You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you let the police come in and see that you weren't growing any pot, stupid.
I would rather that the government be aware of people who are growing hydroponic tomatoes than have the government be unaware of actual criminals building fertilizer bombs in their garages.
Can this new drive read and write to Jaz and Zip disks? If not, then it's incompatible and all the money I spend on Iomega media the last time around is wasted.
Some of you readers are even bigger tools than the story submitters.
Your numbers are off. If a 100MB Zip disk held a week's worth of data, then this new 20GB cartridge will hold 200 week's worth, or almost *4* years' worth of data. That's progress!
My external Zip Plus drive (you know, the one with the SCSI interface that barfs unless it's the only device on the chain) recently died, leaving me with 2 disks' worth of unretrievable porn. CURSE YOU IOMEGA, AND YOUR INFERIOR PRODUCT.
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Congratulations, you are the first person to ever posit that Linux needs to have a more intuitive interface in order to gain significant market share.
I particularly like your suggestion to leverage the power of open source software by creating a distribution which does not include all that messy source code.
With people like you proactively saying "someone should figure out how to fix it", Linux will be on everyone's desktop in no time!
How is Napster supposed to determine who the copyright holder really is on the files that are submitted to them?
Thousands of songs are written everyday by musicians who don't have the time or resources to formally register copyright on their works. Should Napster refuse to allow trading of any of this music?
What if I burn a copy of a Metallica CD, give my own titles to all the songs, and claim that I own the copyright? How will Napster check?
You don't think one notebook PC BURSTING INTO FLAMES is any cause for alarm? It's completely Dell's fault, as they were the ones who designed a system that can CATCH FIRE when used under normal circumstances, because they failed to do adequate research into the specs on the batteries. A massive recall of the faulty batteries is the LEAST that should be expected of them.
Furthermore, you shouldn't complain about bad journalism until you learn proper spelling and punctuation.
> "If I'm standing one one side of the state line
> and you on the other and I shoot and kill you,
> where did the murder take place?"
>
> "What if after I shoot you you stagger and fall
> into my state and I go and stand in yours and
> watch you die?"
IANAL... though I did tech support at a law school for 2 years...
If we assume that the criminal justice system's intent is to punish those who perform criminal actions, and not to serve vengeance in the name of the victims, then it would follow that the status of the offender is meaningful and the status of the victim is not.
In the first situation, the murder took place in the state where the man who fired the gun was first standing.
In the second situation, the same is true. The victims's act of stumbling across state lines is irrelevany, and the shooter's act of walking across state lines did not factor into the crime which was committed (though 'fleeing' the location of the shooting may be considered another offense itself).
The PC I use everyday has most of the hardware of this mythical "convergence machine" already -- video card with a TV tuner and A/V in and out connectors, hardware MPEG encoding/decoding solution, DVD-ROM drive, an ethernet card that I can plug into a cable modem, IR reciever hanging off the serial port that lets me use a universal remote to perform any computer function, soundcard with digital output. I bought most of the hardware a couple years ago, you could probably assemble a similar machine for about $1500 these days.
As C.Taco mentions, the tricky part is going to be the software that drives all the functionality, and in regards to mass consumer acceptance, the UI through which all the functionality is made available to the user.
So the message I get is that breaking into computers is BAD BAD BAD when a couple evil Russians do it to hardworking Americans, but it's okay when the good ol' US government does it right back to 'em.
Maybe I'm just yet another paranoid government-hating Slashdotting Big-Brother-phobe, but why should I believe that law enforcement agencies will only wear white hats when they perform these kinds of actions?
If so few DBA's are good enough to get Oracle systems running at optimum performance, then it would seem to follow that most production Oracle systems are running at subpar levels. Thus, having a benchmark with Oracle running at a subpar level is a meaningful approximation of real-world performance. (OED.)
EVERY moment happens only once! There is nothing that makes 987,654,321 seconds since epoch any more significant than any other second in the history of ever, except for the human brain's tendency to pick patterns out of noise.
> Whether my or my ISP's sendmail is connecting
> to "George"'s server doesn't make a blind bit
> of difference. But that's irrelevant, because
> you are missing the point. I don't pay, or
> at least I don't think I pay, for "Internet
> services". If I wanted that, I could use AOL,
> no? I pay for a connection to the Internet.
