Even the headline of the damn article says that they were jailed over the scam, not for spamming.
Let's see, in the past couple of days, we've had the Sprint TOS that "makes porn-viewing illegal!!!" which didn't, the Apple "suit against FreeType!!!" that wasn't, and now this totally misleading article. Everytime I think Slashdot's sunk to a new low, they go the extra mile. Way to go, Hemos!
I don't know what CNN was smoking, but if someone's been working on a 51-star design for the flag, it's for Puerto Rico, not Canada, although I (and I imagine most Americans) would rather see the U.S. just stay at an even 50.
As far as your differences, I believe that SSNs are protected by law here; I know that Privacy is protected by the U.S. Constitution (and I bet that Canada has just as many loopholes in their privacy laws as the U.S. does); you might have lower tax rates compared to what Canada used to have, but they're still high compared to the U.S. (someone's gotta pay for all that Socialism, ya know, like keeping your drug prices low so U.S. citizens can cross the border to get the discounts that your tax dollars have earned;-) ); and with search and seizure, it's just like with privacy — it's in our Constitution, too, and seeing how "unreasonable" is totally subjective, Canada has just as many loopholes as the U.S. does.
Plus, Canada has a pretty poor record on the right to bear arms, and as I remember from trying to find news about the Homolka-Bernardo case a number of years back, has some appalling restrictions on both freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
It'll be pretty hilarious when Sealand gets "accidently" destroyed by a stray missile or torpedo. Ooooops. I can't decide which is the most-overhyped-by-nerds-who-haven't-bothered-to-th ink-about-why-it-won't-work entity—this Sealand/HavenCo. silliness, or FreeNet.
Nope, but it's a common mixup of the two movies with '80s wrestlers. Jesse "The Body" Ventura was in Predator, and Rowdy Roddy Piper said the line in "They Live." IIRC, the line is actually "I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Microsoft isn't embracing the standard that Sun wants to use at all. As the guy from Meta Group put it, "The only real alternative to BizTalk is, ebXML and it's lame. It's just Sun and a bunch of bureaucrats backing it." You might as well bitch that Microsoft is "embracing and extinguishing" CORBA by their decision to use COM, or that the group behind KDE is "embracing and extinguishing" Gnome's Bonobo technology by supporting their own different object technology. It's called different approaches to a problem, so please get a clue before you spew your mantras next time.
But hardware is designed. It's designed, tested, built upon, etc.
Go check out the errata for a CPU sometime and you'll wish that you'd never put hardware up on the pedestal that you did. And no, I'm not just talking about the showstoppers that have forced recalls over the years.
I think it's about time to look into the legality of blocking all Redmont, WA IPs on all mirror ftps of linux.
Yeah, way to stick to your principles. Ya know, I hate when people use their cell phones while sitting in a restaurant, can we block them, too? I've turned on the TV and heard Al Gore say one time too many, "We must count all the votes" — therefore, I propose we block the Democrats from the mirrors, too. And then there's the question of those darn evil Jews — we sure don't want them using Linux, so block 'em! And so on, and so on...
I'm glad they rectified the problem. I just don't feel like an elite, hard core, down-to-the-metal hacker unless I have on my computer desktop a group of pixels in the shape of a garbage can.
But what if the Canadian popular vote had been about 50/50? The popular vote here was only decided by about 0.3 percent. That's actually a big reason why I like the electoral college (although there are certain tweaks that I could live with) instead of a straight national vote: we're only having to deal with this in one state instead of all this wrangling going on across the entire nation.
Hope someone can answer this for us laymen. Okay, after the SCOTUS ruling today, the Florida Supreme Court said that they would work to clarify their ruling and said that the Bush and Gore legal teams should submit their arguments (up to 20 pages each) by tomorrow afternoon.
