This would be a great way to look up and view buildings by address/location.
Did you figure that one out all by yourself? Man. The rest of us dumb fools just read the writeup, but here you are posting your own creative, original ideas. A+ for you.
Read the first goddamn line of the writeup. Specifically the part where it says that it is a followup to the story you linked to. Yes, slashdot is sponsored by a fucking game. You figured it out.
This just hit me. Suppose we put our music files up, but then we either encrypt the files or encrypt the connection or something, and use a really shitty "encryption" algorithm like ROT13 or something. This should have two effects. Number one, one could claim that he had his files up for his own personal use and he had them encrypted so that nobody else could access them. Number two, if the RIAA broke the encryption to see that you are sharing files, then *BAM* sue them under the DMCA for circumventing encryption.
Now there is a lot of stuff to be worked out with this method. And it would make a criminal out of everyone(for breaking encryption) but the kind of people who download music for free don't seem to care about that sort of thing(though I'm not saying downloading music is a criminal act).
Read the parent a bit more carefully. Specifically, read the sentences surrounding the sentence in the quote you made. He was not giving that as a justification for copyright infringement. He was putting this idea out as a counter to the RIAA's claim that a person downloading a song without paying is a lost sale. The RIAA's logic is wrong because, just as the original poster stated, many people just would not buy the music, so it is not a lost sale. He was not justifying copyright infringement. He was only countering an RIAA claim.
See, the thing is, it really wasn't funny. It hasn't been funny for the past few months. It is especially not funny when the person is obviously not new here. And then by being newer than that person, you just took the last remaining bit of funny out of the post. Sorry this reply is so late.
I have a pretty regular use for my explorer. I dumpster dive and I regularly find stuff that is either just to big to fit in a normal(efficient) car or it would just be too awkward to try to get into a normal car. I could get by with a regular car but when I step back and look at everything I do with a vehicle, the explorer makes sense. I also got it for $2k a year ago. Many of the cars available for that price are either so old or so poorly maintained that they don't get much better gas mileage. I'm going to start biking to work, though. It is less than two milesso it won't be too bad. I need the exercise anyway.
It isn't great, but there are plenty of cars that have been on the road longer than SUVs and use more gas than SUVs. Why do people not complain about people driving pickup trucks? What about sports cars? "Oh, well, blugh blugh, well most of the people who drive SUVs don't even need them!!" Fuck off. How do you know what they do with their cars? Do you follow them around all the fucking time? Well I say you don't need your car. It is completely overkill. Get rid of it. Ride a bike. That is all you need. You have absolutely no reason to be driving a car. I know this because I am an expert in everything you do and I know what is best for you and everyone else.
My post was not an advocation of a drug war or telling people what to do. I simply chose two examples that people would recognize. Many people see right through the drug war and have lost faith in it. However, many people also realize that abuse of anything is rarely good for anyone. One could just as easily overdose on sugar as he could on cocaine. Once again, I am not advocating telling people what to do. It was simply an example to help people to understand my point.
If you buy a full retail version of Windows then you can do whatever the hell you want with it. It is not tied to any particular machine. However, OEM versions of Windows that come installed on computers are usually tied to whatever computer it was originally installed on. Although Microsoft isn't directly producing and selling windows 95/98/ME anymore, I believe there are still places that have legal copies for sale. There are certainly many many copies that people bought back in the day but they are not using anymore. Also, what is wrong with doing something just to say, "Hey, look at this!"? This may also pave the way for other, more useful projects, so this project may not be entirely useless.
Jesus christ, dude. Is there a use to ANY hobby? Is there a use to collecting stamps? I sure can't think of any. Is there a purpose to playing miniature golf? People playing mini golf certainly are not helping to cure cancer or fight drug abuse. Why do people play miniature golf? BECAUSE THEY FUCKING WANT TO. God damn. Why fucking do anything? Just because you do not find something useful or entertaining or beneficial DOES NOT mean that it is not useful or entertaining or beneficial to everyone else. Grow up.
You can get a letter-sized fresnel sheet magnifier at Office Max or maybe even WalMart or somewhere like that for probably less than $5. Might not be big enough for what you need but they are easily available if you can't find them anywhere else.
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Nobody has to sign a contract when buying a motorcycle stating that he will ONLY ride the motorcycle every day for everything he is going to do for the rest of his life. I'm sure there are some people who only have a motorcycle and do not have a car, but I'm sure there are also many people who have a car in addition to a motorcycle. This guy in particular could use the motorcycle for his commute to save on gas, and then use his car in situations that warrant using a car(such as getting groceries in the snow).
