I posted this above, but I'm sick of seeing the "Driving is a privilege, not a right." argument over and over again in this thread.
The courts have held, time and time again (in the past) that driving WAS a right. Here's a brief summary from one such case. There are many other findings just like this. Feel free to research on your own.
"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 179.
"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 179.
Hey, what a small world. You used to work in IT at Jacksonville? I work as a web developer in Augusta for Morris Communications and just finished some stuff for Jacksonville. Neat.
I realize this is offtopic, but I do believe it needs to be said.
There were 10 hours and 26 minutes between front page posts. And people wonder why we're bleeding users to other sites? It's the BS editors. The BS dupes. The BS factual errors. Seriously, wtf are we paying Slashdot for? If you're buying a subscription, what are you getting? What are the advertisements on the page doing for us? Where does this money go?
I've always left ads on Slashdot because I 'support' the culture, but this is the final straw. Until this shit is fixed, I'm non-existant. This is my last post.
Fuck slashdot. (This is not a troll. This is a serious rant of someone who wanted to spend Sunday afternoon catching up on tech news.)
I noticed today that Google has some of the UGLIEST output on the planet. None of their outputted HTML is XHTML compliant (as you would assume the leader in simplistic design would want) and their code is all just clumped together in a few hideously huge strings.
Where's the pretty output Google? Where's the XHTML 1.0?
I suggest you stop discussing your opinions here on Slashdot. Otherwise you might just realize that you are, in fact, discussing Your Rights Online.
If you don't like the article, don't read. However, I enjoy the article and don't like seeing 15 comments wasted to people like you bitching about how it "ISN'T ABOUT TEH ENTARWEB STEALING MY RIGHTS!"
In the words of poorly coded Slashdot message code:
I was not aware that people truly read Newspapers anymore. The newspapers in my town (Augusta) completely suck and aren't worth the 12$ they're trying to sell it for. My parents stopped buying their paper up in Chicago for the same reason.
With the Internet becoming a place where news are instant and commentary is a little deeper, why are Newspapers still around? How are they remaining profitable?
Your sig is bullshit, or your post is bullshit. Which is it? Either you're making fairly decent cash, or you're a poor CS grad stueent. It doesn't go both ways. How about you don't advertise next time asshole?
I know I'm going to get hit hard for this, but it is my sincere belief that he did the right thing. Not morally, and he probably didn't do it with any sort of intention other than outright theft.
But my big fear is that as we move towards a more moneyless society, things like Credit Rating quickly become more important than any other factor. I personally hate the concept of Credit and love to see it take a hit.
How about doing things the old fashioned way, like going ahead and paying for things with Money that you've earned? Seems insane?
If there weren't so many goddamned Credit organizations, then identify theft wouldn't amount to shit. It would be a simple case of "LOOK AT ME, MY NAME IS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS! HEH HEH" and having absolutely no influence in her actual life. With a Credit system, they can royaly fuck people over.
I may be paranoid, but it scares the crap out of me.
"Mr. Incredible becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with two kids."
Good quote. I competely missed it. Mr. Incredible actually becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with three kids. Not two. The reviewer completely forgot about Jack Jack.
Grammar Nazism aside, this was a completely thorough and delightful read. This should stand up as a model on how to write a review.
I also missed the reviewers name. Erik Harrison. This is insanely creepy because my name is Eric Harrison. I wonder what his middle name is.
This is slightly off topic, but this is the first time I've heard of MirrorDot. There are a lot of places that "try" to do caching, but MirrorDot seemed to actually work. Hell, I just downloaded this movie from there, which is quite impressive.
Has anyone written an article about them to let the general Slashdot public know about their service?
What I want to know is how an editor can dupe his OWN stories. I can understand if CowboyNeal has the midnight shift and posts something that CmdrTaco posted a month prior during the day or something, but come ON! TIMOTHY DUPES TIMOTHY?!?!
Yeah, but the question really is, did all the small-scale farmers start suing the large scale farmers claiming that it infringed on their right to have a job?;)
SPAM will continue to exist until people stop making spam profitable. It's a bad side effect to greed. People will do anything for a buck.
Legislation won't help. Technology hasn't been able to help that much yet. Basically, advertising is here to stay, and you can do one of two things, make yourself invisible so you can't be advertised to, or accept it.
Companies want you to be a consumer, so that they can keep being producers. There's too many companies, so they are going to fight hand over foot to get their product into your mind in whatever method they can.
That's probably because moderators recognize that "Funny" moderations don't benefit karma. Which sucks. As a professional courtesy, I moderate everything that I read that is funny as "Insightful" or "Interesting" or something along those lines in the hope that if in the future, I write something funny, people will moderate me with that same idea in mind.
