If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong
But, if it dosn't matter, it still dosn't matter. no amout of grand moralizing will ever change that.
Some things are wrong, and others just don't matter. And when they don't, you shouldn't get all upset, beacuse people will stop listening to you. The maginitude of the offence does matter -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The whole NSA_Key was nothing at all. all it didn't alow the NSA to do anything that they wouldn't have been able to do with it not being there, other then installing crypto moduals on systems they already had access to. It did not alow them to run arbitrary code on remote machines. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Though, someone should tell them, interlaced images wreak havok on interlaced monitors...*shudder* (the gold and blue feilds on the left and right of the content are made of lines of diffrent, but simmilar colors, on normal monitors, it produces a cool visual effect, on crapy ones, it causes the two diffrent colors to flash at a about 30-50 hz...) -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Cookies do not send any info to the server that the server did not put there itself, idiot. Perhaps you should get a clue, before telling others to do so?
Slashdot uses cookies, you know that right?
Cookies allow a server script to store information on the client. Those cookies can only be accessed by the server that placed them there (that's why slashdot's customization doesn't work on www.slashdot.org, I think). It doesn't tell them anything about you, that they didn't already know. But, because of 'privacy conscious' individuals such as your self (Who didn't even bother learning what they were about), the technology was slowed down. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Re:Nobody reads the EULAs anyway - they are not va
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I don't know... when you click the button that says "Yes, I have fully read and understand the EULA", its safe to assume that you ether agree to it, or dont care? -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
It is much easier to say that no information outside of the game should be transferred on the internet without the user's express consent.
You don't make based on wether or not there implementaion is easy or not, you base them of wether or not somthing is wrong. what IDs doing is not wrong, period. As I'd said before, they don't know what video card you're running, only that that type of video card ran quake at some point in time. Its not personal data, beacuse its not personalized.
Things like this should be handled on a case by case basis, just like other crimes -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Don't be an idiot! Its not that it sends packages, it's what its sending!
yes, its sending The kind of video card you have, wait, its not even doing that, just a kind of video card. I dosn't know who has that video card, just that it exsists... they should DIE, they should GO TO JAIL, OH MY GOD!!!
idiots -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
I don't think so, for some people, notably those that read the entire post, this may only be a rehash. But it did make some important, and in my opinion, important statements. Not only about the Perns issue, but about slashdot and the Internet in general.
For those of us who didn't have hours to read the whole thread, it was a good summary of the events that happened. I had no idea that people were complaining to Hemos about posting it (And I think that's silly, if someone posts to a mailing list, then its public information) -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
So then you think that Corel is doomed just because Perens badmouthed them?
They would be if he sued them...
Actually, I don't think Corel really has to worry about what us geeks think of it at all, there not planning on selling to us anyway. First of all, and I may be wrong about this, I would think that most of us just upgrade there systems when new components come out, ass opposed to buying a whole new distro. Ether that, or we would just download one off an FTP somewhere, or buy from Cheapbytes (witch is what I did).
But even if that wasn't the case, it still wouldn't matter, Corel is not going after the 'hardcore geek' with this distro, there going after the home market. They're going after the pseudo-geeks, the 'power users' the people that buy their computers pre-built from tiger software. "The complete Corel Linux word-perfect workstation, only $599 with an AMDk6-2 350." There going for people who are going to be buying there stuff off store shelves. The people who are going to buy Corel linux, are the ones with witch Corel has mindshare then Red Hat, and I'm pretty sure that those people don't give a f*ck about what Bruce Perns thinks, or the GPL.
On the hand, if He, and the debian people sued them, it would definitely cause problems. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The reason there all AC is beacuse they don't want to loose there own karma by being moderated down -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The main diffrence there is, that when a tool fails, you need to buy a new one, when an app dies, you just need to restart it. Its really just an annoyance in somthing like a web browser. You loose your place, but you'll probably be able to get back to where you were in just a bit.
