I agree. I bought a Sansa because it could play ogg and flac files without reverting to a Rockbox excursion. Everything else was gravy, including the cheap price and decent storage size. (Straight link to amazon, not trying to be an advert.) For comparison the apple ipod nano is about twice the cost without good audio codec support. Then again this kind of thing is all about priorities. Mine happen to be open codecs and decent cost - seems reasonable to me as well as the hypothetical average Slashdot user.
To find one terrorist in 3000 people, using a screen that works 90% of the time, you'll end up detaining 300 people, one of whom might be your target. A BBC article asks for an effective way to communicate this clearly.
Innocent until proven guilty. As in, you're not a terrorist until you do it. I suppose there's some lame, "with intent to blow himself up" garbage in law, but that's irrelevant IMHO.
What do you think is a good solution? Let people die?
Yes. It is merely life. Once upon a time, if you couldn't pay for it then you didn't get it. Now we steal it, by getting things we don't _deserve_ without paying for it. We as individuals do it by racking up debt. Our government does it by racking up debt. We drive all over injecting emissions into our ecosystem without them being taken away equally. All of these practices are selfish. Wanting to live when we should pass on is selfish. Life is but a flicker, but we believe we are gods and should have whatever we want.
There is always the possibility that he is right. Adding something to glibc just for ARM and embedded devices might be a bad idea, an embedded "fork" is probably what was needed.
Well, there's this from 2007. And from 2004. I doubt it will change. You are right though, there was a recent statement - I believe from some EU group saying we're being pretty hypocritical and we should not be making internet based gambling illegal. I finally found the article... Here it is.
The marketing may be honest, but that dosen't mean that there isn't B.S. there.
This should actually be pretty legit, I wouldn't guess that ford would hold the hands on these as they go through manufacturing. As a matter of fact Ford doesn't really have to do much of anything. The Fiesta should speak for itself and is widely regarded as being a good product. Here is a link for reference (I do not work for autoblog.com) This new Fiesta should even (hopefully) arrive on American shores. For once us Americans should have a competitive product compared to our European "friends." As a side note: it is nice to see a car that stays about the same size. It is lighter and stronger than the current Ford Fiesta, with similar dimensions.
Obviously it's a good time to make that security products purchase you've been putting off.
Yes, in these economic times it is surely acceptable to green flag that project IT has been proposing. Surely it is a sound idea.
Seriously... this environment where everyone runs Microsoft products is behavior that is incomprehensible. Why would everyone want to place this target on themselves? It is a policy of opting in to these malicious attacks. There is no competitive market place where the proper winner is chosen, but a path everyone keeps going down over and over like cattle. If there was an even split between competing products (such as OS X, Linux, Windows) these attacks would eventually have to evolve in a manner that would be able to be studied and analyzed in a meaningful manner. As it is they just keep attacking Windows without care. I am not saying Windows is flawed - recent products are reasonably competitive with the other two - I am saying there aren't proper metrics and patterns able to be analyzed.
Fuck the UN. Rights aren't granted to people by the government. The UN has a habit of listing out in detail the rights they wish to grant, with clauses that say what may be withheld at discretion later if deemed necessary. A lot of those countries that sign those charters aren't exactly the great havens of personal rights and freedoms that you think they are.
News flash. Macs suck. PCs suck. OSX sucks. Windows sucks even NIX sucks. The "PC fanboi's" just understand that if it's going to suck either way, there's no need to spend $1999 for a 17" machine that meets your needs when a $699 machine meets your needs.
This is the correct analysis - and why I bought a laptop w/ vista for $540. It actually runs very well (I uninstalled Norton.) My identity hasn't been tied to my machine's operating system since I ran BeOS, which didn't turn out too well.
All of the new Adobe CS4 collection of applications "phone home" now and here is why.
and to think... they could have avoided all the hassle, all the testing, all the lameness, if they would have just trusted their users. Trust the kid who doesn't pay for it to grow up and pay for the next version (or the n+x version.) Trust the user who did pay to do whatever they want. Trust that a happy user will continue to be their user. Trust that their internal bean counters are absolute freaking idiots.
Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws that does not pass muster under the enumerated congressional powers.
LOL
why is it not safe? too many people with guns?
