DDoS = distributed denial of service. If it's just you, it ain't distributed.
And accessing a website once every 15 seconds isn't a plain old DoS unless the website is hosted on a Commodore 64 on a 9600 baud modem. Besides, what they're doing is unquestionably illegal -- if the government can't shut them down, let the people do it!
Seems to me like you're not quite right. The GP didn't get moderated at all... the comment is just sitting there (waiting to be ignored). If ``the/. community these days is (sadly) far more fond of comments like "If this was Microsoft, not Google, you'd be pissed!"'', then that comment would be +5 right now. Which it isn't -- it's 1.
Seriously, though, the slashdot meta-discussion is getting old. If you don't like slashdot, start your own site. I am kind of getting sick of the same comments in every story, "If this was M$...", "Google is evil now.", "Dupe!!! I want my money back (but wait, I'm not even posting logged in... much less as a subscriber)", "Slashvertisement! OMG!" etc. This isn't digg or fark.
What made slashdot the great site that it is (was?) is that there's intelligent discussion in the comments. When all the intelligence is drowned out by whiners (that don't even subscribe), people with legitimate commentary on the article get ignored. This is getting tiring, so I would appreciate it if you would setup a forum somewhere else to bitch at slashdot (maybe your journal), and let the comments discuss the article. Thanks.
The problem with your comment in the present form is that you emphasize the unusually high capacitance, as though that's important to the comedic effect. Your usage implies that big capacitance == big result, when that's just not the case.
Your comment would be funny if you said something like, "Take the capacitor and plug it into the mains." That would be funny, because it's likely the capacitor would explode like a mini-grenade and take out the victim's hand. That's funny enough that I'm having to restrain myself from trying that on a pair of rather-large capacitors sitting on my desk.
So? Fuck Panasonic and Logitech... making a keyboard and LCD isn't rocket science. If some Chinese company can do it for less, then great! (You get what you pay for.)
And the GP's point still holds -- you paid sales tax / import duty / etc., so the government is perfectly happy.
OK, I did this. I found a nice old 1F capacitor. I charged it with a 1.5V battery I had sitting around. I discharged it into my hand. I'm still here. (In fact, discharging the 1F cap was about the same as discharging the battery into my hand. How could that be!?)
You must have missed the lecture where they discussed what capacitance is.
Me. I use emacs-style keybindings to edit Wikipedia articles... but not anymore, since C-k and C-e are bound to the equivalent of M-x fuck-the-user-over.
I know I should be using the external editor mode and be doing the editing in emacs... but I'm lazy. If you want to tap my intellect, at least make it easy for me;)
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You're both wrong;)
Podcasts are meant to be downloaded, not streamed. (Originally designed for iPods, which don't do network streaming.)
What area of Tokyo is this in? Quite honestly, I've never really worried about "safety" in Tokyo. (Then again, I work on the south side of Chicago and don't think a whole lot about "safety";)
If you visit the site with Mac Firefox, then view it again in Safari, it works.
Someone at my University had this same problem. We couldn't figure out why it was happening. Now we know -- GoDaddy fucking sucks. (To be honest, I would expect something like this from a company called GoDaddy...:)
Not only is the GP a duplicate, the reply is too! At least this time it was spelled right.
(But seriously people... if you think what you're about to say is obvious, and there are already comments, read them before posting. Somebody probably beat you to it. Funny doesn't raise your karma, but Redundant does lower it... think before you post:)
> Why not force him to pay for the stuff and do 100 hours community service? This is his first offense after all and odds are he'll have learned his lesson about petty crime.
Agreed. It seems that the cops / media always exaggerate the crime when reporting on it. The reports tend to read like, "Yes, he stole a stick of gum. There could be a potential of 5 consecutive life sentences, if we're successful in bringing murder, rape, possession of stolen gum, and manslaughter charges." Then 5 years later, we see that the judge laughs the cops out of court, finds they guy guilty of petty theft, and sentences the guy to write a letter of apology.
