1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods. 2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war. 3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field: the heroes of medicine. See Synonyms at celebrity. 4. The principal male character in a novel, poem, or dramatic presentation.
I would like to formally invite you to litigate me. I believe that you are full of shit and I believe that I can be a "hero to the hacker world" such as Dimitry and Kevin have been. I want to spend years in court with you spewing out techincal jargon and confusing grand juries and judges alike. I want to appeal all the way to the supreme court to make the entire world realize what a sham you really are.
If you could please send the proper paper work we can get started ASAP. The bully only stays a bully so long, then someone comes along and beats the ever living shit out of that bully and makes them realize that they aren't allowed to be a bully any longer.
Bring it, I'm tired of you picking on all my peers and I'm ready to kick your ass. Remember when you take me to court, IT ALL COMES ON THE TABLE, and I'll subpoena everything!!!
Place sensitive computerized equipment on top of massive explosive materials. Ignite materials causing massive controlled explosion forcing upward and mixed with the pull of gravity causing somewhere in the ballpark of 9 G's of force pulling down every part of the sensitive computerized equipment. Then when all is said in done with the explosion, have another explosion in a vacuum of the coldest and most uninhabitable spot in the entire universe.
Then after 3 months you are then shot into a planet and stopped by a parachute and then some air bags. The entire time literally thrown into the surface.
And all this with the safety and security, of the lowest bidder.
I dunno, you tell ME why these missions have a high failure rate. Could it be there is no humans on board therefore not as much care is taken to insure the safe delievery of these machines? Could it be the fact that they are designed not to go to mars, but to go to mars as cheaply as possible. Could it be that no one really has a whole lot of information so a lot about mars is (pun intended) hit or miss?
Funny this gets posted today. In a recent entry in my blog I made mention of the fact that I got an amplified UHF/VHF antenna. I wasn't real sure what I could pickup, but I was hoping on fox and nbc.
I found out from Tv Radio World.com that there really isn't any part of UHF in my area that's underused. Every other channel is a fox, tbn, 3abn, abc, cbs, nbc, upn, wb channel. Granted some don't come in crystal clear, but there are quite a few channels (at least 9) that come in better than some crap cable setups.
Along with the antenna I have a Dish Network Dish/Receiver setup with the America's Top 50 (few more channels than Basic cable and all the popular ones that aren't pay) for $15/month (check link for more details if you want in).
So I've got roughly 50 cable channels on the dish, 20 public interest channels (the ones that broadcast for free and don't whine when you rebroadcast them), and about 9 antenna channels for $15/month. I'm pretty content actually with what I have and the usage of the system at current. I think cable and stretching old technology will be the demise of television before underused spectrum is.
... like everything else apple does that takes off (IE: Personal Computer), Someone (*cough*) will come along and make a cheaper varient that has a few more bells and whistles, and to top it off is available to all the windows users throughout the world in built-into-the-os-app.
Here's how I see it, apple basically made a really successful proof of concept, but just wait until BMG or Virgin or whoever comes along with a 35 cent version of a similar service using another format and a better bitrate?
I'm happy to see apple made this concept successful, maybe now the value of MP3's won't be based on their album but at the lowest net price available. I do think like the record we may be seeing the demise of the archaic CD media. CD's were supposed to last forever, so long as you don't scratch them or scuff them, what next standard flash media?
Would that be something like a "Lawyer" or someone possibly "Not Qualified" to examine the evidence? That's like saying since I like red then anything red must be mine because I say I like red and I pay you to agree that everything red is mine. To only have a MS bankrolled bully account. I would so just go pick on companies for a couple million dollars, hell they're still on the defensive. It wasn't until novell stood up and said "Hey dimwit, what the hell are you talking about?" that this started to get interesting.
Personally I couldn't give a rats ass what SCO says, until someone comes out with an IOTA of evidence that says "STOLEN" or "BROKEN CONTRACT" I will not care. Most people who are viewing this SCO case that are in the "know" are holding the same belief's.
My problem as mentioned here before is that the people not in the "know", 99.4% of the rest of the world, keep seeing linux as a possible lawsuit. In level of fear people fear the following, public speaking, death, and then lawsuits, so anything potentially law suitish in the corperate world might just as well be a platter of ebola.
It is the SCwhO mudslinging that is starting to get no my nerves and bashing a great open source project for the benifit of their pocketbook. You guys have a shit Unix system and a shit distribution and now you're trying to take it out on the community because you suck, bastards.
I don't know why exactly it is that I was sent this article, maybe because he was bored and wanted to send it out to all the employees or maybe he thinks we're all pirates.
I think that the RIAA and MPAA have gone way too far. We don't need a private or secret police force in america, and we certainly don't need already super rich industries suing everyone with a DSL line to their home.
