Oh, yeah, it's gonna make me feel alot safer knowing that you and any other joker out there can bring a loaded gun or a bomb onto an airplane if they first pay "$30 to $50" to Mr. Brill.
The total lack of anyone willing to fly under this system is what's gonna cut down the lines at the airport.
But at least Mr. Brill will be able to tell the FBI exactly who blew up the airplane.
When is Slashdot going to stop running stories from the New York Times and other web sites that require registration? Yeah, I know I can lie, but I'm not about to keep track of all the fake ID's I'd have to use on all these stupid sites. Same reason I shop at Albertson's instead of Safeway or QFC (fyi, Albertson's will give you a discount card even if you tell them to "buzz off" on the personal ID stuff)
Really, if I wanted to read the NYT, I'd sign up -- I wouldn't come to Slashdot looking for NYT articles. Why anyone west of the Hudson River would care what the NYT says is beyond me, given their attitude toward the rest of the USA (let alone the rest of the planet). So Taco: just stop accepting NYT articles as/. stories, OK?
"identifying likely spammers" is not their job. Of course, identifiying actual spammers also is not their job (that's why they're vigilanties), but at least that's an argueably honorable activity. They go too far when they cross over into this "future crime" crap. Being stuck with Road Runner or Comcast or some other clueless corporate giant as your ISP does not make you a spammer, nor does it make you a "likely spammer."
Now, if your computer is hijacked and turned into a spamming zombie, that's different -- but in all likelyhood your PC will be using your ISP's mail server to do the spammer's bidding, so this "likely spammer" arguement fails again.
What, so now the blacklisters are enforcing your ISP's Terms of Service? Does your ISP pay them for that, or what?
Seriously, this sucks. All I want from my ISP is an IP address; I'll register a domain and run my own servers, thank you very much. Of course, that's not what I get. I'm not allowed to run my own servers. Well, that's crappy, but that's between me and my ISP -- the blacklisters are once again sticking their noses in where they're not wanted.
You must be a spammer. That's the ONLY way your SMTP server could get blacklisted. Oh, and your ISP must harbor spammers, too, otherwise there's NO WAY they could be on some blacklist by mistake. OH, NO, the spam vigilanties NEVER make mistakes and blacklist an innocent party. NEVER.
You don't get it. This is Japan's way of getting rid of their radioactive waste. Notice they didn't offer to build this test plant in rural, remote Japan.
I don't have any problem with this, as long as it's open. When I - and everyone else - can read John Ashcroft's email and listen to his phone calls and see who enters/leaves his house and track him as he drives around town and see his credit card statements, THEN - and only then - he's welcome to do the same to me.
2: Figure out how many trees you can cut and process each year.
3: Buy or lease 20 times that amount.
4: Cut all the trees you can, then re-plant the land with something that grows fast, like Cottonwood.
5: After 20 years, when all the original trees are cut, your first crop of Cottonwood will be ready for harvest.
6: Profit!
No, this is not a "tree farm," it's a forest. Yeah, we cut nearly all the 300 year-old trees. So what? Yes, now there's only one species on the entire property, but it's still not a "tree farm." Stop saying that! We're foresters, not farmers! Look, it's our land, and the damn owls aren't paying any rent, if you get my meaning. Hey, you, stop hugging that tree! OK, that's it, I'm calling the cops.
Yeah, 16 months of anal rape might just make the Judge think twice the next time this subject comes up. But I think the prosecutors should also have to go to jail for 16 months, since it was their mistake.
I'm not even sure they've ever had to compensate the wrongly imprisoned.
Hell, if they kill you, they don't even have to give your body to your family. If they kill you and then find out you were innocent, I doubt your family would get so much as an offical "We're sorry."
Gee, I didn't know the Shrub read Slashdot! Well put, sir, but still wrong. If you're at war with the terrorists, then the terrorists you catch are prisoners of war. If the terrorists you catch are not prisioners of war, then you're not at war with them -- in which case either you're holding them without charing them with a crime and without access to legal counsil, in violation of the Constitution you swore to defend, or you're just another terrorist yourself.
No, but it opens up interesting possiblities in other areas, such as 3D CAD or even other interactive entertainment (think movie, not game)
Hmmm, would a 3D interactive movie qualify as a game? If you could interact with The Matrix and change the outcome of the storyline, would that count as a game?
