I can state with confidence, as another/. poster pointed out I wold have been shot if this prank had been played out on me. Someone using a ram to smash in my door would most certainly wake me up, and during the commotion, I would most certainly be killed as I pointed my weapon at the intruders. If you're going to channel your talents to do something like this, do it to someone who really deserves it. Of course, I would expect my family to sue for Billions for wrongful death.
I can guarantee you this has the potential to not only be misused just by law enforcement, but as a political agenda by MADD to force the installation of 'ON STAR' to fight the 'carnage on the highways'. ON STAR has 'some' advantages (stopping high speed chases, car jacking, drunk driving), but there are greatly out weighed by it's disadvantages.
Boy, this trial sure was fast tracked. I'm sure it would have come out very differently if the jury's technical knowledge of computers didn't stop at the 'start' button on the task bar.
As for the court system, there IS NO JUSTICE for Jane and Joe average. Justice is bought by those with the deepest pockets, what chance did this woman really have against the enormous financial resources of the RIAA. Furthermore, where do they think this single mother is going to get nearly a quarter million dollars. I could care less if she shared music on the web, the RIAA just wants to blame all of it's fucking problems on 'file sharing'.
It would also be nice to know if 'Media Sentry' committed any kind of entrapment in a bid to just make an example of this woman.
Anyone who even buys over priced Monster Cable speaker wire is just throwing their money away. I use RG8X mini foam dielectric coax cable for speaker wire. It will handle around 600 - 800 watts, is more flexible and has better self shielding properties than 'zip cord' style wire. However, using high quality RCA interconnects is always recommended. People spending $7250 for speaker wire need to pass the pipe, because it's quite obvious you're smoking some good shit.
So, I guess the next step is to call me a criminal because I replay the songs in my head. Sony, as I have stated before, what part of FUCK OFF are you having difficulty understanding? I have long since committed myself to NOT buying any of your consumer electronics, guess I'll have to extend that to your CD's as well.
Weather you like it or not, I'm going to exercise my FAIR USE RIGHTS.
"With the creation of this new service, we are acknowledging that now, more than ever, viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment,"
You know, you should really change 'viewers' to customers and 'consume' to view. You act as if your customers are mindless drones that gain sustenance from viewing your content.
God I'm getting so fucking tired of this shit. It won't be long till the RIAA and MPAA will sue you just because you have a broadband connection. They'll simply claim that 'because you have broadband, you have the ability to pirate our works'. The record and movie industry need to shut the fuck up and quit forcing telcos to spy on us, the government does enough of that as it is. In any case, telcos need to loose their 'common carrier status' and be liable to lawsuits if they intend to do this.
Can anyone elaborate weather or not Voyager one on two have sufficient velocity to escape the heliopause let alone the oort cloud. I would venture to guess they don't. However, their longevity is a testament to 70's electronics. If these were made with components of today, they probably would of failed decades ago.
"You seem to be complaining because their have been no significant bugs found in the firmware of a particular breathalyzer since 1999. Good hardware does not need firmware updates every 6 months, or ever for that matter"
This like saying computers NEVER need BIOS upgrades or firmware revisions.
"You are not the first person to question the results of a Breathalyzer test and won't be the last. If the courts went through the process of proving the accuracy of breathalyzer tests every time someone was arrested for a DUI we would have a back up in the courts so long that many people would die before their case came around. At some point you take previous case law as enough proof, and move on with the case."
Like I said, this is legalize horse shit that discourages my due process to question the machines results. Just because someone else takes the machines 'word' for it doesn't mean I have to. Secondly, if our courts weren't so concerned about making revenue with countless questionable DUI and drug convictions the courts wouldn't be so swamped. You can thank this on our governments 'WAR ON DRUGS' and MADD's WAR ON DRUNK DRIVING.
"You are guilty the moment a trained professional (police officer) has determined that you are to impaired to be operating a motor vehicle. The breathalyzer test is just to determine if that guilt is due to alcohol consumption, and if so how to what extent (many states have separate charges of DUI and QWI)"
To be a 'trained professional' you need to know how the machine works what the process entails and know how to repair the thing when it breaks. Police officers are just 'appliance operators'. Police officers have no idea how the machine works or could tell if it is returning erroneous results let alone repair the thing. My guilt is being resolved my some arbitrary line drawn in the sand by MADD, where's the due process? Last time I checked I was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, not at the police station at the breathalyzer machine.