Tell us, what did you think the acronym "ISP" stood for? Internet sConnection Provider?
> That port was designed for PRINTERS, not for
> removable media. Spend a little bit more
> and get an internal IDE version, the external
> USB version, or god forbid, a SCSI Zip. You'll
> be much happier.
To use a SCSI Zip drive, you have to have a SCSI interface, and they're still pretty rare on home computers these days.
And if you have other SCSI devices, you need TWO SCSI interfaces, because the SCSI implementation on Zip drives (at least the Zip+, which is what I bought years ago) is so poor that the drive won't work reliably unless the Zip drive's the only device hanging off the SCSI bus.
Screw Iomega. I lost important data in college because half of the Zip drives in the computer labs infected my disks with CoD.
> If you are an industry *cough* textiles *cough*
> and you can lobby the government to outlaw your
> competitors *cough* hemp *cough*, then at some
> point somebody's going to do it.
If hemp were so great, the textiles industry would have attempted to control the hemp market itself, rather than outlaw it.
Just because hemp plants have a psychoactive cousin that you wish was legal doesn't mean that it would be great if we all wore hemp underpants and wrote on hemp paper and ate hemp sandwiches on hemp bread with hemponnaise on them, you damn filthy hippy.
I realized that slashdot trolling has gone way too far when I saw goatse.cx scrawled on a restroom wall of a local pizzashop/geek hangout. That was just too much.
Was it just the URL, or a rendering of the image itself?
What this lawsuit says is that people who see a violent film and then commit a violent act are innocent. Is this reasonable?
That's not what this decision says at all. It says that if a person sees a violent film and then commits a violent acts, then the producers of the film are innocent.
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> How can a license "try" to "infect" things? Does
> it have a mind of its own?
I heard of things called "viruses" that don't have "minds", yet they "infect" things all the "time".
Clearly this is bait. Very well written bait (save for the token gun-ownership button-pushing), but bait nonetheless.
You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you let the police come in and see that you weren't growing any pot, stupid.
I would rather that the government be aware of people who are growing hydroponic tomatoes than have the government be unaware of actual criminals building fertilizer bombs in their garages.
Haxors can find out that I moved my wireless mouse 127 pixels to the left and right-clicked on something!
Can this new drive read and write to Jaz and Zip disks? If not, then it's incompatible and all the money I spend on Iomega media the last time around is wasted.
Some of you readers are even bigger tools than the story submitters.
Your numbers are off. If a 100MB Zip disk held a week's worth of data, then this new 20GB cartridge will hold 200 week's worth, or almost *4* years' worth of data. That's progress!
My external Zip Plus drive (you know, the one with the SCSI interface that barfs unless it's the only device on the chain) recently died, leaving me with 2 disks' worth of unretrievable porn. CURSE YOU IOMEGA, AND YOUR INFERIOR PRODUCT.
Congratulations, you are the first person to ever posit that Linux needs to have a more intuitive interface in order to gain significant market share.
I particularly like your suggestion to leverage the power of open source software by creating a distribution which does not include all that messy source code.
With people like you proactively saying "someone should figure out how to fix it", Linux will be on everyone's desktop in no time!
How is Napster supposed to determine who the copyright holder really is on the files that are submitted to them?
Thousands of songs are written everyday by musicians who don't have the time or resources to formally register copyright on their works. Should Napster refuse to allow trading of any of this music?
What if I burn a copy of a Metallica CD, give my own titles to all the songs, and claim that I own the copyright? How will Napster check?
Opt-in is impossible.
You don't think one notebook PC BURSTING INTO FLAMES is any cause for alarm? It's completely Dell's fault, as they were the ones who designed a system that can CATCH FIRE when used under normal circumstances, because they failed to do adequate research into the specs on the batteries. A massive recall of the faulty batteries is the LEAST that should be expected of them.
Furthermore, you shouldn't complain about bad journalism until you learn proper spelling and punctuation.
> "If I'm standing one one side of the state line
> and you on the other and I shoot and kill you,
> where did the murder take place?"
>
> "What if after I shoot you you stagger and fall
> into my state and I go and stand in yours and
> watch you die?"
IANAL... though I did tech support at a law school for 2 years...