In case you didn't know: until very recently carrying guns in Washington DC was outlawed. Even as yet it is still likely not possible. But thanks for proving his point! I don't know how you could forget, this is the first gun related case to reach the US Supreme Court in a very long time. Though if I remember they tried to limit the scope of the ruling.The typical rebuttal that I can see coming is that as long as guns are available elsewhere they will easily be imported, though that is hogwash, just as people in this scenario could easily import pointed knives.
But it could be done, so your strange, non-scientific, 15-1-20% (WTF is that?) doesn't even come close. Where's your cite for that crazy percentage?
He left that as an exercise. WTF? Are you a math professor or something?
Lastly, a solar plant could be built in Nevada or another neighboring state today that could provide 100% of the US electricity needs ( a solar farm the size of DC ought to do it, but I'll leave the math proof as an exercise.
His statement is about as crazy as you saying we should use the state of Nevada for a solar farm.
When did the ability to obfuscate the truth about things and operate from the shadows become an important part of democracy?
Democracy relies on people having access to as much information as possible so they can make wise decisions. Privacy is contrary to democracy.
Why is parent marked as Flamebait? I think people may be misinterpreting what he says. I think by people having access to information he means the people of the nation, not the public servants. As in the government being transparent to the people - not the retard overloards knowing everything they can about their subjects.
I just want to say real quickly, thank whomever! This decision is hopefully one of many that can try to correct the bad decisions we the people have been enduring under our respective governments. The costs we bear for these programs is not justifiable.
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I agree. I bought a Sansa because it could play ogg and flac files without reverting to a Rockbox excursion. Everything else was gravy, including the cheap price and decent storage size. (Straight link to amazon, not trying to be an advert.) For comparison the apple ipod nano is about twice the cost without good audio codec support. Then again this kind of thing is all about priorities. Mine happen to be open codecs and decent cost - seems reasonable to me as well as the hypothetical average Slashdot user.
Government agencies lose secure/private data all the time, and we respect still them.
To find one terrorist in 3000 people, using a screen that works 90% of the time, you'll end up detaining 300 people, one of whom might be your target. A BBC article asks for an effective way to communicate this clearly.
Innocent until proven guilty. As in, you're not a terrorist until you do it. I suppose there's some lame, "with intent to blow himself up" garbage in law, but that's irrelevant IMHO.
Yesterday I dug out of my parents' basement a PC they had bought brand new in 1984: Epson Equity I personal computer
Just admit it, it was under your bed wasn't it? At least now it's on that thing you call a table.
Sometimes I think that the world got lucky - a few small changes in history, and things could easily have gone the other way.
This is of course based on the belief that German rule would have been worse than the resulting dual rule by the Western Powers and the USSR...
Next thing you know they would expand this power to the 400 or whatever miles near a border... You are absolutely right, this program is a joke.
What do you think is a good solution? Let people die?
Yes. It is merely life. Once upon a time, if you couldn't pay for it then you didn't get it. Now we steal it, by getting things we don't _deserve_ without paying for it. We as individuals do it by racking up debt. Our government does it by racking up debt. We drive all over injecting emissions into our ecosystem without them being taken away equally. All of these practices are selfish. Wanting to live when we should pass on is selfish. Life is but a flicker, but we believe we are gods and should have whatever we want.
There is always the possibility that he is right. Adding something to glibc just for ARM and embedded devices might be a bad idea, an embedded "fork" is probably what was needed.
Well, there's this from 2007. And from 2004. I doubt it will change. You are right though, there was a recent statement - I believe from some EU group saying we're being pretty hypocritical and we should not be making internet based gambling illegal. I finally found the article... Here it is.
The marketing may be honest, but that dosen't mean that there isn't B.S. there.
This should actually be pretty legit, I wouldn't guess that ford would hold the hands on these as they go through manufacturing. As a matter of fact Ford doesn't really have to do much of anything. The Fiesta should speak for itself and is widely regarded as being a good product. Here is a link for reference (I do not work for autoblog.com) This new Fiesta should even (hopefully) arrive on American shores. For once us Americans should have a competitive product compared to our European "friends." As a side note: it is nice to see a car that stays about the same size. It is lighter and stronger than the current Ford Fiesta, with similar dimensions.
Obviously it's a good time to make that security products purchase you've been putting off.
Yes, in these economic times it is surely acceptable to green flag that project IT has been proposing. Surely it is a sound idea.
