"I hate spam but I'll fight for your right to send it. I don't want the government making laws about Internet content. Its just a bad idea. Tomorrow they might make a law against something you do. "
People will mod up anything that smells of anti-law or anti-government. Frankly I'm glad the state of Michigan has laws to stop people from using my fax paper to spam me. Or from people calling me at 2:00am with an auto-dialer.
The government made laws for telephone and fax use and somehow I pulled through this age of the apocalypse. I think the Internet will survive the oppressiveness of the government.
"Our own interpretation of these test results is that nVidia is improperly cutting corners to attempt to inflate its 3DMark2003 scores for the new GeForceFX 5900 Ultra. The company, on the other hand, again believes that the problems can be attributed to a driver bug. Let's explore exactly what we found, and you can draw your own conclusions."
They didn't say proof they said in their own interpretation. They didn't put out a news flash that says Nvidia is cheating their consumers. They said there might be a problem and they are investigating it.
Either way its good that they spotted this. If it was just a "bug" then fixing it will decrease the score. If the bug was on purpose the fix will decrease the score. Either way the result is the same. The benchmarks before weren't accurate and nvidia's new coming didn't kick ATI's ass by so much.
How about you instead buy the stock and take the profits you make and send them to a worthy charity. If you really believe their horrible business practices will give them more profits then be the one to get the profits and give them to the right places.
Um, if your spam is that bad how about changing your email address? And for the next six months just inform people where to contact you from now on. My new hotmail and yahoo email addresses almost never get spam (one a week maybe). The people who get 100+ spam a day are the people with public email such as the slashdot authors at this site.
Saying there is a possible future link between terrorists and Saddam H. to carry out mutual American destruction is like saying American would team up with UBL to stop the Soviet Union. Or that the US would team up with Saddam to take out Iran.
My prof on Atmosphere said "the solution to pollution is dilution." I think spreading it out to the countryside would help a lot of health problems. Now global warming may raise water levels but only rich people with coastal land will have to deal with the problems they started. And that Bangladesh place I think. Opps.
When 3% of desktop computers change a feature it isn't news. When 90% of desktop computers change their dll system it can become a worthy newspost. I think its not about the feature but how it will affect the mom and dads who don't follow techie news. No longer will they become confused (or irate) when they install an app and another breaks.
Though this could bring slower performance I think it will be negligable to most windows users.
So does Best Buy, I don't even hand them my credit card anymore when I return something. It definitely speeds transactions (cost cutting to them) at the price of a possible stolen credit card to the consumer.
So is NASA planning on writing off Russia totally? Do they get to use the Internation Space Station later on if they get funding (economy improves, etc)?
Slashdot is just a news site. Read an article, read the comments for more info or comments from the peanut gallery. If you actually put time into getting a "good" rating in your karma or think your Score -1 comment is actually causing people grief then think again.
Caring about good karma/bad karma ranks slightly below collecting bottle caps in the "Useful Things to Do" list.
Have you ever read comic books? The only known kyrptonite was given to batman from superman to stop him in case he goes crazy. I agree with what others are saying. If Batman attacks then he wins but if superman attacks first he wins (b/c batman doesn't carry around the kryptonite 24/7).
I lived in Japan for a brief stay but even they knew their government was corrupt. The army of hiroshima alone slaughtered 300,000 civilians in china right before WWII. We killed 200,000 civilians with the bombs. Now no one believes that killing a couple hundred thousand civilians is good by any means. But when you watch 15 year old girls training with spears (because they don't have enough guns) to stop a US invasion of the mainland, I don't think any intelligent person disagrees that the two atomic bombs saved lives (American and Japanese).
Sometimes you have to be a monster to help make the world a better place. And if you don't think Japan's imperalist government desired a "regime change" then you should talk to my two Malasian roommates. Their grandmas had to shave their heads so japanese soldiers didn't rape them. Both Germany and Japan had whatever came at them and any citizen that didn't revolt is partially to blame. 911 could even be seen as our atonement to our previous fuckups in the middle east.
