Apparently you've never heard of New York or LA. Can't afford to live with an hour of some places.
That would be the New York and Los Angeles with populations 8.2 million and 3.8 million, respectively, right?
Even with ridiculous cost of living levels, there's blue collar workers living everywhere.
Take Salinas, CA. Median house value of over $500,000, and it's a town filled with spinach-picking farm workers. Whether it's old houses passed through families or something else, when people are needed to work an area, the housing issue gets figured out.
If you think every janitor in LA and NYC commutes an hour to work, then you're awfully silly in the head, and we can't be friends.
While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.
Bah! I'm a slider and I thought I finally found my way home, but I guess this really isn't my Earth.
I should have known. The black guy running for President and the little MILF hottie running for VP should've given it away. We only run old white men vs. older white men.
By the way, you guys didn't elect Dean, right? Holy shit, was that a f*ck-up, I can't even begin to tell you. I'm sure you guys had it better these past few years than we did. You found the WMD stash in that little bunker, right?
It's his new laws that took horses from the mounties, wine from the Frenchies, and sodomy from Newfoundland. Apparently that wasn't enough, he's taking open source too.
Oh well.
There's no Canada like French Canada
It's the best Canada in the land.
And the other Canada - is a bullsh*t Canada!
If you lived here for a day, you'd understand!
... and merely doing something that you know people will find offensive.
Let's see someone actually do something thought-provoking with games, not simply "hey, what's the most offensive thing we can do, let's do that and call it 'artistic'!"
If you turned your "artistic statement" into a Slashdot comment and it would get modded down as "Troll", it's not a particularly good statement. Keep thinking.
Seriously, fine the man, put him on probation with a suspended sentence before sending him to prison for an utterly victimless crime.
Excuse me, sir, but this wasn't a "victimless crime". I was credited for Additional Audio Programming on NES Slalom, and the $0.0000015 I have been denied from this man's activities puts an immeasurable strain on my personal finances. Have you noticed the economy we're in?
Okay, one of you people that claim piracy is always okay, riddle me this. If this person profited by selling a piece of software that took money, time, and labor to make, how did he not deny someone the money they should have made?
I don't know how good of an argument that is for this particular case. I think the guy's about 20 years late to deny the makers of 10 Yard Fight any money.
(To anyone unclear on what precisely was being sold, it was these. You know, the Poor Kid Nintendos you see at the swap meet, packaging written mostly in Spanish...)
My long-standing disapproval towards Diebold nearly has me joining in on the "Diebold BAD!" chorus here, but let's step back for a minute.
Let's let go of the fantasy that electronic voting will produce a 100% perfectly tallied result. Let's also let go of the fantasy that paper balloting wasn't rife with tabulation errors.
Precisely how bad is this flaw? How likely is it to occur, and how many votes are we looking at being lost? Is it election-changing in scope, or is the practical result of this flaw a tiny, minute blip?
For so many strongly-worded opinions to this story, I'm seeing a very significant lack of details.
In 2001 when I moved to Fresno, CA, my cable provider was MediaOne.
That turned into AT&T Roadrunner.
That turned into AT&T Broadband.
That turned into Comcast.
This was in the span of, what, a year and a half, maybe?
That's a brief snapshot of what happened to smaller cable companies once broadband started to take off. Most were gobbled and re-gobbled, and now we have a lot of areas where Comcast (or some other herculean-sized cable provider) is the only provider in the area.
I am fully prepared to begin holding up my end of the bargain on the copyright equation.
As soon as you are willing to hold up yours.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Complete respect of the Fair Use Doctrine, and no further attempts to legally narrow it's scope
An immediate end and repeal of all laws extending the length of copyright ad infinitum
Copyright is a two-way street, and failure to maintain your responsibilities means a complete forfeiture of any right to try and enforce compliance with my responsibilities. Continued attempts to pass laws in order to shirk your responsibilities will be responded to with unchecked, tube-clogging mass downloading.
It should be pointed out that, while S3 encrypts the transmission, the file are not encrypted on S3's servers.
That's the REAL value of JungleDisk, which offers the feature of 256-bit AES file encryption, encrypting each file before it goes out over the Internet to S3's servers.
That's what earned JungleDisk my $20. My data's easy for me to get to, yet encrypted at all times until my private key decrypts the data on my local machine.
>> Oh, please. Making the chair is cool. Driving it on public roads is not so cool.
If they were potentially causing a danger on those streets, then OK. But if they weren't being reckless and disrupting safe traffic, then this deserved a "hey kids, cut that out", not a pair of handcuffs.
