Read that again: investigators became suspicious after listening to the call. They basically admit to what people have suspected for years: that intelligence agencies cast a broad net to monitor all sorts of communications traffic with little regard to the law or your privacy.
Actually, if you RTFA properly then you would realise that they were NOT routinely monitoring calls.
What they WERE doing was monitoring calls to / from numbers which were on a list of numbers they found when they arrested another terrorist.
PLEASE try to keep your conspiracy paranoia uner control.
"QFC is owned by Starbuck's. So, if you shop at QFC with one of their cards, and you shop at Starbuck's with one of theirs, the parent corporation (Starbuck's, I believe) has access to a lot of information about you, which they can use to do some serious harm. For example, they know how often you buy discounted condoms on your card, they know if you're married and have a family (simply profiling your grocery habits will tell them that), and they know where you go. So you could be having a private affair and they know all about it."
LOL
No, they don't know you are having an affair.
They know you buy groceries, that you are married with a family, and you buy condoms. And that's ALL they know.
Why do you buy the comdoms separatey? Because you get them cheaper elsewhere, or because your entire family goes shopping with you and you & wife are too embarrassed to buy 2 dozen condoms a week in front of the kids but you also don't want ot have more kids, so you buy them elsewhere so you and your wife can carry on rutting like wild animals every chance you get.
Do try not to let your paranoia run away with your *quite* yet!
SLightly OT, but fans of Zahn's excellent 5 Star Wars books may be interested to read (if they don't kjnow this already) that he has a 6th book due out next month, Survivor's Quest - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn quiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0345459164&itm=1 has the details [WARNING - do not read the info about the book if youhave not already read the other 5!]
Given his other 5 books utterly thrash most of the other non-movie books, I'm rather looking forward to this one.
The Heir To The Empire Dark Force Rising The Last Command
The followon two parter is in
Spectre Of The Past Vision Of The Future
I strongly recommend all 5 of them in order (and pretty much ignore most of the other Star Wars books which are nowhere near as good - indeed, many are utter crap).
Although I guess actually it would need 5 films, to cover Zahn's trilogy and the two-parter that follows a little later which really DOES lead to a very neat conclusion.
Here's hoping, but I rather doubt there'll be 7-9 sadly. After all, it has been denied for so long, and Star Wars seems to have become "The life and death of Anakin Skywalker" so Ep 6 concludes it I suppose. Who knows?
Gradually cut down your intake rather than cutting it all in 1 go.
Might help if you keep a note of how much you do ingest so you can then monitor as you cut down, but as long as you reduce gradually over weeks or even months (remembering your addiction grew over months and years), you'll be fine.
Actually, may I correct your correction? It wasn't an Isaac Asimov book, it was an Isaac Asimov short story:-) (A book of the same name was published, which was a collection of short stories by Asimov).
And the short story was miles better than the film...
Yeah, but the flaw in your argument is that your Windows scenario is illegal, whereas redustributing a modified copy of the open source program which formerly required a license is perfectly legal.
Open source == free (beer) software == free (speech) software.
So you freely admit to theft - you are downloading and keeping songs which you like an for which you have zero intention of paying.
You are stealing.
That is a fact, plain and simple. You are obtaining the song for free, despite the FACT that it has not been made available for free by the copyright owners and despite the fact that you are supposed to PAY for the song.
THAT is where you are comitting theft - depriving "them" of the money you owe them in exchange for having a copy of the song.
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Remind me, how much do you have to pay RedHat EVERY YEAR to run RH on an Opteron box?
Still claiming it is cheaper than Windows?
Actually, if you RTFA properly then you would realise that they were NOT routinely monitoring calls.
What they WERE doing was monitoring calls to / from numbers which were on a list of numbers they found when they arrested another terrorist.
PLEASE try to keep your conspiracy paranoia uner control.
"QFC is owned by Starbuck's. So, if you shop at QFC with one of their cards, and you shop at Starbuck's with one of theirs, the parent corporation (Starbuck's, I believe) has access to a lot of information about you, which they can use to do some serious harm. For example, they know how often you buy discounted condoms on your card, they know if you're married and have a family (simply profiling your grocery habits will tell them that), and they know where you go. So you could be having a private affair and they know all about it."
LOL
No, they don't know you are having an affair.
They know you buy groceries, that you are married with a family, and you buy condoms. And that's ALL they know.
Why do you buy the comdoms separatey? Because you get them cheaper elsewhere, or because your entire family goes shopping with you and you & wife are too embarrassed to buy 2 dozen condoms a week in front of the kids but you also don't want ot have more kids, so you buy them elsewhere so you and your wife can carry on rutting like wild animals every chance you get.
Do try not to let your paranoia run away with your *quite* yet!