I don't think its different in the UK. When I lived there for 4 years all they cared about was if their Prince smoked weed one time. I can't imagine the presses during the whole Princess Diana thing. The UK could have taken over Africa and it would have made page 8 back then.
I remember my friend and I would hook up our computers over our serial ports. It was much easier than installing network cards and configuring a network for just a quick game. However, this was during a time that NIC cards weren't already in everyone's computer and hubs everywhere.
I think I wouldn't mind this feature and would definitely use it over bluetooth for small and quick transfers.
Stopped them doing what? Having a stable economy? Feeding the hungry? "
Sorry but I haven't been a fan of communism. Ever since I watch Burnt by the Sun I never really cared for their type of government. Western democractic governments have never had a "purge." We never install puppet governments to do our bidding (we install democracies that think for themselves. If you call afghanistan a puppet government then look at germany and japan. Are they USA's puppet government then too b/c they are against our Iraq policy by their own free will).
I just truly believe in democracy over communism. Russia and China's governments have had attrocious pasts compared to democratic governments. China's abortion policy, russia and that whole cuban missle crisis, trying to starve berlin (cause of the great airlift), puppet eastern europe governments (thankfully they were overthrown by the will of the people). And due to my age I'm sure I missed some major events in there that caused millions of deaths. Their economics plain suck. Even China is installing democractic business policies while keeping their communist government b/c they know their previous business policies weren't working. They just finally joined the WTO after so long. Let's hope they don't get kicked out for copying Windows XP a billion times over.
In 50 years, I belive Russia will be much better off as a democracy. Look at Germany and Japan. The worst two governments of the last century redone by western democracy and now they are the #2 and #3 economies and also the two biggest pacifist nations! I'm not saying Russia will meet that sort of success, or Afghanistan, or even Iraq. But it has to be better than dictorships and a minorty ruling the majority. I'm sure King George wasn't that bad either. But America in the long term was much better off on its own than ruled by a King (aka dictator).
As for the Israel conflict. I really don't watch to touch that. Its horrible that an emergency vehicle can't get by a checkpoint and people needlessly die. But I've also heard that emergency vehicles have carried suicide bombers in the past too. Considering that suicide bombers strike at 14 year old girls (nothing like blowing off the leg of some high school girl eating pizza to make your own nation). Israel truly needs to find a long term solution. However, after reading about the middle east's countries past policies toward Israel (paraphrased as "If we have a 100 wars with Israel we only need to win 1 to destroy them forever") I can see why Israel doesn't give two shits about the people around them. If I was surrounded by millions of people bent on my destruction would I truly listen to their plees to end the violence? I don't see blacks trying to help the KKK members trapped in poverty. So why should Jews help out Palenstineans when the rest of the middle east won't even recognize them as a country, trade freely with them, embrace them.
If Israel didn't have US backing we would be talking about the plight of the Jews. Its a sick situation. At least Jordon and Egypt have realized that Israel is here to stay and have their own personal peace (somewhat) with them.
However, the Palenstineans number about 1 million. They use brutal terror tactics to gain their own independence. Shouldn't the Kurdish people be getting the support to get their own nation?
http://www.adaction.org/pubs/429kurdind.html
They have 25 million people and are oppressed too. But they don't blow themselves up and take down civilians. Why don't they get any national attention? If we reward suicide bombers with a nation then isn't it setting a bad precedent? I'm not saying Israel is right, I'm saying no one is right. Both have ugly pasts.
But Iraq giving $25,000 to the family of a suicide bomber. Wtf is with that? Why don't they give $25,000 to the family of someone killed unjustly? I don't get that. But I also don't get why you would invade two of your neighbors in one decade and use biological weapons in a war and on your own civilians that are getting all uppity.
"You really did dig all the cold war propaganda. Gotta stop those crazy commie red bastards, eh? Think of the children...kill your own rather than let the commies get them!"
Yeah I dig it a bit. I just can't stand governments that don't offer some sort of free speech, elections (with full sufferage, not just the men or upper class), bill of rights, seperation of religion from state.
