Bejayzus, english major must be laughing his socks of at all the others who replied.
This wasn't a troll, it was a joke, and a damn funny one at that but perhaps people on here are so blinkered by FREE this and FREE that, that they can't see it.
Thankfully, since I started reading Slashdot, it and similar sites have helped to open my mind, but this has usually been achieved by my viewing of the closed-minded fascism present here.
I'm afraid this community is stagnating now with a very static mindset, and it rarely expands my knowledge or intellect anymore.
Think outside of the box, or you are no better than those who would sponsor legislation such as the DMCA.
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Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Jesus! Another anonymous troll.
'one issue' - surely we start by getting each and every 'one issue' correct, rather than pretending that it's OK to be wrong sometimes? --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yesterday, President George W. Bush backed away from a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants, saying mandatory controls would lead to higher electricity prices.
This man was elected as *president* of the USA? Exactly what criteria were applied to his worthiness?
This man is supposed to act for the good of the nation - either he is deliberately flouting this notion, is too stupid to realise that pollution is one of the greatest crises to face mankind, or he believes that price = cost (it does not).
God help us all, if the 'most advanced' nation on earth managed to elect this imbecile to wield more power than any man in history.
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Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yes that too - although in lower income families this has always been the case.
Until world economics gains enough benefits from the economy of scale, and productivity per citizen is increased through the efficient use of technology this will always be the case.
I'm not talking about Steve, Amy and Anne down the street either, Im talking about Ngutu, Mela and Heptu in Nigeria too. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yes I do show some bigotry, my apologies. The rural state of VT may have the lowest crime rates - perhaps because it is rural?
In the cities, crime is more prevelant - and yes, this is not the fault of merely guns, but the fact remains that the proliferation of guns in the USA facilitates easier murders when someone wishes to do so without their bare hands.
A killing with a gun needs a motive and a weapon - taking away the weapon is far easier than taking away the motive, and perhaps is best in the short term, until we work through the motives and eliminate them too?
Once that is done, there will be no need for guns anyway, so your argument is self defeating.
Guns = easier to kill someone.
*how* can this be good? --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
[i]But at its core, it is a symbol, and as such, worth protecting. [/i]
Umm - what? We should allow Americans to bear arms and publicly purchase them because it's a symbol?
That's just what it is, a symbol. The guns would help no-one - in the extreme event of the soldiers going door to door to collect some religious minority how would guns work?
1] Most people would be too afraid to use them
2] Many would be unable
3] Of those that do, most would be dead before they hit the soldier because they weren't accurate enough, or hesitated becaue they were moral and feared killing the soldier.
4] So few people would be succesful that they would all be killed soon after by a larger group of soldiers.
The american citizenry can no more overthrow it's government by force than they can sprout wings and fly. Any attempt at such an act would be classed as murder, and would almost certainly be doomed to failure because of lack of military training and technological deficicneces.
Instead the proliferation of firearms means that it is easier to obtain a firearm, and therefore easier for someone mentally unstable (And you have to be, to kill someone who is not threatening your life) to obtain a firearm.
For this reason, people die.
I fail to understand why a symbol of some action a group of people are no longer capable of taking is more important than somebodys mother being shot in the stomach and taking 30 minutes to die.
Please distinguish for me. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Do you think you might tell me how?
Did someone protect himself with a gun?
Being a 'limey' I wouldn't know a great deal about this event, like you probably would not know a great deal about the Hungerford Massacre. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
I have been assaulted three times in my life, thanks.
I'd rather be assaulted once a MONTH than shot once in my lifetime - because I would guess that most people who are shot, only need to be shot once.
Assault and burglary (in particular non violent burglary) are not the end of the world, a murder *is* for that person who is murdered. Please try not to get so personal in your post it appears really childish, especially when I mentioned early in my comment that my figures would not be accurate, but merely speculative.
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Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Where we live with the highest quality of life ever.
Where we need someone elses employee to look after our children spending more time with them in total than we do. Where these people are placed in charge of the moral destiny of our children, and our morals are unimportant and contradicted regularly.
Welcome to a world where letting your child go to another parents to play for a night is great because it means we can have a meal + a 'night in' darling.
