> That means if Kerry wins, p2p per se will not have legal problems during the next administration like it was tried to be banned [com.com] in this one?
Wait a second! Let's be fair here.
The article to which you refer to describes the Induce Act. Which I am diametrically opposed to.
But, to set the record straight, Senator Barbara Boxer is one of the co-sponsers of this miserable legislation.
And I can assure you that the liberal that Boxer is, has nothing, and I repeat nothing, to do with in "this administration" assuming you are refering to the George Bush administration.
George Bush, John Kerry, you name your candidate, none of them know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to specific knowledge about a particular subject.
That's why we hire damn good people to work at the CIA, etc.
And if the CIA stands before the president and says that Iraq had WMD and those weapons could be given to Osama then who is the president to question their expert opinion.
You tell me how Bush could have known that WMD reports were false! Name one legitimate way.
If you were presented with some pretty compelling evidence of WMD by the really sharp guys at the CIA and almost 4,000 are already dead what are you going to do?
Sit there on your ass?
And then on top of that you have a brutal dictator who has already killed hundreds of thousands, via WMD no less, telling the UN to get lost.
And this dictator would truly love to cause the US some serious harm, come on. Hitler was allowed to bully his way into several countries and more than six million people died because of it.
If six million die in an US city because all you want to do is argue over semantecs and you don't have the balls to stand up for what is right, then I hope to god you live in that city.
If you are the president and you don't do what's right, for all of humanity, then you are certainly derilect in your duty to protect the citizens of the United States.
So get off the lies bit. They weren't George Bush lies.
They were bad intelligence as a result of probably the CIA listening a little too closely to what the opposition folks in Iraq were saying.
The end result is the world is now less one brutal dictator who needed to be gotton rid of anyway.
There is not a single rational nation on the face of the earth that has almost 4000 citizens die at the hands of Islamic Fascists sit around and wait to be hit a second time.
While those same Islamic Facists brag about their so called god and blythely ignore that so-called UN consensous you blindly depend upon to secure your pathethic piece of the world.
Saddamn Hussein murdered hundreds of thousands of his own Kurdish countrymen, then he has the nerve to stick his chin out and say "I dare you to hit me because I have those weapons, and I will not let you look for them, and I will not let you talk to the people who are responsible for them."
He stuck his fucking chin out one too many times and the United States knocked it fucking off.
Iran, North Korea, and anyone else thinking about sticking their chin out better think very hard about it in the future. Because I and and a lot of other Americans are not afraid and will be happy to accomodate kicking your ass as well.
If you don't like this and you think your UN is going to protect you from Islamic Facists then I hope you remember what I'm about to say:
I will not have any pity upon you when those Islamic Facists slice your childrens' throats, your wifes throat, and then your throat.
> "Conservative" really means "corporate", the ideology of the 1950s "corporation man"
I beg to differ. You certainly have a right to start making up your own definitions to words if you want. Whether anyone will listen is a totally different matter.
A popular and adequate definition of "conservative" is: "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change."
Nowhere in that definition is any mention of money, profit, or gaming a system.
By annoying quirks do you mean the fact that they seem to corrupt about 1 in every six DVDs that are burned on them?
I guess it could just be my particular machine, but I'm pretty irritated at the poor quality my Panasonic DVD-Burner has exhibited to date.
I do have to caveat my experience above with the fact that I've been using blank memorex DVD-Rs.
I've recently, within the last four or five discs, opened up a pack of TDK DVD-Rs and I've yet to have a corruption issue. Until I get about 10 to 12 TDK discs under my belt though I'm blaming the corruptions on the Panasonic.
Assuming it is the Panasonic, I fear how badly the others in your post must perform.
Does anyone have the same problem with Slashodt's choice of font, specifically with this article's title.
Everytime I see an article like this I have to go through mental hoops to get my brain to interpret the correct meaning of "AI" not what I immediately read which is "AL" (but lowercase for the "L").
I'm sorry but I really wish a switch could be made to a font such that an uppercase "I" is not the exact same shape as a lower case "L".
I don't know the buzz words for the bars at the top and bottom of an I, or at the bottom of an L but suffice it to say that I believe if you're creating a font you shouldn't make two characters duplicates.