There is always a dissenting opinion saying that the US is getting into people's business too much. I just wish the world would act a little more civil. North America doesn't cause world wars, holocausts, purges, oppress people, etc. Of course we have the policy here that if you own the land and control it, its yours. Not, "My great great great great great great grandfather owned that piece of land back in 500ad so give it back." Its a different attitude thats for sure.
I'm 21 and started computers back when I was in 7th grade. Not a linux person but a gamer. I'm sure I heard the term many times a long time ago but the Bitboys stand above the rest. It leads the industry in the most pathetic business claims. Imagine if Cyrix talked about its upcoming CPU chips would be the equivalent of a 10gighz? Well, that is what the Bitboys were claiming in terms of video cards. So pathetic you can't help but laugh.
And I agree partly with you. But the way you imply things is wrong.
"Now, we complain that the enemies that we trained are out to kill the masters who trained them. Pity."
We didn't expect anything out of Afghanistan after we left it in the late 80s (they kept the stingers). I don't think we expected much out of Saddam after he lost his war with Iran. We used them, they used our money, it was a mutual thing. No different than using Stalin to help stop Hitler. We didn't really expect Stalin to be our best friend after the war. We simply used him and he used us.
So I don't think we are complaining about our "pets" biting back. Politics makes strange bed fellows. Simple as that. However, we aren't crazy. We helped stop Russia by using pawns. And I highly doubt Iran's last government was democratic like you say. Because the last time their leader visited America he wouldn't permit more than one our Bush's female assistants to be with them the entire time. So I guess it was democracy for all the upper class men. Just like colonial times for the USA.
And I'm sure it won't be the last time we give money to someone who hurts us. Imagine if someone collected the $25 million on Osama Bin Laden. It would most likely be one of his ex-friends. We would give that turncoat $25 million. What happens if he gives that money to palenstineans who make more bombs to kill jews? Are we funding people who kill jews? In a sad way, yes. Is finding Osama a top priority and worth working with sketchy people? I believe the answer is yes. At worst its a maybe.
Call it what you want, ends justifying the means, calculated risks, stroking the devil to save the rightous, oppertunity cost, etc, etc. It does work sometimes (I think it did against Russia). It doesn't work other times (why we helped Iraq in the 80s I don't know).
Sometimes playing it safe and not going out on a limb costs more lives than it saves. Imagine taking down Hitler instead of appeasing him? That would have saved millions. Imagine stepping into Rwanda when the massacures just started. We could have saved thousands while the rest of the world complained about the US being in a place it wasn't invited. Imagine if we didn't help stop Russia in Afghanistan and instead of 9/11 we had a nuclear war with Russia?
Or those sample crackers with the good cheese on them at supermarkets? You know the old lady is sprinkling coke into that cheesy batter. How else could you explain the 10 boxes of cheese I bought yesterday?
I love games, I love comics, I love Marvel. However, this just doesn't sound that great. The point of being a superhero is that you are unique. Its not really strength, but relative strength, that people desire.
An example is how Wonder Woman is not unique in her amazonian land. However, when she is off fighting against normal criminals she is unique. Imagine living (as an amazonian) in the land of the amazonians? Everyone is the same strength so it would be quite boring.
The only way to alleviate this problem would to make the server size limited compared to other MMORPGs and the size of the maps huge. If you could visit 30 cities, average of 50 heroes to a city, it would be fun. That makes only 1,500 per server. I have heard the new Star Wars MMORPG might have 50,000 per server (but I could be deadly wrong). If you end up in a city with 1,000 heroes it would seem like you wouldn't get that unique feel you read about in the books.
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I wouldn't just call this position ineffective. I would also call it a waste of taxpayer dollars, a way to abuse power, and a waste of time.
"I hate spam but I'll fight for your right to send it. I don't want the government making laws about Internet content. Its just a bad idea. Tomorrow they might make a law against something you do. "
People will mod up anything that smells of anti-law or anti-government. Frankly I'm glad the state of Michigan has laws to stop people from using my fax paper to spam me. Or from people calling me at 2:00am with an auto-dialer.