Welcome to a world where ten year old children come home to empty houses every night because mummy wants that new car and is putting in the extra hours.
Welcome to a world where parents don't have time to ensure that the materials their children are watching on the TV or the net are suitable and morally acceptable because the neighbours popped round for a glass of wine or seven.
Welcome to a world where parenting is so easy that you don't have to do anything or than pay for clothes and wake them up in the morning.
Welcome to a world where zero effort placed into parenting will *still* result in your child becoming a well balanced, contented, productive adult who enriches the lives of all those who meet him.
Welcome to a world where your child will turn out *just like you*.
FGS when will people get over the fact that children are not a fashion accessory, cute or desirable to cement a relationship. Children are for when you are ready to STOP living your young life, GIVE UP all those great things you do in your spare time and SACRIFICE time spent with friends and associates in order to bring up your child.
It's the biggest commitment a human being will ever make. Making the decision to have a child with your 18 year old girlfriend is a far bigger decision than any judge will ever make in an MS case.
I know this, because I had to leave an 18 year old woman I loved very dearly because I was not ready (as she thought she was) to have a child.
It ripped me to pieces for some time, but if I had the chance to make the decision again, I would make the same one.
Wake up world. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
You don't get it do you? The UK *is* more free than the good old US of A from what I have read on this internet.
You live in a country where your government uses even more propaganda than the UKs, where business methods and thought processes can be taken out of the public domain, where abusive monopolies are not just tolerated but plain supported and in addition you fudged those statistics.
If the USA were to introduce similar laws to the UK w/regard to guns, it might not bring down the deaths to the same level, but let's for a minute pretend it did.
3.5 less deaths per one hundred thousand citizens. And incidentally thats is the ANNUAL not lifetime rate.
I believe there are approx 300 million people in the USA, which means approximately 10 THOUSAND five hundred less people dying per year.
I think perhaps that *yes* your twisted ideals of what freedom really is are worth changing in order to allow these people to live their life.
What about the right to live your life without being brutally killed?
It's simple really, some rights are more sacred than others, nothing comes for free and *everything* is a compromise, I really think the USA gov has its priorities wrong.
In my young lifetime (22 yrs) that figure being murdered per year equates to 230,000 people being killed unnecessarily. A million people in my expected lifetime.
A million people murdered, just so a few groups of rednecks and gun freaks are free to carry their weapons around and shoot at signposts.
Wake up America, it's time to take your rights (rights, not freedoms) back before the rest of the world is infected with your governments twisted ideas of right and wrong. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Assume that this makes it to the ATA standard, all hard drives will then contain the CPRM hole, you will be unable to purchase a modern hard drive without the CPRM hole.
In time, current HDs will become to small/slow to be practical with the demands of the OS/applications.
At this point you will have to have a hard drive with a CPRM hole, and then you're in trouble. I sincerely doubt that the CPRM technology will be placed in the open source community, meaning that Linux will be able to support it.
As the coward above states, it will not authenticate with the HD, so Linux will not run on the CPRM drive as its authors will refuse to write a kernel with code that is not open source to work with the CPRM technology.
At that point, you will not be able to surf slashdot anymore - and will probably have to use a commercial OS, or at least one that is not truly open source. --------------
Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
If my network connection is down, how do I work offline?
As we move further into the internet-world(tm) of always on and mobile devices, this is anologous to saying "If my hard disk fails, how do I work on my data?"
I was struggling to think of reasons not to go, then I tried to switch my line of thinking from "why not" to "why".
This article is so on the mark its uncanny, mod it up.
In addition, we should make it a manned mission, to make it all that much more difficult and risky. If succesful it will be even more of an achievment then, than if it had been a cheap, notebook sized camera shot out from earth orbit.
Protecting people is wondrous, it completely negates their chances of ever gaining content through their achievments, triumphing over adversity. Protect the children, let the rest burn, and they shall thank you for doing so.
If we wake the slumbering ice giants, currently hibernating beneath the surface, it will be the end of the human race as we know it for they can easily jump far enough to reach earth, and they feast on stupidity.
How would businesses cope without senior management? I guess we're about to find out.
