All kinds of insults were the first thing to go through my mind but then I realised I was letting myself be dragged down to your level. If I do that, you'd beat me with experience as is clear from your post. So lets not.
On the facts then: the only reason this got started in the first place was US pressure. (Not unlike the passenger data treaty for EU citizens traveling to the US.) That is political pressure. From those same US lawmakers we indeed do despise so much over here in Europe. For their complete incompetence.
The only good thing about your remark is that it keeps a lot of people of having to think up excuses. We'll just recycle all 'US' excuses about not electing better leadership before we got into this mess. That'll save time so that we may have a chance of turning the tide when we do get our (first real) chance of letting our voices known on this subject. So shut up, sit back and enjoy the show. I hope you'll follow our lead when it is your chance to get rid of the most hated man in the world (no, not Bin Laden, he's trailing at a distance even to 'Rummy' at the moment) as your political leader.
You better be looking sharp and don't blame the voting machines/process. You in the US did have an honest chance of keeping him out of office in the first place when you knew he was bad news. Our politicians were in office before the problem with this subject became even know. (Known to people who would be impacted...)
Be glad we are 'merely' blaming your politicians or there wouldn't be much of a future for US/European relationships. Perhaps you can remember that, the next time you attack European citizens for something they had no real influence on to begin with.
p.s.: Before you say _anything_ about our politicians, be sure to understand how 'our' politics work in this newfangled European area. Most europeans don't even know. Worse yet, most europeans are more likely to know how the US system works. Yet these politicians claim to rightfuly represent us. That's a big difference from the US, where you probably know all politicians from the county-level up, that are responsible for your neck of the woods.
Well, actually it should probably have been rated 'flamebait' but that's a mere detail.
The reason why, you ask? Because you make an inflamatory statement without any arguments as to why you have your opinion formed this way. Such posts don't fuel discussion, they fuel divisionism, flaming and anger.
Better yet, get a bootable (knoppix like) linux image on that USB stick of yours and the only thing you'll have to check is if there's a physical keyboard logger present.
Not really. As I understand it, MS refused to ship Sun's Java VM and Sun lost the bid to make MS ship it with MSWindows*. MS just told Sun to F off after it got it's own little thingy (.Njet)
Please get off of your high horse? I sometimes moderate something as interesting or another positive mod other than funny intentionally even if the comment is only funny. This is because/. chose to not count funny mods towards Karma but people will lose points for being modded down by the humor impaired.
In this way we prevent people from burning karma for being funny.
All you seem to be doing, though, is karma-whoring and not adding anything new to the discussion at hand.
I ought to mod you down for being a troll, and to kill your karma to boot, but it'd go against my principles. Unlike you, I like to have principles and stick to them. So I'll do something I've not done in a long time: an ad hominem attack...
You, Sir, are not just an idiot, you are a disgrace to the/. community, more so than even the worst troll.
I hope that a slashdot editor, unlike me, will not refrain from doing the wrong thing and simply pull your account altogether.
The next time you try your 'social experiments' in the wild, better think about how they reflect on you.
For now, I'll take solace from the fact that your social experiment has just been reduced to a smoking hole in the ground where your webserver used to be and that you'll hopefully be presented with the bill for the traffic.
If this is true, than that would be a pitty since it would almost certainly mean that OLED's place in the lime-light would be postponed for as long as possible. (To recoup the investments made in TFT).
This is unfortunate because OLED holds so much more promise than TFT, especially in energy conservation and clarity of the picture.
Ah yes. The old "Never attribute to malice what can more easily be explained by sheer stupidity." Besides, we would expect something this crapy from Microsoft. It is right in line with the rest of their products. (Hey, this is/., MS bashing is obligatory.)
You forgot, however, one thing: every rule has it's exceptions. In this case it goes something like this:
Never attribute to malice what can be more easily explained by sheer stupidity, unless it concerns either Microsoft, SCO, or one of the others currently on the bad side of the/. community and the "mistake" negatively impacts one of our "precious'".
There. So in this case, it must be on purpose!
If you need a more expanded explanation (please, no!) just let me know, mkay?;)
Perhaps, but This comment shows that there is a simple trump card to play once it gets that far in congress.
Just like most "distinctive"*) features have already been removed from cars, both in the US and abroad, a case can be made that anything that makes US citizens (or other targeted groups for that matter) remotely identifiable is Broken As Designed.
