Of course. That's clearly the most logical conclusion to draw.
I mean, look at how the government ended up making R-rated movies and magazines with naked ladies illegal! At first, the courts just upheld the right for businesses to restrict access to them, but before we knew it they were rounding up filmmakers and publishers and putting them to death!
Ass.
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This sounds like an example of the manufacturer's incompetence, not Best Buy's. The can of tuna was inside the sealed box before it ever appeared in a Best Buy store.
It sure is awful swell that the guy in this particular case ended up getting what was coming to him, but he's a highly paid professional who spends lots of money at Best Buy. Is there any doubt that an infrequent Best Buy shopper making minimum wage would have had much less success?
WHY is driving under the influence illegal? Because you MIGHT cause an accident that damages property or causes injury or death to someone.
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Enough is enough. I always found it amusing to read Jon Katz's idealist ramblings about the internet culture and community (he's a poor man's N. Negroponte, he is), and the invariable torrent of criticisms from the/. community.
But shilling yourself out in the guise of writing an article crosses the line, Jon. If we wanted to hear about your book we'd have looked at the banner ad.
1. The story of the girl who got 'thrown out' of school for opposing military action is not a matter of American law. It's a matter of an overzealous school administrator. Do not take this an example that our entire society feels this way, for it's not true.
2. Far more people drive cars in the United States than do in Spain. There is therefore a valid line of reasoning for limiting people's access to alcohol until they reach 21 years of age... the less irresponsible young drunk drivers on our roads, the fewer alcohol-related automotive fatalities.
Not that I particularly agree with this line of reasoning either.
Post proof (a copy of the memo, or at least a news story discussing the memo) or retract.
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I'm looking at this from a passenger point of view, but I think we're eventually going to see (and need) net connectivity in the air.
No.
The only ones on an airplane that NEED any type of communication at all with the world outside the cabin are the ones flying the plane. Giving anyone else onboard a connection to the rest of the world is merely luxury.
I have a computer with a pre-installed version of Windows. It's a package deal. This Is Significant And Important (TM). I donate the PC to a school. The Windows license must accompany it.
NO.
When you donate the PC to the school, you are free to format the hard drive (I'd recommend it), tear up your holographic Windows license certificate, and stick your Win install CD in the microwave for half a minute.
Your post was abrasive and contained falsehoods... any reason we shouldn't consider it to be Flamebait?
That would be great, if every person lived in isolation, and damage that a person does to one's self doesn't affect anyone else, but that's not the world we live in.
I don't want some stupid fuck crashing hard after a week-long stimulant binge, falling asleep behind the wheel, and killing me and my family.
An analogy: an automobile that came with no radio, no cup holders, no airconditioning, a net instead of a drivers window, and no doors, would by consumer standards be crippled.
What if I want to take out the factory AM/FM radio and install a Bose CD changer?
I'm sorry, I ignore anyone who talks about "free speach" (sic) without being able to spell it properly.
It's generally accepted that there are limits on one's right of free speech -- the old example of the fire and the theater, for example. If Microsoft leverages its "free speech" rights to maintain an illegal monopoly, that speech damn well can be regulated.
Anything a politician can legislate against, a geek can work around.
The government doesn't have the resources to fight a three-pronged war on terrorists AND drug users AND geeks. No matter what your elected representatives pass into law, unless you're truly flagrant in your lawbreaking behavior you probably have nothing to worry about.
Note that I said "YOUR elected representatives." If you don't like what they're doing on your behalf, let them know. Write them a letter or an email or a fax, or call their offices, or schedule a visit to them in person. You can even vote against them in the next election.
Sitting back and complaining about how politicians are eroding our rights doesn't do a bit of good.
This is the third post I've seen suggesting that these glasses should have GPS embedded in them so the waitress can locate them.
GPS is a GLOBAL Positioning System. Do we really need to be able to locate a glass in another hemisphere? And besides, if GPS's resolution is only granular down to the square-meter level, what good will that do in a bar that has a dozen glasses per square meter?
A simple RF "marco-polo" kind of system, where the wait staff has a receiver that beeps quicker the closer they get to the glass, would be more than sufficient.
