Everytime I try to use a CFL I find that it starts to flicker after about four or five weeks. I cannot stand that so I give up on them. Great idea, poor implementation....
Least in the USA we are "relatively" free to innovate.
What somebody needs to do is to devise a DVD player that can read a file delineating where the objectionable parts are on the particular DVD. Once the bad parts are known to the player the player simply skips them.
People who want to view the unedited version are happy and those that don't desire to see whatever content can be happy as well.
The original content on the original DVD is not altered in any manner. Copyright is protected.
Religious groups could then produce the "files" to correspond to their own needs and distribute these files via the Internet. The files are uploaded to the special DVD player...
It's basically the same as having Adblock installed in Firefox. You simply delineate what you don't want to see and Firefox delivers what you do want to see. No one is sueing Firefox for eliminating advertisements.
I'm not way off-track one of the purposes of a parking meter is the annoyance feature. Keeps a set of rich guys from pumping quarters in it all day long without any negative consequences for them.
This tech enables that sort of behavior.
And then the poor slobs get to walk a half a mile just to get to the courthouse.....
I get placed on hold/disconnected I have started accusing the next rep I speak to of being verbally abusive to her management. Regardless of what is said. They don't like to hear it, because I make sure that I'm the absolute sweetest person you've ever talked to. Drives em nuts that they cannot shake me and I call them abusive simultaneously....
I would say he possibly has a libel case on his hands, with him being the beneficiary.
Assuming he did not enter into an enforceable verbal (or written) contract, then he is potentially gonna make a buck off of those boneheads. And that's assuming they did more than merely quote him.
If he is so certain his case is so great, and the legal fees are getting him down, then he should find a firm willing to work on contengency.
Better, yet, drop the lawsuit and simply cooperate with the weasily lawyers who did this to him.
Then, at trial simply testify for Apple instead. That would get the lawyers good!
For me, what would be nice is if RMS would not spend the first 75% of his dissertation criticising Sun, but actually criticising those who are the actual targets of the dissertation.
> What happens when the people who release the evidence have been shown to have been lying about everything else important during that time period?.... Like Iraq WMD
To say that Iraq never had WMD is pure non-sense. Ask the thousands of living Iranian widows or the Kurdish what gas they or their loved ones were exposed to and when.
Anyone with a reasonable understanding of how ruthless Sadam Hussein was would have good reason to believe that he possessed those weapons in 2003, just as he did in the mid-to-late 80s.
Those who choose to blindly ignore those facts are doomed to die at the hands of dictators.
>... Like cheaper, more plentiful oil.
I'm guessing you are hiding in a cave somewhere. You obviously haven't bought gas recently.
> When lying liars lie about all those important activities, there's no reason to trust evidence they produce that merely protects another story they tell, which if exposed would have kept our country from going down the track to hell it's been on for the past 5 years.
Liars, perhaps. To me, they are all liars really.
But, then, just to even the score, let's put things in perspective.
The twin towers could have just as easily have fallen in 1993 when they were bombed by a truck in the basement. Would Bill Clinton have gone to war over that? Good question? Perhaps answered by the next set of facts:
Bill Clinton bombed Serbia after a negotiated settlement to end the war in Yugoslavia had been agreed to, and who profitted from that? If you are brave enough and not a hypocrit read the following article, it makes a lot of interesting points:
Bill Clinton, at minimum, "allowed" innocent children to be burned alive by the FBI in Waco. Just exactly who was David Koresh threatening so badly that ramming a tank into the building and setting afire was necessary? Was the death of 80 people worthwhile, 23 of them under the age of 17?
I'm fed up with mental midgets who choose to only see half of a problem. I'm not particularly happy with the way things are going in DC myself, but quite frankly I'm also sick of one-sided arguments as well.
Exactly what makes you such a hot shot know it all? You seem to spends a lot more time on slashdot than monitoring your TFR violations.
> Just because you claim that it's true doesn't make it so.
About the only thing you have said that has any validity. But, in this case it was true.
> I don't remember any (i.e. TFR violations) that match your discription (interspection 2 hours later)
That's not surprising given I didn't even say where it occurred.
And just exactly what is an "interspection"? That's not even a word. Who is making up things here?
