sure bush comes off as a bumbling retarded fuck... and maybe he is, i'm not really sure... but what nobody here seems to realize is that policies ARENT made by the presidents, they're made by the advisors, subject to the president's values...so then the choice comes down to:
Who's got better advisors?
Who's got better values?
and i think bush clearly beats gore on both of those, and I'm not convinced that nader, although i personally have nothing against the man, beats bush on either...sure bush is an idiot, but he'll have the most intelligent cabinet ever assembled (Cheney's brilliant, nobody can dispute that), and he's got the morals and ethics that the white house hasn't seen in 8 years.
sometimes i wonder what the fuck is wrong with you people? This isn't a troll, its an honest thought. you may not disagree, but that doesn't mean it should be moderated down. The man is expressing an honest and VALID point that you guys are whining about a small minority, and that this country is in fact a democracy...
also note that this isn't Anonymous because this, also, is not a troll, nor is it flamebait. I fully expect some retarded fuck will moderate me down (big deal), but that's just slashdot moderators for you.
Instead of a suspension, Griffiths ought to get an award for challenging the insane culture facing so many individualistic kids in American schools. Students like Griffiths have few if any Constitutional rights. They have no privacy or right to due process, and are routinely sent home, suspended, or forced into "special education" programs for dressing oddly, speaking honestly, or playing the wrong kind of computer games.
I honestly dont know who pays you to type this nonsense. Assuming students have no Constitutional rights, privacy, or due process is ludicrous. The reality is that every student has these rights, just most willfully waive them to save time. Being a resident of California, where this particular event occurred, I can promise you that this student did not suffer any of these problems, unless he verbally agreed ahead of time.
Your uninformed views have no place in this story. If you have some huge desire to complain about the state of public schools, you might want to make an effort to educate yourself first.
California students have exactly the same privacy laws as California residents, unless it is determined that their privacy jeopardizes the safety of other students (ie. bomb threat, etc), which, if you think about it, is remarkably similar to the clause on legal unwarranted searches that apply to citizens in general.
Students do have due process, contrary to your statement. You yourself noted this when you said his parents are considering legal action. Isn't that due process? If schools were forced to handle disputes on every issue, they'd be pulling money away from education to put into a mess of legal issues; let the courts handle due process, not the schools.
If students are sent home, or suspended, it is only because they have violated a posted rule. This shouldn't shock or alarm anyone. If you break a rule, be ready to deal with the consequences.
playing the wrong kind of computer games. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? This is stupid. How the fuck is anyone going to know what computer games a particular student plays? Unless he's skipping class to play Quake 3 in the computer lab (which would constitute a suspension for skipping class), nobody's gonna have a clue that he plays any computer games.
Please, get a clue before you write this nonsense.
needs to be fucking shot... this is pathetic... this isn't news, this isn't anything that matters, its a fucking waste of screen space, and its this kind of nonsense that sends people away from slashdot in favor of other newsboards where actual news gets posted.
they have to pay the same as you do, but their accountants are better than yours. if you had good accountants to find all of your deductions, you wouldn't be paying a dime either.
Bitching wont help, we need to hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook. Stop buying these peoples products. Make it harder for them to get that armani suit and the house in the hamptons. They'll get the message.
Maybe you need to step off your high horse for a second in order to fully understand my point. I realize it wasn't blatantly clear the first time, as I was really on my way out the door to take an engineering test. My point was NOT that everyone should stop buying it, but that if you dont like it, dont subscribe. I personally would not let this information policy stop me from doing anything involved with the TiVo, from buying one, to subscribing, to watching and recording whatever it is I choose to watch and record.
Furthermore, despite your nice healthy ego, it is entirely unlikely that this policy, regardless of the backlash in the geek community, is going to cost the owners of TiVo any money at all. Insinuating that it will is just ridiculous.
that someone who's been around as long as you (user number 40,041) would respond so carelessly. IF you read my comment, I said sell it on the street, not back to the company. I'm sure you read the other response to your comment, indicating that TiVo's sell on ebay rather frequently...maybe you should consider this, rather than posting comments without reading what the person wrote.
When will we wake up? br.
