C'mon you Slashdotters in.ca, how about setting up some anon HTTP proxies so that the rest of us can download freely? Your ISP logs can't be subpoenad, so we can all download stuff via your pipes, and the Evil Record Companies can't do anything!!!
For this price, get a used laptop or iBook off ebay and throw Linux on it. Then you'll get a real display, HD, expandibility, etc. No cramped screen, no expensive wifi cards, just a real system, but one that you can take with you. Like here 650 USD, done.
Geesh, it's not like he's Linus or Madonna or Jesus. Coffee-cup Annan doesn't have that level of recognition, at least in the US. Oh wait, -1, US-Centric. Oh wait,/. is mostly a US site! 50% will think this is a troll, 50% will think that this is Insightful. What to do, what to do...
The ILECs have stuck all kinds of charges and fees on our phone bills to cover the 'costs' of government compliance. Low-end stations that are being subsidized right now already ARE losers. Economic darwinism is circling over them, ready to strike the minute that the government wind blows the other way. Their mandate for existence is tenuous at best.
Non mainstream programming will have to revert to unrestricted media, like radio or over-the-air TV, or the Internet. In the Warsaw ghetto it was underground newspapers. It will always survive. The problem is that you can't both claim a right to protection, and then demand a blank check on what you produce.
While I am completely against government regulation of things like cable, the Cable Companies have made their own bed on this one. They scammed themselves a legal monopoly, now they have to dance to the government's tune. Of course, they'll just pass the 'costs' of this on to the consumer. But they can't claim some kind of moral high ground against 'government interference', when they've been sucking off the government tit for the last 20 years.
This is because Johnson, and then Nixon, gave the American taxpayer's wealth to the rest of the world, first raising the value of gold to $35 an ounce, then finally removing the hard-link all together. Why? To magically make poorer countries wealthier. The US has bled down the value of its dollar, it doesn't "just" depreciate.
Except being a monopoly isn't a crime. Call me a nitpicker, but too often, especially among the Slashdot crew, Big Evil Business is seen that way by virtue of its Bigness. The Bigness isn't the crime, forcing competitors out of the market typically is.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"
I for one, have faith that our new RFID overlords are too stupid and disorganized to make real capital out of the data. Or as a friend, who worked for the U.S. Census once said, quoting the X Files "If the truth is out there, they lost it"
No, salt accumulates in the oceans from the erosion of surface soils and rocks, as the minerals wash into larger bodies of water. This may mean that Mars once had rain.
Which means that it has the most to lose in the current anti-intellectual, anti-causality cultural climate. IT professionals have to battle the PHB crowd and the AOLers, people who think that computers 'should just know' how to do something, or people who 'feel like it needs to reboot', or explain THEIR failure as 'the computer didn't want to do that'. A generation raised on Star Trek, combined with a cultural disdain for anything intellectual or requiring brains, means that IT pros are nearly always playing to a hostile crowd. Since skepticism is in full swing, people who don't know how to use a computer system think that nobody knows, or worse, that nobody CAN know, what the problem is. Unfortunately, with MS products as pervasive as they are, sometimes nobody DOES know what the problem is, and often, all systems need ARE reboots.
I'm so sick of all you US-hating, Europe-loving liberals. If you like it so much, FSCKING MOVE THERE. Oh wait, then you'd have to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline, and 18% sales tax on everything, but you'd get free medical care that you'd have to wait years to receive, and a free education which is worth, well, exactly what you pay for it. Put the flamethrower down, I've lived there. I've worked there. Both the UK and the Continent. How about you? Been anywhere other than a backpacker hostel? Hmm, I thought so. Lets see, what has Europe produced in the last century or so? Colonialism 2 world wars Communism Socialism You fucked up the Middle East with your stupid dismantling of the Ottoman Empire You fucked up Africa
You want 'faith in humanity'? Of course you do, since your whole philosophical system rests on faith. Faith and Force, the destroyers of the modern world. Al Qaeda has faith that Allah will smile on them, you have faith that your inherently broken economic system will work 'somehow'. Please, go join the world you're advocating, and leave the rest of us alone. 100% alone - no coming for handouts, no bailing out of wars, nothing.
If you're carrying your GPS, PDA, phone, and camera when you're hiking, then you need to rethink your recreation strategy. or are you the type that gets to the top of the mountain, or finds some quiet lake, and whips out their phone and yaks to all their friends?
When will distros include support for installing to the increasingly-popular SATA RAID controllers? The stable driver just needs to be built into the install kernel. Yes, I could install to standard IDE, then rebuild the kernel, then move the data, but when can I just type 'boot cdrom' and be done with it?
Can we moderate the submission itself
on
Melting Europa
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· Score: 5, Insightful
As -1, Flamebait? Or how about -1, Begging the Question? Or -1, Troll even? Yeah thats a good one - michael, YHBT! How about instead, we have a decent discussion on the relative merits and costs of going to Europa and drilling in it to find Life.
and your "women's cultural thought processes". Its because of sexist remarks like this that the myth of such gender-specific stuff continues to spread.
Considering the line between troll and flamer is blurry. I'm calling your post flamebait, but others will bite, thus giving it troll-like qualities as well. How about:
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon you Slashdotters in .ca, how about setting up some anon HTTP proxies so that the rest of us can download freely? Your ISP logs can't be subpoenad, so we can all download stuff via your pipes, and the Evil Record Companies can't do anything!!!
