Quoth the post: Think of it as the legal equivalent of DDoS.
But i thought that in october(or there abouts) ashCroft macaroni and cheese declared that a DDos attack was a terrorist activity. now they're gonna nuke all the small claims courts
that's easier than jamming cell phones, all it requires is a roll of duct tape and someone to distract the parent(s).
Cell phones are almost jammed where i work (in the US) because somebody keeps tweeking the transcevers for our laser tag system. that combined with the emf from all the other machines in the arcade positioned so the "peak noise arc" from the games all overlap to drown out the floor noise if you aren't behind a counter or directly infornt of a game
the combined result is a weak signal and a conversation that's almost impossible to hear outside of the employee areas
*insert ominous music here*
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Quoth the parent: My initial reaction to the end of FOTR was good, I thought the movie wrapped up nicely, and I knew that there would be more to come. However, looking back I'm not so sure that others who have not really heard of the tale will think the same.
When i saw it on opening night there were definitely more than a few people who actually WTF'ed the end of the movie.
and when i took a pair of my cow-orkers to see after work on christmas the one who hadn't read the book was disappointed that "it just sort of ended." Now that i've lent her the books she understands why it ended there and was glad they left out the forest, the barrows and bombadil (she was complaining for a week cuz she hadn't had much time to read that they were taking forever to get out of the forest).
I think i saw a bit on good morning america (or one of the other shows that cloned it's entire cast & crew).
They had army guys wearing a "mock-up" of what the uniforms were going to look like, the second one (2005 i think) was wearing something that looked desert camo, that "would be capable of regulating it's inside tempratue, is waterproof, lightweight and puncture resistant."
What caught my eye was the tube by the guys' neck "The suit will also have internal water filters, put in dirty water, or urine and you can drinkn the clean stuff thru this tube"
It was then i realized they just came up with a dorky looking version of the stilsuit.
of course this is still a few years before the lightbending powered bikini armor of our future "Hot Teen Babes" army.
Quoth the poster: Ok, I can see that you're disturbed by this. But if you don't want to see the movie, just don't go. It's not like you live in a country where you're forced to see bad movies do you?
Shhh, don't let holywood hear you or we'll be getting legeslation to force us to see every movie they make. cuz then no one will want to pirate the movies since they've already seen it.
Quoth the poster: Senator Kickback: So, what can you guys offer me? Recoring Exec:A roofied teenage pop starlet, a sack full of crack, and a job in marketing for your idiot waster nephew. Electronics Exec: Uh, I dunno, how about a really neat watch that turns into a robot dinosaur?
Personally I'd take the watch
And then use the robot dinosaur to off the record exec and take his stuff.
quoth the poster: nobody's loading Morpheus onto the Airbus flight control system. Getting true reliability for a general purpose machine is damn hard.
IIRC the EULA for morpheus (perhaps it was napster) said that it shouldn't be loaded onto any system where safety was important like air traffic control and nuclear reactors
Quoth the poster: Only problem - ID's can be swapped with a friend. Until you get yourself catched by some policeman, who actually check your photo, you can get by. Any idea how can that be 'fixed' (besies harsh sentences for ID swapping)?
quoth the parent: Is everyone here stupid? Look at the name, it's "CmdrTaco (editor)", not "CmdrTaco". And further, his user ID is #564483. That's a big fsking clue. The real CmdrTaco [slashdot.org] has a user ID of #1. gosh what a suprise.
quoth the sig: The real CmdrTaco is User #1 [slashdot.org] but he is an imposter.
Steven Spielberg is getting paid exorbitant sums of money because people love his movies. They love his movies not because he's a natural at it, but because he spent his youth sneaking around movie sets and studing directors.
umm.. that's great but if you get caught sneaking around a movie set studying a director, you'll probably get arrested for stalking and/or terrorism, cuz if you kill a hollywood director and decrease a studio's profits the terrorists win
quoth the poster: I, for one, like the ads. If it weren't for them, I would miss the beginning of every movie my wife and I go to see.
You've just gotta focus on the positive, 'cuz positive's the way you aughtta be.
I agree, if it weren't for the ads i would've missed the backstory at the start of LotR. then again when i show up for a movie on time and have to sit thru that "Truth - the Musical" dran and a number of car comercials before i get to see the preveiw for Goldmember, it's annoying.
At least they put the comercials between the slideshow type local adverts and the preveiws so I won't mind missing them
Hey I know a way they can reduce pirating and decrease cost for the record companies, fire all the artists. Then you don't have to pay them and since you aren't producing anything new (and we're all downloading 1300 songs a day on our shiney uber-band[tm] modems)we'll have all the songs in existance and we won't need to steal anymore.
