I am not suggesting anyone give their liberty to another country. Your referral to the people who died to give us (you in this case, since I am not a US citizen, and even if I was, I would be unworthy of it, thanks to you). My only point was that being searched (by this country's police force) when entering buildings etc for the sake of the safety of one's own life is acceptable. I do live in the US, and I think -- no I know it makes the US a safer place at the moment. I have lost friends to terrorism back in my country, and you shouldn't have to before you figure out your priorities in life.
On another note, if you do not want something seen/found on you, then don't take it to work/mall/etc where you will be searched.
Just get used to it. The rest of the world has been living with them for ages and noone died because someone glanced in their handbag/purse. If you think just how much more secure it makes your environment, you may realize the tradeoff. Before anyone jumps on my throat with the "civil rights til death" thing, try thinking about it for a change. I'm for my civil rights as much as anyone else here but I'd rather not die because of a fucking lunatic who brought a gun/bomb/whatever to where I am.
Moderators: Modding down a post because you disagree with it is 1) wrong 2) bad karma 3) fucking stupid.
How ignorant can you be? I can live with the fact that you have absolutely no knowledge about anything outside the US borders but this still doesn't excuse the fact that you must have been hidden in a hole not watching the news for the last month. bin Laden is a billionaire. That's with a 'b'. Doesn't take a rocket scientist why the Taliban doesn't want to give it up eh? Why don't you read the news you've been avoiding and figure out the military assets they have before you waste my air anymore?
It would probably have no use, since they are way too slow to be used in real processing. There are many ways to etch glass or pyrex (Na doped glass) etc using HF, H3PO4 etc. I can see people trying it out in R&D but hell, I'm not gonna wait for a few years to finish a device.
...a bit too pessimistic? I mean yea we all saw what happened with the www.companynamesucks.com lawsuits and all, but with something blatantly obvious like this (ie: the IRC server existing before the trademark) it's hard even for big $$$ lawyers to make the judge say what they want.
I started with Redhat 4.0 or 4.1 (I believe it was the one before Colgate) and I could only stand it for a couple weeks before I got so sick of it trying to do things for me without giving me an option/alternative. The whole reason I converted to linux was because I was so damn sick of Windows doing that to me anyway! Now it's the same deal with Mandrake. Everything is so "let me do it for you since you're probably too stupid to do it yourself" it's sickening. I know it's useful for many linux newbies, but I think if they don't want to *stay* as newbies and actually get to know what they can do using the command line themselves, they will not be bound by the limits of the GUI apps. There are a million ways to do things and as long as you don't explore you will have no idea they are there.
My boss at work is a linux newbie. He immediately says "where do i get the rpm" when i use the word install. Last week I sat with him and installed Slackware on his machine, to replace his old RedHat. He had a huge prejudice against Slackware and it took about 10 minutes before he started liking it. I showed him how to get sources, untar, compile yourself and get them running. Up until then, if an rpm was broken, he was done for, he couldn't install it, because it's ALL his distribution got him used to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against any particular distribution, and I'm not rooting for Slackware here, even though it definately is my distro of choice. I am against distributions that treat users like they're idiots and not give them a chance to become power users.
I guess I just don't want to end up with a mainstream distro which has a 'registry'.
As I said, I am not attacking a certain distro or praising another, so don't flame me. I just hate to hear people talking about using linux when all they know is how to click on the applications menu stuff in gnome -- and they have no *clue* why something doesn't work if there is a problem.
My recommendation to linux newbies: Use linux to its full extent and don't be bound by your distro. No matter how badly a distro wants to hold your hand through everything and how much it wants to hide the inner workings of the system you can find a way around it. If you can't, well, then use Slackware. Because if I wanted an OS that will do stuff itself without telling me I'd be using Windows.
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Cats: Eliza. All your base are belong to us.
Eliza: Does using that kind of language make you feel better ?
I like napster as much as anybody else. But they have reason to do so, just like a software company can get you arrested for illegal copying of their software.
I said nothing about the election being unimportant. I simply said I think everyone (Americans included), want this decided.
Why do you say you're speaking for all non-americans then? Just say everybody wants this over with.
Your desire for this to be over with and assuming everyone shares your opinion has nothing to do with you speaking for all internationals, or with you even being an international.
I agree with you on the fact that this should be resolved soon, it's taking too long. But your initial post did not say that.
Now this comment is beaten to death, let's jump to another one.
No you don't speak for us all. I care about this probably a lot more than most Americans around me. So shut up and don't speak for us all until we call you to do so.
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... and only a few dozen design engineers were institutionalized during the design process
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I am not suggesting anyone give their liberty to another country. Your referral to the people who died to give us (you in this case, since I am not a US citizen, and even if I was, I would be unworthy of it, thanks to you). My only point was that being searched (by this country's police force) when entering buildings etc for the sake of the safety of one's own life is acceptable. I do live in the US, and I think -- no I know it makes the US a safer place at the moment. I have lost friends to terrorism back in my country, and you shouldn't have to before you figure out your priorities in life.
