Incidentally, apparently, in Massachusetts, they're pulling people over, asking them menacing if they flashed on purpose, and when the person says 'No', they cite for defective headlights. Don't fall for it. Explain that you flashed your headlights on purpose, to ask oncoming drivers to not speed. Remember, people, first amendment.
No, in the US, remember the FIFTH amendment. If the cops ask you if you flashed, flashed on purpose, how fast you were going, what color the light was, or anything but basic identifying information, you should not answer the question.
I know everyone's ususally like "booo police, yaaay speeding" but seriously, do we really need a coordinated system that basically encourages and allows people to ride my ass in the fast lane when I'm already going 10 over then pass me at like 100 MPH?
Yes. If you're not passing, you should be in the other lane. If you're passing very slowly, you shouldn't be.
No! Why? Are they a professional Nascar driver? NO AGAIN!
I have many beliefs, that doesn't mean tha I am correct
Of course not. But why would you hold a belief that you did not believe was correct?
I didn't say it was ok. But neither is it ok to respond in kind, especially when the group itself (nor it's members) were specifically the target
I imagine that "Anonymous" includes a rather large proportion of those who were users of torrents, in fact. Impossible to know, because they are anonymous. But if it isn't OK to respond in kind, how IS it OK to respond? Crying to authority is worse than useless; authority is on their side. Is your advice just to take whatever they dish out, without response?
It's not supposition that Terrorists are more frequently engineers. It's fact. And it's the same mentality that lets one be a terrorist as what Anonymous is doing.
Repetition of a statement does not increase its truth value.
Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe, such DDoS attacks might also be hurting others? People on the same subnet? People at the same ISP? Such flagrant disregard for collateral damage is another similarity to terrorism.
No, it's not. For terrorists, the injuries, damage, and death to those who are not combatants are the whole point. And unfortunately, being unwilling to risk collateral damage allows your enemies to surround themselves with noncombatants as effective protection.
IBM, Apple, Google, Microsoft, HP....not one of these companies has ever approached me for employment. Coincidence? It's obvious a back-room deal was struck to not put all the others at such a disadvantage if one ever decided to hire me.
More evidence: I've worked at two of those, and it was SIXTEEN YEARS between the time I left the first before I got the job offer at the second. Clearly they're requiring a gap between working at one and working at the other.
Antisocial attitudes are rife; they are trained to look down on other people, and think it's "funny" to install a virus on someone's computer or blow something up with a pipe bomb. I was a software engineer for 10 years, but I got fed up with these attitudes, so I moved into the health professions. I feel much happier here; it's all about caring for other people.
Nice troll. Yeah, I can't think of a health profession whose members are trained to look down on other people... no, none at all.
My phone senses my mood by losing its battery, developing cracks in its case, and failing to work when I'm in a really bad mood. The phone makers cleverly realized that being thrown against a hard surface was correlated with bad mood, and programmed these side effects accordingly.
All fine and well, but a person can't really change his (or her) endocrine makeup (except with probably expensive and repeated medical intervention, which may have some nasty side-effects on your health).
Women do it all the time. It's repeated, but not particularly expensive. And while it can have nasty side-effects, it can have beneficial ones as well.
...of station wagon full of magtape, or so the obselete saying goes.
They considered using a station wagon for this test, but they figured the roads were as poor as the broadband, so they wouldn't have known which they were testing. So pigeons were it.
in a choose your own adventure, i remember finding a page that was not linked to any other page and had no idea if it was intentionally like that or just a bad pointer.
The simple essence of "Choose your own adventure" is only a small part of the patent.
If you RTFP, you'll find voting mechanisms, pricing models, variable vote weighting based on a pricing model, and a proposed rating system.
I think they deserve the patent.
Really? What's the inventive step?
This appears to me to be a business method patent (Claim 1), with a software patent thinly layered over it (Claim 11 -- which is basically "software which does the stuff in claim 1"). The worst of all worlds, so to speak.
HFCS-55 is 55% fructose. Cane sugar is sucrose, which is one quick reaction (which happens in the stomach before absorption of the sugar into the bloodstream) away from being 50% fructose. If the enemy is fructose, cane sugar is almost as bad as HFCS.
Are you dense? "Our" is the majority rule of the citizens and taxpayers who have expressed their will through electing representatives in our republic.
Right. The same ones who want jail sentences for marijuana possession, copyright restrictions out the wazoo, amnesty for warrantless wiretapping, bailouts for big banks, etc. Just because something is the law doesn't mean it is the expression of majority will.
If it isn't our land then you don't own your home, since after all it is the government and its police power that would protect your home from anyone who tried to take it away from you.
Since the government is actually the most likely party to take it away from me, that sounds an awful lot like a protection racket.
PedoBear may be a joke, but dressing like PedoBear in a mask and costume and handing out candy is an inappropriate joke to play on young children (or their parents),
Why? It's going to go right over the children's heads.
Then why do you join organizations like RIAA, MPAA, Authors Guild, SAG, and/or others that support suing people? Quit them and rally your other authors/creators to do the same.
The RIAA and MPAA members are corporations; no author or creator joins them. I think you pretty much have to be a member of the Screen Actor's Guild in order to get work, so that's not really voluntary. No excuse for the authors' guild, but a lot of authors are not members.
Unless you are a fighter pilot or a Ninja assassin, quick thinking isn't always the most helpful skill / strategy.
True, but in general it's the way to bet.
I think we need a new emphasis on Ent-like pondering.
As soon as we get an Ent-like lifespan.
Thinking carelessly but having your solution proposal a day early is likely to be counter-productive.
