What is this "Democrat Party" you speak of? Democrats belong to the Democratic Party.
I can only assume that either:
A) You are illustrating your vast intellect and knowledge of American political parties
B) You are quacking out an automated emotional response from the canned set of approved Republican put-downs.
You left out C) not a mindless pedant who thinks playing semantic games somehow makes them appear smarter than another person.
(Call them the DEMOCRAT party so they won't sound like they're democratic - i.e. believe in democracy)
So, let me get this straight - you think someone dropping the "i" and "c" from "Democratic" is an evil plot to somehow confuse Americans into believing that Democrats don't believe in democracy?
Your tinfoil hat - it appears to be on just a bit too tight.
Life in prison for growing plants, fuck our legal system.
If you don't like the law, "fuck our legal" system is just a juvenile way of whining about it. If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change.
Pot, say hello to Kettle.
If you honestly believe our "justice" system works that way ("If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change"), you have not experienced it.
For example, in the third largest city in my state, a citizen petition to limit the punishment for possession of trivial amounts of marijuana was circulated, easily gaining the signatures needed to be passed into law. The city council, who is well known for saying 'fuck you' to the people who live there, "passed" the law... then subsequently gutted it. In fact, again considering their record, it's fairly obvious that the only reason they "passed" the law was to keep it from going to a vote, intentionally bypassing the will of the people.
That's the real "democratic process" of laws citizens want but governments don't - we drum up support, gov't pretends to listen, then as soon as they think our backs are turned, they pull the rug out from under us.
If it doesn't, well, your opinion is in the minority and them's the breaks.
Tyranny of the majority is not how our nation works; otherwise, we'd still have Jim Crow laws.
It's a reasonable expectation that anyone who actually passed freshman Civics should know that.
Your suggestion that privately-owned land "is now public" is a bit ridiculous.
RTFS:
Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant.
The judge here is just applying that precedent to this case, and if you accept the precedent, it seems entirely appropriate and reasonable that it be applied this way here. If you don't like the outcome, don't piss on the judge for being reasonable. Talk to your legislature and get them to change the law.
You know, if we had a reasonable legislature who actually listened to their constituency, that would be a damn fine suggestion. In lieu of such an idealistic system, and assuming "just deal with it" is not a viable option, what would you recommend?
They're recording photons that have left your property. If you're concerned about it, take measures to ensure the photons that encode the information you're trying to protect do not leave your property. By, you know, doing your illegal act inside. With the blinds closed.
You really think this will only ever apply to people who are definitely guilty of a crime? For that matter, if the person being surveilled is already known to have committed a crime, why bother with surveillance?
Wanna purchase some prime real estate spanning a river in NYC? I'll make you a heckuva deal...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Anyone care to explain where, precisely, the above amendment specifies that it only applies to indoor, private property?
Now that the SCOTUS has decided your property is now public and thus available to police scrutiny without warrant, is there still anyone stupid enough to think this won't eventually creep past the threshold and into your home?
Don;t you all understand!? People _died_ during this storm.
Yup, a damn shame, especially the avoidable deaths (not sure that there were any, but you know how people can be when they panic).
Lots of Newyorkers are still without power and water and here your all woried about data centers!? Get a grip nerds!
We are not paramedics; we are not firemen, or police, or any other sort of emergency personnel. What would you have us do, other than get in the way of the professionals?
We let the emergency personnel do their jobs by doing our jobs and getting the systems back up and running. Believe me, you wouldn't want a bunch of sysadmins doing triage anymore than you would want a bunch of cops and medics rebuilding a data center.
An illustrative case: Seattle Policeman Ian Birk approaches a 50-year-old man named John T Williams in broad daylight on a public street. Williams' crime? Carrying a woodcarving knife, shuffling along and minding his own business. No witness other than Birk thought Williams presented any kind of threat. Birk spends approximately 3-4 seconds yelling at Williams to drop the knife (never identifying himself as police), then shoots Williams 4 times in the back from about 15 feet away as the mostly deaf Williams had stopped to try to figure out what was going on.
