Can anyone say "Oedipus Rex"???
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Sad but true--there hasn't been an original story since ancient Greece. David (and the audience) are meant to believe that the only obstacle between David and Monica is his mecha-ness. The real obstacle is Henry, his father. At the end, David is still a mecha when he climbs into bed with Monica. Henry is out of the picture, 2000 years dead with no chance of re-animation. One can argue that David's subconscious killed Henry through time, using Teddy to allow Monica to be re-animated for a single night and a chance to become completely human.
The other clue is David's jealous rage directed at the other assembly line David.
To drift offtopic here, I was annoyed by the series of commercials before the movie. One seemed to be an advertisement for Zen Buddhism but turned out to be a fucking Jeep commercial. I really wanted to burn an SUV dealership after that...
I remember when CALEA came out. The telcos complained about the high cost of implementation and (then-) close deadline. IIRC, all the major telcos met the deadline--the motivation was a $10,000/day fine for any slackers.
It seems that the feebs wrote a faulty spec. The telcos can copy packet upon packet for the feebs. The feebs are expecting the header information to be stripped. If the feebs are allowed to change the spec at this point, will the telcos be forced to bear the additional cost? If so, the telcos will "tax" us through rate increases, of course computing the extra tax of profit as a percentage of expenses. If not, the feebs will tax us.
Either way, no one's privacy is safe. Ostensibly, CALEA specifies court-ordered wiretaps. But what if company Y is interested in the Intellectual Property research done at company X? Someone at the Telco could be bribed to tap X's calls and provide the desired information to Y. The same goes for anyone running for political office or potential whistleblowers.
The exterior of the ship will be plastered with all of these names, but the Martians will probably wonder why one name in particular is so important that it is displayed inside the ship, on the famous BSOD. I can see it now: "Who is this Fatal Exception?" Will they make a connection between the screen (white text on blue field) and the largest logo on the exterior (blue text on white field)?
Dilated pupils couldn't save me from the wretchedness that was Tomb Raider
Such a brave metaphor for someone who is famous for flagrantly violating certain rules of spelling and construction. I think our Commander has been holding out on us, and will soon inundate us with such opulent metaphors as "this film sucked with the voracity, but not the skill, of Monica Lewinsky" or "rough winds do shake the darling buds of May". Everyone will soon be talking about "that guy who started slashdot".
Forgive me for forgetting that our purpose as human beings is to worship and revere the arbitrarily-chosen laws in the geographic region we happen to be born into.
The specific technology, Forward Looking Infrared Radar, has been successfully used to bust thousands of marijuana growing operations over the last few decades. These people's lives were ruined: they were arrested, imprisoned, fined, and subjected to forfeiture of their assets. Between the fines and the asset forfeiture, police nationwide have bought more helicopters, tactical weapons, body armor, dogs, and other Rambo toys--all to use against Americans in the War on (Some) Drugs.
When a law or investigative procedure is found to violate basic Constitutional rights, the ruling should be applied retroactively all the way back to the enactment of said law or investigative procedure. Anyone caught by FLIR should have their fines reimbursed, criminal record expunged, and their assets returned--including all of the plants they were growing, down to the specific strain and height. What sucks is that this won't happen--the case just gets remanded to the lower court, who can decide in this one case whether there was any other evidence available to justify a warrantless search. Anybody who wants this applied to their case will have to hire an expensive lawyer: a ridiculous proposition for someone who no longer has a home to mortgage because it was seized.
This WO(S)D has been nothing but a gateway to a full-blown police state. I'm hoping that this ruling marks the end of the "But Won't Someone Think of the Children???" era that characterized the 80's and 90's and launches the "But Won't Someone Think of the Constitution???" era.
R.S.I. is definitely not a hoax. I have suffered the symptoms in the past due to my near-perpetual computer usage. The symptoms can be alleviated in many a fashion. It is best to take a corrective course of action as soon as the symptoms manifest themselves: if you use a computer all day, you should take a few minutes every hour or so to lightly stretch your fingers back the other way, roll your wrists, etc... You will do even better to try hatha yoga, which will further strengthen you wrists and make you more aware of your posture.
Maybe what they are seeing with R.S.I is Mind over Matter, like the case of Dr. Andrew Weil's lifelong allergy to cats being cured by a single dose of L.S.D..
Anyway, the symptoms of R.S.I. come, and the symptoms may go away--Sounds like any other syndrome/disease to me. Why aren't these people calling all other syndromes hoaxes?
Now the paranoid will stay away...
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The Italians are facing the same problem, as Venezia (Venice to us Anglos) is sinking. The water level is so high that moderate springtime rain will cause Piazza San Marco to flood.
As millennia pass, I hope that humankind buys in to the notion that a coastal area just isn't a good place to build--great place to visit, though....
The biggest task facing the newest company was to prove that it can turn the 85 percent of its subscribers who are getting free service into paying customers, Brooks said--and then proving
that it can make a profit at whatever discounted price it charges for the service.
If you--a free ISP--turn your subscribers into paying customers, are you still a free ISP? This seems like a new koan for me to ponder, kinda like the notion of "Compassionate Conservatism". Or maybe this is an example of this "new math" that they started teaching after I finished elementary school.
