I accidentally inhaled the fumes of 16 molar sulfuric acid in college chemistry lab because I was an idiot and didn't take it into the chemical hood before opening it. I head a headache for a week.
I kid you not. I understand the generally knowledgeable makeup of the SF Bay Area, but don't take that to mean there aren't ignorant people. I haven't had to deal with ignorance and racism much in my life, and I was definately caught off guard when Wozniak's son told me to "go back to Iraq." For what its worth, I believe he was drunk at the time.
Steve Wozniack's son and I got in a fight at a Jack-In-The-Box in Los Gatos, California last year. He told me to "go back to Iraq" (I have brown skin color).
I would have kicked the shit out of him but he had a bunch of his buddies from Los Gatos High there and I only had a couple friends with me. The cops showed up really soon so it was all over anyway.
Even though the British government has been collecting information on its citizens for quite some time and violating their Constitutional rights to online privacy with their big government databases, they have nothing on the US.
Britain doesn't have a constitution, so their citizens don't have constitutional rights. Eh, big boy?
I used to have a Visor Handspring and I fell prey to exactly the same problem as you--laziness. I just didn't want to input something when I thought of it. So after a few months of forgetting stuff, I bought a Digital Voice recorder. It's amazing! It fits in my pocket and it can record up to 105 minutes of audio. It's perfect for just recording stuff you don't want to forget so you can write it down later when you get home. I just record all of my homework and then write it down when I get home.
The model I have is a Panasonic RR-QR120 IC Recorder. Beautiful, I tell you, simply beautiful.
Laws like the DMCA make me want to say why don't we just burn the Constitution and Fed-Ex it back to 1787 and tell them "we don't want your Free Speech."
Seriously when is the public going to wake up and realize their rights are being chipped away by the Republicrats? Argh!
Pardon my ignorance, but would this be considered a Beowulf cluster? I mean everyone on/. talks about them so is this it, finally? A real live, Beowulf cluster? If so, imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters.
Or, a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters of beowulf clusters. The possibilities are infinite (literally.)
Everyone here who is moaning about how this bill was introduced too late and how Boucher is just another political drone and how this bill doesn't have any teeth, etc etc... PLEASE stop and think. Where we had no voice before, we now have Boucher. Boucher has just given us an inlet into places where the content-control industry reigned. I wouldn't care if this bill did nothing to repeal the draconian portions of the DMCA or require labels on DRM-protected music. The point is that there is now a DEBATE on the floor of the U.S. Congress! A debate where we have a fighting chance.
So please, everyone, support this bill rather than denounce Boucher, because he's the only one we've got. I'd bet that Boucher knows that introducing this bill will allow him to get feedback on it, so he can re-introduce another one in the next Congress that is more apt to pass.
For all of you ingrates dismissing Boucher as just another politician, put away your ego for a second and realize that we're in a lot better of a position than we were six months ago. This one's not in the pockets of the media, he's in *our* pockets (for lack of a better term.)
contractions weren't allowed at one point, but now they most definately are They certainly are not! If you use a contraction in any formal paper, you can guarantee yourself you will not be getting an "A". At least at my high school.
Can anyone please tell me why China does this? Doesn't the Chinese government retain power with popular soverignty? If so, why do they need to censor things? If not, why are they still in power? Something needs to be done about this. The people there are not free. If we're so damn worried about the Iraqi regime, why aren't we equally worried about China's current regime? Man, American politics boggles me.
...a friend of a friend was driving from (Alberta) Canada to the Utah...and one of the guys he was going with was Islamic and wore a turban.
Okay, you should know something. If someone has a turban and he is in America, he is NOT Islamic. There is no possible way. Muslims do not wear turbans out of their home country. I'm willing to bet that the man you are talking about is a Sikh. A Sikh is very, very different than a Muslim (although whites/Amercians generally lump them as one in the same. It's like calling a New Yorker a Frenchman.) Anyway, my point is that I don't understand all this discrimination against people with turbans since they are NOT muslim! They are a peaceloving people called Sikhs. We have nothing to do with Islam. We're not decsended from Abraham, we're decsended from Hinduism. It's the damn media's fault that we're persecuted during this time (yeah, I'm a Sikh--my dad wears a turban.) Anyway, just thought I'd share my thoughts. </rant>
In other news, the US Army decided to scrap the Linux client port after Microsoft announced that it would be assuming control of OpenGL and discontinuing it, leaving only DirectX on Windows.
Microsoft only had the following statement: "All your 3D graphics libraries are belong to us."