> nor does any of the actions match the established procedure
Excuse me. I didn't even detail what did happen. You have no idea what my friends did, beyond changing course to avoid weather on a cross-country flight. You have no idea what the F16 did, when/where the dog came into play, what the police did, what the secret service did, nothing, you are clueless as to it all. You are deluding yuorself into thinking nothing happened because I didn't detail every minute of my friends' ordeal. I did say that I wanted to keep the story short thank you very much.
> If you buddy was a passenger, there would be no reason for him to be detained beyond the questioning, because he did nothing wrong
You tell that to the secret service. They will laugh you out of the ballpark.
> if he was the pilot, the same would be true, but regulatory action would ensue if he was at fault.
Did I say there was no penalty? Did I say my pilot buddy got off scott-free? No I did not. He lost his pilots license (at least temporarily) thank you very much.
> Also even the FBI doesn't work that fast to get that type of data,
Once again, how do you know? Because you don't. You are living in you own little fantasy world where you believe what you want to believe. Anything outside of your little rose-colored glasses apparently doesn't exist.
Grow up and realize that you are not the center of all knowledge.
> First, I think this story is transparent BS. I don't think any of it happened
All 100 percent true. Sorry you don't believe it.
> either have your websurfing habits faxed to the field agent or face rape and disease -- is the most ludicrous thing I've heard all week
It was meant to be ludicrous. It was meant to express an extreme of what could happen. And stuff like that does happen, whether you want to believe it or not.
> Exactly how were his websurfing habits relevant?
I never said the websurfing habits were relevant. The point was that somebody else thought they were.
> In what way did that information save him from a night in jail?
Can't you read? The sum total of their experience of being interrogated, which included questioning about their prior online actions was all done in a period of a few fours. I'm not arguing whether it was necessary or not by the SS, but I do argue that it was a lot better than having to wait in a jail cell overnight for the information to be gathered on them because some judge didn't want to be awakened over the issue. If you don't like that you can lump that.
> Why would he need to be detained until those records can be released?
I don't know, why don't you ask the SS guy? I'm just relating what happened.
> Never mind the tenuous link to him being raped.
There is no tenuous link at all. Bad things happen to people who are thrown into jail overnight. There are bad people in jail, you have no other choice except to mingle with them. Don't believe it, then why don't you just volunteer for a night or two, it might just change you entire perspective on life.
> What are the odds that there are 3000 invividual situations that legitmately warrant issuing a secret subpeona
A couple of buddies of mine just went through a secret subpeona last weekend and believe me it was no picnic for them.
Basically, they were flying back from a NASCAR race in their little puddle jumper, had to divert away from their flight plan due to a weather situation. The guy flying did everything in the correct manner, notified air traffic control, stayed away from the weather, etc.
Unfortunately, what my pilot buddy didn't know was that he was overflying George Bush who was physically at the military base whose airspace my buddy was traversing (legitimately mind you, they've done it three previous times without incident).
To make a long story short, an F16 was involved (not good), a large irritated rotweiler (not good) was involved, spread-eagled face-down positions were involved (not good), and several loaded, safeties off, pointed at my buddies, shotguns were involved (not good).
During the three hour interrogation, the secret service asked my pilot buddy "So Mr. So and So, just exactly what is up with you exploring the George Bush bobble-head doll website on so and so date". My buddy replied, "Oh, that had to have been my ultra-liberal wife looking at those websites". Which is 100 percent the case given I know what a fan of GWB my friend is and how his wife doesn't particularly care for GWB.
So the duration between the time my buddies were first spotted "off-course" and the interrogation was about 2.5 hours to three hours.
During that three hours they figured out who owned the plane, where they were supposed to land, had police and SS waiting for them there (plus at an alternate airport), and got my buddy's surfing logs out to a field agent.
The secret service guy did tell my buddy that this sort of situation happens all the time in the Washington DC area.
So 3,000 occurances a year nationwide doesn't surprise me a bit given a couple of my bone-headed NASCAR enjoying buddies got caught up in it last weekend.
Was the action warranted? That's debatable, and always will be. My buddies certainly didn't care for it, especially since one of them had been needing to urinate for the 5 hours or so hours prior to landing and the secret service really just didn't care that much about his urinary issues.
