Er no, quite the opposite. To state that is to be the cause of the problem. Notice that you can't even make your point without falling into your own trap. Your argument against a categorical morality is that believing in one is categorically wrong.:)
Because that one isn't very interesting, or fun. "Best" is good for an interesting argument, discussion, flamefest on slashdot, whatever. "Most popular according to polls" is just a bunch of numbers. The best argument you can scare up is to insult the polling techniques.:)
Wouldn't it be nice if Slashdot editors actually lived up to the name? If a summary is mostly good but contains one glaringly stupid bit, edit it. Or, if that's just too much work, reject it and wait for a better one to come around. There are way too many dupe submissions to justify accepting the first one that looks like it might have been written by an english-speaker.
Should impersonating a police officer, identity theft, false advertising and passing fake checks all have the same punishment? These are all, at the base, fraud. Could they even reasonably fit under one singular law?
Yes, of course they can, and that law should consist mostly of making restitution in accordance with the damage done, as determined by a judge. Fake checks have a dollar amount; impersonating a police officer or assuming someone else's identity is used to enable other forms of fraud, theft, or violence. Claiming you can bench 200lb does no harm... probably. But if that representation actually hurts someone's business or safety, then of course it's fraud!
Proliferation of laws for special cases does nothing besides encourage belief that if you damage someone in a way that's not on the books, then you shouldn't be held responsible. The more laws, the more injustice, the more loopholes, the more potential for abuse. And let's not forget, "when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them."
Actually to me, when you're talking about tech as it relates to users, rather than tech as it relates to tech, asynchronous means "doesn't have to be at the same time". IM is async, phone is sync. If I call you on the phone, you have to answer the phone and talk to me at that moment (or ignore it). If I send you an instant message / IRC message / SMS and you're not there, you still have it as soon as you get back. You can disappear for a few minutes without impairing the conversation nearly as much as you would on the phone. Voicemail, of course, can then be viewed as an asynchronous bolt-on for telephone conversations.:)
Er... with the current system there's pretty good odds that the only representative that's technically "yours" is a guy you didn't vote for and who doesn't agree with you. With multiple-member districts and proportional representation, there's a much better chance that at least one of the members from your district (whether that's a state or something a bit smaller) will be available to support you.
Take the example from the parent. Suppose you are one of the 13% of registered Republicans in MA. Who do you write to? The Democrat from your district, the Democrat junior senator, or the Democrat senior senator? But if MA was a single district with 10 seats, you'd end up with one guy who could argue your position on the floor, anyway. And representing the range of issues that people care about seems more important than representing purely geographical areas anyway. Especially when those geographical areas can be redrawn at will by those in power to represent purely political interests.
I live in an apartment. There are two dishes on top of my building. One points at DirecTV's birds, the other at Dish's. I could get one of them pulled down to the jacks in my apartment, and I would just have to provide the box and the plan. But it would sort of interfere with the whole "cable internet" thing:)
Well, firefox could certainly stand to die. They did great for a while, but the last time they put out a good release was in the 1.0 series. Sure, 1.5 looks good now, but that's only in comparison to 2.0. Opera, Konqueror, and Safari are all faster and more user-friendly than Firefox. They also feature better standards compliance and are less likely to be found using 3GB of RAM for no reason.
Black Sabbath definitely wasn't Black Sabbath without Ozzy, but they rocked nonetheless, because Dio is a Metal God(tm) and Ian Gillan is okay too. Solo Ozzy also rocked, but only with Rhoads. So yes, it's all about the people.:)
Yeah, it seems pretty cool. If only there were an open box that would let me get at crypted QAM... but of course I can't have that because who knows what I would do with Comcast's precious bits!
What's complicated about HD tuner cards? My pcHDTV card took less setup to get working right than my analog tuners did. And the kernel-driver is in-tree, which ivtv isn't. And it doesn't require separate firmware, which ivtv does.:)
Doesn't apply to 2100, 2200, or 2915, which means there's what, three people who would actually benefit from this? The rest still have to deal with firmware licenses.:)
Got a little something to hide? The point wasn't to provide deniability for your kiddie porn. The idea is more like, you rooted my machine, stole my data or did something evil with it, and now you want to cover your tracks. So you toast the logs as well as you can, you jumble up mtimes and permissions on files so that someone going back and doing forensics has a harder time establishing a pattern. The first step towards finding out who did something is figuring out when it was done, to find out who had access at that time, where to look in (non-compromised) logs, etc. So if you obscure that information you make it a little harder to trace things back to you. It's about hiding an identity, not data.
Was gonna say it, but it was already said. Failing a complete collapse of wikipedia or a complete abandonment of their goals (or OFFICE gone rampant), you can always find (and link to) a specific revision.:)
Was your USB printer plugged-in and powered-up when you started your system? No? Oh well. No printing for you, then. Reboot to print, or work out your own hack for CUPS, or manually get in there fix it every time you run into this stupid problem.
Maybe I'm a bit simple but I don't see where CUPS even has "usability" to complain about. You install it (if, oddly, it isn't already), you tell it what and where your printer are (preferably using the KDE print config thing because it's amazingly simple, but the CUPS web jigger isn't bad either), and then from then on you print, and you forget that CUPS exists. Where's the hangup?
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Not only did you insert an uninformed, assholish remark for no good reason, but you misspelled "Perl" in the process.
