Fox News tells it how american rednecks want it to be.
what does your prejudice have to do with the quality of Fox News?
Somehow, Sky News manages to be better than Fox News, despite being the same parent company (also the same company as Al-Jazeera, BTW...), but BBC news is so far superior it makes either look like a joke.
could you explain how the terms "better" and "superior" are objective terms? How this is anything but your opinion?
You americans don't seem to realise the sheer amount of propaganda you are spoon-fed.
Look everybody, it's the Jane Goodall of American culture. First he pinpoints rednecks, now it's all of us. How much time did you spend in the US while doing your research? What cities did you live in? Did you spend time in all 50 states? I'd hate to think you're basing your opinions of all American's on a few of them, or even worse, on television and movies and the news.
Sure, the BBC is hardly propaganda-free, but compared to Fox, it's amazing.
I think what you're comparing here, is who's propaganda is being perpetuated.
Every time Phoenix needs a little money, they'll just blackmail their clients... OR they'll just erase a few hard drives and then charge a consultant's fee to investigate the problem.
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Phoenix BIOS- Our systems rise from their ashes...
[Side note:] paraphrasing is not absolute protection from copyright infringement.
No, per fair use I am allowed to quote others in reasonable amounts. Also, I attached my comment beneath yours and used italics to indicate quoting. I feel quite comfortable defending my use of your words under the law.
Even then I would only be liable for the loss of income my actions caused you.
So, no not that ridiculous.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
If I hear a song on the radio, am I breaking the law?
No
How about if I write down the words to that song? Am I breaking the law now?
No
OK, now I put the lyrics up on my web page. Now?
Yes, you distributed.
The radio station had to get permission before they played the song. You have the right to listen to that distribution via the airwaves. You have the right to make a copy. You have the right to write down the words. But you can't give it away.
if an author is giving out copies of his book at a store and a friend of yours wasn't able to be there, you can't make him a copy of your book and say "It's OK, he gave up his copyright by distributing some free copies" He just gave you the right to own your copy. That is all. Why would you now own the distribution rights to his work?
When someone transmits something, whether it's TV, radio, or whatever, you have the right to receive a copy via their method of transmission and keep that copy or make other copies for yourself. But you can't distribute it, even if it's a stupid decision that will hurt music sales.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
We may be arguing semantice here but as far as I'm concerned knowledge == data. The degree of intelligence possessed determines what we can do with that data.
As far as we know, our brains may be nothing more than fancy lookup tables with customizable routines for organizing and accessing our data.
Do I believe that that's the case? No. But you won't find an AI expert who can discount it.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The same difference between cheating on a test in a subject you've never taken and actually knowing the material: as soon as you're asked a question that isn't on your crib sheet, the charade is over.
You're comparing the posession of knowledge to intelligence (what we can do with knowledge)
Ask it something it's never heard, and it will choke
this is different from almost all humans, how?
The conclusion a lot of people have been coming to is that intelligence is something very different that what we been thinking it is.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Ah, my normally-quite-correct friend, I am sorry to say that this is Slashdot and you are required by law to say "as these can come lose with time."
Try to be more careful in the future.
Don't loose you're head.;)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Comparing philosophy to intellectual masturbation is like comparing healthy living to daydreaming
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Every CD I own (~500)...if I bought all my music from Apple I would have to burn 50 data CD's of m4p files to keep it backed up.
Last time I checked 50 < 500
but you probably wouldn't buy every song on every album would you? That's another great thing about apple's plan, you can buy what you want and forget the rest.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
He lambastes MS for their "closed architecture" Xbox when Lindows' Click-n-Run is essentially the same thing. Sure, you can run other appps
It not even close to the same. You can't run other apps on the X-Box. Lindows lets you run apt-get if you want, but if you don't know how/don't want to take the time you can pay them to handle the process for you...
On the X-Box you have to crack it to run unlicensed code. On Lindows you always run as root, on the X-Box, you can't run as root at all...
They're capitalizing on Linux being hard to use!
And you probably didn't build your house all by yourself, and you probably pay a mechanic when you don't know how to fix your car, and you probably don't cut your own hair, or cook every meal at home. Every business capitalizes on the something being hard/inconvenient...
Sheesh, give the guy a break. What changes would you make to his company that would increase profits from selling Linux to the masses?
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Explain to me how in a world without copyrights, the makers of X-Men 2 would make money unless they owned a chain of movie theaters, and a DVD distribution network? What would stop someone from getting hold of a copy and then just showing it for money, or making copies and selling them. What would make the movie theaters and distributors give money back to the people who made the film???
One other question. Explain to me how a legally enforceable copyright has ever hindered an artist.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
There are days that as I read something on Slashdot, I realize I am reading genius. This was one of them.
For me, the voice in my head was Will Ferrell playing Mustafa from the Austin Powers movies....
Thanks for the laughs...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
No. You shove off. (sorry, MST3000, "Red Cuba" reference) to be completely fair, you need to take a second look at what he said...