This must be some sort of cop plan to deter the dumb criminals. (Since they can't catch the smart ones anyway.)
I agree. I have no problems with people stealing stuff from big stores, but he needs to remember the saying -- "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." Whining about being a poor college student is no excuse (I'm a poor college student, too, but somehow I can afford stuff without stealing it).
What any intelligent thief would have done is stick the 30G iPod barcode on the 60G iPod box. This gives you $100 off. You won't get away with this at the Apple store, but I doubt the average Target clerk knows the difference between the models.
> There is something wrong with the legal system if a reasonably educated person can't defend themself without shelling out cash to a lawyer.
This actually means the "system" is working. Lawyers make laws. Lawyers also profit from interpreting and understanding the law. Obviously it's in the financial best interest for lawyers to make the law unnecessarily complex... that keeps them in business and in control. Why would they ever give that up?
I haven't used Vonage (I use Skype), but is it possible that you're analog hardware is bad? Maybe the VoIP connection is actually OK, but the phone you've connected is reducing the quality. Or maybe your ISP sucks. Or maybe your hardware is bad. Or, possibly, Vonage just doesn't like you:)
> I haven't been able to find ANY documentation as to what the default keyboard shortcuts are for Mplayer on ANY platform.
Use the source, Luke. That's the point of OSS... you can open up the code in emacs and see what it's doing. If that's too hard, then maybe you shouldn't be using a computer.
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DDoS = distributed denial of service. If it's just you, it ain't distributed.
And accessing a website once every 15 seconds isn't a plain old DoS unless the website is hosted on a Commodore 64 on a 9600 baud modem. Besides, what they're doing is unquestionably illegal -- if the government can't shut them down, let the people do it!
Seems to me like you're not quite right. The GP didn't get moderated at all... the comment is just sitting there (waiting to be ignored). If ``the /. community these days is (sadly) far more fond of comments like "If this was Microsoft, not Google, you'd be pissed!"'', then that comment would be +5 right now. Which it isn't -- it's 1.
Seriously, though, the slashdot meta-discussion is getting old. If you don't like slashdot, start your own site. I am kind of getting sick of the same comments in every story, "If this was M$...", "Google is evil now.", "Dupe!!! I want my money back (but wait, I'm not even posting logged in... much less as a subscriber)", "Slashvertisement! OMG!" etc. This isn't digg or fark.
What made slashdot the great site that it is (was?) is that there's intelligent discussion in the comments. When all the intelligence is drowned out by whiners (that don't even subscribe), people with legitimate commentary on the article get ignored. This is getting tiring, so I would appreciate it if you would setup a forum somewhere else to bitch at slashdot (maybe your journal), and let the comments discuss the article. Thanks.
The problem with your comment in the present form is that you emphasize the unusually high capacitance, as though that's important to the comedic effect. Your usage implies that big capacitance == big result, when that's just not the case.
Your comment would be funny if you said something like, "Take the capacitor and plug it into the mains." That would be funny, because it's likely the capacitor would explode like a mini-grenade and take out the victim's hand. That's funny enough that I'm having to restrain myself from trying that on a pair of rather-large capacitors sitting on my desk.
So? Fuck Panasonic and Logitech... making a keyboard and LCD isn't rocket science. If some Chinese company can do it for less, then great! (You get what you pay for.)
And the GP's point still holds -- you paid sales tax / import duty / etc., so the government is perfectly happy.
I think you're the first person to ever invoke Godwin's law during a discussion on WiFi. Congratulations... I think...
OK, I did this. I found a nice old 1F capacitor. I charged it with a 1.5V battery I had sitting around. I discharged it into my hand. I'm still here. (In fact, discharging the 1F cap was about the same as discharging the battery into my hand. How could that be!?)
You must have missed the lecture where they discussed what capacitance is.