Have you been reduced to only reading the slashdot headlines? If you had even read the writeup you would have seen that the person got two versions(12.3 and 12.3t). And you said it yourself - linux is just a kernel. Imagine how big the source code is for a full GNU/linux operating system. 800 megs does not sound entirely unreasonable for two versions of an operating system.
I don't know what my university's soda contracts are like, but I know my dining hall has both coke and pepsi products. I don't drink either of them, but but they are there if I ever want them. We also have coke, pepsi, and 7up vending machines.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a horrible solution. Haven't you ever seen your tv blip or heard your radio go staticy during lightning? Lightning acts like a very large spark-gap transmitter. As we all know, spark-gap transmitters throw out nasty RF over several freqencies, and I don't think they discriminate against 2.5GHz.
There are proper ways to protect a network against lightning, and there are halfass "solutions" like these. Make sure you do your research before choosing either one.
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His point was that internet2 is an academic research network. It connects universities. It is not for use by the general population. If you have a use for it then you will have access to it. If you do not have access to it then you do not have a use for it. It is not about being secretive or elite or anything; it is about keeping internet2 clean so that it can be used for what it needs to be used for.
You're so full of shit. When we got digital cable(time warner), a man from the cable company came out to hook up the boxes. He programmed the remotes for our tvs and showed us how to use them. There are power buttons on the remote for the tv and the cable box. Most of the time my family just leaves the cable box on and just turns the tv on and off. I doubt the box uses significantly more power when on than when off. They rarely need the original tv remote(only time is when they watch dvds and need to change the input on the tv).
To recap: you don't have to mess with programming the remotes(they should do that for you) and you should not need to use your original tv remote.
I seem to recall an announcement a while back saying that HP was getting out of the calculator business. Since then they have released two new calculators(HP49G+ and then this one). What's up? I love HP calcs though. I have an old HP41CV that I have thought about selling on ebay(they are worth quite a bit now) but I think I'm going to keep it. RPN is the best idea ever.
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Did you figure that one out all by yourself? Man. The rest of us dumb fools just read the writeup, but here you are posting your own creative, original ideas. A+ for you.
Read the first goddamn line of the writeup. Specifically the part where it says that it is a followup to the story you linked to. Yes, slashdot is sponsored by a fucking game. You figured it out.
Has slashdot started inserting the letter 'k' in random places or did you actually write 'wireless nick'?
This just hit me. Suppose we put our music files up, but then we either encrypt the files or encrypt the connection or something, and use a really shitty "encryption" algorithm like ROT13 or something. This should have two effects. Number one, one could claim that he had his files up for his own personal use and he had them encrypted so that nobody else could access them. Number two, if the RIAA broke the encryption to see that you are sharing files, then *BAM* sue them under the DMCA for circumventing encryption.
Now there is a lot of stuff to be worked out with this method. And it would make a criminal out of everyone(for breaking encryption) but the kind of people who download music for free don't seem to care about that sort of thing(though I'm not saying downloading music is a criminal act).
Read the parent a bit more carefully. Specifically, read the sentences surrounding the sentence in the quote you made. He was not giving that as a justification for copyright infringement. He was putting this idea out as a counter to the RIAA's claim that a person downloading a song without paying is a lost sale. The RIAA's logic is wrong because, just as the original poster stated, many people just would not buy the music, so it is not a lost sale. He was not justifying copyright infringement. He was only countering an RIAA claim.
See, the thing is, it really wasn't funny. It hasn't been funny for the past few months. It is especially not funny when the person is obviously not new here. And then by being newer than that person, you just took the last remaining bit of funny out of the post. Sorry this reply is so late.
I have a pretty regular use for my explorer. I dumpster dive and I regularly find stuff that is either just to big to fit in a normal(efficient) car or it would just be too awkward to try to get into a normal car. I could get by with a regular car but when I step back and look at everything I do with a vehicle, the explorer makes sense. I also got it for $2k a year ago. Many of the cars available for that price are either so old or so poorly maintained that they don't get much better gas mileage. I'm going to start biking to work, though. It is less than two milesso it won't be too bad. I need the exercise anyway.
It isn't great, but there are plenty of cars that have been on the road longer than SUVs and use more gas than SUVs. Why do people not complain about people driving pickup trucks? What about sports cars? "Oh, well, blugh blugh, well most of the people who drive SUVs don't even need them!!" Fuck off. How do you know what they do with their cars? Do you follow them around all the fucking time? Well I say you don't need your car. It is completely overkill. Get rid of it. Ride a bike. That is all you need. You have absolutely no reason to be driving a car. I know this because I am an expert in everything you do and I know what is best for you and everyone else.