All of the 900 mhz advocates on this thread seem to think there is no interference I would like to interject and say that I do have interference issues with my 900 mhz phone and my 801.11 B equipment.
More specifically, I have a Panasonic 900 mhz gigarange telephone with some sort of digital spread spectrum technology (KX-TC1891B). The phone does not seem to impact my 801.11b equipment's (Linksys WRT54G) connectivity.
But, connectivity isn't everything.
As soon as I hooked a Hawking omnidirectional attenna onto my router I suddenly started hearing a beep on my computer speakers about every 5 seconds.
It about drove me nuts one day when I took the phone handset off the base unit and placed it in another room. I didn't realize that my phone was causing my computer to beep.
I thought something was dieing on my computer or that some program/virus was playing a cruel prank on me.
I must have rebooted that computer 20 times that day trying to isolate the cause of the beep. Never did.
Next day, put the phone back on the base unit and the beep went away.
Having discovered the source of the problem, I couldn't believe it, I turned the sound off via the computer's O/S, picked up the handset and no beep.
So, nowadays I have to turn the sound off on my computer before I answer the phone. Very annoying. But I paid a bundle for the two line phone, for which my wife was sorely irritated, so I guess I'm stuck.
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> the "average" soccer mom computer user that doesn't know about Google
I don't know where you are but I'll say this, Google is ALL the rage with Northern Alabama Grandmoms. And that is saying a LOT.
My mother's (a granny lady, 60 years plus) favorite phrase for a while was, "Why Yahoo! when you can Google".
In the spring when she isn't surfing the web she's entertaining herself by picking the tater bugs off her potato plants (she has an acre of the darn things). I kid you not! Poisons no longer work if you're wondering why...
We are talking about people who grew up with no electricity or in-home plumbing are embracing Google as much as they do Walmart. It's not just geeks.
If MS can present a clean, uncluttered, unbiased search then they MIGHT stand a chance. What's the likelihood of that happening though?
You're right, but you also have to consider the speeds involved. Planes need the proverbial "1000" feet of separation due to their speeds and the fact that there is absolutely no room for error.
Planes also have random actors, wind shear, missed approaches, runway incursions, bad communications, etc.
If the system could be designed such that it was 100 percent perfect all of the time it really wouldn't matter if it were cars, trains, or planes. Because it all boils down to rate times time equals distance.
Density isn't relevant under perfect conditions, but we know perfect conditions will never be achieved.
And if perfection cannot be achieved in cars on the ground how many people would be willing to put their lives into the hands of a computer program that might just not be able to "forecast" that 5 year old running out into the path at exactly the wrong time.
A lot of people would trust their own instinct over the computer's would be my guess, I could be wrong.
Have been doing these types of simulations with airplanes for about 15 years now. And I certainly wasn't the first to do it. So it's pretty old hat to me and a lot of other folks.
The most prevalant aviation simulation tool is called SIMMOD by the FAA.
Take a look at NASA's FAST system to see a real life working example used by air traffic controllers today.:
A $500.00 5 year service plan on an $8500.00 HDTV set back in 2000 at Fry's Electronics. Best $500.00 I ever spent.
One year after purchase of the TV the blue gun in it disentegrated. The guns have antifreeze in them if you don't know it.
Antifreeze spilled on the four layer motherboard. Antifreeze is deadly to motherboards I found out.
So they sent a guy who didn't know what he was doing to fix the TV. Six months (a home visit every two weeks on average) later my TV was worknig again. I saw the repair bill they submitted to Fry's. It was $4,000.00 bucks.
A year later the TV broke again. This time I requested a different repair outfit and got it. This time the TV was fixed in a week and it cost Fry's $1,200.00 bucks.
About 8 months ago the TV (Mitsubishi if you are wondering) broke again. This time the repair took a week and cost $400.00 for Fry's.
So, I've recieved $5,600.00 in repairs and done nothing other than pick up the phone to call the problem in to Fry's.
I'd say the more expensive the item the more you may need the repair/performance warrenty.
BTW, after having seen the guts of my big-screen a lot I've learned quite a bit about how those things are put together. I'm NOT impressed.
