If I was a financier trading millions and billions, and under the current de-regulated playfield that is Wall Street, I wouldn't have to pay one red cent to trade worldwide all those mortgages, hedge funds, CIDS, etc., but should some mook in a garage try to sell his old junk ONLINE well FRELL HIM.
When this story broke I immediately thought back to my days in the 80's playing D&D and the fear evangelical Christians had of the game. I even remember being chased, yes chased, out of a friends house by his crazed father. I'd no idea at the time but somehow there was a growing fear that D&D lead to devil worship. Or something. I do recall there were even news reports along this line.
So now, put into a political context, this fear has been reanimated by the Maine GOP to accuse their opponent of being 'not one of us' at best and an agent of evil at worst. WoW is the new D&D! Clever. Fits the GOP play-book, however, it didn't work. Rather like a lot of the GOP play-book isn't working anymore.
It's worth it to know that in the years since I'd discovered the source of the Christian fear of RPG games. The comics of one Jack Chick. Wonderfully illustrated but deeply paranoid, his comics are familiar to any fundamentalist church goer. The D&D issue can be found here... http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
Oh right, the second massive 400 page omnibus bill due to hit the floor soon. The sort of bill Prime Minister Harper himself used to complain was undemocratic when he was in opposition. What giant hypocrites conservatives are!
I noticed a pattern forming regarding the reporting of this story. One I've seen before. The young man who did this had, as stated by the sheriff on the scene yesterday, sang like a bird regarding his political views. As of late yesterday the media began to report that there were no statements by the shooter. Suddenly, we don't get to know his views and thus why he had committed wanton mass murder. Today, his online ramblings have been removed.
It is within the corporatist interest to censor violence that may have a causal connection to the rhetoric the corporations put out, namely the demonizing of anything 'Liberal'. After all, does anyone know what Timothy McVeigh thought when he blew innocent people in Oklahoma to bits? No, because the media didn't print that. They didn't even interview him or print any statements he made. The story always comes down to the same, lame, narrative... he was a quiet seemly normal guy. Like the guy who opened fire in Penn. on three police officers because Glenn Beck was telling him, at the time, Obama was going to take his guns away. The guy who shot a doctor on the steps of the doctors church because Bill O'Reilly called that doctor a murderer over and over for weeks. There are many other cases but the corporations don't report why these people do these things. We are left to mourn and to guess and wonder as too why.
As the Sheriff in Arizona wisely said about what inspired the young shooter; 'it might be free speech but there are consequences.'
encyclopedias have never been very accurate, and their content is often old or culturally biased.
So as news, this feels like an advert for Wiki... or something. General tech we're great silliness perhaps. The echo chamber of media is full of such useless tripe.
Abuse?!?!!? The Patriot Act effectively suspends democracy. To imply that these FBI agents are operating beyond the "law" shows this articles bias.
The Patriot Act itself is an abuse of the laws that exist to protect THE PEOPLE. You know, Habius Corpus, innocent until... oh forget it.
Technically, the USA is a Fascist state. The Patriot Act is the tip of a legal iceberg that begins in jailing your fellow Americans and ends in the White House torturing foreigners to death.
Don't watch the silly monkey, pay attention to the man behind the curtain!
.. is the worst. How many millions of dollars has your company spent on M$?
How many hours, weeks, years, have companies lost messing with M$ software?
Got Windows? Got hacked.
Considering even the corporate leaders of most nations have finally discovered Windows is wasteful, expensive, and even damaging to thier enterprises why the frell would anyone bother with Windows ever again?
... because no American study would be allowed by the RIAA and they would make sure that the truth would never be known... certianly not in a court of law.
Tell me... how many people are in jail because the RIAA lied and used it's massive corporate power to bend the courts to thier will?
How many thousands of supeonas did the courts hand out to criminalize and jail people for doing something that injured no one? Typical Americans.
... with a cheap G5 box. Finally, a cheap Mac! That sexy 'puter was too high class for me in the past but now Apple surrenders? Baby! Oh no... I can't see the new show? What a tease!
