afraid of this. Look for a class-action suit against the vendors of HDTV compatible television sets that won't work with new DRM schemes, and look for it to be successful, these guys have been peddling their wares based upon the claim that you will be able to use them for watching wonderful HD content that will look better than what you're seeing on your current NTSC based television. When this doesn't materialize and the people who bought these sets are forced to watch down-rezzed content or are unable to watch certain forms of content then there are going to be a lot of very angry people out there, and thanks to the internet it's going to be really easy for some lawyer to get them together and go after not only the manufacturers of such products but also the stores that sell them. IANAL but I would not want to be in court defending Sony or Toshiba with the argument that "yes, these devices can view some forms of HD content, so long as they are not produced by any major studio or media conglomerate. So the users still have full use of their device as promised as they can watch home generated HD content."
Why the Hell is this modded Flamebait? Truman was Commander in Chief of the US forces. If dropping the bomb on Japan saved the life of one American serviceman then he was obliged to do it. I suggest that all of the bleeding heart dickheads out there read Paul Fussell's wonderful "Thank God for the Atom Bomb", after they've pulled their heads out of their asses that is.
Innocent until proven guilty still applies in this country? Whatever happened to always presuming a man's innocence?
You're behind the times. As soon as you mention "kiddie porn" or "terrorism" then all of your rights go out the window as these are such horrible crimes that anyone accused of them should be immediately sent to Gitmo without a trial or any due process. Or at least that's what the government and the media and sadly enough a lot of ignorant fuckers on/. would have us believe.
if you had read the the parent's post correctly you would feel like an utter fool. it was about inefficient gov beauracracies leading towards only accepting proposals that start with the assumption that hiv causes aids. in other words, for researchers who might assume differently, there's no chance to receive gov funding.
you ignorant dummies who cry "conspiracy" don't even know what the hell it means.
No I wouldn't you deranged retard. If some stupid asshole such as yourself went up to NIH and proposed to study whether or not AIDS was caused by malicious pixies sprinkling evil fairy dust instead of HIV do you think you would deserve funding? If some asshole such as yourself went to NASA and requested a grant to study whether or not the moon was made of green cheese do you think you would deserve the money? If some asshole such as yourself went to CDC to request a grant that influenza was caused by malign vapors and not a virus do you think you would deserve the money? There are some theories that are obviously total shit, the various theories about alternate causes of AIDS (club drugs compromising the immune system {Duesberg), parasitic infection and antibiotic abuse compromising the immune systems of Africans {various}) fall into this category.
As far as crying "conspiracy" you're the ignorant dummy who is claiming that for researchers who don't believe in the HIV-->AIDS connection are somehow being denied funding because of their heretical beliefs. Does this sort of thing happen? Yes, more often than it should, but not nearly so often as conspiracy theorist retards such as yourself might think. Now go back to jacking off over X-files episodes.
there was a
discovery recently that Valproic acid, a commonly used anti-convulsant drug can cause cells that are infected with dormant HIV to express the virus, which then alerts the immune system which then kills the cells. If this works out it will be a major advance as one of the problems with HIV now is that it can go dormant for long periods of time, especially with the new HIV drugs that are available and then flare up again. If you force the virus to express itself the immune system kills the cells it has infected. There is a possibility with this treatment that the body could be cleansed of HIV. If this works out there will still be the hard work of developing therapies that can be afforded in the third world, but it's a promising start.
Seriously, what Slashdot needs is a -1, Factually Incorrect moderation. Take a look at the National Institute of Health page on the issue. The "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" myth is possibly the stupid belief most directly harmful to its adherents. Even Scientology doesn't say "Trust us, arsenic is good for you."
Yes, but sadly enough when you confront the AIDS conspiracy theorists with this they just counter with the claim that NIH is in on the conspiracy too and that if you just pay them $99.95 and take their snake-oil (or crocodile-oil in this case) you'll get better.
"My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
That expression is a tad insensitive, don't you think?
Yes, it is insensitive. He should have said "My take is that 1127 probably reached George W. Bush status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
Dude. have you learned to count to three yet? Here, let's try together. One, two, OK, I know you can do it, here's the part that gives you difficulty, but I know that my special little short bus extra 23rd chromosome trooper can do it, come on, you can do it. Oh, too bad, OK, we'll try again later.
Last I heard, NASA was still looking for more bright people to push the program forward. Just out of curiosity, what's been your grand contribution to space exploration and science that they're missing?
