Shouldnt we have laws protecting people who want to modify something they own? Aslong as theres no danger to other people (eg screwing up your cars breaking system), you should be allowed to do what ever the hell you want with your property. Insead we get laws like the DMCA which companies now use on a daily basis to sue people for pretty much anything from making an adaptor cable to spray painting their PS2 silver. I think the mandate should be: "sell us what we want, or we will go and buy it from china"
Thats stupid, you cant just go around blocking your customers from sites for their own good! at the very least give a customer the option to turn off blocking for their account if they ask, but put it on by default. The entire point of the internet is lost if you block anything - unless you're specifically blocking something for a technical reason. IMHO any ISP that doesnt allow blocking disabled on a specific account is probably just being very very lazy and not giving you your moneys worth,
Could you not just encode the audio signal of swearing so that to a normal tv it sounds like a beep, but to a tv fitted with a decoder it gets the sound. A first guess would be some sort of modulation where the beep is the carrier (dont forget its just a second of audio so quality isnt such an issue) or even better would be some sort of digital encoding, the technology is there and if a standard was decided you could make everyone happy, or just do what we do in the uk - wait until 9pm and say whatever the fucking hell you like bitch.
From a british perspective, (dunno if you care?) we think its all totally insane, you actually have 4 weeks media attention, court hearings and fines just because someone said fuck or showed a nipple? i think the latest south park episode took the piss the best:P
Well you technically have the right to know exactly what information the airlines have on you, and it must be accurate. Its probably just going to cross reference your credit card details with those on questionable accounts that regularly recieve money from dodgy places (so half of congress will be on there then). Any 'terrorist' worth their salt is gona make sure they keep their bases covered.
"Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening"
So if i don't like it and i start asking questions such as "who are you" and "what are you doing in my government" then i get screened? what if i just want to know where gate 15 is?
"The Political Safety Administration said Wednesday it will order parties to turn over politicians' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized political screening program that could keep dangerous people out of the government, reports Yahoo/AP. The Computer-Assisted Politician Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would rank all candidates according to the likelihood of their being corrupt. Suspected corporate cheats and self-centered assholes would be designated as pig-fuckers and forbidden to vote or run for election. Candidates who have questionable stock or campaign contributions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening. The vast majority would be designated 'friends of Diebold' and allowed through routine screening. But some say the project would violate the corrupt and idiotic way of politics, while others are concerned it would just be another corrupt entity. The Supreme Court, has come up with seven billion dollars that it says will go to the best bid, and as always, companies who would like to bid to build and run the system may have any political or corporate affiliations they want.
Nah i dont think you really understand George Bush. He isnt against 'terrorism' per-se, well infact hes partial to partake in a little of it himself - eg, "shock and awe", "your either with us or with the terrorists" etc. Hes more using the phrase (which really is just a way to say criminal/murderer etc) to scare the american public into such a state that they dont care who gets tax breaks or if their pension gets cut to 5 cents. Why do you think he created that colour coded alert system? why is every news channel mentioning terrorism every hour of the day? Bush is out to do whatever it is he is trying to do for himself, im just not sure if thats world domination, money, or just pleasing his chums.
A site calling itself "Toms Hardware Guide" is claiming that Michael's Computers is a scam. We have recieved numerous emails regarding this, so we decided to investigate. We attempted to contact this so called "Guide" however they returned all our calls and promptly emailed us back with answers to our questions. We then asked them to disproove the performance claim and they responded:
"We would be happy to, please send us a review model"
With people like that you just cant win, so we looked a little closer at their so called claims:
"There is no AMD FX-51 3400+ Currently, there are no 500GB internal desktop hard drives. The only 500 GB drives are external firewire/USB2.0 drives, such as the ones made by LaCie."
There are two glaring mistakes here.
There are many 500Gb drives on the market and the AMD FX-51 3400+ is a special overclocked chip. When powering up the computer, which contains no fans, no noise is made and the machine boots up within 8 seconds. And by booting we are of course referring to the commanly used term for smoking.