I read the page on 350 hits, skim through it and notice a hit counter.
Refresh the page for the hell of it, and notice its jumped neary 1000 (thousand) hits in around 3-4 mins. Either 900 people just came through/. or a few dozen like me wondered repeatedly about the magnitude of the/. effect.
If they dont check packages under 100 pounds then it would also be feasible to smuggle small children (say, 13yr old l33t hax0rs kidnapped from leafy green suburban homes with unmetered internet access) to bring down the e-commerce of the western world?
A quick bit of DNS-"fixing" and suddenly every major domain could be repointed to www.saddamseverythingunderadollar.com
?
On a slightly more serious note, for computing power to be any use to Saddam he must have experts and technicians available.
Knowing this, surely its not hard to pop a few P3s or Athlons in an anti static bag. Same with Hard Drives / Memory chips / motherboards?
When stripped down and no case included PCs are made of very small things, which I would imagine are easy to send into Iraq. They're also very cheap. Why on earth impose a sanction that's almost impossible to enforce?
As the world moves forward, and the internet and other communications mediums bring down international barriers from an intellectual point of view, is it completely inconceivable to think that Saddam and Iraq may attempt to sway the leaders of the world by the most powerful method possible : public opinion?
If Iraq manage to acquire a large number of Playstation 2's and then create a shop to flog them at bargain basement prices, with prices dropping based on the number of sanctions dropped we could well find riots in the streets of major capital cities around the world demanding a more friendly attitude towards Iraq.
Perhaps Sony are also in on this? By supplying a few millions Playstation 2s to the Iraqi leadership they could well pave the way for this sort of return. Perhaps in return a new law will be passed by Saddam requiring all Iraqi citizens to purchase a Playstation 2 within 6 months or be gassed to death?
This would certainly explain the measly allocation of Playstation 2's around Europe...
Time for a bit of cybersquatting methinks./me heads off to register.com to grab getyouriraqiplaystation2shere.com
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Bejayzus, english major must be laughing his socks of at all the others who replied.
This wasn't a troll, it was a joke, and a damn funny one at that but perhaps people on here are so blinkered by FREE this and FREE that, that they can't see it.
Thankfully, since I started reading Slashdot, it and similar sites have helped to open my mind, but this has usually been achieved by my viewing of the closed-minded fascism present here.
I'm afraid this community is stagnating now with a very static mindset, and it rarely expands my knowledge or intellect anymore.
Think outside of the box, or you are no better than those who would sponsor legislation such as the DMCA.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Jesus! Another anonymous troll. 'one issue' - surely we start by getting each and every 'one issue' correct, rather than pretending that it's OK to be wrong sometimes?
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yesterday, President George W. Bush backed away from a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants, saying mandatory controls would lead to higher electricity prices.
This man was elected as *president* of the USA? Exactly what criteria were applied to his worthiness?
This man is supposed to act for the good of the nation - either he is deliberately flouting this notion, is too stupid to realise that pollution is one of the greatest crises to face mankind, or he believes that price = cost (it does not).
God help us all, if the 'most advanced' nation on earth managed to elect this imbecile to wield more power than any man in history.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yes that too - although in lower income families this has always been the case.
Until world economics gains enough benefits from the economy of scale, and productivity per citizen is increased through the efficient use of technology this will always be the case.
I'm not talking about Steve, Amy and Anne down the street either, Im talking about Ngutu, Mela and Heptu in Nigeria too.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Yes I do show some bigotry, my apologies. The rural state of VT may have the lowest crime rates - perhaps because it is rural?
In the cities, crime is more prevelant - and yes, this is not the fault of merely guns, but the fact remains that the proliferation of guns in the USA facilitates easier murders when someone wishes to do so without their bare hands.
A killing with a gun needs a motive and a weapon - taking away the weapon is far easier than taking away the motive, and perhaps is best in the short term, until we work through the motives and eliminate them too?
Once that is done, there will be no need for guns anyway, so your argument is self defeating.
Guns = easier to kill someone.
*how* can this be good?
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
[i]But at its core, it is a symbol, and as such, worth protecting. [/i]
Umm - what? We should allow Americans to bear arms and publicly purchase them because it's a symbol?