NASA has lots of bright people working for them, too bad that there's only about three of them in the Shuttle program, most of the smart people at NASA are on the unmanned exploration side of the agency, which, despite the fact that it has been short-changed to support the Shuttle program and ISS has worked wonders. Your argument is fundamentally stupid, no surprise coming from someone who can't count to three. Using the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope to justify the Shuttle program is kind of like using the invention of the flu vaccine, radar and electronic computers to justify World War II.
If you have such respect for all of these scientific disciplines then please tell me what Shuttle and ISS have accomplished that could not have been done by unmanned boosters or that is as significant as what was accomplished by the Mars rovers, Cassini/Huygens, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, the Tempel Deep Impact mission or any of the other unmanned probes that NASA has launched. The only contribution that the Shuttle has made to space science is launching the Hubble, repairing the Hubble and launching Galileo. So I suppose that the Shuttle program has made some contribution to space science in much the same way that the bicycle that Einstein rode to the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, where he discovered and codified the Theory of Relativity did.
That would actually be three words, but given the fact that you're a Shuttlehead it's not surprising that you can't count. By the way: is this the same Hubble fucking Telescope that we're going to let fall out of the sky because the using a Shuttle mission to extend it's life would be too dangerous? If it is too dangerous to use the Shuttle for anything other than trips to ISS then what the fuck good is the Shuttle program? We could accomplish the same thing for less money by having the Russians do it with the Soyuz. Of course that means that a lot of useless NASA bureaucrats would lose their jobs, but it would save us a lot of money. Mind you it would still be a waste, ISS is a sick fucking joke, you can't find any scientist who is not being paid off by a NASA grant who thinks that it's worth two fucks in a dead rat's ass or who thinks that it's accomplished any more scientific research than the average junior high school science fair.
Ya know, as soon some car company does offer a
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car with a built in PC that it's first going to get hacked to run Linux with a really ugly GUI and then someone is going to port NetBSD to it but installing NetBSD won't always work and you'll have to do lots of patching to get the system running (don't even think about making it stable). Then of course when you want to download software updates you'll have to run Ford Genuine Advantage to make sure that you didn't just pirate a copy of FordPC and install it on a cheap Korean import.
Give me a break, the current group of Republitards in the administration will probably ignore the Zawahiri declaration until something bad happens and then use it as an excuse to attack Syria or Iran. Or maybe to pass a capital gains tax cut or a bill banning abortions ("if we don't cut capital gains and outlaw abortions the terrorists will have won") or to use it as an excuse to further trash the Constitution. That's what they did in 2001, they ignored the intelligence and then after 9/11 they decided that we needed to invade Iraq. It might be easier to give the Republitards some credit for protecting America if they had actually fired some people for 9/11 (Hey, we fired people after Pearl Harbor) but instead the director of the CIA got the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the FBI got more money and power.
The original poster forgot about
Eric Rudolph another white male.
Of course Republitards such as yourself like to advocate racial profiling as a weapon in Dubya's GWOT. But if we look at the history of terrorism in the United States you find that most of it was done by whites against jews and blacks by the KKK.
Republitards are not bound by any intellectual consistency on this though. Even though 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia and Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi national and the leadership of Al Qaeda is mostly Saudi Arabian the Republitards all cheered when their Boy President announced that we were attacking Iraq in response to 9/11. Sure, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but hey, it was a chance to beat up on sand niggers, and beating the shit out of niggers, spics, gooks, chinks and japs is what the Republitard party is all about, which is why they have such a hard-on for racial profiling.
they probably already have thousands of DVDs in stock from customer returns, many of which cannot be returned to the distributor. Why not turn around and rent these out and realize some profit on them instead of writing them off?
No, but you do look at the clock and say "hey, it's 11, time to go to bed." Well, with DST, there is less hours of dark between 7 and 11 than there are without DST. That's less light you use.
Whether this is a good reason to have DST... I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Except for those of us who work in environments that are largely isolated from natural light. Like basement home offices. Doesn't do jack shit for me and it's pretty fucking depressing up here in the latitudes north of 45N when the sun goes down at 4:30 in December, especially since when you live in Seattle where it's already gray and the sun actually sets behind the mountains before official sunset.
Move up here and you'll get up in the morning and go to work in the dark and go home in the dark.
that I'm really creeped out and pissed off about the social engineering aspects of DST. The government decided to save energy by making you go to bed earlier. Fuck you bastards. I'm still going to stay up until midnight and get up at 7:30AM. Regardless of what fucking time of year it is. Bastards.
Yeah, but HP calculators went straight to shit after Carly took over the company. Now for veracity you need to find out what a cunningly constructed PERL script will tell you the answer is.
a friend and I used to joke that there were people who gave off destructive mental interference waves. Sitting next to these people would result in a decrease in brain function because their brainwaves were 180 degrees out of phase than the brainwaves of normal people, thus cancelling them out and creating a thought-free zone.