When will you wake up? Welcome to america. You have TWO choices. If you really believe there's anything YOU can do to stop this kind of information sharing, you're on crack.
First off, I'm not entirely sure where the problem is with their practice. They're sharing your information with their business partners, true, now where's the problem? Why do you care if someone you DONT know knows how many porn movies you saved to your TiVo drive last week? Realistically, DirecTV probably has this information anyway. So where's the problem?
Secondly, if this is a HUGE problem for you, cancel your service. Nobody's forcing you to pay for it, nobody's demanding that you subscribe. Take your little box and sell it, I'm sure you'll find a buyer relatively quickly.
If you really dont want people knowing what you watch, when you watch it, what type of shows you save, or any random permutation of these factors, DONT USE THEIR SERVICE. Its not a hard concept to understand, and its certainly easy to implement.
Like someone else pointed out, trolls didn't break moderation. They merely took advantage of it when it was demonstrated the system was screwed up.
And meanwhile, a slashback post that has nothing to do with fucked up moderation yields a huge thread about two whining kharma whores, in which this nonsense gets modded up to +3 insightful, instead of -1 offtopic.
What I don't like is tight-assed zealots.
Nobody does. Life's tough, deal with it.
But it's a sad testimony on the state of affairs when the most intelligent and open-minded discussions are found on the trolling forums, and the most playful and innovative people on Slashdot are the trolls themselves.
First, nobody's forcing you to be here. I'm sure if you email rob, he'll gladly refund your membership dues, and you can walk away without losing a thing.
Secondly, dont be ridiculous. If this thread is what you consider the most intelligent thread on today's front page, you're on crack. (I, however, am not the type of person to say that's a good thing. So dont be fooled, that's not a compliment.)
In conclusion, stop your whining. If you dont like the way slashdot has evolved, stop reading/posting here. Let it continue its devolution in peace.
That's something I never understood... or is that what he's referring to...making it impossible to create yourself a new user? If that's the case... I go back to my question...what about the effect on clones?
The reason most people believe you can't make a new user and log on again is because napster got clever. In their newer versions, they started adding registry keys. Since the ban, all new installs check the registry keys for the old napster ID tags, and if a banned ID is present, the install/new login name fails. I got around this by writing my own napster.ini file, deleting the old registry keys, and starting clean again. This has absolutely no effect on clones. A clone with a new ID will be allowed access to the server, regardless of who the person is behind the ID.
Most of the managers I've worked for, the good ones at any rate, preferred to hire software engineers who had degrees in subjects other than Computer Science, because they knew that they would bring a richer mix of experience and creativity to their work.
Some schools (I'm partial to harvey mudd college, great school, well rounded education) go out of their way to ensure that a broad education even in specialized majors. For instance, CS majors at my school have to take almost as many humanities (history, govt, art, etc) classes as technical classes, which ensures not only an outstanding technical background, but humanitarian insight as to what your technical skills might produce. This humanities background tends to lessen the potential for immoral business practices.
I run a dual celeron box... and I've managed to crash both windows2000 pro and debian (full crash, complete lockup, now that takes talent)...while I agree with you that an operating system can make a huge difference, I think the bottom line in stability is the hardware running the code...but it should also be noted that when running on a normal hardware configuration, I was able to keep win2k up for three months without rebooting, and that string was ended by a power outage beyond MS control... the point to my ranting: sure, windows might be unstable, but provide it with realistic/reasonable hardware and it can rival most **nix boxes.
The Global mean temperature for 1999 was the 5th warmest on record since 1880. The warmest and second warmest years were 1998 and 1997. The top 6 warmest years have been in the 1990's. Each year of this decade has been one of the top 15 warmest of the century.
Since when does a 10 year trend indicate anything? Percentage wise, this is absurd at best. 10 years on a geologic timescale isn't even worth noting.
