Excuse me? "Giving away of too much privacy"? Let me inform you in which country this is IN. The United States is BUILT on privacy and liberty. Beating the quote drum here, "Those who would give up liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Privacy gaining too much power in society is not a problem. The invasion of MY privacy is a violation of my Constitutional liberties, and I don't CARE if by violating my rights, there will be less terrorist attacks. If you do this, what happens when this whole thing is over? We've still given the government permission to invade our lives.
This isn't going to be a "bitch about how slow we get it here" post, because I use modem connects regularly (try getting broadband out in Fall City, living in basically undeveloped forest) and they don't even hit 56k.. 24.6 on a good day.
I get 256/784 on my ADSL, but my problem with it is that doesn't seem to be right. I've done some testing and found that in reality, it's more like a shared 784k - if you're using about 15kb upload bandwidth, you can't get more than 30 down. Isn't broadband supposed to have the ability to use basically all the upload bandwidth and still have blazing fast downloads? Yes, I'm aware of the nature of TCP/IP needing a packet for an ACK, but that can't be large enough to cause a huge performance hit..
Let's see. Who's going to be more violent, someone who shoots Nazis for a while, or someone who sat around playing a game where you wander around an island doing nothing but solving pointless puzzles?:)
Yes, I think we know very well that a violent video game could possibly cause violence in a child. (Watch me get flamed for this.) I know, it's not nearly to the degree the media would like to have us believe. But, as they do say, if you do something long enough, eventually IT becomes habit. That means if you're a small child and can't distinguish reality from fiction...
However, I must also rant about the fact that parents may complain, but they really don't give a crap. I recall a time when Wal-Mart instituted a ratings enforcement system; if you were not the recommended age for a game, the store clerk WOULD NOT sell it to you. Now, this is particularly interesting due to the fact that parents are the ones that continually yell and make general noise about violent video games being "bad" for our children.
When a store clerk would not sell a M-rated game (I think it was Parasite Eve) to a child of about 11, he walked out - only to return with his mother, who flew into a rage at the fact that her little boy couldn't buy this rather violent game. She eventually bought the game for him.
What's funny is that parents have no problem doing this, but if that same 11 year old boy had asked his mother if he could have an R-rated movie with pretty much the same contents (only slightly less effective in terms of violence due to the fact that it's non-interactive) you know what the answer would have been.
It seems parents may rant all they like about videogames causing violence, but do they DO anything? Nyeh...
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My Karma just ran over your Dogma.
Is it just me.. or is this incredibly silly?
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Probably just me, as I'm sure many people will donate. But it's a BAND. Bands make HUGE AMOUNTS of money.(At least the popular ones, and Metallica is popular.) Why should we be donating to them? Those that would donate to them would probably spend their money better buying one of their CDs, or something. Why would someone WANT to do this?
Of course, you know that if you start a site and get enough publicity, you'll get suckers.. after all, there's a donator born every minute..:P I suppose anyone can start a site and immediately get some donations.. still, it's quite insane, if you ask me. "Oh no! It's.... NAPSTER!! The ULTIMATE evil! It allows people to distribute our MP3's! Off our OVERPRICED cds that cost us a whopping 50 cents to make (and that's an over estimate) that we turn around and sell for upwards of 15 dollars!" Does no one but me see the insanity here?
So, someone else agrees.. And, I do agree that the average person isn't as smart as the average/. reader, but COME ON! I'm tired of pointy-clicky internet services.. have been tired of said services since the day they came to be.. all they do is put newbies on the Internet that are completely LAME/trolls/etc. Yes, yes, I know, they eventually grow out of it (maybe) but it's HELL trying to explain to one that putting an AMD processor in your computer does NOT mean you have to buy all new software. Ugh..:\
This frightens me, it really does. It brings me back to my major concern with the DOJ attacking Microsoft, and seeing many many companies merge while they were distracted. We now have so many "neo-monopolies" it's frightening. And, this is AOL taking over here. AOL. The word that strikes fear into the hearts of millions.:P The question is, now that they have so much power, what will they do? We've already seen what they do when given the chance, with AOL 5. Expand that to the entire Internet.. since they're Microsoft supporters, we could see "This website ONLY WORKS with AOL and IE running under Windows . Any other systems WILL BE DEMOLISHED!" or something like that.. Overreaction? Maybe, but remember how hard it is to get AOL5 out once you've put it in. I spent an entire day de-threading a system with that. Why am I so scared of the images I get of AOL on every website, WITHOUT the GIF animation of the dude pissing on whatever's to the right of it. Sure, they won't take it ALL, but what happens when they apply their censorship to most of Usenet? Even to the search engines? Just something to think about.. -=- "What's this button do?" "Don't touch that!" *beep* "Oh, how interesting" "What happened?" "A little sign came down that reads, 'Please do not press this button again.'"
