>I've broken ALREADY EXISTING LAWS >The quality of the reproduction, and the speed at which it can be distributed, are different in the digital world, but that doesn't mean we need new laws
As long as we're playing devil's advocate...
Murdering someone is already a crime, why do we need laws to ban assault rifles?
(I know, but for the sake of argument)
Because of the speed and efficiency with which you can mow down ten or twenty people?
For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!" It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion. ...
'cmon... maybe it's not really Linus, but it is making the rounds and how would/. not post it?
Man, 4/1 is usually pretty boring until someone swallows it hook line and sinker and makes sure everyone knows by posting their outrage or incredulity. Thanks, man.
They may weill have written a scene like that, even shot it only to have it cut out of the final edit.
I've often been surprised how many "quick scenes" end up on the floor in some movies. I've rented DVDs with 'deleted scenes' and wondered why the hell they took them out. There is something of a black art to editing a film and keeping the pacing going and making tough decisions about dropping certain scenes.
Every airport I've gone through in recent months has a system to do explosive residue 'tracing'. They take a little gauze patch held by a little wand and wipe it on the laptop case, the attache handle, my shoes and anything else that might have come into contact with bomb-making material (exactly what that includes, I don't know).
Then they put the gauze patch in a machine that makes a little 'beep' and blinks a green light if you are ok. (I assume if a red light and a buzzer sounds, your laptop is going to get a visit from the bomb disposal squad.)
The handheld stuff would presumably be useful for faster screening of many more items/passengers as the system I've seen takes a lot of time. I wonder how much of this was was because Mann was indignant and uncooperative because they didn't just read his papers and let him through?
Our company issues "Corporate" Amex cards to use for business expenses. Guess who American Express calls if the bill isn't paid?
The only thing these cards are good for is the company can issue electronic payments straight to Amex instead of reimburing the employee who then writes a check. This usually works out okay but last year the AP dept was majorly screwed up and 'lost' several of my expense reimbursement forms.
Amex was sending me collection notices and was telling me *I* was responsible for keeping the account paid on time. My credit report took a hit because of these late payments until I went and got them removed.
I had always thought a company card belonged to the *company* and that they would bear liability for payment (of course, unless the employee used it for personal charges). Apparently it doesn't work that way (at least at my company, anyone else have it work different?)
I just heard the blurb mentioned on CNN and they also said something about Sun asking to see the source for IE for some reason (I only heard parts of it, was eating lunch and talking at the time this came on). The Sun press release doesn't have much detail. Anyone else hear this?
Although, Rick Neilsen would probably have a whole friggin Chewbacca doll, fur and all, with both legs as dual guitar necks on it rather than just a regular axe with some paint on it.
>The hilarity of turning guns into blasters was too much for me. What is the difference?
I thought it was made fairly clear (not that I agree completely):
Guns are something that any child could watch our show and go and get. God forbid anything like that happened, it would be the end of Toonami.
>The end result is if you're shot or zapped or what have you
Kids can't get their hands on energy weapons in 2002. My son has a star wars stormtrooper rifle that he likes to run around and point and it makes noise and lights flash. He also has a friend that comes over with a plastic.357 magnum that uses little plastic caps that make it go 'bang'.
Guess what - I'm ok with them immitating Star Wars. I'm not ok with them immitating Dirty Harry. What's the difference? You are equally dead if blasted by a Stormtrooper or shot in the head by Clint Eastwood? Maybe. But, I have yet to read of a case where some kid found his dad's phaser and burned a hole in his best friend by mistake.
Should dad make sure his.357 is locked away? You betcha. Is it stupid to blame a TV show for a kid's actions when it is really up to the parents to supervise ther children. Absolutely. Is this the way things always go? Of course not.
He has to walk a fine line between preserving art, and staying employed. It isn't a compromise many would be willing to make.
>more then [sic] half of Slashdot's readers NEVER read a comment
I've seen this comment before and it still surprises me a little. This means that a very large # of people just load the top page to read the summaries and maybe follow the links offsite?
