The ass already put a claim for "I register an existing proportionate claim for the star Sol, also known as the Sun of Earth;" as well. It is a good thing that guy from Canada got his claim to the entire galaxy in before him.
Am I the only one that noticed the market droid speak for "We are going to install spyware and malware on your computer when you stick this in so we can increase our profits even more!"
You know, "wonderful extras," "great opertunities," "an enhanced experience," and the other BS they like to use when they want to cram something down your throat?
Ok, this is boiled down and processed information fed to the unwashed masses via TV, but on a show I watched, they basically said the Sun would have to dish out a solar flare 100 times more powerful than what had been observed (which at the time, the most were the previous 2 X20's) pointed directly at us. This wouldn't cook the planet itself. What would happen as the shock from the CME reaches us, the northern lights would race southward until it was a global event. The entire planet (nightside) from poles to equator would see the aurora. Again, this isn't the problem. The problem at this point is that since the aurora is visable globally, that means the radiation is strong all the way past the ionisphere and is strong enough at the right altitude to do damage to the ozone layer and pretty much eliminate it. After that, don't go outside when the sun rises, you'll litterally cook within minutes in the direct sunlight.
As for the planet being literally cooked by a solar flare, I wouldn't worry about that for another few billion years until the sun swells up into a red giant and gets ready to engulf this little rock in the process.
Thought: if the strength scale for flares is logarithmic, wouldn't a X40 be the required strength to meet the 100x more powerful requirement?
I am in SE VA as well, during the storm the recent X17 caused, I went out into the country and mostly saw a vague greenish light in the northern sky with fuzzy areas of crimson a little higher in the sky that would move around and change shape and intensity. I did spot a very nice one about 45 minutes after it got dark that started out as a crimson pinacle that reached up to about 65 degrees, then decreased to about 45 and a white column formed in the center that quickly faded lasting about 60 seconds. The crimson area faded gradually for a few more minutes, shifted to the west and was faded from view. After that, it basically just sucked and I went back home.
Yeah, those comercial things causes little gnomes to pop out the side and repaint my entire house as a giant set of billboards, replaced my dog with a tatooed monkey that bonks me in the head whenever I try to sleep, puts a 500 pound GPS blackbox transmitter on my left rear bumper, and makes it so my house will only accept electricity from some company out in the central Pacific that charges $5 a megawatt hour.
Oh, and the new cameras in the bathroom are a nice touch.
Eh, I ran across one on a friends computer that set itself to run during start up and was occasionally dialing out when the computer was left idle. (Only) racked up $60 in charges before I came over to fix their computer (in other words, remove a shit ton of adware, spyware, malware, scumware, etc.) and caught it.
My vote goes to a program that is not quite as popular, but is similarly damaging called OSSproxy. Basically if you have the misfortune of deleting it, your system 's DNS resolution is hosed until you reinstall Windows. You can uncheck it in startup, but like New.Net, you can't DNS anything. Oh, did I mention it does not come with any (obvious) uninstall?
I usually run across this when a customer complains that since they switched off dialup to broadband, they can't access the net. Apparently, there is some screw up within the program that keeps people that switch net connections from DNSing.
You can bitch at the company and they'll send you a buggy ass uninstall program (which really helps if you already lost your net connectivity:P...not). But, the only way I've been able to remove it is using the following. Oh, but you have to not have deleted any part of it yet in order for it to work.
"%WinDir%\System\NScheck.exe"/uninstall
Then just clean up any garbage left behind.
P.S. Looking up on it, it looks like some people have found out how to can the sucker if it was already deleted. Still a pain in the ass though.
You could just take a picture of the jackass with the "don't run the red" cameras already mounted on the frickin lights. If it's an ambulance, you have a digital picture of an ambulance. If it's some jackass in an oversized SUV, take his ass to court. No law yet? Easy, if a guy is going to screw over and cut off dozens of people just to get home 5 seconds faster, how much you wanna bet he's breaking the speed limit, too?
You mention a large part of the problem. School employees that don't give a damn. I would like to expand on that and say that another part of the problem is local politics. I refer you to a problem in London where they have security cameras everywhere, selective enforcement. The problems I had in school did not happen because the faculty did not know about it; it happend because they did not do anything about it.
