The streams are available sporadically at the moment? And you decide to throw the Slashdot effect at them?
That's like testing a car for highway safety with a hydrogen bomb, you know.
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I wasn't alive when this happened, but my wife's family was close to it. The picture of the crew on that website is the same one that my brother in law has. His is signed by all three of those astronauts, about a month before they died. My father in law (passed on now), was an engineer at Rockwell during the Apollo missions.
Why is that important? Because it's easy to read history like it doesn't involve real people. My mother in law still gets teary eyed when she hears the names of the Apollo 1 crew. I think today when I go over there, I'm going to look on the wall at the photo of Grissom, White, and Chaffee and thank them. For what? For having the courage to do something I don't think I could have ever done, and for believing in a dream that still is important today.
Bullshit...you tell me you crawl through the source of everything you install? If you have windows, you can run Ad-aware. It's a hell of a lot easier than reading through pages of code everytime you install something.
Do the math; that is $31,200/year. In the real world, you don't get paid that much for a job that can be done by teenagers after school.
Oh really? Explain to me why I've seen W2 forms from a mail carrier that say "51,083" on them. You can make a ton of money by doing something a monkey could do.
I'm not sure what the grocery store baggers make. They do get those snappy uniforms though...
I can agree with your sentiment, but I can't share your conviction that being raped in prision is appropriate punishment. Why not just really bitchslap the company and give the fine some teeth?Say like 100% of their revenue last year.
My wife went to a State University in California, and the fees were actually about the same as the University of Alberta's. So I'm not sure that it's a lot worse in the States. It does seem that more people (this is just my observation, not firmly grounded in fact) in the United States move away from home to attend college. That ups the cost considerably. It's the private universities that kill you with tuition, unless you have scholarships up the ass.
At least in Alberta, are a bit different than they are in the States. No entrance essays about how you bleed the color of the school, no parents lobbying to get you in even if you are a complete dumbass *cough*Bush...Yale*cough*. (Although I'm sure strings have been pulled in some instances. Hell, they even gave Ralph Klein an honorary degree, right?)
All I had to do was submit my high school transcript with the application halfway through Grade 12. If you have good marks, it's harder to get a driver's license than it is to get into the University of Alberta. (Not to imply that it's an inferior University either.)
The bigger point is, why should anyone care? I view political statements (and that is what this is) from famous programmers on the same level as the stuff that spews out of the mouths of actors around election time. I don't really care what they think. Cox thinks this...Stallman says this...blah blah blah.
Between Cox and Stallman it's hard for most people to take this whole "Lynucks" thing seriously. The only person involved with Linux that I like reading opinions from is Linus. Maybe it's the fact that the man can locate the shower in his house and talk intelligently for more than 5 seconds without going off on a rant about black helicopters.
There are plenty of people in the United States who won't pay what Adobe is asking for software and pirate it as well. So, here is my suggested solution: Stop producing ALL your software, you won't have to worry about piracy at all.
Christ, I don't have my MBA yet...otherwise I'm sure I'd be management material!
Offtopic, but ontopic concerning your post: How does a law prevent me from forgetting a password? Hell, I do it all the time now, and I'm not trying to:) How does a law like that work in practice exactly?
Numbnuts, how many us would give a fuck if this didn't involve us in some way. You don't see stories about coal miners lung making it onto the front page very often, do you?
We already know that judges have no idea how to use a computer, or what a computer can be used for. I'm not surprised that they don't consider CT to be a disability.
Of course, some common sense would tell you that there isn't too much difference between a guy working on an assembly line and a guy keying in data all day. Both are repetitive tasks, and both can cause physical damage if proper safeguards aren't taken.
The Supreme Court probably ruled this way to make sure none of those goddammed terrorist hackers ever got on disability:)
You know, I'm not sure why this is moderated flamebait. I'm aware that the general Slashdot bias is to assume Microsoft is the bearer of all things evil, but like legLess said, I've never had Microsoft fuck with my very existence. Bill Gates isn't dumping stuff in the water that is going to give me cancer. If I don't like Microsoft, I have alternatives. There is no Linux for drinking water, you know. Companies like Monsanto are a whole other realm of evil. Microsoft is Mini-me compared to Monsanto's Dr. Evil.
Stallman wouldn't be caught dead using Linux. You see, he uses GNU/Linux. When he isn't using the HURD, which was going to be revolutionary about 10 years ago but is more of an ongoing joke now.
You know what pissed me off about the whole anthrax thing? The house of reps and the senate both went running off and hid like scared little girls, but they made the postal workers go to work. If that isn't a great example of the little guy getting screwed, I don't know what is.
So, the music industry would like to prevent you from ripping cds to mp3. I still don't see what prevents a hardware company from walking into a courtroom, picking up an mp3 player (flash memory of course) and jogging around the courtroom with it. "Fair use, your honor. I like to listen to music I bought when I'm jogging."