I'm truly begining to wonder when it is exactly that the public at large is going to stand up against this horrible abuse of power and perfect example of corruption of democracy and say, ENOUGH. This is getting very old very quickly and I'm tired of always hearing about the *AA lawsuits.
P2P is here to stay because people don't value the bilboard top $100 as worth $15 a CD, they value it as giving it the time to download the song. It's the same with anything else, entertainment is valued at what the consumer is willing to pay for it, it's the fact that these companies think that they're losing income. NO YOUR NOT, it's not that valuable to us and we're not going to pay for it so quit trying.
If you were to record a song off of the radio, one that was broadcasted freely into the air and then rip it into mp3 and share it with your friends, would it be considering piracy?
You've done nothing more than taken what everyone could have heard and saved it and allowed others to hear it at a later time, would this then be constituted as a "rebroadcast" even though it's for personal viewing(listening) only?
Is it as fuzzy as recording Television shows as it is for radio? I know the Howard Stern show has shut down numerous websites that have mp3's recorded from a radio to audio-in jack of a soundcard.
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SO basically we're seeing a fairly good discussion on slashdot and more importantly on the inner workings of the slashcode, but not seeing the original post moderated into oblivian just the replies.
This does seem a bit odd to me actually. As do the "There's a new slashdot story coming subscribers get to see it first!" I don't really come to slashdot for breaking news, I come to slashdot for the discussion of news items. I looks for recent news on cnet, zdnet, google, wired and the register. I think this "breaking news" on slashdot is a sham, the only advantage is you get to put in your own two cents first. Frankly I'm more interested in responses to my posts, not the karma rating.
Whatcha gonna say when several million Americans who have worked hard their entire lives suddenly can't collect the Social Security benefits they've been paying for their entire working lives? "Fuck you, leave my taxes alone, you freeloading jerks!"?
Sure, line um up I'll laugh at them too...
And you want lower taxes.
Do you understand how insanely irresponsible that is?
Do you understand that it's not my problem? I don't plan on collecting social security, so why should they? Screw this "retirement" bullshit. If you don't want to work anymore then you don't get any money, this is absolute crap that soceity owes you a waiting to die vacation. If you need money you need a job, screw the freeloaders it's not my concern. I'd rather keep my money and take care of myself then have the government help take care of me, guess you could say I'm a libertarian at heart.
Uncle Sam isn't a corporation. A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU. Making YOU tighten your belt by raising YOUR taxes is INFINITELY better than tightening the government's belt, because if the government has no money, the economy will fall into a state where you won't have any either, and there's no way to recover from that.
My god... you are truly a republican aren't you?
As for getting involved in the political arena, I am... why do you think I was so quick off the gun to identify this as a scam to raise taxes?
you do have to realize that most of these sites focus on certain aspects of tax dollars, my point that was trying to be proven was that there is not only bloat, but taxes are raised too much, even in oregon.
Come on, as someone who has studied public service areas at great lengths it seems rather apparent that this is a ploy to add more money to the state budget, plain and simple.
Absolutely agree! Giving our government proper funding is bad for the economy! Cutting budgets to all public programs promotes Jobs and Growth(tm)!
-j
Documented more times than I'd like to count is the fact that nearly 80% of tax dollars are "wasted" in one way or another. Also there is the awesome non-discriminatory benifit packages that come along with these jobs, and lets not forget garunteed sick time and vacation time. Then on top of it all is the wonderful pention plan.
Taxes have gone up exponentially in the last 10 years which is absurd to think that this is anyway "proper" funding. The governemnt is filled with bloat and unneccessary spending because everyone knows the following golden rule is true in government:
"Spend less than you are alotted this fiscal year and have your budget cut next year, spend all you are allocated and you budget will increase by a set percentage."
The way governmental allocation is setup there is no reward for being fiscally responsible only a reward for either going in the red or getting real close to it.
It's already expensive enough and this will do nothing more than just piss off state residents. Every state is in financial dire straits right now and every state is trying to come up with lame brain ideas on how to keep the beloved status-quo safe.
Time to tighten the belts and do what everyone else on the face of the earth does when the money is less than the year before. Time for cuts in either pay or in the entire employment pool itself. No one is garunteed job security, so why does uncle sam try so damned hard to never fire anyone? Ohhh yeah I forgot... uncle sam is the only stupid employer to still over pention plans.
Lay um off, change hiring practices, or whatever just quit trying to raise my damned taxes.
Let's make it simple, you get it for 50 years to horde and license and then WHAMMO, it's societies to be bettered and shared. You had your time to profit and since we allotted you the time to profit from it we now as society are going to keep it as our own. If in 50 years you haven't profitted from it, then we aren't going to see a use for it either, so it's not our concern and it's dead.
