I don't like being tracked, especially when I'm on the way back from the head shop
Certainly you may pay cash instead, Citizen, but might I inquire what it is you are trying to hide?
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Well, I enjoy smoking my legally purchased tobacco out of a fine crafted glass pipe myself.
However a bunch of other people seem to assume such a purchase means I am a druggie hopped up on goofballs.
I am hiding from stupid people and their stupidity, because stupid people can still cause a great deal of damage to my life.
Unfortunately that answer is not always a good one to provide in court. One can never tell ahead of time if the cop or the judge happens to be one of those stupid people, until it is too late. So best to try and avoid finding out at all costs.
for a physical device that can turn things on and off in the real world (including ruining/damaging things) you NEED security. I just firmly believe this. no firewall, no hosts.allow, no nothing. not authentication or encryption or MAC access control, just like TRULY nothing. I find that unacceptable in a real-world device.
So what you need is to run two networks.
Have your computer LAN, and your hardware HAN.
All your embedded devices, PLCs, PICs, and Arduinos connect to the HAN which has no internet connection. Take one of the mentioned $50 router devices, or an PC running Linux with two network cards, and use that to bridge between your HAN and LAN. Put all the security in that now-a-firewall computer.
That will protect your real world interfacing devices from random guest computers plugged in your LAN or on your home wifi, or even FSM-forbid an infected windows PC of your own, or even a misconfigured linux system.
And since your LAN should be bridged to the Internet/WAN by a similar firewall/router device, that is two layers of protection between the Internet and your real world controlling devices.
This will limit the attack vector down to a single firewall, and physical access. Since we are likely talking about your home, or at least one building, you can handle the physical access easily enough by running network cabling as needed, or at least not providing easy to reach wall connectors to jack in (Unlike most LANs, which may have such easy access)
Using a Linux box as the firewall between LAN and HAN will give you the benefit of having a bunch of scripts to control any arduino/pic/plc/whatever from a single place, but the ability to run apache-ssl with more than basic-authentication if you desire. Then you can have web based controls and pretty graphs or pictures for status displays, all over SSL.
I fully agree that security is important and even a requirement to have, but I would rather keep the bulk of that on one machine, and limit all the embedded hardware so only that one machine can reach it. This keeps the prices of the chips way low, and dumps the hard work of encryption and access control on a general purpose machine more designed for that sort of thing.
If you are super paranoid, you can build a serial cable that only connects the HANs TX line to your LANs RX line, a one way serial port so to speak, and let the devices talk out for logging/status reporting purposes. Leave the control functions to those who have physical access to the console.
Have you accessed any 20 year old floppy disks lately? Do you still have access to a 5 1/4" drive? An 8" drive? Can you access cassettes from an old Apple II or an old Sinclair 2068?
Not so ironic for seeing on slashdot, but yes actually I do and have.
I however am under no illusions that I am one of maybe 20 people whom still do that sort of thing.
Interesting tidbit: Even in the days of the Apple//, there were plenty of programs with copy protection (Minor form of DRM?) that needs cracked to use the software in an emulator today.
The fact it is pretty trivial to do with todays technology is beside the point. There is still a lot of software and information from that age that is simply lost, and I do not expect that trend to stop in the future, but instead to only get worse:{
That's what I thought. The only different with rape is that there's also some sexist asshat like you who wants to whine about how rape accusations are women getting back at men rather than take the charges seriously.
The women in this case have already stated there was never any rape, that 'rape' was the word used by the police.
The woman admitted she was only upset because he did not use a condom. She out right said the sex was 100% willful.
This is the type of shit you are defending.
It makes me sick to think that a real rape case is being pushed aside because of people like you, who would rather see real rapists walk free but innocent men put in prison for crimes never committed.
I wish you had the balls to post under an account, if for no other reason than to ignore you and any future tripe you say
I don't think your ambulatory computers will ever be clever enough to figure out those situations.
That has been said about literally Everything that computers can do today. Every last thing.
Computers will never be able to play games against humans and win. Computers will never be able to see and recognize objects like humans. Computers will never be able to speak like a human. Computers will never be able to read human writing.
Computers will never be able to do this or that function nor control this or that complex system, yet today they control many systems that are used to make our lives easier.
You've been wrong each time, and you will be wrong this time too:P
A government restricts the lives of ordinary, innocent citizens, making them poorer in the process, while the government officials continue on without changing their lifestyles at all.