I guess I don't get that (not saying I don't beleive it, just don't understand). More than half of the visitors to/. never click 'Read more...' -- seems kind of pointless to me. The discussion around stories that are posted is what makes/. interesting. Kind of like going to the library, picking out an intersting book, thumbing through the table of contents and then putting it back on the shelf.
I can see why this poses a problem for them. More than half the traffic only sees the one banner ad at the top of the main page. The masses of trolls and flamers and karma whores generate a lot of extra work with little return. Even the work to support 'legit' posters doesn't add as much to the 'big picture' as one might have imagined.
You mean Ameritech? AT&T does provide local phone service over cable in some areas, but SBC/Ameritech is the local monopoly telco in Chicago.
I had a problem with dialup long ago, I could get consistent 56k connections on one line but no better than 24k on the other. Problem was on the second line I used for dialup.
I called and asked if they could fix this and their reply was that their voice lines were only rated for 14.4 and they would only consider anything lower than that to be a problem.
I finally convinced them to send someone out and the tech that came out explained that they had two kinds of switches in their CO, a newer one that was cheap and efficient for voice, but horrible for dialup, and the older one that was just dandy for dialup but huge and expensive to maintain. He went back to the CO and swapped the lines so that my dialup line was on the older switch.
He said that they had a limited # of lines on the old hardware and they tried to shove new lines on the new switches and keep as many lines open on the old hardware as possible - of course this wasn't official policy and "you didn't hear that from me".
That was a redundant complaint, not a "genuine suggestion for improvement". This happens *every* time! Someone moans about why this is on Slashdot. In case no one has figured it out by now, Rob & the rest post what is interesting to them because their interests appeal to a large enough crowd to make this site successful. Why would he change that now?
"I ain't with that. No. I didn't give it any sanction. I think that my song was too serious. It ain't like it was 'Beat It.' 'Beat It' was a party song. But I think 'Gangsta's Paradise' represented something more than that. And I really, honestly and truly, don't appreciate him desecrating the song like that. I think he's wrong for that, because his record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway. I couldn't stop him. But you know, more power to him. I hope they sell a lot of records. Just stay away from me."
Only for the guy on Ripley's the other night. He had lost his 'manhood' to cancer, some doctor in the Urkraine transplanted his middle finger from his left hand (with the bones!)
But, as someone else already pointed out, this isn't about 'confusingly similar' trademark infringement. It is about MGM trying to extort money or other concessions out of a rival studio.
Kinda like when Lucas took the Battelstar Galactica producers to court. 'My move has spaceships with red paint, *your* movie has them too... fork over some cash!!'
I went to Purdue-Cal where we had a guy who was cheating his way through the assignments by getting listings from the TA he was sleeping with. He would show up the day before the project was due, sit at a terminal typing for a couple hours, compile, get up, stretch, walk over to the printer, collect his listing and leave.
When he graduated, he landed a job at a local company where he bluffed his way through the interview and then was more or less useless at his coding job. Guy was an ace at fooling the boss, though - convinced the slob everything was someone else's fault. Conned his way into a project leader job where he didn't need to code and pretty much 'delegated' any real work to his subordinates. Last I hear, he was on the fast-track to a director slot.
Something like this would have kept this guy from ever passing his first ASM class.
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>I've broken ALREADY EXISTING LAWS
>The quality of the reproduction, and the speed at which it can be distributed, are different in the digital world, but that doesn't mean we need new laws
As long as we're playing devil's advocate...
Murdering someone is already a crime, why do we need laws to ban assault rifles?
(I know, but for the sake of argument)
Because of the speed and efficiency with which you can mow down ten or twenty people?
As long as we're playing devil's advocate...
Murdering someone is already a crime, why do we need laws to ban assault rifles?
(I know, but for the sake of argument)
Because of the speed and efficiency with which you can mow down ten or twenty people?
hey, blame Linus. Taco didn't invent this. How was he going to *not* post this?
/. not post it?
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
Fellow hackers,
For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux
community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches
aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!"