In the aftermath, Birk was cleared of all charges. However, after lots of public outcry and the police department saying that he violated regulations, Birk decided to quit.
A better case for the re-emergence of lynch mobs, I have not heard.
...Since many users might find this feature useful, consider displaying a dialog the first time a user logs in that asks if they would like to opt-in.'
How is this different than the suggestion in the summary to default to no and ask the first time you log in?
It's different in that first login comes after the installation process.
Not that it's a bad idea - I must've missed that sentence when skimming the summary... rant partially retracted.
How about (and I know I'm getting really abstract here, try to stay with me), just a thought... How about you fucking ask us on installation, instead of everyone (and I mean EVERY-FUCKING-ONE, EFF included) acting like we're too gorram stupid to make that decision for ourselves?
Just pointing out, you have the easy option of typing www.bing.com in your address bar if you don't like their results.
... and you've always been able to go online and download the browser you prefer through Windows, but that hasn't stopped the US or EU governing bodies from slapping Microsoft with nigh endless anti-trust suits.
Not everyone has that ability. Business had a really bad reputation for using default browsers, as centralized IT enforced draconian machine configurations, the result being that much business software and websites were dependent on Microsoft bugs and incompatibilities, tying people into Microsoft operating systems etc.
But that's not Microsoft's doing, its the IT departments of these businesses, so why is MS getting all the blame?
Do you really think the default browser (Explorer) on the defacto default OS (Windows) would default to google for search? People choose google for a reason.
I fail to see what bearing that has on the topic at hand.
you've always been able to go online and download the browser you prefer through Windows
Only after starting Internet Explorer then... wait, I already have a web browser? Why would I want to download another one?
Your laziness != anti-trust behavior on the part of Microsoft. Now, if Windows somehow tried to prevent you from downloading/installing an alternate browser, I would understand, but that's just not the case.
Not to mention, if Windows didn't come with any browser whatsoever - how would you go about downloading a new one?
This is pretty much how IE6 became the behemoth that it is. IE has an unbreakable advantage over every other browser: it's owned by the vendor whose OS is a monopoly in its market. That's why.
Does OSX come, by default, with any alternate to Safari? No? Then why is MS treated like some kind of James Bond villain, but Apple isn't?
Just pointing out, you have the easy option of typing www.bing.com in your address bar if you don't like their results.
... and you've always been able to go online and download the browser you prefer through Windows, but that hasn't stopped the US or EU governing bodies from slapping Microsoft with nigh endless anti-trust suits.
In Florida, it's called "Stand Your Ground".
In Montana, it's called the "Castle Doctrine".
At least, that's what they told the families of Trayvon Martin and Dan Fredenberg...
If I'm not mistaken, "stand your ground" laws and castle doctrines all require the person being killed to present themselves as a threat first.
Killing someone who is already threatening your life is not a "pre-emptive killing," it's self defense - a difficult claim to make in the case of drones.
Tell ya what, I'm a nice guy in a good mood, I'll make it easy on you: here's a map of all "known" voter fraud cases since 2000.
And even that is a farce, as most cases of "voter fraud" are actually registration fraud. And most of what's left after that are people voting by absentee ballot and then voting in person.
Neither of which would be solved by requiring ID's to vote.
Precisely! I award you +5 Internets.
Here's a link to a Democracy NOW! story about the billionaire bandits who engage in registration and absentee voter fraud, and how they never, never get prosecuted for it. Here's an excerpt I found particularly infuriating, as it involved fucking over our deployed troops:
You have something called "caging," in which we have, again, caught Karl Rove sending letters to, if you can imagine, active-duty soldiers. They send letters to these active-duty soldiers at their military bases. In the letters, they write, "Do not forward." Those letters come back. Those voters, who are active-duty soldiers, lose their vote because they’ve been challenged as fraudulent voters. So, in other words, if you go to Afghanistan and you’re a black soldier in Florida, you can expect to see your ballot challenged. And you don’t even know it. We talked to one of the voters, who said, "I got to mail in my ballot from overseas," while he was on duty. But he didn’t realize that his ballot had been challenged by the Rove machine.
