All I can see about the Dems is that they tell people whatever they want to hear just to get the vote...then go spend spend spend on their little pet projects to "make the world a better place."
You mean this isn't what politicians in general do?
Well, unless you're a libertarian. But they're not in charge in California, and neither is anyone who's willing to trim back on all the crap.
The fact that you support McClintock makes the rest of your coumn pretty much meaningless. Oh boy, he has a "no bull attitude". Great. Who cares about his policies, as long as he has a "no bull" attitude. How is this comment not a troll? Help, Mr. McClintock, protect us from the evil hispanic immigrants!
How are you not a troll? I never called illegal immigrants evil. But does it make sense to give them handouts? I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep the money myself than give it to this screwed up state government for them to subsidize Mexico. It's not California's job to pay benefits to people who aren't supposed to be here, and then those people go and pump that money back into Mexico.
Just who are you voting for, and why?
I'm not just voting for McClintock because he's got a "no bull attitude". I'm voting for him because his fiscal stance makes sense for California. We need to take a machete to the state budget and hack off all the crap. That's what he's going to do.
AHHHHHHHHH, sorry... just a frustrated californian here.
Don't just be frustrated. Vote the bastard out of office! and don't let his cronie Bustamante in either. That guy is full of crap too.
What I don't get is why Hispanics think the Democrats' crap is good for them. Yay, illegals get free education and drivers licenses. That means plenty of cheap labor, so there's no pressure on employers to raise workers' pay. That's bad for low income people...which many Hispanics are. And now these low income ILLEGAL people get to drive and go to college...to better themselves, ostensibly...and that puts them in a position to economically displace the low income legal people...
So why are Hispanics supporting Davis/Bustamante, when the two are really just out to screw over their constituency? All I can see about the Dems is that they tell people whatever they want to hear just to get the vote...then go spend spend spend on their little pet projects to "make the world a better place." Barf.
As for the republicans...either McClintock or Schwarzeneggar have to bow down to keep Bustamante out...I'd prefer it was Arnold to leave because McClintock's got a no bull attitude -- he won't tell you what you want to hear just to get your vote.
Gray Davis can go suck monkey balls for all I care. He triples the car tax when he's faced with an upcoming recall, the recall starts to look like a sure thing, and then he says "Oh, if I'm not recalled, I'll repeal the tripling of the car tax."
What a lousy bastard...especially since i'll have to pay the $500 bill for next month, regardless.
Actually, I'm being sarcastic. I think it's absurd to try and track how far everyone drives and charge them for each mile or kilometre. Not to mention, it's a little too invasive for me. I'm quite happy with a gas tax to pay for the roads, honestly.
Point taken...i uttered "toll roads" without putting on my aluminum foil hat first. Sometimes I'm probably not paranoid enough. Gas taxes, at least while we've got oil left, are good enough for me too.
As another Canadian, I wholeheartedly agree. It's not quite, but almost as stupid as that espresso tax they're talking about in Seattle. How can you say that espresso drinkers are by-and-large also parents who use pre-Kindergarten?
American here, and I agree with your thinking on this -- pay taxes for what you use. Smoke? Why not have taxes on cigarettes go towards health care. Drive? Toll roads should let you pay for the convenience of nice paved surfaces to drive on.
Apparently Seattle doesn't see taxes that way. Coffee has nothing to do with school, as far as I know. It's just stupid.
I work hard for my money, so I think I should be able to put it towards what I need. Stupid government.
Guess I don't have to worry about being in one of their song searches. the stuff I share on Kazaa is all Indy bands who want to have stuff shared (From personally talking with the band members) - If I do happen to get sued I will fight, because the songs are not copyrighted.
Are you sure? Most every creative work in the US (and most of the world, nowadays) is automatically copyrighted at creation, unless the author is the government or if they specifically place the work into the public domain (probably has to be in writing somewhere for you to prove anything).
I'm not saying you're in danger of getting sued, but...well, you are. Oral contracts are hard to prove (he said, she said), so if you can get something in any form of writing (email even) you'd have a stronger case to justify your distribution of their likely-copyrighted materials, in the event they decide they don't want you distributing it anymore.
If you're taking the time to write a comment on this story, DON'T. Instead, take that same amount of time to write a one page, reasoned, intelligent letter to your Senators (you have two, you know that?) telling them that you disapprove of this bill, telling them WHY (privacy violation, overextension of copyright, and so forth are good places to start), and encouraging them to work against it.