It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple
instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion.
...
'cmon... maybe it's not really Linus, but it is making the rounds and how would
Man, 4/1 is usually pretty boring until someone swallows it hook line and sinker and makes sure everyone knows by posting their outrage or incredulity. Thanks, man.
It's gone! Can't hide behind AC today, should cut down on time wasted on posting today!
>It would have taken only a quick scene
They may weill have written a scene like that, even shot it only to have it cut out of the final edit.
I've often been surprised how many "quick scenes" end up on the floor in some movies. I've rented DVDs with 'deleted scenes' and wondered why the hell they took them out. There is something of a black art to editing a film and keeping the pacing going and making tough decisions about dropping certain scenes.
Please do not feed the trolls (or make serious replies to them just because some idiot moderator modded insightful).
good explanation, thanks
Handheld? Why handheld?
Every airport I've gone through in recent months has a system to do explosive residue 'tracing'. They take a little gauze patch held by a little wand and wipe it on the laptop case, the attache handle, my shoes and anything else that might have come into contact with bomb-making material (exactly what that includes, I don't know).
Then they put the gauze patch in a machine that makes a little 'beep' and blinks a green light if you are ok. (I assume if a red light and a buzzer sounds, your laptop is going to get a visit from the bomb disposal squad.)
The handheld stuff would presumably be useful for faster screening of many more items/passengers as the system I've seen takes a lot of time. I wonder how much of this was was because Mann was indignant and uncooperative because they didn't just read his papers and let him through?
>I help build software for invasive diagnostic medical devices
>some boneheads decided on Win2K
The rest of your comments about a stripped down embedded version and rigorous testing portocols aside...
Brings new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death", doesn't it?
*ducks*
Sorry, it had to be said.
Our company issues "Corporate" Amex cards to use for business expenses. Guess who American Express calls if the bill isn't paid?
The only thing these cards are good for is the company can issue electronic payments straight to Amex instead of reimburing the employee who then writes a check. This usually works out okay but last year the AP dept was majorly screwed up and 'lost' several of my expense reimbursement forms.
Amex was sending me collection notices and was telling me *I* was responsible for keeping the account paid on time. My credit report took a hit because of these late payments until I went and got them removed.
I had always thought a company card belonged to the *company* and that they would bear liability for payment (of course, unless the employee used it for personal charges). Apparently it doesn't work that way (at least at my company, anyone else have it work different?)
I just heard the blurb mentioned on CNN and they also said something about Sun asking to see the source for IE for some reason (I only heard parts of it, was eating lunch and talking at the time this came on). The Sun press release doesn't have much detail. Anyone else hear this?
I thought of Cheap Trick the moment I saw this.
Although, Rick Neilsen would probably have a whole friggin Chewbacca doll, fur and all, with both legs as dual guitar necks on it rather than just a regular axe with some paint on it.
I don't think so. I've heard Taco or Hemos say before that over half of the visitors to slashdot don't read commments.
>The hilarity of turning guns into blasters was too much for me. What is the difference?
.357 magnum that uses little plastic caps that make it go 'bang'.
.357 is locked away? You betcha. Is it stupid to blame a TV show for a kid's actions when it is really up to the parents to supervise ther children. Absolutely. Is this the way things always go? Of course not.
I thought it was made fairly clear (not that I agree completely):
Guns are something that any child could watch our show and go and get. God forbid anything like that happened, it would be the end of Toonami.
>The end result is if you're shot or zapped or what have you
Kids can't get their hands on energy weapons in 2002. My son has a star wars stormtrooper rifle that he likes to run around and point and it makes noise and lights flash. He also has a friend that comes over with a plastic
Guess what - I'm ok with them immitating Star Wars. I'm not ok with them immitating Dirty Harry. What's the difference? You are equally dead if blasted by a Stormtrooper or shot in the head by Clint Eastwood? Maybe. But, I have yet to read of a case where some kid found his dad's phaser and burned a hole in his best friend by mistake.
