We need to enforce these laws against the children of music/movie executives and politicians and the wealthy.
Then the laws will be changed quickly.
But most of those groups think they are immune to the same treatment as the rest of humanity.
They are _not_ enforced. There was an incident about a year or so ago in which some music exec's kids were caught downloading illegal music. What did they get? A stern warning from dad.
This is the case with Israeli anti-spam laws. In December, spamming from Israel became illegal. Except for political spam, which was very common in the elections last month. WTF?!?
It's amazing that most people simply accept that Hypocrisy is the norm. That's sad.
The copyright organizations call for "zero tolerance" and are then caught themselves.
The congressmen who rail against finding teenagers attractive are caught lusting after them.
Preachers who rail on homosexuals are caught fucking gay prostitutes.
Vigilantes who claim to catch online predators are found to be employing young teens in their exploits and having child pornography on their computers.
Educators who rail against drugs and demand for instant lockup of drug offenders... are found to be drug users themselves...
I don't find that so unusual. If a person is doing something wrong and knows that he is hurting someone, that does not mean that he has the power to stop himself. That could be just the reason that politician X is against action Y. He knows how bad Y is because he cannot help from doing it himself.
In fact, this is the situation in my own home. I spend way too much time on the intercords, but I don't let the kids online for more than a few minutes at a time. Mostly because I am aware of my own addiction.
How could you know that? If you are a subscriber, then the only way that you know it is available to non subscribers is the change in title colour. If you are not a subscriber, then you don't know what the subscribers-only titles look like.
Unless, of course, only _one_ of your sock puppets is a subscriber!
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Without Vista, MS wouldn't be able to claim that 7 was faster than their previous version of Windows.
They still can't. TFA says that 7 is _no_slower_ than Vista. It's not faster either. Disregad yet another inaccurate/. summary.
Nooo...computers are running at exactly the same speed. They just won't have to chew through bloated software. Microsoft is (supposedly) making their software more efficient.
Not even that. TFA says that according to benchmarks, Windows 7 is _no_slower_ than Vista on the same hardware. It is not faster either. Windows 7 does _feel_more_responsive_ however, because of GUI tricks (displaying the desktop before you can click on it, that sort of thing).
I'm not high strung. I'm fine. I'M FINE OK...Hay, did you see that...Never mind...Their it is again! I said I'm fine. You know my computer screen is flickering a lot...Why are you looking at me like that? Can you open this can of Coke for me, my hands are shaky...I'll need a straw too, I dropped the last can...Actually I had a shaking fit and crushed it. Spilled Coke all over, people looked at me funny as I was licking it off my desk. Or it could be because they are out to get me. Why dose my desk shake like that? Stop saying that, I said I'M FINE! Hay did you see that?
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
For those old (and stoned) enough to have known Suicidal Tendancies.
What about personal responsibility? American entertainment is full of cursing and swearing. I cannot even have the radio tuning into English-language radio without hearing cursing at least once an hour. I am glad to see this inititive. I would like to see cursing reigned back into the shock status that it should have. Sure I curse sometimes, but far from excessively (less than once a month, in speach at least). And when I _do_ curse, it is obvious that I am to be taken seriously.
Bye bye karma, for actually agreeing that a little decency would be nice.
I am not so sure that Galileo discovered the rings of Saturn. From what I understand, he got frustrated with ever-changing Saturn and vowed to never look at it again. It was only after his death did it become apparent that what had frustrated Galileo were the rings of Saturn, seen from varying angles.
Fire up the system without the proprietary Nvidia blob and file bugs! Ubuntu, like all FOSS software, needs _you_ to file the bugs so that the kinks can be worked out. Do not assume that what you see is what the devs see.
You like Ubuntu and FOSS? Great! Help make it better.
If I visit a site with IE tab that would exploit IE to drive-by drop some spyware, would it be able to exploit an IE-Tab Tab?
Yes.
In fact, you get all the exploits of IE along with most of the exploits of Firefox (yes, they do exist). I think that http://gmail-com.com/ (Mostly gmail hints and tips, but lots of security related stuff too) had an article on it once, but now that site displays like crap and I can't find anything.
So, white chicks progressively get sluttier as tehy get older, black chicks start out slutty and can't really get sluttier from there, and thai chicks have cycles?
That's what us basement dwellers have been led to believe.
While I've noticed that white chicks' holes grow in a linear fashion to their, um, workload, the black chicks' holes grow in a logarithmic fashion. So at first they grow fast, but then they tapper off and after some time there is barely any noticable growth.
Thai chicks, on the other hand, seems to vary by a sine wave. God, I've got to get to Thailand.
Do you care if the ISP/host computer is outside of the jurisdiction of your government?
That is obviously outside the scope of any particular government's ability to intervine. Are you implying that since any single government cannot prevent crime worldwide, that no government should try to prevent crime at all?
This is probably what leads to a midlife crisis. One day you wake up smarter than you've ever been and go "holy shit, I've been a jackass all these years". Then you go and do something about it.
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We need to enforce these laws against the children of music/movie executives and politicians and the wealthy.
Then the laws will be changed quickly.
But most of those groups think they are immune to the same treatment as the rest of humanity.
They are _not_ enforced. There was an incident about a year or so ago in which some music exec's kids were caught downloading illegal music. What did they get? A stern warning from dad.
This is the case with Israeli anti-spam laws. In December, spamming from Israel became illegal. Except for political spam, which was very common in the elections last month. WTF?!?
It's amazing that most people simply accept that Hypocrisy is the norm. That's sad.
