if the people behind the cockpit doors are making ~250K a
year?
Oh and 2) Washed-up pro athletes in long-term contracts?
Crap. All major sports athletes are overpaid primadonnas. Paying them
millions because they can throw a ball only fuels consumerism. "Did you
watch the game on Sunday? Wow!" mindless sheep..
Microsoft apologism. There were viruses on the Mac "back in the day", UNIX worms and Linux worms but MS doesn't have enough fingers to stick in the dike. Consumer product recalls don't come about because many people use them, they come about because of flaws in the product. Software companies are immume to these types of recalls and we all pay.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security.
If they find fundamental flaws in the systems will they keep them secret to shore up US networks while leaving foreign networks susceptable? It could be a great tool for "cyberwarfare" against EvilDoers...
True enough. What I mean was that the hardware will start at the business level providing VoIP services in inter-branch communications. As these spread throughout business then the hardware will be able to talk to other business. Eventually there will (or should, I hope) be a trickle-down effect where home users can take advantage of this rather than using a POTSVoIP system.
IMHO what will drive most of the VoIP carriers out of business is not the low prices but the service moving into the business, bypassing the middleman. Cisco et al ad nauseum offer VoIP hardware. It's all a matter of time.
Too bad I wasn't with you, nugget.. I'd be sending the goatse.cx link to unsuspecting people. Listen for the disgusted reaction and order another Guinness as a reward for my victory.
Does the world really need another source (legal or not) to download the Top 40 lame bands of the week? The only thing interesting about this is that it's MTV and unfortunately they've come to the party too late.
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In passing, do you enjoy playing sports? As a child, did you ever play any organized sport with other children?
I'll golf and play ball with workmates or swim in my pool. Played baseball when I was younger. I'm not down on sports per se, I'm down on the mockery of the game (any game) that advertizing has turned it all into. It can't be good for society; we're fatter and in worse shape than ever.
Nope, there's much more info on the net which I can access whenever I want (through a privoxy/squid combo to rip out ads). TV is a one-way medium requiring no thought which is why it's perfect for sports.
Sports bring in viewers. Star athletes sell stuff people. Advertising corrupts anything it touches.
Which is why I say it fuels consumerism, same thing in as many words.
thanks for slashdotting the site already, you ugly hairy subscribers
Most underpaid job? 1) Slashdot editor When a site see a small flurry of referals from
I have to think about 9) Pilots for major airlines. If the plane hits inclement weather or other serious issues arise do you really care if the people behind the cockpit doors are making ~250K a year?
Oh and 2) Washed-up pro athletes in long-term contracts? Crap. All major sports athletes are overpaid primadonnas. Paying them millions because they can throw a ball only fuels consumerism. "Did you watch the game on Sunday? Wow!" mindless sheep..
People write for MS because it's what people use.
Microsoft apologism.
There were viruses on the Mac "back in the day", UNIX worms and Linux worms but MS doesn't have enough fingers to stick in the dike. Consumer product recalls don't come about because many people use them, they come about because of flaws in the product. Software companies are immume to these types of recalls and we all pay.
We'd like to thank the Academy, the little people and most of all Microsoft for making all this possible. Here's to another 20 good years.
[applause]
but.. but.. Matrix Revolutions opened up a few days ago..
Meet Sparkle's new mascot.
ObSimpsonsRef
I'm pretty sure it was a Diebold machine that I voted on..
Did it let you vote more than once? Change other peoples' votes? If so then it was indeed a Diebold..
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security.
If they find fundamental flaws in the systems will they keep them secret to shore up US networks while leaving foreign networks susceptable? It could be a great tool for "cyberwarfare" against EvilDoers...
You still need connectivity with landlines
True enough. What I mean was that the hardware will start at the business level providing VoIP services in inter-branch communications. As these spread throughout business then the hardware will be able to talk to other business. Eventually there will (or should, I hope) be a trickle-down effect where home users can take advantage of this rather than using a POTSVoIP system.
I should have clarified that.
IMHO what will drive most of the VoIP carriers out of business is not the low prices but the service moving into the business, bypassing the middleman. Cisco et al ad nauseum offer VoIP hardware. It's all a matter of time.
Let Windows run wild for a couple of weeks and the all life on the planet will be virus free.
..slashdot page that you're like 30 years old.
Almost 38. You're such an angry little man. Really, you should seek professional help for your anger management problem.
Hey, if a man can't take pride in his father's work...
Make me a Foe and quit your bitching.
Too bad I wasn't with you, nugget.. I'd be sending the goatse.cx link to unsuspecting people. Listen for the disgusted reaction and order another Guinness as a reward for my victory.
Boe indeed..
Does the world really need another source (legal or not) to download the Top 40 lame bands of the week? The only thing interesting about this is that it's MTV and unfortunately they've come to the party too late.
That must be wrong; you're suggesting there are 3,222,000,000 (3.222 billion) pr0n sites on the net.
I swear to all that is good: goatse.cx has a Halloween Theme today: check it out
GAWS: The Goatse.cx Advanced Warning System
A heuristic neural network which would flash large warnings on a computer screen when an obfuscated link would lead the user to goatse.cx.
When we are rounded up and shipped to death camps in box cars we they will make us wear pink triangles, yellow stars or "glider" patches.
Maybe the owners of store.com should sue Amazon for using their trademark in their patent application.
Wait for the next MS worm that can use this software to spread faster than ever. Woo!
The Jets? Winnipeg lost their hockey team in the mid 90s!