Human nature has absolutely nothing to do with little green pieces of cloth with dead presidents on them. I seriously doubt such pieces of cloth were part of nature's plan for the instincts of human beings.
I think that at this point, such a ridiculous and permanent destruction of our liberties warrants some strong speech. Personally, I'm a little tired of anyone with any real intelligence being soft-spoken and fair because they think it's the right thing to do. This is the point at which we should get pissed. REALLY pissed. The US Government is stabbing the American people in the back under the guise of protecting them, and I think we should be a little pissed and inflammatory about that.
The government did something really fucking stupid!? Please excuse me while I have a massive heart attack because of the pure shock of this surprising development.
What happens to a great commercial program after it's permanently axed by its creators? Do we just pirate the Hell of it now and generally continue to use it, since the encryption will probably be good for years to come, or is there some reason that we can't or morally shouldn't?
None = "I really couldn't give less of a crap about religion."
"None" is more of a statement that you just don't care at all or think the question or religion itself is silly than just "not taking a position", at least in my humble opinion.
I suggest everybody do this: tape a video of the World Trade Center falling. Stick it on the shelf. Any time you have second thoughts about our involvement in any of these operations, put it in, watch it, and remember that there are a few thousand Americans dying on your TV screen.
So in other words, whenever mindless emotional rage subsides and rational thinking starts to rear its ugly head, that's what you can do to stop such a terrible, terrible thing from happening you. This method is also known as "How to Become A Sheep 101".
A large civilian target and one military target on our soil were bombed, and we still tried to reason with our enemies, the Taliban, for nearly a month. We tried for an adequate amount of time to find a peaceful resolution and to limit the human death toll as much as possible, but the Taliban pushed us away at every turn.
I want peace. I love peace. But you can't solve every conflict through peaceful and reasonable negotiation. There are some conflicts that require violence, and I believe that this is one of them. We tried to find a peaceful solution, but we failed. Now it's time for Plan B: Violence. I think the US has acted admirably in their attempts to find a peaceful resolution to this conflict.
How do we start getting anything done, legally and politically, to promote our goals of widely available open source software, non-restrictive computer laws, and the like? What's the first step? That's the step a lot of us are unfortunately stuck on and just can't figure out for the life of us.
And of course, the media will portray this as "a problem with computers in general" (often used), "a fundamental problem in the structure of the internet" (Code Red), etc. And Microsoft will portray it as "Just one of those unavoidable things that happens when you used a Unix-based operating system".
No offense, but isn't this sort of a pointless Slashdot? I mean, really... do you actually think anyone's going to say, "Fuck yes! Finally, these damn 'free speech' people that are paying for domain names in good faith are getting the come-uppance they deserve! And what a beautiful use of tuition, at that"?
I think you forget that a large group of Slashdotters, possibly the majority by a narrow margin, are providing content for free on the internet, be it through a web site, open source code, collaboration on a free project, or by just sharing their specific expertise (law, economics, history, what have you) in Talkbacks and such when needed.
People want information to be free because, in most cases, they're providing it for free. If that information costs money, they will usually stray from it. As for advertising, specifically... I go to the web for a combination of information and entertainment, usually together on the same sites. I will not visit a content site that is scaling back its content due to money issues and making my visit incredibly annoying (the opposite entertaining) at the same time.
I think a lot of people aren't so much bitching about advertising, as they're bitching about the fact that that advertising will cause them to never return to a site that they liked, namely Salon.
This isn't a new idea. IGN.com has been doing this for awhile, and that's why I stopped visiting them. If I didn't already avoid Salon like the plague because it's a piece of crap, I'd stop visiting Salon, too.
Sitting on my ass reading a story is more productive and less lazy than sitting on my ass watching a story? Your pseudo-intellectual rhetoric does not hold up. TV is entertainment. Entertainment is required for humans to be happy, and if we want that entertainment to be in the form of television, who the fuck are you to tell us how we can and can't enjoy ourselves?
To each his own. If you don't like television, don't watch it. But don't tell us what we're supposed to like and not like, according to YOUR tastes.
There's only a few comments in here right now, but the sentiment seems to be:
"I'm speechless. THis sort of thing shouldn't happen. Give the guy his due credit. Now let's move on."
If it really *had* been done in Windows, and someone found out, I bet people here would be screaming for blood, waving the evil empire flag, and talking about how only an MS employee would do such a thing.
I think the main difference here is that we actually have confidence that this problem will be fixed, which is a confidence that we would not have if Microsoft had been the perpetrator. If Microsoft had done it, we'd be out for blood because we'd HAVE to be out for blood in order to get a result. We'd have to be screaming to the heavens to get any form of popular media possible to listen to us, in order to convince Microsoft to do the right thing. Conversely, we trust Linux developers, and we're confident that they'll do the right thing in the end, so we really have no reason to be out for blood.