My question: If SCOTUS is asking Florida's court to explain how they arrived at their decision, why should new filings have anything to do with it? To me, it sounds like Florida's court isn't sure that they can explain the basis for their decision (i.e., simply wanting Gore to win wouldn't really be an acceptable reason), and they're looking for Boies, et al., to help them come up with some valid reasons after the fact for making the ruling that they did. Or is this just standard operating procedure for when a higher court makes a ruling like they did? Thanks for any help.
Well, they're going to rerun the whole thing back-to-back on Sunday, from 1pm ET to 7pm ET, so you'll get another chance to catch it or have a friend tape it.
I just watched the first episode tonight, and it made me get into the book again, digging around my shelves to locate the first three in the series. I'll definitely be watching the next two nights, despite all the bashing here by some clearly anal retentive whiners. I can just hear all these real-life embodiments of "The Simpsons'" Comic Book Store Guy bitching about the pronunciation decisions. Pure comedy.
Yes, let's all go out and support shoddy products like Netscape that we admit are inferior. Just curious, but when people adopt your position, what exactly is Netscape's incentive to improve?
It's attitudes just like that which turned Netscape into such junk to begin with, playing the whole "But people will keep supporting us because they don't want Microsoft to win" game. They did the same thing with ISPs, arrogantly thinking that they could pull whatever crap they wanted with their customers and they wouldn't get abandoned because "Hey, we're Netscape, the Wall Street wunderkind who are taking on Microsoft!"
Another example? Just think back to how smug they were when telling us that they were such big shots that they don't need to run advertisements. Well lah-tee-dah. Probably aren't feeling so smug these days. And yet, if they could've managed to put out a decent browser compared to the competition, I'd be using it regularly. Oh well, maybe version 8 will be the one...
I'm abhorred by Windows 2000's "browser like" clicking, where a single click will open a file rather than selecting it
If you're so abhorred by it, why did you change the behavior from the default, which uses double clicks for opening files? That's like getting a new TV, changing the SAP selector to "Spanish," then coming here and complaining that you're abhorred that Sony brand TVs don't play your shows in English.
"Most if not all computers startups, fast growing companies [...] are using linux."
No, they most certainly aren't. Most are not using Linux, forget the "if not all part." Are you familiar the startup market? Have you ever visited some dot-coms? Some are using Linux as inexpensive servers, but even the overwhelming majority of those shops still use Windows and Macs on all their desktops.
BTW, where all these sites using.ppt files to publish technical info? Finally, you don't need FrameMaker to publish PDFs. I don't mean to pick on you, but whether this is political or not (and I've seen zero evidence that it is), your entire premise that you're basing that opinion on is wrong. Very wrong. And, well, since someone decided to mod it up, the truth had to be known.
Just take all the wrangling that's going on in Florida and imagine that all this recount business was going on in every single county in the entire nation. That's just begging for corruption.
No, she ended up certifying the results that the Palm Beach County board sent her on November 14th. I kinda felt bad for the people who tried so hard at the end to finish up the vote count in time, seeing all that scrambling go for naught, because they actually seemed interested in counting the votes fairly, unlike the mess in Broward County. But... They pretty much only have themselves to blame for taking the entire Thanksgiving Day off, and it's likely that all that rushing in the end would've introduced new errors into the process. At least the numbers they were coming up with were sufficiently low that it would'nt have have changed the Florida outcome one way or the other.
You actually think that any of those posters made the jokes to help them "cope with loss"? Get real. Do you really think they care? They're just being your typical attention starved kiddies, waving their arms and yelling, "Hey, look how offensive I can be!" You can make all the excuses you want, but I invite you to leave your phone number and address, so that when one of your relatives dies, the rest of us can give you a call to try out our new material.
Right at the very beginning of the article it is explained that this is an option. You know, as in "it's optional, you don't have to use it"?
Who knows why so many Slashdotters always fail to read those two simple words ("optional" and "option") when it comes to discussion of things Microsoft, but you can go back and read it for yourself if you don't believe me.
Yup, just like all the complaining that Sun's done about Microsoft's SOAP and Universal PnP initiatives. They finally changed their tune and got with the program to support SOAP, and it just came out a couple of weeks ago that Sun joined Microsoft's UPnP Forum. It's pretty hard to take their denouncements seriously.