The one I quoted directly below that statement. Learn to read.
Come on now, spit it out. you made an assertion now be clear about it or crawl back into your hole and troll someone else. Nothing I said was a lie. Just because you can't handle it or it hurt your feelings does not make it so. So stop lieing to yourself.
It seems you are upset over the votes tues and wed. Are you that fucking dumb? It was a joke. If it is is above your head, ask someone with a few more intelligence points to translate it for you.
Um, okaaaay... y u mad, bro? No, seriously, I have no idea what you mean to convey in this nonsensical rant of yours.
Of course, I would likely be remiss if I were to take the words of 'sumdumass' seriously. I must admit, from the posts of yours I've seen, you have the most appropriate user name in all of Slashdotland.
Span desktop background across all monitors.
Multi-monitor taskbar
About. Damn. Time.
Launch and move Metro style apps to any monitor
I can already move programs from one screen to another. This is nothing new (more a step back, really, since "Metro apps" all default to full screen, thus reducing overall screen real estate)
Show a different desktop background on each monitor. Multi-monitor slide show.
Okay, now that is a neat feature. Not really the most useful thing in the world, but hey, who said computing was all about productivity? Dickheads, that's who.
So, in other words, Windows 8 integrates all the reasons we love MultiMon and Ultramon into the OS.
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What is this "Democrat Party" you speak of? Democrats belong to the Democratic Party.
I can only assume that either:
A) You are illustrating your vast intellect and knowledge of American political parties
B) You are quacking out an automated emotional response from the canned set of approved Republican put-downs.
You left out C) not a mindless pedant who thinks playing semantic games somehow makes them appear smarter than another person.
(Call them the DEMOCRAT party so they won't sound like they're democratic - i.e. believe in democracy)
So, let me get this straight - you think someone dropping the "i" and "c" from "Democratic" is an evil plot to somehow confuse Americans into believing that Democrats don't believe in democracy?
Your tinfoil hat - it appears to be on just a bit too tight.
Life in prison for growing plants, fuck our legal system.
If you don't like the law, "fuck our legal" system is just a juvenile way of whining about it. If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change.
Pot, say hello to Kettle.
If you honestly believe our "justice" system works that way ("If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change"), you have not experienced it.
For example, in the third largest city in my state, a citizen petition to limit the punishment for possession of trivial amounts of marijuana was circulated, easily gaining the signatures needed to be passed into law. The city council, who is well known for saying 'fuck you' to the people who live there, "passed" the law... then subsequently gutted it. In fact, again considering their record, it's fairly obvious that the only reason they "passed" the law was to keep it from going to a vote, intentionally bypassing the will of the people.
That's the real "democratic process" of laws citizens want but governments don't - we drum up support, gov't pretends to listen, then as soon as they think our backs are turned, they pull the rug out from under us.
If it doesn't, well, your opinion is in the minority and them's the breaks.
Tyranny of the majority is not how our nation works; otherwise, we'd still have Jim Crow laws.
It's a reasonable expectation that anyone who actually passed freshman Civics should know that.
Your suggestion that privately-owned land "is now public" is a bit ridiculous.
RTFS:
The judge here is just applying that precedent to this case, and if you accept the precedent, it seems entirely appropriate and reasonable that it be applied this way here. If you don't like the outcome, don't piss on the judge for being reasonable. Talk to your legislature and get them to change the law.
You know, if we had a reasonable legislature who actually listened to their constituency, that would be a damn fine suggestion. In lieu of such an idealistic system, and assuming "just deal with it" is not a viable option, what would you recommend?
They're recording photons that have left your property. If you're concerned about it, take measures to ensure the photons that encode the information you're trying to protect do not leave your property. By, you know, doing your illegal act inside. With the blinds closed.
You really think this will only ever apply to people who are definitely guilty of a crime? For that matter, if the person being surveilled is already known to have committed a crime, why bother with surveillance?
