On a side note, if you start trying to figure out which party wants us to bend over, and which wants us to open wide, you're thinking WAY too hard about a glib, offhand comment.
First, there's being burned on the purchase of a defective phone.
Second, there's being burned BY the exploding phone.
Third, there's being burned by your health insurance company when they refuse to cover the accident. (Harvard Pilgrim LOVES to do this whenever they can. I was in a car crash and they're refusing to cover my hospital time. Can't say more on that as the lawyers have it at the moment)
Fourth, there's the burn of having to tell people HOW you got injured when a lot of people still think "Exploding Cell Phones" are an urban myth used by scam artists to trump up lawsuits.
Fifth, there's the damage to one's sex life.
Sixth, there's not HAVING a cell phone, at least for a while. This may not be a bad thing, depending on what you thought of the device before.
Man, having a cell phone explode really does burn you in a lot of ways.
The Palm Pilot I currently own is the LAST one I will ever buy. I, and many other customers, were really screwed over when the Wi-Fi card for the T2 and other models was killed not for technology reasons, but marketing ones. Palm decided they would rather keep working Wi-Fi cards and built in Wi-Fi restricted to the higher end models, even though the T2 hardware would support a Wi-Fi card as easily as any other model.
I bough the T2 because Palm's site made it sound like a Wi-Fi card was on the edge of release. The reality turned out to be they were feeding us a line of BS to push products to customers they HAD to know would be unhappy with being screwed over.
If I had gotten accurate information from the Palm web site, if they'd said "No card will be released for the T2" instead of claiming it was being developed, I would have gotten something else.
No, I'm never buying Palm again. I don't really care what they do with hardware, they've demonstrated they don't care about their customers and are happy to lie to them for short term gains.
I really don't like Microsoft or their products, but Palm is no longer on my list of options.
I keep meaning to watch the credits to see if they bothered hiring someone as a science advisor or if the writers just wing it.
You HAVE seen the show, right?
The writers just wing it. They don't even have a former cop skim the scripts to mark any really dumb things they toss in.
Fact checking? What's that?
If the writers even care, the most they think is "It would be cool if this could be done, so someone must have it somewhere, so I'll add it to the script."
If the CSI franchise is doing so well, how come they can't afford a simple science consultant?
It's really very simple.
It costs extra money, and they've demonstrated that they don't have to CARE about accuracy or even realism to make money.
I know the perfect way to kill it off though. Start a grass roots fan base referring to it as "Sci-Fi." Have sessions on it at Sci-Fi conventions, really punch up the fact that it's all made up BS, and refer to it not as a cop show but a sci-fi cop show.
Once the masses start thinking of it as Science Fiction instead of a good old cop show, fans will run away in droves, leaving behind the crystallized few who dress like the characters and build mock up of their hyper advanced technology. The network will cancel it, it'll last another couple seasons on the sci-fi channel, and just as the writing and acting takes an upswing it'll be canceled as "Too Expensive".
We can speed up the process by getting in the rags with rumors of a episode in development to "explain" their hyper advanced "20 minutes in the future" technology with an alien subplot. Even start pointing out "hints" of this conspiracy in existing episodes.
The question of course is simple. How long before Slashdot is ordered to turn over your IP address so the Department of Homeland Security can track you down as a suspected terrorist?
Yes, we overthrew a violent, psychotic, dictator who was killing people by the thousands (Far greater numbers have died at his hands than ours)
One problem is we didn't have the people behind us. The citizens of Iraq, by and large, had no interest in the US "Saving" them and building a democracy. The few who actually wanted change only wanted THEIR leaders in power so THEY could be the ones in charge.
The other problem is that we didn't necessarily have the right to be the ones to go in. We went in without a plan and without a strategy.
Our president is too ignorant of recent history to realize that declaring an open ended "War" with no definition of victory or specifically achievable goals is a recipe for disaster. How do we know when we've "won" this "War on Terror"?