But they have changed their lifestyle.
Or the government officials make a profit from the change by getting payments (or something else of value) from environmental special interest groups or from the fishermen who use the other, non-restricted territory and have fewer competitors selling fish.
Or? What OR? Are you implying future tense of something you think hasn't happened already?
Governments using unnecessary force against people is oppression, even when the rulers are The Good People and they are doing it for The Good Reasons.
So? I for one am thankful my government 'oppresses' you from being a murderer. Is that seriously the argument you are making? Anarchy?
Someone who cared about islanders would suggest they actually solve their problems (in the event those problems actually happen) by building some small seawalls or other simple structures to deal with a modest rise in sea levels. Whining and making ridiculous and destructive spectacles is useless and childish.
And how would that solve the problem at hand? That would do nothing but keep them above water for a tiny bit longer. 100% off topic.
Try reading the article and get back to us when you have a thought on it. (Or not)
The ink doesn't dry out and can be used practically forever.
Toner wouldn't work too well if it wasn't dried out;}
Kidding aside, my HP 4mv is still going like a champ, and it was made back in 1995.
When I first got it, it was used to print billing invoices, somewhere around 6000 sheets a month. This ate through about 2-3 toner cartridges a year. In it's later life as my personal printer, seeing very low page counts, a toner cartridge easily lasted 5+ years.
Most printers of this type either have built in or can have added on network support, and they spoke more protocols than you will know what to do with, for a ton of hardware. Odds are TCP and PCL is all one will use these days however.
I could never recommend an inkjet to anyone, period.
You seem to assume that the whole device will be as thin as glass, instead of just the display as stated.
It can't be that hard since the problem was solved 20 years ago.
My laptop has a screen as thin as glass. The frame around it is pretty beefy and supports it fine. My 1999 fujitsu tablet also has a screen as thin as glass, surrounded to the rest of the device.
If they claimed the entire tablet was as thin as glass, you would have a point. But they don't.
Also any laptop or tablet on the market for the last 20 years, excluding the rugged ones, can't be dropped from and decent height either. People manage to take care of them just fine. These new tablets with glass thin screens will be no different than the old tablets with glass thin screens as far as that goes. Except with the new camera(s) built into the display.
'How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?' he asked."
Put me in control of what it does, what info I see, and what info it shares with whom, and I might call it a personal assistant.
As long as the control remains with the media companies, it is a spam assistant plain and simple, and it's only goal is to aid in selling my eyeballs off to the highest bidder for someone's profit.
I say the answer is simple, I just don't think they want to hear it or care about implementing it in that way.
A prediction that considers the physics: If you drop it, it will shatter, because the bending forces will be extreme, and something thin cannot counteract those forces.
Funny, I have plenty of laptops, displays, and even a tablet that all have screens that are the thickness of a piece of glass. They are still quite useful, and I would assume one would use the same common sense to not drop them if at all possible as you would with this tablet.
Sure I know my devices don't have the same product in them, screen only instead of screen plus camera. But they are the same size of device.
Even the laptops you might own have screens in them that are only the thickness of a sheet of glass! Or do you not buy LCDs and laptops and flat panel TVs because if you drop them they will shatter?
They weren't violating the GPL - it does not specify a time requirement, and a few months is hardly unreasonable.
The GPL doesn't need to have a time requirement, because the time requirement is coded in copyright law.
Copyright law says the very moment (a time requirement) you distribute something, you by law are required to be licensed to distribute it by the copyright holder.
So the very second Dell distributed it, they were in violation of copyright law, because they did not have any license to distribute it under copyright.
That is true because the license included is the GPL, and to be granted that license you must release the source code with the binaries. Dell choose not to utilize the GPL license by not meeting a requirement of it. Thusly they broke the law the second they distributed any binaries.
That's the type of sleazy weapon clear channel doesn't dare use against a band who can afford to go to court and show the many decades of prior art. It would get invalidated for good.
No, that's the type of thing they will only use against bands who can't afford justice in our legal system.
If you don't want it, then DON'T BUY IT! Why is this so difficult for these anti-3D trolls to undertstand?
Slashdot of maybe 5, definitely 10 years ago, would be full of technology buffs and computer geeks who would agree with us.