Of course negative information is cool, but it would be even cooler if you could combine negative information and positive information to produce a huge explosion.
Amazon is a multi-billion dollar corporation that bet the farm on Linux. For the last four years Amazon has run all of its webservers and all of its internal applications servers for customer service and the fulfillment centers on Linux systems. For the last two years they've been running all of their big iron databases that used to run on HP/UX boxen on Linux too. When I was there Amazon used RedHat, the only in-house modifications made were to the kernel, which were then fed back to RedHat. As far as I know they're still a RedHat shop.
Admittedly Amazon has an advantage because they develop all of their code in-house, but if you have the resources to do that and are in a situation where you have to then Linux is every bit as good as HP/UX, Solaris or AIX (and it's a lot easier to find Linux admins than it is to find HP/UX or AIX admins) and you don't end up being cornholed by Microsoft.
When/. actually contained useful news stories about the tech industry and other areas of interest to geeks? I seem to recall such a time in the past. Now we have duplicate stories, stupid questions in ask/. and blatant product placements such as this one. It's a friggin audio player that uses embedded Linux. Big fucking deal! Nothing to see here folks. Move along. And if TractorJector had actually looked at the website he would have seen that the software to control the beast is proprietary and only available on MacOS X.
Would it be too much to ask the "editors" of/. to stop posting stories of the form "There is a new device X out there that is controlled by Linux. Look out Microsoft/MPAA/RIAA/TSA/CIA/FBI/DoJ/Apple whoever because they're soon going to 0wnz0r all of your base!". I mean really, the fact that someone has come out with an MP3 player that is controlled via embeded Linux isn't news. It might have been eight years ago, but it isn't in 2005.
That would be the Republican half of Washington (everything east of the Cascades) talking.
Yes, that would be the Republican half of Washington, (everything east of the Cascades that isn't paying a fair share of state taxes and is heavily subsidized by King and Pierce counties) talking.
Why didn't that work the last few times? And while we're on the subject of fickle and inconsistent Deus ex machina, why is it that when a few people survive a catastrophe in which many others are killed or injured, they often claim that God saved them? What about the poor bastards who didn't make it?
John Varley satirized this brilliantly in Steel Beach. He called it the "God as cosmic hit man school of theology.
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Well they're a lot cleaner than your mom and sisters. Plus your mom's all spread out from starring in all of those Serbo-Croatian donkey flicks.
Innocent until proven guilty still applies in this country? Whatever happened to always presuming a man's innocence?
You're behind the times. As soon as you mention "kiddie porn" or "terrorism" then all of your rights go out the window as these are such horrible crimes that anyone accused of them should be immediately sent to Gitmo without a trial or any due process. Or at least that's what the government and the media and sadly enough a lot of ignorant fuckers on /. would have us believe.
if you had read the the parent's post correctly you would feel like an utter fool. it was about inefficient gov beauracracies leading towards only accepting proposals that start with the assumption that hiv causes aids. in other words, for researchers who might assume differently, there's no chance to receive gov funding.
you ignorant dummies who cry "conspiracy" don't even know what the hell it means.
No I wouldn't you deranged retard. If some stupid asshole such as yourself went up to NIH and proposed to study whether or not AIDS was caused by malicious pixies sprinkling evil fairy dust instead of HIV do you think you would deserve funding? If some asshole such as yourself went to NASA and requested a grant to study whether or not the moon was made of green cheese do you think you would deserve the money? If some asshole such as yourself went to CDC to request a grant that influenza was caused by malign vapors and not a virus do you think you would deserve the money? There are some theories that are obviously total shit, the various theories about alternate causes of AIDS (club drugs compromising the immune system {Duesberg), parasitic infection and antibiotic abuse compromising the immune systems of Africans {various}) fall into this category.
As far as crying "conspiracy" you're the ignorant dummy who is claiming that for researchers who don't believe in the HIV-->AIDS connection are somehow being denied funding because of their heretical beliefs. Does this sort of thing happen? Yes, more often than it should, but not nearly so often as conspiracy theorist retards such as yourself might think. Now go back to jacking off over X-files episodes.
Yes, but sadly enough when you confront the AIDS conspiracy theorists with this they just counter with the claim that NIH is in on the conspiracy too and that if you just pay them $99.95 and take their snake-oil (or crocodile-oil in this case) you'll get better.
"My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
That expression is a tad insensitive, don't you think?