Like most nerds, geeks, dorks, whatever, I got nailed occasionally by one of the other students. Because this happened fairly regularly (in other words, more than once a year). The faculty got tired with my complaints and just tried to get the situation out of their hair as soon and easily as possible. This ment that anyone could do pretty much anything and get away with a slap on the wrist. Such notable exploits include, being assaulted (almost sexually, I was smart enough to fight back just before it got that far) while using bathroom and being threated with weapons such as small knifes. The teachers and administrative staff knew about these things right after they happened without cameras and tracking tags.
The people that perpetrated these actions admited to doing so to the teachers and/or administrators. Nothing happend. I mean absolutly nothing other than a quick "don't do it again" scolding. To aggrivate the situation, since the faculty knew I liked to complain so much about others abusing me, they made a special effort to "correct" me whenever I did anything out of line.
I saw a sigh posted at the doors to the bathrooms of the local college last year laminated and everything. It says (approximately), "Beware of Security Camera."
I shit you not. And yes, this is in the United States.
I was helping my father refinish some floors the other day. That is his trade and business has been slow so I needed the extra money. While cutting sandpaper so it would be ready for the floor sanders I spotted something interesting. The usual black resonite sandpaper was purple. But that wasn't what bothered me.
On the back it said (approximately), "The color PURPLE is a trademark of the 3M corporation." What the FUCK? Colors are now trademarks? And I thought "Windows" was an overly broad trademark.
Which is why I look up donors before I vote for anyone. Experience tells me that the actual performance of a polititian is much more closely in line with that than thier official stance.
You won't get any special treats for including the $10,000. You'd have to pay more for your own special legislation. But, for $10,000 he might actually read the letter instead of having an office lacky scan through it and autoreply with a prebaked responce.
I am in a similar boat, except my parents are barely considered middle class, much less making as much as a doctor. I find myself going to libertarianism. However, I am probably going to vote democrat the next election just to say I did my best to make sure Bush Jr. doesn't back get in legally. As much as I don't like Democrats *cough* RIAA *cough* MPAA *cough*, I'll vote for them just to get the current bunch of pseudo-Republicans out.
We at your local public schools appreciate your concerns over the installation of a radio frequencey AKA wireless or wifi computer network. Since we have become aware of your concern over the exposure of children to radiation, we have studied the situation in ernest to better understand your concerns.
We have decided henseforth, that no wireless network access will be available at the local schools.
In addition, during our research, we have discovered more sources of potentially harmful radiation, many even more dangerous. We appologize for our negligence; And keeping in mind your concerns with this problem, we are immediately initiating steps to stop these dead rays from damaging the lives of our children. In the interest of openness, we are providing a list of these steps so that we may recieve constuctive feedback from the community. They are:
1. Effective immediatly, all electronic devices of any type are banned. This includes all computers, calculators, air conditioners, heaters, ovens, refrigerators, electric pencil sharpeners, electronic office equipment, lighting (which is notorious for the amounts of radiation it emits), smoke alarms (which also have significant amounts of Americium-241, a highly radioactive metal in the same group as Uranium and Plutonium), and communications devices. In addition:
- Cell phones, cordless phones, walky talkies, and all other cordless electronic communication equipment are considered weapons. Possession of such weapons will result in immediate expulsion and immediate contact with the appropriate authorities.
- Children with pacemakers, motorized artificial limbs, or other electronic health assistance will be required to attend a special school for radioactive children located off the main school grounds. Parents possesing any of the afformentioned equipment are banned from school grounds.
2. We will be disconnecting from the power grid, telephone network, and cable network immediately in order to curb radio frequency radation that is emitted from even the wires themselves.
3. The school will be renovated with aluminum and lead radiation sheilding in order to protect the children from extraterrestrial radiation including x-rays and gamma rays. We would appreciate donations so that we may purchase the lead required to construct a 1 meter (approximately 3 foot) thick dome over the school in order to make sure none of this radiation harms the children.
4. Since busses contain electronic components that emit radiation themselves, all bussing services are to be halted. All students are required to walk or ride a bicycle to school while wearing lead radiation sheilding.