If Mitsu (Mitsubishi) had bother to spend $0.25 to put a catch pan underneath those guns the antifreeze would have never made it to the motherboard. A new gun installed is about $750.00 is my understanding versus the $4,000.00 it cost otherwise.
My TV has something like four motherboards and about 6 sub-boards attached to them. There is not a single cooling fan anywhere to be found.
Basically other problems like those noted above exist in the construction of this TV. From what I can tell the Mitsu people perceive an $8500.00 TV in the same way as a $100.00 DVD player. To them it's a throw-away item, apparently.
Not happy about the TV, feel great about the service plan though....
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Per,
The flamebait question. At the moment I looked at the summary of moderation and it came out like this:
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Moderation 0
30% Interesting
30% Informative
20% Offtopic
Extra 'Troll' Modifier 0 (Edit)
Total Score: 0
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For an overall score of 'Troll'.
My question is, how does 30% interesting, 30% informative, 20% offtopic, and 20% ??? not add up to something 'positive'?
> That means if Kerry wins, p2p per se will not have legal problems during the next administration like it was tried to be banned [com.com] in this one?
Wait a second! Let's be fair here.
The article to which you refer to describes the Induce Act. Which I am diametrically opposed to.
But, to set the record straight, Senator Barbara Boxer is one of the co-sponsers of this miserable legislation.
And I can assure you that the liberal that Boxer is, has nothing, and I repeat nothing, to do with in "this administration" assuming you are refering to the George Bush administration.
Yet she still is pushing this crap on you and I.
Dude,
George Bush, John Kerry, you name your candidate, none of them know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to specific knowledge about a particular subject.
That's why we hire damn good people to work at the CIA, etc.
And if the CIA stands before the president and says that Iraq had WMD and those weapons could be given to Osama then who is the president to question their expert opinion.
You tell me how Bush could have known that WMD reports were false! Name one legitimate way.
If you were presented with some pretty compelling evidence of WMD by the really sharp guys at the CIA and almost 4,000 are already dead what are you going to do?
Sit there on your ass?
And then on top of that you have a brutal dictator who has already killed hundreds of thousands, via WMD no less, telling the UN to get lost.
And this dictator would truly love to cause the US some serious harm, come on. Hitler was allowed to bully his way into several countries and more than six million people died because of it.
If six million die in an US city because all you want to do is argue over semantecs and you don't have the balls to stand up for what is right, then I hope to god you live in that city.
If you are the president and you don't do what's right, for all of humanity, then you are certainly derilect in your duty to protect the citizens of the United States.
So get off the lies bit. They weren't George Bush lies.
They were bad intelligence as a result of probably the CIA listening a little too closely to what the opposition folks in Iraq were saying.
The end result is the world is now less one brutal dictator who needed to be gotton rid of anyway.
I'll,
Explain the point.
There is not a single rational nation on the face of the earth that has almost 4000 citizens die at the hands of Islamic Fascists sit around and wait to be hit a second time.
While those same Islamic Facists brag about their so called god and blythely ignore that so-called UN consensous you blindly depend upon to secure your pathethic piece of the world.
Saddamn Hussein murdered hundreds of thousands of his own Kurdish countrymen, then he has the nerve to stick his chin out and say "I dare you to hit me because I have those weapons, and I will not let you look for them, and I will not let you talk to the people who are responsible for them."
He stuck his fucking chin out one too many times and the United States knocked it fucking off.
Iran, North Korea, and anyone else thinking about sticking their chin out better think very hard about it in the future. Because I and and a lot of other Americans are not afraid and will be happy to accomodate kicking your ass as well.
If you don't like this and you think your UN is going to protect you from Islamic Facists then I hope you remember what I'm about to say:
I will not have any pity upon you when those Islamic Facists slice your childrens' throats, your wifes throat, and then your throat.
I,
Used to enjoy Dr. Demento but alas I'm not as patient any more and find myself very rarely surfing radio stations.
If you go to the Dr. Demento website they specifically state that their "network" will not allow them to just list the stations that carry the show.
Anybody know what station Dr. Demento is played on in the San Jose, CA market? Would others in other markets like to chime also?