Good sentiment, but the article states that this is a bill in the House of Representatives. Since the bill isn't up for vote on the floor yet, write to a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee, who "will hold a joint hearing on the bill in the coming weeks". My congressman, Rep. Christopher Cox, is on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and I've emailed him before (got a boilerplate response but it was about the issue I emailed and agreeing with my position). Let him and the other committee members know they've got the support of their constituents!
Email your congresspersons! Write them! Phone them! Fax them....just don't only whine about it on Slashdot...whine about it to someone who can make a difference!
Toss a webpage up that says: "We detected MSblaster on you machine, please goto to microsoft wupport, and download the appropriet patch"
Well it's a great theory, and it could work...eventually. But first they'd go to Windows Update and have to download the latest Windows Service Pack. Which must be installed alone. Then they reboot and think it's ok...except they get that darn web page from u again. Ok...they go back again, get the latest IE service pack...reboot...ok everything's grand...wait, that damn web page again! I already updated twice, what the hell do they want? Stupid ISP...grumble...get latest 20 or so critical updates...grumble...reboot...aha! It works now! Woohoo!
And 20 minutes later they click on an attachment that exploits that latest VBA vulnerability in MS Office. D'oh! Windows Update didn't fix that one!
I wouldn't piss on Lars Ulrich's head if he was on fire.
Maybe he'd forgive you for downloading his songs if you put out his head fire. Plus there's some delicious irony in having someone appreciate your pissing on them that's just oh-so hard to pass up...
"Initial customer feedback from the entertainment industry in general has been very favorable," Eades added.
Are we talking about the entertainment industry as PC buyers, or as a group with special interest in seeing the actual consumers shackled with xxAA-approved DRM?
Better yet, just scan it, save as a PDF, put it up on your webserver, we'll slashdot the hell out of it (and a couple hastily-assembled mirrors too), print out the invoice, do our duty and send a whole big load of crap SCO's way...
Home users typically don't care about VB macros. For companies, it's different.
There must be thousands of little "business applications" that are Word or Excel macros. Each of those might contain only a few lines of code, but in a large organization, there are a lot of those.
At my job, I inherited (and greatly enhanced) a Word template with embedded VBScript that is used to pull our class schedule information into the Word document from an Oracle database via DAO/ODBC and format it appropriately (tables, fonts, shaded table cell backgrounds, automatically bold/italicize certain text, etc).
This sucker is probably at least 10,000 lines long (haven't counted it yet) and for the most part, works great. With a little more work on my part, it will be able to pull our entire class schedule, in order, with appropriate section headings, with the push of one button. Then it's just a matter of spacing out the classes so they don't break across pages (tried setting up the tables not to break across pages but apparently the tables don't hold onto that property for very long (e.g., if you save then reopen document, they will break across pages if you try moving them), and while it's pulling all the classes, it won't move the tables until there's a break...so that'd leave a pretty CPU intensive table-moving session at the end which just couldn't be pretty.
So anyway, yeah, home users couldn't care less about macros in most cases, but I gotta hand it to Microsoft here, this is an under-utilized resource for businesses and other institutions. Not that it works perfectly...but better than other alternatives.
Slashdot Mirror
The story says it's a "U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City", so here's what I've found...
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
from Fox News...
All I can see about the Dems is that they tell people whatever they want to hear just to get the vote...then go spend spend spend on their little pet projects to "make the world a better place."
You mean this isn't what politicians in general do?
Well, unless you're a libertarian. But they're not in charge in California, and neither is anyone who's willing to trim back on all the crap.
The fact that you support McClintock makes the rest of your coumn pretty much meaningless. Oh boy, he has a "no bull attitude". Great. Who cares about his policies, as long as he has a "no bull" attitude. How is this comment not a troll?
Help, Mr. McClintock, protect us from the evil hispanic immigrants!
How are you not a troll? I never called illegal immigrants evil. But does it make sense to give them handouts? I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep the money myself than give it to this screwed up state government for them to subsidize Mexico. It's not California's job to pay benefits to people who aren't supposed to be here, and then those people go and pump that money back into Mexico.
Just who are you voting for, and why?