The copyright organizations call for "zero tolerance" and are then caught themselves.
The congressmen who rail against finding teenagers attractive are caught lusting after them.
Preachers who rail on homosexuals are caught fucking gay prostitutes.
Vigilantes who claim to catch online predators are found to be employing young teens in their exploits and having child pornography on their computers.
Educators who rail against drugs and demand for instant lockup of drug offenders... are found to be drug users themselves...
I don't find that so unusual. If a person is doing something wrong and knows that he is hurting someone, that does not mean that he has the power to stop himself. That could be just the reason that politician X is against action Y. He knows how bad Y is because he cannot help from doing it himself.
In fact, this is the situation in my own home. I spend way too much time on the intercords, but I don't let the kids online for more than a few minutes at a time. Mostly because I am aware of my own addiction.
Of course the AC would know that. It's his /. UID.
How could you know that?
If you are a subscriber, then the only way that you know it is available to non subscribers is the change in title colour. If you are not a subscriber, then you don't know what the subscribers-only titles look like.
Unless, of course, only _one_ of your sock puppets is a subscriber!
Without Vista, MS wouldn't be able to claim that 7 was faster than their previous version of Windows.
They still can't. TFA says that 7 is _no_slower_ than Vista. It's not faster either. Disregad yet another inaccurate /. summary.
I don't think that UPS will ever deliver to the war zones on the fringes of the Federation next day. You will still need replicators there.
Nooo...computers are running at exactly the same speed. They just won't have to chew through bloated software. Microsoft is (supposedly) making their software more efficient.
Not even that. TFA says that according to benchmarks, Windows 7 is _no_slower_ than Vista on the same hardware. It is not faster either. Windows 7 does _feel_more_responsive_ however, because of GUI tricks (displaying the desktop before you can click on it, that sort of thing).
Yes, but if you look at it from a D&D point of view, you get a 90% miss chance, which is a game-breaking advantage.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I'm not high strung. I'm fine. I'M FINE OK...Hay, did you see that...Never mind...Their it is again! I said I'm fine. You know my computer screen is flickering a lot...Why are you looking at me like that? Can you open this can of Coke for me, my hands are shaky...I'll need a straw too, I dropped the last can...Actually I had a shaking fit and crushed it. Spilled Coke all over, people looked at me funny as I was licking it off my desk. Or it could be because they are out to get me. Why dose my desk shake like that? Stop saying that, I said I'M FINE! Hay did you see that?
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
For those old (and stoned) enough to have known Suicidal Tendancies.
What about Freedom of speech?
What about personal responsibility? American entertainment is full of cursing and swearing. I cannot even have the radio tuning into English-language radio without hearing cursing at least once an hour. I am glad to see this inititive. I would like to see cursing reigned back into the shock status that it should have. Sure I curse sometimes, but far from excessively (less than once a month, in speach at least). And when I _do_ curse, it is obvious that I am to be taken seriously.
Bye bye karma, for actually agreeing that a little decency would be nice.
I am not so sure that Galileo discovered the rings of Saturn. From what I understand, he got frustrated with ever-changing Saturn and vowed to never look at it again. It was only after his death did it become apparent that what had frustrated Galileo were the rings of Saturn, seen from varying angles.
Fire up the system without the proprietary Nvidia blob and file bugs! Ubuntu, like all FOSS software, needs _you_ to file the bugs so that the kinks can be worked out. Do not assume that what you see is what the devs see.
You like Ubuntu and FOSS? Great! Help make it better.
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meatspin
mr. hands
Hey, thanks! Those were new to me! Got any more?
How secure is IE Tab?
About as secure as a torn condom.
If I visit a site with IE tab that would exploit IE to drive-by drop some spyware, would it be able to exploit an IE-Tab Tab?
Yes.
In fact, you get all the exploits of IE along with most of the exploits of Firefox (yes, they do exist). I think that http://gmail-com.com/ (Mostly gmail hints and tips, but lots of security related stuff too) had an article on it once, but now that site displays like crap and I can't find anything.
Andromeda Strain was an excellent scifi movie.
Andromeda Strain was an excellent scifi book. Don't forget where it came from.
Now if we can only find a pilot that can maneuver down a trench and target a thermal exhaust port 2 meters wide...
GNU's the source, Luke!
Obviously not, we are capable of thinking with one and not with the other at any given moment!
The problem is we only have enough blood to run one at a time.
Cue on-the-rag jokes here. On second though, no, please, NO!
Of course not. I cast Level three Eroticism.
So, white chicks progressively get sluttier as tehy get older, black chicks start out slutty and can't really get sluttier from there, and thai chicks have cycles?
That's what us basement dwellers have been led to believe.
While I've noticed that white chicks' holes grow in a linear fashion to their, um, workload, the black chicks' holes grow in a logarithmic fashion. So at first they grow fast, but then they tapper off and after some time there is barely any noticable growth.
Thai chicks, on the other hand, seems to vary by a sine wave. God, I've got to get to Thailand.
That, or something else mentioned here.
"Unfortunately the penis is optimally functional at age 18 ... if only we could somehow align these two."
Obviously not, we are capable of thinking with one and not with the other at any given moment!
Do you care if the ISP/host computer is outside of the jurisdiction of your government?
That is obviously outside the scope of any particular government's ability to intervine. Are you implying that since any single government cannot prevent crime worldwide, that no government should try to prevent crime at all?
This is probably what leads to a midlife crisis. One day you wake up smarter than you've ever been and go "holy shit, I've been a jackass all these years". Then you go and do something about it.