"On a more serious note, I think it's high time that people realized once and for all that U.S. spying is NOT to combat "terrorism" or whatnot, and realize that the privacy of hundreds of millions of people is being routinely violated."
I don't care how much you try to make these agencies seem like faceless and evil entities, real people work hard to try and make the US safe from terrorism. Obviously not all of their activities are used to track terrorism, but your statement is still a ludicrous exaggeration.
"Frankly, if I ran any of these European countries, you'd bet your ass that I'd immediately condemn this spying as a hostile act of aggression, and work out treaties with other nations explicitly naming any further spying as an act of war, and military alliances to give the treaties TEETH."
So you are advocating another World War and millions of casualties because some French company no longer has a secret anymore and loses a few hundred thousand francs in profit?
Many have pointed this out before, and I'll point it out again. European agencies routinely spy on American companies, especially the French, who do it quite blantantly.
Your post is totally sensationalistic and completely ridiculous.
I always find it offensive when government agency tries to take away MY rights because of "the children". I could care less if some 13 year old boy sits at the computer and looks at porn, saves him the time and expense of getting it in hardcopy. I can't believe that viewing the naked human form will cause so much psychological damage that the government feels the need to restrict my right to free communication.
I was thinking that very same thought actually, seems odd none of the articles I've read has brought that up. I wouldn't hold Dell responsible if a PC game I bought destroyed data on my system.
Yeah, I seem to recall the company that designed the GIF format mentioned a few years ago that it was demanding royalties for using the format. I remember commercial services like AOL had to switch to all JPG to avoid paying but I haven't heard of anyone ever being sued about it....
Is it just me or does it seem like 11 counts is a lot for the crime? If he had gone in and stolen it in person it seems like he would have only a few...why is doing it with a computer so much worse?
This does not really bother me. Many people seem to be deeply troubled about what type of ads they are going to be displayed, I don't really care about that as long as Slashdot continues operating as usual.
Personally I don't think the new management is going to try to mess with the site's actual content, if they read any of the comments to any story dealing with censorship they'd know they would just shoot themselves in the foot if they tried anything to alter the content.
I guess those reasons are pretty decent, it's just that I don't consider a 486 "usable" considering you can buy a Pentium MB w/ chip for probably $100 or less. Also, a few years back I ran Mosaic on 486sx/25 with Win 3.1 and that ran very fast.
I don't understand why w3m and lynx are even still being developed. It does not require much processing power or hard drive space to have a decent graphical browser. Bandwidth is not really an issue for normal web pages and you can turn off the images in a graphical viewer if you wanted to anyways. I can't see a situation where I'd want to use a text-based browser instead of my normal browser...can anyone enlighten me?
It's different to say that the desktop PC will be supplemented by mobile PCs but I can't see myself giving up my big monitor, speakers, large keyboard, etc.
The MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations are really choosing the wrong targets. All over Asia, and especially in China, you can find massive industrial-sized factories putting out pirated software / movies / music and yet the MPAA decides to harass a Norweigan coder and let the Chinese government continue it's support of pirated media.
You can call yourself whatever you want, but I wouldn't call myself an American if it weren't for the fact that's the NAME of our country! The United States portion of the name is irrelevant, I think Mexico's official name is the United States of Mexico or something to that effect, but I don't refer them as "United-Stater's", that doesn't make any sense, that's a description of the government and is not the country's actual name. If a central american country had named themselves America then they would be Americans but they didn't, so shut the hell up!
The NSA isn't a rogue agency...they must disclose everything they do to Congress (more specifically where they are spending money). There are members of Congress that do know what goes on, but it's kept to a few members because of the security hazards. As to the $0 funding, yeah, I'd love the NSA to shut down so terrorists can set bombs in our country and so our military would be at a disadvantage during a war:P
That article didn't really go into depth about nanotechnology, this web site http://www.zyvex.com/nano/ has links to pretty much anything you'd want to know about it.:)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but in Internet Explorer if you type "about:mozilla" as the URL you get a blue screen in your browser. There is a registry entry that refers the browser to 'res://mshtml.dll/about.moz'. If you type any other "about:" it does nothing except display the word you typed (with the exception of "blank" or "PostNotCached" or other various commands). Is this part of some dark conspiracy by Microsoft?
This idea seems to be not thought out all that well, not everyone has a cell phone, not even close in fact. Any results from this would have to be checked by other sources anyways so why not just use that source instead?
I think that if patents are allowed for breakthroughs that scientific research in general will be increased because right now most advances are done at Universities that lose money on all these programs. I'm not suggesting that basic mathematical or scientific principles should be patented, but specific applications such as in this case should be considered.
You should go look at the sites, they are not just for cracking codes, there are useful math problems that require massive computing power that need to be solved...
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"On a more serious note, I think it's high time that people realized once and for all that U.S. spying is NOT to combat "terrorism" or whatnot, and realize that the privacy of hundreds of millions of people is being routinely violated."
