1) But everyone is like "This is war! The wars on now! We're at war!"
Technically it isn't war since war can only be declared by Congress.
If the news agencies weren't spinning it into a full blown battle right now I don't think it would be such a huge deal. Right now it's only missile strikes. How many times in the last ten years have we lobbed missiles into Iraq?
2) Speaking of the news media...
Didn't they learn after their huge early call blunders during the 2000 election about overzealous journalism?
The cable news channels rarely did anything but focus on when the fighting will start today. The networks interrupted shows to say "It has begun..." then they were like "Well maybe not really..."
Chill out dude, it's "war". Don't treat it like a game show.
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"They should have an obligation to inform the subject that the information has been collected and sold."
I'd personally rather see
"They should have an obligation to inform the subject that the information has been collected and whether they CAN sell it."
There's nothing you can do about activites outside the house in public, but who your phone provider is, your bank, your insurance, the calls you make, paying bills on time, etc., should only be between you and any businesses you choose to do business with.
I'm tired of companies thinking they have a right to my personal life if it makes them some cash.
Actually getting pissed off makes them want to help you less and then they want to jerk you around more regardless of whether or not they get fired, just so long as they make the experience miserable enough for you.
Honestly I realize EULA's are a shady practice, but there are also customers out there that just think they DESERVE special treatment, or they're on lunch and have to hurry so you have to drop everything else, even if its for a different customer that was there first and isn't rushing, it drives me nuts (I work in a CompUSA right now).
Most of the time people that return software bought it on a whim and it didn't do what they wanted, then they get upset when they have to spend time returning it. People are so stupid these days. If I'm going to buy something I read up on it first, and that goes for anything I buy, except perhaps a toothbrush or something, but games, software, even when I go to see a movie I like to get opinions from people that have seen it already.
But too often these days people just think it would be cool/hip/neat/happenin' to have/see/buy stuff and spend their money then think "Oh well maybe it wasn't exactly how I thought it would be."
Then they get pissed if two months have gone by and they can't return it, or they opened it and installed the software on their system and don't like, but never removed it (I've had people admit this fact to me before.)
Something has to change, b/c the software companies aren't stopping the pirates anyway, but the general public isn't as innocent as they seem or are always made out to be when EULA/Copyprotection schemes come up.
There is a corporate attitude of "We want your money for nothing..." but that attitude is just a reflection of society at large.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, there needs to be a middle ground, but neither side is going to want to give. Customers are tired of getting hosed, but if companies lay down for everyone they go out of business. Where does it end?
We had a woman want to return an open copy of some Microsoft product because it wouldn't run on her system she found out later. At first we were going to turn her away, but I opened the box and read the manual and there was a page near the front that said you can return the software to the wherever you bought it from.
So I would assume Microsoft ends up compensating retailers if this ever happens. Although I don't know for sure if we ever sent it back or just stuck it back on the shelf.
I don't know about Symantec or the other manufacturers, but I'm pretty sure all Microsoft software has a "Take it back to the store if you don't like it." clause. She may be hosed with them.
The comic book struggled in its infancy here with a bad rap, just as video games are these days. People thought that reading comic books made their children go do crazy things, like jump off cliffs with towels for capes and such.
I convinced a history teacher to let me write a paper on the history of comics in high school. Back in the 40's and 50's there was a huge backlash against comic books like Superman that depicted characters that people thought were sinful because they had a God like character dressing up in tights and saving humanity. This mostly was an issue in small cities/towns where everyone knew each other and in some places merchants kept them behind the counter like you would a porno mag today, although everything started to die down in the 60's with the "Silver Age". By then there was no real proof they affected kids adversely since people kept reading them and society kept on chugging.
Personally I think a major problem with comic books these days is that I go to the comic store now and just browse the issues to find they're mostly the same only crap I read over the 12 years I bought comics.
It's like a Star Trek episode where in the final hour the hero saves the day with some conjured up on the fly solution. So many times it's that he just suddenly comes back from the dead after being missing for days.
The reason for I think is this, the writers of todays comic books for the most part grew up reading comic books. They didn't study literature and get into comics. They studied Thor and write stories that remind them of their childhood when they read Thor and it was cool (if that's possible w/ Thor.)