This whole forever copyright thing is a pain in the ass and quite frankly a load of crap. If you want the legal protection of a copyright then you need to follow the rules, not keep profiting and profiting on it, while society is at your whim. Wuit convoluting an already convoluted system. There are other options, don't bother copyrighting something and then you don't have to worry about it being public domain in 50 years, you can keep it a secret forever.
Online petitions also don't work, they're too easy to fradulate, if you're really concerned call your representative and talk to them about it, don't put your email address on a weblog and think you've done your civic duty.
So you're an IT point and click guy. No shame in that, but if you aren't comfortable with command line or Kuduzu just "making it work" for ya, perhaps its time you hung up the "Unix Admin" hat and just start wearing the "Computer Guy" hat.
Unix admins know Unix, they don't sit around and watch redhat autoconf it for them, so like the parent I would classify you also as... not a Unix Admin.
And the poster's remark was in *no* way sarcastic. Get a clue, Davak.
That was an editors comment, hence not in italics like the rest of the blurb. And it was posted by Michael so it probably wasn't meant to be sarcastic.
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Hey ... You get the RIAA to sue me, I'll take care of the rest :-)
If you could please send the proper paper work we can get started ASAP. The bully only stays a bully so long, then someone comes along and beats the ever living shit out of that bully and makes them realize that they aren't allowed to be a bully any longer.
Bring it, I'm tired of you picking on all my peers and I'm ready to kick your ass. Remember when you take me to court, IT ALL COMES ON THE TABLE, and I'll subpoena everything!!!
Then after 3 months you are then shot into a planet and stopped by a parachute and then some air bags. The entire time literally thrown into the surface.
And all this with the safety and security, of the lowest bidder.
I dunno, you tell ME why these missions have a high failure rate. Could it be there is no humans on board therefore not as much care is taken to insure the safe delievery of these machines? Could it be the fact that they are designed not to go to mars, but to go to mars as cheaply as possible. Could it be that no one really has a whole lot of information so a lot about mars is (pun intended) hit or miss?
I can think of one user for this. Making a space that cannot be crossed. Sorta like a wall really only has one purpose.
Just playinwitcha, this is a cool concept.
I found out from Tv Radio World .com that there really isn't any part of UHF in my area that's underused. Every other channel is a fox, tbn, 3abn, abc, cbs, nbc, upn, wb channel. Granted some don't come in crystal clear, but there are quite a few channels (at least 9) that come in better than some crap cable setups.
Along with the antenna I have a Dish Network Dish/Receiver setup with the America's Top 50 (few more channels than Basic cable and all the popular ones that aren't pay) for $15/month (check link for more details if you want in).
So I've got roughly 50 cable channels on the dish, 20 public interest channels (the ones that broadcast for free and don't whine when you rebroadcast them), and about 9 antenna channels for $15/month. I'm pretty content actually with what I have and the usage of the system at current. I think cable and stretching old technology will be the demise of television before underused spectrum is.
Here's how I see it, apple basically made a really successful proof of concept, but just wait until BMG or Virgin or whoever comes along with a 35 cent version of a similar service using another format and a better bitrate?
I'm happy to see apple made this concept successful, maybe now the value of MP3's won't be based on their album but at the lowest net price available. I do think like the record we may be seeing the demise of the archaic CD media. CD's were supposed to last forever, so long as you don't scratch them or scuff them, what next standard flash media?
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Would that be something like a "Lawyer" or someone possibly "Not Qualified" to examine the evidence? That's like saying since I like red then anything red must be mine because I say I like red and I pay you to agree that everything red is mine. To only have a MS bankrolled bully account. I would so just go pick on companies for a couple million dollars, hell they're still on the defensive. It wasn't until novell stood up and said "Hey dimwit, what the hell are you talking about?" that this started to get interesting.
Personally I couldn't give a rats ass what SCO says, until someone comes out with an IOTA of evidence that says "STOLEN" or "BROKEN CONTRACT" I will not care. Most people who are viewing this SCO case that are in the "know" are holding the same belief's.
My problem as mentioned here before is that the people not in the "know", 99.4% of the rest of the world, keep seeing linux as a possible lawsuit. In level of fear people fear the following, public speaking, death, and then lawsuits, so anything potentially law suitish in the corperate world might just as well be a platter of ebola.
It is the SCwhO mudslinging that is starting to get no my nerves and bashing a great open source project for the benifit of their pocketbook. You guys have a shit Unix system and a shit distribution and now you're trying to take it out on the community because you suck, bastards.
don't work at an ISP ... work at a university.
I think that the RIAA and MPAA have gone way too far. We don't need a private or secret police force in america, and we certainly don't need already super rich industries suing everyone with a DSL line to their home.