That's just what it is, a symbol. The guns would help no-one - in the extreme event of the soldiers going door to door to collect some religious minority how would guns work?
1] Most people would be too afraid to use them
2] Many would be unable
3] Of those that do, most would be dead before they hit the soldier because they weren't accurate enough, or hesitated becaue they were moral and feared killing the soldier.
4] So few people would be succesful that they would all be killed soon after by a larger group of soldiers.
The american citizenry can no more overthrow it's government by force than they can sprout wings and fly. Any attempt at such an act would be classed as murder, and would almost certainly be doomed to failure because of lack of military training and technological deficicneces.
Instead the proliferation of firearms means that it is easier to obtain a firearm, and therefore easier for someone mentally unstable (And you have to be, to kill someone who is not threatening your life) to obtain a firearm.
For this reason, people die.
I fail to understand why a symbol of some action a group of people are no longer capable of taking is more important than somebodys mother being shot in the stomach and taking 30 minutes to die.
Please distinguish for me.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Do you think you might tell me how? Did someone protect himself with a gun? Being a 'limey' I wouldn't know a great deal about this event, like you probably would not know a great deal about the Hungerford Massacre.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
I have been assaulted three times in my life, thanks.
I'd rather be assaulted once a MONTH than shot once in my lifetime - because I would guess that most people who are shot, only need to be shot once.
Assault and burglary (in particular non violent burglary) are not the end of the world, a murder *is* for that person who is murdered. Please try not to get so personal in your post it appears really childish, especially when I mentioned early in my comment that my figures would not be accurate, but merely speculative.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Where we live with the highest quality of life ever.
Where we need someone elses employee to look after our children spending more time with them in total than we do. Where these people are placed in charge of the moral destiny of our children, and our morals are unimportant and contradicted regularly.
Welcome to a world where letting your child go to another parents to play for a night is great because it means we can have a meal + a 'night in' darling.
Welcome to a world where ten year old children come home to empty houses every night because mummy wants that new car and is putting in the extra hours.
Welcome to a world where parents don't have time to ensure that the materials their children are watching on the TV or the net are suitable and morally acceptable because the neighbours popped round for a glass of wine or seven.
Welcome to a world where parenting is so easy that you don't have to do anything or than pay for clothes and wake them up in the morning.
Welcome to a world where zero effort placed into parenting will *still* result in your child becoming a well balanced, contented, productive adult who enriches the lives of all those who meet him.
Welcome to a world where your child will turn out *just like you*.
FGS when will people get over the fact that children are not a fashion accessory, cute or desirable to cement a relationship. Children are for when you are ready to STOP living your young life, GIVE UP all those great things you do in your spare time and SACRIFICE time spent with friends and associates in order to bring up your child.
It's the biggest commitment a human being will ever make. Making the decision to have a child with your 18 year old girlfriend is a far bigger decision than any judge will ever make in an MS case.
I know this, because I had to leave an 18 year old woman I loved very dearly because I was not ready (as she thought she was) to have a child.
It ripped me to pieces for some time, but if I had the chance to make the decision again, I would make the same one.
Wake up world.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
You don't get it do you? The UK *is* more free than the good old US of A from what I have read on this internet.
You live in a country where your government uses even more propaganda than the UKs, where business methods and thought processes can be taken out of the public domain, where abusive monopolies are not just tolerated but plain supported and in addition you fudged those statistics.
If the USA were to introduce similar laws to the UK w/regard to guns, it might not bring down the deaths to the same level, but let's for a minute pretend it did.
3.5 less deaths per one hundred thousand citizens. And incidentally thats is the ANNUAL not lifetime rate.
I believe there are approx 300 million people in the USA, which means approximately 10 THOUSAND five hundred less people dying per year.
I think perhaps that *yes* your twisted ideals of what freedom really is are worth changing in order to allow these people to live their life.
What about the right to live your life without being brutally killed?
It's simple really, some rights are more sacred than others, nothing comes for free and *everything* is a compromise, I really think the USA gov has its priorities wrong.