We don't. there's no definition of victory. At best, we've "won" when we've eliminated all violent resistance to anything the US does. Great. Just great. We have to achieve global military control of the planet to win this war.
Where are all the "One World Government is approaching and it's evil" people now that it's a supposed Christian in control? Nowhere. Why? Because they're only against a one world government if THEIR guy isn't in charge.
And yes, I am intentionally drawing a parallel between the Iraqis who want their guy to be the dictator, killing the opposition, and the Americans who want their guy to be the dictator, killing off the opposition.
when you get right down to it, we're not any different.
Apparently my humor is too dry for some readers. I was going for the "Yes, I agree, and it's flamingly obvious."
I don't think anyone considered it a "prediction" in the "Someone might disagree with this" sense. I think everyone saw the initial post as a "Deliberately stating the obvious for humor value" post, and I was trying to carry that joke forward.
How can we make it crystal clear that we don't want more copyright restrictions
Oh, they already know.
It's just that, well, YOU don't have the kind of campaign donations to make that Hollywood has.
And once a politician has enough money, they can win almost any election, especially now that all one REALLY needs to do is pay the Diebold fees before the election.
Starting in January, 2005, the following technologies will be illegal for violations of H.R.2391:
Spam Blocking Software Popup Blocking Software The "Fast Forward" button on all remote controls. Winamp
All computer users are required by law to upgrade to Windows DRM Edition by August of 2005. All computers running an older Windows OS will considered Terrorist Paraphernalia, and those possessing or operating such systems will be declared enemy combatants.
Linux and MAC OS are declared Terrorist Paraphernalia due to their inability to support Federally Mandated DRM technologies.
The Federal Do Not Call List is hereby disbanded, and junkbusters.org has been classified as a terrorist organization for disseminating Advertising Circumvention Technology.
It's all about money. The people selling the DVD are getting money for it, and they get more money from the ads.
They quite honestly couldn't care less about the copyright laws, except as they relate to making money.
A commercial that HAS to be played can be sold for more than one that can be skipped, and preventing the skipping of commercials helps support the business model of supporting media with ads.
It doesn't have to make sense. This isn't about ensuring the rights of the artist are protected, but ensuring the profits of the corporation.
In the example you gave, the people airing Law and Order don't CARE if you missed something. They couldn't care less. ALL they care about is you watching the commercials. They only produce the show to get you to watch the commercials.
For the media corporations, the actual media is just a way to get your money. If they could push through a law requiring you to pay for and watch a minimum number of movies a year, they would.
You forget, mere consumer, that your right to be offended stops at advertising. It is a violation of the tenants of the Church of Consumerism to be offended by any advertisement. You are only permitted to obey the urge to buy, you miserable little cog.
No go out there and max out your credit cards buying DVDs and CDs!
Now we have to brainwash you before you realize we intend to implant TV and cable receivers in the human brain at birth, and anyone not having an implant will be jailed as an enemy combatant.
Why can't you be a good little consumer drone like all the others and buy your Pop-Tarts and Microsoft Software like we want?
Slashdot Mirror
Cell Phone Explosion Cause:
User=ID10T
On a side note, if you start trying to figure out which party wants us to bend over, and which wants us to open wide, you're thinking WAY too hard about a glib, offhand comment.
I'm thinking of the damage major injuries and reconstructive surgery will do to your sex life.
Having a mass of scar tissue can't be fun.
And something tells me the physical pain from burn and shrapnel damage won't exactly put you in the mood.
And to be blunt, not all scars are sexy.
Point. If your hip has the scard from third degree burns, seeing your kids raise on to their ear won't be fun.
And is he going to work toward finding a middle ground between fair use and IP protection?
"Middle Ground" is a firing offense in the Bush administration.
We'll see swat teams take out MP3 swappers Branch Dividian style in a couple months, just wait and see.
I am sure it is painful for the people
At several levels.
First, there's being burned on the purchase of a defective phone.