I think you make good points and certainly argueing Stallmans "ideology" is what good debate is all about. I do understand, however, that choice and freedom (rule of the mob) are not what makes good software, art, or engineering. At some point you have to get on board with the "ideology" or get off.
Rule of the mob isn't benefitial to anything and will simply degenerate into chaos.
... and as usual the person who makes it his business to inform, impower, and proliferate benefitial technology will be ignored by the greedy, insane corporate monster and comments against him will be moded up by the PR sock-puppets who frequent Slashdot.
... like the number of people online or the number of "eye balls" on a site each week - marketing can just make up the numbers.
Of course, making up numbers to boost computer and software sales is nothing new. Blogs are just the latest carrot to dangle, doesn't matter that, in truth, Blogs aren't read any more than anything else online.
That's what's keep this IT bubble going for so long... bullshit. Bullshit is 30% of the US economy after all.:)
The US Government has been preparing for the weaponization of space. With the USA unsigning the ATF Treaty it is now preparing, through the recently formed [i]Space Command[/i] department, to put nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth.
Anyone notice all the stories, lately, about old space junk falling out of orbit? Hmm.
Why would I bother with security solutions from the company famous for costing my company uncalcuable time, money, and left my data open to any 12 year old bored enough to do damage?
Sure... this article takes a swipe at the eMac and it should, it's too expensive for the 'puter it is.
But the article, another baloney tech review/marketing advert but I won't get into that, tells the reader that the Radeon video card that comes with the eMac makes playing "this falls" Mac games impossible... and to buy a Dell instead!
Well, we have a new Dell here in the ofice and it's got a Radeon card in it too. The Dell is supposedly a newer model than the eMac and it still can't play any games... not even crappy unaliased 3D games from years ago.
Really... typical tech-speak mind screwing by liars for the corporate Junta.
??? Wait... I was to understand the technologies would behave entirely the opposite of what you demonstrate in your post. Wouldn't the LCD screens get "ghost" images more readily than the Plasma screens?
... since plasma is a superior technology that can bring nothing but benifits to the customer and re-seller it must be stopped!
LCD is to plasma what VHS was to Beta.
It's obvious that since people want plasma and it's selling so well certain markets must be purged of this annoyance to our corporate overlords so they may more effectively dominate that market with all the fear and intimidation of a Soviet Agriculture Minister.
Ever wonder that the reason people DL movies and Tv shows is because they are tired of spending thousands of dollars on a medium that will be obsolete in 5 years?
... having lived in Japan and been to Akihabara I can tell you it's easy to have far more product, and far better quality product, in Japan because it has a massive population on a place the size of Nova Scotia.
With housing costs so high people live with family and have lots of spending money. Money to get this years new "whatever" model.
Why make a movie? This show was good? It was crap. B5 was crap and kept going on to be even worse crap with Bruce Boxleitner... watered down 1965 Star Trek at best.
Remember when movies were made because a TV show was popular? Now, the corporate monster merely perpetuates it's products.... and we are subjected to slashdot stories about bad, really bad, movies.
Geeks should try to at least seem intellegent instead of merely geeky eh? If anyone can come up with an intellegent reason to be a B5 fan I'll shut up.
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So let me get this straight...
If I was a financier trading millions and billions, and under the current de-regulated playfield that is Wall Street, I wouldn't have to pay one red cent to trade worldwide all those mortgages, hedge funds, CIDS, etc., but should some mook in a garage try to sell his old junk ONLINE well FRELL HIM.
Capitalism my arse.
Well that's so Tuesday. Would you swallow? Funny that the AP came out with this story just yesterday...
AP Exclusive: Graph suggests Iran working on bomb
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-graph-suggests-iran-working-bomb
Isn't it great Iranians work in English?
Oh, my favourite part; "leaked by officials from a country critical of Iran's atomic program ..." ROTFL! Geee, wonder who THAT could be?
Is the server up yet? *sigh*, I hate Tuesday maintenance.