SLightly OT, but fans of Zahn's excellent 5 Star Wars books may be interested to read (if they don't kjnow this already) that he has a 6th book due out next month, Survivor's Quest - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn quiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0345459164&itm=1 has the details [WARNING - do not read the info about the book if youhave not already read the other 5!]
Given his other 5 books utterly thrash most of the other non-movie books, I'm rather looking forward to this one.
The trilogy is
The Heir To The Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
The followon two parter is in
Spectre Of The Past
Vision Of The Future
I strongly recommend all 5 of them in order (and pretty much ignore most of the other Star Wars books which are nowhere near as good - indeed, many are utter crap).
Yup, I'm with you 100% on that!
Although I guess actually it would need 5 films, to cover Zahn's trilogy and the two-parter that follows a little later which really DOES lead to a very neat conclusion.
Here's hoping, but I rather doubt there'll be 7-9 sadly. After all, it has been denied for so long, and Star Wars seems to have become "The life and death of Anakin Skywalker" so Ep 6 concludes it I suppose. Who knows?
Most digital music players won't touch the things"
Likewise most digital music players won't touch .ogg either, but that doesn't mean .ogg isn't a standard (nor does it mean .aac isn't a standard either).
...and *still* no HURD.
Maybe we'll see HURD 1.0 in 2024?
It really is that simple.
Gradually cut down your intake rather than cutting it all in 1 go.
Might help if you keep a note of how much you do ingest so you can then monitor as you cut down, but as long as you reduce gradually over weeks or even months (remembering your addiction grew over months and years), you'll be fine.
Yup, looks like you are right there!
:)
:-/)
Never come across that book before, so I've not read it, so I have no idea whether that book or the short story was the basis for the film
(Mind you, bitter experience tends to encourage me to avoid co-authored sci-fi books when a favourite author works with some other bloke
Actually, may I correct your correction? It wasn't an Isaac Asimov book, it was an Isaac Asimov short story :-) (A book of the same name was published, which was a collection of short stories by Asimov).
And the short story was miles better than the film...
"28 inches is pushing it. A quick google tells me that an average cabinet is ~30" deep which doesn't leave a lot of room for cabling."
What "average" cabinet was this?
Sun's standard rack (Sunrack 900) is 35" deep.
HP/Compaq's 10000 series racks is 40" deep.
No, you are getting your dimensions confused here.
19" (as in 19" rack) refers to the WIDTH, not the DEPTH. 28" is not *that* deep for rackmount equipment by any means.
"You only have the full source (and the binaries etc) after you pay:"
And as soon as I have, there is nothing in law to stop me making said modification and redistributing the source for free to everyone.
Heck, it is positivly encouraged (nay, mandated) than any mods are returned to the community, after all...
Yeah, but the flaw in your argument is that your Windows scenario is illegal, whereas redustributing a modified copy of the open source program which formerly required a license is perfectly legal.
Open source == free (beer) software == free (speech) software.
"Open is not a synonym for free, a program can be open source even if you can't use it at all without paying for a license!!!"
OK, I'll bite.
How is that going to work?
You have the full source, you edit out the license checking code, and you then run the program for free.
Ergo, open source software is indeed free, in both meanings of the word.
And yet the funny thing is, if the grandparent post had been slagging off bloat in M$ products, you would have been singning the poster's praises...
I love the smell of hypocrisy in slashdot these days.
OK, I'll bite.
Kindly point me to the Linux equivalent of Logic Audio Platinum 6.3, please? With FULL equivalent functionality.
...a black hat.
They have the right to tell you what you may and may not do with their product, yes.
Just as you have the right to tell them to go swivel and take your custom elsewhere.
" Not rocketing - rocketed. As in the stock price has grown over the past 5 years to an very over-inflated point. "
Uh-hu.
5 years ago, price was round $6.
Now, price is around $4.
Yup, that looks like rocketed to me...
(Yeah, they peaked much higher in between, but guess what? So did every other tech stock around.)
Face facts - Sun's stock is not "very over-inflated" these days.
Actually, if you are going to get pedantic, then so was Windows.
Which renders the original anonymous poster's flamebait pointless.
so how long until Sun release an OS for 64 bit?
Oh, wait., they already did, decades ago.
What was your point agian?
You mean as opposed to "Let's let 12 year olds break the law and do whatever they want"?
So you freely admit to theft - you are downloading and keeping songs which you like an for which you have zero intention of paying.
You are stealing.
That is a fact, plain and simple. You are obtaining the song for free, despite the FACT that it has not been made available for free by the copyright owners and despite the fact that you are supposed to PAY for the song.
THAT is where you are comitting theft - depriving "them" of the money you owe them in exchange for having a copy of the song.