One thing it did do was that it got my buddies out the door a lot quicker than if they had been forced to be held overnight in a jail cell (not good) while a judge looked it all over and gave her approval.
What if some aids infected inmate had decided to make one of my buddies his new girlfriend for the night? That would have been a lot worse than having your rights trampled per having a judge issue a subpeona to get your GWB bobblehead dool surfing habits revealed. Or is there someone out there who would rather have had the aids?
I just spent 1.5 hours on a second line trying to get the boneheads at ATT to fix my blooming main land-line I'd much rather the EFF sue to get ATT to provide better customer service.
That's cool, at least someone is getting to use something.
Funny thing is I live in an adjacent city, Cupertino, and I (plus all the neighbors down my street) got a metro-fi ad on the front door the other day saying metro-fi is in Sunnyvale.
Well, that's great if I'm out driving around with my laptop, but it doesn't do me a lot of good otherwise.
And, I wonder why would Sunnyvale be essentially advertising to those living in Cupertino?
Went to Metro-FI and looked up the old address where I lived at in Sunnyvale and they say they don't have it there, hmmm.
Also where I have a vehicle of mine serviced at is in Sunnyvale and they don't see the free Sunnyvale service either.
Personally I think free WiFi is a pipe dream imagined by those who have a lot of imagination and not a lot of implementation experience.
WiFi can be done, but from my own personal experience in my home with dead spots, neighbors on the same channel, etc. I would say that those dreamers have a LOT of work to do....
Well he is wrong. Oracle is pretty much O/S neutral. And they have good reasons for being so. I'll let you figure that one out on your own.
If all Oracle wanted was a Linux O/S distribution then what would stop them from simply going to a particular distribution's website and downloading it?
What is really happening is that one of their major Linux partners, Redhat, has been moving into the applications business recently. So much so that they have begun to compete with Oracle on quite a few fronts.
Thus, Oracle is looking at the situation and saying what money making venture, not charitable situation, is the best fit in a changing competitive landscape. Apparently the answer is Novell, i.e., fits better than any other, it's more mature, etc.
"For me, evolution is not a theory, it is my religion"
I take you at your word.
And with all of your computer simulations, you still cannot tell me where the elemental particles of nature are derived from originally.
Doesn't that bother you at all? Don't you have any curiosity where the atoms (and their subparticles, and so on) themselves came from?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Science is wonderful. I truly enjoy all that it has to offer. Evolution is a beautiful subcomponent of science which is to be admired. To me evolution can easily be thought of as the diagrammatic representation of a higher being workings to create the diversity which we see today on planet earth.
But, science has one major hole. It has never told me with any definitive certainty from where all the molecules of matter that exist in the universe originated.
And until it does I will overlook it's ignorance and continue to believe what I choose to believe.
I suspect you will also, but, that it your shortcoming and not mine.
> For me, evolution is not a theory, it is my religion
Therein is the problem. If one cannot teach ID in schools because it is religious in nature, yet you have the nerve to say evolution is a religion to you, then why should evolution be permitted to be taught in school?
Who is persecuting who may I ask?
Why is your religion to be favored over mine? Why is your's superior? Why do you feel threatened by mine, perhaps it is because I might feel threatened by yours?
Slashdot Mirror
Everytime I try to use a CFL I find that it starts to flicker after about four or five weeks. I cannot stand that so I give up on them. Great idea, poor implementation....
At,
Least in the USA we are "relatively" free to innovate.
What somebody needs to do is to devise a DVD player that can read a file delineating where the objectionable parts are on the particular DVD. Once the bad parts are known to the player the player simply skips them.
People who want to view the unedited version are happy and those that don't desire to see whatever content can be happy as well.
The original content on the original DVD is not altered in any manner. Copyright is protected.
Religious groups could then produce the "files" to correspond to their own needs and distribute these files via the Internet. The files are uploaded to the special DVD player...
It's basically the same as having Adblock installed in Firefox. You simply delineate what you don't want to see and Firefox delivers what you do want to see. No one is sueing Firefox for eliminating advertisements.
Should be the same for objectionable DVD content.