If we assume that the criminal justice system's intent is to punish those who perform criminal actions, and not to serve vengeance in the name of the victims, then it would follow that the status of the offender is meaningful and the status of the victim is not.
In the first situation, the murder took place in the state where the man who fired the gun was first standing.
In the second situation, the same is true. The victims's act of stumbling across state lines is irrelevany, and the shooter's act of walking across state lines did not factor into the crime which was committed (though 'fleeing' the location of the shooting may be considered another offense itself).
The PC I use everyday has most of the hardware of this mythical "convergence machine" already -- video card with a TV tuner and A/V in and out connectors, hardware MPEG encoding/decoding solution, DVD-ROM drive, an ethernet card that I can plug into a cable modem, IR reciever hanging off the serial port that lets me use a universal remote to perform any computer function, soundcard with digital output. I bought most of the hardware a couple years ago, you could probably assemble a similar machine for about $1500 these days.
As C.Taco mentions, the tricky part is going to be the software that drives all the functionality, and in regards to mass consumer acceptance, the UI through which all the functionality is made available to the user.
So the message I get is that breaking into computers is BAD BAD BAD when a couple evil Russians do it to hardworking Americans, but it's okay when the good ol' US government does it right back to 'em.
Maybe I'm just yet another paranoid government-hating Slashdotting Big-Brother-phobe, but why should I believe that law enforcement agencies will only wear white hats when they perform these kinds of actions?
If so few DBA's are good enough to get Oracle systems running at optimum performance, then it would seem to follow that most production Oracle systems are running at subpar levels. Thus, having a benchmark with Oracle running at a subpar level is a meaningful approximation of real-world performance. (OED.)
I'm sorry, I did not know that in-depth knowledge of enterprise level data computing was a prerequisite to being a nerd.
Why not TELL us what the differences are, instead of whinging about how stupid everyone is for comparing databases to databases?
EVERY moment happens only once! There is nothing that makes 987,654,321 seconds since epoch any more significant than any other second in the history of ever, except for the human brain's tendency to pick patterns out of noise.
> Whether my or my ISP's sendmail is connecting
> to "George"'s server doesn't make a blind bit
> of difference. But that's irrelevant, because
> you are missing the point. I don't pay, or
> at least I don't think I pay, for "Internet
> services". If I wanted that, I could use AOL,
> no? I pay for a connection to the Internet.
Tell us, what did you think the acronym "ISP" stood for? Internet sConnection Provider?
It's not THAT kind of crack that he was worried about.
I still don't get the original poster's joke. Could you please spell it out in EVEN MORE EXCRUCIATING DETAIL?
> That port was designed for PRINTERS, not for
> removable media. Spend a little bit more
> and get an internal IDE version, the external
> USB version, or god forbid, a SCSI Zip. You'll
> be much happier.
To use a SCSI Zip drive, you have to have a SCSI interface, and they're still pretty rare on home computers these days.
And if you have other SCSI devices, you need TWO SCSI interfaces, because the SCSI implementation on Zip drives (at least the Zip+, which is what I bought years ago) is so poor that the drive won't work reliably unless the Zip drive's the only device hanging off the SCSI bus.
Screw Iomega. I lost important data in college because half of the Zip drives in the computer labs infected my disks with CoD.
> If you are an industry *cough* textiles *cough*
> and you can lobby the government to outlaw your
> competitors *cough* hemp *cough*, then at some
> point somebody's going to do it.
If hemp were so great, the textiles industry would have attempted to control the hemp market itself, rather than outlaw it.
Just because hemp plants have a psychoactive cousin that you wish was legal doesn't mean that it would be great if we all wore hemp underpants and wrote on hemp paper and ate hemp sandwiches on hemp bread with hemponnaise on them, you damn filthy hippy.
MY NAME IS POOT ROOTBEER
> I've seen better writing from Turing test
> rejects.
Why do you say that I've seen better wriring from Turing test rejects?
I object to your assumption that I am both rich and white.
Yours etc, Pootimus Q. Higglebottom III
Was it just the URL, or a rendering of the image itself?
-Poot
Why would you want warm Mountain Dew?
(Diet Coke or other soft drink may be substituted for 'Dew if applicable)
That's not what this decision says at all. It says that if a person sees a violent film and then commits a violent acts, then the producers of the film are innocent.
-Poot