"Keep telling your self that and you might not be so upset when your drinking causes you to wipe out an entire family. Look up the statistics, Drunk driving is clearly a major factor in a large portion of fatal automobile accidents. Utah has the Lowest alcohol related deaths which is still greater than 20% of all auto accident fatalities. Alcohol related accidents have a high cost to citizens including, medical costs, property damage and lost productivity. The fines from DUIs do not come close to covering the total loss"
Keep this in mind when you get pulled over or stopped at some so called 'DUI Checkpoint'. Drunk driving is NOT the major factor in a large part of fatalities, it's just the one that gets the most attention because it's such a political hot button. Get your facts straight before you open your moth and insert your foot. Let's turn the tables here, do you remember when Senator Ted Kennedy got into an accident that killed his passenger. Or how about this one MADD: OK to Let.14% Driver Go If He's a Politician or even this one Bush an inadmissable person Do us all a favor and visit duiblog.com and educate yourself. Because you'll never understand till you have your constitutional rights put on hold in the name of DUI.
As someone who has been railroaded through the DUI "presumption of guilt" gulag, I had mentioned this to my attorney. However, I didn't have the money to pay a software engineer (code monkey) to grep the code looking for flaws. When I blew into the machine it printed out the results along with the last firmware update done in 1999! I had questioned the reliability of the results but the state just blew it off and said they were satisfied the results were forensically accurate.
As far as the DOL is concerned, you are GUILTY based on some arbitrary number the machine spits out. Your right to "due process" is bypassed at that point, a person who works for the DOL then becomes prosecutor and judge and inevitably suspends your license. When you have little or no money, you just flat out get fucked in the ass with a un-lubricated utility pole. DUI law today has NOTHING to do with curbing drunk driving, it has everything to with nothing but raking in revenue. duiblog
How is this any different than say the automobile insurance industry. They don't charge everyone the same. So why haven't people who are being charged more because they were involved in an accident, or have teenagers driving suing the automobile insurance industry for discrimination. If I can get cheaper insurance because I choose not to smoke, eat a healthy vegan diet and exercise, why shouldn't I get a cheaper rate.
In all fairness, Copps is about the ONLY FCC commissioner who has even the remotest of clues. He was the ONLY FCC commissioner to address the interference concerns of the Amateur Radio Service regarding interference from BPL (broadband over power line) deployments. The others, just a bunch of political appointees who have ZERO clue and are grossly unqualified to be FCC commissioners. These guys are just like Ted 'series of tubes' Stevens who describe the Internet as tubes and dump trucks.
Trust me, if I was in charge of the FCC things would be VASTLY different. I have the balls to tell the telcos to shit or get off the pot. The telcos have raked in hundreds of BILLIONS, where the fuck is my 45 Mbps synchronous fiber connection.
"According to Jim Burger, a Washington, D.C attorney who deals with piracy in the broadcasting industry, certain broadcasters want to do just that."
What part of 'FUCK OFF' don't you understand. We already pay a 'piracy tax' on all blank media, pay way too much for music as it is, and now you want me to pay for sharing my music on my internal LAN? Uh, I seem to remember something called "Fair Use".
The US Senate Commerce Committee can just eat excrement and go fornicate themselves. I'm sick and tired of politicians procreating me with a large un-lubricated marital aid.
I recently looked at several HD-DVD machines, all of them have HDMI and component connectors, NO VGA, no DVI. Uh excuse me, that's NOT good enough. If Toshiba, Sony and others expect me to jump on the HD wagon they're just going to have to offer these connections at FULL RESOLUTION. I am not about to go out and buy another TV just for the HDMI connector. I don't care about the MPAA, I don't pirate their fucking shit anyway. I just want to be able to watch HD on ANY monitor I choose, period.
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I can state with confidence, as another /. poster pointed out I wold have been shot if this prank had been played out on me. Someone using a ram to smash in my door would most certainly wake me up, and during the commotion, I would most certainly be killed as I pointed my weapon at the intruders. If you're going to channel your talents to do something like this, do it to someone who really deserves it. Of course, I would expect my family to sue for Billions for wrongful death.