5. Parents who are suspected of exposing students to the above radiation sources shall be refered to social services for further investigation.
Thank you for bringing this grave matter to our attention. We will continue to take all the steps necessary to keep the children safe and protected.
A better Analogy would be, "Should telling people they can open unlocked car doors be a crime?" After all, it enables people to steal cars from people who do not lock their doors.
"1. It doesn't matter whether it was intentional or not. SGI violated SCO's copyright."
Actually it does, copyright law, as of the 90's on, has a clear distiction between the severity of intentional and accidental infringement. See Religious Technology Center v. Netcom. Oh, since the code was in the public domain, it can not be copyrighted. See the note below for what public domain is. Works that contain public domain material can be copyrighted; but, the public domain material itself remains free to all. So, no SGI did not violate SCO's copyright.
"2. It doesn't matter how much code it was. SGI violated SCO's copyright."
Actually it does. Even if the code was not in the public domain and the code was SCO's to begin with, the use of small parts of other people's copyrighted works in ones own work has been established as legel in several copyright cases since the United States of America was formed. See Maxtone-Graham v. Burtchaell. So, no SGI did not violate SCO's copyright.
"3. It doesn't matter if they've stopped doing it or not. SGI violated SCO's copyright."
Actually, such an attempt to remedy any potential problems on their part puts them in a very good legal position. And anyway, SGI did not violate SCO's copyright in the first place.
"SGI is gonna take it in the shorts over this one. Seen their latest 10-K? SCO's gonna put them out of business for good."
No doubt there. Sueing anything that annoys you into oblivion seems to be a sound business tactic nowadays.
"Linux is already dead. It'll be a shame to lose IRIX, too."
Thats funny, it seems to be alive and well on my PC. And I have several friends who use it as well. And, no, not as a dual boot setup either. No, you can't have their info so you can send them invoices Mr. SCO Boi.
The public domain is not a place. A work of authorship is in the "public domain" if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner." (emphasis mine)
" Or... You could see that Mr. Bush is trying to stop the $pending $pree that states are on. Don't blame him for 'forcing' states to do anything. States have been relying on the federal tit for way too long."
What? By pissing away all of it an then some for them? Huh? Another 87 billion to fund Dick Cheney and their "campain donation" buddies? Rebuild Iraq? All we've done is entrench an occupation force and secured an exportation route for free oil for our oil companies. And, yet, gas prices have still gone back up to record levels. Kinda like all we did in Afghanistan. Remember Afghanistan? All we've done there is set up a cheap puppet government, an occupation force, and built an oil pipeline we've wanted for years. The opium drug lords run that country now, with the Taliban trying to get it back.
And speaking about fat budgets, at least the states don't have to pay over 20% of their income to debt intrest. You know, that national debt thing? That money didn't just come from thin air. One thing I'll give the 'crats, at least we didn't get the overwelming majority of that from them. Oh, and before the 87 extra billion, W had signed a law granting him and his friends up in congress to add another 1 trillion to the national debt. And giving that they are asking for more now, I take it thats been sucked up.
"Reason, free market capitalism, and individualism"
Yeah, its too bad the current set of crooks in D.C. seem to be hell bent on making that "Fraud, corporate welfare, and corporatism."
America, land of the free, as in buy 2 branches, get one free.
That's something that has to piss other countries off, the constant reference of one country on the North American continent as all of "America", or at least the only part of it that matters.:P
Anyone else find if vaguely disturbing that the average person considers people who works at a corporation to be a corporate entity before being an individual? I do.
"How much more do you need to be convinced that depending on seriously flawed software in the government is not only dangerous to national security but also a 'matter of life and death'."
Apparently, when lots of people die and lots of evidence shows it was because of the software.
Slashdot Mirror
The ass already put a claim for "I register an existing proportionate claim for the star Sol, also known as the Sun of Earth;" as well. It is a good thing that guy from Canada got his claim to the entire galaxy in before him.
". . . as well added 'extras'. . ."
Am I the only one that noticed the market droid speak for "We are going to install spyware and malware on your computer when you stick this in so we can increase our profits even more!"