The government made laws for telephone and fax use and somehow I pulled through this age of the apocalypse. I think the Internet will survive the oppressiveness of the government.
"Our own interpretation of these test results is that nVidia is improperly cutting corners to attempt to inflate its 3DMark2003 scores for the new GeForceFX 5900 Ultra. The company, on the other hand, again believes that the problems can be attributed to a driver bug. Let's explore exactly what we found, and you can draw your own conclusions."
They didn't say proof they said in their own interpretation. They didn't put out a news flash that says Nvidia is cheating their consumers. They said there might be a problem and they are investigating it.
Either way its good that they spotted this. If it was just a "bug" then fixing it will decrease the score. If the bug was on purpose the fix will decrease the score. Either way the result is the same. The benchmarks before weren't accurate and nvidia's new coming didn't kick ATI's ass by so much.
How about you instead buy the stock and take the profits you make and send them to a worthy charity. If you really believe their horrible business practices will give them more profits then be the one to get the profits and give them to the right places.
:)
And don't buy from them
I didn't even like this comic. But now that its banned I had to get it.
Um, if your spam is that bad how about changing your email address? And for the next six months just inform people where to contact you from now on. My new hotmail and yahoo email addresses almost never get spam (one a week maybe). The people who get 100+ spam a day are the people with public email such as the slashdot authors at this site.
Up there I wouldn't spend my time looting a house. So damn cold in the winter...no wonder the Internet spread so fast.
Saying there is a possible future link between terrorists and Saddam H. to carry out mutual American destruction is like saying American would team up with UBL to stop the Soviet Union. Or that the US would team up with Saddam to take out Iran.
Oh sh*t.
My prof on Atmosphere said "the solution to pollution is dilution." I think spreading it out to the countryside would help a lot of health problems. Now global warming may raise water levels but only rich people with coastal land will have to deal with the problems they started. And that Bangladesh place I think. Opps.
When 3% of desktop computers change a feature it isn't news. When 90% of desktop computers change their dll system it can become a worthy newspost. I think its not about the feature but how it will affect the mom and dads who don't follow techie news. No longer will they become confused (or irate) when they install an app and another breaks.
Though this could bring slower performance I think it will be negligable to most windows users.
hate is like thrown around like way too often because like it is a bad word like hatred
So does Best Buy, I don't even hand them my credit card anymore when I return something. It definitely speeds transactions (cost cutting to them) at the price of a possible stolen credit card to the consumer.
So is NASA planning on writing off Russia totally? Do they get to use the Internation Space Station later on if they get funding (economy improves, etc)?
thanks, luckily it was +3 so I could figure that out.
Who cares about karma whores or bad posters?
Slashdot is just a news site. Read an article, read the comments for more info or comments from the peanut gallery. If you actually put time into getting a "good" rating in your karma or think your Score -1 comment is actually causing people grief then think again.
Caring about good karma/bad karma ranks slightly below collecting bottle caps in the "Useful Things to Do" list.
Have you ever read comic books? The only known kyrptonite was given to batman from superman to stop him in case he goes crazy. I agree with what others are saying. If Batman attacks then he wins but if superman attacks first he wins (b/c batman doesn't carry around the kryptonite 24/7).
he may be trolling but he is right.
I lived in Japan for a brief stay but even they knew their government was corrupt. The army of hiroshima alone slaughtered 300,000 civilians in china right before WWII. We killed 200,000 civilians with the bombs. Now no one believes that killing a couple hundred thousand civilians is good by any means. But when you watch 15 year old girls training with spears (because they don't have enough guns) to stop a US invasion of the mainland, I don't think any intelligent person disagrees that the two atomic bombs saved lives (American and Japanese).
Sometimes you have to be a monster to help make the world a better place. And if you don't think Japan's imperalist government desired a "regime change" then you should talk to my two Malasian roommates. Their grandmas had to shave their heads so japanese soldiers didn't rape them. Both Germany and Japan had whatever came at them and any citizen that didn't revolt is partially to blame. 911 could even be seen as our atonement to our previous fuckups in the middle east.