Standing out can get you killed real soon in a hostile environment.
*) Tourists in rental cars with distinctive plates getting jacked in bad neighbourhoods, US military getting attacked because of their 'foreign' plates in the UK, Germany.
Although I have understanding for the opinions of both parent and grand-parent, I think the problem here is that parent is comparing apples with oranges.
What it basically comes down to is this: a corporation is given the same rights as a mortal individual. In terms of their abilities they are not the same so, I think they should not be treated equally under law.
In this case it is not about being wronged and feel the moral obligation to get compensation. It is about a company using the legal system to scare people. The company (RIIA) itself doesn't want to go to court, not because of being afraid of a lengthy trial, but because they're afraid to lose! Furthermore, the plaintiff doesn't offer to settle for less than he think they're legally owed, the plaintiff is settling for less because they may have a hard time convincing the general public (or hopefully even a court) that their 'property' has such an insane value and is damaged in a way to would warrant such idiotic compensation.
Basically, the goal is different, the intent is different, the players are different, even the underlying grounds, not only for suing, but also for wanting to settle are different, the reason to settle for less are different. The parents comparision doesn't cut wood, at all.
Frankly I don't see how the RIAA's actions can not be construed as extortion.
Not according to groklaw's article. Not only do they show that a) there is a difference between the generic letter and the Lehman brothers' letter, but b) that SCO lied to the judge in the IBM case by saying that only one version of that letter went out which is now disproven. As the Groklaw article says: you can only hide from so many eyeballs...
Fortunatly, Lehman brothers' decided to not come out and play and refered SCO back to Redhat as the supplier. Redhat then went, letter in hand, to the judge to cry foul and rightfully so!
I was going to say: "So that's what it takes to get an 'old-timer' to make a post!"
Then I decided to check your profile first and found out you've posted roughly three times as much as I have... Ayee, what have I done with my time!:-)
thus, at 1 foot, the eye has (at it's center) close to 286 DPI.
More than you cared to know, I'm sure. Interesting nonetheless.
(Sorry about the English units. I guess I'm just being an insensitive clod.)
(emphasis on DPI mine)
Since you are talking about DPI, which means "Dots per Inch" I think that your use of english units can quite easily be defended, don't you think? Besides, if someone objects, they can redo your calculations easily since, like a good student, you included full calculation path. No need to appologize.
And only days ago, as I just found out, Canon introduced the DVK-E2. As the press release states:
"The DVK-E2 is the successor to Canon's DVK-E1 and will work with both the EOS-1Ds and the EOS-1D Mark II."
The EOS-1D MII, btw, is probably the biggest kicker in professional digital photography for a while, at 8.2 Megapixel and 8.5 frames per second:-D (press release)
And the sploits that are going to come out of the woodwork any day now will be very handy for people like that. To cover up their tracks...
The point being, as the parent says, we can't be sure that this hasn't come out yet and hasn't been abused. Information like this is so enormously valuable to the right parties that I can't imagine this not having been abused yet.
My brother worded it best, I think, when he wrote "a cynics prayer". I've never had a written copy, so if I make any mistakes I honestly apologize to him. It's his copyright btw.
A cynics prayer Our Father, who areth in heaven hallowed be Thy name.
I never really believed that stuff, but it can't hurt just the same.
Thy kingdom come, Thy shall be done.
Or so the prophets say. I guess we'll never know for sure, untill judgment day.
So hail Mary, full of grace.
And if I should be wrong, then please tell mister Allah I loved him all along.
Or, since you've never used any anti-virus software, you'r not aware that the machine has been infected by a virus...:-D
But yes, a little caution goes a long way, just don't expect it to save your back all the time. I've learned the hard way that every once in a while you're confronted with something you didn't know could be a problem and you're bitten.
At least 18KB is something to work with. I'm sure it'll go a long way in getting at least one complete picture of a nude Martian female, even if it is only a low res jpg... (see grand-parent).
Slashdot Mirror
All kinds of insults were the first thing to go through my mind but then I realised I was letting myself be dragged down to your level. If I do that, you'd beat me with experience as is clear from your post. So lets not.
On the facts then: the only reason this got started in the first place was US pressure. (Not unlike the passenger data treaty for EU citizens traveling to the US.) That is political pressure. From those same US lawmakers we indeed do despise so much over here in Europe. For their complete incompetence.
