I know you're a trolling anonymous coward who won't even see this, but just for the record I am home-schooling my three kids so they get a better education. I am teaching them to think for themselves. They realized that the bible is illogical and contradictory about the same time they realized Santa couldn't really be true either, and I couldn't be prouder.
> The Chinese are excellent businessmen, and that isn't said as an insult. I admire their ability to think in terms of generations of sustainable output and make business decisions accordingly.
What I admire is their ability to feed Malamine to their babies to make a few yuan. Let's see how much good their economic expansion does them when they are the most sickly people on Earth. I'll stick with my EPA protections and do without this years latest consumer electronics, thank you.
Top stories tonight: Researches at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated energy positive nuclear fusion in a safe economical design. In unrelated news, the Department of Homeland Security has announced that Bolivia is massing weapons of mass destruction and must be invaded before it's too late.
> Is this headline news only because > It is tangentially connected to someone getting shot?
No, it's news for nerds because it is rumored that Vladimir Antonov, son of Alexander Antonov, the power behind Convers Group, the biggest investor in Spyker Cars owns a computer...
Wait for it... . .... that runs Linux.
There, Slashdot relevance in 5 degrees of separation!
The Cable operator I spoke to when I canceled cable had a hard time with the concept. She tried to offer me a discount, but I said 'I don't WANT cable'. She offer a better discount. I replied 'I don't want a discount, I want NO TV.'. She said she understood I didn't have kids and must be too busy. I told her I have three young kids. She stammered 'but but but don't they have favorite shows kids shows Hannah Montana Gomez Disney what?'. She just couldn't believe it.
BTW it took three months for the kids to even notice I had canceled cable. I think I was the one who missed it most.
> Flopping down on the couch and turning on the TV to "see what's on" are going to become a thing of the past at my house.
If if if if and if.
What are you waiting for? We did it two years ago and we've never been happier. My family spends a lot more time doing things together now, we play board games, we read a lot, we cook more instead of ordering in, we go outside and do things. You have no idea how much of your time the TV sucks up.
You probably feel like you don't have enough time to do all the thing you'd like to do. Most people do. If I offered you a magical gift of four extra hours a day, what would you give up for it? Would you give up watching whatever crap happened to be on TV at any random moment? Sounds like an easy choice, right? It's easy and all you have to do is break the habit.
We still watch DVDs, and play on the computer. We just don't watch "whatever happens to be on" anymore.
Hmmm, you idea's intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, but unfortunately as soon as it's template is recognized I'll stop getting it.
> that's the only thing that request could possibly mean.
No, she's in her late 60s and doesn't own a computer. She saw a movie once where the "hackers" could look at people by hacking into a satellite camera and "enhance" the picture right down into someone's house. Even if all of that were plausible how the hell does she think it can see through her roof? And more importantly *WHY* would someone want to see HER in the bath?
You kids and your post-singularity A.I.s get off my lawn.
> Many (maybe most?) intelligent people (I'll arrogantly include myself in that category) believe that computers can think
Well MY computer certainly can't think. It can barely carry out the explicit instructions I give it in excruciating detail. You must have a much better computer than I. Is that the Leenux everyone is talking about?
> it's kinda amazing in a historical sense that 'normal' people are even aware of physics at that level in even the most vague of ways
Have you spoken to any 'normal' people lately?
Normal people think 'Ghost Hunters' is a documentary. Normal people believe computers can think, and wouldn't like robots in their town because of the danger of them revolting against humans. If I ask my parents what Einstein did, they say he invented the atom bomb.
My next door neighbor asked me to not let my kids use computers between 7pm and 8pm because she doesn't want them to be able to watch her in the bath (wtf?).
Don't mistake common knowledge on Slashdot for knowledge that is common.
> Enforcing a license violation is a lot cheaper than sticking someone in county jail for a couple of months.
Ah, and there is the problem. A lot of for-profit jails and prisons will lobby legalization out of existence. Pharmaceuticals selling prescription meds will add their army of lobbyists to the cause.
> Warning overload is one of the biggest problems facing computer security today. Since so many of the warnings the average user is bombarded with are meaningless, the genuine threats get lost in the noise and are ignored.
But... we're at code Yellow today! How can you ignore warnings when we are at code Yellow?
GOV: "We will be giving you a tax refund!" Citizen: "Why don't you just NOT tax me that same amount instead of paying thousands of accountants and clerks who calculate, verify, administer, process, and mail my refund?" GOV: "ummm... we are sending you money, see?"
I'm curious, if you own a TV in the UK, don't subscribe to any cable network, and the UK switches to a digital on-air signal but you don't buy a converter box... then would you no longer have to pay that tax since you cannot receive any TV signals?
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99% of those are on servers sharing a single IP address. It's been about 15 years since each web site needed it's own IP address.
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I know you're a trolling anonymous coward who won't even see this, but just for the record I am home-schooling my three kids so they get a better education. I am teaching them to think for themselves. They realized that the bible is illogical and contradictory about the same time they realized Santa couldn't really be true either, and I couldn't be prouder.
> The Chinese are excellent businessmen, and that isn't said as an insult. I admire their ability to think in terms of generations of sustainable output and make business decisions accordingly.