Ballmer was saying Linux is not innovative, because Linux is based on a 20 year old operating system (i.e. Unix).
Linux is an implementation of Unix, so what Mr. Ballmer was saying is that Unix is not an innovative platform as opposed to MS Windows.
I'd challenge you to find a MS Windows "innovation" that didn't come from somewhere else, and that some flavor of Unix didn't have first. (Oh, and no hardware innovations, software only)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy, and, as a distraction, we're now--apparently it's a given--we're hell bent on increasing the bombing that's been going on for the past eleven years in Iraq. And I don't think that the civilians on the ground in those countries look at us in the way that maybe Europeans did at the end of World War II, waving flags in the streets, I think that they see the US government as Saruman.
That's a pretty severe accusation. All we did in Afghanistan was bomb civilians. We came nowhere close to catching Osama or ANY presumed enemy? Where does Viggo Mortensen get his intelligence from? He makes several comments that it should be OK to question things. I don't actual questioning going on as much as I see him making statements and then asking pre-conclusive questions.
I don't know how close we came to catching Osama, I don't know how many civilians we killed, but there's no way Viggo Mortensen knows that either. There's no way on earth he knows that we didn't come close to catching a single presumed enemy.
I respect Viggo as an actor. I think he did a phenomenal job portraying Aragorn son of Arathorn. But if he really means the things he said in this interview, he is not a very objective thinker.
Let me be very clear about this. Do I think it's wrong to question our administration? Absolutely not!!! Do I think America has done some atrocious things in the name of justice? Absolutely!!!
But to make accusations that cannot be backed up, to make statements and call them questions is just as bad as blind support for a country or political party.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Why the hell should I let you run a business at my expense
One could easily argue that the nature of the protocol allows them to send you mail at your expense. We're going to have to change the protocols/laws/code to make things work differently.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The fact that a Trogdor reference with no explanation whatsoever can get a +5 Funny moderation, is one of the coolest things about being a geek.
Most people wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit them in the face...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Slashdot Mirror
That is not their job.
So you're the guy who pays their salaries? Maybe you should fire them.
I went looking for more info and found this instead...
So what's the solution?
Do you mean that you look over the code for security exploits or hire someone to?
Just wondering.
is Chinese???
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All your space is belong to us...
Someone set up us the moon?
What use is it to counter opinion with opinion?
What use is it to call someone a redneck?
What use is it for you to tell me, what you think the rest of the world thinks?
What use is it to argue about bias. I'm afraid my bias might get involved in such a discussion.
Fox News tells it how american rednecks want it to be.
what does your prejudice have to do with the quality of Fox News?
Somehow, Sky News manages to be better than Fox News, despite being the same parent company (also the same company as Al-Jazeera, BTW...), but BBC news is so far superior it makes either look like a joke.
could you explain how the terms "better" and "superior" are objective terms?
How this is anything but your opinion?
You americans don't seem to realise the sheer amount of propaganda you are spoon-fed.
Look everybody, it's the Jane Goodall of American culture. First he pinpoints rednecks, now it's all of us. How much time did you spend in the US while doing your research? What cities did you live in? Did you spend time in all 50 states? I'd hate to think you're basing your opinions of all American's on a few of them, or even worse, on television and movies and the news.
Sure, the BBC is hardly propaganda-free, but compared to Fox, it's amazing.
I think what you're comparing here, is who's propaganda is being perpetuated.
I'll be surprised if I get a response to this.
Every time Phoenix needs a little money, they'll just blackmail their clients...
OR
they'll just erase a few hard drives and then charge a consultant's fee to investigate the problem.
--
Phoenix BIOS- Our systems rise from their ashes...
[Side note:] paraphrasing is not absolute protection from copyright infringement.
No, per fair use I am allowed to quote others in reasonable amounts. Also, I attached my comment beneath yours and used italics to indicate quoting. I feel quite comfortable defending my use of your words under the law.
Even then I would only be liable for the loss of income my actions caused you.
So, no not that ridiculous.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
If I hear a song on the radio, am I breaking the law?
No
How about if I write down the words to that song? Am I breaking the law now?
No
OK, now I put the lyrics up on my web page. Now?
Yes, you distributed.
The radio station had to get permission before they played the song. You have the right to listen to that distribution via the airwaves. You have the right to make a copy. You have the right to write down the words. But you can't give it away.
if an author is giving out copies of his book at a store and a friend of yours wasn't able to be there, you can't make him a copy of your book and say "It's OK, he gave up his copyright by distributing some free copies" He just gave you the right to own your copy. That is all. Why would you now own the distribution rights to his work?
When someone transmits something, whether it's TV, radio, or whatever, you have the right to receive a copy via their method of transmission and keep that copy or make other copies for yourself. But you can't distribute it, even if it's a stupid decision that will hurt music sales.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
We may be arguing semantice here but as far as I'm concerned knowledge == data. The degree of intelligence possessed determines what we can do with that data.