In other news, the.Earth zone was found to have its $TTL set a few billion years early and will expire in 2050, leaving billions of authoritative slave servers querying the soon to be lamely-delegated master.Earth zone for a massive update of the.Earth domain. This will overrun our current DNS infrastructure. Al Gore, creator of the internet, stated that, "this is quite opportune as it will force everyone to update to LDAP, a brand new protocol I have just released."
ICANN was not available for comment citing international security and the terrorist threat.
...the industry has been cornered into a compromise with the unstoppable pirating of music
When will this industry wake up and realize you're not being cornered into anything! Accept the digital future and capitalize on it! I bet the RIAA/MPAA was "cornered" into accepting VHS only to find out now that it's one of it's biggest cash cows. They never seem to learn from their history. I bet once the conglomerates see how well this works in Australia, we'll see some relaxation on the lobbying from RIAA/MPAA.
I'm not sure if you're referring to the load-time or the in-program speed, but if you want to (dramatically) speed load time on OpenOffice.org or even Mozilla, create a ramdisk and stick the libraries in there on boot (put it in your startup scripts) and voila! Everything loads as fast as IE on Windows!
I think Joe Sixpack would be more inclined to use encryption if he thought it was just an envelope to put mail into.
Good analogy, however opening a sealed envelope not addressed to you is a felony in the United States. So going by that analogy, it would be illegal to "open the envelope" (reverse the encryption) unless it was addressed to you. So basically what you've just said is that the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause has some ground to it. I mean, hey, if its illegal to open an envelope in real space, then howdy-do! we've already got a law in place that would prevent opening an "envelope" in cyberspace. I don't mean to troll...just point out that if encryption and envelopes are to be analogous, then we're going to need anti-circumvention clauses to outlaw opening an e-mail not addressed to you.
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I accidentally inhaled the fumes of 16 molar sulfuric acid in college chemistry lab because I was an idiot and didn't take it into the chemical hood before opening it. I head a headache for a week.
Pretty remarkable how Firefox was able to do this in just a few short years.
VThe war we are fighing now is against people who are obsessed with destroying our way of life. It is not a war for 'independence' or 'freedom.'
Yes, because they are 'evil' and have no capability of rational thought. You, my friend, are a victim of George Bush propaganda.
I kid you not. I understand the generally knowledgeable makeup of the SF Bay Area, but don't take that to mean there aren't ignorant people. I haven't had to deal with ignorance and racism much in my life, and I was definately caught off guard when Wozniak's son told me to "go back to Iraq." For what its worth, I believe he was drunk at the time.
Steve Wozniack's son and I got in a fight at a Jack-In-The-Box in Los Gatos, California last year. He told me to "go back to Iraq" (I have brown skin color). I would have kicked the shit out of him but he had a bunch of his buddies from Los Gatos High there and I only had a couple friends with me. The cops showed up really soon so it was all over anyway.
Yeah, but did P&G know about the select-play-select-3-0-select hack?
Yes, but did P&G know about the right-left-right-left up-down-up-down A-B-A-B select-start hack? Oh, wait, you weren't talking about Street Fighter?
I thought only my ex-girlfriend thought that.
Even though the British government has been collecting information on its citizens for quite some time and violating their Constitutional rights to online privacy with their big government databases, they have nothing on the US.
Britain doesn't have a constitution, so their citizens don't have constitutional rights. Eh, big boy?
I used to have a Visor Handspring and I fell prey to exactly the same problem as you--laziness. I just didn't want to input something when I thought of it. So after a few months of forgetting stuff, I bought a Digital Voice recorder. It's amazing! It fits in my pocket and it can record up to 105 minutes of audio. It's perfect for just recording stuff you don't want to forget so you can write it down later when you get home. I just record all of my homework and then write it down when I get home.
The model I have is a Panasonic RR-QR120 IC Recorder. Beautiful, I tell you, simply beautiful.
owned. ;)
Laws like the DMCA make me want to say why don't we just burn the Constitution and Fed-Ex it back to 1787 and tell them "we don't want your Free Speech."
Seriously when is the public going to wake up and realize their rights are being chipped away by the Republicrats? Argh!
Pardon my ignorance, but would this be considered a Beowulf cluster? I mean everyone on /. talks about them so is this it, finally? A real live, Beowulf cluster? If so, imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters.
Or, a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters of beowulf clusters. The possibilities are infinite (literally.)