I don't think its different in the UK. When I lived there for 4 years all they cared about was if their Prince smoked weed one time. I can't imagine the presses during the whole Princess Diana thing. The UK could have taken over Africa and it would have made page 8 back then.
I remember my friend and I would hook up our computers over our serial ports. It was much easier than installing network cards and configuring a network for just a quick game. However, this was during a time that NIC cards weren't already in everyone's computer and hubs everywhere.
I think I wouldn't mind this feature and would definitely use it over bluetooth for small and quick transfers.
"We helped stop Russia by using pawns.
Stopped them doing what? Having a stable economy? Feeding the hungry? "
Sorry but I haven't been a fan of communism. Ever since I watch Burnt by the Sun I never really cared for their type of government. Western democractic governments have never had a "purge." We never install puppet governments to do our bidding (we install democracies that think for themselves. If you call afghanistan a puppet government then look at germany and japan. Are they USA's puppet government then too b/c they are against our Iraq policy by their own free will).
I just truly believe in democracy over communism. Russia and China's governments have had attrocious pasts compared to democratic governments. China's abortion policy, russia and that whole cuban missle crisis, trying to starve berlin (cause of the great airlift), puppet eastern europe governments (thankfully they were overthrown by the will of the people). And due to my age I'm sure I missed some major events in there that caused millions of deaths. Their economics plain suck. Even China is installing democractic business policies while keeping their communist government b/c they know their previous business policies weren't working. They just finally joined the WTO after so long. Let's hope they don't get kicked out for copying Windows XP a billion times over.
In 50 years, I belive Russia will be much better off as a democracy. Look at Germany and Japan. The worst two governments of the last century redone by western democracy and now they are the #2 and #3 economies and also the two biggest pacifist nations! I'm not saying Russia will meet that sort of success, or Afghanistan, or even Iraq. But it has to be better than dictorships and a minorty ruling the majority. I'm sure King George wasn't that bad either. But America in the long term was much better off on its own than ruled by a King (aka dictator).
As for the Israel conflict. I really don't watch to touch that. Its horrible that an emergency vehicle can't get by a checkpoint and people needlessly die. But I've also heard that emergency vehicles have carried suicide bombers in the past too. Considering that suicide bombers strike at 14 year old girls (nothing like blowing off the leg of some high school girl eating pizza to make your own nation). Israel truly needs to find a long term solution. However, after reading about the middle east's countries past policies toward Israel (paraphrased as "If we have a 100 wars with Israel we only need to win 1 to destroy them forever") I can see why Israel doesn't give two shits about the people around them. If I was surrounded by millions of people bent on my destruction would I truly listen to their plees to end the violence? I don't see blacks trying to help the KKK members trapped in poverty. So why should Jews help out Palenstineans when the rest of the middle east won't even recognize them as a country, trade freely with them, embrace them.
If Israel didn't have US backing we would be talking about the plight of the Jews. Its a sick situation. At least Jordon and Egypt have realized that Israel is here to stay and have their own personal peace (somewhat) with them.
However, the Palenstineans number about 1 million. They use brutal terror tactics to gain their own independence. Shouldn't the Kurdish people be getting the support to get their own nation?
http://www.adaction.org/pubs/429kurdind.html
They have 25 million people and are oppressed too. But they don't blow themselves up and take down civilians. Why don't they get any national attention? If we reward suicide bombers with a nation then isn't it setting a bad precedent? I'm not saying Israel is right, I'm saying no one is right. Both have ugly pasts.
But Iraq giving $25,000 to the family of a suicide bomber. Wtf is with that? Why don't they give $25,000 to the family of someone killed unjustly? I don't get that. But I also don't get why you would invade two of your neighbors in one decade and use biological weapons in a war and on your own civilians that are getting all uppity.
"You really did dig all the cold war propaganda. Gotta stop those crazy commie red bastards, eh? Think of the children...kill your own rather than let the commies get them!"