An,
Inept co-worker had moved his PC from one side of his office to the other all by himself!
When his computer failed repeatedly to turn on he meticulously checked to confirm the power cord was plugged into the power strip.
Yes, it was plugged in. Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!
He called the systems administrator, who walked over, just to find that the co-worker had plugged the computer into the power strip properly.
Unfortunately, he had plugged the power strip into itself......
If,
I'm not way off-track one of the purposes of a parking meter is the annoyance feature. Keeps a set of rich guys from pumping quarters in it all day long without any negative consequences for them.
This tech enables that sort of behavior.
And then the poor slobs get to walk a half a mile just to get to the courthouse.....
If,
I get placed on hold/disconnected I have started accusing the next rep I speak to of being verbally abusive to her management. Regardless of what is said. They don't like to hear it, because I make sure that I'm the absolute sweetest person you've ever talked to. Drives em nuts that they cannot shake me and I call them abusive simultaneously....
> But the US is too lovely and Christian to do the same?
Hey,
At least this Christian country, called the USA, which you so obviously despise, doesn't shut Google down for an entire two weeks without explanation.
Hacker Resells VOIP For "Fun" and Profit
Do,
You suppose this drive uses technology similar to that Magneto uses to achieve all of his Mutant feats?
But,
I would say he possibly has a libel case on his hands, with him being the beneficiary.
Assuming he did not enter into an enforceable verbal (or written) contract, then he is potentially gonna make a buck off of those boneheads. And that's assuming they did more than merely quote him.
If he is so certain his case is so great, and the legal fees are getting him down, then he should find a firm willing to work on contengency.
Better, yet, drop the lawsuit and simply cooperate with the weasily lawyers who did this to him.
Then, at trial simply testify for Apple instead. That would get the lawyers good!
I agree with your assessment of the article.
For me, what would be nice is if RMS would not spend the first 75% of his dissertation criticising Sun, but actually criticising those who are the actual targets of the dissertation.
> What happens when the people who release the evidence have been shown to have been lying about everything else important during that time period? .... Like Iraq WMD
... Like cheaper, more plentiful oil.
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To say that Iraq never had WMD is pure non-sense. Ask the thousands of living Iranian widows or the Kurdish what gas they or their loved ones were exposed to and when.
Anyone with a reasonable understanding of how ruthless Sadam Hussein was would have good reason to believe that he possessed those weapons in 2003, just as he did in the mid-to-late 80s.
Those who choose to blindly ignore those facts are doomed to die at the hands of dictators.
>
I'm guessing you are hiding in a cave somewhere. You obviously haven't bought gas recently.
> When lying liars lie about all those important activities, there's no reason to trust evidence they produce that merely protects another story they tell, which if exposed would have kept our country from going down the track to hell it's been on for the past 5 years.
Liars, perhaps. To me, they are all liars really.
But, then, just to even the score, let's put things in perspective.
The twin towers could have just as easily have fallen in 1993 when they were bombed by a truck in the basement. Would Bill Clinton have gone to war over that? Good question? Perhaps answered by the next set of facts:
Bill Clinton bombed Serbia after a negotiated settlement to end the war in Yugoslavia had been agreed to, and who profitted from that? If you are brave enough and not a hypocrit read the following article, it makes a lot of interesting points:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/yugo-m0
Flattering to no-one I would say!
Bill Clinton, at minimum, "allowed" innocent children to be burned alive by the FBI in Waco. Just exactly who was David Koresh threatening so badly that ramming a tank into the building and setting afire was necessary? Was the death of 80 people worthwhile, 23 of them under the age of 17?
I'm fed up with mental midgets who choose to only see half of a problem. I'm not particularly happy with the way things are going in DC myself, but quite frankly I'm also sick of one-sided arguments as well.
It's called the McDonnell Douglas DC-X.
You would think NASA could come up with a more wasteful way to waste money...
I've got it,
The ultimate "You can't touch this gadget Mr. Congressman!"
A combination "Fuzzy kitten/Solar cell/Colt 45/Digital Receiver & Recorder/Bible (insert your own holy book here)".
There's something for everyone...And who says a do-it-all gadget cannot be successful.
