Anyone who does NOT refuse a border agent's request to "type your password" is a coward and not worthy to call themselves an American IMO. It may seem like a small thing, a way to avoid being detained and hassled all day, but it's the little things like this that define the boundary of where our freedoms are being slowly stripped away.
The old Ben Franklin statement about those who would trade liberty for security comes to mind. It's a shame when people say, "It's all about the benjamins," that it's not THAT sentiment they're talking about. Stand up for your rights NOW - no matter how "inconvenient" it may be - or soon you won't have any to worry about. Sheeple, indeed. Pussies is more like it.
Like the IOC, International Olympic Committee. Has there ever been a more corrupt organiztion on the face of the earth? The mafia (no such thing), the RIAA, the MPAA, lawyers as a whole and bankers... take them all and roll them up into one big ball and they've got NOTHING over the IOC.
It's about the politicians and the media convincing the people that it's worth it every month to put $15 billion into their friends' pockets. They're retiring the stealth F117 Blackbird. How much did that thing cost? What was it ever used for? Bombing Panama and Iraq? Are you kidding me?
The real Bill or Rights in the US is sheredded on a daily basis. You wouldn't even recognize it any more, and what's left requires a lawyer to explain. When the real deal is restored to its rightful place of dignity and respect, and politicians and elected leaders are subject to criminal prosecution for violations thereof, then come talk to me about a stupid (yes, it's stupid) "bill of rights". This makes me sick, really. Just like the dumb airline passenger "bill of rights" that got shot down in New York State just last week.
Why do I get the feeling this is one of those stories where TFA doesn't say what the poster thinks it says? Yep. Confirmed. I knew it before I even read the comments.
It's obvious who's behind it. The most insightful comment on the earlier story went something like this: If Apple is so hell bent on protecting its IP and enforcing its license terms, then why are they selling off-the-shelf copies to anyone who plunks down the cash?
Psystar. PsyOps. Nothing but Jobs looking to drum up more support for sales and mindshare. Mindshare is probably more important for Apple lest they lose their niche cult status and drop out of sight completely.
I'm not a member but I sometimes go in to browse the new releases while my roommate looks for something to rent. They better not use my picture without my permission. Those rights are available, at a price, and I never waived anything.
The potential is there for the web (and the internet as a whole) to improve the life of people with physical handicaps. The same potential has existed for personal computers in general for over 20 years. I remember a co-worker whose father had a stroke some years ago. She was able to identify a few key things that computers - not necessarily the web - might do to help people like her father. I don't think there's a lot of money to be made there and that's why we haven't seen more (no pun intended).
Blind people may get some help in the future. Whether they deserve it or not is a different story. I tend to think nobody deserves anything except justice and there's already precious little of that floating around.
That's completely legal. Unethical and unpatriotic, yes, but not illegal. In fact, since Bush took office those kinds of arrangements have actually been sanctioned and encouraged by the government.
Does anybody doubt that if Apple made Mac OS run on clone PCs, they'd take over Microsoft's position in a year?
I absolutely doubt that. Let's face it, "Finder" is about as retarded a concept as I've ever seen on a computer system. It illustrates perfectly why you never see any "Macintosh For Dummies" books. The more appropriate title would be, "Macintosh IS For Dummies".
I've written device drivers for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Know what? Apple's approach almost makes it easy to write device drivers. Almost. It's certainly better than what MS or Linux has to offer for developers of device drivers. But having said that I'm not about to convert to Mac evangelism. That's a niche and a cult I have no interest in joining. Mac OSX (or 9 or any of the earlier incarnations) is inferior in many ways to both Windows and Linux.
What sort of system leaves the application running after all its windows have been closed? To what purpose? It's retarded.
Have you looked at Broadcom lately? They make Cisco look like God's gift to Linux. They are absolutely paranoid, anal even, about releasing any technical information about any of their chips. And Broadcom is everywhere.
I applaud the people and universities who are pushing back against the MAFIAA, er.... uh, I mean the RIAA. They are winning tactical victories only, however, on the state level. What's not being won are strategic victories. Those would come in the form of big chunks of the population starting to realize that copyright abuse by the big money players is harmful. They would come in the form of Congress actually passing reasonable copyright reform, not the outright bribery they engage in today. Let's face it, when the RIAA starts losing enough in the courts they will shift tactics, and those will almost certainly involve paying off congress to pass draconian new criminal penalties and to lower the burden of proof.
I'm happy when I read stories like this but it's important to remember cases where people push back are wins in little battles. In the long run, most of the public doesn't care about their rights, and the war will be lost. There's already a conspiracy underway to de-legitimize the whole concept of Fair Use. Not a theory, either. A fact.