You know, "wonderful extras," "great opertunities," "an enhanced experience," and the other BS they like to use when they want to cram something down your throat?
"I Predict that 95%+ of the Slashdot crowd doesn't understand more than 2 words of this, yet will pretend to understand it."
." I understand that much.
"Our research shows . .
Ok, this is boiled down and processed information fed to the unwashed masses via TV, but on a show I watched, they basically said the Sun would have to dish out a solar flare 100 times more powerful than what had been observed (which at the time, the most were the previous 2 X20's) pointed directly at us. This wouldn't cook the planet itself. What would happen as the shock from the CME reaches us, the northern lights would race southward until it was a global event. The entire planet (nightside) from poles to equator would see the aurora. Again, this isn't the problem. The problem at this point is that since the aurora is visable globally, that means the radiation is strong all the way past the ionisphere and is strong enough at the right altitude to do damage to the ozone layer and pretty much eliminate it. After that, don't go outside when the sun rises, you'll litterally cook within minutes in the direct sunlight.
As for the planet being literally cooked by a solar flare, I wouldn't worry about that for another few billion years until the sun swells up into a red giant and gets ready to engulf this little rock in the process.
Thought: if the strength scale for flares is logarithmic, wouldn't a X40 be the required strength to meet the 100x more powerful requirement?
I am in SE VA as well, during the storm the recent X17 caused, I went out into the country and mostly saw a vague greenish light in the northern sky with fuzzy areas of crimson a little higher in the sky that would move around and change shape and intensity. I did spot a very nice one about 45 minutes after it got dark that started out as a crimson pinacle that reached up to about 65 degrees, then decreased to about 45 and a white column formed in the center that quickly faded lasting about 60 seconds. The crimson area faded gradually for a few more minutes, shifted to the west and was faded from view. After that, it basically just sucked and I went back home.
Yeah, those comercial things causes little gnomes to pop out the side and repaint my entire house as a giant set of billboards, replaced my dog with a tatooed monkey that bonks me in the head whenever I try to sleep, puts a 500 pound GPS blackbox transmitter on my left rear bumper, and makes it so my house will only accept electricity from some company out in the central Pacific that charges $5 a megawatt hour.
Oh, and the new cameras in the bathroom are a nice touch.
Eh, I ran across one on a friends computer that set itself to run during start up and was occasionally dialing out when the computer was left idle. (Only) racked up $60 in charges before I came over to fix their computer (in other words, remove a shit ton of adware, spyware, malware, scumware, etc.) and caught it.
My vote goes to a program that is not quite as popular, but is similarly damaging called OSSproxy. Basically if you have the misfortune of deleting it, your system 's DNS resolution is hosed until you reinstall Windows. You can uncheck it in startup, but like New.Net, you can't DNS anything. Oh, did I mention it does not come with any (obvious) uninstall?
:P ...not). But, the only way I've been able to remove it is using the following. Oh, but you have to not have deleted any part of it yet in order for it to work.
/uninstall
I usually run across this when a customer complains that since they switched off dialup to broadband, they can't access the net. Apparently, there is some screw up within the program that keeps people that switch net connections from DNSing.
You can bitch at the company and they'll send you a buggy ass uninstall program (which really helps if you already lost your net connectivity
"%WinDir%\System\NScheck.exe"
Then just clean up any garbage left behind.
P.S. Looking up on it, it looks like some people have found out how to can the sucker if it was already deleted. Still a pain in the ass though.
You could just take a picture of the jackass with the "don't run the red" cameras already mounted on the frickin lights. If it's an ambulance, you have a digital picture of an ambulance. If it's some jackass in an oversized SUV, take his ass to court. No law yet? Easy, if a guy is going to screw over and cut off dozens of people just to get home 5 seconds faster, how much you wanna bet he's breaking the speed limit, too?
You mention a large part of the problem. School employees that don't give a damn. I would like to expand on that and say that another part of the problem is local politics. I refer you to a problem in London where they have security cameras everywhere, selective enforcement. The problems I had in school did not happen because the faculty did not know about it; it happend because they did not do anything about it.