The only good thing about your remark is that it keeps a lot of people of having to think up excuses. We'll just recycle all 'US' excuses about not electing better leadership before we got into this mess. That'll save time so that we may have a chance of turning the tide when we do get our (first real) chance of letting our voices known on this subject. So shut up, sit back and enjoy the show. I hope you'll follow our lead when it is your chance to get rid of the most hated man in the world (no, not Bin Laden, he's trailing at a distance even to 'Rummy' at the moment) as your political leader.
You better be looking sharp and don't blame the voting machines/process. You in the US did have an honest chance of keeping him out of office in the first place when you knew he was bad news. Our politicians were in office before the problem with this subject became even know. (Known to people who would be impacted...)
Be glad we are 'merely' blaming your politicians or there wouldn't be much of a future for US/European relationships. Perhaps you can remember that, the next time you attack European citizens for something they had no real influence on to begin with.
p.s.: Before you say _anything_ about our politicians, be sure to understand how 'our' politics work in this newfangled European area. Most europeans don't even know. Worse yet, most europeans are more likely to know how the US system works. Yet these politicians claim to rightfuly represent us. That's a big difference from the US, where you probably know all politicians from the county-level up, that are responsible for your neck of the woods.
Actually, I think a better translation would be "zoek"=="find" for the current context.
(Literal translation of "find", however, is "vind" so there's some room for discussion...)
Nooooo! I've just degraded myself to grammar nazi level.
Three point solution:
.DOC
.doc, recognize it is in RTF and open it anyway. The person receiving the document will be none the wiser.
1) Export to RTF
2) Change the document extension to
3) I lied. There is no point 3.
Word will happily open the
Well, actually it should probably have been rated 'flamebait' but that's a mere detail.
The reason why, you ask? Because you make an inflamatory statement without any arguments as to why you have your opinion formed this way. Such posts don't fuel discussion, they fuel divisionism, flaming and anger.
I've therefore metamodded the mod as fair.
Better yet, get a bootable (knoppix like) linux image on that USB stick of yours and the only thing you'll have to check is if there's a physical keyboard logger present.
Not really. As I understand it, MS refused to ship Sun's Java VM and Sun lost the bid to make MS ship it with MSWindows*. MS just told Sun to F off after it got it's own little thingy (.Njet)
Please get off of your high horse? I sometimes moderate something as interesting or another positive mod other than funny intentionally even if the comment is only funny. This is because /. chose to not count funny mods towards Karma but people will lose points for being modded down by the humor impaired.
In this way we prevent people from burning karma for being funny.
All you seem to be doing, though, is karma-whoring and not adding anything new to the discussion at hand.
I ought to mod you down for being a troll, and to kill your karma to boot, but it'd go against my principles. Unlike you, I like to have principles and stick to them. So I'll do something I've not done in a long time: an ad hominem attack...
/. community, more so than even the worst troll.
You, Sir, are not just an idiot, you are a disgrace to the
I hope that a slashdot editor, unlike me, will not refrain from doing the wrong thing and simply pull your account altogether.
The next time you try your 'social experiments' in the wild, better think about how they reflect on you.
For now, I'll take solace from the fact that your social experiment has just been reduced to a smoking hole in the ground where your webserver used to be and that you'll hopefully be presented with the bill for the traffic.
Damned idiot.
Hooray for Adblock. No need to click the graphs, the ads just aren't there when you open the page, and never even loaded.
Ymmv, however.
If this is true, than that would be a pitty since it would almost certainly mean that OLED's place in the lime-light would be postponed for as long as possible. (To recoup the investments made in TFT).
This is unfortunate because OLED holds so much more promise than TFT, especially in energy conservation and clarity of the picture.
Oh well, this is how things go.
Thanks for the info!
I'm wondering: as I understood it, the LCD plants need only minor changes to be able to put out OLED panels instead of TFT/LCD.
If this process is little different from LCD manufacturing and LCD is not very different from OLED, will OLED benefit as well?
"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me."
Ah yes. The old "Never attribute to malice what can more easily be explained by sheer stupidity." Besides, we would expect something this crapy from Microsoft. It is right in line with the rest of their products. (Hey, this is /., MS bashing is obligatory.)
