adolf, Ahh so this is now "Slashdot news for asshole linux zealots ONLY?" In case you missed Tropic Thunder here's a quote just for you.
Les Grossman: In the mean time and as usual, go fuck yourself.
you are referring to your Puritan ancestors, they were actually fleeing England because the Anglican (C. of E.) Church was to "Liberal", and they wanted tighter religious restrictions on civil life (the "Blue" laws, like no smiling on a Sunday. Or maybe you meant Kennedy?
I think it all started with the Roman Catholic Church selling indulgences.
The Revolution had much more to do with Britian trying to maintain a common currency throughout the Empire, not with the tea tax etc. most people learn about in grade school.
Our Revolution had more to do with the Colonists not having a single representative in Parliament while simultaneously being forced to pay tax and rent to King George III; not being treated properly under the Rights of Englishmen didn't help anything either.
As for the World Wars - you came late and did little in the First, and had to be attacked by the Japanese at Pearl to get dragged into the Second.
Oh right, because we're the "God Damned Americans" we're supposed to get all giddy and excited and bloodthirsty for war! I won't presume to lecture you about my people, but you need to realize that war is something we consider to be a last option. So, obviously we avoided WW1 and WW2 until there were no other choices, and obviously you are grateful (even if you never admit it) that we did enter and finish the WWs for everyone.
One final note, us Americans think it's fucking hilarious the rest of the world is embracing Piracy as the new wave government. Yeah. Like that's going to do anything besides move you backwards.
FYI, my monitor is a 32" Sony Bravia XBR7 1080p HDTV. I have not had problems playing my blu-ray discs on my friend's PS3 with it. I am pretty sure this was poor advertising by either HP or Costco, or it was intentionally misleading.
As I said in a previous post, it works with Anydvd HD. It just seems to me that they spent a lot of money on the press kit to tell everyone it's features, and intentionally neglected to say that the blu-ray player doesn't work on external monitors OUT OF THE BOX.
I agree with you completely and would like to add a couple things:
First, the Federal government regulates the drug companies through the FDA. Following that logic, it means the Federal government is willing to kill us.
Second, the Federal government doesn't think any of our people are rational actors. This is why they continue to erode the Constitution, and replace our rights with Acts that give the Feds more power than the Constitution limits them to in the first place.
Finally, I'm beginning to wonder if the doping of the masses really did start happening in the 50's and 60's. Mainly because the people I'm surrounded by on a daily basis seem to present themselves as being either a) apathetic to their current situation, or b) afraid to take up arms and revolt.
There is an undeniable generalization in your accusation of contradiction. Warrentless wiretaps were originally and unarguably targeted at foreigners and their families. The reason we didn't shoot President Bush over that is the same reason we didn't shoot Presidents Roosevelt or Truman for placing all Japanese-Americans in internment camps. It might be that your people's history hasn't presented you yet with the opportunity to accept a small amount of repression in exchange for a large amount of national security. I wouldn't know because honestly I don't care and know much about Canada.
As an American I can appreciate your right to be apathetic. I'm curious as to why you think 250 years time simply passing by would somehow numb our opposition to being oppressed? Perhaps the simple answer is that it's in our nature. The complex answer would involve a discussion on our history as a people, as well as our brief history as a sovereign nation.
Which one of those links comes virus free, and properly funnels my money to the author? I know Anydvd HD works because SlySoft has a trial version on their site. I had a payment problem that my bank was unable to help me resolve, and that prevented me from purchasing a lifetime subscription to Anydvd.
The litigious American in me questions whether or not there is a way to have HP or Costco foot the bill for Anydvd since their advertising of the features was far less than accurate to the devices abilities as sold.
The more I read about the Feds trying to impose new taxes while simultaneously trying to acquire new personal data the more I want to start an art project called "myspieduponlife.com." This project will consist of paying a willing participant to film and record all details of their life and upload the content daily to a website for global peer review.
I think I would get a sense of a couple things from this project; how much data is used to completely document a single humans daily life, and how much of that data is completely irrelevant to everyone but the subject. I think it could answer some philosophical questions regarding Big Brother watching you.
I detect an ignorance of history and of the USA in your rhetoric. Let me make it clear to you what Americans (yes, that is what we call ourselves regardless of the fact that Mexico and Canada are also "americans") stand for. We stand for the right to be left alone. We will indeed tolerate quite a bit. However, you cannot push us, let history remind you of that lesson. Time and time again, when pushed, we will defend ourselves whenever and however necessary. Starting with the Roman Catholic Church, through the American Revolution and Civil War, on through both World Wars and most recently the War on Terror.
Go ahead and mock us, scoff at our traditions and past-times, call our leaders tyrants. The fact that most of us have the right to, and do own guns, specifically to allow us to kill our leaders
should we perceive tyranny should let you know how much we dislike every other government and society that does not share this ideal. We will let you call our leader a tyrant, but you should know as the freest of all peoples on earth we will know before anyone else when our leaders actually ARE tyrants, and you bet your ass that we will kill them when that happens.