It sucks crafting a nice little paragraph or two and then get karma slapped due to "Funny" not having a karma bonus. If I get 6 "Funny's" and one "Offtopic", my total karma bonus is -1. The system is broken that way, and it's up to us as users to work our way around it manually.
I had insomnia once, and the only way I found myself able to overcome the horrible illness and get some good, needed sleep was by joining a club. Only this club was different.
The first rule is, you're not supposed to talk about it.
And the _second_ rule is, you're not supposed to talk about it.
I heard the guy who invented it never sleeps, and he's raising an army.
Eh, it was like, 3AM when I posted this after staying up all night so I wouldn't be late for PT. Cut me a little slack. I know better, but it's not like I can go back and edit things. And who proofreads comments?
I'm in the military and have received the warning about the coke can's. It's not that the military itself thinks the can's are dangerous, its just the fact that the area's that ARE on alert for them are area's in which cell phones and electronic equipment are restricted items.
The premise of the coke contest is that you open the can, and Coca Cola fly's in with helicopters to bring you your prize. That is fine and dandy for civilians, but on a military base, you can't have Coke flying in helicopters and things.
Not to mention the fact that the cell phone in the can could be used for the inadvertant disclosure of secret data. That is the threat, not terrorism or anything like that.
The fact of the matter is: IE is free. Just as free as mozilla. MS won't come straight out and say, "Use Mozilla" because that would be retarded. But they don't care if everyone goes to Mozilla. MS was interested in winning the original browser wars because they were afraid it would destroy their desktop market. Now that losing is no longer a fear, they can safely move away from free application development and focus on their core competancy: OS development. They can let Mozilla develop all they want, and integrate Mozilla at a later date.
Your comment just made me think of something funny. The biggest filesharing system in use by Windows users is probably currently Kazaa. They may not have an actual law in place for destroying computers of filesharers, but just being on the Kazaa network seems to do the trick. Toss in some spyware and the random virus you get from the network, and Windows users everywhere are raped.
Windows IS the destructive system for filesharing. Sad, yet eerily true.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to Slashdot, Mr. Shatner. I can see by your high uid that it took you a while to find us.
Look who's talking... ;)
(Commence with low-uid thread)
I posted this above, but I'm sick of seeing the "Driving is a privilege, not a right." argument over and over again in this thread.
The courts have held, time and time again (in the past) that driving WAS a right. Here's a brief summary from one such case. There are many other findings just like this. Feel free to research on your own.
"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 179.
"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 179.
Hey, what a small world. You used to work in IT at Jacksonville? I work as a web developer in Augusta for Morris Communications and just finished some stuff for Jacksonville. Neat.
-E
Joomla translates to "sentence" in Arabic. At least that is what my wife says.
-E
I realize this is offtopic, but I do believe it needs to be said.
There were 10 hours and 26 minutes between front page posts. And people wonder why we're bleeding users to other sites? It's the BS editors. The BS dupes. The BS factual errors. Seriously, wtf are we paying Slashdot for? If you're buying a subscription, what are you getting? What are the advertisements on the page doing for us? Where does this money go?
I've always left ads on Slashdot because I 'support' the culture, but this is the final straw. Until this shit is fixed, I'm non-existant. This is my last post.
Fuck slashdot. (This is not a troll. This is a serious rant of someone who wanted to spend Sunday afternoon catching up on tech news.)
Haha. Same here. And the ironical thing is, this is actually the first damn story that _ISN'T_ a dupe.
Lollers.
Silly slashdot, real stories are for CNN.
-E
Read this book:
Unintended Consequences [non-referral link]
I HIGHLY recommend it.
The author does a very good job of guiding the reader along that very same idea.
I noticed today that Google has some of the UGLIEST output on the planet. None of their outputted HTML is XHTML compliant (as you would assume the leader in simplistic design would want) and their code is all just clumped together in a few hideously huge strings.
Where's the pretty output Google? Where's the XHTML 1.0?
-E
I suggest you stop discussing your opinions here on Slashdot. Otherwise you might just realize that you are, in fact, discussing Your Rights Online.
If you don't like the article, don't read. However, I enjoy the article and don't like seeing 15 comments wasted to people like you bitching about how it "ISN'T ABOUT TEH ENTARWEB STEALING MY RIGHTS!"
In the words of poorly coded Slashdot message code:
"Move Along. Nothing for you to see here!"
-E
I was not aware that people truly read Newspapers anymore. The newspapers in my town (Augusta) completely suck and aren't worth the 12$ they're trying to sell it for. My parents stopped buying their paper up in Chicago for the same reason.
With the Internet becoming a place where news are instant and commentary is a little deeper, why are Newspapers still around? How are they remaining profitable?
Your sig is bullshit, or your post is bullshit. Which is it? Either you're making fairly decent cash, or you're a poor CS grad stueent. It doesn't go both ways. How about you don't advertise next time asshole?
