Bummer. I clicked on your post expecting some insightful comment regarding the insensitivity of holding people less fortunate than ourselves up for ridicule.
Oh man nothing like sucking up to/. to get a +5 insightful. No it's not Ok . If you would follow the news you would see that several states and contries are consider criminal charges against Sony.
Nothing like trashing someone else to get modded up.
Aside from that, I guess the Sony case will be nothing like the Mitnick case as he was held without bail and spent time in solitary confinement. It seems a safe assumption that the Sony execs will suffer no similar fate. Not to mention the other poster here who points out that they are only facing a civil suit, not a criminal one.
I don't think this was a security hole so much as breaking and entering. I realize the players are different here but didn't Kevin Mitnick spend years in jail for stuff like this? I guess when a corporation hacks a consumer it's OK.
While cool, SVO apparently can be a bit problematic. I'm reading this book now and the author eventually ripped his dual-tank system out and went back to B100 (100% biodiesel). Especially in colder climates you don't want to turn off the engine with pure vegetable oil in the lines.
Well, since there is bound to be a slew of anecdotal evidence I may as well pipe up. I'm using an older TiBook (867 Mhz). Original battery. If I set the brightness to the middle mark I am still getting 4 hours of run time. But really, no notebook battery lasts long enough in my opinion.
By the way, I really hate laptops with the smooth, shiny monitor glass/covering. The reflections are completely distracting.
Not too good? Because it doesn't have lots of exploding things or violence or far out special effects? It's been years since I watched it but I remember it having a good psychological plot, and the opening scenes of river grass swaying in the current still hang with me purely for their artistic quality.
I stopped buying from Amazon a while ago, but after reading this I re-visited the site to delete all addresses and credit card info as well as my wish list and anything else I could find. I invite anyone else who feels strongly about this to do the same. However, I recognize that the reality is most people stand on their desires, not their principles.
Check out this solar tower project. It uses the sun to heat up air which is under an enclosed canopy. The heated air then rushes up through a gigantic tower, powering generating turbines along the way.
I think you've been reading too much Ayn Rand. In reality what would probably happen is that one sweatshop owner would have the other one killed, or they would form a partnership in order to not have to pay higher wages. It's funny that people think that liberals are fuzzy-headed idealists when there are all these people out there who are just as unrealistically idealistic about capitalism.
We should buy as much from possible from sweatshops to increase the wages of their workers.
If you made a sweatshop owner filthy rich he would never raise wages. To think otherwise is to be disingenuous. Money doesn't make one more enlightened, it makes one less enlightened.
My original point wasn't really about sweatshops, it was more about the incredible lack of imagination that human beings have for non-greedy purposes. When you look around in the world to determine why people are suffering please remember that the chief cause of suffering on this planet is not mother nature, it is other people.
Staggeringly Large? It is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to the size of this new telescope.
People see what they want to see. That is why your specious argument was modded up. It's hilarious that you attribute all these social gains to a disgusting video game. You might as well have said that ever since Britney Spears became popular that violent crimes have decreased dramatically.
Beating up bitches and killing cops definitely helps on the IQ.
But your moral IQ has taken a big hit. Bitches? You mean people like your mom? Your sister? Your aunt? Your grandmother? You ought to take a long look at your misogyny and misanthropy. You may think it's just a game but the longer you entertain such thoughts the more likely you are to program yourself into believing that crap.
Wow, what a tiny universe you live in. I guess your point of view does drive home the point with me, however, that geeks are no better than anyone else.
I used to have this fantasy that since geeks were probably more often than not the loners or quiet ones in school that they would have developed some sensitivity in their outlook on the world. Reading Slashdot has pretty much put that idea to rest.
This is not a lawsuit about a defective product. This is an attempt to reward people who apparently have no common sense whatsoever at the expense of Apple.
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Bummer. I clicked on your post expecting some insightful comment regarding the insensitivity of holding people less fortunate than ourselves up for ridicule.
The CD.
Nothing like trashing someone else to get modded up.
Aside from that, I guess the Sony case will be nothing like the Mitnick case as he was held without bail and spent time in solitary confinement. It seems a safe assumption that the Sony execs will suffer no similar fate. Not to mention the other poster here who points out that they are only facing a civil suit, not a criminal one.
I don't think this was a security hole so much as breaking and entering. I realize the players are different here but didn't Kevin Mitnick spend years in jail for stuff like this? I guess when a corporation hacks a consumer it's OK.
cd /NorthAmericanAirSpace
rm *.missile
Easy, no?
While cool, SVO apparently can be a bit problematic. I'm reading this book now and the author eventually ripped his dual-tank system out and went back to B100 (100% biodiesel). Especially in colder climates you don't want to turn off the engine with pure vegetable oil in the lines.
By the way, I really hate laptops with the smooth, shiny monitor glass/covering. The reflections are completely distracting.
I think you got the sex offender map by mistake.
Not too good? Because it doesn't have lots of exploding things or violence or far out special effects? It's been years since I watched it but I remember it having a good psychological plot, and the opening scenes of river grass swaying in the current still hang with me purely for their artistic quality.
Not only is it not insightful, it's hypocritical here on Slashdot.
Also, iTMS hasn't been instrumental in getting a foreign journalist jailed by ratting him out to his government.
I stopped buying from Amazon a while ago, but after reading this I re-visited the site to delete all addresses and credit card info as well as my wish list and anything else I could find. I invite anyone else who feels strongly about this to do the same. However, I recognize that the reality is most people stand on their desires, not their principles.
How about Sony execs do jail time, just like other crackers/hackers?
Check out this solar tower project. It uses the sun to heat up air which is under an enclosed canopy. The heated air then rushes up through a gigantic tower, powering generating turbines along the way.
I think you've been reading too much Ayn Rand. In reality what would probably happen is that one sweatshop owner would have the other one killed, or they would form a partnership in order to not have to pay higher wages. It's funny that people think that liberals are fuzzy-headed idealists when there are all these people out there who are just as unrealistically idealistic about capitalism.
If you made a sweatshop owner filthy rich he would never raise wages. To think otherwise is to be disingenuous. Money doesn't make one more enlightened, it makes one less enlightened.
My original point wasn't really about sweatshops, it was more about the incredible lack of imagination that human beings have for non-greedy purposes. When you look around in the world to determine why people are suffering please remember that the chief cause of suffering on this planet is not mother nature, it is other people.
Exactly. And that is why when we wonder why the world is such a crappy place we don't have to look far, we only have to look in the mirror.
Staggeringly Large? It is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to the size of this new telescope.
People see what they want to see. That is why your specious argument was modded up. It's hilarious that you attribute all these social gains to a disgusting video game. You might as well have said that ever since Britney Spears became popular that violent crimes have decreased dramatically.
But your moral IQ has taken a big hit. Bitches? You mean people like your mom? Your sister? Your aunt? Your grandmother? You ought to take a long look at your misogyny and misanthropy. You may think it's just a game but the longer you entertain such thoughts the more likely you are to program yourself into believing that crap.
Well, I can see you're doing a good job of filling that in with stuff like GTA and gangster rap.
I used to have this fantasy that since geeks were probably more often than not the loners or quiet ones in school that they would have developed some sensitivity in their outlook on the world. Reading Slashdot has pretty much put that idea to rest.
Indeed. My original post was supposed to be a joke about this kind of lunacy, but I don't think it came out quite right.
That's great, but I just hope it doesn't scratch easily.
This is not a lawsuit about a defective product. This is an attempt to reward people who apparently have no common sense whatsoever at the expense of Apple.