Should dad make sure his
He has to walk a fine line between preserving art, and staying employed. It isn't a compromise many would be willing to make.
>more then [sic] half of Slashdot's readers NEVER read a comment
/. never click 'Read more...' -- seems kind of pointless to me. The discussion around stories that are posted is what makes /. interesting. Kind of like going to the library, picking out an intersting book, thumbing through the table of contents and then putting it back on the shelf.
I've seen this comment before and it still surprises me a little. This means that a very large # of people just load the top page to read the summaries and maybe follow the links offsite?
I guess I don't get that (not saying I don't beleive it, just don't understand). More than half of the visitors to
I can see why this poses a problem for them. More than half the traffic only sees the one banner ad at the top of the main page. The masses of trolls and flamers and karma whores generate a lot of extra work with little return. Even the work to support 'legit' posters doesn't add as much to the 'big picture' as one might have imagined.
You mean Ameritech? AT&T does provide local phone service over cable in some areas, but SBC/Ameritech is the local monopoly telco in Chicago.
I had a problem with dialup long ago, I could get consistent 56k connections on one line but no better than 24k on the other. Problem was on the second line I used for dialup.
I called and asked if they could fix this and their reply was that their voice lines were only rated for 14.4 and they would only consider anything lower than that to be a problem.
I finally convinced them to send someone out and the tech that came out explained that they had two kinds of switches in their CO, a newer one that was cheap and efficient for voice, but horrible for dialup, and the older one that was just dandy for dialup but huge and expensive to maintain. He went back to the CO and swapped the lines so that my dialup line was on the older switch.
He said that they had a limited # of lines on the old hardware and they tried to shove new lines on the new switches and keep as many lines open on the old hardware as possible - of course this wasn't official policy and "you didn't hear that from me".
no,
That was a redundant complaint, not a "genuine suggestion for improvement". This happens *every* time! Someone moans about why this is on Slashdot. In case no one has figured it out by now, Rob & the rest post what is interesting to them because their interests appeal to a large enough crowd to make this site successful. Why would he change that now?
I though Al released 'Amish Paradise' *without* getting permission after he was asked and refused?
The Story Behind "Amish Paradise"
"I ain't with that. No. I didn't give it any sanction. I think that my song was too serious. It ain't like it was 'Beat It.' 'Beat It' was a party song. But I think 'Gangsta's Paradise' represented something more than that. And I really, honestly and truly, don't appreciate him desecrating the song like that. I think he's wrong for that, because his record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway. I couldn't stop him. But you know, more power to him. I hope they sell a lot of records. Just stay away from me."
>penises are so confusingly similar to fingers
Only for the guy on Ripley's the other night. He had lost his 'manhood' to cancer, some doctor in the Urkraine transplanted his middle finger from his left hand (with the bones!)
But, as someone else already pointed out, this isn't about 'confusingly similar' trademark infringement. It is about MGM trying to extort money or other concessions out of a rival studio.
Kinda like when Lucas took the Battelstar Galactica producers to court. 'My move has spaceships with red paint, *your* movie has them too... fork over some cash!!'
We drive on a 'parkway', yet we park on a 'driveway'.. wierd!
Either Gallagher or Carlin, right?
3 words..
White Star Line
Does seem to be tempting fate to say "unbreakable", doesn't it>
I went to Purdue-Cal where we had a guy who was cheating his way through the assignments by getting listings from the TA he was sleeping with. He would show up the day before the project was due, sit at a terminal typing for a couple hours, compile, get up, stretch, walk over to the printer, collect his listing and leave.
When he graduated, he landed a job at a local company where he bluffed his way through the interview and then was more or less useless at his coding job. Guy was an ace at fooling the boss, though - convinced the slob everything was someone else's fault. Conned his way into a project leader job where he didn't need to code and pretty much 'delegated' any real work to his subordinates. Last I hear, he was on the fast-track to a director slot.
Something like this would have kept this guy from ever passing his first ASM class.
You are right. Thanks for the correction. :-)
But none of them got to an x-10 ad. Something doesn't fit.