Wanna purchase some prime real estate spanning a river in NYC? I'll make you a heckuva deal...
You're not gonna find much if you search for SCOUTUS
You're probably right - I do much better as an Engineer.
Find: SCOUTUS
Replace: Doucehbag Federal Judge
Anyone care to explain where, precisely, the above amendment specifies that it only applies to indoor, private property?
Now that the SCOTUS has decided your property is now public and thus available to police scrutiny without warrant, is there still anyone stupid enough to think this won't eventually creep past the threshold and into your home?
Don;t you all understand!? People _died_ during this storm.
Yup, a damn shame, especially the avoidable deaths (not sure that there were any, but you know how people can be when they panic).
Lots of Newyorkers are still without power and water and here your all woried about data centers!? Get a grip nerds!
We are not paramedics; we are not firemen, or police, or any other sort of emergency personnel. What would you have us do, other than get in the way of the professionals?
We let the emergency personnel do their jobs by doing our jobs and getting the systems back up and running. Believe me, you wouldn't want a bunch of sysadmins doing triage anymore than you would want a bunch of cops and medics rebuilding a data center.
An illustrative case: Seattle Policeman Ian Birk approaches a 50-year-old man named John T Williams in broad daylight on a public street. Williams' crime? Carrying a woodcarving knife, shuffling along and minding his own business. No witness other than Birk thought Williams presented any kind of threat. Birk spends approximately 3-4 seconds yelling at Williams to drop the knife (never identifying himself as police), then shoots Williams 4 times in the back from about 15 feet away as the mostly deaf Williams had stopped to try to figure out what was going on.
In the aftermath, Birk was cleared of all charges. However, after lots of public outcry and the police department saying that he violated regulations, Birk decided to quit.
A better case for the re-emergence of lynch mobs, I have not heard.
One only hopes the "pigs" ignore you when you call 911 when someone is breaking into your house.
So they can show up 20 minutes too late? No thanks.
If you're smart, the only reason you would need to call 911 after a break in is to let them know where to come pick up the bodies.
...Since many users might find this feature useful, consider displaying a dialog the first time a user logs in that asks if they would like to opt-in.'
How is this different than the suggestion in the summary to default to no and ask the first time you log in?
It's different in that first login comes after the installation process.
Not that it's a bad idea - I must've missed that sentence when skimming the summary... rant partially retracted.
How about (and I know I'm getting really abstract here, try to stay with me), just a thought... How about you fucking ask us on installation, instead of everyone (and I mean EVERY-FUCKING-ONE, EFF included) acting like we're too gorram stupid to make that decision for ourselves?
Yea, I know - what a far-fetched concept, huh?
Emperor is dead. Vader comes back from the Dark Side and also dies. Luke & Leia know they're siblings.
Seriously, what's the plot going to be?
Like Flowers in the Attic, but with lightsabers?
what stands in the way of creating true solar-powered airliners?
Nothing.
Oh, you meant airplanes? Yea, sorry, can't help you there.
> Why aren't there more datacenters in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, etc.?
There are, you just dont hear about them as often because they generally dont have anything newsworthy to report about them.
This.
We in the midwest stick our data centers underground for a reason; several reasons, actually.
And already Apple fanboys are submitting shit like this here
That's silly - One must not be a manure farmer to know a turd when they see it, polished though it may be.
Just pointing out, you have the easy option of typing www.bing.com in your address bar if you don't like their results.
... and you've always been able to go online and download the browser you prefer through Windows, but that hasn't stopped the US or EU governing bodies from slapping Microsoft with nigh endless anti-trust suits.
Not everyone has that ability. Business had a really bad reputation for using default browsers, as centralized IT enforced draconian machine configurations, the result being that much business software and websites were dependent on Microsoft bugs and incompatibilities, tying people into Microsoft operating systems etc.
But that's not Microsoft's doing, its the IT departments of these businesses, so why is MS getting all the blame?