Er no, quite the opposite. To state that is to be the cause of the problem. Notice that you can't even make your point without falling into your own trap. Your argument against a categorical morality is that believing in one is categorically wrong. :)
Because that one isn't very interesting, or fun. "Best" is good for an interesting argument, discussion, flamefest on slashdot, whatever. "Most popular according to polls" is just a bunch of numbers. The best argument you can scare up is to insult the polling techniques. :)
Wouldn't it be nice if Slashdot editors actually lived up to the name? If a summary is mostly good but contains one glaringly stupid bit, edit it. Or, if that's just too much work, reject it and wait for a better one to come around. There are way too many dupe submissions to justify accepting the first one that looks like it might have been written by an english-speaker.
The word is 16 bits. The word is 64 bits. Except when it's 32 or 16 due to some sort of compatibility mode. The word is not the word.
Yes, of course they can, and that law should consist mostly of making restitution in accordance with the damage done, as determined by a judge. Fake checks have a dollar amount; impersonating a police officer or assuming someone else's identity is used to enable other forms of fraud, theft, or violence. Claiming you can bench 200lb does no harm... probably. But if that representation actually hurts someone's business or safety, then of course it's fraud!
Proliferation of laws for special cases does nothing besides encourage belief that if you damage someone in a way that's not on the books, then you shouldn't be held responsible. The more laws, the more injustice, the more loopholes, the more potential for abuse. And let's not forget, "when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them."
You're grossly ignorant when it comes to the state of zero-G potty activities. There is no "seat" :)
I first parsed the title as "DoD Database" and wondered why it only fetched $1m. And then I saw that it was this boring drivel.
Actually to me, when you're talking about tech as it relates to users, rather than tech as it relates to tech, asynchronous means "doesn't have to be at the same time". IM is async, phone is sync. If I call you on the phone, you have to answer the phone and talk to me at that moment (or ignore it). If I send you an instant message / IRC message / SMS and you're not there, you still have it as soon as you get back. You can disappear for a few minutes without impairing the conversation nearly as much as you would on the phone. Voicemail, of course, can then be viewed as an asynchronous bolt-on for telephone conversations. :)
Er... with the current system there's pretty good odds that the only representative that's technically "yours" is a guy you didn't vote for and who doesn't agree with you. With multiple-member districts and proportional representation, there's a much better chance that at least one of the members from your district (whether that's a state or something a bit smaller) will be available to support you.
Take the example from the parent. Suppose you are one of the 13% of registered Republicans in MA. Who do you write to? The Democrat from your district, the Democrat junior senator, or the Democrat senior senator? But if MA was a single district with 10 seats, you'd end up with one guy who could argue your position on the floor, anyway. And representing the range of issues that people care about seems more important than representing purely geographical areas anyway. Especially when those geographical areas can be redrawn at will by those in power to represent purely political interests.
I live in an apartment. There are two dishes on top of my building. One points at DirecTV's birds, the other at Dish's. I could get one of them pulled down to the jacks in my apartment, and I would just have to provide the box and the plan. But it would sort of interfere with the whole "cable internet" thing :)
Well, firefox could certainly stand to die. They did great for a while, but the last time they put out a good release was in the 1.0 series. Sure, 1.5 looks good now, but that's only in comparison to 2.0. Opera, Konqueror, and Safari are all faster and more user-friendly than Firefox. They also feature better standards compliance and are less likely to be found using 3GB of RAM for no reason.
Black Sabbath definitely wasn't Black Sabbath without Ozzy, but they rocked nonetheless, because Dio is a Metal God(tm) and Ian Gillan is okay too. Solo Ozzy also rocked, but only with Rhoads. So yes, it's all about the people. :)
Yeah, it seems pretty cool. If only there were an open box that would let me get at crypted QAM... but of course I can't have that because who knows what I would do with Comcast's precious bits!
What's complicated about HD tuner cards? My pcHDTV card took less setup to get working right than my analog tuners did. And the kernel-driver is in-tree, which ivtv isn't. And it doesn't require separate firmware, which ivtv does. :)
Doesn't apply to 2100, 2200, or 2915, which means there's what, three people who would actually benefit from this? The rest still have to deal with firmware licenses. :)
Got a little something to hide? The point wasn't to provide deniability for your kiddie porn. The idea is more like, you rooted my machine, stole my data or did something evil with it, and now you want to cover your tracks. So you toast the logs as well as you can, you jumble up mtimes and permissions on files so that someone going back and doing forensics has a harder time establishing a pattern. The first step towards finding out who did something is figuring out when it was done, to find out who had access at that time, where to look in (non-compromised) logs, etc. So if you obscure that information you make it a little harder to trace things back to you. It's about hiding an identity, not data.
Yeah, you're right. BoA expects to make a lot more money while they're fucking their customers over.
Intermediate between what and what, pray tell?
Was gonna say it, but it was already said. Failing a complete collapse of wikipedia or a complete abandonment of their goals (or OFFICE gone rampant), you can always find (and link to) a specific revision. :)
If you want to use that argument you have to stop using a computer. Sorry.
I bow to you, sir.
Yeah, ZENworks seems to be pretty popular. Crap, but widely-used crap. :)
No such problem here, ever.
Maybe I'm a bit simple but I don't see where CUPS even has "usability" to complain about. You install it (if, oddly, it isn't already), you tell it what and where your printer are (preferably using the KDE print config thing because it's amazingly simple, but the CUPS web jigger isn't bad either), and then from then on you print, and you forget that CUPS exists. Where's the hangup?