I know I'm going to get hit hard for this, but it is my sincere belief that he did the right thing. Not morally, and he probably didn't do it with any sort of intention other than outright theft.
But my big fear is that as we move towards a more moneyless society, things like Credit Rating quickly become more important than any other factor. I personally hate the concept of Credit and love to see it take a hit.
How about doing things the old fashioned way, like going ahead and paying for things with Money that you've earned? Seems insane?
If there weren't so many goddamned Credit organizations, then identify theft wouldn't amount to shit. It would be a simple case of "LOOK AT ME, MY NAME IS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS! HEH HEH" and having absolutely no influence in her actual life. With a Credit system, they can royaly fuck people over.
I may be paranoid, but it scares the crap out of me.
"Mr. Incredible becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with two kids."
Good quote. I competely missed it. Mr. Incredible actually becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with three kids. Not two. The reviewer completely forgot about Jack Jack.
Grammar Nazism aside, this was a completely thorough and delightful read. This should stand up as a model on how to write a review.
I also missed the reviewers name. Erik Harrison. This is insanely creepy because my name is Eric Harrison. I wonder what his middle name is.
This is slightly off topic, but this is the first time I've heard of MirrorDot. There are a lot of places that "try" to do caching, but MirrorDot seemed to actually work. Hell, I just downloaded this movie from there, which is quite impressive.
Has anyone written an article about them to let the general Slashdot public know about their service?
-Eric
(PS-Not affiliated in any way with mirrordot)
What I want to know is how an editor can dupe his OWN stories. I can understand if CowboyNeal has the midnight shift and posts something that CmdrTaco posted a month prior during the day or something, but come ON! TIMOTHY DUPES TIMOTHY?!?!
Not only can you go into space, your teeth can rot pleasantly in the process.
I hate giveaways. I never win.
-E
Yeah, but the question really is, did all the small-scale farmers start suing the large scale farmers claiming that it infringed on their right to have a job? ;)
-E
SPAM will continue to exist until people stop making spam profitable. It's a bad side effect to greed. People will do anything for a buck.
Legislation won't help. Technology hasn't been able to help that much yet. Basically, advertising is here to stay, and you can do one of two things, make yourself invisible so you can't be advertised to, or accept it.
Companies want you to be a consumer, so that they can keep being producers. There's too many companies, so they are going to fight hand over foot to get their product into your mind in whatever method they can.
-Eric
That's probably because moderators recognize that "Funny" moderations don't benefit karma. Which sucks. As a professional courtesy, I moderate everything that I read that is funny as "Insightful" or "Interesting" or something along those lines in the hope that if in the future, I write something funny, people will moderate me with that same idea in mind.
It sucks crafting a nice little paragraph or two and then get karma slapped due to "Funny" not having a karma bonus. If I get 6 "Funny's" and one "Offtopic", my total karma bonus is -1. The system is broken that way, and it's up to us as users to work our way around it manually.
-Eric
I had insomnia once, and the only way I found myself able to overcome the horrible illness and get some good, needed sleep was by joining a club. Only this club was different.
The first rule is, you're not supposed to talk about it.
And the _second_ rule is, you're not supposed to talk about it.
I heard the guy who invented it never sleeps, and he's raising an army.
Do you know Tyler Durden?
Eh, it was like, 3AM when I posted this after staying up all night so I wouldn't be late for PT. Cut me a little slack. I know better, but it's not like I can go back and edit things. And who proofreads comments?
I'm in the military and have received the warning about the coke can's. It's not that the military itself thinks the can's are dangerous, its just the fact that the area's that ARE on alert for them are area's in which cell phones and electronic equipment are restricted items.
The premise of the coke contest is that you open the can, and Coca Cola fly's in with helicopters to bring you your prize. That is fine and dandy for civilians, but on a military base, you can't have Coke flying in helicopters and things.
Not to mention the fact that the cell phone in the can could be used for the inadvertant disclosure of secret data. That is the threat, not terrorism or anything like that.
The fact of the matter is: IE is free. Just as free as mozilla. MS won't come straight out and say, "Use Mozilla" because that would be retarded. But they don't care if everyone goes to Mozilla. MS was interested in winning the original browser wars because they were afraid it would destroy their desktop market. Now that losing is no longer a fear, they can safely move away from free application development and focus on their core competancy: OS development. They can let Mozilla develop all they want, and integrate Mozilla at a later date.
Your comment just made me think of something funny. The biggest filesharing system in use by Windows users is probably currently Kazaa. They may not have an actual law in place for destroying computers of filesharers, but just being on the Kazaa network seems to do the trick. Toss in some spyware and the random virus you get from the network, and Windows users everywhere are raped.
Windows IS the destructive system for filesharing. Sad, yet eerily true.