In my young lifetime (22 yrs) that figure being murdered per year equates to 230,000 people being killed unnecessarily. A million people in my expected lifetime.
A million people murdered, just so a few groups of rednecks and gun freaks are free to carry their weapons around and shoot at signposts.
Wake up America, it's time to take your rights (rights, not freedoms) back before the rest of the world is infected with your governments twisted ideas of right and wrong.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
Assume that this makes it to the ATA standard, all hard drives will then contain the CPRM hole, you will be unable to purchase a modern hard drive without the CPRM hole. In time, current HDs will become to small/slow to be practical with the demands of the OS/applications. At this point you will have to have a hard drive with a CPRM hole, and then you're in trouble. I sincerely doubt that the CPRM technology will be placed in the open source community, meaning that Linux will be able to support it. As the coward above states, it will not authenticate with the HD, so Linux will not run on the CPRM drive as its authors will refuse to write a kernel with code that is not open source to work with the CPRM technology. At that point, you will not be able to surf slashdot anymore - and will probably have to use a commercial OS, or at least one that is not truly open source.
-------------- Russ
Conscience? Is that *still* in the dictionary?
If my network connection is down, how do I work offline?
As we move further into the internet-world(tm) of always on and mobile devices, this is anologous to saying "If my hard disk fails, how do I work on my data?"
I was struggling to think of reasons not to go, then I tried to switch my line of thinking from "why not" to "why". This article is so on the mark its uncanny, mod it up. In addition, we should make it a manned mission, to make it all that much more difficult and risky. If succesful it will be even more of an achievment then, than if it had been a cheap, notebook sized camera shot out from earth orbit. Protecting people is wondrous, it completely negates their chances of ever gaining content through their achievments, triumphing over adversity. Protect the children, let the rest burn, and they shall thank you for doing so.
If we wake the slumbering ice giants, currently hibernating beneath the surface, it will be the end of the human race as we know it for they can easily jump far enough to reach earth, and they feast on stupidity. How would businesses cope without senior management? I guess we're about to find out.
I read the page on 350 hits, skim through it and notice a hit counter. /. or a few dozen like me wondered repeatedly about the magnitude of the /. effect.
Refresh the page for the hell of it, and notice its jumped neary 1000 (thousand) hits in around 3-4 mins. Either 900 people just came through
15 PS2s to control an unmanned air vehicle?
If this is true, then Saddam has no chance of controlling his air fleets with PS2s.
I mean, no-one is going to hold of FIFTEEN of the elusive little buggers, getting hold of just one is hard enough.
If they dont check packages under 100 pounds then it would also be feasible to smuggle small children (say, 13yr old l33t hax0rs kidnapped from leafy green suburban homes with unmetered internet access) to bring down the e-commerce of the western world?
A quick bit of DNS-"fixing" and suddenly every major domain could be repointed to www.saddamseverythingunderadollar.com
?
On a slightly more serious note, for computing power to be any use to Saddam he must have experts and technicians available.
Knowing this, surely its not hard to pop a few P3s or Athlons in an anti static bag. Same with Hard Drives / Memory chips / motherboards?
When stripped down and no case included PCs are made of very small things, which I would imagine are easy to send into Iraq. They're also very cheap. Why on earth impose a sanction that's almost impossible to enforce?
As the world moves forward, and the internet and other communications mediums bring down international barriers from an intellectual point of view, is it completely inconceivable to think that Saddam and Iraq may attempt to sway the leaders of the world by the most powerful method possible : public opinion? If Iraq manage to acquire a large number of Playstation 2's and then create a shop to flog them at bargain basement prices, with prices dropping based on the number of sanctions dropped we could well find riots in the streets of major capital cities around the world demanding a more friendly attitude towards Iraq. Perhaps Sony are also in on this? By supplying a few millions Playstation 2s to the Iraqi leadership they could well pave the way for this sort of return. Perhaps in return a new law will be passed by Saddam requiring all Iraqi citizens to purchase a Playstation 2 within 6 months or be gassed to death? This would certainly explain the measly allocation of Playstation 2's around Europe... Time for a bit of cybersquatting methinks. /me heads off to register.com to grab getyouriraqiplaystation2shere.com