A process which measures internetwork data consumption and alerts an individual when consumption approaches a preset arbitrary limit. The consumption metric is set to zero at the beginning of each month of the Gregorian calendar.
Hey aussies, pay up! Send $10USD/month to Zen Mastuh, c/o slashdot.org . G'day! I'm rich!
I have heard of pirate radio stations that operate like this: A van loaded with a transmitter and other broadcasting equipment drives around a small area, say a few square miles. The F.C.C. always has a hard-on to catch these guys.
When the current incarnation of Iridium declares bankruptcy and threatens a satellite storm and is bailed out by the government and sold for pennies on the dollar, the new owners will be able to implement significantly higher transmission rates and sell the service at a bargain. People who pirate tunez, warez, or pr0n could locate themselves in a dense urban area, say NYC, and cruise around on a bike or on foot, broadcasting anything. The F.C.C. guys would be able to get GPS coordinates for the location, but if you factor in the error and the population density, it would be practically impossible to locate the perpetrator.
People tend to think technology will be used to enslave us, but here is a case of technology increasing liberty.
Check out this link to find out what corporations own the media companies. There is another site (sorry, no link) that shows the number of companies who produce virtually all (90%) of the media consumed in the U.S. It used to be over a hundred companies but now is less than six. I think that RICO should be applied to them.
The Dead Kennedy's had something to say about the payola thing back in the day (~1980) that is still relevant today--as all good art is:
And when I'm rich
And meet Bob Hope
We'll shoot some golf,
We'll shoot some dope.
Drool, drool, drool, drool..
My Payola!
The music we hear is decided upon in six boardrooms by racketeers. That's laissez faire for ya'.
Sounds like what they are doing @ M.I.T.
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Michael Dertouzos from the Lab for Computer Science wrote a book last year called The Unfinished Revolution that discussed this same sort of thing. However, this concept is trivial compared to the other concepts he presents. Good read--pick it up.
Slashdot Mirror
Sad but true--there hasn't been an original story since ancient Greece. David (and the audience) are meant to believe that the only obstacle between David and Monica is his mecha-ness. The real obstacle is Henry, his father. At the end, David is still a mecha when he climbs into bed with Monica. Henry is out of the picture, 2000 years dead with no chance of re-animation. One can argue that David's subconscious killed Henry through time, using Teddy to allow Monica to be re-animated for a single night and a chance to become completely human.
The other clue is David's jealous rage directed at the other assembly line David.
To drift offtopic here, I was annoyed by the series of commercials before the movie. One seemed to be an advertisement for Zen Buddhism but turned out to be a fucking Jeep commercial. I really wanted to burn an SUV dealership after that...
It is illegal to wear a mask in public in Florida. The law is not enforced on Halloween/Guavaween.
They can rig a similar system to my mattress...
I remember when CALEA came out. The telcos complained about the high cost of implementation and (then-) close deadline. IIRC, all the major telcos met the deadline--the motivation was a $10,000/day fine for any slackers.
It seems that the feebs wrote a faulty spec. The telcos can copy packet upon packet for the feebs. The feebs are expecting the header information to be stripped. If the feebs are allowed to change the spec at this point, will the telcos be forced to bear the additional cost? If so, the telcos will "tax" us through rate increases, of course computing the extra tax of profit as a percentage of expenses. If not, the feebs will tax us.
Either way, no one's privacy is safe. Ostensibly, CALEA specifies court-ordered wiretaps. But what if company Y is interested in the Intellectual Property research done at company X? Someone at the Telco could be bribed to tap X's calls and provide the desired information to Y. The same goes for anyone running for political office or potential whistleblowers.
The exterior of the ship will be plastered with all of these names, but the Martians will probably wonder why one name in particular is so important that it is displayed inside the ship, on the famous BSOD. I can see it now: "Who is this Fatal Exception?" Will they make a connection between the screen (white text on blue field) and the largest logo on the exterior (blue text on white field)?
"Careful, or I'll tell you about the post-Columbine era"
Such a brave metaphor for someone who is famous for flagrantly violating certain rules of spelling and construction. I think our Commander has been holding out on us, and will soon inundate us with such opulent metaphors as "this film sucked with the voracity, but not the skill, of Monica Lewinsky" or "rough winds do shake the darling buds of May". Everyone will soon be talking about "that guy who started slashdot".
Taco: You're a poet, though you don't know it.
Did anyone besides me notice that the URL contained the word "winsecurity"? That is punny.
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Thousands of other American Revolutionaries
Susan B. Anthony
Mahatma Ghandi
Jesus of Nazareth
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Phillip Zimmerman
Rosa Parks
Forgive me for forgetting that our purpose as human beings is to worship and revere the arbitrarily-chosen laws in the geographic region we happen to be born into.
The specific technology, Forward Looking Infrared Radar, has been successfully used to bust thousands of marijuana growing operations over the last few decades. These people's lives were ruined: they were arrested, imprisoned, fined, and subjected to forfeiture of their assets. Between the fines and the asset forfeiture, police nationwide have bought more helicopters, tactical weapons, body armor, dogs, and other Rambo toys--all to use against Americans in the War on (Some) Drugs.