How stupid of a marketer do you have to be to not tell your customer where they can get the product. It leaves me scratching a big hole in my head.
TIA
> "Conservative" really means "corporate", the ideology of the 1950s "corporation man"
I beg to differ. You certainly have a right to start making up your own definitions to words if you want. Whether anyone will listen is a totally different matter.
A popular and adequate definition of "conservative" is: "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change."
Nowhere in that definition is any mention of money, profit, or gaming a system.
If,
True, then the guy better hope that he didn't sign a contract stating he would keep any trade-secrets secret.
Spray whatever you think cannot be harmed by water with it.
>Yes, they had their annoying quirks,
By annoying quirks do you mean the fact that they seem to corrupt about 1 in every six DVDs that are burned on them?
I guess it could just be my particular machine, but I'm pretty irritated at the poor quality my Panasonic DVD-Burner has exhibited to date.
I do have to caveat my experience above with the fact that I've been using blank memorex DVD-Rs.
I've recently, within the last four or five discs, opened up a pack of TDK DVD-Rs and I've yet to have a corruption issue. Until I get about 10 to 12 TDK discs under my belt though I'm blaming the corruptions on the Panasonic.
Assuming it is the Panasonic, I fear how badly the others in your post must perform.
Instead,
Of getting your panties all in a wad and wasteing a lot of time, just buy another phone/service/etc.
You wallet speaks a lot more loudly than your hacking skills.
Wouldn't "Swooosh" be more appropriate?
Fabreze
Does anyone have the same problem with Slashodt's choice of font, specifically with this article's title.
Everytime I see an article like this I have to go through mental hoops to get my brain to interpret the correct meaning of "AI" not what I immediately read which is "AL" (but lowercase for the "L").
I'm sorry but I really wish a switch could be made to a font such that an uppercase "I" is not the exact same shape as a lower case "L".
I don't know the buzz words for the bars at the top and bottom of an I, or at the bottom of an L but suffice it to say that I believe if you're creating a font you shouldn't make two characters duplicates.
Well, you have your theory and I have mine.
But I'd say that quite a few of those automated zombie MS Windows machines out there are also quite likely to be turned off on holidays.
On,
A couple of occasions during Slashdot discussions of spam I've noted that I get very little spam on holidays such as New Years or the Fourth of July.
Personally I attributed it to spammers being in the United States rather than the purported "China". Hey, spammers gotta celebrate too ya know.
But, I was berated on Slashdot that I was loonie and I had no idea what I was talking about. So to all those out there who said I was full of it:
HA! I told you so.
Just,
Thought of this one.
First MS argues that Linux has a higher TCO than Windows.
But, doesn't that by definition mean there is more money being spent on services, etc.
So therefore. how can they then argue that a business cannot make money selling Linux?
Given,
All of the 900 mhz advocates on this thread seem to think there is no interference I would like to interject and say that I do have interference issues with my 900 mhz phone and my 801.11 B equipment.
More specifically, I have a Panasonic 900 mhz gigarange telephone with some sort of digital spread spectrum technology (KX-TC1891B). The phone does not seem to impact my 801.11b equipment's (Linksys WRT54G) connectivity.
But, connectivity isn't everything.
As soon as I hooked a Hawking omnidirectional attenna onto my router I suddenly started hearing a beep on my computer speakers about every 5 seconds.
It about drove me nuts one day when I took the phone handset off the base unit and placed it in another room. I didn't realize that my phone was causing my computer to beep.
I thought something was dieing on my computer or that some program/virus was playing a cruel prank on me.
I must have rebooted that computer 20 times that day trying to isolate the cause of the beep. Never did.
Next day, put the phone back on the base unit and the beep went away.
Having discovered the source of the problem, I couldn't believe it, I turned the sound off via the computer's O/S, picked up the handset and no beep.
So, nowadays I have to turn the sound off on my computer before I answer the phone. Very annoying. But I paid a bundle for the two line phone, for which my wife was sorely irritated, so I guess I'm stuck.
Their customer service phone number in the US is:
(800) 631-8571.
For those of you,
Who are staring down the double barreled outsourcing monster you might want to consider a talent for fixing TVs as a godsend.
