"Why not smoke a joint at coffee-break to take the edge of an especially stressful day? There aren't any good, recent studies I'm aware of that show these actions negatively impact worker productivity."
If there aren't any studies relating use of marijuana to ability to do work, it is probably because the answer is so blatently obvious. Have you ever met someone who has been using marijana for many years? Brain-dead. The term "smoked himself retarded" is more than just a joke, it is something that actually happens. And if I had a coworker come back from lunch high, I would be extremely angry having to work with him on a project. Your drug anecdote has nothing to do with genetically enhanced people. The reason drugs are illegal is because their harmful effects are real. Some drugs are not harmful--the military uses cafine pills for enhancing soldier performance. Your miss-reasoned stab at drug laws just doesn't apply.
IPv6, replacement for SMTP, Slashdot style moderation on USENET, default encryption on all data transfers, DHCP configures EVERYTHING (like mail server, news server, etc), and more naked women. That would be perfect.
If the DMCA didn't allow companies to lock out competiting ink cartridges, we would just have to spend more money on printers. All the same, really. Buy a personal lazer printer, like me, and you won't even care anymore.
"Why in the world should the government have an automatic percentage stake in something I invent? That would be penalizing someone for being successful"
Um... All taxes are penalizing someone for being successful. The more money you make the more the government takes.
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of people tend to act like children when they are online even if they seem mature in person. My hypothesis is that removing face-to-face contact removes many of the social pressures that force us to act 'maturely'.
Theo's freedom is paid for by the DoD. The US military is what has keeps all of North America safe. The US military is the defensive force for all of NA and many other parts of the world. I don't see why Canada doesn't pay us taxes to fund our military. It's not like they could fight off an invasion.
"I would recommend Dell, Amazon.com and Viking Components for rebate deals"
NO! Don't ever trust a rebate from Amazon.com. They are crooks! I bought a mouse for $30 off of Amazon.com. Then I printed an "Amazon.com $25 Rebate" off of the Amazon site itself. I sent it in, then several weeks later I got a notice in the mail from Amazon saying my rebate was not valaid because I didn't order it from an "authorized retailer" or some shit. What? I got it directly from Amazon.com! You damn dirty thieves.
The only way to attract Linux game programmers is with a single audio, video and input standard interface. Due to the decentralized nature of Linux, it is unlikely this will ever happen. It just goes to show how having a central controlling power for an entire operating system can have some big advantages over the open source model.
Lawmakers just get aids (or interns or whatever) for free (any polsci major would volunteer to work with a congressman). These kids have to delete the spam and just pass the real email (or summaries) to the representative. Your idea causes hurt an no gain.
Yes, we should just genetic engineers to creat viruses (like SARS, not Melissa) and spread them to the population. Then we should come up with a technical solution (like an anti-virus) to go kill the virus in the survivors.
"It is circular to argue that a technology that can annihilate us can also be used to protect us from the annihilation that the technology causes."
He didn't say to protect from annihilation caused by technology. It could protect us from a deadly natural disease, or a deadly meteor strike, or, in the long term, the deadly destruction of the Sun. If we stopped developing technology, as many technophopes would like, the human race is doomed. Our sun will eventually change so that human life can't live on earth. If we don't develope the tech to colonize other solar systems, we are all doomed.
I should expand. It really is the fastest browser as far as using the back and forward buttons go. It stores the RENDERED page in memory, so pressing back instantly shows the page. IE and Moz store the source to the page in memory, so every time you go back, they have to read it from the disk and then render it. Waiting on the 'back' button to work is my biggest gripe with IE and Moz. Opera has some very good ideas in their browser.
"but killing someone who is a vector for a 5% fatal illness, even a virulent one, is trading a probable death for a certain one"
Actually, it is trading an exponentially many probable deaths for one certain one. And your state-power slippery slope argument is a little silly, too. But that doesn't make your couclusion wrong.
I propose we pass a law that makes it illegal to put established non-enforceable clauses in a contract. This would end ISPs claiming they own everything you broadcast. This would end lots of the crap Microsoft tries to put in its licenses. It would also make click-through licenses and AUPs much shorter and more likely to be read.
Moderators: if part of a message is not dirrectly on topic, that does not make the whole message off-topic. I think slashdot is giving out moderation points far too easily these days. People who don't know what they are doing are moderating.
"Sun May Use Opteron Chips"
Probably because of this war coverage, I cringe every time I see the word "may" in a news headline. News sources need to start reporting FACTS! Slashdot, FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC: If you can't write the headline without using the word "may", don't publish it as news!.