Well, see, the problem is that the Oracle EULA contains the same provisions that Microsoft is accusing Oracle of violating. Now, Microsoft could retaliate and do the same thing that Oracle is doing, but that would be illegal according to Oracle's EULA. Instead of taking the approach that most Slashdotters would take to resolve something like this (which would be to go ahead and respond in kind, thinking that "it's okay to break the law, Oracle did it first!"), Microsoft's going through the courts. People here might think that two wrongs make a right, but that's pretty shaky law.
Actually, Linux hasn't taken away anything from Microsoft's server market, Linux has just been successful at draining resources from Microsoft's competitors -- SGI and SCO for example, helping Microsoft to kill them off.
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Even the headline of the damn article says that they were jailed over the scam, not for spamming.
Let's see, in the past couple of days, we've had the Sprint TOS that "makes porn-viewing illegal!!!" which didn't, the Apple "suit against FreeType!!!" that wasn't, and now this totally misleading article. Everytime I think Slashdot's sunk to a new low, they go the extra mile. Way to go, Hemos!
Cheers,
I don't know what CNN was smoking, but if someone's been working on a 51-star design for the flag, it's for Puerto Rico, not Canada, although I (and I imagine most Americans) would rather see the U.S. just stay at an even 50.
As far as your differences, I believe that SSNs are protected by law here; I know that Privacy is protected by the U.S. Constitution (and I bet that Canada has just as many loopholes in their privacy laws as the U.S. does); you might have lower tax rates compared to what Canada used to have, but they're still high compared to the U.S. (someone's gotta pay for all that Socialism, ya know, like keeping your drug prices low so U.S. citizens can cross the border to get the discounts that your tax dollars have earned ;-) ); and with search and seizure, it's just like with privacy — it's in our Constitution, too, and seeing how "unreasonable" is totally subjective, Canada has just as many loopholes as the U.S. does.
Plus, Canada has a pretty poor record on the right to bear arms, and as I remember from trying to find news about the Homolka-Bernardo case a number of years back, has some appalling restrictions on both freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Seriously, guys, do you people even bother to think anymore?
Cheers,
Nope, but it's a common mixup of the two movies with '80s wrestlers. Jesse "The Body" Ventura was in Predator, and Rowdy Roddy Piper said the line in "They Live." IIRC, the line is actually "I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Cheers,
Cheers,
Microsoft isn't embracing the standard that Sun wants to use at all. As the guy from Meta Group put it, "The only real alternative to BizTalk is, ebXML and it's lame. It's just Sun and a bunch of bureaucrats backing it." You might as well bitch that Microsoft is "embracing and extinguishing" CORBA by their decision to use COM, or that the group behind KDE is "embracing and extinguishing" Gnome's Bonobo technology by supporting their own different object technology. It's called different approaches to a problem, so please get a clue before you spew your mantras next time.
Cheers,
But hardware is designed. It's designed, tested, built upon, etc.
Go check out the errata for a CPU sometime and you'll wish that you'd never put hardware up on the pedestal that you did. And no, I'm not just talking about the showstoppers that have forced recalls over the years.
Cheers,
I think it's about time to look into the legality of blocking all Redmont, WA IPs on all mirror ftps of linux.
Yeah, way to stick to your principles. Ya know, I hate when people use their cell phones while sitting in a restaurant, can we block them, too? I've turned on the TV and heard Al Gore say one time too many, "We must count all the votes" — therefore, I propose we block the Democrats from the mirrors, too. And then there's the question of those darn evil Jews — we sure don't want them using Linux, so block 'em! And so on, and so on...
Cheers,
I'm glad they rectified the problem. I just don't feel like an elite, hard core, down-to-the-metal hacker unless I have on my computer desktop a group of pixels in the shape of a garbage can.