/. community and the "mistake" negatively impacts one of our "precious'".
;)
You forgot, however, one thing: every rule has it's exceptions. In this case it goes something like this:
Never attribute to malice what can be more easily explained by sheer stupidity, unless it concerns either Microsoft, SCO, or one of the others currently on the bad side of the
There. So in this case, it must be on purpose!
If you need a more expanded explanation (please, no!) just let me know, mkay?
Perhaps, but This comment shows that there is a simple trump card to play once it gets that far in congress.
Just like most "distinctive"*) features have already been removed from cars, both in the US and abroad, a case can be made that anything that makes US citizens (or other targeted groups for that matter) remotely identifiable is Broken As Designed.
Standing out can get you killed real soon in a hostile environment.
*) Tourists in rental cars with distinctive plates getting jacked in bad neighbourhoods, US military getting attacked because of their 'foreign' plates in the UK, Germany.
Although I have understanding for the opinions of both parent and grand-parent, I think the problem here is that parent is comparing apples with oranges.
What it basically comes down to is this: a corporation is given the same rights as a mortal individual. In terms of their abilities they are not the same so, I think they should not be treated equally under law.
In this case it is not about being wronged and feel the moral obligation to get compensation. It is about a company using the legal system to scare people. The company (RIIA) itself doesn't want to go to court, not because of being afraid of a lengthy trial, but because they're afraid to lose! Furthermore, the plaintiff doesn't offer to settle for less than he think they're legally owed, the plaintiff is settling for less because they may have a hard time convincing the general public (or hopefully even a court) that their 'property' has such an insane value and is damaged in a way to would warrant such idiotic compensation.
Basically, the goal is different, the intent is different, the players are different, even the underlying grounds, not only for suing, but also for wanting to settle are different, the reason to settle for less are different. The parents comparision doesn't cut wood, at all.
Frankly I don't see how the RIAA's actions can not be construed as extortion.
Not according to groklaw's article. Not only do they show that a) there is a difference between the generic letter and the Lehman brothers' letter, but b) that SCO lied to the judge in the IBM case by saying that only one version of that letter went out which is now disproven. As the Groklaw article says: you can only hide from so many eyeballs...
Fortunatly, Lehman brothers' decided to not come out and play and refered SCO back to Redhat as the supplier. Redhat then went, letter in hand, to the judge to cry foul and rightfully so!
I was going to say: "So that's what it takes to get an 'old-timer' to make a post!"
:-)
.sig.
Then I decided to check your profile first and found out you've posted roughly three times as much as I have... Ayee, what have I done with my time!
Must've not 'recognized' you for lack of
Since you are talking about DPI, which means "Dots per Inch" I think that your use of english units can quite easily be defended, don't you think? Besides, if someone objects, they can redo your calculations easily since, like a good student, you included full calculation path. No need to appologize.
And only days ago, as I just found out, Canon introduced the DVK-E2. As the press release states:
The EOS-1D MII, btw, is probably the biggest kicker in professional digital photography for a while, at 8.2 Megapixel and 8.5 frames per secondAnd the sploits that are going to come out of the woodwork any day now will be very handy for people like that. To cover up their tracks...
The point being, as the parent says, we can't be sure that this hasn't come out yet and hasn't been abused. Information like this is so enormously valuable to the right parties that I can't imagine this not having been abused yet.
I like it too. As you might have expected... There is one catch: I find it eerily lawyeresque/legalspeak like. Oh well. ;-)
My brother worded it best, I think, when he wrote "a cynics prayer". I've never had a written copy, so if I make any mistakes I honestly apologize to him. It's his copyright btw.
Or, since you've never used any anti-virus software, you'r not aware that the machine has been infected by a virus... :-D
But yes, a little caution goes a long way, just don't expect it to save your back all the time. I've learned the hard way that every once in a while you're confronted with something you didn't know could be a problem and you're bitten.
Still, props for being so vigilant.
At least 18KB is something to work with. I'm sure it'll go a long way in getting at least one complete picture of a nude Martian female, even if it is only a low res jpg... (see grand-parent).
(smile, it's supposed to be funny.)
There's a slight difference though. That equipment probably had a bit more time than the ten minutes that this connection lasted... :-)
I find it intriguing that information is coming back from a drill so far down. In a way, that is undiscovered country much like Mars is.