Absolutely real. And you sir have a future in politics. lol ;p
When this story broke I immediately thought back to my days in the 80's playing D&D and the fear evangelical Christians had of the game. I even remember being chased, yes chased, out of a friends house by his crazed father. I'd no idea at the time but somehow there was a growing fear that D&D lead to devil worship. Or something. I do recall there were even news reports along this line.
So now, put into a political context, this fear has been reanimated by the Maine GOP to accuse their opponent of being 'not one of us' at best and an agent of evil at worst. WoW is the new D&D! Clever. Fits the GOP play-book, however, it didn't work. Rather like a lot of the GOP play-book isn't working anymore.
It's worth it to know that in the years since I'd discovered the source of the Christian fear of RPG games. The comics of one Jack Chick. Wonderfully illustrated but deeply paranoid, his comics are familiar to any fundamentalist church goer. The D&D issue can be found here...
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
Oh right, the second massive 400 page omnibus bill due to hit the floor soon. The sort of bill Prime Minister Harper himself used to complain was undemocratic when he was in opposition. What giant hypocrites conservatives are!
I noticed a pattern forming regarding the reporting of this story. One I've seen before. The young man who did this had, as stated by the sheriff on the scene yesterday, sang like a bird regarding his political views. As of late yesterday the media began to report that there were no statements by the shooter. Suddenly, we don't get to know his views and thus why he had committed wanton mass murder. Today, his online ramblings have been removed.
It is within the corporatist interest to censor violence that may have a causal connection to the rhetoric the corporations put out, namely the demonizing of anything 'Liberal'. After all, does anyone know what Timothy McVeigh thought when he blew innocent people in Oklahoma to bits? No, because the media didn't print that. They didn't even interview him or print any statements he made. The story always comes down to the same, lame, narrative... he was a quiet seemly normal guy. Like the guy who opened fire in Penn. on three police officers because Glenn Beck was telling him, at the time, Obama was going to take his guns away. The guy who shot a doctor on the steps of the doctors church because Bill O'Reilly called that doctor a murderer over and over for weeks. There are many other cases but the corporations don't report why these people do these things. We are left to mourn and to guess and wonder as too why.
As the Sheriff in Arizona wisely said about what inspired the young shooter; 'it might be free speech but there are consequences.'
Um... I feel the need to point out...
encyclopedias have never been very accurate, and their content is often old or culturally biased.
So as news, this feels like an advert for Wiki... or something. General tech we're great silliness perhaps. The echo chamber of media is full of such useless tripe.
CmdrTaco, you are here providing insight about the virtual world. Slashdot has been reporting on this since the beginning.
/. readers I'm sure.
Those who accuse you of being "petty" or whatever seem to have forgotten the context they are in. The Internet!
If anything, this shows the limits, mistakes, and abuses of the virtual world by those who create it - that would be
Your post is insightful and informative about a regular subject on Slashdot.
My thanx, and sorry some people out there have lost perspective.
Abuse?!?!!? The Patriot Act effectively suspends democracy. To imply that these FBI agents are operating beyond the "law" shows this articles bias.
The Patriot Act itself is an abuse of the laws that exist to protect THE PEOPLE. You know, Habius Corpus, innocent until... oh forget it.
Technically, the USA is a Fascist state. The Patriot Act is the tip of a legal iceberg that begins in jailing your fellow Americans and ends in the White House torturing foreigners to death.
Don't watch the silly monkey, pay attention to the man behind the curtain!
... CmdrTaco should understand that the second you go to a corporation you no longer have rights, feelings, or an identity.
You are a number! Not a free man!
.. is the worst. How many millions of dollars has your company spent on M$?
How many hours, weeks, years, have companies lost messing with M$ software?
Got Windows? Got hacked.
Considering even the corporate leaders of most nations have finally discovered Windows is wasteful, expensive, and even damaging to thier enterprises why the frell would anyone bother with Windows ever again?
There are simply better solutions. Obviously.