According to Jerry Chu, Bandai's marketing guy, Mobile Suit Gundam should return to Toonami in October, and probably early October. However, Cartoon Network and Bandai frequently have different ideas about when Bandai's series will be airing on Cartoon Network.
I almost wonder if this is a subconscious attempt from people to rally support for white Christian America. It's easy for those who fit comfortably into the majority to see this as an Us vs. Them battle.
Well, yeah, it is sort of insulting to hold a Christian prayer service in a multiethnic, multireligious country like America. In fact, I think it's sort of insulting to the entire idea of America as the infinitely diverse "melting pot". But really... tens of thousands of people have died, and more terrorists could be literally anywhere. Let's give these Christians some slack, man. I think a terrorist attack like this warrants just a few days to let up on others and let them do whatever the fuck they want to cope with it.
I'm shocked by the negativity here. You people are supposed to geeks. You're supposed to be the people that are most aware of the fact that by the next generation, computery literacy will rank in importance right up there with literacy itself. The people that know that very soon, it will be incredibly difficult to get any job beyond manual labor if you don't know how to use a computer.
It's absolutely shameful that all of the kids I went to school with in high school just last year were wasting their time in two elective classes a day (80 minutes each) and going home to a home without a computer, when knowledge of how to use a computer is becoming one of the most important skills for getting a good job in America. Forget tech support, costs, and other understandably important things. At the very least, a Hell of a lot more of these kids won't be absolutely lost when they sit down at a computer. Better yet, quite a few of these kids that are currently computer illiterate are untapped geeks... a lot of computer illiterate kids could be given their calling in life and the hope of a good, high-paying job through these laptops.
I expected more intelligence from the people here. This is one of the few examples of a politician really understanding the importance of computers, and you people are just throwing your usual pessimistic crap at him. This guy now has my respect, and he would have my vote if I were in his state.
A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable & Wireless Optus, which half-owns Excite@Home, said its network security team would investigate claims into activities such as downloading protected movies and "immediately terminate" a subscriber's account without any prior warning.
I'm afraid that this will be very confusing for Excite@Home's customers. If they don't give them any warning before terminating their connection, thousands of Excite@Home users won't know that their connection is down because they were pirating copyrighted material... they'll just think it's an average day of the week, and wait for it to come back up.
Damn them and their crappy, over-priced, barely existent "service".
A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable & Wireless Optus, which half-owns Excite@Home, said its network security team would investigate claims into activities such as downloading protected movies and "immediately terminate" a subscriber's account without any prior warning.
I'm afraid that this will be very confusing for Excite@Home's customers. If they don't give them any warning before terminating their connection, thousands of Excite@Home users won't know that their connection is down because they were pirating copyrighted material... they'll just think it's an average day of the week, and wait for it to come back up.
Damn them and their crappy, over-priced, barely existent "service".
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Human nature has absolutely nothing to do with little green pieces of cloth with dead presidents on them. I seriously doubt such pieces of cloth were part of nature's plan for the instincts of human beings.
The link no longer works, sort of. The article has been removed from the site. Does anyone have any links to other articles about this?
I think that at this point, such a ridiculous and permanent destruction of our liberties warrants some strong speech. Personally, I'm a little tired of anyone with any real intelligence being soft-spoken and fair because they think it's the right thing to do. This is the point at which we should get pissed. REALLY pissed. The US Government is stabbing the American people in the back under the guise of protecting them, and I think we should be a little pissed and inflammatory about that.
The government did something really fucking stupid!? Please excuse me while I have a massive heart attack because of the pure shock of this surprising development.
What happens to a great commercial program after it's permanently axed by its creators? Do we just pirate the Hell of it now and generally continue to use it, since the encryption will probably be good for years to come, or is there some reason that we can't or morally shouldn't?
None = "I really couldn't give less of a crap about religion."
"None" is more of a statement that you just don't care at all or think the question or religion itself is silly than just "not taking a position", at least in my humble opinion.
So in other words, whenever mindless emotional rage subsides and rational thinking starts to rear its ugly head, that's what you can do to stop such a terrible, terrible thing from happening you. This method is also known as "How to Become A Sheep 101".
I want peace. I love peace. But you can't solve every conflict through peaceful and reasonable negotiation. There are some conflicts that require violence, and I believe that this is one of them. We tried to find a peaceful solution, but we failed. Now it's time for Plan B: Violence. I think the US has acted admirably in their attempts to find a peaceful resolution to this conflict.
How do we start getting anything done, legally and politically, to promote our goals of widely available open source software, non-restrictive computer laws, and the like? What's the first step? That's the step a lot of us are unfortunately stuck on and just can't figure out for the life of us.
Fuckin' morons.