Do you really think the default browser (Explorer) on the defacto default OS (Windows) would default to google for search? People choose google for a reason.
I fail to see what bearing that has on the topic at hand.
Only after starting Internet Explorer then... wait, I already have a web browser? Why would I want to download another one?
Your laziness != anti-trust behavior on the part of Microsoft. Now, if Windows somehow tried to prevent you from downloading/installing an alternate browser, I would understand, but that's just not the case.
Not to mention, if Windows didn't come with any browser whatsoever - how would you go about downloading a new one?
This is pretty much how IE6 became the behemoth that it is. IE has an unbreakable advantage over every other browser: it's owned by the vendor whose OS is a monopoly in its market. That's why.
Does OSX come, by default, with any alternate to Safari? No? Then why is MS treated like some kind of James Bond villain, but Apple isn't?
Just pointing out, you have the easy option of typing www.bing.com in your address bar if you don't like their results.
... and you've always been able to go online and download the browser you prefer through Windows, but that hasn't stopped the US or EU governing bodies from slapping Microsoft with nigh endless anti-trust suits.
In Florida, it's called "Stand Your Ground". In Montana, it's called the "Castle Doctrine". At least, that's what they told the families of Trayvon Martin and Dan Fredenberg...
If I'm not mistaken, "stand your ground" laws and castle doctrines all require the person being killed to present themselves as a threat first.
Killing someone who is already threatening your life is not a "pre-emptive killing," it's self defense - a difficult claim to make in the case of drones.
The same way secret interpretations of law work, I suppose.
And even that is a farce, as most cases of "voter fraud" are actually registration fraud. And most of what's left after that are people voting by absentee ballot and then voting in person.
Neither of which would be solved by requiring ID's to vote.
Precisely! I award you +5 Internets.
Here's a link to a Democracy NOW! story about the billionaire bandits who engage in registration and absentee voter fraud, and how they never, never get prosecuted for it. Here's an excerpt I found particularly infuriating, as it involved fucking over our deployed troops:
You have something called "caging," in which we have, again, caught Karl Rove sending letters to, if you can imagine, active-duty soldiers. They send letters to these active-duty soldiers at their military bases. In the letters, they write, "Do not forward." Those letters come back. Those voters, who are active-duty soldiers, lose their vote because they’ve been challenged as fraudulent voters. So, in other words, if you go to Afghanistan and you’re a black soldier in Florida, you can expect to see your ballot challenged. And you don’t even know it. We talked to one of the voters, who said, "I got to mail in my ballot from overseas," while he was on duty. But he didn’t realize that his ballot had been challenged by the Rove machine.
A real eye-opener, IMO.
Some advice: when all you can think to bring to the table are childish insults and ad hominem attacks, you've already lost.
What phrase?
The one I quoted directly below that statement. Learn to read.
Come on now, spit it out. you made an assertion now be clear about it or crawl back into your hole and troll someone else. Nothing I said was a lie. Just because you can't handle it or it hurt your feelings does not make it so. So stop lieing to yourself.
It seems you are upset over the votes tues and wed. Are you that fucking dumb? It was a joke. If it is is above your head, ask someone with a few more intelligence points to translate it for you.
Um, okaaaay... y u mad, bro? No, seriously, I have no idea what you mean to convey in this nonsensical rant of yours.
Of course, I would likely be remiss if I were to take the words of 'sumdumass' seriously. I must admit, from the posts of yours I've seen, you have the most appropriate user name in all of Slashdotland.
Kudos, I guess?
This should explain it well enough: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-windows-8-for-multiple-monitors.aspx
Thanks for the intel!
Couple of points:
About. Damn. Time.
I can already move programs from one screen to another. This is nothing new (more a step back, really, since "Metro apps" all default to full screen, thus reducing overall screen real estate)
Okay, now that is a neat feature. Not really the most useful thing in the world, but hey, who said computing was all about productivity? Dickheads, that's who.
So, in other words, Windows 8 integrates all the reasons we love MultiMon and Ultramon into the OS.
As I said before: About. Damn. Time.