That might be true, but I still fault either HP or Costco. I may also be able to buy a new video card as well; except that a) this is a laptop, and although the video is discrete I'm not sure I can personally replace it, b) it still feels like a dupe to have all these "HD" features advertised (especially blu-ray, the video card, and HDMI out) but not be able to use them together, c) the consumer (me in this case) shouldn't be held responsible for missing information that should have been clearly printed and advertised by HP or Costco. I had to figure it out on my own by doing what I bet 99% of people that bought this same laptop did, tried to play a blu-ray disc with the HDTV hooked up to the HDMI out.
The damn thing had a great big sign that said it had HDMI out and a Blu-Ray player. I think (call me naive if you need to) it's reasonable to think that a moderately tech-savvy person would put 2 + 2 and get 4. In this case the first 2 being blu-ray player, the second 2 being HDMI out, and 4 being using the two together to watch a movie on an HDTV.
Be nice to know where those orders for $20,000 toilet seats are coming out of.
Space Shuttle? ISS? Just guessing here, but I'm quite sure everything built for space missions cost orders of magnitude more than their earthly counterparts.
All I know is, the first time I pop a blu-ray disc into my $300 player and it refuses to play because of one of your new little one-upmanship encryption schemes, I'm going to be plenty pissed.
Amen brother. I recently bought a $1200 HP Pavillion with blu-ray player and gf9600, 4gb ram yadda yadda. What interested me the most was 500gb HDD, blu-ray player, and hdmi out...
I was pissed off the very first time I played a blu-ray. You see, HDCP shut me down before I even got to the blu-ray menu. I am still very pissed off because nowhere on the box, or in the press kit; was a notification saying that although this computer has a blu-ray player AND HDMI out, that you will not be able to play a single blu-ray disc through that port. The best I get is upscaled DVDs, which I'm not surprised they haven't put BD+ on dvd's now to prevent me from doing even this.
I tried to purchase AnyDVD-HD but my Visa is declined for "109 Euros too high, authorization declined" which my bank has no idea what that means. I refuse to buy a PS3 for many reasons and I refuse to pay out another $200+ for a standalone player. I feel a bit duped by the movie studios into buying a blu-ray player that is only good on the small 17" screen built into my laptop, which does not handle 1080p:(
You don't do anything illegal; so then it's ok in your mind for me to spy on you right? Or would I have to get a job as a mounty first, then it would be ok?
I feel sympathy toward those still loyal to the King/Queen of England. I am forever indebted to my brave ancestors who had the wisdom to know the difference between liberty and slavery, and the willpower to revolt against King George.
I thought the media usage of "hacker" was to describe guys like you that bleach their hair, wear woman's mascara, pierce your eye-brow, listen to emo while breaching data systems that don't belong to you, and try to hook up with Angelina Jolie and fail because you're socially awkward.
Hacker's don't have ethics. I say this expecting to be taken with a grain of salt. As an example, is there such a thing as "burglar ethics?" One might be quick to point out a TV show with a pair of felons that break into your house to prove a point that your security sucks, but I think that's about as far as they could go.
To break into someone's something, is a violation of that someone's privacy. Whether or not you steal, or steal and extort, is moot.
Now, on the other hand, I think what the author may be confused on, is actually what I would call "Reverse Engineering/Engineering Ethics." A good programmer isn't so much a "hacker" as he is an "engineer." Of course, with our (USA) Federal government what it is (in league with foreign socialists) it is a lot easier to convey a negative connotation to the term "reverse engineer" by using the term "hacker." Please don't misunderstand me. I'm simply trying to state that "hackers" don't really have ethics, and that the author is really talking about "reverse engineers" who actually do have ethics.
the White House has invited the nation to Join the National Online Discussion on Health Care Reform
RTFS. It's not as if people should listen to you, and use "plenty of other avenues." Especially when they were invited to use YouTube. Online. To discuss.
Actually the GP is correct. During WW2 the US military experimented heavily with water injection and in some applications were achieving close to 100% more horsepower.
Modern day sports cars with superchargers can see modest gains simply by installing a water/methanol injection kit.
Leave it to/. moderators to completely fuck up a moderation...
Whoever modded this, do you really think Ayatollah Ali Khamenei isn't trying to pacify Iran's people? Do you think stupid shit like this never happen(s)(ed) in the USA?
Exactly how was that a troll? I think modding this post -1 Troll is a troll.
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adolf, Ahh so this is now "Slashdot news for asshole linux zealots ONLY?" In case you missed Tropic Thunder here's a quote just for you. Les Grossman: In the mean time and as usual, go fuck yourself.
you are referring to your Puritan ancestors, they were actually fleeing England because the Anglican (C. of E.) Church was to "Liberal", and they wanted tighter religious restrictions on civil life (the "Blue" laws, like no smiling on a Sunday. Or maybe you meant Kennedy?