If I made that chair, you bet I'd go find a nice non-busy stretch of road to haul ass on.
Yes it does. Because it places a content provider onto a special tier. Why do you think many ISP's cached it locally, because they were getting paid. That's the primary fear of net neutrality. That if you don't pay both your ISP and your customer's ISP the data will be deprioritized.
And how does the fact that all the other content out there BENEFITTED from *not* having the Olympic video feeds "tie up teh tubez" jive with that argument?
Unfairly prioritizing someone's network traffic over someone else's is bad. Locally caching high-demand content, which provides the win-win of improving that content's availability and maintaining the availability of everything else on the would-have-been-flooded network, is not.
... someone running for a state representative spot isn't posturing as having the answer to every single problem?
This is a problem with politics. What we need in government are people who know a lot about certain fields, who are willing to listen to others who know a lot about other fields.
Instead, as the parent post so painfully illustrates, what we as voters do is vote for the people who claim to have ALL the answers. And guess what? The ones who claim to know the answers to everything are the ones who don't know crap about anything.
His argument rests on this straw man: reduced cost is allegedly the only reason to switch to Linux. This ignores Linux's advantages such as lower hardware/software cost, access to source code and thus customizability.
Your random "I got a cnert-uhfuh-kay-shun" dime-a-dozen Windows admin* doesn't even know what source code is, let alone why he might want access to it.
*: That's not a comment on ALL Windows admins, some of whom are very smart people that just happen to prefer their Microsoft platforms. It's directed at the certification mill buffoons, like, say, the dumb piece of white trash that my sister married.:(
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I don't know about you, but I don't have a desk set up in my living room in front of the television.
And unfolding a little TV tray is too complicated?
Apparently you've never heard of New York or LA. Can't afford to live with an hour of some places.
That would be the New York and Los Angeles with populations 8.2 million and 3.8 million, respectively, right?
Even with ridiculous cost of living levels, there's blue collar workers living everywhere.
Take Salinas, CA. Median house value of over $500,000, and it's a town filled with spinach-picking farm workers. Whether it's old houses passed through families or something else, when people are needed to work an area, the housing issue gets figured out.
If you think every janitor in LA and NYC commutes an hour to work, then you're awfully silly in the head, and we can't be friends.
is the "most common" mad cow disease test the one that was going to be administered?
Mostly...
While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.
Bah! I'm a slider and I thought I finally found my way home, but I guess this really isn't my Earth.
I should have known. The black guy running for President and the little MILF hottie running for VP should've given it away. We only run old white men vs. older white men.
By the way, you guys didn't elect Dean, right? Holy shit, was that a f*ck-up, I can't even begin to tell you. I'm sure you guys had it better these past few years than we did. You found the WMD stash in that little bunker, right?
It's his new laws that took horses from the mounties, wine from the Frenchies, and sodomy from Newfoundland. Apparently that wasn't enough, he's taking open source too.
Oh well.
There's no Canada like French Canada
It's the best Canada in the land.
And the other Canada - is a bullsh*t Canada!
If you lived here for a day, you'd understand!
(for those who don't get it, click)
... and merely doing something that you know people will find offensive.
Let's see someone actually do something thought-provoking with games, not simply "hey, what's the most offensive thing we can do, let's do that and call it 'artistic'!"
If you turned your "artistic statement" into a Slashdot comment and it would get modded down as "Troll", it's not a particularly good statement. Keep thinking.
Seriously, fine the man, put him on probation with a suspended sentence before sending him to prison for an utterly victimless crime.
Excuse me, sir, but this wasn't a "victimless crime". I was credited for Additional Audio Programming on NES Slalom, and the $0.0000015 I have been denied from this man's activities puts an immeasurable strain on my personal finances. Have you noticed the economy we're in?
Okay, one of you people that claim piracy is always okay, riddle me this. If this person profited by selling a piece of software that took money, time, and labor to make, how did he not deny someone the money they should have made?
I don't know how good of an argument that is for this particular case. I think the guy's about 20 years late to deny the makers of 10 Yard Fight any money.
(To anyone unclear on what precisely was being sold, it was these. You know, the Poor Kid Nintendos you see at the swap meet, packaging written mostly in Spanish...)
My long-standing disapproval towards Diebold nearly has me joining in on the "Diebold BAD!" chorus here, but let's step back for a minute.
Let's let go of the fantasy that electronic voting will produce a 100% perfectly tallied result. Let's also let go of the fantasy that paper balloting wasn't rife with tabulation errors.