I'm mostly right handed and that's where i wear my watch, for some reason i lock the strap with my just my right hand, but i can lock it with just my left hand.
quoth the parent: Let's assume that when the voltage is at it's highest, the bulb is at it's hottest. From that point of the sine wave, to the zero crossing at the 180 degree mark, the filament is cooling off. Now, as you say, it will still be hot when we reach the zero crossing, but the voltage on the wire cannot maintain that temperature. In fact the filament will continue to cool until we reach a voltage that will maintain the filament temperature. From that point on, the filament will heat up until we reach the voltage maximum (minimum) at the 270 degree mark. At that point we would again cool off until we pass the 360 mark.
i think the point was the heat in the tungsten doesn't fluctuate fast enough to create a visible change in the light. IIRC flourescent lights use a different method (not heating a filament) to create light. for a flourescent light the light output changes aren't too fast to be visible, there are people who find the flicker of a flourescent light extreemely annoying
Our local sherif's office is considering equiping every officer with a tazer and as part of the training they show the officers what it feels like to be tazered to prove it'll stop most people. Since I have a few cop buddies they brought me in on one of the demonstration days and what they do is tape the electrodes to your clothes (belt loop and shoe in the demo)and after feeling that I can say I'd never want to try it with the electrodes in my skin at the time.
Donald Duck was not wearing shorts. Although I suppose he could have been wearing down boxers... IIRC the litle mermaid didn't wear pants the entire time she was a fish either
quoth the parent(and grandparent): Yet another symptom of the corporatizing of America. If you have money, you win. Isn't this country "by the people, for the people"?
No. Not anymore.
ahh, one of those sneaky appends they snuck in the DMCA changed it to read "Buy the people, for the people" and gave people with enough money protection from the 13th ammendment.
Oh No! don't give teenagers (and/or nerds) science, cuz then the terrorist win. we must pass a vauge law to prevent any future occurance and then another one to require that some hardware be installed to prevent anyone from breaking our original vauge law.
Yes, you open your new shiny Uber-chip powered, DMCA/SSSCA enabled, government required puchase box and inside there is a big red switch with a label reading
"by changing the position of this switch to 'unprotectified' you are violating the DMCA and the SSSCA."
and don't forget the fine print on the back of the sticker.
"Remember we know where you live, in fact we may decide that since you know that this switch exists your brain contains copywrite circumvention technology and we may decide to confiscate it. Don't even think about denying you knowing this swich is here because we made it so easy to find no jury would think you couldn't have found it"
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Quoth the post:
Think of it as the legal equivalent of DDoS.
But i thought that in october(or there abouts) ashCroft macaroni and cheese declared that a DDos attack was a terrorist activity. now they're gonna nuke all the small claims courts
had to read that twice,
first time i was wondering why we USians were worried about destroying the environment in europe
Sort of like how Goerge Carlin described it in his (condensed) comandments
1) thou shalt be faithful to the provider of thine nookie.
2) thou shalt try realy hard not to kill anyone else. unless, of course, they pray to a different invisible man than you do.
all it takes is an act of a "god" to create a religion.
Now if you'll excuse me i have to go sacrifice a virgin to Tux
Quoth the thingy:
Now if they could jam babies...
that's easier than jamming cell phones, all it requires is a roll of duct tape and someone to distract the parent(s).
Cell phones are almost jammed where i work (in the US) because somebody keeps tweeking the transcevers for our laser tag system. that combined with the emf from all the other machines in the arcade positioned so the "peak noise arc" from the games all overlap to drown out the floor noise if you aren't behind a counter or directly infornt of a game
the combined result is a weak signal and a conversation that's almost impossible to hear outside of the employee areas
*insert ominous music here*
Quoth the parent:
My initial reaction to the end of FOTR was good, I thought the movie wrapped up nicely, and I knew that there would be more to come. However, looking back I'm not so sure that others who have not really heard of the tale will think the same.
When i saw it on opening night there were definitely more than a few people who actually WTF'ed the end of the movie.
and when i took a pair of my cow-orkers to see after work on christmas the one who hadn't read the book was disappointed that "it just sort of ended." Now that i've lent her the books she understands why it ended there and was glad they left out the forest, the barrows and bombadil (she was complaining for a week cuz she hadn't had much time to read that they were taking forever to get out of the forest).
I think i saw a bit on good morning america (or one of the other shows that cloned it's entire cast & crew).
They had army guys wearing a "mock-up" of what the uniforms were going to look like, the second one (2005 i think) was wearing something that looked desert camo, that "would be capable of regulating it's inside tempratue, is waterproof, lightweight and puncture resistant."
What caught my eye was the tube by the guys' neck "The suit will also have internal water filters, put in dirty water, or urine and you can drinkn the clean stuff thru this tube"
It was then i realized they just came up with a dorky looking version of the stilsuit.
of course this is still a few years before the lightbending powered bikini armor of our future "Hot Teen Babes" army.
Quoth the poster:
Ok, I can see that you're disturbed by this. But if you don't want to see the movie, just don't go. It's not like you live in a country where you're forced to see bad movies do you?
Shhh, don't let holywood hear you or we'll be getting legeslation to force us to see every movie they make. cuz then no one will want to pirate the movies since they've already seen it.
