Uh, no shit? There's a reason I chose my username.
I never said my reasons didn't suck, I simply stated that I had them, where as the person I was replying to said I had none.
Dodd said that there were 'conversations going on now,' about SOPA-style legislation, but that he was 'not going to go into more detail because obviously if I do, it becomes counterproductive.
Well no shit, if you tell the people about the new law that you're going to introduce, it's going to be popular with NO ONE (again), and everyone's going to piss on your doorstep about it (again)
Fuck off sir.
The instant search on by default and having to turn it off every time I image a computer is awesome.
The annoying as shit "+you" button and increased social media results are awesome.
The increased ads on google itself are awesome.
Google's intrusive changes to it's privacy policy are awesome (this is one I've only heard about, I don't care myself, but a lot of people seem to)
The annoying as shit changes to iGoogle are awesome
The loss of functionality on youtube is awesome.
Dude, I could go on and fucking on, I think I do know why google's bugging the shit out of me.
There's a lot of reasons why EA is an incredibly shitty company, however, this is not one of them.
Also, correct me if i'm wrong, but EA is simply publisher for the games listed, and did not have a hand in the actual content.
These letters should be shot off a Bioware instead.
We're in a declining economy, no matter how the politicians or "economists" try to spin it.
The price of cable keeps going up, and up, and up. The price of streaming services? Not so much.
See, again, you keep saying "you" this and "you" that.
You wouldn't laugh if you were fired from your job for a post on slashdot 10 years ago
I would laugh my ass off, good sir. And then I would promptly start my job search. No regrets.
Just because you imagine in your happy ignorance that nothing you post today can influence your life
I've been very well aware that what I do and say online may effect my life. If that happens, I'll keep walking forward.
and so are you if you truly believe your online activities are completely separate from your real life.
I don't. I know IT is watching my every move I make online, including this post. When I'm at home? I know my ISP is logging every move and site I visit And if you think I give a flying fuck that they can attach me to my online identities? You're sorely mistaken.
Several of the protesters stated that they fear for the the health of their families and that they refuse to live near wind turbines
This is the most retarded thing I've heard in the past hour. (I've unfortunately heard a lot of stupid crap lately, so i can't claim all day or all week or whatever.)
Others fear that the value of their property will be reduced significantly by the presence of turbines.
This, however, is a legitimate concern for those who plan on selling their house.
The loss of value on the house might be compensated enough by the energy provided by the wind turbines though, though I'm unsure.
'It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
So, technically, couldn't it be viewed that this law is breaking itself?
May? MAY?!?
Yeah, and I may be a terrorist, with 5 nukes in my house, ready to blow the fuck out of the nearest airport.
I may be able to push a button on my wall and cause my house to transform into a missle launcher and blow the local precinct sky high.
I may have a legion of ninjas that are ready to murder every government official when i click my heels 3 times.
But I've never been arrested for these things. Why? Because may shouldn't be good enough for the fucking law.
Good grief. I don't care one way or another about Megaupload, but holy shit has our legal system gone to fucking hell.
Yeah, this is my take on it as well.
That, and with every form of DRM, someone, somewhere takes it as a challenge and takes it down.
Up until the past year or so, I've been very much against piracy. But when companies do shit like this...Yo fucking ho.
the Wii U actually isn't as powerful as the Xbox 360 or PS3
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
Rumors are floating about of a required always-on internet connection and of locking out the used game market.
I'm almost positive if these rumors prove to be true, the receptive companies will take a huge hit in sales.
I'm not huge on the "I hate company X because of this, this, and this" mentality that most of slashdot has, but if I buy a game? I expect it to be mine.
And in these difficult economic times? I expect a lot of people think similarly to this, being able to sell games you're not using for extra cash is great.
The ONLY reason I'd go along with this was if game prices dropped. Dramatically.
I'm talking maybe $20-$25 a game, at most.
Flight crew makes a mistake
Students get hauled off.