What I admire is their ability to feed Malamine to their babies to make a few yuan. Let's see how much good their economic expansion does them when they are the most sickly people on Earth. I'll stick with my EPA protections and do without this years latest consumer electronics, thank you.
Top stories tonight: Researches at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated energy positive nuclear fusion in a safe economical design. In unrelated news, the Department of Homeland Security has announced that Bolivia is massing weapons of mass destruction and must be invaded before it's too late.
> Is this headline news only because
> It is tangentially connected to someone getting shot?
No, it's news for nerds because it is rumored that Vladimir Antonov, son of Alexander Antonov, the power behind Convers Group, the biggest investor in Spyker Cars owns a computer...
Wait for it... ... that runs Linux.
.
.
There, Slashdot relevance in 5 degrees of separation!
The Cable operator I spoke to when I canceled cable had a hard time with the concept. She tried to offer me a discount, but I said 'I don't WANT cable'. She offer a better discount. I replied 'I don't want a discount, I want NO TV.'. She said she understood I didn't have kids and must be too busy. I told her I have three young kids. She stammered 'but but but don't they have favorite shows kids shows Hannah Montana Gomez Disney what?'. She just couldn't believe it.
BTW it took three months for the kids to even notice I had canceled cable. I think I was the one who missed it most.
> Flopping down on the couch and turning on the TV to "see what's on" are going to become a thing of the past at my house.
If if if if and if.
What are you waiting for? We did it two years ago and we've never been happier. My family spends a lot more time doing things together now, we play board games, we read a lot, we cook more instead of ordering in, we go outside and do things. You have no idea how much of your time the TV sucks up.
You probably feel like you don't have enough time to do all the thing you'd like to do. Most people do. If I offered you a magical gift of four extra hours a day, what would you give up for it? Would you give up watching whatever crap happened to be on TV at any random moment? Sounds like an easy choice, right? It's easy and all you have to do is break the habit.
We still watch DVDs, and play on the computer. We just don't watch "whatever happens to be on" anymore.
Hmmm, you idea's intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, but unfortunately as soon as it's template is recognized I'll stop getting it.
> Hitler, is that you?
Godwin, is that you?
Clever girl, Bessie...
> that's the only thing that request could possibly mean.
No, she's in her late 60s and doesn't own a computer. She saw a movie once where the "hackers" could look at people by hacking into a satellite camera and "enhance" the picture right down into someone's house. Even if all of that were plausible how the hell does she think it can see through her roof? And more importantly *WHY* would someone want to see HER in the bath?
You kids and your post-singularity A.I.s get off my lawn.
> Many (maybe most?) intelligent people (I'll arrogantly include myself in that category) believe that computers can think
Well MY computer certainly can't think. It can barely carry out the explicit instructions I give it in excruciating detail.
You must have a much better computer than I. Is that the Leenux everyone is talking about?
> Would you build a house without blueprints?
> Would you remove an accountant's calculator from their desk because *you* don't work that way?
I don't follow... I need a car analogy.
> Did you check your computer room for an unobstructed view of her bathroom? Perhaps she should install better curtains.
I can't tell from here, my telescope is blocking the view.
> it's kinda amazing in a historical sense that 'normal' people are even aware of physics at that level in even the most vague of ways
Have you spoken to any 'normal' people lately?
Normal people think 'Ghost Hunters' is a documentary.
Normal people believe computers can think, and wouldn't like robots in their town because of the danger of them revolting against humans.
If I ask my parents what Einstein did, they say he invented the atom bomb.
My next door neighbor asked me to not let my kids use computers between 7pm and 8pm because she doesn't want them to be able to watch her in the bath (wtf?).
Don't mistake common knowledge on Slashdot for knowledge that is common.
> Enforcing a license violation is a lot cheaper than sticking someone in county jail for a couple of months.
Ah, and there is the problem. A lot of for-profit jails and prisons will lobby legalization out of existence. Pharmaceuticals selling prescription meds will add their army of lobbyists to the cause.
> Warning overload is one of the biggest problems facing computer security today. Since so many of the warnings the average user is bombarded with are meaningless, the genuine threats get lost in the noise and are ignored.
But... we're at code Yellow today! How can you ignore warnings when we are at code Yellow?
You were just going to post about Toad The Wet Sprocket, weren't you?
I think John Mayer said it best
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
Hello? Anyone?
Ah... sounds like tax refunds.
GOV: "We will be giving you a tax refund!"
Citizen: "Why don't you just NOT tax me that same amount instead of paying thousands of accountants and clerks who calculate, verify, administer, process, and mail my refund?"
GOV: "ummm... we are sending you money, see?"
Remember, mostly locked is a little bit unlocked.
It's trivial to spoof a MAC address. Those networks are "truly open".
I'm curious, if you own a TV in the UK, don't subscribe to any cable network, and the UK switches to a digital on-air signal but you don't buy a converter box... then would you no longer have to pay that tax since you cannot receive any TV signals?
99% of those are on servers sharing a single IP address. It's been about 15 years since each web site needed it's own IP address.
I agree with your point that for this use going used will be much cheaper than new.
But $189 is still a lot more than $40.
> my $40.00 fujitsu tablet PC
I'll call you on that.
I just checked and Fujitsu's cheapest tablet PC, the T4310, is $1,149 USD.
So please indicate where I can purchase a $40 tablet PC that can read PDFs.