I don't care how much you try to make these agencies seem like faceless and evil entities, real people work hard to try and make the US safe from terrorism. Obviously not all of their activities are used to track terrorism, but your statement is still a ludicrous exaggeration.
"Frankly, if I ran any of these European countries, you'd bet your ass that I'd immediately condemn this spying as a hostile act of aggression, and work out treaties with other nations explicitly naming any further spying as an act of war, and military alliances to give the treaties TEETH."
So you are advocating another World War and millions of casualties because some French company no longer has a secret anymore and loses a few hundred thousand francs in profit?
Many have pointed this out before, and I'll point it out again. European agencies routinely spy on American companies, especially the French, who do it quite blantantly.
Your post is totally sensationalistic and completely ridiculous.
I always find it offensive when government agency tries to take away MY rights because of "the children". I could care less if some 13 year old boy sits at the computer and looks at porn, saves him the time and expense of getting it in hardcopy. I can't believe that viewing the naked human form will cause so much psychological damage that the government feels the need to restrict my right to free communication.
I was thinking that very same thought actually, seems odd none of the articles I've read has brought that up. I wouldn't hold Dell responsible if a PC game I bought destroyed data on my system.
Yeah, I seem to recall the company that designed the GIF format mentioned a few years ago that it was demanding royalties for using the format. I remember commercial services like AOL had to switch to all JPG to avoid paying but I haven't heard of anyone ever being sued about it....
Is it just me or does it seem like 11 counts is a lot for the crime? If he had gone in and stolen it in person it seems like he would have only a few...why is doing it with a computer so much worse?
Personally I don't think the new management is going to try to mess with the site's actual content, if they read any of the comments to any story dealing with censorship they'd know they would just shoot themselves in the foot if they tried anything to alter the content.
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I guess those reasons are pretty decent, it's just that I don't consider a 486 "usable" considering you can buy a Pentium MB w/ chip for probably $100 or less. Also, a few years back I ran Mosaic on 486sx/25 with Win 3.1 and that ran very fast.
I don't understand why w3m and lynx are even still being developed. It does not require much processing power or hard drive space to have a decent graphical browser. Bandwidth is not really an issue for normal web pages and you can turn off the images in a graphical viewer if you wanted to anyways. I can't see a situation where I'd want to use a text-based browser instead of my normal browser...can anyone enlighten me?
It's different to say that the desktop PC will be supplemented by mobile PCs but I can't see myself giving up my big monitor, speakers, large keyboard, etc.
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Man, and I got up thinking today would suck, now I realize how cool it's gonna be! ;)
The MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations are really choosing the wrong targets. All over Asia, and especially in China, you can find massive industrial-sized factories putting out pirated software / movies / music and yet the MPAA decides to harass a Norweigan coder and let the Chinese government continue it's support of pirated media.
You can call yourself whatever you want, but I wouldn't call myself an American if it weren't for the fact that's the NAME of our country! The United States portion of the name is irrelevant, I think Mexico's official name is the United States of Mexico or something to that effect, but I don't refer them as "United-Stater's", that doesn't make any sense, that's a description of the government and is not the country's actual name. If a central american country had named themselves America then they would be Americans but they didn't, so shut the hell up!
The NSA isn't a rogue agency...they must disclose everything they do to Congress (more specifically where they are spending money). There are members of Congress that do know what goes on, but it's kept to a few members because of the security hazards. As to the $0 funding, yeah, I'd love the NSA to shut down so terrorists can set bombs in our country and so our military would be at a disadvantage during a war :P
That article didn't really go into depth about nanotechnology, this web site http://www.zyvex.com/nano/ has links to pretty much anything you'd want to know about it. :)
You definetly have to be rooting for those guys because that was the best press release I've ever seen in my life!
I love C++, the next language will have to be a LOT better for me to go learn a new one ;)
Wow, this guy is asking to be moderated ;)
Isn't this the 21st Century? ;)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but in Internet Explorer if you type "about:mozilla" as the URL you get a blue screen in your browser. There is a registry entry that refers the browser to 'res://mshtml.dll/about.moz'. If you type any other "about:" it does nothing except display the word you typed (with the exception of "blank" or "PostNotCached" or other various commands). Is this part of some dark conspiracy by Microsoft?
Ummmm....Usually when I download data it is located somewhere on Earth....
This idea seems to be not thought out all that well, not everyone has a cell phone, not even close in fact. Any results from this would have to be checked by other sources anyways so why not just use that source instead?
I think that if patents are allowed for breakthroughs that scientific research in general will be increased because right now most advances are done at Universities that lose money on all these programs. I'm not suggesting that basic mathematical or scientific principles should be patented, but specific applications such as in this case should be considered.
You should go look at the sites, they are not just for cracking codes, there are useful math problems that require massive computing power that need to be solved...