It would be a lot simpler to build the base without frequent resupply ships. We can just find some schmoe just intelligent enough to run the base and put a clone factory on the moon base to produce new copies whenever the old guy gets himself killed.
What? You KNOW the Senator got his idea from watching Moon.
> And keep anything from the government. Getting fscked by Big Company Inc. is not as bad as what Big Government can do to you if you cannot (for example) prove that your kids are enrolled in school.
FYI my kids are not enrolled in school and the Big Government is fine with it. It's called homeschooling.
THIS is exactly why I don't get all my bills electronically. I would rather have them digital, but the way they do it now is more work for me. I get an email notification, I have to go to their web site, look up the password to log in, then navigate their site looking for the statement, clicking through some garbage marketing about a great new service that will pay my bills for a month if I get sick, before finding the right page and using their awful form to download a PDF.
How about just emailing me the PDF every month? Let me have it sent encrypted with my public key if I'm concerned about that.
> Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him... > Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.
Well then clearly the candidate has identified himself as someone who blindly follows orders no matters how ridiculous. Whether I hire him or not depends on whether that is a desired trait for this position.
But what if those aliens have totally psychotic numbers of digits on their limbs? 12 fingers on one hand, 3 on the other, 5,280 fingers on their feet. They will force us to go back to the Imperial system!
What? A) I'm not an interviewer, I'm a random guy on Slashdot posting his opinion. 2) What rules are you talking about? III) I'm disqualifying some idiot that walks into an interview wearing a red cape.
> Taking several minutes to startup due to the DRM and HDCP handshaking, key updating, communication, et cetera.
This is why I'm sitting on this generation under they work out the DRM bullshit. The 'big content' companies treat their customers terribly: Slowdowns and outright failures due to DRM and HDCP, forced-watching of FBI warnings and trailers, region locks. They wonder why there is so much piracy? It's not just because of price, it's because they have an inferior product, an aggressively HOSTILE product.
Why not put Steve Jobs in charge? He'll extend his reality distortion field across the globe and everyone will be drooling over American Blue Jeans again in no time.
Apple brings in a fair amount of money to APPLE. Apple employs 49,400 people worldwide according to Wikipedia. One of Apple's subcontractors, FoxConn, employs 400,000 at ONE of their iPhone assembly complexes.
"Our goods" refers to the only thing we make anymore, intellectual property: Ideas, music, movies, lawsuits, patents. Why do you think the USA is strong-arming the rest of the world to implement draconian protection for Big Content? It's the only thing we make and the powers-that-be know that.
Run a separate scraper from different IP addresses for each "category" on Slashdot. Each scraper will read all of the articles in that category and refresh the comments from time to time (random intervals) just like a human would. That would be pretty hard to detect.
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And party balloons. Everyone likes balloons.
And that fun squeaky voice you get by inhaling Helium. That's always a favorite.
It would be a lot simpler to build the base without frequent resupply ships. We can just find some schmoe just intelligent enough to run the base and put a clone factory on the moon base to produce new copies whenever the old guy gets himself killed.
What? You KNOW the Senator got his idea from watching Moon.
> evil like MS or Oracle or Apple
Updating my scorecard...
All your phone calls are belong to us!
> And keep anything from the government. Getting fscked by Big Company Inc. is not as bad as what Big Government can do to you if you cannot (for example) prove that your kids are enrolled in school.
FYI my kids are not enrolled in school and the Big Government is fine with it.
It's called homeschooling.
THIS is exactly why I don't get all my bills electronically. I would rather have them digital, but the way they do it now is more work for me. I get an email notification, I have to go to their web site, look up the password to log in, then navigate their site looking for the statement, clicking through some garbage marketing about a great new service that will pay my bills for a month if I get sick, before finding the right page and using their awful form to download a PDF.
How about just emailing me the PDF every month? Let me have it sent encrypted with my public key if I'm concerned about that.
Dude, your voicemail is full. You should check your messages more often.
Fine. What's your address? Slashdot is coming over tonight.
> Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him...
> Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.
I have some advice for law enforcement. Don't treat someone suspected of a non-violent crime as an excuse to play with all the new weapons you just got budget for. Things go wrong. People end up dead. Read http://reason.com/archives/2007/07/02/our-militarized-police-departm or http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476 or Google for "Paramilitary raids", "militarized police".
Well then clearly the candidate has identified himself as someone who blindly follows orders no matters how ridiculous. Whether I hire him or not depends on whether that is a desired trait for this position.
Would that be a liquid gallon ( 3.79 L), dry gallon ( 4.4 L), or imperial gallon ( 4.55 L)?
But what if those aliens have totally psychotic numbers of digits on their limbs? 12 fingers on one hand, 3 on the other, 5,280 fingers on their feet.
They will force us to go back to the Imperial system!
S, what, they turned you down?
What?
A) I'm not an interviewer, I'm a random guy on Slashdot posting his opinion.
2) What rules are you talking about?
III) I'm disqualifying some idiot that walks into an interview wearing a red cape.
Or if they walked into the interview wearing the cape.
So your solution to an out of control patent system is... to build a freeze-ray?
Watch as UnemployedMan steps into this phone booth, dons his bright red cape and emerges as... UnemployableMan!
But huffing cat urine is real, right?
The moral is: Turn off your iPhone before entering the Champagne Room!
> Taking several minutes to startup due to the DRM and HDCP handshaking, key updating, communication, et cetera.
This is why I'm sitting on this generation under they work out the DRM bullshit. The 'big content' companies treat their customers terribly: Slowdowns and outright failures due to DRM and HDCP, forced-watching of FBI warnings and trailers, region locks. They wonder why there is so much piracy? It's not just because of price, it's because they have an inferior product, an aggressively HOSTILE product.
Neat. I've never had a stalker before.
TimeCube much, APK?
Why not put Steve Jobs in charge? He'll extend his reality distortion field across the globe and everyone will be drooling over American Blue Jeans again in no time.
Apple brings in a fair amount of money to APPLE. Apple employs 49,400 people worldwide according to Wikipedia. One of Apple's subcontractors, FoxConn, employs 400,000 at ONE of their iPhone assembly complexes.
"Our goods" refers to the only thing we make anymore, intellectual property: Ideas, music, movies, lawsuits, patents. Why do you think the USA is strong-arming the rest of the world to implement draconian protection for Big Content? It's the only thing we make and the powers-that-be know that.
Run a separate scraper from different IP addresses for each "category" on Slashdot. Each scraper will read all of the articles in that category and refresh the comments from time to time (random intervals) just like a human would. That would be pretty hard to detect.