Well, if you're equating this with napster, then the super-duper-replication device would only make bad copies of his fine fruit. Some of the fruit is horribly disfigured, but most of it is edible. People taste some of the good copies, and then they go to Farmer Fred and buy some of the REAL fruit, because they liked the copies so much. Of course, that's just when the RIAA jumps in front of Farmer Fred and takes all his money, only leaving him with a few cents; but that's another story for another day.
It's not CmdrTaco's fault that people accept everything they read as fact. He wasn't trying to sway ANYONE's oppinion. He stated that "I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while "I don't like Gore, "I would vote for a inanimate carbon rod for president before "I would vote for GWB." Notice all those's "I"'s in there? He didn't say "I COMMAND ALL OF YOU SHEEP TO VOTE FOR THE CARBON ROD!"
The telescope was built in a limestone sinkhole ontop of a mountain. There was nothing there but small vegitation and insects. And as for the 'arecibeños', the telescope has probably bolstered their economy, if anything.
The SETI radio collector at Arecebo just 'goes along for the ride' beside the main reciever, so they really don't choose where they are collecting data from...
After two hours of question-and-answer and file copy, "Windows was unable to locate the correct driver for a simple componant of your system. Try going through the installation process again, but next time try praying to Our Savior Gates. Don't even think of changing your configuration, as it resides in an obfuscated section of the registry, and you won't be able to modify it without booting to a GUI, which in turn can't be done because of the conflict. (I hope you love irony, because I'm secretly laughing at you.) If any of this fails to resolve your conflict, try calling microsoft and working your way through the maze of options in our automated calling service. And please keep in mind, this isn't stupidity, it's innovation!" Fun for the whole family!
I too am thankful to have not seen survivor or any of those other crap shows. A *really* funny ending to survivor would be if at the end, the entire island exploded from an underground gas deposit and they all died...
Most people I know don't know the difference between theory and hypothesys, and it gets kind of annoying when they think that theory means 'the guess of some guy off the street'.
The funny thing about linux, and CLI's in general is that they *aren't* really that hard to learn. I, being a newly converted linux user, found most of the configuration of linux to be rather common-sense. None of that registry "let's hide everything from the user and obfuscate every little configuration" crap from windows. The big problem is that people are too ignorant to learn anything. They want answers spoon-fed to them via a pretty little animated paperclip. Yesterday, I compiled my first linux kernel. I had never done this before, but I read the documentation and went about it carefully. It took me a few hours (it took about 40mins to compile on my p100) to get everything working correctly, and I'm a better user because of the experience. The only thing that a user needs to do to use linux is invest the time and patience to learn about it. It's funny how people are immediately scared of any new interface or problem they encounter rather than risking screwing something up and learning about what went wrong and how to fix it.
"Anyone who gives up freedom for a little bit of security deserves neither freedom nor security." That is a badly mangled quote from Ben Franklin, I believe, and it still holds true today. You can't just give up freedoms because it is convenient or because it affords you a small measure of security. Here's another quote, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." For the same reasons you can access the above information, you can also access any other information you want to, no matter how many people object to it. And here's a final quote for you (I'm not sure of the source), "I disagree with everything you're saying, but I am willing to die for your freedom to say it."
Politicians don't want to waste money on the space program that they could be using to build some perfectly good spying machines. *cough* Carnivore *cough*
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Well, if you're equating this with napster, then the super-duper-replication device would only make bad copies of his fine fruit. Some of the fruit is horribly disfigured, but most of it is edible. People taste some of the good copies, and then they go to Farmer Fred and buy some of the REAL fruit, because they liked the copies so much. Of course, that's just when the RIAA jumps in front of Farmer Fred and takes all his money, only leaving him with a few cents; but that's another story for another day.
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But, most people are too stupid to realize this, and the government has to take action to protect them.
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HP/TI calculators are excellent at trig and stats. I could write a conversion program in TI Basic in about twenty minutes.