Second, there's being burned BY the exploding phone.
Third, there's being burned by your health insurance company when they refuse to cover the accident. (Harvard Pilgrim LOVES to do this whenever they can. I was in a car crash and they're refusing to cover my hospital time. Can't say more on that as the lawyers have it at the moment)
Fourth, there's the burn of having to tell people HOW you got injured when a lot of people still think "Exploding Cell Phones" are an urban myth used by scam artists to trump up lawsuits.
Fifth, there's the damage to one's sex life.
Sixth, there's not HAVING a cell phone, at least for a while. This may not be a bad thing, depending on what you thought of the device before.
Man, having a cell phone explode really does burn you in a lot of ways.
The Palm Pilot I currently own is the LAST one I will ever buy. I, and many other customers, were really screwed over when the Wi-Fi card for the T2 and other models was killed not for technology reasons, but marketing ones. Palm decided they would rather keep working Wi-Fi cards and built in Wi-Fi restricted to the higher end models, even though the T2 hardware would support a Wi-Fi card as easily as any other model.
I bough the T2 because Palm's site made it sound like a Wi-Fi card was on the edge of release. The reality turned out to be they were feeding us a line of BS to push products to customers they HAD to know would be unhappy with being screwed over.
If I had gotten accurate information from the Palm web site, if they'd said "No card will be released for the T2" instead of claiming it was being developed, I would have gotten something else.
No, I'm never buying Palm again. I don't really care what they do with hardware, they've demonstrated they don't care about their customers and are happy to lie to them for short term gains.
I really don't like Microsoft or their products, but Palm is no longer on my list of options.
I keep meaning to watch the credits to see if they bothered hiring someone as a science advisor or if the writers just wing it.
You HAVE seen the show, right?
The writers just wing it. They don't even have a former cop skim the scripts to mark any really dumb things they toss in.
Fact checking? What's that?
If the writers even care, the most they think is "It would be cool if this could be done, so someone must have it somewhere, so I'll add it to the script."
If the CSI franchise is doing so well, how come they can't afford a simple science consultant?
It's really very simple.
It costs extra money, and they've demonstrated that they don't have to CARE about accuracy or even realism to make money.
I know the perfect way to kill it off though. Start a grass roots fan base referring to it as "Sci-Fi." Have sessions on it at Sci-Fi conventions, really punch up the fact that it's all made up BS, and refer to it not as a cop show but a sci-fi cop show.
Once the masses start thinking of it as Science Fiction instead of a good old cop show, fans will run away in droves, leaving behind the crystallized few who dress like the characters and build mock up of their hyper advanced technology. The network will cancel it, it'll last another couple seasons on the sci-fi channel, and just as the writing and acting takes an upswing it'll be canceled as "Too Expensive".
We can speed up the process by getting in the rags with rumors of a episode in development to "explain" their hyper advanced "20 minutes in the future" technology with an alien subplot. Even start pointing out "hints" of this conspiracy in existing episodes.
I can see why you posted as an AC.
The question of course is simple. How long before Slashdot is ordered to turn over your IP address so the Department of Homeland Security can track you down as a suspected terrorist?
The US isn't in the right.
Yes, we overthrew a violent, psychotic, dictator who was killing people by the thousands (Far greater numbers have died at his hands than ours)
One problem is we didn't have the people behind us. The citizens of Iraq, by and large, had no interest in the US "Saving" them and building a democracy. The few who actually wanted change only wanted THEIR leaders in power so THEY could be the ones in charge.
The other problem is that we didn't necessarily have the right to be the ones to go in. We went in without a plan and without a strategy.
Our president is too ignorant of recent history to realize that declaring an open ended "War" with no definition of victory or specifically achievable goals is a recipe for disaster. How do we know when we've "won" this "War on Terror"?
We don't. there's no definition of victory. At best, we've "won" when we've eliminated all violent resistance to anything the US does. Great. Just great. We have to achieve global military control of the planet to win this war.
