How long does it usually take to get off the SPEWS list? Especially if you were put there wrongly in the first place.
Welcome to Hell. You'll be released from the SPEWS list as soon as your sentence here in Hell is complete. Like everyone else in SPEWS^h^h^h^h^hHell, your sentence is Eternity.
Being searched at airport security is not unreasonable, because you choose to be there and may choose to not fly if you object to the searches. Also, you have ample warning that you will be searched, and they search everyone, they don't discriminate.
Now, if they set up road blocks and searched anyone walking or driving down the street, that's unreasonable, as courts have found many, many times.
Don't they realize that nothing is truely free? There is always a cost! In this case, the cost of tidal power generation is to drain energy out of the power source, namely the Moon. This will generate power for a small island off Scotland, but at the cost of slowing the Moon's orbit for the rest of us! The fools don't know what they're doing! They must be stopped or we're all doomed!
Seriously, folks, is the corporate world so seriously screwed up that no-one is capable of this?
You don't understand how business works. Engineering says "We can do this for $X." Marketing says "We can sell this to Y customers at $Z/month". Management sees that Y * $Z > $X and gives the go-ahead.
Later, Marketing discovers that their estimates and assumptions were off, but Engineering's already ordered the hardware so they've made their investment and can't go back. Management asks Marketing to raise the price to cut demand, and Marketing says "We're at the bend in the curve: If we charge a tiny bit more we'll lose so many customers that the whole thing will be a total failure."
So Management does the next best thing to raising rates for everyone: They change the TOC (limit bandwidth) enough to drive off the few high-cost customers while keeping the vast majority of customers, whose bandwidth is well within their capacity. Predictable, really.
OT: I wonder if you could make a filter for Apache that would detect hits from Slashdot editors; thus warned of an imenent Slashdot posting, the server could brace for the Slashdot Effect, perhaps by putting up a static page or using some other defense.
Nah, wouldn't work -- clearly, the editors don't read the links before they post the stories.
Yes, the data it collects "relates to the flash application you are using," but the data does sit on your hard drive. It's an "AND" proposition, not an "OR" proposition. Plus, there's nothing but their word that other Flash sites -- or Macromedia themselves -- won't access the information. So it's not domain-limited cookies, it's Macromedia-specific super cookies.
The key loophole in the 4th amendment is the word "unreasonable." To our current government, a cattle prod to the scrotum until you confess is not "unreasonable." It won't be long until they load the Court with enough judges who agree with this position (they just need one or two more), then we're all screwed. So the question is, where's the best place for us Americans to move? Brittan's obviously out...
Yeah, major security boo-boo. I worked at a place that used your initals plus the last for digits of SSN. It daily re-affirmed that workers are no more than a number to them. Working there felt like THX1138 without the drugs.
Your position is flawed. Yes, people often ban things they don't understand, but that doesn't mean they'd be OK with it if they only understood it. I have taken the time to learn more about guns, and the more I learn the more I support firearms control laws.
I have also taken the time to learn more about nuclear waste, and the more I learn the more I oppose nuclear power plants. I think our only real hope is turning the waste into glass, but they refuse to do that because of cost, even though it will be far more expensive to clean up the Columbia river once those tanks at Hanford leak.
That's the real problem: people so damn self-centered that they don't look in the rearview mirror -- they just don't care who they inconvenience.
If you can't see that you're holding up traffic, you're either inconsiderate or blind; either way, you shouldn't be allowed to drive. As George Carlin purportedly said, "I think if you are in the passing lane, and not passing, your license should be revoked, and you should be forced to ride the bus until you promise to never delay the rest of us again."
We here in Washington also have a law that says if there are five or more vehicles behind you, you must pull over and let them pass. The law says nothing about speed; you could be going 80 in a 25 zone, but if you're holding up five or more you must pull over and let them pass. The law says nothing about lanes; it applies to eight lane Interstates as much as two lane country roads.
Least enforced law on the books, by far. If they bothered to enforce it, so-called "road rage" would disappear.
Perhaps you're trolling, but I certainly don't feel all that secure now that my freedoms are being taken away. Thanks loads, GOP. When are the Dems gonna find a real leader to get us out of this mess?
Can you even start to understand that a real person is in great pain here?
Can you even start to understand that "Robert X. Cringley" is a pseudonym used for years by various writers of InfoWorld's industry gossip column? Ask him (the current "Cringley") whatever happened to "Pammy." I'd give the story of his boy's death much more weight if he used his real name.
I don't blame/.'s editors one bit for rejecting the story.
Oh, I don't know. I think s/he's trying to mimic Profane Motherfucker, who actually posts some good stuff, if you can get past the profanity. OTOH, you could argue PM's not a troll, but a flamer...