I doubt the MTBF of those machinese you're using would be so high if they didn't cost anything to replace (in cost or time lost) -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The pricing on movies depends on how likely someone is to buy it, or rent it. No one pays the full price anyway. (Major chains get the video for almost nothing and pay the studio part of the profits). Jurassic Park sold for only $14, $9 with a rebate. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Hes talking about the VCD scene on the internet, not the real world, VCDs are becoming as popular as MP3s, with major movies available via IRC before they are even on tape. (Infact, I got American Pie 3 weeks before it hit the theaters:)
As bandwidth increases, VCDs use will increase, unless people start passing around 10gig+.VOBs (video files on DVD) -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Dude, what the f**k is a double-precision shift instruction??
I mean, do you just mean that you can shift up to 64bits? (that's what I would guess from the conetext). -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Epic already had space allocated to the linux exe, but GT made them take it out, why? beacuse of *support costs* nothing more, GT's people didn't know anything about linux, and it would have cost them a ton of money to teach them. By putting it up on there website, they are still able to get all the linux gamers to play the game, but they don't have to pay to retrain there phone staff, or field calls about it... (remember, *one* call to tech support whipes out *all* the profits on that box...) -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Why are int's not real? 12/6 = 2, so to is a real number right? two is certanly an integer.... -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
This is the last odd day for a long, long time. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
But, there was no year 1 on the calender ether, or
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Happy Odd Day!
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But, there was no year 1 on the calender ether, or 2 for that matter. Infact we didn't start using the xian calender untill ether the 400's or the 1400s (I'm not exactly sure). there's no reason why you cant' say that the year that was 1 BC was the first year, Jesus wasn't born in 1AD anyway!
People don't give a fuck about the year 2001, they care about 2000. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
It dosn't really matter how messages are passed in star trek, beacuse its not real. We havn't reached the stars yet, were all here on earth, where a beam of light can go around the world in 60ms. I can't tell you how comunications will work in the far future (or even if the human race will ever leave the planet). And certanly, the people who wrote 'star trek' can't ether.
And secondly, they could just play in the ship... -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The last 8 bits are known as the 'alpha channel' you can use it to store anything you want, such as transperancy, or other information.
32bit mode is also faster, beacuse the CPU only needs to make one doubleword read/write to manipulate pixles, using 32bits just makes the programing smoother. -- "Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Slashdot Mirror
If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong
But, if it dosn't matter, it still dosn't matter. no amout of grand moralizing will ever change that.
Some things are wrong, and others just don't matter. And when they don't, you shouldn't get all upset, beacuse people will stop listening to you. The maginitude of the offence does matter
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The whole NSA_Key was nothing at all. all it didn't alow the NSA to do anything that they wouldn't have been able to do with it not being there, other then installing crypto moduals on systems they already had access to. It did not alow them to run arbitrary code on remote machines.
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oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh, its just like TV!!!
Though, someone should tell them, interlaced images wreak havok on interlaced monitors...*shudder* (the gold and blue feilds on the left and right of the content are made of lines of diffrent, but simmilar colors, on normal monitors, it produces a cool visual effect, on crapy ones, it causes the two diffrent colors to flash at a about 30-50 hz...)
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Cookies do not send any info to the server that the server did not put there itself, idiot. Perhaps you should get a clue, before telling others to do so?
Slashdot uses cookies, you know that right?
Cookies allow a server script to store information on the client. Those cookies can only be accessed by the server that placed them there (that's why slashdot's customization doesn't work on www.slashdot.org, I think). It doesn't tell them anything about you, that they didn't already know. But, because of 'privacy conscious' individuals such as your self (Who didn't even bother learning what they were about), the technology was slowed down.
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I don't know... when you click the button that says "Yes, I have fully read and understand the EULA", its safe to assume that you ether agree to it, or dont care?
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But today its only your video card.
Should we punish Id software for somthing, someone might do in the future?
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It is much easier to say that no information outside of the game should be transferred on the internet without the user's express consent.
You don't make based on wether or not there implementaion is easy or not, you base them of wether or not somthing is wrong. what IDs doing is not wrong, period. As I'd said before, they don't know what video card you're running, only that that type of video card ran quake at some point in time. Its not personal data, beacuse its not personalized.
Things like this should be handled on a case by case basis, just like other crimes
--
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Don't be an idiot! Its not that it sends packages, it's what its sending!
yes, its sending The kind of video card you have, wait, its not even doing that, just a kind of video card. I dosn't know who has that video card, just that it exsists... they should DIE, they should GO TO JAIL, OH MY GOD!!!
idiots
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
I don't think so, for some people, notably those that read the entire post, this may only be a rehash. But it did make some important, and in my opinion, important statements. Not only about the Perns issue, but about slashdot and the Internet in general.
