I don't know the procedure to get permission to find all brown haired people that own Fords within 50 miles, but I would think there has to be some kind of safeguards to prevent random lookups without reason. For example, to look up this information the police would need to get authorization from the Chief, the Sheriff, and Judge. Combine it with fingerprints, eye scans, smart cards, whatever.
If anyone can go to a computer, type in their search criteria, and come up with that info, it will be abused. If more then 1 person has to authorize it in a way that cuts down on the chances of abuse, then I'm all for such a system.
In theory, how much control does the EU have over Microsoft? I know they talked about separating WMP from Windows or bundling other media players with Windows. Could they force Microsoft to take even more drastic measures (such as breaking up the company's overseas operations)?
Microsoft has charged for updates for years silly. Just look at 98 SE, ME, and XP. Nothing changes this practice, except we can guarentee that service packs are now going to be rebranded as YP and ZP respectively to go along with the eXPerience.
This is one of the most informative Q/A sessions I have read on Slashdot. Not only did the DoJ not jump around a question or give a half answer, they actually tried to cover both sides of the issues they were asked to talk about. Very impressive and I learned a lot while reading it.
Can Slashdot get someone from the Civil Law side to be interviewed on Slashdot? Also one of our representatives from the House/Senate would be great as well. Politicans should make use of web sites like Slashdot more often.
400-21? That is 95% of the House voting for this bill, way over the 2/3rds needed to overturn a veto. We just gotta get the Senate to pass this with over a 2/3 vote (67 out of 100 votes should do it I think if my math is right) then the President has a PR problem on his hand (like he needs another one). If he veto's it, then it will get passed anyways most likely and if he votes for it then he changed his mind which will piss off his ClearChannel donors.
Nothing beats the East Coast for things related to history. D.C. for all of the museums and monuments, countless places all down the coast that reinact revolutionary war/civil war battles. Philadelphia where independce was declaired and the constitution written. New England has a lot as well since many major battles in the beginning of the revolutionary war were fought around Boston.
For fun, Florida can't be beaten. Disney World, Universal Studios, Cape Canaveral, and warm weather.
D.C. is one of the best cities in terms of sheer volume of sites to see. Pretty much something for everyone.
Florida has the Disneyworld parks, Universal Studios, Bush Gardens, Cape Canaveral, etc.
I know your a "geek" but try to see a baseball game in a park like Wrigley Field (Chicago), Pac Bell (San Francisco), or Fenway Park (Boston). Very relaxing and tons of fun. Or go to a football game or something.
Get rid of the carbs (pasta, bread, sugar, etc). If you must drink beer, drink light beers. Just eating right will help cut down the weight or at least stop your gut from getting worse. Then maybe your little runs up the stairs and pushups/pullups while at work will help you out.
- The lack of any common GUI among apps. Hell sometimes you can't even cut and paste between apps. At least with Windows and MacOSX there is enough similarity between apps that once you figure out how to use one you are well off to figure out the rest. Linux there is no comparison. - Application names...yeah, XMMS really screams to me that it is an audio player when I see it on KDE's equivelant of a start menu. Might as well call it asdkasdf@#3rafsdfa, there isn't a difference. - Software on store shelves...oh wait, what software on store shelves other then maybe one Linux distribution. - Forget support, doesn't do much good if my mom can't get a phone number for that replacement of her beloved Quicken. - Sure there is games, but call me when Battlefield 1942, High Heat Baseball, etc. are available instead of just FreeCiv. Get games like those and just about every young male in the world will switch. - Oh yeah, can I mention dependicies?
I used to buy a lot of CD's from the major labels. Probably a good 20 or so a year at least.
Then Napster came along and I actually bought more CD's since I could test out an album before I shelled out $15 for CD. Hence the almost total disappearance of 1-hit wonders in my collection after 1998, but I probably bought 30 CD's a year during the Napster craze, 30 CD's I cared much more about since they weren't 1-hit wonder CD's.
Then the RIAA went hardball on Napster and company. Metallica slept with the RIAA. CD prices actually rose. More manufactured pop was released, not the bands I enjoyed, the bands who cared about music and actually wrote their own songs. I went down to 5 RIAA CD's per year and just listened to the CD's that I owned already. Meanwhile my business with indie labels has increased dramatically, especially when they let me listen to their songs for free before buying them.
The only time I buy RIAA CD's is when they are on-sale for $6.99-9.99 at Best Buy the week of their release (why can't they be that price all the time? Indie labels seem to be able to do it just fine). The rest of the CD's I buy from indie labels. I also buy all my CD's online or at Best Buy.
RIAA lost me as a serious customer. Simple as that. When they lower prices for good and change their image with the public, they will win me back. Until then, they can go on sleeping with Britney.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah that was my first guess (that this was Blackboard) when I saw this Slashdot story. There isn't many other systems like it out there.
Voting via absentee ballot. At least there is a greater chance of my vote not being screwed up or changed.
Anyone who thinks these voting computers are going to be flawless and secure by Nov. 2004 is greatly mistaken.
Whoever runs slashdot should ban this guy. Look at the link he has in his signature is horrible.
Whoa that is literally down the street from me...
I don't know the procedure to get permission to find all brown haired people that own Fords within 50 miles, but I would think there has to be some kind of safeguards to prevent random lookups without reason. For example, to look up this information the police would need to get authorization from the Chief, the Sheriff, and Judge. Combine it with fingerprints, eye scans, smart cards, whatever.