Now, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a politician (Otherwise I'd be busy screwing around on my wife with an intern right now, or stuffing my pockets with money from lobbyists,) but this is fairly fucking obvious, is it not? What is it that these people don't understand!
There is a billboard on the 405 South in Long Beach of a guy sitting on a plane with a laptop. Big Boeing logo, and I think it says something like "Connexion" in large white letters. Doesn't really explain what it does or how it's supposed to magically change our lives.
So, instead of the whole idea just being a black pit that Boeing is dropping money into, they are also racking up the expenses on an ad campaign. I wonder how many line workers they are going to have to lay off to pay for this screwed up idea...any guesses?
Everyone is a terroist now. The meaning of the word has been so diluted because everyone with an agenda to push labels people they don't like as a terrorists.
Pretty soon you won't be able to sneeze in a subway car without someone accusing you of biological warfare.
Oh, so now you think golf is a sport? You're going to turn a nice discussion into a flame war:)
Seriously though, from what I've seen of Michael Moore's stuff, he seems to go to the top. Doing this to the executive assistant of someone important is a lot more effective. It also helps that Micheal Moore doesn't sound like he sleeps in a foil lined room at night. Most of the time.:)
Yeah, but like you said, this is a level of refinement away. Comparing this guy to Micheal Moore is like comparing my golf game to Tiger Woods'. Sure, we're both hitting a small white ball. Nobody comes to see me play though:)
Dude, you want Christmas music? Go to Winamp.com and click on the radio link. You'll find what you need.
This guy is just a jerk. This isn't a story.
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Watch the video. This guy is just acting like a jerk, and the people he talks to pretty much just laugh at him. Like a lot of people who frequent Slashdot, he had some good ideas, but he is too much of an ass to get them across in an effective way.
Does he have a valid concern? Yes, I think he does. I'm not thrilled with the pervasiveness of cameras either. But how does harrasing the clerk at the register change anything?
The mere fact that you have an ID is not a violation of rights. As soon as you are required to carry it at all time, it sure as hell is. As soon as a cop can come up to me and say, "Papers please" anytime he wants to, you kinda run into the fourth amendment.
The avalanche thing is about the lamest argument I've ever heard for this, by the way. You obviously have never seen an avalanche tranceiver. Of course, if you do want one of those implanted, just bend over. I'd be happy to shove it up your ass for you.
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That's like testing a car for highway safety with a hydrogen bomb, you know.
Why is that important? Because it's easy to read history like it doesn't involve real people. My mother in law still gets teary eyed when she hears the names of the Apollo 1 crew. I think today when I go over there, I'm going to look on the wall at the photo of Grissom, White, and Chaffee and thank them. For what? For having the courage to do something I don't think I could have ever done, and for believing in a dream that still is important today.
Oh really? Explain to me why I've seen W2 forms from a mail carrier that say "51,083" on them. You can make a ton of money by doing something a monkey could do.
I'm not sure what the grocery store baggers make. They do get those snappy uniforms though...
All I had to do was submit my high school transcript with the application halfway through Grade 12. If you have good marks, it's harder to get a driver's license than it is to get into the University of Alberta. (Not to imply that it's an inferior University either.)
Between Cox and Stallman it's hard for most people to take this whole "Lynucks" thing seriously. The only person involved with Linux that I like reading opinions from is Linus. Maybe it's the fact that the man can locate the shower in his house and talk intelligently for more than 5 seconds without going off on a rant about black helicopters.
Christ, I don't have my MBA yet...otherwise I'm sure I'd be management material!
Of course, some common sense would tell you that there isn't too much difference between a guy working on an assembly line and a guy keying in data all day. Both are repetitive tasks, and both can cause physical damage if proper safeguards aren't taken.
The Supreme Court probably ruled this way to make sure none of those goddammed terrorist hackers ever got on disability
Now, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a politician (Otherwise I'd be busy screwing around on my wife with an intern right now, or stuffing my pockets with money from lobbyists,) but this is fairly fucking obvious, is it not? What is it that these people don't understand!
So, instead of the whole idea just being a black pit that Boeing is dropping money into, they are also racking up the expenses on an ad campaign. I wonder how many line workers they are going to have to lay off to pay for this screwed up idea...any guesses?
Pretty soon you won't be able to sneeze in a subway car without someone accusing you of biological warfare.
Seriously though, from what I've seen of Michael Moore's stuff, he seems to go to the top. Doing this to the executive assistant of someone important is a lot more effective. It also helps that Micheal Moore doesn't sound like he sleeps in a foil lined room at night. Most of the time.
Does he have a valid concern? Yes, I think he does. I'm not thrilled with the pervasiveness of cameras either. But how does harrasing the clerk at the register change anything?
The avalanche thing is about the lamest argument I've ever heard for this, by the way. You obviously have never seen an avalanche tranceiver. Of course, if you do want one of those implanted, just bend over. I'd be happy to shove it up your ass for you.