Hardware manufacturers design the media. Hardware manufacturers want to make money. If there was a market for this new "better-than-CD" media (which sounds awfully similar to DVD-Audio to me), and there was a market for PC drives for that media, those drives would be manufactured regardless of the RIAA's wishes.
And as we've seen with DVD-Audio, no one seems very interested in a new audio format. The Compact Disc has only been on the market for about 20 years, and has only been the dominant media for maybe the last 15. We don't want a new format now, especially if it's more restrictive in how we can play it.
Those same guys that brought the BUZ video editing card that ended up with no good drivers and being just another expensive scsi card since the video part wasn't working half decently? (yeah I got one)
I hope you didn't try to hang a SCSI Zip drive off the card... those things had to be the ONLY device on the SCSI chain, or else they'd lose data (even more rapidly than Zip drives normally do).
The advent of cheap and plentiful CD-R technology couldn't have come soon enough. The most catastrophic data losses I've ever experienced are all thanks to Iomega's lousy products.
You make the fatal mistake of assuming that every company's business is like yours.
I work at a hosting facility. I'd say the Internet is indeed pretty crucial to our business. Sure, we're just one business, but there's enough companies in the same situation that if the Internet goes tits-up and all our companies tank, the economy will be severely dented.
Look at the effect of the economy of the dot-com bust of the past couple years. Completely caused by the Internet.
Should machines be patentable? I mean a machine is just a bunch of wheels and levers and such and when assembled in a certain configuration it does something cool...
The website clearly says that interfering with the device automatically initiates a tracking of the last location of the device and informs the parents.
Okay, this example is pretty sick, but since we're talking about creeps who abduct and abuse children to start with...
What if the bastard hacks off the kid's arm, with the watch intact?
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Of course. That's clearly the most logical conclusion to draw.
I mean, look at how the government ended up making R-rated movies and magazines with naked ladies illegal! At first, the courts just upheld the right for businesses to restrict access to them, but before we knew it they were rounding up filmmakers and publishers and putting them to death!
Ass.
This sounds like an example of the manufacturer's incompetence, not Best Buy's. The can of tuna was inside the sealed box before it ever appeared in a Best Buy store.
It sure is awful swell that the guy in this particular case ended up getting what was coming to him, but he's a highly paid professional who spends lots of money at Best Buy. Is there any doubt that an infrequent Best Buy shopper making minimum wage would have had much less success?
That's not IT though, it's Human Resources.
You're missing the point.
WHY is driving under the influence illegal? Because you MIGHT cause an accident that damages property or causes injury or death to someone.
Enough is enough. I always found it amusing to read Jon Katz's idealist ramblings about the internet culture and community (he's a poor man's N. Negroponte, he is), and the invariable torrent of criticisms from the
But shilling yourself out in the guise of writing an article crosses the line, Jon. If we wanted to hear about your book we'd have looked at the banner ad.
*PLONK*
1. The story of the girl who got 'thrown out' of school for opposing military action is not a matter of American law. It's a matter of an overzealous school administrator. Do not take this an example that our entire society feels this way, for it's not true.
2. Far more people drive cars in the United States than do in Spain. There is therefore a valid line of reasoning for limiting people's access to alcohol until they reach 21 years of age... the less irresponsible young drunk drivers on our roads, the fewer alcohol-related automotive fatalities.
Not that I particularly agree with this line of reasoning either.
Nice quote, but it has nothing to do with the issue we're discussing.
I don't believe you.
Post proof (a copy of the memo, or at least a news story discussing the memo) or retract.
I'm looking at this from a passenger point of view, but I think we're eventually going to see (and need) net connectivity in the air.
No.
The only ones on an airplane that NEED any type of communication at all with the world outside the cabin are the ones flying the plane. Giving anyone else onboard a connection to the rest of the world is merely luxury.
I have a computer with a pre-installed version of Windows. It's a package deal. This Is Significant And Important (TM). I donate the PC to a school. The Windows license must accompany it.
NO.
When you donate the PC to the school, you are free to format the hard drive (I'd recommend it), tear up your holographic Windows license certificate, and stick your Win install CD in the microwave for half a minute.
Your post was abrasive and contained falsehoods... any reason we shouldn't consider it to be Flamebait?
That would be great, if every person lived in isolation, and damage that a person does to one's self doesn't affect anyone else, but that's not the world we live in.
