Living in a society necessatates giving up liberties. It's as simple as that; if you want to live alone then I really don't care what you do. However, a DUI is sharing the road with me and if I have to spend 5 minutes going through a ride check once in a blue moon (unless you're out driving when and where the drunks are most likely to pass) so be it.
What I would not stand for is the police pulling me over searching my car without just cause.
So, i'd say it's less of an equation based on outrage vs. civil liberties and more of one based on necessity and compromise. This equation can be estimated, however, by polling the US population of 300 million to see what they will vote for. Apparently enough of them believed that their chances of being a target are significant enough to require forgoing certain liberties. If you believe freedom is walking around scared of the unknown, then controlling what you fear by allowing yourself to be controlled is your fate.
As for running around with a ski mask? I do it most winters, when i'm skiing.
i think that once dvd burners become reasonably priced and easy to use (and standardized) there will be a surge in dvd copying. The movie industry would be blind not to look at what is taking a bite out of record sales and not see that coming.
i've never read the NY times, although i have seen a daily publication (which isn't necessarily the norm in Canada) and it is HUGE. I have also noticed that over the last month or two/. has posted a more than the average number of articles that were taken from the NYT.
The problem that i see with the statement that they accept posts from NYT but not from other news sources that require reg is that the registration is seen as an issue for everyone but NYT.
So why should the New York Times receive any favouritism in this respect??
You said it yourself, anyone who knows what these statistics can be used for will use fake information. I would say that anyone who reads/. and bothers to read the articles won't bow to the registration info, so what is the point of censuring other sites?
It simply looks to me to be a bias towards NYT, and as far as i've seen over the last month or so, the number of NYT articles posted points to this reality...
fizix? that's the crap that you learned in grade school but never really turned out useful in real life. "If train A was approaching train B at 45 mph on an angle of....."
really, the average joe blow doesnt give a damn if a movie follows physical rules. Movies are entertainment, who says they should actually conform to reality? Anyone seen hidden dragon?
personally, i'm not a big linux fan. I've tried it, and am persevering to learn linux. The fact is, i've switched from IE to Moz. I've told all my friends how great it is and encouraged them to at least give it a try. It takes little baby steps for something to take off, and i'd have to say i'm one of them. Once the word spreads that there's a better alternative out there it's going to start taking off. The toughest part is going to be getting people to download it. That's the whole problem with IE's integration into the OS. People use what's on their PC. I think the first step to breaking down that barrier is getting the Mozilla page up to par with MS's (i know, it sounds evil). Get some nice graphics of Moz running, and for goodness sakes, get a nice easy noob download interface going!!!!!
hmm, seems to me that RSI problems are widely prevalent in geeks... but maybe it's not the keyboard that is the root of the problem. maybe it has to do with other repetitive actions one does with their wrist...
I of course have no carpel tunnel problems at all.. really
Did everyone else have a blacked out part about 7 paragraphs from the end? I just happened to hilite it and found out there was text behind it. Seems kinda unusual to me... but here's what it said:
Mafiaboy preferred to dress in baggy pants, baggy jacket and Nike tennis shoes and he was often seen wearing a baseball cap in the backward punk style of many teenagers. In contrast to those who said he was a normal kid, other friends said he hung out with the tough kids at school, smoked cigarettes, got a lot of play with the girls and was generally a troublemaker.
Dont really see any reason it was 'censored', but anyway.
In terms of the script-kiddie charge people are making, it seems hard to tell from this article. They did say that he mistyped some commands, and received accounts from others, but they also said that the tool used to take over the boxes seemed to be written by him and contained his alias in the warning. I'd say he was a little bit of both, but then again what malicious hacker isnt?
looks like the annoying space that slashcode throws in really long strings has come to the rescue: this probably won't compile correctly. That raises the question though, what if 2600 had originally posted the code with a small bug in it that could easily be seen and removed. On its own the code would not do anything illegal, since it wouldn't compile. However, by using simple debugging (i'm not talking about more than one error, or a complicated one) it could be made to do something that they could attack. Or maybe i'm way off, because I haven't really been following this issue too closely.
the perfect remote is like finding the perfect woman. Hey, come to think of it, the perfect woman would be the perfect remote. And junior remotes take about 4 years to become useful..
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Living in a society necessatates giving up liberties. It's as simple as that; if you want to live alone then I really don't care what you do.
However, a DUI is sharing the road with me and if I have to spend 5 minutes going through a ride check once in a blue moon (unless you're out driving when and where the drunks are most likely to pass) so be it.
