Nothing helps like the ability to defend yourself. Not necessarily physically, just socially.
Having been forever unpopular in school, I carried around a recorder for school and personal use, and as a means of proving exactly what was said to me in one case. Subsequently, it acted as a great deterrant.
No, you expect them to behave themselves. And to know who to go to if they get harassed.
Those "personal note recorder" digital audio recorders are great for recording harassment that goes beyond what is expected and acceptable in a school environment.
Trust me; As a student, I used a microcasette recorder for various school and personal related things, and it came in handy when I was cornered and verbally abused.
Bullshit. Raise a stink in the local paper. Get it in the school paper, for crying out loud. If the school paper is distributed outside the school, it's protected under the first ammendment.
With uncooperative administrators, politics is the way to go.
I'm curious about the warranty. With the big, cheap drives coming with low warranties, I might be more interested in this device if it comes with a warranty against hard drive failure.
Sure, but this is an advertisement pandering to the music-craving masses. They're not banking on a high average intelligence, or they'd have priced it a lot lower.
The difference is who's being restricted. If P2P networks are banned, then you're eliminating civil liberties ("civil liberties" being defined as anything that a citizen can do). If you restrict the usage of RFID as use in evidence in criminal trials, then it's government that's being limited.
The United States was born when it was decided that government was getting out of hand. The Bill of Rights was born in order to resist it happening again. Thomas Jefferson and his allies had in mind the prevention of too much government control, and that's the general opinion you read on Slashdot.
More powers and abilities to government/less priviledges to citizens = BAD.
So what about American cars where the equipment is built into the car either way? If the equipment is there (and powered) then data and commands can be exchanged, whether or not the car owner is paying for access to that data.
This is just the sort of thing that I expect we'll see used by the FBI in terrorism "investigations"
Those units of measure don't make sense. The power consumed by the compressor isn't related to the power put through the other devices, and should be fairly constant.
Let's take a test case where you run your car for 60 miles at 30 mph and then 60 miles at 60 miles per hour. In the first case, your compressor's running for 120 seconds, in the second case, you're running for 60 seconds. Over the same distance, your compressor will consume twice the energy in the first case as in the second.
If you can give some examples, I'd love to be able to cite them.
Personally, I find OSS software to excel at the general things for which there is a high demand. A lot more people become involved in bug testing and active improvement than do with a highly specialized projects. Examples of such prime projects include Linux, OO.O, Apache, GNOME, KDE, CUPS, and Debian.
It wasn't obvious to me, but then, I have a diagnosed mental disability that results in my having to consiously study social behavior in order to get along with other people.
Rather than sarcastic, you sounded ernest to me. Perhaps a more apparent just would have done away with everything following and including "Law or no law"...
And how would you define a general person, by legislation?
You, along with a lot of other people here on Slashdot, scare me. Badly. You demonstrate how easy it is for a nuisance to drive people to violence. You are the main reason we need laws in the first place. Not to regulate commerce, or to defend the public interests, but to defend the safety of every person.
I'm sure that a lot of people here on Slashdot are joking when they talk about violence, but the tone of some of the things said here lead me to believe that not everyone is speaking in jest.
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And people told me my tin-foil hat wouldn't come in useful!
Funny...I always thought of a sneeze as my most violent respiratory function. Chalk it up to journalism, I guess.
Perhapse we're just explaining things away?
Once they get their BIOS hooks in, you won't even be able to remove Windows.
Yet another example of Microsoft using their marketshare to leverage themselves into new markets.
Bye bye, Jaws, and voice recognition software. Say hi to PKWare, FileTree Gold, and Netscape for me.
Run a Linux firewall, and talk to your boss about developing a userland netfilter queue processor.
Perhaps some tips in how to get started? My only jobs thus far have been in academic tutoring positions.
Nothing helps like the ability to defend yourself. Not necessarily physically, just socially.
Having been forever unpopular in school, I carried around a recorder for school and personal use, and as a means of proving exactly what was said to me in one case. Subsequently, it acted as a great deterrant.
No, you expect them to behave themselves. And to know who to go to if they get harassed.
Those "personal note recorder" digital audio recorders are great for recording harassment that goes beyond what is expected and acceptable in a school environment.
Trust me; As a student, I used a microcasette recorder for various school and personal related things, and it came in handy when I was cornered and verbally abused.
Bullshit. Raise a stink in the local paper. Get it in the school paper, for crying out loud. If the school paper is distributed outside the school, it's protected under the first ammendment.
With uncooperative administrators, politics is the way to go.
I'm curious about the warranty. With the big, cheap drives coming with low warranties, I might be more interested in this device if it comes with a warranty against hard drive failure.
Sure, but this is an advertisement pandering to the music-craving masses. They're not banking on a high average intelligence, or they'd have priced it a lot lower.
I assume you mean CDs full of MP3s when you say "data CD-Rs"
Can't you store redbook audio on a CD-RW?
The difference is who's being restricted. If P2P networks are banned, then you're eliminating civil liberties ("civil liberties" being defined as anything that a citizen can do). If you restrict the usage of RFID as use in evidence in criminal trials, then it's government that's being limited.
The United States was born when it was decided that government was getting out of hand. The Bill of Rights was born in order to resist it happening again. Thomas Jefferson and his allies had in mind the prevention of too much government control, and that's the general opinion you read on Slashdot.
More powers and abilities to government/less priviledges to citizens = BAD.
So what about American cars where the equipment is built into the car either way? If the equipment is there (and powered) then data and commands can be exchanged, whether or not the car owner is paying for access to that data.
This is just the sort of thing that I expect we'll see used by the FBI in terrorism "investigations"
Those units of measure don't make sense. The power consumed by the compressor isn't related to the power put through the other devices, and should be fairly constant.
Let's take a test case where you run your car for 60 miles at 30 mph and then 60 miles at 60 miles per hour. In the first case, your compressor's running for 120 seconds, in the second case, you're running for 60 seconds. Over the same distance, your compressor will consume twice the energy in the first case as in the second.
Ah, but first editions of these will be worth quite a bit down the road.
Technically correct, but common usage puts lbs and kg side by side as a measure of bulk.
I might sound crazy, but I bet Microsoft will be a lot worse off once they're no longer able to maintain a lock-in for their client base.
If you can give some examples, I'd love to be able to cite them.
Personally, I find OSS software to excel at the general things for which there is a high demand. A lot more people become involved in bug testing and active improvement than do with a highly specialized projects. Examples of such prime projects include Linux, OO.O, Apache, GNOME, KDE, CUPS, and Debian.
Dear God, you lead a charmed life. Any tips on finding career paths like that? I'm sure a lot of OSS advocates want to know.
It wasn't obvious to me, but then, I have a diagnosed mental disability that results in my having to consiously study social behavior in order to get along with other people.
Rather than sarcastic, you sounded ernest to me. Perhaps a more apparent just would have done away with everything following and including "Law or no law"...
Sorry...
Legislation is fine. (marginally.) I'm more concerned about violence and disregard for the laws that keep me safe every time I offend someone.
And how would you define a general person, by legislation?
You, along with a lot of other people here on Slashdot, scare me. Badly. You demonstrate how easy it is for a nuisance to drive people to violence. You are the main reason we need laws in the first place. Not to regulate commerce, or to defend the public interests, but to defend the safety of every person.
I'm sure that a lot of people here on Slashdot are joking when they talk about violence, but the tone of some of the things said here lead me to believe that not everyone is speaking in jest.
...and start selling stone-cut garden statuettes of Tux?