You could always use the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org
I can guarantee you this has the potential to not only be misused just by law enforcement, but as a political agenda by MADD to force the installation of 'ON STAR' to fight the 'carnage on the highways'. ON STAR has 'some' advantages (stopping high speed chases, car jacking, drunk driving), but there are greatly out weighed by it's disadvantages.
Ballmer, you need to shut the fuck up and do what you do best, throwing chairs.
Boy, this trial sure was fast tracked. I'm sure it would have come out very differently if the jury's technical knowledge of computers didn't stop at the 'start' button on the task bar.
As for the court system, there IS NO JUSTICE for Jane and Joe average. Justice is bought by those with the deepest pockets, what chance did this woman really have against the enormous financial resources of the RIAA. Furthermore, where do they think this single mother is going to get nearly a quarter million dollars. I could care less if she shared music on the web, the RIAA just wants to blame all of it's fucking problems on 'file sharing'.
It would also be nice to know if 'Media Sentry' committed any kind of entrapment in a bid to just make an example of this woman.
Anyone who even buys over priced Monster Cable speaker wire is just throwing their money away. I use RG8X mini foam dielectric coax cable for speaker wire. It will handle around 600 - 800 watts, is more flexible and has better self shielding properties than 'zip cord' style wire. However, using high quality RCA interconnects is always recommended. People spending $7250 for speaker wire need to pass the pipe, because it's quite obvious you're smoking some good shit.
So, I guess the next step is to call me a criminal because I replay the songs in my head. Sony, as I have stated before, what part of FUCK OFF are you having difficulty understanding? I have long since committed myself to NOT buying any of your consumer electronics, guess I'll have to extend that to your CD's as well.
Weather you like it or not, I'm going to exercise my FAIR USE RIGHTS.
"With the creation of this new service, we are acknowledging that now, more than ever, viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment,"
You know, you should really change 'viewers' to customers and 'consume' to view. You act as if your customers are mindless drones that gain sustenance from viewing your content.
Oh, wait...
God I'm getting so fucking tired of this shit. It won't be long till the RIAA and MPAA will sue you just because you have a broadband connection. They'll simply claim that 'because you have broadband, you have the ability to pirate our works'. The record and movie industry need to shut the fuck up and quit forcing telcos to spy on us, the government does enough of that as it is. In any case, telcos need to loose their 'common carrier status' and be liable to lawsuits if they intend to do this.
Better make that a non-alcoholic drink, because I can guarantee you the state will prosecute her just as maliciously as the RIAA has.
Dude, it's Microsoft. You need to move that decimal place at least six more places to the right.
Hmmm, guess I'd better start using a 1024 septendecillion or larger bit key.
Same results with Windows 2000!
/c ver
C:\ command
MS-DOS Version 5.00.500
They want their marketing and manufacturing excuse back. 6-7 dollars? Don't you think that's a little steep?
You know, they don't call it the lobotomy box for nothing.
Hey, Ubuntu developers. I'd like to suggest the name for your next release.. "Killer Green Bud"
Can anyone elaborate weather or not Voyager one on two have sufficient velocity to escape the heliopause let alone the oort cloud. I would venture to guess they don't. However, their longevity is a testament to 70's electronics. If these were made with components of today, they probably would of failed decades ago.
"You seem to be complaining because their have been no significant bugs found in the firmware of a particular breathalyzer since 1999. Good hardware does not need firmware updates every 6 months, or ever for that matter"
.14% Driver Go If He's a Politician or even this one Bush an inadmissable person
This like saying computers NEVER need BIOS upgrades or firmware revisions.
"You are not the first person to question the results of a Breathalyzer test and won't be the last. If the courts went through the process of proving the accuracy of breathalyzer tests every time someone was arrested for a DUI we would have a back up in the courts so long that many people would die before their case came around. At some point you take previous case law as enough proof, and move on with the case."
Like I said, this is legalize horse shit that discourages my due process to question the machines results. Just because someone else takes the machines 'word' for it doesn't mean I have to. Secondly, if our courts weren't so concerned about making revenue with countless questionable DUI and drug convictions the courts wouldn't be so swamped. You can thank this on our governments 'WAR ON DRUGS' and MADD's WAR ON DRUNK DRIVING.