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Microsoft...affordable price... Bahahahaha!
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It's not CmdrTaco's fault that people accept everything they read as fact. He wasn't trying to sway ANYONE's oppinion. He stated that "I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while "I don't like Gore, "I would vote for a inanimate carbon rod for president before "I would vote for GWB." Notice all those's "I"'s in there? He didn't say "I COMMAND ALL OF YOU SHEEP TO VOTE FOR THE CARBON ROD!"
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Slashdot isn't a 'news network', it's HIS SITE!
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Uhh, you could just set up a physical firewall with an old 486 box that would block incoming and outgoing traffic other than what you specify.
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The telescope was built in a limestone sinkhole ontop of a mountain. There was nothing there but small vegitation and insects. And as for the 'arecibeños', the telescope has probably bolstered their economy, if anything.
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The SETI radio collector at Arecebo just 'goes along for the ride' beside the main reciever, so they really don't choose where they are collecting data from...
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After two hours of question-and-answer and file copy, "Windows was unable to locate the correct driver for a simple componant of your system. Try going through the installation process again, but next time try praying to Our Savior Gates. Don't even think of changing your configuration, as it resides in an obfuscated section of the registry, and you won't be able to modify it without booting to a GUI, which in turn can't be done because of the conflict. (I hope you love irony, because I'm secretly laughing at you.) If any of this fails to resolve your conflict, try calling microsoft and working your way through the maze of options in our automated calling service. And please keep in mind, this isn't stupidity, it's innovation!" Fun for the whole family!
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I too am thankful to have not seen survivor or any of those other crap shows. A *really* funny ending to survivor would be if at the end, the entire island exploded from an underground gas deposit and they all died...
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Most people I know don't know the difference between theory and hypothesys, and it gets kind of annoying when they think that theory means 'the guess of some guy off the street'.
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They didn't fool me... I still think the show is worthless.
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The funny thing about linux, and CLI's in general is that they *aren't* really that hard to learn. I, being a newly converted linux user, found most of the configuration of linux to be rather common-sense. None of that registry "let's hide everything from the user and obfuscate every little configuration" crap from windows. The big problem is that people are too ignorant to learn anything. They want answers spoon-fed to them via a pretty little animated paperclip. Yesterday, I compiled my first linux kernel. I had never done this before, but I read the documentation and went about it carefully. It took me a few hours (it took about 40mins to compile on my p100) to get everything working correctly, and I'm a better user because of the experience. The only thing that a user needs to do to use linux is invest the time and patience to learn about it. It's funny how people are immediately scared of any new interface or problem they encounter rather than risking screwing something up and learning about what went wrong and how to fix it.
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"Will W2K be more unstable in 2 or 3 years?"
Just let them release a few 'service' releases...
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I'd live on another planet just to get away from all the idiots around where I live... they're taking over!
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You might be thinking of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) :)
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Logitech already has made them :)
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My msft mouse has about a 5-7mm focus range, any farther than that and it stops tracking and the light shuts off.
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Heh.. You want buttons on your mouse?! Too complicated! Apple knows what's best for you...
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It's the MPAA, not the RIAA (they're a completely different price-fixing conglomorate fixed on controling your mind).
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Because, according to the MPAA, you never really bought the disk, you just liscenced it. :/
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"Anyone who gives up freedom for a little bit of security deserves neither freedom nor security."
That is a badly mangled quote from Ben Franklin, I believe, and it still holds true today. You can't just give up freedoms because it is convenient or because it affords you a small measure of security. Here's another quote, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." For the same reasons you can access the above information, you can also access any other information you want to, no matter how many people object to it. And here's a final quote for you (I'm not sure of the source), "I disagree with everything you're saying, but I am willing to die for your freedom to say it."
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Politicians don't want to waste money on the space program that they could be using to build some perfectly good spying machines. *cough* Carnivore *cough*
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ASTRONOMY, NOT ASTROLOGY!
Please don't confuse the two.
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