What's worse is they pay these people way too much. It's minimal compared to an actor, but I hear tales of artists getting 10's of thousands per issue.
I know people that were in the industry for years working @ the 2 big guns and they have some tales to tell. The industry is full of back stabbing and snobbish behavior. Understandable though, these people didn't sit at home as kids and read comics b/c of their great social skills.
On top of all this it's now 2.25-2.50 and issue! They're only 22 pages. I read through them in ten minutes. I can't justify spending that.
There is a broad generalization in his comment, but some people are poor because of piss poor choices or they decision to be homeless altogether (not every homeless person wants a home.)
I grew up in a small town with many people in line for their monthly paycheck from the government, I also wasn't living in the warmest house in the winter and also spent plenty of time in the 2nd hand stores with my mother.
However plenty of people, if not for sure laziness, could do something about their situation. Even with a weak economy there are jobs, but many people would rather use it as an excuse not to work and collect a check than work a dead end bottom of the barrel job.
Is that the gov is taking our taxes (in man hours) to stem problems arising from corporate software. which they used our tax money to purchase in the first place. Shouldn't OUR Government stayaway from this sort of wasteful spending in bad economic times?
I've already voted for him the last TWO times he was up for election. And I live in the WI capital and have even seen him on the streets just talking to the peeps. I've shook his hand and told him that he needs to keep "kicking ass" on the Hill.
I offered to buy him a beer but he laughed and said it would look like I was trying to buy him out... haha..
Slashdot Mirror
I watch this movie at least once or twice a month. It's creepy but cool sci-fi. It feels a little fast some times but it's a groovy flick.
1) But everyone is like "This is war! The wars on now! We're at war!"
Technically it isn't war since war can only be declared by Congress.
If the news agencies weren't spinning it into a full blown battle right now I don't think it would be such a huge deal. Right now it's only missile strikes. How many times in the last ten years have we lobbed missiles into Iraq?
2) Speaking of the news media...
Didn't they learn after their huge early call blunders during the 2000 election about overzealous journalism?
The cable news channels rarely did anything but focus on when the fighting will start today. The networks interrupted shows to say "It has begun..." then they were like "Well maybe not really..."
Chill out dude, it's "war". Don't treat it like a game show.
Like father like son
I was just thinking as I looked at my DVD's...
"Begun this "Clone" War has..."
Here
I won't use case that casts a shadow..
oh... wait
Either I'm high and don't know it or the website that the screenshot link leads to has this written on it...
Do you like gay sex?
Indeed i do! What's your phone number?
212 596 7765
Thanks to Ryan, Jacob, Fisheye & Bill for their hard work!
What??
Next thing you know, they'll make it illegal to remove tags from clothing, not just pillows and mattresses.
It just so happens I'm planning on setting up a non-MS campus of my own called "University of Me". I'm looking for donations to help out.
Unlike /.'ers dogs can't make a fist.
This from the guy who's sig is a fucking bitch fest about George Lucas messing with his *OWN* movie.
Because ther are no positive examples of nerds/programmers/etc
"They should have an obligation to inform the subject that the information has been collected and sold."
I'd personally rather see
"They should have an obligation to inform the subject that the information has been collected and whether they CAN sell it."
There's nothing you can do about activites outside the house in public, but who your phone provider is, your bank, your insurance, the calls you make, paying bills on time, etc., should only be between you and any businesses you choose to do business with.
I'm tired of companies thinking they have a right to my personal life if it makes them some cash.
For filling me in. Now I'll be sure to not even buy this product.
Patriot Act?
Is the only book by a Donald Knuth I can find...
here
Mayhaps this is what you meant?
"Don't hand out free copies."
After that it's my dough and my copy to do w/ as I please is it not?
Actually getting pissed off makes them want to help you less and then they want to jerk you around more regardless of whether or not they get fired, just so long as they make the experience miserable enough for you.
Honestly I realize EULA's are a shady practice, but there are also customers out there that just think they DESERVE special treatment, or they're on lunch and have to hurry so you have to drop everything else, even if its for a different customer that was there first and isn't rushing, it drives me nuts (I work in a CompUSA right now).
Most of the time people that return software bought it on a whim and it didn't do what they wanted, then they get upset when they have to spend time returning it. People are so stupid these days. If I'm going to buy something I read up on it first, and that goes for anything I buy, except perhaps a toothbrush or something, but games, software, even when I go to see a movie I like to get opinions from people that have seen it already.