This is absolute bullshit theres no way they can make us believe people actually like this crap! 'less intrusive?' give me a fucking break i had 3 Intel adverts playing simultainiously just because i multi-tab browse, they make sure your client has downloaded the whole thing so that pretty much kicks off anyone with a poor connection. Whos been smoking the crack pipe and who has been bloody pulling the wool over like spin doctor?? The simple and undisputable fact is that if the ad-server checks that your computer downloads every byte then traditional pop-up etc ads are much better because of the lower file size: you can disable any advert with relative ease and any browser that isnt produced by some sell-out corporation will have decent ad-busting built in and aslong as you have actually downloaded it theres nothing they can do - do the people who were surveyed even realise they could turn traditional adverts off?
I have a feeling the average computer user who doesnt know any better has been blaitently lied to, if they realised that the tools to stop annoying web practices were well within their reach they would bloody well demand that they were treated with respect.
oh please, 6000 times faster might be what you say to some unknowing muppet you're trying to sell a modem to, but this is slashdot, we expect nothing more than bit rate, modulation type and SNR & bandwidth requirements without having to click on the/.'ed article.
you dont count, no amount of letter writing or faxing counts. only big corporations count, and now we have diebold voting machines, even your vote wont count. just watch this bill go down the drian because some big-shot companies are about to make afew 'donations'.
I just love the way enterprise has the same scope thing, you have to wonder what it is that just cant be displayed on a monitor, especially since they always seem to give readings like they were reading off numbers.
P2P is harmful to the public (the public being Ben Asslick and co.) not to mention the fact that people such as lighting technicians and editors, who would normally only be ripped off by the studios are now ripped off in a hypothetical way by students on their computers who would otherwise have paid the full artificially inflated price of a dvd! The real loosers in the p2p terror however are the pirates! these poor groups slave away over racks and racks of video machines trying to copy finding nimo so they can make some money and p2p has stolen their entire industry!
So, who gains in this p2p world? well i can tell you now, the only people who gain are the politicians, they stand to make a small fortune from law-fees paid by the MPAA/RIAA.
More to the point - how many engineers would be prepared to drop an arm and a leg to be given a lab and budget like that and told "build something cool, but it doesnt have to be a finishd product".
Well your family is pretty much responsible for your future - everyone rides on the success of their parents etc. Just look at bush, hes a nothing, a no-body, he hasnt a decent thought to his name, but hes the president of the USA, why? because of his father and family and their history. There are many examples of the same thing with past presidents and the same goes for business. Unless you're one of the very very lucky few who make their own fortune (no bill gates isnt one his family were rich) then you gotta band together as a family and make sure you make it big.
Is it just me or does almost all starbucks coffee (apart from frappachinos) taste like total shit? i thought maybe i had some weird taste but when i make coffee it tastes 10 times better. Mcdonalds food doesnt taste that bad compared to an expensive burger so how come starbucks just tastes so bad?
Oh to make this on topic - yeah 3 for a coffee and a CD full of songs is still a rip off.
If they have a decent connection just point them to a vnc server - its easy to install over the phone on windows and then you can fix all their problems from home - best thing about it is, they'll have to stay on the phone so you can tell them "plug the camera in, restart" 50 times, and because they have to actually do something they'll eventually get irritated enough to stop asking you.:P
Thats one of the many many 'post production' houses near my uni (westminster), with their fancy schmancy offices and poncey logos. Looks like one of the crapper ones, unless they were trying to make the fake obvious? nah.
I always thought isreal would start putting advertising on that giant wall it built to cut palestine in half - i could just imagine the coke logo running along it.
Advertising is basically graffiti except someone paid for it, corporate greed makes me sick.