Where are all the "One World Government is approaching and it's evil" people now that it's a supposed Christian in control? Nowhere. Why? Because they're only against a one world government if THEIR guy isn't in charge.
And yes, I am intentionally drawing a parallel between the Iraqis who want their guy to be the dictator, killing the opposition, and the Americans who want their guy to be the dictator, killing off the opposition.
when you get right down to it, we're not any different.
Drew reviews them first????????
DAMN. And here I though all he did was just dump it all in and use a dart to decide what's on Fark, and what's on TotalFark.
As I said in posts earlier today, /. is all about the money.
Why somoene though I was part of it I don't know, as the only BLOG I ever link to in my sig is my own.
I don't normally reply to trolls, but that dind't even make SENSE.
More importantly I don't want my children to watch them!
At LAST! Someone is thinking of the children!
Apparently my humor is too dry for some readers. I was going for the "Yes, I agree, and it's flamingly obvious."
I don't think anyone considered it a "prediction" in the "Someone might disagree with this" sense. I think everyone saw the initial post as a "Deliberately stating the obvious for humor value" post, and I was trying to carry that joke forward.
Toy Story 3 will be vastly inferior to the first two Toy Story movies.
Yeah.
That's going out on a limb there butch.
I don't know how you can be gutsy enough to make such bold predictions.
What next? You gonna predict the sun will rise in the morning????
All politicians are the same. They're all out to screw the public. The only real difference is if they want you to bend over or open wide.
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
He thinks Linux and Creative Commons books will still be legal in three years!
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
How can we make it crystal clear that we don't want more copyright restrictions
Oh, they already know.
It's just that, well, YOU don't have the kind of campaign donations to make that Hollywood has.
And once a politician has enough money, they can win almost any election, especially now that all one REALLY needs to do is pay the Diebold fees before the election.
Starting in January, 2005, the following technologies will be illegal for violations of H.R.2391:
Spam Blocking Software
Popup Blocking Software
The "Fast Forward" button on all remote controls.
Winamp
All computer users are required by law to upgrade to Windows DRM Edition by August of 2005. All computers running an older Windows OS will considered Terrorist Paraphernalia, and those possessing or operating such systems will be declared enemy combatants.
Linux and MAC OS are declared Terrorist Paraphernalia due to their inability to support Federally Mandated DRM technologies.
The Federal Do Not Call List is hereby disbanded, and junkbusters.org has been classified as a terrorist organization for disseminating Advertising Circumvention Technology.
Ahh, but it's cheaper to push through some laws to require people watch the commercials than to actually produce anything of quality.
Remember, quality is not a factor, only money.
It's all about money. The people selling the DVD are getting money for it, and they get more money from the ads.
They quite honestly couldn't care less about the copyright laws, except as they relate to making money.
A commercial that HAS to be played can be sold for more than one that can be skipped, and preventing the skipping of commercials helps support the business model of supporting media with ads.
It doesn't have to make sense. This isn't about ensuring the rights of the artist are protected, but ensuring the profits of the corporation.
In the example you gave, the people airing Law and Order don't CARE if you missed something. They couldn't care less. ALL they care about is you watching the commercials. They only produce the show to get you to watch the commercials.
For the media corporations, the actual media is just a way to get your money. If they could push through a law requiring you to pay for and watch a minimum number of movies a year, they would.
/me points finger
"LOOK an Enemy Combatant!"
You forget, mere consumer, that your right to be offended stops at advertising. It is a violation of the tenants of the Church of Consumerism to be offended by any advertisement. You are only permitted to obey the urge to buy, you miserable little cog.
No go out there and max out your credit cards buying DVDs and CDs!
Damn it! You found us out.
Now we have to brainwash you before you realize we intend to implant TV and cable receivers in the human brain at birth, and anyone not having an implant will be jailed as an enemy combatant.
Why can't you be a good little consumer drone like all the others and buy your Pop-Tarts and Microsoft Software like we want?