No offense, but isn't this sort of a pointless Slashdot? I mean, really... do you actually think anyone's going to say, "Fuck yes! Finally, these damn 'free speech' people that are paying for domain names in good faith are getting the come-uppance they deserve! And what a beautiful use of tuition, at that"?
People want information to be free because, in most cases, they're providing it for free. If that information costs money, they will usually stray from it. As for advertising, specifically... I go to the web for a combination of information and entertainment, usually together on the same sites. I will not visit a content site that is scaling back its content due to money issues and making my visit incredibly annoying (the opposite entertaining) at the same time.
I think a lot of people aren't so much bitching about advertising, as they're bitching about the fact that that advertising will cause them to never return to a site that they liked, namely Salon.
This isn't a new idea. IGN.com has been doing this for awhile, and that's why I stopped visiting them. If I didn't already avoid Salon like the plague because it's a piece of crap, I'd stop visiting Salon, too.
If you live in Utah or New York, vote for someone that isn't an asshole in the next election.
Thank you.
Sitting on my ass reading a story is more productive and less lazy than sitting on my ass watching a story? Your pseudo-intellectual rhetoric does not hold up. TV is entertainment. Entertainment is required for humans to be happy, and if we want that entertainment to be in the form of television, who the fuck are you to tell us how we can and can't enjoy ourselves?
To each his own. If you don't like television, don't watch it. But don't tell us what we're supposed to like and not like, according to YOUR tastes.
What an asshole. And such a cliché one, too.
"I'm speechless. THis sort of thing shouldn't happen. Give the guy his due credit. Now let's move on."
If it really *had* been done in Windows, and someone found out, I bet people here would be screaming for blood, waving the evil empire flag, and talking about how only an MS employee would do such a thing.
I think the main difference here is that we actually have confidence that this problem will be fixed, which is a confidence that we would not have if Microsoft had been the perpetrator. If Microsoft had done it, we'd be out for blood because we'd HAVE to be out for blood in order to get a result. We'd have to be screaming to the heavens to get any form of popular media possible to listen to us, in order to convince Microsoft to do the right thing. Conversely, we trust Linux developers, and we're confident that they'll do the right thing in the end, so we really have no reason to be out for blood.
Just because your trolling is well-intentioned doesn't mean you aren't a complete fucking asshole.
According to Jerry Chu, Bandai's marketing guy, Mobile Suit Gundam should return to Toonami in October, and probably early October. However, Cartoon Network and Bandai frequently have different ideas about when Bandai's series will be airing on Cartoon Network.
I almost wonder if this is a subconscious attempt from people to rally support for white Christian America. It's easy for those who fit comfortably into the majority to see this as an Us vs. Them battle.
Well, yeah, it is sort of insulting to hold a Christian prayer service in a multiethnic, multireligious country like America. In fact, I think it's sort of insulting to the entire idea of America as the infinitely diverse "melting pot". But really... tens of thousands of people have died, and more terrorists could be literally anywhere. Let's give these Christians some slack, man. I think a terrorist attack like this warrants just a few days to let up on others and let them do whatever the fuck they want to cope with it.
Love and peace.
No balls, no respect.
I'm shocked by the negativity here. You people are supposed to geeks. You're supposed to be the people that are most aware of the fact that by the next generation, computery literacy will rank in importance right up there with literacy itself. The people that know that very soon, it will be incredibly difficult to get any job beyond manual labor if you don't know how to use a computer. It's absolutely shameful that all of the kids I went to school with in high school just last year were wasting their time in two elective classes a day (80 minutes each) and going home to a home without a computer, when knowledge of how to use a computer is becoming one of the most important skills for getting a good job in America. Forget tech support, costs, and other understandably important things. At the very least, a Hell of a lot more of these kids won't be absolutely lost when they sit down at a computer. Better yet, quite a few of these kids that are currently computer illiterate are untapped geeks... a lot of computer illiterate kids could be given their calling in life and the hope of a good, high-paying job through these laptops. I expected more intelligence from the people here. This is one of the few examples of a politician really understanding the importance of computers, and you people are just throwing your usual pessimistic crap at him. This guy now has my respect, and he would have my vote if I were in his state.
I'm afraid that this will be very confusing for Excite@Home's customers. If they don't give them any warning before terminating their connection, thousands of Excite@Home users won't know that their connection is down because they were pirating copyrighted material... they'll just think it's an average day of the week, and wait for it to come back up.
Damn them and their crappy, over-priced, barely existent "service".
A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable & Wireless Optus, which half-owns Excite@Home, said its network security team would investigate claims into activities such as downloading protected movies and "immediately terminate" a subscriber's account without any prior warning. I'm afraid that this will be very confusing for Excite@Home's customers. If they don't give them any warning before terminating their connection, thousands of Excite@Home users won't know that their connection is down because they were pirating copyrighted material... they'll just think it's an average day of the week, and wait for it to come back up. Damn them and their crappy, over-priced, barely existent "service".