"We may have killed Osama!"
"We may have killed Sadam!"
"We may have found WMD in Iraq!"
"We may have killed Sadam!"
"Sun May Use Opteron Chips"
"We may be living in tubes with our brains plugged in to a computer-simulation of the world!"
In response to this guy's loony rant, I just want to tell everyone else who is paranoid and loony (you probably don't realize you are):
MOVIES ARE NOT REAL!
And you people afraid of this ultra-shortwave RFID stuff are about as loony as the people in the 70's who were scared to death of barcodes. No matter how much you protest, this stuff will be ubiquitous soon. And it will not change any of our lives except to make things a little easier. And it will force that loony 0.0001% of the population who hang out on internet message boards half the time and spend the rest of their time ripping the soles out of their shoes looking for CIA bugs to also pull these tags out of their sleeves. Too bad for them.
Actually, I am going to voluntarily get an RFID tag installed on my bike today to help me identify it if it is stolen. It is good tech.
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Oh, this board has it. It is called "legacy usb support". That does not work. In fact, no BSDs work, either. As far as I know, microsoft OSs are the only ones with complete USB support (keyboards connected through hubs).
"Like Theo said, taking the money prevented that money from being used on a cruise missile."
Actually, I think that money would probably only buy like 2 crise missiles. And the chances are, by the time they are made, the war will be over and those missiles would just be used for troop training by blowing up cacti in the western US desert. Or, hopefully, they would be used to take out that nutjob who is running North Korea.
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No version of slackware will install if your usb keyboard and mouse are plugged into a usb hub. Actually, NO version of linux will install this way. Windows2000 is far superior to Linux in USB support, as it installs no problem.
Right. You think Bush somehow enacted the legal loopholes that allow the government to keep someone like this. News for ya: Bush doens't make the laws. He signs them but your representatives make them. And probably the laws that allow them to do it were around long before bush. People like you make me laugh. Anything any government agency does is somehow blamed on Bush. Feh.
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"Why not smoke a joint at coffee-break to take the edge of an especially stressful day? There aren't any good, recent studies I'm aware of that show these actions negatively impact worker productivity."
If there aren't any studies relating use of marijuana to ability to do work, it is probably because the answer is so blatently obvious. Have you ever met someone who has been using marijana for many years? Brain-dead. The term "smoked himself retarded" is more than just a joke, it is something that actually happens. And if I had a coworker come back from lunch high, I would be extremely angry having to work with him on a project. Your drug anecdote has nothing to do with genetically enhanced people. The reason drugs are illegal is because their harmful effects are real. Some drugs are not harmful--the military uses cafine pills for enhancing soldier performance. Your miss-reasoned stab at drug laws just doesn't apply.
IPv6, replacement for SMTP, Slashdot style moderation on USENET, default encryption on all data transfers, DHCP configures EVERYTHING (like mail server, news server, etc), and more naked women. That would be perfect.
If the DMCA didn't allow companies to lock out competiting ink cartridges, we would just have to spend more money on printers. All the same, really. Buy a personal lazer printer, like me, and you won't even care anymore.
"Why in the world should the government have an automatic percentage stake in something I invent? That would be penalizing someone for being successful"
Um... All taxes are penalizing someone for being successful. The more money you make the more the government takes.
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of people tend to act like children when they are online even if they seem mature in person. My hypothesis is that removing face-to-face contact removes many of the social pressures that force us to act 'maturely'.
Theo's freedom is paid for by the DoD. The US military is what has keeps all of North America safe. The US military is the defensive force for all of NA and many other parts of the world. I don't see why Canada doesn't pay us taxes to fund our military. It's not like they could fight off an invasion.
"I would recommend Dell, Amazon.com and Viking Components for rebate deals"
NO! Don't ever trust a rebate from Amazon.com. They are crooks! I bought a mouse for $30 off of Amazon.com. Then I printed an "Amazon.com $25 Rebate" off of the Amazon site itself. I sent it in, then several weeks later I got a notice in the mail from Amazon saying my rebate was not valaid because I didn't order it from an "authorized retailer" or some shit. What? I got it directly from Amazon.com! You damn dirty thieves.
The only way to attract Linux game programmers is with a single audio, video and input standard interface. Due to the decentralized nature of Linux, it is unlikely this will ever happen. It just goes to show how having a central controlling power for an entire operating system can have some big advantages over the open source model.