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Shouldnt we have laws protecting people who want to modify something they own? Aslong as theres no danger to other people (eg screwing up your cars breaking system), you should be allowed to do what ever the hell you want with your property. Insead we get laws like the DMCA which companies now use on a daily basis to sue people for pretty much anything from making an adaptor cable to spray painting their PS2 silver. I think the mandate should be: "sell us what we want, or we will go and buy it from china"
Thats stupid, you cant just go around blocking your customers from sites for their own good! at the very least give a customer the option to turn off blocking for their account if they ask, but put it on by default. The entire point of the internet is lost if you block anything - unless you're specifically blocking something for a technical reason. IMHO any ISP that doesnt allow blocking disabled on a specific account is probably just being very very lazy and not giving you your moneys worth,
Could you not just encode the audio signal of swearing so that to a normal tv it sounds like a beep, but to a tv fitted with a decoder it gets the sound. A first guess would be some sort of modulation where the beep is the carrier (dont forget its just a second of audio so quality isnt such an issue) or even better would be some sort of digital encoding, the technology is there and if a standard was decided you could make everyone happy, or just do what we do in the uk - wait until 9pm and say whatever the fucking hell you like bitch.
From a british perspective, (dunno if you care?) we think its all totally insane, you actually have 4 weeks media attention, court hearings and fines just because someone said fuck or showed a nipple? i think the latest south park episode took the piss the best :P
Well you technically have the right to know exactly what information the airlines have on you, and it must be accurate. Its probably just going to cross reference your credit card details with those on questionable accounts that regularly recieve money from dodgy places (so half of congress will be on there then). Any 'terrorist' worth their salt is gona make sure they keep their bases covered.
Some family will be traveling together and will find that little jimmy has been flagged red and hauled off for a cavety search and an interrogation.
Yeah but the Isrealis have also been phenominally successful at taking over someone-else's country. Oh wait so has the USA!
Ok i can't talk, the British were the worst basterds of them all:P
Hey i take offence to that! im British and i dont see why i shouldnt have a +1 threat rating too!
"Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening"
So if i don't like it and i start asking questions such as "who are you" and "what are you doing in my government" then i get screened? what if i just want to know where gate 15 is?
"The Political Safety Administration said Wednesday it will order parties to turn over politicians' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized political screening program that could keep dangerous people out of the government, reports Yahoo/AP. The Computer-Assisted Politician Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would rank all candidates according to the likelihood of their being corrupt. Suspected corporate cheats and self-centered assholes would be designated as pig-fuckers and forbidden to vote or run for election. Candidates who have questionable stock or campaign contributions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening. The vast majority would be designated 'friends of Diebold' and allowed through routine screening. But some say the project would violate the corrupt and idiotic way of politics, while others are concerned it would just be another corrupt entity. The Supreme Court, has come up with seven billion dollars that it says will go to the best bid, and as always, companies who would like to bid to build and run the system may have any political or corporate affiliations they want.
Nah i dont think you really understand George Bush. He isnt against 'terrorism' per-se, well infact hes partial to partake in a little of it himself - eg, "shock and awe", "your either with us or with the terrorists" etc. Hes more using the phrase (which really is just a way to say criminal/murderer etc) to scare the american public into such a state that they dont care who gets tax breaks or if their pension gets cut to 5 cents. Why do you think he created that colour coded alert system? why is every news channel mentioning terrorism every hour of the day? Bush is out to do whatever it is he is trying to do for himself, im just not sure if thats world domination, money, or just pleasing his chums.
A site calling itself "Toms Hardware Guide" is claiming that Michael's Computers is a scam. We have recieved numerous emails regarding this, so we decided to investigate. We attempted to contact this so called "Guide" however they returned all our calls and promptly emailed us back with answers to our questions. We then asked them to disproove the performance claim and they responded:
"We would be happy to, please send us a review model"
With people like that you just cant win, so we looked a little closer at their so called claims:
"There is no AMD FX-51 3400+
Currently, there are no 500GB internal desktop hard drives. The only 500 GB drives are external firewire/USB2.0 drives, such as the ones made by LaCie."
There are two glaring mistakes here.
There are many 500Gb drives on the market and the AMD FX-51 3400+ is a special overclocked chip. When powering up the computer, which contains no fans, no noise is made and the machine boots up within 8 seconds. And by booting we are of course referring to the commanly used term for smoking.