Like most nerds, geeks, dorks, whatever, I got nailed occasionally by one of the other students. Because this happened fairly regularly (in other words, more than once a year). The faculty got tired with my complaints and just tried to get the situation out of their hair as soon and easily as possible. This ment that anyone could do pretty much anything and get away with a slap on the wrist. Such notable exploits include, being assaulted (almost sexually, I was smart enough to fight back just before it got that far) while using bathroom and being threated with weapons such as small knifes. The teachers and administrative staff knew about these things right after they happened without cameras and tracking tags.
The people that perpetrated these actions admited to doing so to the teachers and/or administrators. Nothing happend. I mean absolutly nothing other than a quick "don't do it again" scolding. To aggrivate the situation, since the faculty knew I liked to complain so much about others abusing me, they made a special effort to "correct" me whenever I did anything out of line.
I saw a sigh posted at the doors to the bathrooms of the local college last year laminated and everything. It says (approximately), "Beware of Security Camera."
I shit you not. And yes, this is in the United States.
I was helping my father refinish some floors the other day. That is his trade and business has been slow so I needed the extra money. While cutting sandpaper so it would be ready for the floor sanders I spotted something interesting. The usual black resonite sandpaper was purple. But that wasn't what bothered me.
On the back it said (approximately), "The color PURPLE is a trademark of the 3M corporation." What the FUCK? Colors are now trademarks? And I thought "Windows" was an overly broad trademark.
Which is why I look up donors before I vote for anyone. Experience tells me that the actual performance of a polititian is much more closely in line with that than thier official stance.
It helps.
You won't get any special treats for including the $10,000. You'd have to pay more for your own special legislation. But, for $10,000 he might actually read the letter instead of having an office lacky scan through it and autoreply with a prebaked responce.
R: I'll pay you $6
D: I'll pay you $10, but I need $5 of that in taxes
Who helps the poor?-- CodeGod@fark
R: You pay me $10 for that because of my interpretation of capitalism.
D: You pay me $7 for that because of my interpretation of capitalism.
Who helps the poor now?
I am in a similar boat, except my parents are barely considered middle class, much less making as much as a doctor. I find myself going to libertarianism. However, I am probably going to vote democrat the next election just to say I did my best to make sure Bush Jr. doesn't back get in legally. As much as I don't like Democrats *cough* RIAA *cough* MPAA *cough*, I'll vote for them just to get the current bunch of pseudo-Republicans out.
Dear Parents;
We at your local public schools appreciate your concerns over the installation of a radio frequencey AKA wireless or wifi computer network. Since we have become aware of your concern over the exposure of children to radiation, we have studied the situation in ernest to better understand your concerns.
We have decided henseforth, that no wireless network access will be available at the local schools.
In addition, during our research, we have discovered more sources of potentially harmful radiation, many even more dangerous. We appologize for our negligence; And keeping in mind your concerns with this problem, we are immediately initiating steps to stop these dead rays from damaging the lives of our children. In the interest of openness, we are providing a list of these steps so that we may recieve constuctive feedback from the community. They are:
1. Effective immediatly, all electronic devices of any type are banned. This includes all computers, calculators, air conditioners, heaters, ovens, refrigerators, electric pencil sharpeners, electronic office equipment, lighting (which is notorious for the amounts of radiation it emits), smoke alarms (which also have significant amounts of Americium-241, a highly radioactive metal in the same group as Uranium and Plutonium), and communications devices. In addition:
- Cell phones, cordless phones, walky talkies, and all other cordless electronic communication equipment are considered weapons. Possession
of such weapons will result in immediate expulsion and immediate contact with the appropriate authorities.
- Children with pacemakers, motorized artificial limbs, or other electronic health assistance will be required to attend a special school for radioactive children located off the main school grounds. Parents possesing any of the afformentioned equipment are banned from school grounds.
2. We will be disconnecting from the power grid, telephone network, and cable network immediately in order to curb radio frequency radation that is emitted from even the wires themselves.
3. The school will be renovated with aluminum and lead radiation sheilding in order to protect the children from extraterrestrial radiation including x-rays and gamma rays. We would appreciate donations so that we may purchase the lead required to construct a 1 meter (approximately 3 foot) thick dome over the school in order to make sure none of this radiation harms the children.