Quoth the poster:
Senator Kickback: So, what can you guys offer me?
Recoring Exec:A roofied teenage pop starlet, a sack full of crack, and a job in marketing for your idiot waster nephew.
Electronics Exec: Uh, I dunno, how about a really neat watch that turns into a robot dinosaur?
Personally I'd take the watch
And then use the robot dinosaur to off the record exec and take his stuff.
quoth the poster:
nobody's loading Morpheus onto the Airbus flight control system. Getting true reliability for a general purpose machine is damn hard.
IIRC the EULA for morpheus (perhaps it was napster) said that it shouldn't be loaded onto any system where safety was important like air traffic control and nuclear reactors
Quoth the poster:
Only problem - ID's can be swapped with a friend. Until you get yourself catched by some policeman, who actually check your photo, you can get by.
Any idea how can that be 'fixed' (besies harsh sentences for ID swapping)?
sure, just implant the card.
quoth the parent:
Is everyone here stupid? Look at the name, it's "CmdrTaco (editor)", not "CmdrTaco". And further, his user ID is #564483. That's a big fsking clue. The real CmdrTaco [slashdot.org] has a user ID of #1. gosh what a suprise.
quoth the sig:
The real CmdrTaco is User #1 [slashdot.org] but he is an imposter.
nice to see someone isn't paying attention
Steven Spielberg is getting paid exorbitant sums of money because people love his movies. They love his movies not because he's a natural at it, but because he spent his youth sneaking around movie sets and studing directors.
umm.. that's great but if you get caught sneaking around a movie set studying a director, you'll probably get arrested for stalking and/or terrorism, cuz if you kill a hollywood director and decrease a studio's profits the terrorists win
quoth the poster:
I, for one, like the ads. If it weren't for them, I would miss the beginning of every movie my wife and I go to see.
You've just gotta focus on the positive, 'cuz positive's the way you aughtta be.
I agree, if it weren't for the ads i would've missed the backstory at the start of LotR.
then again when i show up for a movie on time and have to sit thru that "Truth - the Musical" dran and a number of car comercials before i get to see the preveiw for Goldmember, it's annoying.
At least they put the comercials between the slideshow type local adverts and the preveiws so I won't mind missing them
Hey I know a way they can reduce pirating and decrease cost for the record companies, fire all the artists. Then you don't have to pay them and since you aren't producing anything new (and we're all downloading 1300 songs a day on our shiney uber-band[tm] modems)we'll have all the songs in existance and we won't need to steal anymore.
now mod me as -1 troll or something
errr... if i hadn't posted already i'd mod you down for incorrectly quoting Adams...
I'm mostly right handed and that's where i wear my watch, for some reason i lock the strap with my just my right hand, but i can lock it with just my left hand.
quoth the parent:
Let's assume that when the voltage is at it's highest, the bulb is at it's hottest. From that point of the sine wave, to the zero crossing at the 180 degree mark, the filament is cooling off. Now, as you say, it will still be hot when we reach the zero crossing, but the voltage on the wire cannot maintain that temperature. In fact the filament will continue to cool until we reach a voltage that will maintain the filament temperature. From that point on, the filament will heat up until we reach the voltage maximum (minimum) at the 270 degree mark. At that point we would again cool off until we pass the 360 mark.
i think the point was the heat in the tungsten doesn't fluctuate fast enough to create a visible change in the light. IIRC flourescent lights use a different method (not heating a filament) to create light.
for a flourescent light the light output changes aren't too fast to be visible, there are people who find the flicker of a flourescent light extreemely annoying
Our local sherif's office is considering equiping every officer with a tazer and as part of the training they show the officers what it feels like to be tazered to prove it'll stop most people. Since I have a few cop buddies they brought me in on one of the demonstration days and what they do is tape the electrodes to your clothes (belt loop and shoe in the demo)and after feeling that I can say I'd never want to try it with the electrodes in my skin at the time.
Donald Duck was not wearing shorts. Although I suppose he could have been wearing down boxers...
IIRC the litle mermaid didn't wear pants the entire time she was a fish either
just remember to patent,copyright and trademark the term right now and then sue the politition who "coins the phrase", hang them by their own laws.
quoth the parent(and grandparent):
Yet another symptom of the corporatizing of America. If you have money, you win. Isn't this country "by the people, for the people"?
No. Not anymore.
ahh, one of those sneaky appends they snuck in the DMCA changed it to read "Buy the people, for the people" and gave people with enough money protection from the 13th ammendment.
Oh No!
don't give teenagers (and/or nerds) science, cuz then the terrorist win. we must pass a vauge law to prevent any future occurance and then another one to require that some hardware be installed to prevent anyone from breaking our original vauge law.
and don't forget the fine print on the back of the sticker.
My copy of windows 98 is extreemely stable. Infact i don't expect the CD to break in the next few years, and i won't have to reboot it either.
Libertarians are great (philisophically)
and they taste good too, vote Scorched Earth-er in 2004