"You are guilty the moment a trained professional (police officer) has determined that you are to impaired to be operating a motor vehicle. The breathalyzer test is just to determine if that guilt is due to alcohol consumption, and if so how to what extent (many states have separate charges of DUI and QWI)"
To be a 'trained professional' you need to know how the machine works what the process entails and know how to repair the thing when it breaks. Police officers are just 'appliance operators'. Police officers have no idea how the machine works or could tell if it is returning erroneous results let alone repair the thing. My guilt is being resolved my some arbitrary line drawn in the sand by MADD, where's the due process? Last time I checked I was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, not at the police station at the breathalyzer machine.
"Keep telling your self that and you might not be so upset when your drinking causes you to wipe out an entire family. Look up the statistics, Drunk driving is clearly a major factor in a large portion of fatal automobile accidents. Utah has the Lowest alcohol related deaths which is still greater than 20% of all auto accident fatalities. Alcohol related accidents have a high cost to citizens including, medical costs, property damage and lost productivity. The fines from DUIs do not come close to covering the total loss"
Keep this in mind when you get pulled over or stopped at some so called 'DUI Checkpoint'. Drunk driving is NOT the major factor in a large part of fatalities, it's just the one that gets the most attention because it's such a political hot button. Get your facts straight before you open your moth and insert your foot. Let's turn the tables here, do you remember when Senator Ted Kennedy got into an accident that killed his passenger. Or how about this one MADD: OK to Let
Do us all a favor and visit duiblog.com and educate yourself. Because you'll never understand till you have your constitutional rights put on hold in the name of DUI.
As someone who has been railroaded through the DUI "presumption of guilt" gulag, I had mentioned this to my attorney. However, I didn't have the money to pay a software engineer (code monkey) to grep the code looking for flaws. When I blew into the machine it printed out the results along with the last firmware update done in 1999! I had questioned the reliability of the results but the state just blew it off and said they were satisfied the results were forensically accurate.
As far as the DOL is concerned, you are GUILTY based on some arbitrary number the machine spits out. Your right to "due process" is bypassed at that point, a person who works for the DOL then becomes prosecutor and judge and inevitably suspends your license. When you have little or no money, you just flat out get fucked in the ass with a un-lubricated utility pole. DUI law today has NOTHING to do with curbing drunk driving, it has everything to with nothing but raking in revenue. duiblog
How is this any different than say the automobile insurance industry. They don't charge everyone the same. So why haven't people who are being charged more because they were involved in an accident, or have teenagers driving suing the automobile insurance industry for discrimination. If I can get cheaper insurance because I choose not to smoke, eat a healthy vegan diet and exercise, why shouldn't I get a cheaper rate.
In all fairness, Copps is about the ONLY FCC commissioner who has even the remotest of clues. He was the ONLY FCC commissioner to address the interference concerns of the Amateur Radio Service regarding interference from BPL (broadband over power line) deployments. The others, just a bunch of political appointees who have ZERO clue and are grossly unqualified to be FCC commissioners. These guys are just like Ted 'series of tubes' Stevens who describe the Internet as tubes and dump trucks.
Trust me, if I was in charge of the FCC things would be VASTLY different. I have the balls to tell the telcos to shit or get off the pot. The telcos have raked in hundreds of BILLIONS, where the fuck is my 45 Mbps synchronous fiber connection.
"According to Jim Burger, a Washington, D.C attorney who deals with piracy in the broadcasting industry, certain broadcasters want to do just that."
What part of 'FUCK OFF' don't you understand. We already pay a 'piracy tax' on all blank media, pay way too much for music as it is, and now you want me to pay for sharing my music on my internal LAN? Uh, I seem to remember something called "Fair Use".
Here we go back into the dark ages where the 'Earth Centered Universe' held sway for 1500 years.
The US Senate Commerce Committee can just eat excrement and go fornicate themselves. I'm sick and tired of politicians procreating me with a large un-lubricated marital aid.
I for one WON'T be buying till the machines include the following.
1.15 pin VGA connector
2.DVI connector
3.component RCA connectors
4.composite connector
5.RF 'F' connector
I recently looked at several HD-DVD machines, all of them have HDMI and component connectors, NO VGA, no DVI. Uh excuse me, that's NOT good enough. If Toshiba, Sony and others expect me to jump on the HD wagon they're just going to have to offer these connections at FULL RESOLUTION. I am not about to go out and buy another TV just for the HDMI connector. I don't care about the MPAA, I don't pirate their fucking shit anyway. I just want to be able to watch HD on ANY monitor I choose, period.