If you choose to say this isn't a 10 year trend, but a max value in a 200 year study, I submit to you that 200 years on a geological timescale is also nothing more than a mere dot, almost meaningless to anyone who takes the time to look at the BIG picture rather than shoot off meaningless facts to drum up political support for environmental issues (yeah, its election time again, didn't take that into account, did you?)
until the masses start flooding into the midwest because, as you described it, it provides shelter... yep, i'm sure you'll enjoy them spending your tax dollars on crack and hookers once the midwest goes to hell...lucky you, you're unaffected.
proven already, since 1960 amount of warm water floating to waters around norway has decreased with 40%
FOR THE LAST TIME: 40 YEARS OF DATA DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING. The planet has been around for hundreds of millions of years. Taking a 40 year sample and basing conclusions on it is analyzing less than one thousandth of one percent of the overall history. Its Absurd.
You dont live in LA do you? The only thing in LA that's gonna be underwater if the sea level goes up a few feet is orange county, and maybe some of venice (disappointing, no more movies like White Men Can't Jump... they're gonna have to be like White Men Can't Swim i guess)...LA, unfortunately, would be fine...you're gonna have to wait for an earthquake to take out the metropolitan areas of LA.
overclocking i might accept.... but what the fuck is your fascination with anime? that shit annoys me. I can't stand that stupid shit. bad animation, horrible sound dubbing, its a huge waste of time and money and tv time. if i want to watch cartoons, i'm turn on bugs bunny or some of the good ol' wyle coyote chasin the road runner... i'd rather shove my computer up my ass than watch anime.
IF you wrote something on a piece of paper using a black bic pen, and then burned it, and then tossed it in acid, or however you choose to destroy it, yes, the "information" you consider is lost. This, however, is not what is meant by this question. The question refers to the entire source of information about a particle/object. If it enters and is lost in a black hole, all that remains in the universe a factor due to its mass. You can not tell what it was, what it was made out of, where it came from, how fast it was going, how long it had been traveling, or anything else about it, except that it was an object, and it had some certain value of mass. Your solution might destroy the superficial information, but you can still tell it was paper, you can tell the information on it was written with ink, you can tell what kind of ink it was, you can tell how hot the fire that burned it was, you can tell what kind of acid it was drenched in. All superficial information is lost, but the overall information remains. That is the real thought behind question #8.
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Who's got better advisors?
Who's got better values?
and i think bush clearly beats gore on both of those, and I'm not convinced that nader, although i personally have nothing against the man, beats bush on either...sure bush is an idiot, but he'll have the most intelligent cabinet ever assembled (Cheney's brilliant, nobody can dispute that), and he's got the morals and ethics that the white house hasn't seen in 8 years.
shit man...you're a wreck...find a bridge....
christ, get a life.
sometimes i wonder what the fuck is wrong with you people? This isn't a troll, its an honest thought. you may not disagree, but that doesn't mean it should be moderated down. The man is expressing an honest and VALID point that you guys are whining about a small minority, and that this country is in fact a democracy...
also note that this isn't Anonymous because this, also, is not a troll, nor is it flamebait. I fully expect some retarded fuck will moderate me down (big deal), but that's just slashdot moderators for you.
I honestly dont know who pays you to type this nonsense. Assuming students have no Constitutional rights, privacy, or due process is ludicrous. The reality is that every student has these rights, just most willfully waive them to save time. Being a resident of California, where this particular event occurred, I can promise you that this student did not suffer any of these problems, unless he verbally agreed ahead of time.
Your uninformed views have no place in this story. If you have some huge desire to complain about the state of public schools, you might want to make an effort to educate yourself first.
California students have exactly the same privacy laws as California residents, unless it is determined that their privacy jeopardizes the safety of other students (ie. bomb threat, etc), which, if you think about it, is remarkably similar to the clause on legal unwarranted searches that apply to citizens in general.
Students do have due process, contrary to your statement. You yourself noted this when you said his parents are considering legal action. Isn't that due process? If schools were forced to handle disputes on every issue, they'd be pulling money away from education to put into a mess of legal issues; let the courts handle due process, not the schools.
If students are sent home, or suspended, it is only because they have violated a posted rule. This shouldn't shock or alarm anyone. If you break a rule, be ready to deal with the consequences.
playing the wrong kind of computer games. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? This is stupid. How the fuck is anyone going to know what computer games a particular student plays? Unless he's skipping class to play Quake 3 in the computer lab (which would constitute a suspension for skipping class), nobody's gonna have a clue that he plays any computer games.