On top of that, shouldn't the TSA have caught this "cell phone like thing" with it's magical terrorist preventing scanners?
If it looked questionable, why didn't they see it in the screenings, and why didn't the let the flight crew know about the strange object?
I swear, reading the things that go on in our government is like reading a bloody horror story.
The second I get fired from my job, I'm going to Canada.
Now that's probably not going to show up in an app like this, but one day it could surface in a retroactive and incredibly detailed way, at which point none of us would be feeling particularly smug.
I would laugh, personally. Speak for yourself.
As to condemning these girls for finding this app creepy
Wrong. I'm condemning them for publicly disclosing their location over the internet.
The app is creepy, I never said it wasn't. But I wouldn't need the app to find this data rather easily.
The geeks on here saying 'they were asking for it' or 'they deserved it' would be far less sanguine.
Again, speak for yourself and yourself only. I personally wouldn't give a rats ass.
BTW, I do support the notion of requiring ALL manufacturers to offer a full standardized warranty, although I think it should be 3 years.
Yeah, I agree. If you're going to put a product on the market, have some damn confidence in it.
If you don't have confidence in your product, don't ship it out until you do.
First we need to get rid of almost all the Republicans and half the Democrats and then maybe we can improve this USA
Nah, we need to get rid of/all/ politicians (along with changing the old-as-dirt broken system), one side of thieves isn't any better than the other.
Slashdot Mirror
bet*
BCE, whose Bell owns 30 specialty networks
Who wants to bed all 30 of those networks are struggling because no one with a sane mind wants to watch them?
So, your reasons are mostly idiotic
Uh, no shit? There's a reason I chose my username.
I never said my reasons didn't suck, I simply stated that I had them, where as the person I was replying to said I had none.
Dodd said that there were 'conversations going on now,' about SOPA-style legislation, but that he was 'not going to go into more detail because obviously if I do, it becomes counterproductive.
Well no shit, if you tell the people about the new law that you're going to introduce, it's going to be popular with NO ONE (again), and everyone's going to piss on your doorstep about it (again)
Fuck off sir.
Yes, I totally don't know what I"m talking about.
The instant search on by default and having to turn it off every time I image a computer is awesome.
The annoying as shit "+you" button and increased social media results are awesome.
The increased ads on google itself are awesome.
Google's intrusive changes to it's privacy policy are awesome (this is one I've only heard about, I don't care myself, but a lot of people seem to)
The annoying as shit changes to iGoogle are awesome
The loss of functionality on youtube is awesome.
Dude, I could go on and fucking on, I think I do know why google's bugging the shit out of me.
Well, he wants 'Google to be a company that is deserving of great love
If you want to be loved? Do some loving.
I'm sorry, but lately Google has given reason after reason to hate, not love.
A.K.A.
YER DOIN' IT WRONG.
If porn harms your marriage? Install local filters are your computer.
It's not the government's job to babysit your marriage.
There's a lot of reasons why EA is an incredibly shitty company, however, this is not one of them.
Also, correct me if i'm wrong, but EA is simply publisher for the games listed, and did not have a hand in the actual content.
These letters should be shot off a Bioware instead.
We're in a declining economy, no matter how the politicians or "economists" try to spin it.
The price of cable keeps going up, and up, and up. The price of streaming services? Not so much.
It specifically says "physical" harm.
or threaten to inflict physical harm
No it doesn't. Physical harm is just a bullet point on the list, it's not solely physical harm.
You wouldn't laugh if you were fired from your job for a post on slashdot 10 years ago
I would laugh my ass off, good sir. And then I would promptly start my job search. No regrets.
Just because you imagine in your happy ignorance that nothing you post today can influence your life
I've been very well aware that what I do and say online may effect my life. If that happens, I'll keep walking forward.
and so are you if you truly believe your online activities are completely separate from your real life.
I don't. I know IT is watching my every move I make online, including this post.
When I'm at home? I know my ISP is logging every move and site I visit
And if you think I give a flying fuck that they can attach me to my online identities? You're sorely mistaken.