If the gondola had to make an emergency descent, the envelope would be cut away and the platform would freefall at supersonic speed. The stability of the gondola at high speed is therefore critical. Emergency parachutes will be fitted to control the speed of the descent.
Supersonic? Geeze, Six Flags has nothing on this! I guess you'd never know if the chutes didn't work.
It sounds like that rule doesn't apply to the 2.4 GHz band. That band was reserved specifically for use by Microwave ovens, etc., which transmit but don't receive.
OK, I'll admit my inital comment about the FCC was probably wrong. I'm not up on Section 18 and perhaps should have held my tongue (or keyboard). However, this does not negate part 2 of my arguement: "frankly, I won't want to sit near one if it's not shielded."
Microwave ovens do not transmit; they are shielded, have double interlocks on the doors, etc., to prevent you from cooking yourself while you heat your pizza/tea/etc. If Fusion Lighting's products are not shielded, consumers won't want them and if not the FCC then the FTC/FDA/somebody won't allow them. Or damn well ought not allow them (with W in office, who knows?)
The FCC's rules are simple. If your product causes interference then you can't sell it. Period. Fusion Lighting is SOL unless they can shield their product; and, frankly, I won't want to sit near one if it's not shielded, so I doubly doubt they have much choice on this issue.
I have no idea how they could enforce this without activly scanning all file transfers. Even then, how can they prove the file you're transferring isn't free? What if anyone can download the file, but you pay for a key to unlock it, a key they send via email? Looks like the companies who built the Great Firewall of China now have a new market.
On a related note, going through customs recently got me wondering about import duties on electronic file downloads across borders. Since the import duty is supposed to be on the value of the item (not what you claim you paid for it -- "I got this Rolex for $5"), then what is the "value" of Apache? Should I claim warze even though I pay nothing for them? Should I shut up, lest I give them ideas?
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Now, if they set up road blocks and searched anyone walking or driving down the street, that's unreasonable, as courts have found many, many times.
Later, Marketing discovers that their estimates and assumptions were off, but Engineering's already ordered the hardware so they've made their investment and can't go back. Management asks Marketing to raise the price to cut demand, and Marketing says "We're at the bend in the curve: If we charge a tiny bit more we'll lose so many customers that the whole thing will be a total failure."
So Management does the next best thing to raising rates for everyone: They change the TOC (limit bandwidth) enough to drive off the few high-cost customers while keeping the vast majority of customers, whose bandwidth is well within their capacity. Predictable, really.
Nah, wouldn't work -- clearly, the editors don't read the links before they post the stories.
Yes, the data it collects "relates to the flash application you are using," but the data does sit on your hard drive. It's an "AND" proposition, not an "OR" proposition. Plus, there's nothing but their word that other Flash sites -- or Macromedia themselves -- won't access the information. So it's not domain-limited cookies, it's Macromedia-specific super cookies.
Oh, wait, now you're in possesion of a stolen library book. Nevermind.
>sigh<
I'm afraid you're right.
I think putting nuclear waste in space is a grand idea, once you can ensure 100% success getting it there
I have also taken the time to learn more about nuclear waste, and the more I learn the more I oppose nuclear power plants. I think our only real hope is turning the waste into glass, but they refuse to do that because of cost, even though it will be far more expensive to clean up the Columbia river once those tanks at Hanford leak.
They're too busy moderating on Slashdot.
Then fire their lazy asses!
But they ARE attacking a pizza in the server room.
Insert your line here:
If you can't see that you're holding up traffic, you're either inconsiderate or blind; either way, you shouldn't be allowed to drive. As George Carlin purportedly said, "I think if you are in the passing lane, and not passing, your license should be revoked, and you should be forced to ride the bus until you promise to never delay the rest of us again."
We here in Washington also have a law that says if there are five or more vehicles behind you, you must pull over and let them pass. The law says nothing about speed; you could be going 80 in a 25 zone, but if you're holding up five or more you must pull over and let them pass. The law says nothing about lanes; it applies to eight lane Interstates as much as two lane country roads.
Least enforced law on the books, by far. If they bothered to enforce it, so-called "road rage" would disappear.
Perhaps you should demand that they pay you.
I don't blame /.'s editors one bit for rejecting the story.
Microwave ovens do not transmit; they are shielded, have double interlocks on the doors, etc., to prevent you from cooking yourself while you heat your pizza/tea/etc. If Fusion Lighting's products are not shielded, consumers won't want them and if not the FCC then the FTC/FDA/somebody won't allow them. Or damn well ought not allow them (with W in office, who knows?)
On a related note, going through customs recently got me wondering about import duties on electronic file downloads across borders. Since the import duty is supposed to be on the value of the item (not what you claim you paid for it -- "I got this Rolex for $5"), then what is the "value" of Apache? Should I claim warze even though I pay nothing for them? Should I shut up, lest I give them ideas?