Swing and a miss. Just keep posting that and some day it will be on-topic.
My post was not an advocation of a drug war or telling people what to do. I simply chose two examples that people would recognize. Many people see right through the drug war and have lost faith in it. However, many people also realize that abuse of anything is rarely good for anyone. One could just as easily overdose on sugar as he could on cocaine. Once again, I am not advocating telling people what to do. It was simply an example to help people to understand my point.
If you buy a full retail version of Windows then you can do whatever the hell you want with it. It is not tied to any particular machine. However, OEM versions of Windows that come installed on computers are usually tied to whatever computer it was originally installed on. Although Microsoft isn't directly producing and selling windows 95/98/ME anymore, I believe there are still places that have legal copies for sale. There are certainly many many copies that people bought back in the day but they are not using anymore. Also, what is wrong with doing something just to say, "Hey, look at this!"? This may also pave the way for other, more useful projects, so this project may not be entirely useless.
Jesus christ, dude. Is there a use to ANY hobby? Is there a use to collecting stamps? I sure can't think of any. Is there a purpose to playing miniature golf? People playing mini golf certainly are not helping to cure cancer or fight drug abuse. Why do people play miniature golf? BECAUSE THEY FUCKING WANT TO. God damn. Why fucking do anything? Just because you do not find something useful or entertaining or beneficial DOES NOT mean that it is not useful or entertaining or beneficial to everyone else. Grow up.
To make the link work, take the space out of story. Slashcode puts it there so that people can't widen the page.
You can get a letter-sized fresnel sheet magnifier at Office Max or maybe even WalMart or somewhere like that for probably less than $5. Might not be big enough for what you need but they are easily available if you can't find them anywhere else.
Nobody has to sign a contract when buying a motorcycle stating that he will ONLY ride the motorcycle every day for everything he is going to do for the rest of his life. I'm sure there are some people who only have a motorcycle and do not have a car, but I'm sure there are also many people who have a car in addition to a motorcycle. This guy in particular could use the motorcycle for his commute to save on gas, and then use his car in situations that warrant using a car(such as getting groceries in the snow).
You are newer than he is! God dammit that is so stupid.
Where have I heard this?
Have you been reduced to only reading the slashdot headlines? If you had even read the writeup you would have seen that the person got two versions(12.3 and 12.3t). And you said it yourself - linux is just a kernel. Imagine how big the source code is for a full GNU/linux operating system. 800 megs does not sound entirely unreasonable for two versions of an operating system.
I don't know what my university's soda contracts are like, but I know my dining hall has both coke and pepsi products. I don't drink either of them, but but they are there if I ever want them. We also have coke, pepsi, and 7up vending machines.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a horrible solution. Haven't you ever seen your tv blip or heard your radio go staticy during lightning? Lightning acts like a very large spark-gap transmitter. As we all know, spark-gap transmitters throw out nasty RF over several freqencies, and I don't think they discriminate against 2.5GHz.
There are proper ways to protect a network against lightning, and there are halfass "solutions" like these. Make sure you do your research before choosing either one.
Yes! I finally figured out the formula to getting schoolchildren to look at porn! Tell everyone to go to healthmedicalrightsbigtitshotsex.com. I'll be a millionaire! Thanks fostware.
His point was that internet2 is an academic research network. It connects universities. It is not for use by the general population. If you have a use for it then you will have access to it. If you do not have access to it then you do not have a use for it. It is not about being secretive or elite or anything; it is about keeping internet2 clean so that it can be used for what it needs to be used for.
You're so full of shit. When we got digital cable(time warner), a man from the cable company came out to hook up the boxes. He programmed the remotes for our tvs and showed us how to use them. There are power buttons on the remote for the tv and the cable box. Most of the time my family just leaves the cable box on and just turns the tv on and off. I doubt the box uses significantly more power when on than when off. They rarely need the original tv remote(only time is when they watch dvds and need to change the input on the tv).
To recap: you don't have to mess with programming the remotes(they should do that for you) and you should not need to use your original tv remote.
bob dylan. Funny name for a programming language though.
I seem to recall an announcement a while back saying that HP was getting out of the calculator business. Since then they have released two new calculators(HP49G+ and then this one). What's up? I love HP calcs though. I have an old HP41CV that I have thought about selling on ebay(they are worth quite a bit now) but I think I'm going to keep it. RPN is the best idea ever.