Please, get a clue before you write this nonsense.
needs to be fucking shot... this is pathetic... this isn't news, this isn't anything that matters, its a fucking waste of screen space, and its this kind of nonsense that sends people away from slashdot in favor of other newsboards where actual news gets posted.
they have to pay the same as you do, but their accountants are better than yours. if you had good accountants to find all of your deductions, you wouldn't be paying a dime either.
Obviously, the only carelessness on my part is posting AT ALL.
I couldn't agree with you more. Please, follow in the steps of the great ones (heh) and retire.
Bitching wont help, we need to hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook. Stop buying these peoples products. Make it harder for them to get that armani suit and the house in the hamptons. They'll get the message.
Maybe you need to step off your high horse for a second in order to fully understand my point. I realize it wasn't blatantly clear the first time, as I was really on my way out the door to take an engineering test. My point was NOT that everyone should stop buying it, but that if you dont like it, dont subscribe. I personally would not let this information policy stop me from doing anything involved with the TiVo, from buying one, to subscribing, to watching and recording whatever it is I choose to watch and record.
Furthermore, despite your nice healthy ego, it is entirely unlikely that this policy, regardless of the backlash in the geek community, is going to cost the owners of TiVo any money at all. Insinuating that it will is just ridiculous.
that someone who's been around as long as you (user number 40,041) would respond so carelessly. IF you read my comment, I said sell it on the street, not back to the company. I'm sure you read the other response to your comment, indicating that TiVo's sell on ebay rather frequently...maybe you should consider this, rather than posting comments without reading what the person wrote.
When will we wake up? br. When will you wake up? Welcome to america. You have TWO choices. If you really believe there's anything YOU can do to stop this kind of information sharing, you're on crack. First off, I'm not entirely sure where the problem is with their practice. They're sharing your information with their business partners, true, now where's the problem? Why do you care if someone you DONT know knows how many porn movies you saved to your TiVo drive last week? Realistically, DirecTV probably has this information anyway. So where's the problem? Secondly, if this is a HUGE problem for you, cancel your service. Nobody's forcing you to pay for it, nobody's demanding that you subscribe. Take your little box and sell it, I'm sure you'll find a buyer relatively quickly. If you really dont want people knowing what you watch, when you watch it, what type of shows you save, or any random permutation of these factors, DONT USE THEIR SERVICE. Its not a hard concept to understand, and its certainly easy to implement.
Like someone else pointed out, trolls didn't break moderation. They merely took advantage of it when it was demonstrated the system was screwed up. And meanwhile, a slashback post that has nothing to do with fucked up moderation yields a huge thread about two whining kharma whores, in which this nonsense gets modded up to +3 insightful, instead of -1 offtopic. What I don't like is tight-assed zealots. Nobody does. Life's tough, deal with it. But it's a sad testimony on the state of affairs when the most intelligent and open-minded discussions are found on the trolling forums, and the most playful and innovative people on Slashdot are the trolls themselves. First, nobody's forcing you to be here. I'm sure if you email rob, he'll gladly refund your membership dues, and you can walk away without losing a thing. Secondly, dont be ridiculous. If this thread is what you consider the most intelligent thread on today's front page, you're on crack. (I, however, am not the type of person to say that's a good thing. So dont be fooled, that's not a compliment.) In conclusion, stop your whining. If you dont like the way slashdot has evolved, stop reading/posting here. Let it continue its devolution in peace.
That's something I never understood... or is that what he's referring to...making it impossible to create yourself a new user? If that's the case... I go back to my question...what about the effect on clones?
The reason most people believe you can't make a new user and log on again is because napster got clever. In their newer versions, they started adding registry keys. Since the ban, all new installs check the registry keys for the old napster ID tags, and if a banned ID is present, the install/new login name fails. I got around this by writing my own napster.ini file, deleting the old registry keys, and starting clean again. This has absolutely no effect on clones. A clone with a new ID will be allowed access to the server, regardless of who the person is behind the ID.
you'd have access to my ftp server... which has 650+ megs of metallica mp3s.... oh, how i love my bandwidth and 50 gigs of storage :)
oh wait, i go there too...nevermind.