I mean, who in their right mind is gonna ship a 60 inch plasma TV to india for repair? Gotta be done locally, get the drift....
Plus, from everything I've ever seen those TV repair guys make some pretty good dough while getting to play with all kinds of electronic gadgetry.
> the "average" soccer mom computer user that doesn't know about Google
I don't know where you are but I'll say this, Google is ALL the rage with Northern Alabama Grandmoms. And that is saying a LOT.
My mother's (a granny lady, 60 years plus) favorite phrase for a while was, "Why Yahoo! when you can Google".
In the spring when she isn't surfing the web she's entertaining herself by picking the tater bugs off her potato plants (she has an acre of the darn things). I kid you not! Poisons no longer work if you're wondering why...
We are talking about people who grew up with no electricity or in-home plumbing are embracing Google as much as they do Walmart. It's not just geeks.
If MS can present a clean, uncluttered, unbiased search then they MIGHT stand a chance. What's the likelihood of that happening though?
If,
MS can do a filesystem built on top of SQL Server then Linux should try to build one on top of MySQL.
It probably would be popular...
BTW, before somebody gets all bent outta shape the above is a joke.
Well,
You're right, but you also have to consider the speeds involved. Planes need the proverbial "1000" feet of separation due to their speeds and the fact that there is absolutely no room for error.
Planes also have random actors, wind shear, missed approaches, runway incursions, bad communications, etc.
If the system could be designed such that it was 100 percent perfect all of the time it really wouldn't matter if it were cars, trains, or planes. Because it all boils down to rate times time equals distance.
Density isn't relevant under perfect conditions, but we know perfect conditions will never be achieved.
And if perfection cannot be achieved in cars on the ground how many people would be willing to put their lives into the hands of a computer program that might just not be able to "forecast" that 5 year old running out into the path at exactly the wrong time.
A lot of people would trust their own instinct over the computer's would be my guess, I could be wrong.
I,
f ast.html
Have been doing these types of simulations with airplanes for about 15 years now. And I certainly wasn't the first to do it. So it's pretty old hat to me and a lot of other folks.
The most prevalant aviation simulation tool is called SIMMOD by the FAA.
Take a look at NASA's FAST system to see a real life working example used by air traffic controllers today.:
http://www.ctas.arc.nasa.gov/project_description/
Done in air traffic control everyday. On a different scale mind you.
Bought,
A $500.00 5 year service plan on an $8500.00 HDTV set back in 2000 at Fry's Electronics. Best $500.00 I ever spent.
One year after purchase of the TV the blue gun in it disentegrated. The guns have antifreeze in them if you don't know it.
Antifreeze spilled on the four layer motherboard. Antifreeze is deadly to motherboards I found out.
So they sent a guy who didn't know what he was doing to fix the TV. Six months (a home visit every two weeks on average) later my TV was worknig again. I saw the repair bill they submitted to Fry's. It was $4,000.00 bucks.
A year later the TV broke again. This time I requested a different repair outfit and got it. This time the TV was fixed in a week and it cost Fry's $1,200.00 bucks.
About 8 months ago the TV (Mitsubishi if you are wondering) broke again. This time the repair took a week and cost $400.00 for Fry's.
So, I've recieved $5,600.00 in repairs and done nothing other than pick up the phone to call the problem in to Fry's.
I'd say the more expensive the item the more you may need the repair/performance warrenty.
BTW, after having seen the guts of my big-screen a lot I've learned quite a bit about how those things are put together. I'm NOT impressed.
If Mitsu (Mitsubishi) had bother to spend $0.25 to put a catch pan underneath those guns the antifreeze would have never made it to the motherboard. A new gun installed is about $750.00 is my understanding versus the $4,000.00 it cost otherwise.
My TV has something like four motherboards and about 6 sub-boards attached to them. There is not a single cooling fan anywhere to be found.
Basically other problems like those noted above exist in the construction of this TV. From what I can tell the Mitsu people perceive an $8500.00 TV in the same way as a $100.00 DVD player. To them it's a throw-away item, apparently.
Not happy about the TV, feel great about the service plan though....