Sad but true :/
I'd much rather live near a wind turbine myself, so I guess that just means cheaper housing for me.
Several of the protesters stated that they fear for the the health of their families and that they refuse to live near wind turbines
This is the most retarded thing I've heard in the past hour.
(I've unfortunately heard a lot of stupid crap lately, so i can't claim all day or all week or whatever.)
Others fear that the value of their property will be reduced significantly by the presence of turbines.
This, however, is a legitimate concern for those who plan on selling their house.
The loss of value on the house might be compensated enough by the energy provided by the wind turbines though, though I'm unsure.
I hope that they do something similar to what the April fools joke did to google maps.
Dragon Quest EVERYWHERE.
'It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.
So, technically, couldn't it be viewed that this law is breaking itself?
Why not?
Lawmakers use that same tactic when it comes to people asking for/speaking against laws.
I'm sure that lawbreakers will stop breaking the law if you simply ask them.
may contain child pornography
May? MAY?!?
Yeah, and I may be a terrorist, with 5 nukes in my house, ready to blow the fuck out of the nearest airport.
I may be able to push a button on my wall and cause my house to transform into a missle launcher and blow the local precinct sky high.
I may have a legion of ninjas that are ready to murder every government official when i click my heels 3 times.
But I've never been arrested for these things. Why? Because may shouldn't be good enough for the fucking law.
Good grief. I don't care one way or another about Megaupload, but holy shit has our legal system gone to fucking hell.
Yeah, this is my take on it as well.
That, and with every form of DRM, someone, somewhere takes it as a challenge and takes it down.
Up until the past year or so, I've been very much against piracy. But when companies do shit like this...Yo fucking ho.
the Wii U actually isn't as powerful as the Xbox 360 or PS3
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
Rumors are floating about of a required always-on internet connection and of locking out the used game market.
I'm almost positive if these rumors prove to be true, the receptive companies will take a huge hit in sales.
I'm not huge on the "I hate company X because of this, this, and this" mentality that most of slashdot has, but if I buy a game? I expect it to be mine.
And in these difficult economic times? I expect a lot of people think similarly to this, being able to sell games you're not using for extra cash is great.
The ONLY reason I'd go along with this was if game prices dropped. Dramatically.
I'm talking maybe $20-$25 a game, at most.
Let me get this straight:
Flight crew makes a mistake
Students get hauled off.
On top of that, shouldn't the TSA have caught this "cell phone like thing" with it's magical terrorist preventing scanners?
If it looked questionable, why didn't they see it in the screenings, and why didn't the let the flight crew know about the strange object?
I swear, reading the things that go on in our government is like reading a bloody horror story.
The second I get fired from my job, I'm going to Canada.
Now that's probably not going to show up in an app like this, but one day it could surface in a retroactive and incredibly detailed way, at which point none of us would be feeling particularly smug.
I would laugh, personally. Speak for yourself.
As to condemning these girls for finding this app creepy
Wrong. I'm condemning them for publicly disclosing their location over the internet.
The app is creepy, I never said it wasn't. But I wouldn't need the app to find this data rather easily.
The geeks on here saying 'they were asking for it' or 'they deserved it' would be far less sanguine.
Again, speak for yourself and yourself only. I personally wouldn't give a rats ass.
Girls Around Me cannot show the user more data than [what Foursqure or Facebook] already does.
Seriously, if you're concerned about creepy bastards knowing where you are, don't tell the entire bloody internet
BTW, I do support the notion of requiring ALL manufacturers to offer a full standardized warranty, although I think it should be 3 years.
Yeah, I agree. If you're going to put a product on the market, have some damn confidence in it.
If you don't have confidence in your product, don't ship it out until you do.
First we need to get rid of almost all the Republicans and half the Democrats and then maybe we can improve this USA
Nah, we need to get rid of /all/ politicians (along with changing the old-as-dirt broken system), one side of thieves isn't any better than the other.