Cheers,
But what if the Canadian popular vote had been about 50/50? The popular vote here was only decided by about 0.3 percent. That's actually a big reason why I like the electoral college (although there are certain tweaks that I could live with) instead of a straight national vote: we're only having to deal with this in one state instead of all this wrangling going on across the entire nation.
Cheers,
Hope someone can answer this for us laymen. Okay, after the SCOTUS ruling today, the Florida Supreme Court said that they would work to clarify their ruling and said that the Bush and Gore legal teams should submit their arguments (up to 20 pages each) by tomorrow afternoon.
My question: If SCOTUS is asking Florida's court to explain how they arrived at their decision, why should new filings have anything to do with it? To me, it sounds like Florida's court isn't sure that they can explain the basis for their decision (i.e., simply wanting Gore to win wouldn't really be an acceptable reason), and they're looking for Boies, et al., to help them come up with some valid reasons after the fact for making the ruling that they did. Or is this just standard operating procedure for when a higher court makes a ruling like they did? Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
Well, they're going to rerun the whole thing back-to-back on Sunday, from 1pm ET to 7pm ET, so you'll get another chance to catch it or have a friend tape it.
I just watched the first episode tonight, and it made me get into the book again, digging around my shelves to locate the first three in the series. I'll definitely be watching the next two nights, despite all the bashing here by some clearly anal retentive whiners. I can just hear all these real-life embodiments of "The Simpsons'" Comic Book Store Guy bitching about the pronunciation decisions. Pure comedy.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Yes, let's all go out and support shoddy products like Netscape that we admit are inferior. Just curious, but when people adopt your position, what exactly is Netscape's incentive to improve?
It's attitudes just like that which turned Netscape into such junk to begin with, playing the whole "But people will keep supporting us because they don't want Microsoft to win" game. They did the same thing with ISPs, arrogantly thinking that they could pull whatever crap they wanted with their customers and they wouldn't get abandoned because "Hey, we're Netscape, the Wall Street wunderkind who are taking on Microsoft!"
Another example? Just think back to how smug they were when telling us that they were such big shots that they don't need to run advertisements. Well lah-tee-dah. Probably aren't feeling so smug these days. And yet, if they could've managed to put out a decent browser compared to the competition, I'd be using it regularly. Oh well, maybe version 8 will be the one...
Cheers,
I'm abhorred by Windows 2000's "browser like" clicking, where a single click will open a file rather than selecting it
If you're so abhorred by it, why did you change the behavior from the default, which uses double clicks for opening files? That's like getting a new TV, changing the SAP selector to "Spanish," then coming here and complaining that you're abhorred that Sony brand TVs don't play your shows in English.
Cheers,
"Most if not all computers startups, fast growing companies [...] are using linux."
No, they most certainly aren't. Most are not using Linux, forget the "if not all part." Are you familiar the startup market? Have you ever visited some dot-coms? Some are using Linux as inexpensive servers, but even the overwhelming majority of those shops still use Windows and Macs on all their desktops.
BTW, where all these sites using .ppt files to publish technical info? Finally, you don't need FrameMaker to publish PDFs. I don't mean to pick on you, but whether this is political or not (and I've seen zero evidence that it is), your entire premise that you're basing that opinion on is wrong. Very wrong. And, well, since someone decided to mod it up, the truth had to be known.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Cheers,
Cheers,
Who knows why so many Slashdotters always fail to read those two simple words ("optional" and "option") when it comes to discussion of things Microsoft, but you can go back and read it for yourself if you don't believe me.
Cheers,
It is "cut the muster" not "mustard"
Nope, mustard is the correct word.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Well, see, the problem is that the Oracle EULA contains the same provisions that Microsoft is accusing Oracle of violating. Now, Microsoft could retaliate and do the same thing that Oracle is doing, but that would be illegal according to Oracle's EULA. Instead of taking the approach that most Slashdotters would take to resolve something like this (which would be to go ahead and respond in kind, thinking that "it's okay to break the law, Oracle did it first!"), Microsoft's going through the courts. People here might think that two wrongs make a right, but that's pretty shaky law.
Cheers,
Cheers,