Just
Exactly what makes you such a hot shot know it all? You seem to spends a lot more time on slashdot than monitoring your TFR violations.
> Just because you claim that it's true doesn't make it so.
About the only thing you have said that has any validity. But, in this case it was true.
> I don't remember any (i.e. TFR violations) that match your discription (interspection 2 hours later)
That's not surprising given I didn't even say where it occurred.
And just exactly what is an "interspection"? That's not even a word. Who is making up things here?
> nor does any of the actions match the established procedure
Excuse me. I didn't even detail what did happen. You have no idea what my friends did, beyond changing course to avoid weather on a cross-country flight. You have no idea what the F16 did, when/where the dog came into play, what the police did, what the secret service did, nothing, you are clueless as to it all. You are deluding yuorself into thinking nothing happened because I didn't detail every minute of my friends' ordeal. I did say that I wanted to keep the story short thank you very much.
> If you buddy was a passenger, there would be no reason for him to be detained beyond the questioning, because he did nothing wrong
You tell that to the secret service. They will laugh you out of the ballpark.
> if he was the pilot, the same would be true, but regulatory action would ensue if he was at fault.
Did I say there was no penalty? Did I say my pilot buddy got off scott-free? No I did not. He lost his pilots license (at least temporarily) thank you very much.
> Also even the FBI doesn't work that fast to get that type of data,
Once again, how do you know? Because you don't. You are living in you own little fantasy world where you believe what you want to believe. Anything outside of your little rose-colored glasses apparently doesn't exist.
Grow up and realize that you are not the center of all knowledge.
> First, I think this story is transparent BS. I don't think any of it happened
All 100 percent true. Sorry you don't believe it.
> either have your websurfing habits faxed to the field agent or face rape and disease -- is the most ludicrous thing I've heard all week
It was meant to be ludicrous. It was meant to express an extreme of what could happen. And stuff like that does happen, whether you want to believe it or not.
> Exactly how were his websurfing habits relevant?
I never said the websurfing habits were relevant. The point was that somebody else thought they were.
> In what way did that information save him from a night in jail?
Can't you read? The sum total of their experience of being interrogated, which included questioning about their prior online actions was all done in a period of a few fours. I'm not arguing whether it was necessary or not by the SS, but I do argue that it was a lot better than having to wait in a jail cell overnight for the information to be gathered on them because some judge didn't want to be awakened over the issue. If you don't like that you can lump that.
> Why would he need to be detained until those records can be released?
I don't know, why don't you ask the SS guy? I'm just relating what happened.
> Never mind the tenuous link to him being raped.
There is no tenuous link at all. Bad things happen to people who are thrown into jail overnight. There are bad people in jail, you have no other choice except to mingle with them. Don't believe it, then why don't you just volunteer for a night or two, it might just change you entire perspective on life.
Sorry kids,
100 percent true.
> What are the odds that there are 3000 invividual situations that legitmately warrant issuing a secret subpeona
A couple of buddies of mine just went through a secret subpeona last weekend and believe me it was no picnic for them.
Basically, they were flying back from a NASCAR race in their little puddle jumper, had to divert away from their flight plan due to a weather situation. The guy flying did everything in the correct manner, notified air traffic control, stayed away from the weather, etc.
Unfortunately, what my pilot buddy didn't know was that he was overflying George Bush who was physically at the military base whose airspace my buddy was traversing (legitimately mind you, they've done it three previous times without incident).
To make a long story short, an F16 was involved (not good), a large irritated rotweiler (not good) was involved, spread-eagled face-down positions were involved (not good), and several loaded, safeties off, pointed at my buddies, shotguns were involved (not good).
During the three hour interrogation, the secret service asked my pilot buddy "So Mr. So and So, just exactly what is up with you exploring the George Bush bobble-head doll website on so and so date". My buddy replied, "Oh, that had to have been my ultra-liberal wife looking at those websites". Which is 100 percent the case given I know what a fan of GWB my friend is and how his wife doesn't particularly care for GWB.
So the duration between the time my buddies were first spotted "off-course" and the interrogation was about 2.5 hours to three hours.
During that three hours they figured out who owned the plane, where they were supposed to land, had police and SS waiting for them there (plus at an alternate airport), and got my buddy's surfing logs out to a field agent.