Taking overly long to act is unlikely to result in a better decision, but it might result in taking the right decision too late. I'm sure Tolkein's Ents would have preferred to think for at least a few more years on whether to move against Sarumon, but if they had they'd have been firewood.
With thinking, it's quality, not quantity/speed, that counts.
It's interesting, though. Do we like these kinds of games because we are innately gifted at such puzzle-solving, or did playing those games make us good at it? Did I like playing with Lego because I had (have?) good 3d-visualization skills and common engineering-sense, or did I develop that from playing with Lego?
Anyone denying that Ubuntu has significantly contributed to Linux is pretty much being an idiot. But the sentimental crap in that post ("miracle of human generosity"... please) makes me want to ditch it entirely and move to Gentoo or OpenBSD. Come on, Shuttleworth, you're not going to convince programmers of much by telling us about kids in New Zealand. And you're not going to convince the sentimental types either; you've got to talk about kids in sub-Sarahan Africa or Central America or Detroit to get them to notice.
Getting past that part, the bit about crushing Microsoft was nice, of course. But perhaps too good to be true, considering no names were named and Microsoft always has a backup plan.
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Wait... that's not cheese... it's an iPad... and it's running Linux! Oh so cool.... SNAP!
No, in the US, remember the FIFTH amendment. If the cops ask you if you flashed, flashed on purpose, how fast you were going, what color the light was, or anything but basic identifying information, you should not answer the question.
Yes. If you're not passing, you should be in the other lane. If you're passing very slowly, you shouldn't be.
No; they can turn right.
Sure. 4 of them were giving other people tickets, one was eating a doughnut, and the other 5 were beating up a member of $ETHNIC for fun.
But the earth will be inherited by the children of those who do NOT follow that plan.
Of course not. But why would you hold a belief that you did not believe was correct?
I imagine that "Anonymous" includes a rather large proportion of those who were users of torrents, in fact. Impossible to know, because they are anonymous. But if it isn't OK to respond in kind, how IS it OK to respond? Crying to authority is worse than useless; authority is on their side. Is your advice just to take whatever they dish out, without response?
Repetition of a statement does not increase its truth value.
No, it's not. For terrorists, the injuries, damage, and death to those who are not combatants are the whole point. And unfortunately, being unwilling to risk collateral damage allows your enemies to surround themselves with noncombatants as effective protection.
More evidence: I've worked at two of those, and it was SIXTEEN YEARS between the time I left the first before I got the job offer at the second. Clearly they're requiring a gap between working at one and working at the other.
Why would one hold a belief that one did not believe was correct?
Right. When Aiplex and the MPAA attack sites and people, that's OK. If some group attacks them in return, it's akin to terrorism.
Lots of engineers on slashdot, so trolling us gets lots of page hits.
Nice troll. Yeah, I can't think of a health profession whose members are trained to look down on other people... no, none at all.
My phone senses my mood by losing its battery, developing cracks in its case, and failing to work when I'm in a really bad mood. The phone makers cleverly realized that being thrown against a hard surface was correlated with bad mood, and programmed these side effects accordingly.
Women do it all the time. It's repeated, but not particularly expensive. And while it can have nasty side-effects, it can have beneficial ones as well.
That WOULD be cool, because currently the invention of bricks is "lost to antiquity".
...of station wagon full of magtape, or so the obselete saying goes.
They considered using a station wagon for this test, but they figured the roads were as poor as the broadband, so they wouldn't have known which they were testing. So pigeons were it.
If it was "Inside UFO 54-40", it's intentional.
Wrong. Those limitations which so stymie prior art claims disappear
like soap bubbles when claims of infringement are made.
Really? What's the inventive step? This appears to me to be a business method patent (Claim 1), with a software patent thinly layered over it (Claim 11 -- which is basically "software which does the stuff in claim 1"). The worst of all worlds, so to speak.
Shellac, what can't it do? It really IS a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Well, gelatin can have many sources, not just pig and not just skin.
HFCS-55 is 55% fructose. Cane sugar is sucrose, which is one quick reaction (which happens in the stomach before absorption of the sugar into the bloodstream) away from being 50% fructose. If the enemy is fructose, cane sugar is almost as bad as HFCS.
Right. The same ones who want jail sentences for marijuana possession, copyright restrictions out the wazoo, amnesty for warrantless wiretapping, bailouts for big banks, etc. Just because something is the law doesn't mean it is the expression of majority will.
Since the government is actually the most likely party to take it away from me, that sounds an awful lot like a protection racket.
Why? It's going to go right over the children's heads.
The RIAA and MPAA members are corporations; no author or creator joins them. I think you pretty much have to be a member of the Screen Actor's Guild in order to get work, so that's not really voluntary. No excuse for the authors' guild, but a lot of authors are not members.
True, but in general it's the way to bet.
As soon as we get an Ent-like lifespan.
Taking overly long to act is unlikely to result in a better decision, but it might result in taking the right decision too late. I'm sure Tolkein's Ents would have preferred to think for at least a few more years on whether to move against Sarumon, but if they had they'd have been firewood.
It all counts.
IMO, it's a positive feedback loop.
Anyone denying that Ubuntu has significantly contributed to Linux is pretty much being an idiot. But the sentimental crap in that post ("miracle of human generosity"... please) makes me want to ditch it entirely and move to Gentoo or OpenBSD. Come on, Shuttleworth, you're not going to convince programmers of much by telling us about kids in New Zealand. And you're not going to convince the sentimental types either; you've got to talk about kids in sub-Sarahan Africa or Central America or Detroit to get them to notice.
Getting past that part, the bit about crushing Microsoft was nice, of course. But perhaps too good to be true, considering no names were named and Microsoft always has a backup plan.