Most of the managers I've worked for, the good ones at any rate, preferred to hire software engineers who had degrees in subjects other than Computer Science, because they knew that they would bring a richer mix of experience and creativity to their work.
Some schools (I'm partial to harvey mudd college, great school, well rounded education) go out of their way to ensure that a broad education even in specialized majors. For instance, CS majors at my school have to take almost as many humanities (history, govt, art, etc) classes as technical classes, which ensures not only an outstanding technical background, but humanitarian insight as to what your technical skills might produce. This humanities background tends to lessen the potential for immoral business practices.
.... espescially since I'm wasting 35k/year to go to school, I agree with the parent post...someone mod this back up to at 1.
I run a dual celeron box... and I've managed to crash both windows2000 pro and debian (full crash, complete lockup, now that takes talent)...while I agree with you that an operating system can make a huge difference, I think the bottom line in stability is the hardware running the code...but it should also be noted that when running on a normal hardware configuration, I was able to keep win2k up for three months without rebooting, and that string was ended by a power outage beyond MS control... the point to my ranting: sure, windows might be unstable, but provide it with realistic/reasonable hardware and it can rival most **nix boxes.
The Global mean temperature for 1999 was the 5th warmest on record since 1880. The warmest and second warmest years were 1998 and 1997. The top 6 warmest years have been in the 1990's. Each year of this decade has been one of the top 15 warmest of the century.
Since when does a 10 year trend indicate anything? Percentage wise, this is absurd at best. 10 years on a geologic timescale isn't even worth noting.
If you choose to say this isn't a 10 year trend, but a max value in a 200 year study, I submit to you that 200 years on a geological timescale is also nothing more than a mere dot, almost meaningless to anyone who takes the time to look at the BIG picture rather than shoot off meaningless facts to drum up political support for environmental issues (yeah, its election time again, didn't take that into account, did you?)
until the masses start flooding into the midwest because, as you described it, it provides shelter... yep, i'm sure you'll enjoy them spending your tax dollars on crack and hookers once the midwest goes to hell...lucky you, you're unaffected.
proven already, since 1960 amount of warm water floating to waters around norway has decreased with 40%
FOR THE LAST TIME: 40 YEARS OF DATA DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING. The planet has been around for hundreds of millions of years. Taking a 40 year sample and basing conclusions on it is analyzing less than one thousandth of one percent of the overall history. Its Absurd.
You dont live in LA do you? The only thing in LA that's gonna be underwater if the sea level goes up a few feet is orange county, and maybe some of venice (disappointing, no more movies like White Men Can't Jump... they're gonna have to be like White Men Can't Swim i guess)...LA, unfortunately, would be fine...you're gonna have to wait for an earthquake to take out the metropolitan areas of LA.
As for ice there? Sure there is, though it's usally sitting in ice chests coolin off the Coronas.
overclocking i might accept.... but what the fuck is your fascination with anime? that shit annoys me. I can't stand that stupid shit. bad animation, horrible sound dubbing, its a huge waste of time and money and tv time. if i want to watch cartoons, i'm turn on bugs bunny or some of the good ol' wyle coyote chasin the road runner... i'd rather shove my computer up my ass than watch anime.
IF you wrote something on a piece of paper using a black bic pen, and then burned it, and then tossed it in acid, or however you choose to destroy it, yes, the "information" you consider is lost. This, however, is not what is meant by this question. The question refers to the entire source of information about a particle/object. If it enters and is lost in a black hole, all that remains in the universe a factor due to its mass. You can not tell what it was, what it was made out of, where it came from, how fast it was going, how long it had been traveling, or anything else about it, except that it was an object, and it had some certain value of mass. Your solution might destroy the superficial information, but you can still tell it was paper, you can tell the information on it was written with ink, you can tell what kind of ink it was, you can tell how hot the fire that burned it was, you can tell what kind of acid it was drenched in. All superficial information is lost, but the overall information remains. That is the real thought behind question #8.