But too often these days people just think it would be cool/hip/neat/happenin' to have/see/buy stuff and spend their money then think "Oh well maybe it wasn't exactly how I thought it would be."
Then they get pissed if two months have gone by and they can't return it, or they opened it and installed the software on their system and don't like, but never removed it (I've had people admit this fact to me before.)
Something has to change, b/c the software companies aren't stopping the pirates anyway, but the general public isn't as innocent as they seem or are always made out to be when EULA/Copyprotection schemes come up.
There is a corporate attitude of "We want your money for nothing..." but that attitude is just a reflection of society at large.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, there needs to be a middle ground, but neither side is going to want to give. Customers are tired of getting hosed, but if companies lay down for everyone they go out of business. Where does it end?
We had a woman want to return an open copy of some Microsoft product because it wouldn't run on her system she found out later. At first we were going to turn her away, but I opened the box and read the manual and there was a page near the front that said you can return the software to the wherever you bought it from.
So I would assume Microsoft ends up compensating retailers if this ever happens. Although I don't know for sure if we ever sent it back or just stuck it back on the shelf.
I don't know about Symantec or the other manufacturers, but I'm pretty sure all Microsoft software has a "Take it back to the store if you don't like it." clause. She may be hosed with them.
The comic book struggled in its infancy here with a bad rap, just as video games are these days. People thought that reading comic books made their children go do crazy things, like jump off cliffs with towels for capes and such.
I convinced a history teacher to let me write a paper on the history of comics in high school. Back in the 40's and 50's there was a huge backlash against comic books like Superman that depicted characters that people thought were sinful because they had a God like character dressing up in tights and saving humanity. This mostly was an issue in small cities/towns where everyone knew each other and in some places merchants kept them behind the counter like you would a porno mag today, although everything started to die down in the 60's with the "Silver Age". By then there was no real proof they affected kids adversely since people kept reading them and society kept on chugging.
Personally I think a major problem with comic books these days is that I go to the comic store now and just browse the issues to find they're mostly the same only crap I read over the 12 years I bought comics.
It's like a Star Trek episode where in the final hour the hero saves the day with some conjured up on the fly solution. So many times it's that he just suddenly comes back from the dead after being missing for days.
The reason for I think is this, the writers of todays comic books for the most part grew up reading comic books. They didn't study literature and get into comics. They studied Thor and write stories that remind them of their childhood when they read Thor and it was cool (if that's possible w/ Thor.)
What's worse is they pay these people way too much. It's minimal compared to an actor, but I hear tales of artists getting 10's of thousands per issue.
I know people that were in the industry for years working @ the 2 big guns and they have some tales to tell. The industry is full of back stabbing and snobbish behavior. Understandable though, these people didn't sit at home as kids and read comics b/c of their great social skills.
On top of all this it's now 2.25-2.50 and issue! They're only 22 pages. I read through them in ten minutes. I can't justify spending that.
What... happened to Itanium 1?
There is a broad generalization in his comment, but some people are poor because of piss poor choices or they decision to be homeless altogether (not every homeless person wants a home.)
I grew up in a small town with many people in line for their monthly paycheck from the government, I also wasn't living in the warmest house in the winter and also spent plenty of time in the 2nd hand stores with my mother.
However plenty of people, if not for sure laziness, could do something about their situation. Even with a weak economy there are jobs, but many people would rather use it as an excuse not to work and collect a check than work a dead end bottom of the barrel job.
Is that the gov is taking our taxes (in man hours) to stem problems arising from corporate software. which they used our tax money to purchase in the first place. Shouldn't OUR Government stay away from this sort of wasteful spending in bad economic times?
I've already voted for him the last TWO times he was up for election. And I live in the WI capital and have even seen him on the streets just talking to the peeps. I've shook his hand and told him that he needs to keep "kicking ass" on the Hill.
I offered to buy him a beer but he laughed and said it would look like I was trying to buy him out... haha..
yeah i got nothin'
After trying to be funny I discovered /. limits the amount of ! you can have in one post.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.
Now when the "Duplicate Story" filter is added we might have something here..
OMG! Someone is actually RTFA!