Basically, isn't that where a lot of hi-tech gadget ideas come from - Sci Fi?
When a general sends a letter to a soldier, who had changed his name to Optimus Prime, to thank the leader of the Autobots for being part of the team, it kind of convinces you that they're not all a bunch of squares. http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=382 8 (I think this was on Slashdot).
Another way to say it is this... "Piracy funds terrorism? What a coincidence, so does driving our cars... oh yeah, and our government funds terrorism too!"
Let's not forget we used to give the Taliban money. Well, not "we", more like someone at the Rand Corporation thought that supporting the Taliban would be a useful way to help the drug addicts of our country. Aren't the Rand boys supposed to be smart.
But, I guess they are, since the whole "War On Drugs" crock is just to distract from real problems in our society... hmmm, so in a way, the War On Drugs supports terrorism. If it was all legalized and controlled and taxed...
"I have lots of worries about how this technology is being used," said John Graham, who is the founder of BroadWare Technologies, a Cupertino, Calif., maker of software for video-camera networks, and who was one of the first researchers to send audio and video over the Internet.
--> I didn't know pr0n was considered research.
"I've become Big Brother, but I didn't mean to be," Mr. Graham said. "It's just that there's no money in education or scientific collaboration."
When I hear the panic-mongers (I think the original article needed to point out that the person could have disabled the privacy feature) start to bitch about something in Microsoft that just turns out to be user error (I'm not talking about the fact that they use MickeySoft), my usual reaction is to return to my perennial (sp?) project of creating a Linux box that can do everything a WinXP box can do.
Slashdot Mirror
Right...
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft pirate YOU!
Basically, isn't that where a lot of hi-tech gadget ideas come from - Sci Fi?
2 8 (I think this was on Slashdot).
When a general sends a letter to a soldier, who had changed his name to Optimus Prime, to thank the leader of the Autobots for being part of the team, it kind of convinces you that they're not all a bunch of squares. http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=38
Another way to say it is this...
"Piracy funds terrorism? What a coincidence, so does driving our cars... oh yeah, and our government funds terrorism too!"
Let's not forget we used to give the Taliban money. Well, not "we", more like someone at the Rand Corporation thought that supporting the Taliban would be a useful way to help the drug addicts of our country. Aren't the Rand boys supposed to be smart.
But, I guess they are, since the whole "War On Drugs" crock is just to distract from real problems in our society... hmmm, so in a way, the War On Drugs supports terrorism. If it was all legalized and controlled and taxed...
Now that's a whole 'nother bag.
"I have lots of worries about how this technology is being used," said John Graham, who is the founder of BroadWare Technologies, a Cupertino, Calif., maker of software for video-camera networks, and who was one of the first researchers to send audio and video over the Internet.
--> I didn't know pr0n was considered research.
"I've become Big Brother, but I didn't mean to be," Mr. Graham said. "It's just that there's no money in education or scientific collaboration."
--> READ: Lots of money in pr0n!
When I hear the panic-mongers (I think the original article needed to point out that the person could have disabled the privacy feature) start to bitch about something in Microsoft that just turns out to be user error (I'm not talking about the fact that they use MickeySoft), my usual reaction is to return to my perennial (sp?) project of creating a Linux box that can do everything a WinXP box can do.
As you can imagine, I'm still working on this.
Can anyone spare a driver?