Precisely how bad is this flaw? How likely is it to occur, and how many votes are we looking at being lost? Is it election-changing in scope, or is the practical result of this flaw a tiny, minute blip?
For so many strongly-worded opinions to this story, I'm seeing a very significant lack of details.
In 2001 when I moved to Fresno, CA, my cable provider was MediaOne.
That turned into AT&T Roadrunner.
That turned into AT&T Broadband.
That turned into Comcast.
This was in the span of, what, a year and a half, maybe?
That's a brief snapshot of what happened to smaller cable companies once broadband started to take off. Most were gobbled and re-gobbled, and now we have a lot of areas where Comcast (or some other herculean-sized cable provider) is the only provider in the area.
I am fully prepared to begin holding up my end of the bargain on the copyright equation.
As soon as you are willing to hold up yours.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Copyright is a two-way street, and failure to maintain your responsibilities means a complete forfeiture of any right to try and enforce compliance with my responsibilities. Continued attempts to pass laws in order to shirk your responsibilities will be responded to with unchecked, tube-clogging mass downloading.
"Sir, he specifically requested two 'niggers'. Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch."
It should be pointed out that, while S3 encrypts the transmission, the file are not encrypted on S3's servers.
That's the REAL value of JungleDisk, which offers the feature of 256-bit AES file encryption, encrypting each file before it goes out over the Internet to S3's servers.
That's what earned JungleDisk my $20. My data's easy for me to get to, yet encrypted at all times until my private key decrypts the data on my local machine.
>> Oh, please. Making the chair is cool. Driving it on public roads is not so cool.
If they were potentially causing a danger on those streets, then OK. But if they weren't being reckless and disrupting safe traffic, then this deserved a "hey kids, cut that out", not a pair of handcuffs.
If I made that chair, you bet I'd go find a nice non-busy stretch of road to haul ass on.
Now, I have to say, my password is completely unguessable (think along the lines of something like %sprTres3005!)
Crap. I was running a dictionary attack that did %sprUno* and %sprDos*, but the Blackberry hacker got in before I got to %sprTres*, I was so close.
Didn't George Orwell warn us about trying to change our history?
Yes, and so did Grandpa Marsh.
"Damnit, Billy, this isn't about you havin' to be slaves! This is about history! We can't let them change it!" [1]
Yes it does. Because it places a content provider onto a special tier. Why do you think many ISP's cached it locally, because they were getting paid. That's the primary fear of net neutrality. That if you don't pay both your ISP and your customer's ISP the data will be deprioritized.
And how does the fact that all the other content out there BENEFITTED from *not* having the Olympic video feeds "tie up teh tubez" jive with that argument?
Unfairly prioritizing someone's network traffic over someone else's is bad. Locally caching high-demand content, which provides the win-win of improving that content's availability and maintaining the availability of everything else on the would-have-been-flooded network, is not.
... someone running for a state representative spot isn't posturing as having the answer to every single problem?
This is a problem with politics. What we need in government are people who know a lot about certain fields, who are willing to listen to others who know a lot about other fields.
Instead, as the parent post so painfully illustrates, what we as voters do is vote for the people who claim to have ALL the answers. And guess what? The ones who claim to know the answers to everything are the ones who don't know crap about anything.
... from picking up an unsubsidized phone and slapping my AT&T SIM card into it?
I have 3G data service and all that with my current phone, the BlackJack II.
... your bosses are demanding citations, and you're pissed about their lack of NPOV.
Slug it out in a good ol' fashioned edit war.
You put the lime on the corpse, you nut.
His argument rests on this straw man: reduced cost is allegedly the only reason to switch to Linux. This ignores Linux's advantages such as lower hardware/software cost, access to source code and thus customizability.
Your random "I got a cnert-uhfuh-kay-shun" dime-a-dozen Windows admin* doesn't even know what source code is, let alone why he might want access to it.
*: That's not a comment on ALL Windows admins, some of whom are very smart people that just happen to prefer their Microsoft platforms. It's directed at the certification mill buffoons, like, say, the dumb piece of white trash that my sister married. :(
One small slip and you're 100x over.
(I just barely started reading Slashdot daily again, and even still, noticing the error, I knew who posted the story without looking.)
Thanks for fighting the good fight, sir!
Sincerely, Dr. Hancock
I was hoping the first person to bring up "fat-bottomed girls" would make some kind of gravitational forces of large bodies comment.
Sadly, the parent poster here took the easier, less clever road. :(