People have been wishing that for many, many years. I'm personally not a Creative fan because way back when they refused to produce decent drivers for OS/2 and no amount of cajoling or whining could make them do it. They turned a deaf ear to the public then, 15 years ago, and have continued to do so ever since. It's important to realize Creative is a Marketing company first and an audio technology company second.
ATI was the same way. They may still be that way for all I know. Since those days of OS/2 driver debacles I have never bought a product from Creative or ATI.
One of the biggest problems modern free societies face is an alleged free press that doesn't bother to check the facts about anything. If they had bothered to check the facts in this case, it should naturally lead them to the next logical question: What else is being claimed as fact with no evidence whatsoever? There's a whole lot of mis- and dis-information out there (not to mention outright lies and propaganda) and no good way for the general public to recognize it when it's spoon-fed to them. God knows the press/media isn't doing its job anymore.
If this story had been posted tomorrow, April 1, I would have dismissed it out of hand as some sort of hoax. April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year at/. One of my New Years' resolutions was to not visit/. at all tomorrow. It's just not worth it and, unlike some of those Jester jokes, the stories aren't even that funny.
I don't know how but I would hope responsible citizens would wake the fuck up and start to see the actual machinery of a police state for what it is. These drones are HUGELY expensive. They're flying them at ridiculous cost over the southwest to find and track illegal aliens? Are you fucking kidding me? That money could be better spent actually enforcing the laws that are on the books against employers hiring them in the first place. The cognitive dissonance here is mind-boggling. It proves the point that these drones are subject to mission creep like every other super expensive tech toy you give to the government. Wake up people. These drones will extend their control over your lives over the next few decades unless responsible people start saying, "No." All it takes is one evildoer inside the government (not like that's ever happened before) to flip a switch, and all of a sudden these things are looking at YOU because, after all, if you're innocent what do you have to hide? Right, Governor Spitzer?
When OS/2 version 2.0 was first released about 15 years ago it provided real multitasking for applications. Windows 3.1 at the time was moribound as a thin shell over DOS, which itself was little more than a glorified interrupt handler. Within a couple of years Warp was released and by then x486's were the rage running at 33MHz; 66 for a DX2 cpu. OS/2, however, had started providing multitasking on 80286 processors several years prior to Warp.
Microsoft and the industry trade press (which Microsoft owned through advertising support if not in name) started a campaign that marginalized multitasking as no big thing. That mindset has persisted to this day. I was lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) that I started designing and programming using threads on a pre-emptive multitasking OS almost as soon as OS/2 2.0 was released. I guess I can count myself in the camp that has been programming for less than 15 years, even though the actual number is higher than that.
The mercury released by burning coal to produce the extra electricity needed to power a standard incandescent lightbulb exceeds that in a CFC bulb. I'm not at all sure about the exact quantities involved, and, of course, all the extra electricity needed to power incandescent bulbs is not necessarily produced by burning coal.
I have Optimum Online from Cablevision. I've been salivating at the prospect of FIOS to enter the picture locally and eat Cablevision's lunch, out of spite as much as for any technical/cost reason. But no. Cablevision has a deal in place with the apartment management company in my complex that prevents FIOS from coming in. We (the tenants) think that should be illegal (and maybe it is), but good luck getting anyone to look into it. Meanwhile, Cablevision happily strings one of their main coax cables through an open basement window, snakes it up through some tree branches and over the roof of a nearby building. All because the apartment complex carelessly cut an underground cable several years ago installing a sprinkler system and refused to take responsibility.
Bottom line: I am not one of the new FIOS customers in your area chewing on the bandwidth.
Of course the nationalist jingoists won't even bother to reply. Just as decades ago, when the US was a leader in low infant mortality, they never bothered to point out that nations with higher rates might actually offer better care.
Today all you have to do is point out that America is not perfect and all of a sudden you "hate" America. Right.
I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: ndiswrapper is evil. The biggest obstacle right now to greater Linux usage, IMO, is the lack of wireless chipset drivers. ndiswrapper is a crutch, not a solution. Intel may have provided enough datasheets to enable writing wireless drivers for their chipsets, but Broadcomm is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
"Dude, just like load it with ndiswrapper and move on with working wifi!"
That attitude, I maintin, is actually harmful in the long run.
But Craigslist isn't fancy. The look and feel of Craigslist is that of buying and selling through the newspaper classified ads. ebay's user experience lets someone selling stuff from the junkyard behind their trailer feel like they are "in business".
I visit here to find out things I can't find anywhere else. This story has been on every major news outlet for over 18 hours now. I read all about it last night before I went to bed. Now it's dinner time EST and it's just now hitting slashdot? Are you kidding me?