On another note, if you do not want something seen/found on you, then don't take it to work/mall/etc where you will be searched.
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Just get used to it. The rest of the world has been living with them for ages and noone died because someone glanced in their handbag/purse. If you think just how much more secure it makes your environment, you may realize the tradeoff.
Before anyone jumps on my throat with the "civil rights til death" thing, try thinking about it for a change. I'm for my civil rights as much as anyone else here but I'd rather not die because of a fucking lunatic who brought a gun/bomb/whatever to where I am.
Moderators: Modding down a post because you disagree with it is 1) wrong 2) bad karma 3) fucking stupid.
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How ignorant can you be? I can live with the fact that you have absolutely no knowledge about anything outside the US borders but this still doesn't excuse the fact that you must have been hidden in a hole not watching the news for the last month. bin Laden is a billionaire. That's with a 'b'. Doesn't take a rocket scientist why the Taliban doesn't want to give it up eh? Why don't you read the news you've been avoiding and figure out the military assets they have before you waste my air anymore?
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It would probably have no use, since they are way too slow to be used in real processing. There are many ways to etch glass or pyrex (Na doped glass) etc using HF, H3PO4 etc. I can see people trying it out in R&D but hell, I'm not gonna wait for a few years to finish a device.
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Do you editors have any idea how much better Slashdot would be without your fucking smartass comments at the end every goddamn story?
Maybe before you spit out your opinion you'd like to watch the 2 *SEQUEL* video's by Daft Punk and the clips just might start making sense eh?
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...a bit too pessimistic? I mean yea we all saw what happened with the www.companynamesucks.com lawsuits and all, but with something blatantly obvious like this (ie: the IRC server existing before the trademark) it's hard even for big $$$ lawyers to make the judge say what they want.
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They just changed their license on THEIR OWN code.
The patches from the contributors are not their code.
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If PacMan had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music.
I started with Redhat 4.0 or 4.1 (I believe it was the one before Colgate) and I could only stand it for a couple weeks before I got so sick of it trying to do things for me without giving me an option/alternative. The whole reason I converted to linux was because I was so damn sick of Windows doing that to me anyway! Now it's the same deal with Mandrake. Everything is so "let me do it for you since you're probably too stupid to do it yourself" it's sickening. I know it's useful for many linux newbies, but I think if they don't want to *stay* as newbies and actually get to know what they can do using the command line themselves, they will not be bound by the limits of the GUI apps. There are a million ways to do things and as long as you don't explore you will have no idea they are there.
My boss at work is a linux newbie. He immediately says "where do i get the rpm" when i use the word install. Last week I sat with him and installed Slackware on his machine, to replace his old RedHat. He had a huge prejudice against Slackware and it took about 10 minutes before he started liking it. I showed him how to get sources, untar, compile yourself and get them running. Up until then, if an rpm was broken, he was done for, he couldn't install it, because it's ALL his distribution got him used to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against any particular distribution, and I'm not rooting for Slackware here, even though it definately is my distro of choice. I am against distributions that treat users like they're idiots and not give them a chance to become power users.
I guess I just don't want to end up with a mainstream distro which has a 'registry'.
As I said, I am not attacking a certain distro or praising another, so don't flame me. I just hate to hear people talking about using linux when all they know is how to click on the applications menu stuff in gnome -- and they have no *clue* why something doesn't work if there is a problem.
My recommendation to linux newbies: Use linux to its full extent and don't be bound by your distro. No matter how badly a distro wants to hold your hand through everything and how much it wants to hide the inner workings of the system you can find a way around it. If you can't, well, then use Slackware. Because if I wanted an OS that will do stuff itself without telling me I'd be using Windows.
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Cats: Eliza. All your base are belong to us.
Eliza: Does using that kind of language make you feel better ?
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What's funny is that the parent post must have been (Score: 3, Insightful), not (Score: 3, Funny).
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...all get a Happy Hacking Keyboard and shut up?
http://www.pfuca.com
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If PacMan had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music.
Amen brother!!!
The copyright law you dumbass.
I like napster as much as anybody else. But they have reason to do so, just like a software company can get you arrested for illegal copying of their software.
Check out savastio.c or any other ioccc winner.
If you can read those, well.. you're either too good or have too much time in your hands. Either way, it's good.
I said nothing about the election being unimportant. I simply said I think everyone (Americans included), want this decided. Why do you say you're speaking for all non-americans then? Just say everybody wants this over with. Your desire for this to be over with and assuming everyone shares your opinion has nothing to do with you speaking for all internationals, or with you even being an international. I agree with you on the fact that this should be resolved soon, it's taking too long. But your initial post did not say that. Now this comment is beaten to death, let's jump to another one.
No you don't speak for us all. I care about this probably a lot more than most Americans around me. So shut up and don't speak for us all until we call you to do so.