4. Since busses contain electronic components that emit radiation themselves, all bussing services are to be halted. All students are required to walk or ride a bicycle to school while wearing lead radiation sheilding.
5. Parents who are suspected of exposing students to the above radiation sources shall be refered to social services for further investigation.
Thank you for bringing this grave matter to our attention. We will continue to take all the steps necessary to keep the children safe and protected.
Sincerely;
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
(It's funny! Laugh!)
A better Analogy would be, "Should telling people they can open unlocked car doors be a crime?" After all, it enables people to steal cars from people who do not lock their doors.
Yeah, I never thought I'd be happy to be a customer of a company that offers overpriced broadband and "We might get to it next week" service.
You do? What prize did you get? This is my first reply to your baseless reply. I do not know who the other anonymous coward is. However, it is not I.
Actually it does, copyright law, as of the 90's on, has a clear distiction between the severity of intentional and accidental infringement. See Religious Technology Center v. Netcom. Oh, since the code was in the public domain, it can not be copyrighted. See the note below for what public domain is. Works that contain public domain material can be copyrighted; but, the public domain material itself remains free to all. So, no SGI did not violate SCO's copyright.
"2. It doesn't matter how much code it was. SGI violated SCO's copyright."
Actually it does. Even if the code was not in the public domain and the code was SCO's to begin with, the use of small parts of other people's copyrighted works in ones own work has been established as legel in several copyright cases since the United States of America was formed. See Maxtone-Graham v. Burtchaell. So, no SGI did not violate SCO's copyright.
"3. It doesn't matter if they've stopped doing it or not. SGI violated SCO's copyright."
Actually, such an attempt to remedy any potential problems on their part puts them in a very good legal position. And anyway, SGI did not violate SCO's copyright in the first place.
"SGI is gonna take it in the shorts over this one. Seen their latest 10-K? SCO's gonna put them out of business for good."
No doubt there. Sueing anything that annoys you into oblivion seems to be a sound business tactic nowadays.
"Linux is already dead. It'll be a shame to lose IRIX, too."
Thats funny, it seems to be alive and well on my PC. And I have several friends who use it as well. And, no, not as a dual boot setup either. No, you can't have their info so you can send them invoices Mr. SCO Boi.
Public Domain:
Work Consulted: Copyright Timeline
"In fact, many corporate criminals even get another job if they aren't too scandal ridden."
Then they become politians.
" Or...
:P
You could see that Mr. Bush is trying to stop the $pending $pree that states are on. Don't blame him for 'forcing' states to do anything. States have been relying on the federal tit for way too long."
What? By pissing away all of it an then some for them? Huh? Another 87 billion to fund Dick Cheney and their "campain donation" buddies? Rebuild Iraq? All we've done is entrench an occupation force and secured an exportation route for free oil for our oil companies. And, yet, gas prices have still gone back up to record levels. Kinda like all we did in Afghanistan. Remember Afghanistan? All we've done there is set up a cheap puppet government, an occupation force, and built an oil pipeline we've wanted for years. The opium drug lords run that country now, with the Taliban trying to get it back.
And speaking about fat budgets, at least the states don't have to pay over 20% of their income to debt intrest. You know, that national debt thing? That money didn't just come from thin air. One thing I'll give the 'crats, at least we didn't get the overwelming majority of that from them. Oh, and before the 87 extra billion, W had signed a law granting him and his friends up in congress to add another 1 trillion to the national debt. And giving that they are asking for more now, I take it thats been sucked up.
"Reason, free market capitalism, and individualism"
Yeah, its too bad the current set of crooks in D.C. seem to be hell bent on making that "Fraud, corporate welfare, and corporatism."
America, land of the free, as in buy 2 branches, get one free.
That's something that has to piss other countries off, the constant reference of one country on the North American continent as all of "America", or at least the only part of it that matters.
Anyone else find if vaguely disturbing that the average person considers people who works at a corporation to be a corporate entity before being an individual? I do.
"How much more do you need to be convinced that depending on seriously flawed software in the government is not only dangerous to national security but also a 'matter of life and death'."
Apparently, when lots of people die and lots of evidence shows it was because of the software.