Yeah I dig it a bit. I just can't stand governments that don't offer some sort of free speech, elections (with full sufferage, not just the men or upper class), bill of rights, seperation of religion from state.
There is always a dissenting opinion saying that the US is getting into people's business too much. I just wish the world would act a little more civil. North America doesn't cause world wars, holocausts, purges, oppress people, etc. Of course we have the policy here that if you own the land and control it, its yours. Not, "My great great great great great great grandfather owned that piece of land back in 500ad so give it back." Its a different attitude thats for sure.
I'm 21 and started computers back when I was in 7th grade. Not a linux person but a gamer. I'm sure I heard the term many times a long time ago but the Bitboys stand above the rest. It leads the industry in the most pathetic business claims. Imagine if Cyrix talked about its upcoming CPU chips would be the equivalent of a 10gighz? Well, that is what the Bitboys were claiming in terms of video cards. So pathetic you can't help but laugh.
The first time I ever heard the word "vaporware" was the Bitboys claim of 300fps in quake3 (back when the fps was more around 100).
http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/030301/030 301ireneiran.html
Pretty interesting read.
And I agree partly with you. But the way you imply things is wrong.
"Now, we complain that the enemies that we trained are out to kill the masters who trained them. Pity."
We didn't expect anything out of Afghanistan after we left it in the late 80s (they kept the stingers). I don't think we expected much out of Saddam after he lost his war with Iran. We used them, they used our money, it was a mutual thing. No different than using Stalin to help stop Hitler. We didn't really expect Stalin to be our best friend after the war. We simply used him and he used us.
So I don't think we are complaining about our "pets" biting back. Politics makes strange bed fellows. Simple as that. However, we aren't crazy. We helped stop Russia by using pawns. And I highly doubt Iran's last government was democratic like you say. Because the last time their leader visited America he wouldn't permit more than one our Bush's female assistants to be with them the entire time. So I guess it was democracy for all the upper class men. Just like colonial times for the USA.
And I'm sure it won't be the last time we give money to someone who hurts us. Imagine if someone collected the $25 million on Osama Bin Laden. It would most likely be one of his ex-friends. We would give that turncoat $25 million. What happens if he gives that money to palenstineans who make more bombs to kill jews? Are we funding people who kill jews? In a sad way, yes. Is finding Osama a top priority and worth working with sketchy people? I believe the answer is yes. At worst its a maybe.
Call it what you want, ends justifying the means, calculated risks, stroking the devil to save the rightous, oppertunity cost, etc, etc.
It does work sometimes (I think it did against Russia). It doesn't work other times (why we helped Iraq in the 80s I don't know).
Sometimes playing it safe and not going out on a limb costs more lives than it saves. Imagine taking down Hitler instead of appeasing him? That would have saved millions. Imagine stepping into Rwanda when the massacures just started. We could have saved thousands while the rest of the world complained about the US being in a place it wasn't invited. Imagine if we didn't help stop Russia in Afghanistan and instead of 9/11 we had a nuclear war with Russia?
Okay, enough talk. Peace out people.
Or those sample crackers with the good cheese on them at supermarkets? You know the old lady is sprinkling coke into that cheesy batter. How else could you explain the 10 boxes of cheese I bought yesterday?
I love games, I love comics, I love Marvel. However, this just doesn't sound that great. The point of being a superhero is that you are unique. Its not really strength, but relative strength, that people desire.
An example is how Wonder Woman is not unique in her amazonian land. However, when she is off fighting against normal criminals she is unique. Imagine living (as an amazonian) in the land of the amazonians? Everyone is the same strength so it would be quite boring.
The only way to alleviate this problem would to make the server size limited compared to other MMORPGs and the size of the maps huge. If you could visit 30 cities, average of 50 heroes to a city, it would be fun. That makes only 1,500 per server. I have heard the new Star Wars MMORPG might have 50,000 per server (but I could be deadly wrong). If you end up in a city with 1,000 heroes it would seem like you wouldn't get that unique feel you read about in the books.