I was being brief. I should have said: "Telling people to bypass autorun to defeat their copy protection scheme is a violation of the DMCA." Or, more correctly: "Defeating their copy protection scheme is not a violation of the DMCA. Telling others how to defeat their copy protection scheme is a violation of the DMCA." Clearer?
Actually, it's more like this: The people serving as interpreters, etc. were asked things like "can you get word to my family that I'm alive?" and they were sympathetic to such pleas. However, it is the policy of the Shrub administration that terrorists are not human and thus have no human rights. They are not prisoners of war and thus Shrub has no obligation to follow the terms of the Geneva (sp?) Convention -- you know, like telling anyone who they have and where they're held and how they're being treated. These spies were clearly giving aid and comfort to the enemy by passing word on to the prisoners families that their loved ones are alive and being held in Cuba.
Before long, they will disappear too. Fucking Shrub.
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The total lack of anyone willing to fly under this system is what's gonna cut down the lines at the airport.
But at least Mr. Brill will be able to tell the FBI exactly who blew up the airplane.
Really, if I wanted to read the NYT, I'd sign up -- I wouldn't come to Slashdot looking for NYT articles. Why anyone west of the Hudson River would care what the NYT says is beyond me, given their attitude toward the rest of the USA (let alone the rest of the planet). So Taco: just stop accepting NYT articles as /. stories, OK?
It's the part about telling the mothership what web sites you visit that makes it spywear.
Now, if your computer is hijacked and turned into a spamming zombie, that's different -- but in all likelyhood your PC will be using your ISP's mail server to do the spammer's bidding, so this "likely spammer" arguement fails again.
Fucking vigilanties.
Seriously, this sucks. All I want from my ISP is an IP address; I'll register a domain and run my own servers, thank you very much. Of course, that's not what I get. I'm not allowed to run my own servers. Well, that's crappy, but that's between me and my ISP -- the blacklisters are once again sticking their noses in where they're not wanted.
Really, never. Just ask them.
You don't get it. This is Japan's way of getting rid of their radioactive waste. Notice they didn't offer to build this test plant in rural, remote Japan.
So's fire (unless you count dragons).
Hell, I want one for my house!
I don't have any problem with this, as long as it's open. When I - and everyone else - can read John Ashcroft's email and listen to his phone calls and see who enters/leaves his house and track him as he drives around town and see his credit card statements, THEN - and only then - he's welcome to do the same to me.
It's more like this:
1: Skip this step. Not needed.
2: Figure out how many trees you can cut and process each year.
3: Buy or lease 20 times that amount.
4: Cut all the trees you can, then re-plant the land with something that grows fast, like Cottonwood.
5: After 20 years, when all the original trees are cut, your first crop of Cottonwood will be ready for harvest.
6: Profit!
No, this is not a "tree farm," it's a forest. Yeah, we cut nearly all the 300 year-old trees. So what? Yes, now there's only one species on the entire property, but it's still not a "tree farm." Stop saying that! We're foresters, not farmers! Look, it's our land, and the damn owls aren't paying any rent, if you get my meaning. Hey, you, stop hugging that tree! OK, that's it, I'm calling the cops.
I feel realy sorry for luser@aol.com, because I've signed him up for all sorts of things...
This is like asking Iron Horse readers if you should replace your Hog with an ATV.
Yeah, 16 months of anal rape might just make the Judge think twice the next time this subject comes up. But I think the prosecutors should also have to go to jail for 16 months, since it was their mistake.
And people wonder why I oppose the death penalty.
He's takling about the United States of America
What does this have to do with the Gemological Institute of America?
Fucking Shrub.
Hmmm, would a 3D interactive movie qualify as a game? If you could interact with The Matrix and change the outcome of the storyline, would that count as a game?
Too late. You're in the DRM business, so you're already the scum your parents warned you about.
I was being brief. I should have said: "Telling people to bypass autorun to defeat their copy protection scheme is a violation of the DMCA." Or, more correctly: "Defeating their copy protection scheme is not a violation of the DMCA. Telling others how to defeat their copy protection scheme is a violation of the DMCA." Clearer?
Before long, they will disappear too. Fucking Shrub.
KILL ALL EXTREMISTS!