Slashdot of today however, we are a very rare breed. It is very sad, but you see it in literally every story comment section. Every last one:/
You see people commenting "I've been using computers all of my life, since my first windows 95 machine, and in my vast experience let me tell you why I know best that....." almost as common as you see "This technology sux0rz!"
Then you see people go out of their way to post in articles they clearly (and usually out right state) they have no interest in.
And it is close to 25-30% of the posts:( The level of noise to signal is ear shattering.
No, I am not sure what exactly happened to cause that. But that is what made it get worse, as all the older geeks that lived through the true beginnings of technology ran away to better greener pastures. (At least I assume and hope so... I seem to have been left behind as I can't find said pastures)
I too really miss having a technology site with an enthusiastic user base:(
The actual reason is because facebook is not google.
You see, those privacy advocate groups do not want any sort of privacy or protections for you or anyone else. They simply want to hate on a successful company.
Same reason just yesterday a quite loud "privacy group" was hating on google, yet using googles own analytical services to spy on everyone going to their website, trying and succeeding in giving you less privacy.
These people love to hate, and see dollar signs all over the legal system that they grew up with and know how to exploit.
This is why they target only google, and not target privacy abuses.
The best extreme stereotypical figure that comes to mind is Lionel Hutz on The Simpsons
When you copy the line, don't just select from start to end, but include the new line.
That is, start at the beginning of the command, click, and just pull down one line. You will select the newline as well, which will also paste the enter.
okay, anyone know how to get the "Run" command in Gnome with a mouse click instead of Alt-F2 so this guy can click "OK" insteak of pressing his Enter key?
But it's without foundation to bring up the "lots of women want to do it" argument. And "want to do it", whatever the tedious capitalist he-may-be-interned-in-a-factory-but-at-least-he's-not-dying-in-the-fields armchair philosophers will tell you, must not be confused with "is desperate for money and willing to do it because there is no viable alternative".
So instead of a situation of a desperate woman being a prostitute to pay the bills, you instead would rather that desperate woman be a prostitute to pay the bills AND be a criminal. That's rather nice of you:/
Look, we both know the problem is desperation, and that is what needs to be solved. Clearly neither of us have that solution, nor do the women doing this.
Why make them criminals just because they are already in a fucked up situation? Because outlawing something does not stop it, especially when you are that desperate already.
If it was simply taxed and regulated like any other legal job, we wouldn't have any of the Other problems we get today with prostitution, and will be making the exact same dent in the desperation problem as now (read None)
Then a lot of those desperate women will not be criminals as well, and might have a better chance of improving their situation without a police record to follow them forever.
Right now it's very hard to help improve any of those peoples lives, as with a criminal record they can't easily do quite a lot of things we take for granted, such as getting a job.
Remove that one little barrier and it becomes that much easier to provide some real help.
As I recall I might have clicked a checkbox and hit next, but that was just one of Many screens I had to correctly configure to get the game to install. I made no agreements after the exchange for the sale was finished.
If that is actually binding, then there is the additional problem for them that my bandwidth TOS is clearly posted on my website.
The first clause is I can change this "agreement" at any time without sending notification, and the second clause is they agree to my TOS by providing in their software a button with the text "I agree", which I can click on to confirm they indeed agree to my TOS.
The charges for my bandwidth are spelled out there, and I will be sending the bill in the mail now. If they don't pay it by 90 days, I guess I will just have to submit the invoice to a collections agency or something...
To be fair that would only be ironic if Slashdot was some form of scientific forum or journal.
These days, Slashdot is barely a message forum, what with the new metamod system weighing as much as normal mods yet not even displaying quotations properly, leading metamoderators to think you are stating what in fact you are quoting.
At least scientific journals don't hide your argument that you are presenting, and instead falsely claim you are making the very statements you are arguing against.
Slashdot Mirror
WW2 has long since ended. A major part of the controversy here is that the war is still happening
Well the war on terror is still going strong and has no end in sight.
So we can still demand they remove anything that terrifies us.
Things that terrify me that I would like removed from the game are: everything
I sure hope they don't end up being hypocrites and not remove 'everything' from their games.
That would make them go out of business you say? Well don't blame me, I'm not the one that chose this path they wanted to go down.
Nice, thank you very much!
Just curious, does Firefox sync addon support syncing to your own server somehow?
I see no mention of such a feature on the plugin webpage, but you mention "so even if you sync to their servers" which implies the option.
