Apparently it is a big deal to you. You spent the time to sit down in front of your computer, click the nice pretty links, and type that empty comment of yours.
We have two options here:
1. You're karma whoring. Great, just what I love, moderator fishing. Perhaps you'll catch the big one, and get a five.
2. did i say there were two options? umm, well, nevermind then.
Well, i hope everyone's happy looking at the thirty "what's the point of this?" comments...Perhaps some posters here can grow up and learn to move on. If you spent as much time saying "this is pointless" as you did finding something that isn't pointless, I wouldn't have to see your typing on my computer screen.
Angry? no, not really. I just like watching the slashdot evolution. Survival of the fittest, even if the fittest are only suckering the moderators. you slowly learn there's a certain window to go in here, or else you're gonna be moderated down. The moderated down stay down, while the up go up. You either become a karma whore, or you never get heard. Period.
A little long, and a little bit of rambling, but i think i said something here.
screw karma, screw all the crap, perhaps a tip for some people would be helpful. Tired of the grits/natalie portman/stupid flaming 12-yearolds who make you sick crap? don't even want it to begin to exist on your slashdot thing? well, perhaps i can be of assistance. go into your preferences, and set the thing marked "-1 penalty if under x characters" (paraphrasing) ungodly high, and start surfing one point lower. It'll make all -1s go invisible, and presto, you've got an asshole free slashdot experience.
and if you don't care for me posting this, screw you....I'm not here to make friends, i'm here to garner knowledge that (seemingly) trustworthy people may have, and, strip the noise from the signal.
Mail me if you have any tips to deal with this situation.
>>Did anyone else notice the warning? "This product is not intended to be used by children age 15 or younger." Does anyone have information on this? Maybe it does more damage to the eye than a normal TV screen?
The only two things i can come up with offhandedly is that the weight of the device (yes, i know it is very little) could cause future neck problems, or that possibly developmentally since they'd be smaller, the fitting on the head thing would cause some sort of problem.
yes, i know it's vague, but it gives you at least a starting point for thinking.
and, umm, I'm not a developmental psychologist, so if you use any of my advice for anything important, like actual parenting or anything (slashdot people, with kids? the thought....theres the heebie jeebies [and for the easily offended, that was a J-O-K-E]) you should be shot, right after you pay me my 15,000$ consulting fee.
Hows about, I get this, those little nanotech keyboard (past article, no link available [too lazy]) and duct tape a tower to my back? get a nice wireless lan....I'd be in heaven....I'd go nowhere without my computer...I'm drooling....ahhh..mmmm...oops, I'm still typing. OK, well, umm..bye bye.
oh yeah, I'd need some sort of power source....remember the article about the trackers that were powered by the muscles? well, I'd redesign those.
It looks like there's a site still up, and it has a whole bunch of links to sites, which all have something that doesn't really look good for the domainname system/icann/etc.
If this is your plan, you better get a sock and a shotgun, because your money's gonna be in your dresser.
Security through obscurity is the only thing that people understand. Maybe they're wrong, but maybe they're right. It falls once again into an issue of information. WE ARE HIPPOCRITS. We want all information to be free, but mandate privacy. See a discrepancy there?
This isn't flamebait, but it should get an "Inciteful." You say that there is a difference, no, there isn't. If those companies that are being requested by you to give all of their information to you asked you for yours, what would you say?
you want a link? luckily, they posted a story about this on technocrat.net. There's even a nice big pdf file for ya, too. huge amount of ECONOMIC information to the point that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. http://technocrat.net/946613588/DivDec.pdf
This may sound redundant, but we have karma whoring again. If i remember correctly on your own thread, Signal, weren't you and Root having a nice little discussion about how the each of you are Whoring the hell outta the Karma? I would probably go for some of the people who actually go against a lot of the popular stream of things around here to nominate for the award, people that are actually thinking, rather than sounding like polititians. These people put their karma on the line (who really gives a damn about karma anyway though? is this a popularity contest?) to say something that's intelligent, meaningful, and shows another side of the story that isn't being presented on slashdot.
Does that count as a rant? I don't really think so.
This is what I've gotten outta the translator for what it does(please note that there are irregularities in the translation.):
Sources propose a system of communication absolutely innovative, easy to use and still more suit today.
Touchphone is an intelligent telephone, an agenda electronic, one telephone secretariat, a manager of mail electronic, the ideal vehicle in order to surf immediately in Internet. Touchphone is the synthesis of the highest technology electronic expressed in a studied product in order to facilitate one simple, personal, fast communication and without you limit.
Touchphone arranges of a intuitivo software of management and immediate that will guide you to the best one I use of the apparatus. Moreover, it is equipped of one screen touchscreen of large format and visibility, that it concurs to select, to activate and to manage all its functions, simply grazing the commandos who appear to video.