For those of us who didn't have hours to read the whole thread, it was a good summary of the events that happened. I had no idea that people were complaining to Hemos about posting it (And I think that's silly, if someone posts to a mailing list, then its public information)
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
So then you think that Corel is doomed just because Perens badmouthed them?
They would be if he sued them...
Actually, I don't think Corel really has to worry about what us geeks think of it at all, there not planning on selling to us anyway. First of all, and I may be wrong about this, I would think that most of us just upgrade there systems when new components come out, ass opposed to buying a whole new distro. Ether that, or we would just download one off an FTP somewhere, or buy from Cheapbytes (witch is what I did).
But even if that wasn't the case, it still wouldn't matter, Corel is not going after the 'hardcore geek' with this distro, there going after the home market. They're going after the pseudo-geeks, the 'power users' the people that buy their computers pre-built from tiger software. "The complete Corel Linux word-perfect workstation, only $599 with an AMDk6-2 350." There going for people who are going to be buying there stuff off store shelves. The people who are going to buy Corel linux, are the ones with witch Corel has mindshare then Red Hat, and I'm pretty sure that those people don't give a f*ck about what Bruce Perns thinks, or the GPL.
On the hand, if He, and the debian people sued them, it would definitely cause problems.
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D00D, KAMRA W0RZZ sx0r:P
The reason there all AC is beacuse they don't want to loose there own karma by being moderated down
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well, I don't know but the Bruce Perns worked at Pixar for 12 years....
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The main diffrence there is, that when a tool fails, you need to buy a new one, when an app dies, you just need to restart it. Its really just an annoyance in somthing like a web browser. You loose your place, but you'll probably be able to get back to where you were in just a bit.
I doubt the MTBF of those machinese you're using would be so high if they didn't cost anything to replace (in cost or time lost)
--
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
The pricing on movies depends on how likely someone is to buy it, or rent it. No one pays the full price anyway. (Major chains get the video for almost nothing and pay the studio part of the profits). Jurassic Park sold for only $14, $9 with a rebate.
--
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Hes talking about the VCD scene on the internet, not the real world, VCDs are becoming as popular as MP3s, with major movies available via IRC before they are even on tape. (Infact, I got American Pie 3 weeks before it hit the theaters :)
.VOBs (video files on DVD)
As bandwidth increases, VCDs use will increase, unless people start passing around 10gig+
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double-precision shift instructions,
Dude, what the f**k is a double-precision shift instruction??
I mean, do you just mean that you can shift up to 64bits? (that's what I would guess from the conetext).
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"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"
Epic already had space allocated to the linux exe, but GT made them take it out, why? beacuse of *support costs* nothing more, GT's people didn't know anything about linux, and it would have cost them a ton of money to teach them. By putting it up on there website, they are still able to get all the linux gamers to play the game, but they don't have to pay to retrain there phone staff, or field calls about it... (remember, *one* call to tech support whipes out *all* the profits on that box...)
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one reboot
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read this post
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Why are int's not real? 12/6 = 2, so to is a real number right? two is certanly an integer....
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that was like two months ago...
This is the last odd day for a long, long time.
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But, there was no year 1 on the calender ether, or 2 for that matter. Infact we didn't start using the xian calender untill ether the 400's or the 1400s (I'm not exactly sure). there's no reason why you cant' say that the year that was 1 BC was the first year, Jesus wasn't born in 1AD anyway!
People don't give a fuck about the year 2001, they care about 2000.
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First of all...
It dosn't really matter how messages are passed in star trek, beacuse its not real. We havn't reached the stars yet, were all here on earth, where a beam of light can go around the world in 60ms. I can't tell you how comunications will work in the far future (or even if the human race will ever leave the planet). And certanly, the people who wrote 'star trek' can't ether.
And secondly, they could just play in the ship...
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and it's 256 shades, not 254
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The last 8 bits are known as the 'alpha channel' you can use it to store anything you want, such as transperancy, or other information.
32bit mode is also faster, beacuse the CPU only needs to make one doubleword read/write to manipulate pixles, using 32bits just makes the programing smoother.
--
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"