As far as we know, our brains may be nothing more than fancy lookup tables with customizable routines for organizing and accessing our data.
Do I believe that that's the case?
No. But you won't find an AI expert who can discount it.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The same difference between cheating on a test in a subject you've never taken and actually knowing the material: as soon as you're asked a question that isn't on your crib sheet, the charade is over.
You're comparing the posession of knowledge to intelligence (what we can do with knowledge)
Ask it something it's never heard, and it will choke
this is different from almost all humans, how?
The conclusion a lot of people have been coming to is that intelligence is something very different that what we been thinking it is.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
as these can come loose with time.
;)
Ah, my normally-quite-correct friend, I am sorry to say that this is Slashdot and you are required by law to say "as these can come lose with time."
Try to be more careful in the future.
Don't loose you're head.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Comparing philosophy to intellectual masturbation is like comparing healthy living to daydreaming
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Every CD I own (~500)...if I bought all my music from Apple I would have to burn 50 data CD's of m4p files to keep it backed up.
Last time I checked 50 < 500
but you probably wouldn't buy every song on every album would you? That's another great thing about apple's plan, you can buy what you want and forget the rest.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Sorta like Slashdot post, right?
I think that was his point...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
He lambastes MS for their "closed architecture" Xbox when Lindows' Click-n-Run is essentially the same thing. Sure, you can run other appps
It not even close to the same. You can't run other apps on the X-Box. Lindows lets you run apt-get if you want, but if you don't know how/don't want to take the time you can pay them to handle the process for you...
On the X-Box you have to crack it to run unlicensed code. On Lindows you always run as root, on the X-Box, you can't run as root at all...
They're capitalizing on Linux being hard to use!
And you probably didn't build your house all by yourself, and you probably pay a mechanic when you don't know how to fix your car, and you probably don't cut your own hair, or cook every meal at home. Every business capitalizes on the something being hard/inconvenient...
Sheesh, give the guy a break. What changes would you make to his company that would increase profits from selling Linux to the masses?
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
First of all, please respond to this.
Explain to me how in a world without copyrights, the makers of X-Men 2 would make money unless they owned a chain of movie theaters, and a DVD distribution network? What would stop someone from getting hold of a copy and then just showing it for money, or making copies and selling them. What would make the movie theaters and distributors give money back to the people who made the film???
One other question. Explain to me how a legally enforceable copyright has ever hindered an artist.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Thanks, wasn't sure of the whole name...
There are days that as I read something on Slashdot, I realize I am reading genius. This was one of them.
For me, the voice in my head was Will Ferrell playing Mustafa from the Austin Powers movies....
Thanks for the laughs...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
No. You shove off. (sorry, MST3000, "Red Cuba" reference)
to be completely fair, you need to take a second look at what he said...
Ballmer was saying Linux is not innovative, because Linux is based on a 20 year old operating system (i.e. Unix).
Linux is an implementation of Unix, so what Mr. Ballmer was saying is that Unix is not an innovative platform as opposed to MS Windows.
I'd challenge you to find a MS Windows "innovation" that didn't come from somewhere else, and that some flavor of Unix didn't have first. (Oh, and no hardware innovations, software only)
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
What was this supposed to convince me of?
Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy, and, as a distraction, we're now--apparently it's a given--we're hell bent on increasing the bombing that's been going on for the past eleven years in Iraq. And I don't think that the civilians on the ground in those countries look at us in the way that maybe Europeans did at the end of World War II, waving flags in the streets, I think that they see the US government as Saruman.
That's a pretty severe accusation. All we did in Afghanistan was bomb civilians. We came nowhere close to catching Osama or ANY presumed enemy? Where does Viggo Mortensen get his intelligence from? He makes several comments that it should be OK to question things. I don't actual questioning going on as much as I see him making statements and then asking pre-conclusive questions.
I don't know how close we came to catching Osama, I don't know how many civilians we killed, but there's no way Viggo Mortensen knows that either. There's no way on earth he knows that we didn't come close to catching a single presumed enemy.
I respect Viggo as an actor. I think he did a phenomenal job portraying Aragorn son of Arathorn. But if he really means the things he said in this interview, he is not a very objective thinker.
Let me be very clear about this. Do I think it's wrong to question our administration? Absolutely not!!! Do I think America has done some atrocious things in the name of justice? Absolutely!!!
But to make accusations that cannot be backed up, to make statements and call them questions is just as bad as blind support for a country or political party.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I connected to his computer via Remote Desktop and browsed his folder
;)
Hmmm....I think we may found the problem right there. Have you told your brother that it was you yet?
Why the hell should I let you run a business at my expense
One could easily argue that the nature of the protocol allows them to send you mail at your expense. We're going to have to change the protocols/laws/code to make things work differently.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The fact that a Trogdor reference with no explanation whatsoever can get a +5 Funny moderation, is one of the coolest things about being a geek.
Most people wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit them in the face...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
C++ also includes tail recursion, standard temples,
;)
I stopped worshipping at the standard temples long ago. They take anybody...