*throws up hands* Ok, ok, so I was a bit tired when I wrote that, but still.
For an OS that was supposed to END the two different Windows OS's, Win2000 is extremely bad at compatibility, etc.
and HELL NO, I was not saying the first OS someone used was a good OS (I was actually talking about the first traditional PC (e.g. XT) OS you used, not the first one.. that would be Commodore Basic:P) I was simply saying that Microsoft has DEGRADED over the years.
I use the command-line in Windows for almost everything but dinking with specific file operations..
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about, I've used Win2000, hardware support? We obviously don't NEED hardware support in this OS, after all we're cool! (Now, on the other hand, Linux is good.. that's actually my main OS..)
I didn't mean "stable" when I said it.. (I was tired, give me a break) I meant that there is almost no support for things that Win9x users take for granted now.
Just my two bytes worth, not saying Microsoft bashing is fun ALL the time, but sometimes we DO have to let it out of our system.. every day, all day, that's bad.. but once in a while?
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Daddy, why won't this magnet pick up this floppy disk marked "TOP SECRET IRREPLACEABLE FILES"?
Well, you have to admit bashing Microsoft is almost a national pastime around Linux users.. Sometimes, you just have to think though.. What OS did you start on, when you first touched a PC? For me, it was DOS, of course.. which was made by Microsoft.. not saying that actually bears relation to it, but that they DO make good software at times. Although, come to think of it, who the heck uses Win2000 anyway? Win98 is more stable.. but that's like comparing the two crappiest bands in the place; which one's better? Who cares? C'mon, let MS have a SMALL break. I'm sure they were just having fun.. and in reference to a post about replacing the 404 error with a Netscape-bashing item, that would probably cause even more uproar. (Then again, it could be INCREDIBLY funny.) -- Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?
Dang, a vaporbug.. they can't even deliver on BUGS, wow, what next? Bugfixes.. oh wait, hum, is there anything Microsoft is good at?...well, I seem to recall a certain hack in the Win9x source kernel, some three pages of just making Lotus 123 work. The comments on that page, well, are rather funny.. stuff about the idiotic programmers that couldn't program worth a damn, so they have to go in and fix it themselves.. - I! Finally! Figured! Out! How! To! Punctuate! Kirk's! Sentences! Dinner not ready: (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)izza?
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Make yourself clearer, it almost looks like you're saying "giving away" to mean that you're giving privacy TO people, instead of taking it away.
Say "giving away rights" or something. Works better.
Now I wish there was an edit button.
Well, it'd certainly take care of any concealed weapons getting by the airport metal detectors, at any rate...
Excuse me? "Giving away of too much privacy"? Let me inform you in which country this is IN. The United States is BUILT on privacy and liberty. Beating the quote drum here, "Those who would give up liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Privacy gaining too much power in society is not a problem. The invasion of MY privacy is a violation of my Constitutional liberties, and I don't CARE if by violating my rights, there will be less terrorist attacks. If you do this, what happens when this whole thing is over? We've still given the government permission to invade our lives.
This isn't going to be a "bitch about how slow we get it here" post, because I use modem connects regularly (try getting broadband out in Fall City, living in basically undeveloped forest) and they don't even hit 56k.. 24.6 on a good day.
I get 256/784 on my ADSL, but my problem with it is that doesn't seem to be right. I've done some testing and found that in reality, it's more like a shared 784k - if you're using about 15kb upload bandwidth, you can't get more than 30 down. Isn't broadband supposed to have the ability to use basically all the upload bandwidth and still have blazing fast downloads? Yes, I'm aware of the nature of TCP/IP needing a packet for an ACK, but that can't be large enough to cause a huge performance hit..
Yes, I think we know very well that a violent video game could possibly cause violence in a child. (Watch me get flamed for this.) I know, it's not nearly to the degree the media would like to have us believe. But, as they do say, if you do something long enough, eventually IT becomes habit. That means if you're a small child and can't distinguish reality from fiction...
However, I must also rant about the fact that parents may complain, but they really don't give a crap. I recall a time when Wal-Mart instituted a ratings enforcement system; if you were not the recommended age for a game, the store clerk WOULD NOT sell it to you. Now, this is particularly interesting due to the fact that parents are the ones that continually yell and make general noise about violent video games being "bad" for our children.
When a store clerk would not sell a M-rated game (I think it was Parasite Eve) to a child of about 11, he walked out - only to return with his mother, who flew into a rage at the fact that her little boy couldn't buy this rather violent game. She eventually bought the game for him.