If anyone can go to a computer, type in their search criteria, and come up with that info, it will be abused. If more then 1 person has to authorize it in a way that cuts down on the chances of abuse, then I'm all for such a system.
In theory, how much control does the EU have over Microsoft? I know they talked about separating WMP from Windows or bundling other media players with Windows. Could they force Microsoft to take even more drastic measures (such as breaking up the company's overseas operations)?
...when SCO will countersue?
Question is, how likely is it that it will pass or even come up for a vote?
Microsoft has charged for updates for years silly. Just look at 98 SE, ME, and XP. Nothing changes this practice, except we can guarentee that service packs are now going to be rebranded as YP and ZP respectively to go along with the eXPerience.
So I get to personally experience the story where a person thought their CD-ROM was a coffee holder.
This is one of the most informative Q/A sessions I have read on Slashdot. Not only did the DoJ not jump around a question or give a half answer, they actually tried to cover both sides of the issues they were asked to talk about. Very impressive and I learned a lot while reading it.
Can Slashdot get someone from the Civil Law side to be interviewed on Slashdot? Also one of our representatives from the House/Senate would be great as well. Politicans should make use of web sites like Slashdot more often.
Only every single supported version of Windows has this flaw? Thank God, I thought I was in trouble here.
Aliens controlled their minds for the 1.5327329 seconds that is needed to say "Yes" to the bill. Then they returned to their normal selves.
400-21? That is 95% of the House voting for this bill, way over the 2/3rds needed to overturn a veto. We just gotta get the Senate to pass this with over a 2/3 vote (67 out of 100 votes should do it I think if my math is right) then the President has a PR problem on his hand (like he needs another one). If he veto's it, then it will get passed anyways most likely and if he votes for it then he changed his mind which will piss off his ClearChannel donors.
Nothing beats the East Coast for things related to history. D.C. for all of the museums and monuments, countless places all down the coast that reinact revolutionary war/civil war battles. Philadelphia where independce was declaired and the constitution written. New England has a lot as well since many major battles in the beginning of the revolutionary war were fought around Boston.
For fun, Florida can't be beaten. Disney World, Universal Studios, Cape Canaveral, and warm weather.
D.C. is one of the best cities in terms of sheer volume of sites to see. Pretty much something for everyone.
Florida has the Disneyworld parks, Universal Studios, Bush Gardens, Cape Canaveral, etc.
I know your a "geek" but try to see a baseball game in a park like Wrigley Field (Chicago), Pac Bell (San Francisco), or Fenway Park (Boston). Very relaxing and tons of fun. Or go to a football game or something.
Get rid of the carbs (pasta, bread, sugar, etc). If you must drink beer, drink light beers. Just eating right will help cut down the weight or at least stop your gut from getting worse. Then maybe your little runs up the stairs and pushups/pullups while at work will help you out.
..someone think of the children! The dreaded EOL of IPv4 is upon us!
"Google it" or "MSN it"? That is the question...
Reading these posts, you would think /.'ers have a moral obiligation to download illegal copies of music.
Stop crying. Your stealing and the RIAA is going after you. Your basically shoplifting. How is this any different?
Your free ride is over.
...the United States of America Congress for approx. 1.257631919191918 seconds sided with consumers.
You know what I hate about Linux?
- The lack of any common GUI among apps. Hell sometimes you can't even cut and paste between apps. At least with Windows and MacOSX there is enough similarity between apps that once you figure out how to use one you are well off to figure out the rest. Linux there is no comparison.
- Application names...yeah, XMMS really screams to me that it is an audio player when I see it on KDE's equivelant of a start menu. Might as well call it asdkasdf@#3rafsdfa, there isn't a difference.
- Software on store shelves...oh wait, what software on store shelves other then maybe one Linux distribution.
- Forget support, doesn't do much good if my mom can't get a phone number for that replacement of her beloved Quicken.
- Sure there is games, but call me when Battlefield 1942, High Heat Baseball, etc. are available instead of just FreeCiv. Get games like those and just about every young male in the world will switch.
- Oh yeah, can I mention dependicies?
...guess I should go outside for the first time in my 21 years of life
I used to buy a lot of CD's from the major labels. Probably a good 20 or so a year at least.
Then Napster came along and I actually bought more CD's since I could test out an album before I shelled out $15 for CD. Hence the almost total disappearance of 1-hit wonders in my collection after 1998, but I probably bought 30 CD's a year during the Napster craze, 30 CD's I cared much more about since they weren't 1-hit wonder CD's.
Then the RIAA went hardball on Napster and company. Metallica slept with the RIAA. CD prices actually rose. More manufactured pop was released, not the bands I enjoyed, the bands who cared about music and actually wrote their own songs. I went down to 5 RIAA CD's per year and just listened to the CD's that I owned already. Meanwhile my business with indie labels has increased dramatically, especially when they let me listen to their songs for free before buying them.
The only time I buy RIAA CD's is when they are on-sale for $6.99-9.99 at Best Buy the week of their release (why can't they be that price all the time? Indie labels seem to be able to do it just fine). The rest of the CD's I buy from indie labels. I also buy all my CD's online or at Best Buy.
RIAA lost me as a serious customer. Simple as that. When they lower prices for good and change their image with the public, they will win me back. Until then, they can go on sleeping with Britney.
By your logic, that is like saying that a "private group" could blow up my car, just because I might have a supposedly shoplifted item in it.
I don't think so.