Thanks
"So, what is the justification for censoring this term"
Because you can hit enter and see the search results on all of those terms.
I don't like being tracked, especially when I'm on the way back from the head shop
Certainly you may pay cash instead, Citizen, but might I inquire what it is you are trying to hide?
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Well, I enjoy smoking my legally purchased tobacco out of a fine crafted glass pipe myself.
However a bunch of other people seem to assume such a purchase means I am a druggie hopped up on goofballs.
I am hiding from stupid people and their stupidity, because stupid people can still cause a great deal of damage to my life.
Unfortunately that answer is not always a good one to provide in court. One can never tell ahead of time if the cop or the judge happens to be one of those stupid people, until it is too late. So best to try and avoid finding out at all costs.
for a physical device that can turn things on and off in the real world (including ruining/damaging things) you NEED security. I just firmly believe this. no firewall, no hosts.allow, no nothing. not authentication or encryption or MAC access control, just like TRULY nothing. I find that unacceptable in a real-world device.
So what you need is to run two networks.
Have your computer LAN, and your hardware HAN.
All your embedded devices, PLCs, PICs, and Arduinos connect to the HAN which has no internet connection.
Take one of the mentioned $50 router devices, or an PC running Linux with two network cards, and use that to bridge between your HAN and LAN. Put all the security in that now-a-firewall computer.
That will protect your real world interfacing devices from random guest computers plugged in your LAN or on your home wifi, or even FSM-forbid an infected windows PC of your own, or even a misconfigured linux system.
And since your LAN should be bridged to the Internet/WAN by a similar firewall/router device, that is two layers of protection between the Internet and your real world controlling devices.
This will limit the attack vector down to a single firewall, and physical access.
Since we are likely talking about your home, or at least one building, you can handle the physical access easily enough by running network cabling as needed, or at least not providing easy to reach wall connectors to jack in (Unlike most LANs, which may have such easy access)
Using a Linux box as the firewall between LAN and HAN will give you the benefit of having a bunch of scripts to control any arduino/pic/plc/whatever from a single place, but the ability to run apache-ssl with more than basic-authentication if you desire. Then you can have web based controls and pretty graphs or pictures for status displays, all over SSL.
I fully agree that security is important and even a requirement to have, but I would rather keep the bulk of that on one machine, and limit all the embedded hardware so only that one machine can reach it.
This keeps the prices of the chips way low, and dumps the hard work of encryption and access control on a general purpose machine more designed for that sort of thing.
If you are super paranoid, you can build a serial cable that only connects the HANs TX line to your LANs RX line, a one way serial port so to speak, and let the devices talk out for logging/status reporting purposes. Leave the control functions to those who have physical access to the console.
Have you accessed any 20 year old floppy disks lately? Do you still have access to a 5 1/4" drive? An 8" drive? Can you access cassettes from an old Apple II or an old Sinclair 2068?
Not so ironic for seeing on slashdot, but yes actually I do and have.
I however am under no illusions that I am one of maybe 20 people whom still do that sort of thing.
Interesting tidbit: Even in the days of the Apple//, there were plenty of programs with copy protection (Minor form of DRM?) that needs cracked to use the software in an emulator today.
The fact it is pretty trivial to do with todays technology is beside the point. There is still a lot of software and information from that age that is simply lost, and I do not expect that trend to stop in the future, but instead to only get worse :{
That's what I thought. The only different with rape is that there's also some sexist asshat like you who wants to whine about how rape accusations are women getting back at men rather than take the charges seriously.
The women in this case have already stated there was never any rape, that 'rape' was the word used by the police.
The woman admitted she was only upset because he did not use a condom. She out right said the sex was 100% willful.
This is the type of shit you are defending.
It makes me sick to think that a real rape case is being pushed aside because of people like you, who would rather see real rapists walk free but innocent men put in prison for crimes never committed.
I wish you had the balls to post under an account, if for no other reason than to ignore you and any future tripe you say
I don't think your ambulatory computers will ever be clever enough to figure out those situations.
That has been said about literally Everything that computers can do today. Every last thing.
Computers will never be able to play games against humans and win.
Computers will never be able to see and recognize objects like humans.
Computers will never be able to speak like a human.
Computers will never be able to read human writing.
Computers will never be able to do this or that function nor control this or that complex system, yet today they control many systems that are used to make our lives easier.