It is a great story, but it's not really "news" at this point. By now even the most hardened geek has already seen it someplace else.
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Anyone who does NOT refuse a border agent's request to "type your password" is a coward and not worthy to call themselves an American IMO. It may seem like a small thing, a way to avoid being detained and hassled all day, but it's the little things like this that define the boundary of where our freedoms are being slowly stripped away.
The old Ben Franklin statement about those who would trade liberty for security comes to mind. It's a shame when people say, "It's all about the benjamins," that it's not THAT sentiment they're talking about. Stand up for your rights NOW - no matter how "inconvenient" it may be - or soon you won't have any to worry about. Sheeple, indeed. Pussies is more like it.
Like the IOC, International Olympic Committee. Has there ever been a more corrupt organiztion on the face of the earth? The mafia (no such thing), the RIAA, the MPAA, lawyers as a whole and bankers... take them all and roll them up into one big ball and they've got NOTHING over the IOC.
That was a differnt story about the SR71. The F117 is the Nighthawk.
/. have a way to edit posts.
OT - It's way past time that
It's about the politicians and the media convincing the people that it's worth it every month to put $15 billion into their friends' pockets. They're retiring the stealth F117 Blackbird. How much did that thing cost? What was it ever used for? Bombing Panama and Iraq? Are you kidding me?
The real Bill or Rights in the US is sheredded on a daily basis. You wouldn't even recognize it any more, and what's left requires a lawyer to explain. When the real deal is restored to its rightful place of dignity and respect, and politicians and elected leaders are subject to criminal prosecution for violations thereof, then come talk to me about a stupid (yes, it's stupid) "bill of rights". This makes me sick, really. Just like the dumb airline passenger "bill of rights" that got shot down in New York State just last week.
Why do I get the feeling this is one of those stories where TFA doesn't say what the poster thinks it says? Yep. Confirmed. I knew it before I even read the comments.
It's obvious who's behind it. The most insightful comment on the earlier story went something like this: If Apple is so hell bent on protecting its IP and enforcing its license terms, then why are they selling off-the-shelf copies to anyone who plunks down the cash?
Psystar. PsyOps. Nothing but Jobs looking to drum up more support for sales and mindshare. Mindshare is probably more important for Apple lest they lose their niche cult status and drop out of sight completely.
I'm not a member but I sometimes go in to browse the new releases while my roommate looks for something to rent. They better not use my picture without my permission. Those rights are available, at a price, and I never waived anything.
The potential is there for the web (and the internet as a whole) to improve the life of people with physical handicaps. The same potential has existed for personal computers in general for over 20 years. I remember a co-worker whose father had a stroke some years ago. She was able to identify a few key things that computers - not necessarily the web - might do to help people like her father. I don't think there's a lot of money to be made there and that's why we haven't seen more (no pun intended).
Blind people may get some help in the future. Whether they deserve it or not is a different story. I tend to think nobody deserves anything except justice and there's already precious little of that floating around.
That's completely legal. Unethical and unpatriotic, yes, but not illegal. In fact, since Bush took office those kinds of arrangements have actually been sanctioned and encouraged by the government.
These boycotts are always so effective.
I've written device drivers for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Know what? Apple's approach almost makes it easy to write device drivers. Almost. It's certainly better than what MS or Linux has to offer for developers of device drivers. But having said that I'm not about to convert to Mac evangelism. That's a niche and a cult I have no interest in joining. Mac OSX (or 9 or any of the earlier incarnations) is inferior in many ways to both Windows and Linux.
What sort of system leaves the application running after all its windows have been closed? To what purpose? It's retarded.
Have you looked at Broadcom lately? They make Cisco look like God's gift to Linux. They are absolutely paranoid, anal even, about releasing any technical information about any of their chips. And Broadcom is everywhere.
I applaud the people and universities who are pushing back against the MAFIAA, er.... uh, I mean the RIAA. They are winning tactical victories only, however, on the state level. What's not being won are strategic victories. Those would come in the form of big chunks of the population starting to realize that copyright abuse by the big money players is harmful. They would come in the form of Congress actually passing reasonable copyright reform, not the outright bribery they engage in today. Let's face it, when the RIAA starts losing enough in the courts they will shift tactics, and those will almost certainly involve paying off congress to pass draconian new criminal penalties and to lower the burden of proof.
I'm happy when I read stories like this but it's important to remember cases where people push back are wins in little battles. In the long run, most of the public doesn't care about their rights, and the war will be lost. There's already a conspiracy underway to de-legitimize the whole concept of Fair Use. Not a theory, either. A fact.