For this price, get a used laptop or iBook off ebay and throw Linux on it. Then you'll get a real display, HD, expandibility, etc. No cramped screen, no expensive wifi cards, just a real system, but one that you can take with you. Like here
650 USD, done.
Geesh, it's not like he's Linus or Madonna or Jesus. Coffee-cup Annan doesn't have that level of recognition, at least in the US. Oh wait, -1, US-Centric. Oh wait, /. is mostly a US site! 50% will think this is a troll, 50% will think that this is Insightful. What to do, what to do...
The ILECs have stuck all kinds of charges and fees on our phone bills to cover the 'costs' of government compliance.
Low-end stations that are being subsidized right now already ARE losers. Economic darwinism is circling over them, ready to strike the minute that the government wind blows the other way. Their mandate for existence is tenuous at best.
Non mainstream programming will have to revert to unrestricted media, like radio or over-the-air TV, or the Internet. In the Warsaw ghetto it was underground newspapers. It will always survive. The problem is that you can't both claim a right to protection, and then demand a blank check on what you produce.
While I am completely against government regulation of things like cable, the Cable Companies have made their own bed on this one. They scammed themselves a legal monopoly, now they have to dance to the government's tune. Of course, they'll just pass the 'costs' of this on to the consumer. But they can't claim some kind of moral high ground against 'government interference', when they've been sucking off the government tit for the last 20 years.
In a supposedly down economy, where people are losing jobs left and right, how do we come up with the cash and time to buy both PC games and consoles?
This is because Johnson, and then Nixon, gave the American taxpayer's wealth to the rest of the world, first raising the value of gold to $35 an ounce, then finally removing the hard-link all together. Why? To magically make poorer countries wealthier.
The US has bled down the value of its dollar, it doesn't "just" depreciate.
Except being a monopoly isn't a crime. Call me a nitpicker, but too often, especially among the Slashdot crew, Big Evil Business is seen that way by virtue of its Bigness. The Bigness isn't the crime, forcing competitors out of the market typically is.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"
I for one, have faith that our new RFID overlords are too stupid and disorganized to make real capital out of the data. Or as a friend, who worked for the U.S. Census once said, quoting the X Files "If the truth is out there, they lost it"
Since he knows both about energy and the Internet
No, salt accumulates in the oceans from the erosion of surface soils and rocks, as the minerals wash into larger bodies of water. This may mean that Mars once had rain.
I use punchcards you insensitive clod!
Which means that it has the most to lose in the current anti-intellectual, anti-causality cultural climate. IT professionals have to battle the PHB crowd and the AOLers, people who think that computers 'should just know' how to do something, or people who 'feel like it needs to reboot', or explain THEIR failure as 'the computer didn't want to do that'. A generation raised on Star Trek, combined with a cultural disdain for anything intellectual or requiring brains, means that IT pros are nearly always playing to a hostile crowd. Since skepticism is in full swing, people who don't know how to use a computer system think that nobody knows, or worse, that nobody CAN know, what the problem is. Unfortunately, with MS products as pervasive as they are, sometimes nobody DOES know what the problem is, and often, all systems need ARE reboots.
I'm so sick of all you US-hating, Europe-loving liberals. If you like it so much, FSCKING MOVE THERE. Oh wait, then you'd have to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline, and 18% sales tax on everything, but you'd get free medical care that you'd have to wait years to receive, and a free education which is worth, well, exactly what you pay for it.
Put the flamethrower down, I've lived there. I've worked there. Both the UK and the Continent. How about you? Been anywhere other than a backpacker hostel? Hmm, I thought so.
Lets see, what has Europe produced in the last century or so?
Colonialism
2 world wars
Communism
Socialism
You fucked up the Middle East with your stupid dismantling of the Ottoman Empire
You fucked up Africa
You want 'faith in humanity'? Of course you do, since your whole philosophical system rests on faith. Faith and Force, the destroyers of the modern world. Al Qaeda has faith that Allah will smile on them, you have faith that your inherently broken economic system will work 'somehow'.
Please, go join the world you're advocating, and leave the rest of us alone. 100% alone - no coming for handouts, no bailing out of wars, nothing.
Like the Zaurus does?.
If you're carrying your GPS, PDA, phone, and camera when you're hiking, then you need to rethink your recreation strategy. or are you the type that gets to the top of the mountain, or finds some quiet lake, and whips out their phone and yaks to all their friends?
it's -273.16 C
I'm looking to install to a hardware SATA RAID array, not simply to a drive connected to an SATA controller. So try THAT on your Dell, dude.
Jeesh, I thought that this was "News" here.
I have it built into the Asus NForce board that I have. I want to use the 'hardware' RAID feature of this, as I dual boot.
When will distros include support for installing to the increasingly-popular SATA RAID controllers? The stable driver just needs to be built into the install kernel. Yes, I could install to standard IDE, then rebuild the kernel, then move the data, but when can I just type 'boot cdrom' and be done with it?
As -1, Flamebait? Or how about -1, Begging the Question? Or -1, Troll even? Yeah thats a good one - michael, YHBT!
How about instead, we have a decent discussion on the relative merits and costs of going to Europa and drilling in it to find Life.
and your "women's cultural thought processes". Its because of sexist remarks like this that the myth of such gender-specific stuff continues to spread.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/172622 1&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126
Christ, its from yesterday even.
How about:
-1, Asshat?