You've been wrong each time, and you will be wrong this time too :P
Troll much?
A government restricts the lives of ordinary, innocent citizens, making them poorer in the process, while the government officials continue on without changing their lifestyles at all.
But they have changed their lifestyle.
Or the government officials make a profit from the change by getting payments (or something else of value) from environmental special interest groups or from the fishermen who use the other, non-restricted territory and have fewer competitors selling fish.
Or? What OR? Are you implying future tense of something you think hasn't happened already?
Governments using unnecessary force against people is oppression, even when the rulers are The Good People and they are doing it for The Good Reasons.
So?
I for one am thankful my government 'oppresses' you from being a murderer.
Is that seriously the argument you are making? Anarchy?
Someone who cared about islanders would suggest they actually solve their problems (in the event those problems actually happen) by building some small seawalls or other simple structures to deal with a modest rise in sea levels. Whining and making ridiculous and destructive spectacles is useless and childish.
And how would that solve the problem at hand?
That would do nothing but keep them above water for a tiny bit longer. 100% off topic.
Try reading the article and get back to us when you have a thought on it. (Or not)
The ink doesn't dry out and can be used practically forever.
Toner wouldn't work too well if it wasn't dried out ;}
Kidding aside, my HP 4mv is still going like a champ, and it was made back in 1995.
When I first got it, it was used to print billing invoices, somewhere around 6000 sheets a month.
This ate through about 2-3 toner cartridges a year.
In it's later life as my personal printer, seeing very low page counts, a toner cartridge easily lasted 5+ years.
Most printers of this type either have built in or can have added on network support, and they spoke more protocols than you will know what to do with, for a ton of hardware. Odds are TCP and PCL is all one will use these days however.
I could never recommend an inkjet to anyone, period.
You seem to assume that the whole device will be as thin as glass, instead of just the display as stated.
It can't be that hard since the problem was solved 20 years ago.
My laptop has a screen as thin as glass. The frame around it is pretty beefy and supports it fine.
My 1999 fujitsu tablet also has a screen as thin as glass, surrounded to the rest of the device.
If they claimed the entire tablet was as thin as glass, you would have a point. But they don't.
Also any laptop or tablet on the market for the last 20 years, excluding the rugged ones, can't be dropped from and decent height either. People manage to take care of them just fine. These new tablets with glass thin screens will be no different than the old tablets with glass thin screens as far as that goes. Except with the new camera(s) built into the display.
'How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?' he asked."
Put me in control of what it does, what info I see, and what info it shares with whom, and I might call it a personal assistant.
As long as the control remains with the media companies, it is a spam assistant plain and simple, and it's only goal is to aid in selling my eyeballs off to the highest bidder for someone's profit.
I say the answer is simple, I just don't think they want to hear it or care about implementing it in that way.
A prediction that considers the physics: If you drop it, it will shatter, because the bending forces will be extreme, and something thin cannot counteract those forces.
Funny, I have plenty of laptops, displays, and even a tablet that all have screens that are the thickness of a piece of glass.
They are still quite useful, and I would assume one would use the same common sense to not drop them if at all possible as you would with this tablet.
Sure I know my devices don't have the same product in them, screen only instead of screen plus camera.
But they are the same size of device.
Even the laptops you might own have screens in them that are only the thickness of a sheet of glass!
Or do you not buy LCDs and laptops and flat panel TVs because if you drop them they will shatter?
They weren't violating the GPL - it does not specify a time requirement, and a few months is hardly unreasonable.
The GPL doesn't need to have a time requirement, because the time requirement is coded in copyright law.
Copyright law says the very moment (a time requirement) you distribute something, you by law are required to be licensed to distribute it by the copyright holder.
So the very second Dell distributed it, they were in violation of copyright law, because they did not have any license to distribute it under copyright.
That is true because the license included is the GPL, and to be granted that license you must release the source code with the binaries. Dell choose not to utilize the GPL license by not meeting a requirement of it. Thusly they broke the law the second they distributed any binaries.
That's the type of sleazy weapon clear channel doesn't dare use against a band who can afford to go to court and show the many decades of prior art. It would get invalidated for good.
No, that's the type of thing they will only use against bands who can't afford justice in our legal system.
Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool
So the Blackberry is a spy tool for spies, right up until the police are allowed to use it as a tool to spy on people, then its an OK tool. Right?