I'm not just voting for McClintock because he's got a "no bull attitude". I'm voting for him because his fiscal stance makes sense for California. We need to take a machete to the state budget and hack off all the crap. That's what he's going to do.
AHHHHHHHHH, sorry... just a frustrated californian here.
Don't just be frustrated. Vote the bastard out of office! and don't let his cronie Bustamante in either. That guy is full of crap too.
What I don't get is why Hispanics think the Democrats' crap is good for them. Yay, illegals get free education and drivers licenses. That means plenty of cheap labor, so there's no pressure on employers to raise workers' pay. That's bad for low income people...which many Hispanics are. And now these low income ILLEGAL people get to drive and go to college...to better themselves, ostensibly...and that puts them in a position to economically displace the low income legal people...
So why are Hispanics supporting Davis/Bustamante, when the two are really just out to screw over their constituency? All I can see about the Dems is that they tell people whatever they want to hear just to get the vote...then go spend spend spend on their little pet projects to "make the world a better place." Barf.
As for the republicans...either McClintock or Schwarzeneggar have to bow down to keep Bustamante out...I'd prefer it was Arnold to leave because McClintock's got a no bull attitude -- he won't tell you what you want to hear just to get your vote.
What a screwed up state. Excuse my rant.
Gray Davis can go suck monkey balls for all I care. He triples the car tax when he's faced with an upcoming recall, the recall starts to look like a sure thing, and then he says "Oh, if I'm not recalled, I'll repeal the tripling of the car tax."
What a lousy bastard...especially since i'll have to pay the $500 bill for next month, regardless.
HA! You think a group of geeks would only buy a camera and maybe a new PC? HA! GPS is definitely needed to send photos to grandma.
GPS: Know your exact location in your own home!
Without GPS:
Wife: "Kids, dinnertime!"
(no answer)
Husband: "Maybe they're in the toy room, dear!"
With GPS:
Wife: "Kids, dinnertime!"
(no answer)
Husband: "Kids are at 33 56' 52" N, 118 8' 5" W, dear!"
A good portion of that time involved learning. Prior to that job I had never used Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL or Apache.
But had you used Apache?
Soon they'll be requiring you to ask the line manager for toilet breaks.
And you'll have to make due with the 4 single-ply sheet toilet paper ration they give you, no matter how dire your bowel conditions may be.
I agree, get outa there!
Actually, I'm being sarcastic. I think it's absurd to try and track how far everyone drives and charge them for each mile or kilometre. Not to mention, it's a little too invasive for me. I'm quite happy with a gas tax to pay for the roads, honestly.
Point taken...i uttered "toll roads" without putting on my aluminum foil hat first. Sometimes I'm probably not paranoid enough. Gas taxes, at least while we've got oil left, are good enough for me too.
As another Canadian, I wholeheartedly agree. It's not quite, but almost as stupid as that espresso tax they're talking about in Seattle. How can you say that espresso drinkers are by-and-large also parents who use pre-Kindergarten?
American here, and I agree with your thinking on this -- pay taxes for what you use. Smoke? Why not have taxes on cigarettes go towards health care. Drive? Toll roads should let you pay for the convenience of nice paved surfaces to drive on.
Apparently Seattle doesn't see taxes that way. Coffee has nothing to do with school, as far as I know. It's just stupid.
I work hard for my money, so I think I should be able to put it towards what I need. Stupid government.
That's $100 per employee? Even for the Manager and the Secretary who have PC's on their desk and never need any of the advanced server features?
Not to mention janitors. Unless they got some fancy new mopping equipment since I last did that kind of work 5 years ago...
Perhaps Scott is smoking some of the same crack that Darl is smoking...
And apparently California's legislature partakes of the crack too...
Presumably any of the many people with legal rights to SCO source code can publish the hash list without divulging any of SCO's (ahem) "IP".
Would these hashes of SCO source code be considered derivative works? That could have copyright implications...
There's so many...how can I choose just one?
Guess I don't have to worry about being in one of their song searches. the stuff I share on Kazaa is all Indy bands who want to have stuff shared (From personally talking with the band members) - If I do happen to get sued I will fight, because the songs are not copyrighted.
Are you sure? Most every creative work in the US (and most of the world, nowadays) is automatically copyrighted at creation, unless the author is the government or if they specifically place the work into the public domain (probably has to be in writing somewhere for you to prove anything).