Me. I use emacs-style keybindings to edit Wikipedia articles... but not anymore, since C-k and C-e are bound to the equivalent of M-x fuck-the-user-over.
;)
I know I should be using the external editor mode and be doing the editing in emacs... but I'm lazy. If you want to tap my intellect, at least make it easy for me
You're both wrong ;)
Podcasts are meant to be downloaded, not streamed. (Originally designed for iPods, which don't do network streaming.)
What area of Tokyo is this in? Quite honestly, I've never really worried about "safety" in Tokyo. (Then again, I work on the south side of Chicago and don't think a whole lot about "safety" ;)
If you visit the site with Mac Firefox, then view it again in Safari, it works.
:)
Someone at my University had this same problem. We couldn't figure out why it was happening. Now we know -- GoDaddy fucking sucks. (To be honest, I would expect something like this from a company called GoDaddy...
You really want to chmod u+Srx, chmod o+rx the thing. Setting the "S" bit on "other" doesn't do what you think it does.
Not only is the GP a duplicate, the reply is too! At least this time it was spelled right.
:)
(But seriously people... if you think what you're about to say is obvious, and there are already comments, read them before posting. Somebody probably beat you to it. Funny doesn't raise your karma, but Redundant does lower it... think before you post
> Anyone who uses ^ when they mean ** is obviously a BASIC programmer.
Or a TeX user.
> Why not force him to pay for the stuff and do 100 hours community service? This is his first offense after all and odds are he'll have learned his lesson about petty crime.
Agreed. It seems that the cops / media always exaggerate the crime when reporting on it. The reports tend to read like, "Yes, he stole a stick of gum. There could be a potential of 5 consecutive life sentences, if we're successful in bringing murder, rape, possession of stolen gum, and manslaughter charges." Then 5 years later, we see that the judge laughs the cops out of court, finds they guy guilty of petty theft, and sentences the guy to write a letter of apology.
This must be some sort of cop plan to deter the dumb criminals. (Since they can't catch the smart ones anyway.)
Source?
> I haven't seen any news articles where people were convicted because of buggy software.
You must have missed the article a few weeks ago where people were let out of prison later than they were supposed to be, due to buggy software.
> It makes me sick.
I agree. I have no problems with people stealing stuff from big stores, but he needs to remember the saying -- "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." Whining about being a poor college student is no excuse (I'm a poor college student, too, but somehow I can afford stuff without stealing it).
This guy got what he deserved.
What any intelligent thief would have done is stick the 30G iPod barcode on the 60G iPod box. This gives you $100 off. You won't get away with this at the Apple store, but I doubt the average Target clerk knows the difference between the models.
> There is something wrong with the legal system if a reasonably educated person can't defend themself without shelling out cash to a lawyer.
This actually means the "system" is working. Lawyers make laws. Lawyers also profit from interpreting and understanding the law. Obviously it's in the financial best interest for lawyers to make the law unnecessarily complex... that keeps them in business and in control. Why would they ever give that up?
> I did this to my third wife...
;)
And I presume that you're looking for your fourth?
Technically you're still a virgin if you claim you had sex, but didn't.
I haven't used Vonage (I use Skype), but is it possible that you're analog hardware is bad? Maybe the VoIP connection is actually OK, but the phone you've connected is reducing the quality. Or maybe your ISP sucks. Or maybe your hardware is bad. Or, possibly, Vonage just doesn't like you :)
> Well-educated, perhaps, but dumb as a sack of hammers.
<connery>You wouldn't know that if you weren't reading from a card.</connery>
Even better... less than or equal to 229604!
:) :)
Have you honestly ever read a good post with a uid greater than 229604? Didn't think so.
> I haven't been able to find ANY documentation as to what the default keyboard shortcuts are for Mplayer on ANY platform.
Use the source, Luke. That's the point of OSS... you can open up the code in emacs and see what it's doing. If that's too hard, then maybe you shouldn't be using a computer.