I don't want some stupid fuck crashing hard after a week-long stimulant binge, falling asleep behind the wheel, and killing me and my family.
How can anything that happened here be construed as censorship?
AdWords are for ads, not poetry. Google has every right to maintain an advertising system that maximises advertising effectiveness and revenue.
If Google wants to set up a system for serving targetted poetry, they will do so.
An analogy: an automobile that came with no radio, no cup holders, no airconditioning, a
net instead of a drivers window, and no doors, would by consumer standards be crippled.
What if I want to take out the factory AM/FM radio and install a Bose CD changer?
Microsoft Car 2002 won't let me do that.
I'm sorry, I ignore anyone who talks about "free speach" (sic) without being able to spell it properly.
It's generally accepted that there are limits on one's right of free speech -- the old example of the fire and the theater, for example. If Microsoft leverages its "free speech" rights to maintain an illegal monopoly, that speech damn well can be regulated.
I thought making profits was all lawyers ever did!
Let's see how your opinion of lawyers changes after someone wrongs you and you have to take them to court.
Lawyers are not all evil because they charge money for their services when they can.
Anything a politician can legislate against, a geek can work around.
The government doesn't have the resources to fight a three-pronged war on terrorists AND drug users AND geeks. No matter what your elected representatives pass into law, unless you're truly flagrant in your lawbreaking behavior you probably have nothing to worry about.
Note that I said "YOUR elected representatives." If you don't like what they're doing on your behalf, let them know. Write them a letter or an email or a fax, or call their offices, or schedule a visit to them in person. You can even vote against them in the next election.
Sitting back and complaining about how politicians are eroding our rights doesn't do a bit of good.
They have every right to go after those who did
pirate software.
And, like Metallica did through Napster, they're going for the one thing that all said pirates have in common.
Wait, are they going after those who pirate software, or a thing that a certain subset of software pirates have in common?
I know the answer, but you apparently don't.
This is the third post I've seen suggesting that these glasses should have GPS embedded in them so the waitress can locate them.
GPS is a GLOBAL Positioning System. Do we really need to be able to locate a glass in another hemisphere? And besides, if GPS's resolution is only granular down to the square-meter level, what good will that do in a bar that has a dozen glasses per square meter?
A simple RF "marco-polo" kind of system, where the wait staff has a receiver that beeps quicker the closer they get to the glass, would be more than sufficient.
And annoying, too.
Hardware manufacturers design the media. Hardware manufacturers want to make money. If there was a market for this new "better-than-CD" media (which sounds awfully similar to DVD-Audio to me), and there was a market for PC drives for that media, those drives would be manufactured regardless of the RIAA's wishes.
And as we've seen with DVD-Audio, no one seems very interested in a new audio format. The Compact Disc has only been on the market for about 20 years, and has only been the dominant media for maybe the last 15. We don't want a new format now, especially if it's more restrictive in how we can play it.
OH I GET IT!
"Ooqa ooqa" is just "eboo eboO" rotated 180 degrees!
Those same guys that brought the BUZ video editing card that ended up with no good drivers and being just another expensive scsi card since the video part wasn't working half decently? (yeah I got one)
I hope you didn't try to hang a SCSI Zip drive off the card... those things had to be the ONLY device on the SCSI chain, or else they'd lose data (even more rapidly than Zip drives normally do).
The advent of cheap and plentiful CD-R technology couldn't have come soon enough. The most catastrophic data losses I've ever experienced are all thanks to Iomega's lousy products.
What is a Pageran King ???
You make the fatal mistake of assuming that every company's business is like yours.
I work at a hosting facility. I'd say the Internet is indeed pretty crucial to our business. Sure, we're just one business, but there's enough companies in the same situation that if the Internet goes tits-up and all our companies tank, the economy will be severely dented.
Look at the effect of the economy of the dot-com bust of the past couple years. Completely caused by the Internet.
Should machines be patentable? I mean a machine is just a bunch of wheels and levers and such and when assembled in a certain configuration it does something cool...
The website clearly says that interfering with the device automatically initiates a tracking of
the last location of the device and informs the parents.
Okay, this example is pretty sick, but since we're talking about creeps who abduct and abuse children to start with...
What if the bastard hacks off the kid's arm, with the watch intact?
ANY protection measure CAN be circumvented.