Windows Ce, new and the revolutionary arrange operating of Microsoft, still exalt more the performances than Touchphone, the point of arrival for the " network " of the communication and the information. Browser the Internet of Windows Ce will transport to you in the network with extreme praticità and it will allow you to know Whappy, new portale Intenet, in order to approach more the services and the news modernized on:
Economy
Sport
Technology
Events
Music
Travels
Culture
Equipped of a personalizzabile system, Touchphone autoaggiorna and adapted to the most varied requirements, as an example making to find you to mattino a complete picture of the news that to more interest you, of e.mail and the calendar of the main events of your city.
Characterized from an essential and elegant design, Touchphone very adapted to every type of atmosphere.
I wasn't talking from major sources....I was talking mainly about my friends whose opinions I trust. If one of my friends didn't like Linux, they probably wouldn't be my friend. And, reading about rumored release of linux software is completely different than a movie coming out to a new format. Do I really need to explain why? If so, I guess umm....just don't talk to me then. I always like a closing before my sig, so just insert whatever nice little diddy of a phrase that you'd want here.
What's even more ridiculous is the fact about how slashdot went about doing this...We have a case of the "Lets rant about how america sux" type deal. Last time i checked, we're in a world of capitalism, and most people want money. People act like if they were in the same position, they would act differently, and most wouldn't. slashdot is slowly becoming a mode to promote arrogance about the issue, rather than to enlighten people. This worries me.
OK. The DVD of Star Wars: Episode One is coming out...woohoo. (sarcasm.) I'm not really sure, but I may be the one person in america who DIDN'T see the blasted movie. Everyone who I talked to about it said the thing sucked, so I decided not to waste my time. Is this really something slashdot needs to be posting? "A rumored DVD release of something that got bad reviews will be out around 4 months from now." I mean, I could at least tolerate if it were the official announcement, but this is just rumors.
How am I supposed to sacrifice my goats to the god reatsintpeont now that the celestial brightening will not commmence tomorrow...oh well..they're taking care of the garbage in my yard pretty well....i guess I'll leave them there. Until next time....then the celestial provocation shall commence! All shall fall to my feet!
I'm serious. No, really, I am.....*snicker* DAMN! oh well. I guess you know the truth now.
I sorta agree with what you're saying, except for different reasons. If they didn't encrypt it, then (according to economic theory) wouldn't the equipment to rip it have a severe price increase, making it pointless to rip because it would be cheaper to buy from the producer?
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Apparently it is a big deal to you. You spent the time to sit down in front of your computer, click the nice pretty links, and type that empty comment of yours.
We have two options here:
1. You're karma whoring. Great, just what I love, moderator fishing. Perhaps you'll catch the big one, and get a five.
2. did i say there were two options? umm, well, nevermind then.
Well, i hope everyone's happy looking at the thirty "what's the point of this?" comments...Perhaps some posters here can grow up and learn to move on. If you spent as much time saying "this is pointless" as you did finding something that isn't pointless, I wouldn't have to see your typing on my computer screen.
Angry? no, not really. I just like watching the slashdot evolution. Survival of the fittest, even if the fittest are only suckering the moderators. you slowly learn there's a certain window to go in here, or else you're gonna be moderated down. The moderated down stay down, while the up go up. You either become a karma whore, or you never get heard. Period.
A little long, and a little bit of rambling, but i think i said something here.
screw karma, screw all the crap, perhaps a tip for some people would be helpful. Tired of the grits/natalie portman/stupid flaming 12-yearolds who make you sick crap? don't even want it to begin to exist on your slashdot thing? well, perhaps i can be of assistance. go into your preferences, and set the thing marked "-1 penalty if under x characters" (paraphrasing) ungodly high, and start surfing one point lower. It'll make all -1s go invisible, and presto, you've got an asshole free slashdot experience.
and if you don't care for me posting this, screw you....I'm not here to make friends, i'm here to garner knowledge that (seemingly) trustworthy people may have, and, strip the noise from the signal.
Mail me if you have any tips to deal with this situation.
Thanks....I was kinda off, eh? Oh well.
>>Did anyone else notice the warning? "This product is not intended to be used by children age 15 or younger." Does anyone have information on this? Maybe it does more damage to the eye than a normal TV screen?
The only two things i can come up with offhandedly is that the weight of the device (yes, i know it is very little) could cause future neck problems, or that possibly developmentally since they'd be smaller, the fitting on the head thing would cause some sort of problem.
yes, i know it's vague, but it gives you at least a starting point for thinking.
and, umm, I'm not a developmental psychologist, so if you use any of my advice for anything important, like actual parenting or anything (slashdot people, with kids? the thought....theres the heebie jeebies [and for the easily offended, that was a J-O-K-E]) you should be shot, right after you pay me my 15,000$ consulting fee.