I'm not saying you're in danger of getting sued, but...well, you are. Oral contracts are hard to prove (he said, she said), so if you can get something in any form of writing (email even) you'd have a stronger case to justify your distribution of their likely-copyrighted materials, in the event they decide they don't want you distributing it anymore.
Scientist sees a wee spark in a test tube and starts ranting about free energy etc.
From what I hear, George W Bush strongly advocates further research into free energy and antigravity.
If you're taking the time to write a comment on this story, DON'T. Instead, take that same amount of time to write a one page, reasoned, intelligent letter to your Senators (you have two, you know that?) telling them that you disapprove of this bill, telling them WHY (privacy violation, overextension of copyright, and so forth are good places to start), and encouraging them to work against it.
Good sentiment, but the article states that this is a bill in the House of Representatives. Since the bill isn't up for vote on the floor yet, write to a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee, who "will hold a joint hearing on the bill in the coming weeks". My congressman, Rep. Christopher Cox, is on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and I've emailed him before (got a boilerplate response but it was about the issue I emailed and agreeing with my position). Let him and the other committee members know they've got the support of their constituents!
Email your congresspersons! Write them! Phone them! Fax them....just don't only whine about it on Slashdot...whine about it to someone who can make a difference!
Toss a webpage up that says:
"We detected MSblaster on you machine, please goto to microsoft wupport, and download the appropriet patch"
Well it's a great theory, and it could work...eventually. But first they'd go to Windows Update and have to download the latest Windows Service Pack. Which must be installed alone. Then they reboot and think it's ok...except they get that darn web page from u again. Ok...they go back again, get the latest IE service pack...reboot...ok everything's grand...wait, that damn web page again! I already updated twice, what the hell do they want? Stupid ISP...grumble...get latest 20 or so critical updates...grumble...reboot...aha! It works now! Woohoo!
And 20 minutes later they click on an attachment that exploits that latest VBA vulnerability in MS Office. D'oh! Windows Update didn't fix that one!
I wouldn't piss on Lars Ulrich's head if he was on fire.
Maybe he'd forgive you for downloading his songs if you put out his head fire. Plus there's some delicious irony in having someone appreciate your pissing on them that's just oh-so hard to pass up...
"Initial customer feedback from the entertainment industry in general has been very favorable," Eades added.
Are we talking about the entertainment industry as PC buyers, or as a group with special interest in seeing the actual consumers shackled with xxAA-approved DRM?
All those small droplets hitting your bare skin feels like hundreds or thousands of small nails
So the lesson here is, don't strip naked and skydive through a cloud.
maybe he meant fluid ounces?
Nothing here yet, but maybe someone will auction off photocopies of his SCO invoice.
Better yet, just scan it, save as a PDF, put it up on your webserver, we'll slashdot the hell out of it (and a couple hastily-assembled mirrors too), print out the invoice, do our duty and send a whole big load of crap SCO's way...
Home users typically don't care about VB macros. For companies, it's different.
There must be thousands of little "business applications" that are Word or Excel macros. Each of those might contain only a few lines of code, but in a large organization, there are a lot of those.
At my job, I inherited (and greatly enhanced) a Word template with embedded VBScript that is used to pull our class schedule information into the Word document from an Oracle database via DAO/ODBC and format it appropriately (tables, fonts, shaded table cell backgrounds, automatically bold/italicize certain text, etc).
This sucker is probably at least 10,000 lines long (haven't counted it yet) and for the most part, works great. With a little more work on my part, it will be able to pull our entire class schedule, in order, with appropriate section headings, with the push of one button. Then it's just a matter of spacing out the classes so they don't break across pages (tried setting up the tables not to break across pages but apparently the tables don't hold onto that property for very long (e.g., if you save then reopen document, they will break across pages if you try moving them), and while it's pulling all the classes, it won't move the tables until there's a break...so that'd leave a pretty CPU intensive table-moving session at the end which just couldn't be pretty.
So anyway, yeah, home users couldn't care less about macros in most cases, but I gotta hand it to Microsoft here, this is an under-utilized resource for businesses and other institutions. Not that it works perfectly...but better than other alternatives.
You'll also have to convice Jolt to package in a handy pouch, or cut a three inch hole in the door.
Good point...you've got to pee somewhere, better to stick it through the hole and do it out of the office.