This is absolute bullshit theres no way they can make us believe people actually like this crap! 'less intrusive?' give me a fucking break i had 3 Intel adverts playing simultainiously just because i multi-tab browse, they make sure your client has downloaded the whole thing so that pretty much kicks off anyone with a poor connection. Whos been smoking the crack pipe and who has been bloody pulling the wool over like spin doctor?? The simple and undisputable fact is that if the ad-server checks that your computer downloads every byte then traditional pop-up etc ads are much better because of the lower file size: you can disable any advert with relative ease and any browser that isnt produced by some sell-out corporation will have decent ad-busting built in and aslong as you have actually downloaded it theres nothing they can do - do the people who were surveyed even realise they could turn traditional adverts off?
I have a feeling the average computer user who doesnt know any better has been blaitently lied to, if they realised that the tools to stop annoying web practices were well within their reach they would bloody well demand that they were treated with respect.
oh please, 6000 times faster might be what you say to some unknowing muppet you're trying to sell a modem to, but this is slashdot, we expect nothing more than bit rate, modulation type and SNR & bandwidth requirements without having to click on the /.'ed article.
you dont count, no amount of letter writing or faxing counts. only big corporations count, and now we have diebold voting machines, even your vote wont count. just watch this bill go down the drian because some big-shot companies are about to make afew 'donations'.
I just love the way enterprise has the same scope thing, you have to wonder what it is that just cant be displayed on a monitor, especially since they always seem to give readings like they were reading off numbers.
P2P is harmful to the public (the public being Ben Asslick and co.) not to mention the fact that people such as lighting technicians and editors, who would normally only be ripped off by the studios are now ripped off in a hypothetical way by students on their computers who would otherwise have paid the full artificially inflated price of a dvd! The real loosers in the p2p terror however are the pirates! these poor groups slave away over racks and racks of video machines trying to copy finding nimo so they can make some money and p2p has stolen their entire industry!
So, who gains in this p2p world? well i can tell you now, the only people who gain are the politicians, they stand to make a small fortune from law-fees paid by the MPAA/RIAA.
More to the point - how many engineers would be prepared to drop an arm and a leg to be given a lab and budget like that and told "build something cool, but it doesnt have to be a finishd product".
I must be one of the few who perceives most music as something you could _only_ give away free, its that bad/unoriginal/pretentious.
Well your family is pretty much responsible for your future - everyone rides on the success of their parents etc. Just look at bush, hes a nothing, a no-body, he hasnt a decent thought to his name, but hes the president of the USA, why? because of his father and family and their history. There are many examples of the same thing with past presidents and the same goes for business. Unless you're one of the very very lucky few who make their own fortune (no bill gates isnt one his family were rich) then you gotta band together as a family and make sure you make it big.
Is it just me or does almost all starbucks coffee (apart from frappachinos) taste like total shit? i thought maybe i had some weird taste but when i make coffee it tastes 10 times better. Mcdonalds food doesnt taste that bad compared to an expensive burger so how come starbucks just tastes so bad?
Oh to make this on topic - yeah 3 for a coffee and a CD full of songs is still a rip off.
If they have a decent connection just point them to a vnc server - its easy to install over the phone on windows and then you can fix all their problems from home - best thing about it is, they'll have to stay on the phone so you can tell them "plug the camera in, restart" 50 times, and because they have to actually do something they'll eventually get irritated enough to stop asking you. :P
Thats one of the many many 'post production' houses near my uni (westminster), with their fancy schmancy offices and poncey logos. Looks like one of the crapper ones, unless they were trying to make the fake obvious? nah.
The words "critical" and "disable the Outlook Today page" in the same paragraph?
So they patched a small hole in the side of the ship and the next day discoverd that the name-plate had broken causing the ship to list 30 degrees.
I always thought isreal would start putting advertising on that giant wall it built to cut palestine in half - i could just imagine the coke logo running along it.
Advertising is basically graffiti except someone paid for it, corporate greed makes me sick.