I think it all started with the Roman Catholic Church selling indulgences.
The Revolution had much more to do with Britian trying to maintain a common currency throughout the Empire, not with the tea tax etc. most people learn about in grade school.
Our Revolution had more to do with the Colonists not having a single representative in Parliament while simultaneously being forced to pay tax and rent to King George III; not being treated properly under the Rights of Englishmen didn't help anything either.
As for the World Wars - you came late and did little in the First, and had to be attacked by the Japanese at Pearl to get dragged into the Second.
Oh right, because we're the "God Damned Americans" we're supposed to get all giddy and excited and bloodthirsty for war! I won't presume to lecture you about my people, but you need to realize that war is something we consider to be a last option. So, obviously we avoided WW1 and WW2 until there were no other choices, and obviously you are grateful (even if you never admit it) that we did enter and finish the WWs for everyone.
One final note, us Americans think it's fucking hilarious the rest of the world is embracing Piracy as the new wave government. Yeah. Like that's going to do anything besides move you backwards.
Citation needed.
I'm willing to put myself in cryostorage for millions of years to test this theory!
changing ports is not obscurity.
port knocking is.
Nice try though.
FYI, my monitor is a 32" Sony Bravia XBR7 1080p HDTV. I have not had problems playing my blu-ray discs on my friend's PS3 with it. I am pretty sure this was poor advertising by either HP or Costco, or it was intentionally misleading.
As I said in a previous post, it works with Anydvd HD. It just seems to me that they spent a lot of money on the press kit to tell everyone it's features, and intentionally neglected to say that the blu-ray player doesn't work on external monitors OUT OF THE BOX.
I agree with you completely and would like to add a couple things:
First, the Federal government regulates the drug companies through the FDA. Following that logic, it means the Federal government is willing to kill us.
Second, the Federal government doesn't think any of our people are rational actors. This is why they continue to erode the Constitution, and replace our rights with Acts that give the Feds more power than the Constitution limits them to in the first place.
Finally, I'm beginning to wonder if the doping of the masses really did start happening in the 50's and 60's. Mainly because the people I'm surrounded by on a daily basis seem to present themselves as being either a) apathetic to their current situation, or b) afraid to take up arms and revolt.
There is an undeniable generalization in your accusation of contradiction. Warrentless wiretaps were originally and unarguably targeted at foreigners and their families. The reason we didn't shoot President Bush over that is the same reason we didn't shoot Presidents Roosevelt or Truman for placing all Japanese-Americans in internment camps. It might be that your people's history hasn't presented you yet with the opportunity to accept a small amount of repression in exchange for a large amount of national security. I wouldn't know because honestly I don't care and know much about Canada.
As an American I can appreciate your right to be apathetic. I'm curious as to why you think 250 years time simply passing by would somehow numb our opposition to being oppressed? Perhaps the simple answer is that it's in our nature. The complex answer would involve a discussion on our history as a people, as well as our brief history as a sovereign nation.
Which one of those links comes virus free, and properly funnels my money to the author? I know Anydvd HD works because SlySoft has a trial version on their site. I had a payment problem that my bank was unable to help me resolve, and that prevented me from purchasing a lifetime subscription to Anydvd.
The litigious American in me questions whether or not there is a way to have HP or Costco foot the bill for Anydvd since their advertising of the features was far less than accurate to the devices abilities as sold.
The more I read about the Feds trying to impose new taxes while simultaneously trying to acquire new personal data the more I want to start an art project called "myspieduponlife.com." This project will consist of paying a willing participant to film and record all details of their life and upload the content daily to a website for global peer review.
I think I would get a sense of a couple things from this project; how much data is used to completely document a single humans daily life, and how much of that data is completely irrelevant to everyone but the subject. I think it could answer some philosophical questions regarding Big Brother watching you.
While that may be true, you should know how we Americans feel about the King and Queen of England, and subsequently all those loyal to them.
I detect an ignorance of history and of the USA in your rhetoric. Let me make it clear to you what Americans (yes, that is what we call ourselves regardless of the fact that Mexico and Canada are also "americans") stand for. We stand for the right to be left alone. We will indeed tolerate quite a bit. However, you cannot push us, let history remind you of that lesson. Time and time again, when pushed, we will defend ourselves whenever and however necessary. Starting with the Roman Catholic Church, through the American Revolution and Civil War, on through both World Wars and most recently the War on Terror.
Go ahead and mock us, scoff at our traditions and past-times, call our leaders tyrants. The fact that most of us have the right to, and do own guns, specifically to allow us to kill our leaders should we perceive tyranny should let you know how much we dislike every other government and society that does not share this ideal. We will let you call our leader a tyrant, but you should know as the freest of all peoples on earth we will know before anyone else when our leaders actually ARE tyrants, and you bet your ass that we will kill them when that happens.