What's funny is that parents have no problem doing this, but if that same 11 year old boy had asked his mother if he could have an R-rated movie with pretty much the same contents (only slightly less effective in terms of violence due to the fact that it's non-interactive) you know what the answer would have been.
It seems parents may rant all they like about videogames causing violence, but do they DO anything? Nyeh...
-=-
My Karma just ran over your Dogma.
Of course, you know that if you start a site and get enough publicity, you'll get suckers.. after all, there's a donator born every minute.. :P I suppose anyone can start a site and immediately get some donations.. still, it's quite insane, if you ask me. "Oh no! It's.... NAPSTER!! The ULTIMATE evil! It allows people to distribute our MP3's! Off our OVERPRICED cds that cost us a whopping 50 cents to make (and that's an over estimate) that we turn around and sell for upwards of 15 dollars!" Does no one but me see the insanity here?
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Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my pants.
So, someone else agrees.. And, I do agree that the average person isn't as smart as the average /. reader, but COME ON! I'm tired of pointy-clicky internet services.. have been tired of said services since the day they came to be.. all they do is put newbies on the Internet that are completely LAME/trolls/etc. Yes, yes, I know, they eventually grow out of it (maybe) but it's HELL trying to explain to one that putting an AMD processor in your computer does NOT mean you have to buy all new software. Ugh.. :\
This frightens me, it really does. It brings me back to my major concern with the DOJ attacking Microsoft, and seeing many many companies merge while they were distracted. We now have so many "neo-monopolies" it's frightening. And, this is AOL taking over here. AOL. The word that strikes fear into the hearts of millions. :P The question is, now that they have so much power, what will they do? We've already seen what they do when given the chance, with AOL 5. Expand that to the entire Internet.. since they're Microsoft supporters, we could see "This website ONLY WORKS with AOL and IE running under Windows . Any other systems WILL BE DEMOLISHED!" or something like that.. Overreaction? Maybe, but remember how hard it is to get AOL5 out once you've put it in. I spent an entire day de-threading a system with that. Why am I so scared of the images I get of AOL on every website, WITHOUT the GIF animation of the dude pissing on whatever's to the right of it. Sure, they won't take it ALL, but what happens when they apply their censorship to most of Usenet? Even to the search engines? Just something to think about.. -=- "What's this button do?" "Don't touch that!" *beep* "Oh, how interesting" "What happened?" "A little sign came down that reads, 'Please do not press this button again.'"
For an OS that was supposed to END the two different Windows OS's, Win2000 is extremely bad at compatibility, etc.
and HELL NO, I was not saying the first OS someone used was a good OS (I was actually talking about the first traditional PC (e.g. XT) OS you used, not the first one.. that would be Commodore Basic :P) I was simply saying that Microsoft has DEGRADED over the years.
I use the command-line in Windows for almost everything but dinking with specific file operations..
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about, I've used Win2000, hardware support? We obviously don't NEED hardware support in this OS, after all we're cool! (Now, on the other hand, Linux is good.. that's actually my main OS..)
I didn't mean "stable" when I said it.. (I was tired, give me a break) I meant that there is almost no support for things that Win9x users take for granted now.
Just my two bytes worth, not saying Microsoft bashing is fun ALL the time, but sometimes we DO have to let it out of our system.. every day, all day, that's bad.. but once in a while?
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Daddy, why won't this magnet pick up this floppy disk marked "TOP SECRET IRREPLACEABLE FILES"?
Well, you have to admit bashing Microsoft is almost a national pastime around Linux users.. Sometimes, you just have to think though.. What OS did you start on, when you first touched a PC? For me, it was DOS, of course.. which was made by Microsoft.. not saying that actually bears relation to it, but that they DO make good software at times. Although, come to think of it, who the heck uses Win2000 anyway? Win98 is more stable.. but that's like comparing the two crappiest bands in the place; which one's better? Who cares? C'mon, let MS have a SMALL break. I'm sure they were just having fun.. and in reference to a post about replacing the 404 error with a Netscape-bashing item, that would probably cause even more uproar. (Then again, it could be INCREDIBLY funny.) -- Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?
Dang, a vaporbug.. they can't even deliver on BUGS, wow, what next? Bugfixes.. oh wait, hum, is there anything Microsoft is good at? ...well, I seem to recall a certain hack in the Win9x source kernel, some three pages of just making Lotus 123 work. The comments on that page, well, are rather funny.. stuff about the idiotic programmers that couldn't program worth a damn, so they have to go in and fix it themselves.. - I! Finally! Figured! Out! How! To! Punctuate! Kirk's! Sentences! Dinner not ready: (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)izza?
Let's just AND it with a bunch of ones, and make it completely uncrackable!