Seriously... this environment where everyone runs Microsoft products is behavior that is incomprehensible. Why would everyone want to place this target on themselves? It is a policy of opting in to these malicious attacks. There is no competitive market place where the proper winner is chosen, but a path everyone keeps going down over and over like cattle. If there was an even split between competing products (such as OS X, Linux, Windows) these attacks would eventually have to evolve in a manner that would be able to be studied and analyzed in a meaningful manner. As it is they just keep attacking Windows without care. I am not saying Windows is flawed - recent products are reasonably competitive with the other two - I am saying there aren't proper metrics and patterns able to be analyzed.
Fuck the UN. Rights aren't granted to people by the government. The UN has a habit of listing out in detail the rights they wish to grant, with clauses that say what may be withheld at discretion later if deemed necessary. A lot of those countries that sign those charters aren't exactly the great havens of personal rights and freedoms that you think they are.
News flash. Macs suck. PCs suck. OSX sucks. Windows sucks even NIX sucks. The "PC fanboi's" just understand that if it's going to suck either way, there's no need to spend $1999 for a 17" machine that meets your needs when a $699 machine meets your needs.
This is the correct analysis - and why I bought a laptop w/ vista for $540. It actually runs very well (I uninstalled Norton.) My identity hasn't been tied to my machine's operating system since I ran BeOS, which didn't turn out too well.
... Cites please. ... Now go away before I taunt you with facts again.
You provided no cites to back your "facts", it is nice to see that slashdot is working well this morning.
All of the new Adobe CS4 collection of applications "phone home" now and here is why.
and to think... they could have avoided all the hassle, all the testing, all the lameness, if they would have just trusted their users. Trust the kid who doesn't pay for it to grow up and pay for the next version (or the n+x version.) Trust the user who did pay to do whatever they want. Trust that a happy user will continue to be their user. Trust that their internal bean counters are absolute freaking idiots.
You mean like how this is supposed to be a !@$%ing open standard?!
Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws that does not pass muster under the enumerated congressional powers.
Irony is in short supply where you live, yes?
I wish I had mod points today :-(
IMHO, marriage is a personal (and sometimes religious) choice, and as such the government should just stay out of it.
Which is why there should be no such tax breaks!
Most people really are not dieing for a faster PC.
You're right, they're most likely dying for one, however...
No that was a typo. He meant to say: "Most people realy are not dieting for a faster PC.[/sarcasm]
Get off our lawn.
LOL
why is it not safe? too many people with guns?
In case you didn't know: until very recently carrying guns in Washington DC was outlawed. Even as yet it is still likely not possible. But thanks for proving his point! I don't know how you could forget, this is the first gun related case to reach the US Supreme Court in a very long time. Though if I remember they tried to limit the scope of the ruling.The typical rebuttal that I can see coming is that as long as guns are available elsewhere they will easily be imported, though that is hogwash, just as people in this scenario could easily import pointed knives.
I was trying to find sources but this is all I am able to find at the moment.
But it could be done, so your strange, non-scientific, 15-1-20% (WTF is that?) doesn't even come close. Where's your cite for that crazy percentage?
He left that as an exercise. WTF? Are you a math professor or something?
Lastly, a solar plant could be built in Nevada or another neighboring state today that could provide 100% of the US electricity needs ( a solar farm the size of DC ought to do it, but I'll leave the math proof as an exercise.
His statement is about as crazy as you saying we should use the state of Nevada for a solar farm.
When did the ability to obfuscate the truth about things and operate from the shadows become an important part of democracy?
Democracy relies on people having access to as much information as possible so they can make wise decisions. Privacy is contrary to democracy.
Why is parent marked as Flamebait? I think people may be misinterpreting what he says. I think by people having access to information he means the people of the nation, not the public servants. As in the government being transparent to the people - not the retard overloards knowing everything they can about their subjects.
I just want to say real quickly, thank whomever! This decision is hopefully one of many that can try to correct the bad decisions we the people have been enduring under our respective governments. The costs we bear for these programs is not justifiable.
Actually I believe that Russia is quite happy that the USA is hosting it. I personally would love to let the abomination go somewhere else.
Of course, since the space station inhabitants drink recycled urine, I'm still not totally convinced that I would want to try that cup.
As if coffee is that much better. *ducks
Only when it comes to military/security information US is quite about it.
Problem is what a huge part of the budget that IS...
Probably too late to mod parent up. That's exactly what I was thinking though.