Yes, it is insensitive. He should have said "My take is that 1127 probably reached George W. Bush status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
Figure that out all by yourself?
More than you were able to do, fucktard.
Last I heard, NASA was still looking for more bright people to push the program forward. Just out of curiosity, what's been your grand contribution to space exploration and science that they're missing?
NASA has lots of bright people working for them, too bad that there's only about three of them in the Shuttle program, most of the smart people at NASA are on the unmanned exploration side of the agency, which, despite the fact that it has been short-changed to support the Shuttle program and ISS has worked wonders. Your argument is fundamentally stupid, no surprise coming from someone who can't count to three. Using the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope to justify the Shuttle program is kind of like using the invention of the flu vaccine, radar and electronic computers to justify World War II.
If you have such respect for all of these scientific disciplines then please tell me what Shuttle and ISS have accomplished that could not have been done by unmanned boosters or that is as significant as what was accomplished by the Mars rovers, Cassini/Huygens, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, the Tempel Deep Impact mission or any of the other unmanned probes that NASA has launched. The only contribution that the Shuttle has made to space science is launching the Hubble, repairing the Hubble and launching Galileo. So I suppose that the Shuttle program has made some contribution to space science in much the same way that the bicycle that Einstein rode to the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, where he discovered and codified the Theory of Relativity did.
That would actually be three words, but given the fact that you're a Shuttlehead it's not surprising that you can't count. By the way: is this the same Hubble fucking Telescope that we're going to let fall out of the sky because the using a Shuttle mission to extend it's life would be too dangerous? If it is too dangerous to use the Shuttle for anything other than trips to ISS then what the fuck good is the Shuttle program? We could accomplish the same thing for less money by having the Russians do it with the Soyuz. Of course that means that a lot of useless NASA bureaucrats would lose their jobs, but it would save us a lot of money. Mind you it would still be a waste, ISS is a sick fucking joke, you can't find any scientist who is not being paid off by a NASA grant who thinks that it's worth two fucks in a dead rat's ass or who thinks that it's accomplished any more scientific research than the average junior high school science fair.
Of course Republitards such as yourself like to advocate racial profiling as a weapon in Dubya's GWOT. But if we look at the history of terrorism in the United States you find that most of it was done by whites against jews and blacks by the KKK.
Republitards are not bound by any intellectual consistency on this though. Even though 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia and Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi national and the leadership of Al Qaeda is mostly Saudi Arabian the Republitards all cheered when their Boy President announced that we were attacking Iraq in response to 9/11. Sure, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but hey, it was a chance to beat up on sand niggers, and beating the shit out of niggers, spics, gooks, chinks and japs is what the Republitard party is all about, which is why they have such a hard-on for racial profiling.
Whether this is a good reason to have DST... I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Except for those of us who work in environments that are largely isolated from natural light. Like basement home offices. Doesn't do jack shit for me and it's pretty fucking depressing up here in the latitudes north of 45N when the sun goes down at 4:30 in December, especially since when you live in Seattle where it's already gray and the sun actually sets behind the mountains before official sunset.
Move up here and you'll get up in the morning and go to work in the dark and go home in the dark.
that I'm really creeped out and pissed off about the social engineering aspects of DST. The government decided to save energy by making you go to bed earlier. Fuck you bastards. I'm still going to stay up until midnight and get up at 7:30AM. Regardless of what fucking time of year it is. Bastards.
Yeah, but HP calculators went straight to shit after Carly took over the company. Now for veracity you need to find out what a cunningly constructed PERL script will tell you the answer is.
Of course negative information is cool, but it would be even cooler if you could combine negative information and positive information to produce a huge explosion.
Admittedly Amazon has an advantage because they develop all of their code in-house, but if you have the resources to do that and are in a situation where you have to then Linux is every bit as good as HP/UX, Solaris or AIX (and it's a lot easier to find Linux admins than it is to find HP/UX or AIX admins) and you don't end up being cornholed by Microsoft.
Would it be too much to ask the "editors" of /. to stop posting stories of the form "There is a new device X out there that is controlled by Linux. Look out Microsoft/MPAA/RIAA/TSA/CIA/FBI/DoJ/Apple whoever because they're soon going to 0wnz0r all of your base!". I mean really, the fact that someone has come out with an MP3 player that is controlled via embeded Linux isn't news. It might have been eight years ago, but it isn't in 2005.
Yes, that would be the Republican half of Washington, (everything east of the Cascades that isn't paying a fair share of state taxes and is heavily subsidized by King and Pierce counties) talking.
John Varley satirized this brilliantly in Steel Beach. He called it the "God as cosmic hit man school of theology.