... because no American study would be allowed by the RIAA and they would make sure that the truth would never be known... certianly not in a court of law.
Tell me... how many people are in jail because the RIAA lied and used it's massive corporate power to bend the courts to thier will?
How many thousands of supeonas did the courts hand out to criminalize and jail people for doing something that injured no one? Typical Americans.
Isn't this an indictment of the entire MP3 saga?
Helloooo???
... with a cheap G5 box. Finally, a cheap Mac! That sexy 'puter was too high class for me in the past but now Apple surrenders? Baby! Oh no... I can't see the new show? What a tease!
I used to date a girl like that...
I think you make good points and certainly argueing Stallmans "ideology" is what good debate is all about. I do understand, however, that choice and freedom (rule of the mob) are not what makes good software, art, or engineering. At some point you have to get on board with the "ideology" or get off.
Rule of the mob isn't benefitial to anything and will simply degenerate into chaos.
... and as usual the person who makes it his business to inform, impower, and proliferate benefitial technology will be ignored by the greedy, insane corporate monster and comments against him will be moded up by the PR sock-puppets who frequent Slashdot.
btw frell off sock-puppets. `(
... like the number of people online or the number of "eye balls" on a site each week - marketing can just make up the numbers.
:)
Of course, making up numbers to boost computer and software sales is nothing new. Blogs are just the latest carrot to dangle, doesn't matter that, in truth, Blogs aren't read any more than anything else online.
That's what's keep this IT bubble going for so long... bullshit. Bullshit is 30% of the US economy after all.
The US Government has been preparing for the weaponization of space. With the USA unsigning the ATF Treaty it is now preparing, through the recently formed [i]Space Command[/i] department, to put nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth.
Anyone notice all the stories, lately, about old space junk falling out of orbit? Hmm.
Why would I bother with security solutions from the company famous for costing my company uncalcuable time, money, and left my data open to any 12 year old bored enough to do damage?
This isn't acceptable software. Period.
Sure... this article takes a swipe at the eMac and it should, it's too expensive for the 'puter it is.
But the article, another baloney tech review/marketing advert but I won't get into that, tells the reader that the Radeon video card that comes with the eMac makes playing "this falls" Mac games impossible... and to buy a Dell instead!
Well, we have a new Dell here in the ofice and it's got a Radeon card in it too. The Dell is supposedly a newer model than the eMac and it still can't play any games... not even crappy unaliased 3D games from years ago.
Really... typical tech-speak mind screwing by liars for the corporate Junta.
??? Wait... I was to understand the technologies would behave entirely the opposite of what you demonstrate in your post. Wouldn't the LCD screens get "ghost" images more readily than the Plasma screens?
Isn't plasma immune to this fading/ghosting?
... since plasma is a superior technology that can bring nothing but benifits to the customer and re-seller it must be stopped!
LCD is to plasma what VHS was to Beta.
It's obvious that since people want plasma and it's selling so well certain markets must be purged of this annoyance to our corporate overlords so they may more effectively dominate that market with all the fear and intimidation of a Soviet Agriculture Minister.
Ever wonder that the reason people DL movies and Tv shows is because they are tired of spending thousands of dollars on a medium that will be obsolete in 5 years?
Think about it.
... having lived in Japan and been to Akihabara I can tell you it's easy to have far more product, and far better quality product, in Japan because it has a massive population on a place the size of Nova Scotia.
With housing costs so high people live with family and have lots of spending money. Money to get this years new "whatever" model.
Wakata?
I didn't bother to read the article. I lived it.
Why make a movie? This show was good? It was crap. B5 was crap and kept going on to be even worse crap with Bruce Boxleitner ... watered down 1965 Star Trek at best.
... and we are subjected to slashdot stories about bad, really bad, movies.
Remember when movies were made because a TV show was popular? Now, the corporate monster merely perpetuates it's products.
Geeks should try to at least seem intellegent instead of merely geeky eh? If anyone can come up with an intellegent reason to be a B5 fan I'll shut up.