The secret service guy did tell my buddy that this sort of situation happens all the time in the Washington DC area.
So 3,000 occurances a year nationwide doesn't surprise me a bit given a couple of my bone-headed NASCAR enjoying buddies got caught up in it last weekend.
Was the action warranted? That's debatable, and always will be. My buddies certainly didn't care for it, especially since one of them had been needing to urinate for the 5 hours or so hours prior to landing and the secret service really just didn't care that much about his urinary issues.
One thing it did do was that it got my buddies out the door a lot quicker than if they had been forced to be held overnight in a jail cell (not good) while a judge looked it all over and gave her approval.
What if some aids infected inmate had decided to make one of my buddies his new girlfriend for the night? That would have been a lot worse than having your rights trampled per having a judge issue a subpeona to get your GWB bobblehead dool surfing habits revealed. Or is there someone out there who would rather have had the aids?
Given,
I just spent 1.5 hours on a second line trying to get the boneheads at ATT to fix my blooming main land-line I'd much rather the EFF sue to get ATT to provide better customer service.
> the grassroots direct-marketing techniques of the consumer world are starting to be used to tout enterprise software
I hope that doesn't mean unwanted phone calls just as you are about to eat dinner.
> I use it.
That's cool, at least someone is getting to use something.
Funny thing is I live in an adjacent city, Cupertino, and I (plus all the neighbors down my street) got a metro-fi ad on the front door the other day saying metro-fi is in Sunnyvale.
Well, that's great if I'm out driving around with my laptop, but it doesn't do me a lot of good otherwise.
And, I wonder why would Sunnyvale be essentially advertising to those living in Cupertino?
Just,
Went to Metro-FI and looked up the old address where I lived at in Sunnyvale and they say they don't have it there, hmmm.
Also where I have a vehicle of mine serviced at is in Sunnyvale and they don't see the free Sunnyvale service either.
Personally I think free WiFi is a pipe dream imagined by those who have a lot of imagination and not a lot of implementation experience.
WiFi can be done, but from my own personal experience in my home with dead spots, neighbors on the same channel, etc. I would say that those dreamers have a LOT of work to do....
Richard Monson-Haefel,
Says "Oracle, which is looking only for an OS".
Well he is wrong. Oracle is pretty much O/S neutral. And they have good reasons for being so. I'll let you figure that one out on your own.
If all Oracle wanted was a Linux O/S distribution then what would stop them from simply going to a particular distribution's website and downloading it?
What is really happening is that one of their major Linux partners, Redhat, has been moving into the applications business recently. So much so that they have begun to compete with Oracle on quite a few fronts.
Thus, Oracle is looking at the situation and saying what money making venture, not charitable situation, is the best fit in a changing competitive landscape. Apparently the answer is Novell, i.e., fits better than any other, it's more mature, etc.
I'm sorry,
I didn't realize that your original subject line describes your state of being.
I will not argue with you anymore.
Perhaps you should consider medical treatment?
You,
AND, ONLY YOU, SAID, AND I QUOTE:
"For me, evolution is not a theory, it is my religion"
I take you at your word.
And with all of your computer simulations, you still cannot tell me where the elemental particles of nature are derived from originally.
Doesn't that bother you at all? Don't you have any curiosity where the atoms (and their subparticles, and so on) themselves came from?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Science is wonderful. I truly enjoy all that it has to offer. Evolution is a beautiful subcomponent of science which is to be admired. To me evolution can easily be thought of as the diagrammatic representation of a higher being workings to create the diversity which we see today on planet earth.
But, science has one major hole. It has never told me with any definitive certainty from where all the molecules of matter that exist in the universe originated.
And until it does I will overlook it's ignorance and continue to believe what I choose to believe.
I suspect you will also, but, that it your shortcoming and not mine.
> For me, evolution is not a theory, it is my religion
Therein is the problem. If one cannot teach ID in schools because it is religious in nature, yet you have the nerve to say evolution is a religion to you, then why should evolution be permitted to be taught in school?
Who is persecuting who may I ask?
Why is your religion to be favored over mine? Why is your's superior? Why do you feel threatened by mine, perhaps it is because I might feel threatened by yours?