What I would not stand for is the police pulling me over searching my car without just cause.
So, i'd say it's less of an equation based on outrage vs. civil liberties and more of one based on necessity and compromise. This equation can be estimated, however, by polling the US population of 300 million to see what they will vote for.
Apparently enough of them believed that their chances of being a target are significant enough to require forgoing certain liberties. If you believe freedom is walking around scared of the unknown, then controlling what you fear by allowing yourself to be controlled is your fate.
As for running around with a ski mask? I do it most winters, when i'm skiing.
you mean:
Signed, #523845
the fact that the authors of this (ahead of its time) platform are nobodys, and bill gates is a household name is quite sad.
"it was like a million memories crying out in unison, then suddenly silence."
sorry man, this is a +5 funny only discussion.
just head yourself back on over to the yahoo chat groups.
see the white dot? that's my P4 8.6
all i need now is a decent liquid cooling system.
and no, the earth is not an option
that should read:
"from the more-power-to-the-FUD-deflector-array! dept"
I would like to take this opportunity to donate my brain in the name of science
Please, don't thank me, i'm doing it for the good of the human race.
i think that once dvd burners become reasonably priced and easy to use (and standardized) there will be a surge in dvd copying.
The movie industry would be blind not to look at what is taking a bite out of record sales and not see that coming.
i've never read the NY times, although i have seen a daily publication (which isn't necessarily the norm in Canada) and it is HUGE. /. has posted a more than the average number of articles that were taken from the NYT.
/. and bothers to read the articles won't bow to the registration info, so what is the point of censuring other sites?
I have also noticed that over the last month or two
The problem that i see with the statement that they accept posts from NYT but not from other news sources that require reg is that the registration is seen as an issue for everyone but NYT.
So why should the New York Times receive any favouritism in this respect??
You said it yourself, anyone who knows what these statistics can be used for will use fake information. I would say that anyone who reads
It simply looks to me to be a bias towards NYT, and as far as i've seen over the last month or so, the number of NYT articles posted points to this reality...
IAN
LOO LOO LOO!
u from k/w area? email me
i_gorman@hotmail.com
this one is for everyone in my home town of K/W
FP!!!!!
microsoft wont play fair, a lot of people use Hotmail..
try changing the personal preference options for a hotmail account in moz. You're in for an ugly warning.
"MSN Hotmail, More Useful Every Day"
hey, they stole my motto!
fizix? that's the crap that you learned in grade school but never really turned out useful in real life. ....."
"If train A was approaching train B at 45 mph on an angle of
really, the average joe blow doesnt give a damn if a movie follows physical rules. Movies are entertainment, who says they should actually conform to reality?
Anyone seen hidden dragon?
personally, i'm not a big linux fan. I've tried it, and am persevering to learn linux.
The fact is, i've switched from IE to Moz. I've told all my friends how great it is and encouraged them to at least give it a try.
It takes little baby steps for something to take off, and i'd have to say i'm one of them. Once the word spreads that there's a better alternative out there it's going to start taking off.
The toughest part is going to be getting people to download it. That's the whole problem with IE's integration into the OS. People use what's on their PC.
I think the first step to breaking down that barrier is getting the Mozilla page up to par with MS's (i know, it sounds evil). Get some nice graphics of Moz running, and for goodness sakes, get a nice easy noob download interface going!!!!!
Sadly, OSS doesn't have a craptain on the throne either :(
(he said he was just going out for a smoke break, but it's been 2 weeks
it's all been done
hmm, seems to me that RSI problems are widely prevalent in geeks... but maybe it's not the keyboard that is the root of the problem.
maybe it has to do with other repetitive actions one does with their wrist...
I of course have no carpel tunnel problems at all.. really
yweah oi t0ttsaly ag4ree, jhunrt and pec,k is thje 0-nly eway t0 tyupe!!
well obviously it wasnt really censorship, cause they would have just deleted it. just seemed wierd, guess someone screwed up.
Dont really see any reason it was 'censored', but anyway.
In terms of the script-kiddie charge people are making, it seems hard to tell from this article. They did say that he mistyped some commands, and received accounts from others, but they also said that the tool used to take over the boxes seemed to be written by him and contained his alias in the warning. I'd say he was a little bit of both, but then again what malicious hacker isnt?
with all due respect, this can hardly be called a "review" if he hasn't read the book.
It should be called a post instead...
Brilliant! That should cut my support calls in half!
the perfect remote is like finding the perfect woman.
Hey, come to think of it, the perfect woman would be the perfect remote.
And junior remotes take about 4 years to become useful..