Lawmakers just get aids (or interns or whatever) for free (any polsci major would volunteer to work with a congressman). These kids have to delete the spam and just pass the real email (or summaries) to the representative. Your idea causes hurt an no gain.
"All Legal Solutions to Tech Problems are Bad"
Yes, we should just genetic engineers to creat viruses (like SARS, not Melissa) and spread them to the population. Then we should come up with a technical solution (like an anti-virus) to go kill the virus in the survivors.
Get off it, man.
You don't understand how email works. I could set up a mail server, make up a name, spam, then take it down. I could do this as much as I want.
"It is circular to argue that a technology that can annihilate us can also be used to protect us from the annihilation that the technology causes."
He didn't say to protect from annihilation caused by technology. It could protect us from a deadly natural disease, or a deadly meteor strike, or, in the long term, the deadly destruction of the Sun. If we stopped developing technology, as many technophopes would like, the human race is doomed. Our sun will eventually change so that human life can't live on earth. If we don't develope the tech to colonize other solar systems, we are all doomed.
That is no reason to help other bad guys.
Not giving this talk could have saved the university from a rash of fraud.
I should expand. It really is the fastest browser as far as using the back and forward buttons go. It stores the RENDERED page in memory, so pressing back instantly shows the page. IE and Moz store the source to the page in memory, so every time you go back, they have to read it from the disk and then render it. Waiting on the 'back' button to work is my biggest gripe with IE and Moz. Opera has some very good ideas in their browser.
There already is an 'octane' rating for internet access. It is called 'kbps'.
"but killing someone who is a vector for a 5% fatal illness, even a virulent one, is trading a probable death for a certain one"
Actually, it is trading an exponentially many probable deaths for one certain one. And your state-power slippery slope argument is a little silly, too. But that doesn't make your couclusion wrong.
I propose we pass a law that makes it illegal to put established non-enforceable clauses in a contract. This would end ISPs claiming they own everything you broadcast. This would end lots of the crap Microsoft tries to put in its licenses. It would also make click-through licenses and AUPs much shorter and more likely to be read.
Who's with me?
Moderators: if part of a message is not dirrectly on topic, that does not make the whole message off-topic. I think slashdot is giving out moderation points far too easily these days. People who don't know what they are doing are moderating.
"Sun May Use Opteron Chips"
Probably because of this war coverage, I cringe every time I see the word "may" in a news headline. News sources need to start reporting FACTS! Slashdot, FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC: If you can't write the headline without using the word "may", don't publish it as news!.
"We may have killed Osama!"
"We may have killed Sadam!"
"We may have found WMD in Iraq!"
"We may have killed Sadam!"
"Sun May Use Opteron Chips"
"We may be living in tubes with our brains plugged in to a computer-simulation of the world!"
I'm sick of it! Report FACTS!
In response to this guy's loony rant, I just want to tell everyone else who is paranoid and loony (you probably don't realize you are):
MOVIES ARE NOT REAL!
And you people afraid of this ultra-shortwave RFID stuff are about as loony as the people in the 70's who were scared to death of barcodes. No matter how much you protest, this stuff will be ubiquitous soon. And it will not change any of our lives except to make things a little easier. And it will force that loony 0.0001% of the population who hang out on internet message boards half the time and spend the rest of their time ripping the soles out of their shoes looking for CIA bugs to also pull these tags out of their sleeves. Too bad for them.
Actually, I am going to voluntarily get an RFID tag installed on my bike today to help me identify it if it is stolen. It is good tech.
Oh, this board has it. It is called "legacy usb support". That does not work. In fact, no BSDs work, either. As far as I know, microsoft OSs are the only ones with complete USB support (keyboards connected through hubs).
"Like Theo said, taking the money prevented that money from being used on a cruise missile."
Actually, I think that money would probably only buy like 2 crise missiles. And the chances are, by the time they are made, the war will be over and those missiles would just be used for troop training by blowing up cacti in the western US desert. Or, hopefully, they would be used to take out that nutjob who is running North Korea.
No version of slackware will install if your usb keyboard and mouse are plugged into a usb hub. Actually, NO version of linux will install this way. Windows2000 is far superior to Linux in USB support, as it installs no problem.
Right. You think Bush somehow enacted the legal loopholes that allow the government to keep someone like this. News for ya: Bush doens't make the laws. He signs them but your representatives make them. And probably the laws that allow them to do it were around long before bush. People like you make me laugh. Anything any government agency does is somehow blamed on Bush. Feh.