If you don't want it, then DON'T BUY IT! Why is this so difficult for these anti-3D trolls to undertstand?
Slashdot of maybe 5, definitely 10 years ago, would be full of technology buffs and computer geeks who would agree with us.
Slashdot of today however, we are a very rare breed. It is very sad, but you see it in literally every story comment section. Every last one :/
You see people commenting "I've been using computers all of my life, since my first windows 95 machine, and in my vast experience let me tell you why I know best that....."
almost as common as you see "This technology sux0rz!"
Then you see people go out of their way to post in articles they clearly (and usually out right state) they have no interest in.
And it is close to 25-30% of the posts :(
The level of noise to signal is ear shattering.
No, I am not sure what exactly happened to cause that. But that is what made it get worse, as all the older geeks that lived through the true beginnings of technology ran away to better greener pastures. (At least I assume and hope so... I seem to have been left behind as I can't find said pastures)
I too really miss having a technology site with an enthusiastic user base :(
Consumer Watchdog
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/03/177246/Anti-Google-Video-Runs-In-Times-Square
I do not see any stories yesterday on slashdot about Google and EFF nor EPIC.
The actual reason is because facebook is not google.
You see, those privacy advocate groups do not want any sort of privacy or protections for you or anyone else. They simply want to hate on a successful company.
Same reason just yesterday a quite loud "privacy group" was hating on google, yet using googles own analytical services to spy on everyone going to their website, trying and succeeding in giving you less privacy.
These people love to hate, and see dollar signs all over the legal system that they grew up with and know how to exploit.
This is why they target only google, and not target privacy abuses.
The best extreme stereotypical figure that comes to mind is Lionel Hutz on The Simpsons
When you copy the line, don't just select from start to end, but include the new line.
That is, start at the beginning of the command, click, and just pull down one line.
You will select the newline as well, which will also paste the enter.
okay, anyone know how to get the "Run" command in Gnome with a mouse click instead of Alt-F2 so this guy can click "OK" insteak of pressing his Enter key?
Applications -> accessories -> terminal
But it's without foundation to bring up the "lots of women want to do it" argument. And "want to do it", whatever the tedious capitalist he-may-be-interned-in-a-factory-but-at-least-he's-not-dying-in-the-fields armchair philosophers will tell you, must not be confused with "is desperate for money and willing to do it because there is no viable alternative".
So instead of a situation of a desperate woman being a prostitute to pay the bills, you instead would rather that desperate woman be a prostitute to pay the bills AND be a criminal. :/
That's rather nice of you
Look, we both know the problem is desperation, and that is what needs to be solved.
Clearly neither of us have that solution, nor do the women doing this.
Why make them criminals just because they are already in a fucked up situation?
Because outlawing something does not stop it, especially when you are that desperate already.
If it was simply taxed and regulated like any other legal job, we wouldn't have any of the Other problems we get today with prostitution, and will be making the exact same dent in the desperation problem as now (read None)
Then a lot of those desperate women will not be criminals as well, and might have a better chance of improving their situation without a police record to follow them forever.
Right now it's very hard to help improve any of those peoples lives, as with a criminal record they can't easily do quite a lot of things we take for granted, such as getting a job.
Remove that one little barrier and it becomes that much easier to provide some real help.
>>Because you agreed to it in the TOS...
I did no such thing.
As I recall I might have clicked a checkbox and hit next, but that was just one of Many screens I had to correctly configure to get the game to install. I made no agreements after the exchange for the sale was finished.
If that is actually binding, then there is the additional problem for them that my bandwidth TOS is clearly posted on my website.
The first clause is I can change this "agreement" at any time without sending notification, and the second clause is they agree to my TOS by providing in their software a button with the text "I agree", which I can click on to confirm they indeed agree to my TOS.
The charges for my bandwidth are spelled out there, and I will be sending the bill in the mail now.
If they don't pay it by 90 days, I guess I will just have to submit the invoice to a collections agency or something...
To be fair that would only be ironic if Slashdot was some form of scientific forum or journal.
These days, Slashdot is barely a message forum, what with the new metamod system weighing as much as normal mods yet not even displaying quotations properly, leading metamoderators to think you are stating what in fact you are quoting.
At least scientific journals don't hide your argument that you are presenting, and instead falsely claim you are making the very statements you are arguing against.