I'm truly begining to wonder when it is exactly that the public at large is going to stand up against this horrible abuse of power and perfect example of corruption of democracy and say, ENOUGH. This is getting very old very quickly and I'm tired of always hearing about the *AA lawsuits.
P2P is here to stay because people don't value the bilboard top $100 as worth $15 a CD, they value it as giving it the time to download the song. It's the same with anything else, entertainment is valued at what the consumer is willing to pay for it, it's the fact that these companies think that they're losing income. NO YOUR NOT, it's not that valuable to us and we're not going to pay for it so quit trying.
Is this concept really so hard to understand?
Geeze so that's like $10 US right?
You've done nothing more than taken what everyone could have heard and saved it and allowed others to hear it at a later time, would this then be constituted as a "rebroadcast" even though it's for personal viewing(listening) only?
Is it as fuzzy as recording Television shows as it is for radio? I know the Howard Stern show has shut down numerous websites that have mp3's recorded from a radio to audio-in jack of a soundcard.
Anyone have any distinct cases of litigation?
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SO basically we're seeing a fairly good discussion on slashdot and more importantly on the inner workings of the slashcode, but not seeing the original post moderated into oblivian just the replies.
This does seem a bit odd to me actually. As do the "There's a new slashdot story coming subscribers get to see it first!" I don't really come to slashdot for breaking news, I come to slashdot for the discussion of news items. I looks for recent news on cnet, zdnet, google, wired and the register. I think this "breaking news" on slashdot is a sham, the only advantage is you get to put in your own two cents first. Frankly I'm more interested in responses to my posts, not the karma rating.
Sure, line um up I'll laugh at them too ...
And you want lower taxes.
Do you understand how insanely irresponsible that is?
Do you understand that it's not my problem? I don't plan on collecting social security, so why should they? Screw this "retirement" bullshit. If you don't want to work anymore then you don't get any money, this is absolute crap that soceity owes you a waiting to die vacation. If you need money you need a job, screw the freeloaders it's not my concern. I'd rather keep my money and take care of myself then have the government help take care of me, guess you could say I'm a libertarian at heart.
needless to say big government is not always the "key" to a successful country, as proven by the USSR.
When KDE is already on version 3
obviously newer and better.
My god ... you are truly a republican aren't you?
As for getting involved in the political arena, I am ... why do you think I was so quick off the gun to identify this as a scam to raise taxes?
you do have to realize that most of these sites focus on certain aspects of tax dollars, my point that was trying to be proven was that there is not only bloat, but taxes are raised too much, even in oregon.
Looks like I was right.
Come on, as someone who has studied public service areas at great lengths it seems rather apparent that this is a ploy to add more money to the state budget, plain and simple.
-j
Documented more times than I'd like to count is the fact that nearly 80% of tax dollars are "wasted" in one way or another. Also there is the awesome non-discriminatory benifit packages that come along with these jobs, and lets not forget garunteed sick time and vacation time. Then on top of it all is the wonderful pention plan.
Taxes have gone up exponentially in the last 10 years which is absurd to think that this is anyway "proper" funding. The governemnt is filled with bloat and unneccessary spending because everyone knows the following golden rule is true in government:
"Spend less than you are alotted this fiscal year and have your budget cut next year, spend all you are allocated and you budget will increase by a set percentage."
The way governmental allocation is setup there is no reward for being fiscally responsible only a reward for either going in the red or getting real close to it.
So now tell me what's "proper" funding please.
It's already expensive enough and this will do nothing more than just piss off state residents. Every state is in financial dire straits right now and every state is trying to come up with lame brain ideas on how to keep the beloved status-quo safe.
Time to tighten the belts and do what everyone else on the face of the earth does when the money is less than the year before. Time for cuts in either pay or in the entire employment pool itself. No one is garunteed job security, so why does uncle sam try so damned hard to never fire anyone? Ohhh yeah I forgot ... uncle sam is the only stupid employer to still over pention plans.
Lay um off, change hiring practices, or whatever just quit trying to raise my damned taxes.
This whole forever copyright thing is a pain in the ass and quite frankly a load of crap. If you want the legal protection of a copyright then you need to follow the rules, not keep profiting and profiting on it, while society is at your whim. Wuit convoluting an already convoluted system. There are other options, don't bother copyrighting something and then you don't have to worry about it being public domain in 50 years, you can keep it a secret forever.
Online petitions also don't work, they're too easy to fradulate, if you're really concerned call your representative and talk to them about it, don't put your email address on a weblog and think you've done your civic duty.
Unix admins know Unix, they don't sit around and watch redhat autoconf it for them, so like the parent I would classify you also as ... not a Unix Admin.
:-)
That was an editors comment, hence not in italics like the rest of the blurb. And it was posted by Michael so it probably wasn't meant to be sarcastic.
Get a clue, fuctape