Perhaps.
That might be true, but I still fault either HP or Costco. I may also be able to buy a new video card as well; except that a) this is a laptop, and although the video is discrete I'm not sure I can personally replace it, b) it still feels like a dupe to have all these "HD" features advertised (especially blu-ray, the video card, and HDMI out) but not be able to use them together, c) the consumer (me in this case) shouldn't be held responsible for missing information that should have been clearly printed and advertised by HP or Costco. I had to figure it out on my own by doing what I bet 99% of people that bought this same laptop did, tried to play a blu-ray disc with the HDTV hooked up to the HDMI out.
The damn thing had a great big sign that said it had HDMI out and a Blu-Ray player. I think (call me naive if you need to) it's reasonable to think that a moderately tech-savvy person would put 2 + 2 and get 4. In this case the first 2 being blu-ray player, the second 2 being HDMI out, and 4 being using the two together to watch a movie on an HDTV.
Be nice to know where those orders for $20,000 toilet seats are coming out of.
Space Shuttle? ISS? Just guessing here, but I'm quite sure everything built for space missions cost orders of magnitude more than their earthly counterparts.
All I know is, the first time I pop a blu-ray disc into my $300 player and it refuses to play because of one of your new little one-upmanship encryption schemes, I'm going to be plenty pissed.
Amen brother. I recently bought a $1200 HP Pavillion with blu-ray player and gf9600, 4gb ram yadda yadda. What interested me the most was 500gb HDD, blu-ray player, and hdmi out...
:(
I was pissed off the very first time I played a blu-ray. You see, HDCP shut me down before I even got to the blu-ray menu. I am still very pissed off because nowhere on the box, or in the press kit; was a notification saying that although this computer has a blu-ray player AND HDMI out, that you will not be able to play a single blu-ray disc through that port. The best I get is upscaled DVDs, which I'm not surprised they haven't put BD+ on dvd's now to prevent me from doing even this.
I tried to purchase AnyDVD-HD but my Visa is declined for "109 Euros too high, authorization declined" which my bank has no idea what that means. I refuse to buy a PS3 for many reasons and I refuse to pay out another $200+ for a standalone player. I feel a bit duped by the movie studios into buying a blu-ray player that is only good on the small 17" screen built into my laptop, which does not handle 1080p
You don't do anything illegal; so then it's ok in your mind for me to spy on you right? Or would I have to get a job as a mounty first, then it would be ok?
I feel sympathy toward those still loyal to the King/Queen of England. I am forever indebted to my brave ancestors who had the wisdom to know the difference between liberty and slavery, and the willpower to revolt against King George.
You joke. But I've heard about some Rule 34...
I thought the media usage of "hacker" was to describe guys like you that bleach their hair, wear woman's mascara, pierce your eye-brow, listen to emo while breaching data systems that don't belong to you, and try to hook up with Angelina Jolie and fail because you're socially awkward.
You might have a point.... except that Apache is far more popular than IIS and yet IIS is the one routinely attacked.
Citation needed? ;)
Seriously, some data would be nice.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/requested.html
Hacker's don't have ethics. I say this expecting to be taken with a grain of salt. As an example, is there such a thing as "burglar ethics?" One might be quick to point out a TV show with a pair of felons that break into your house to prove a point that your security sucks, but I think that's about as far as they could go.
To break into someone's something, is a violation of that someone's privacy. Whether or not you steal, or steal and extort, is moot.
Now, on the other hand, I think what the author may be confused on, is actually what I would call "Reverse Engineering/Engineering Ethics." A good programmer isn't so much a "hacker" as he is an "engineer." Of course, with our (USA) Federal government what it is (in league with foreign socialists) it is a lot easier to convey a negative connotation to the term "reverse engineer" by using the term "hacker." Please don't misunderstand me. I'm simply trying to state that "hackers" don't really have ethics, and that the author is really talking about "reverse engineers" who actually do have ethics.
Citation or corroboration needed.
the White House has invited the nation to Join the National Online Discussion on Health Care Reform
RTFS. It's not as if people should listen to you , and use "plenty of other avenues." Especially when they were invited to use YouTube. Online. To discuss.
Actually the GP is correct. During WW2 the US military experimented heavily with water injection and in some applications were achieving close to 100% more horsepower. Modern day sports cars with superchargers can see modest gains simply by installing a water/methanol injection kit.
Leave it to /. moderators to completely fuck up a moderation...
Whoever modded this, do you really think Ayatollah Ali Khamenei isn't trying to pacify Iran's people? Do you think stupid shit like this never happen(s)(ed) in the USA?
Exactly how was that a troll? I think modding this post -1 Troll is a troll.