People have been wishing that for many, many years. I'm personally not a Creative fan because way back when they refused to produce decent drivers for OS/2 and no amount of cajoling or whining could make them do it. They turned a deaf ear to the public then, 15 years ago, and have continued to do so ever since. It's important to realize Creative is a Marketing company first and an audio technology company second.
ATI was the same way. They may still be that way for all I know. Since those days of OS/2 driver debacles I have never bought a product from Creative or ATI.
One of the biggest problems modern free societies face is an alleged free press that doesn't bother to check the facts about anything. If they had bothered to check the facts in this case, it should naturally lead them to the next logical question: What else is being claimed as fact with no evidence whatsoever? There's a whole lot of mis- and dis-information out there (not to mention outright lies and propaganda) and no good way for the general public to recognize it when it's spoon-fed to them. God knows the press/media isn't doing its job anymore.
If this story had been posted tomorrow, April 1, I would have dismissed it out of hand as some sort of hoax. April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year at /. One of my New Years' resolutions was to not visit /. at all tomorrow. It's just not worth it and, unlike some of those Jester jokes, the stories aren't even that funny.
I don't know how but I would hope responsible citizens would wake the fuck up and start to see the actual machinery of a police state for what it is. These drones are HUGELY expensive. They're flying them at ridiculous cost over the southwest to find and track illegal aliens? Are you fucking kidding me? That money could be better spent actually enforcing the laws that are on the books against employers hiring them in the first place. The cognitive dissonance here is mind-boggling. It proves the point that these drones are subject to mission creep like every other super expensive tech toy you give to the government. Wake up people. These drones will extend their control over your lives over the next few decades unless responsible people start saying, "No." All it takes is one evildoer inside the government (not like that's ever happened before) to flip a switch, and all of a sudden these things are looking at YOU because, after all, if you're innocent what do you have to hide? Right, Governor Spitzer?
When OS/2 version 2.0 was first released about 15 years ago it provided real multitasking for applications. Windows 3.1 at the time was moribound as a thin shell over DOS, which itself was little more than a glorified interrupt handler. Within a couple of years Warp was released and by then x486's were the rage running at 33MHz; 66 for a DX2 cpu. OS/2, however, had started providing multitasking on 80286 processors several years prior to Warp.
Microsoft and the industry trade press (which Microsoft owned through advertising support if not in name) started a campaign that marginalized multitasking as no big thing. That mindset has persisted to this day. I was lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) that I started designing and programming using threads on a pre-emptive multitasking OS almost as soon as OS/2 2.0 was released. I guess I can count myself in the camp that has been programming for less than 15 years, even though the actual number is higher than that.
The mercury released by burning coal to produce the extra electricity needed to power a standard incandescent lightbulb exceeds that in a CFC bulb. I'm not at all sure about the exact quantities involved, and, of course, all the extra electricity needed to power incandescent bulbs is not necessarily produced by burning coal.
I have Optimum Online from Cablevision. I've been salivating at the prospect of FIOS to enter the picture locally and eat Cablevision's lunch, out of spite as much as for any technical/cost reason. But no. Cablevision has a deal in place with the apartment management company in my complex that prevents FIOS from coming in. We (the tenants) think that should be illegal (and maybe it is), but good luck getting anyone to look into it. Meanwhile, Cablevision happily strings one of their main coax cables through an open basement window, snakes it up through some tree branches and over the roof of a nearby building. All because the apartment complex carelessly cut an underground cable several years ago installing a sprinkler system and refused to take responsibility.
Bottom line: I am not one of the new FIOS customers in your area chewing on the bandwidth.
Of course the nationalist jingoists won't even bother to reply. Just as decades ago, when the US was a leader in low infant mortality, they never bothered to point out that nations with higher rates might actually offer better care.
Today all you have to do is point out that America is not perfect and all of a sudden you "hate" America. Right.
I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: ndiswrapper is evil. The biggest obstacle right now to greater Linux usage, IMO, is the lack of wireless chipset drivers. ndiswrapper is a crutch, not a solution. Intel may have provided enough datasheets to enable writing wireless drivers for their chipsets, but Broadcomm is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
"Dude, just like load it with ndiswrapper and move on with working wifi!"
That attitude, I maintin, is actually harmful in the long run.
But Craigslist isn't fancy. The look and feel of Craigslist is that of buying and selling through the newspaper classified ads. ebay's user experience lets someone selling stuff from the junkyard behind their trailer feel like they are "in business".
I visit here to find out things I can't find anywhere else. This story has been on every major news outlet for over 18 hours now. I read all about it last night before I went to bed. Now it's dinner time EST and it's just now hitting slashdot? Are you kidding me?
It is a great story, but it's not really "news" at this point. By now even the most hardened geek has already seen it someplace else.