Hows about, I get this, those little nanotech keyboard (past article, no link available [too lazy]) and duct tape a tower to my back? get a nice wireless lan....I'd be in heaven....I'd go nowhere without my computer...I'm drooling....ahhh..mmmm...oops, I'm still typing. OK, well, umm..bye bye.
oh yeah, I'd need some sort of power source....remember the article about the trackers that were powered by the muscles? well, I'd redesign those.
It looks like there's a site still up, and it has a whole bunch of links to sites, which all have something that doesn't really look good for the domainname system/icann/etc.
Just thought some people would like to know.
If this is your plan, you better get a sock and a shotgun, because your money's gonna be in your dresser.
Security through obscurity is the only thing that people understand. Maybe they're wrong, but maybe they're right. It falls once again into an issue of information. WE ARE HIPPOCRITS. We want all information to be free, but mandate privacy. See a discrepancy there?
This isn't flamebait, but it should get an "Inciteful." You say that there is a difference, no, there isn't. If those companies that are being requested by you to give all of their information to you asked you for yours, what would you say?
you want a link? luckily, they posted a story about this on technocrat.net. There's even a nice big pdf file for ya, too. huge amount of ECONOMIC information to the point that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. http://technocrat.net/946613588/DivDec.pdf
there ya go, have fun explainin that one.
This may sound redundant, but we have karma whoring again. If i remember correctly on your own thread, Signal, weren't you and Root having a nice little discussion about how the each of you are Whoring the hell outta the Karma?
I would probably go for some of the people who actually go against a lot of the popular stream of things around here to nominate for the award, people that are actually thinking, rather than sounding like polititians. These people put their karma on the line (who really gives a damn about karma anyway though? is this a popularity contest?) to say something that's intelligent, meaningful, and shows another side of the story that isn't being presented on slashdot.
Does that count as a rant? I don't really think so.
This is what I've gotten outta the translator for what it does(please note that there are irregularities in the translation.):
Sources propose a system of communication absolutely innovative, easy to use and still more suit today.
Touchphone is an intelligent telephone, an agenda electronic, one telephone secretariat, a manager of mail electronic, the ideal vehicle in order to surf immediately in Internet. Touchphone is the synthesis of the highest technology electronic expressed in a studied product in order to facilitate one simple, personal, fast communication and without you limit.
Touchphone arranges of a intuitivo software of management and immediate that will guide you to the best one I use of the apparatus. Moreover, it is equipped of one screen touchscreen of large format and visibility, that it concurs to select, to activate and to manage all its functions, simply grazing the commandos who appear to video.
Windows Ce, new and the revolutionary arrange operating of Microsoft, still exalt more the performances than Touchphone, the point of arrival for the " network " of the communication and the information. Browser the Internet of Windows Ce will transport to you in the network with extreme praticità and it will allow you to know Whappy, new portale Intenet, in order to approach more the services and the news modernized on:
Economy
Sport
Technology
Events
Music
Travels
Culture
Equipped of a personalizzabile system, Touchphone autoaggiorna and adapted to the most varied requirements, as an example making to find you to mattino a complete picture of the news that to more interest you, of e.mail and the calendar of the main events of your city.
Characterized from an essential and elegant design, Touchphone very adapted to every type of atmosphere.
I wasn't talking from major sources....I was talking mainly about my friends whose opinions I trust. If one of my friends didn't like Linux, they probably wouldn't be my friend. And, reading about rumored release of linux software is completely different than a movie coming out to a new format. Do I really need to explain why? If so, I guess umm....just don't talk to me then.
I always like a closing before my sig, so just insert whatever nice little diddy of a phrase that you'd want here.
What's even more ridiculous is the fact about how slashdot went about doing this...We have a case of the "Lets rant about how america sux" type deal. Last time i checked, we're in a world of capitalism, and most people want money. People act like if they were in the same position, they would act differently, and most wouldn't.
slashdot is slowly becoming a mode to promote arrogance about the issue, rather than to enlighten people. This worries me.
OK. The DVD of Star Wars: Episode One is coming out...woohoo. (sarcasm.) I'm not really sure, but I may be the one person in america who DIDN'T see the blasted movie. Everyone who I talked to about it said the thing sucked, so I decided not to waste my time. Is this really something slashdot needs to be posting? "A rumored DVD release of something that got bad reviews will be out around 4 months from now." I mean, I could at least tolerate if it were the official announcement, but this is just rumors.
Here comes the flames, and there goes my karma.
How am I supposed to sacrifice my goats to the god reatsintpeont now that the celestial brightening will not commmence tomorrow...oh well..they're taking care of the garbage in my yard pretty well....i guess I'll leave them there.
Until next time....then the celestial provocation shall commence! All shall fall to my feet!
I'm serious. No, really, I am.....*snicker* DAMN! oh well. I guess you know the truth now.
I sorta agree with what you're saying, except for different reasons. If they didn't encrypt it, then (according to economic theory) wouldn't the equipment to rip it have a severe price increase, making it pointless to rip because it would be cheaper to buy from the producer?
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