When a law or investigative procedure is found to violate basic Constitutional rights, the ruling should be applied retroactively all the way back to the enactment of said law or investigative procedure. Anyone caught by FLIR should have their fines reimbursed, criminal record expunged, and their assets returned--including all of the plants they were growing, down to the specific strain and height. What sucks is that this won't happen--the case just gets remanded to the lower court, who can decide in this one case whether there was any other evidence available to justify a warrantless search. Anybody who wants this applied to their case will have to hire an expensive lawyer: a ridiculous proposition for someone who no longer has a home to mortgage because it was seized.
This WO(S)D has been nothing but a gateway to a full-blown police state. I'm hoping that this ruling marks the end of the "But Won't Someone Think of the Children???" era that characterized the 80's and 90's and launches the "But Won't Someone Think of the Constitution???" era.
R.S.I. is definitely not a hoax. I have suffered the symptoms in the past due to my near-perpetual computer usage. The symptoms can be alleviated in many a fashion. It is best to take a corrective course of action as soon as the symptoms manifest themselves: if you use a computer all day, you should take a few minutes every hour or so to lightly stretch your fingers back the other way, roll your wrists, etc... You will do even better to try hatha yoga, which will further strengthen you wrists and make you more aware of your posture.
Maybe what they are seeing with R.S.I is Mind over Matter, like the case of Dr. Andrew Weil's lifelong allergy to cats being cured by a single dose of L.S.D..
Anyway, the symptoms of R.S.I. come, and the symptoms may go away--Sounds like any other syndrome/disease to me. Why aren't these people calling all other syndromes hoaxes?
Now gone are:
The TimeCube guy
The Madonna-and-the-U.S.-Navy-are-after-me guy
Surely others (please reply w/ some links, folks)
After all, if /. has bugs then /. is just a part of the conspiracy. Kinda makes me curious as where /. was on the morning of November 22, 1963...
The Italians are facing the same problem, as Venezia (Venice to us Anglos) is sinking. The water level is so high that moderate springtime rain will cause Piazza San Marco to flood.
As millennia pass, I hope that humankind buys in to the notion that a coastal area just isn't a good place to build--great place to visit, though....
I just don't get this sentence:
If you--a free ISP--turn your subscribers into paying customers, are you still a free ISP? This seems like a new koan for me to ponder, kinda like the notion of "Compassionate Conservatism". Or maybe this is an example of this "new math" that they started teaching after I finished elementary school.Yes, so six months from now they can have one bankruptcy case instead of two. Think of how much the taxpayers will save.
I don't have a printer--I'drather recycle an electron than kill a tree... Just ~1/4" of dust (~6mm for you folks @ NASA).
"unccl oveguqnl, ctc!"
To unencrypt, copy & paste your secret message at rot13.com. Oh, and ignore my sig--Phil will explain it to you when you are a little older...
Ummm...I feel like an average user and I sometimes hit 3GB in a day. Anybody else have this problem? Two words: streaming audio.
A process which measures internetwork data consumption and alerts an individual when consumption approaches a preset arbitrary limit. The consumption metric is set to zero at the beginning of each month of the Gregorian calendar.
Hey aussies, pay up! Send $10USD/month to Zen Mastuh, c/o slashdot.org . G'day! I'm rich!
I have heard of pirate radio stations that operate like this: A van loaded with a transmitter and other broadcasting equipment drives around a small area, say a few square miles. The F.C.C. always has a hard-on to catch these guys.
When the current incarnation of Iridium declares bankruptcy and threatens a satellite storm and is bailed out by the government and sold for pennies on the dollar, the new owners will be able to implement significantly higher transmission rates and sell the service at a bargain. People who pirate tunez, warez, or pr0n could locate themselves in a dense urban area, say NYC, and cruise around on a bike or on foot, broadcasting anything. The F.C.C. guys would be able to get GPS coordinates for the location, but if you factor in the error and the population density, it would be practically impossible to locate the perpetrator.
People tend to think technology will be used to enslave us, but here is a case of technology increasing liberty.
and make goatse.cx link for the blind. It's a sad, sad day for humanity.
When I was in school a cop came into our class one day and warned us about the dangers of grass. Alas, it's too late to save poor Millie now...
Check out this link to find out what corporations own the media companies. There is another site (sorry, no link) that shows the number of companies who produce virtually all (90%) of the media consumed in the U.S. It used to be over a hundred companies but now is less than six. I think that RICO should be applied to them.
The Dead Kennedy's had something to say about the payola thing back in the day (~1980) that is still relevant today--as all good art is:
The music we hear is decided upon in six boardrooms by racketeers. That's laissez faire for ya'.Due to the high voltage, the NSA guy who splices this line will be in for a rather shocking experience. Talk about instant karma...
Michael Dertouzos from the Lab for Computer Science wrote a book last year called The Unfinished Revolution that discussed this same sort of thing. However, this concept is trivial compared to the other concepts he presents. Good read--pick it up.
Groovy applet, though.