Everyone here who is moaning about how this bill was introduced too late and how Boucher is just another political drone and how this bill doesn't have any teeth, etc etc... PLEASE stop and think. Where we had no voice before, we now have Boucher. Boucher has just given us an inlet into places where the content-control industry reigned. I wouldn't care if this bill did nothing to repeal the draconian portions of the DMCA or require labels on DRM-protected music. The point is that there is now a DEBATE on the floor of the U.S. Congress! A debate where we have a fighting chance.
So please, everyone, support this bill rather than denounce Boucher, because he's the only one we've got. I'd bet that Boucher knows that introducing this bill will allow him to get feedback on it, so he can re-introduce another one in the next Congress that is more apt to pass.
For all of you ingrates dismissing Boucher as just another politician, put away your ego for a second and realize that we're in a lot better of a position than we were six months ago. This one's not in the pockets of the media, he's in *our* pockets (for lack of a better term.)
contractions weren't allowed at one point, but now they most definately are
They certainly are not! If you use a contraction in any formal paper, you can guarantee yourself you will not be getting an "A". At least at my high school.
Did anyone else notice the Grep Law website uses slashcode? That's pretty f'in awesome. Go Slash!
Can anyone please tell me why China does this? Doesn't the Chinese government retain power with popular soverignty? If so, why do they need to censor things? If not, why are they still in power? Something needs to be done about this. The people there are not free. If we're so damn worried about the Iraqi regime, why aren't we equally worried about China's current regime? Man, American politics boggles me.
...a friend of a friend was driving from (Alberta) Canada to the Utah...and one of the guys he was going with was Islamic and wore a turban.
Okay, you should know something. If someone has a turban and he is in America, he is NOT Islamic. There is no possible way. Muslims do not wear turbans out of their home country. I'm willing to bet that the man you are talking about is a Sikh. A Sikh is very, very different than a Muslim (although whites/Amercians generally lump them as one in the same. It's like calling a New Yorker a Frenchman.) Anyway, my point is that I don't understand all this discrimination against people with turbans since they are NOT muslim! They are a peaceloving people called Sikhs. We have nothing to do with Islam. We're not decsended from Abraham, we're decsended from Hinduism. It's the damn media's fault that we're persecuted during this time (yeah, I'm a Sikh--my dad wears a turban.) Anyway, just thought I'd share my thoughts. </rant>
and it's not even half full yet!
...or half empty...
50 terabytes per sq. in. 'ought to be enough for anybody!
This guy is a Grade-A Karma whore. I mean Jesus. The parent post is soo whoring for karma.
In other news, the US Army decided to scrap the Linux client port after Microsoft announced that it would be assuming control of OpenGL and discontinuing it, leaving only DirectX on Windows.
Microsoft only had the following statement: "All your 3D graphics libraries are belong to us."
The US Army was not available for comment.
In other news, the .Earth zone was found to have its $TTL set a few billion years early and will expire in 2050, leaving billions of authoritative slave servers querying the soon to be lamely-delegated master .Earth zone for a massive update of the .Earth domain. This will overrun our current DNS infrastructure. Al Gore, creator of the internet, stated that, "this is quite opportune as it will force everyone to update to LDAP, a brand new protocol I have just released."
ICANN was not available for comment citing international security and the terrorist threat.
...the industry has been cornered into a compromise with the unstoppable pirating of music
When will this industry wake up and realize you're not being cornered into anything! Accept the digital future and capitalize on it! I bet the RIAA/MPAA was "cornered" into accepting VHS only to find out now that it's one of it's biggest cash cows. They never seem to learn from their history. I bet once the conglomerates see how well this works in Australia, we'll see some relaxation on the lobbying from RIAA/MPAA.
Hargun
3. Still a bit sluggish
I'm not sure if you're referring to the load-time or the in-program speed, but if you want to (dramatically) speed load time on OpenOffice.org or even Mozilla, create a ramdisk and stick the libraries in there on boot (put it in your startup scripts) and voila! Everything loads as fast as IE on Windows!
Hargun
I think Joe Sixpack would be more inclined to use encryption if he thought it was just an envelope to put mail into.
Good analogy, however opening a sealed envelope not addressed to you is a felony in the United States. So going by that analogy, it would be illegal to "open the envelope" (reverse the encryption) unless it was addressed to you. So basically what you've just said is that the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause has some ground to it. I mean, hey, if its illegal to open an envelope in real space, then howdy-do! we've already got a law in place that would prevent opening an "envelope" in cyberspace. I don't mean to troll...just point out that if encryption and envelopes are to be analogous, then we're going to need anti-circumvention clauses to outlaw opening an e-mail not addressed to you.
Hargun