You don't need a driver's license; just some form of accepted photo identification. I've never shown my driver's license since 11 September when at an airport; I prefer to show my military ID.
Incidentally, the whole point of checking identification is to make sure that the person holding the ticket is the person whose name is on the ticket. I'm used to showing ID to go to work, cash a check, etc., that I guess I don't see this as a big deal.
That's like complaining that you could get LIFE in PRISON for using a screw driver. If you use that screw driver to tighten screws, you're fine. If you stick it in someone's eye and wiggle it around, you may be facing LIFE in PRISON for the MURDER that you committed with your SCREW DRIVER.
My god, he's right! We must make sure these screwdriver murderers face proper justice! There oughta be a law. . !
Seriously, if murder is already illegal, why does murder with a computer have have to have special legislation?
If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
News Flash - Over 90% of/.ers don't care about the spam in Taco's inbox, claim "He should install a fscking filter if he doesn't like spam."
Okay, so that's not really news. But then, neither is the state of Taco's inbox.
In other news, Microsoft still sucks and you're still stealing television content when you take a crap during the commercial break.
the more times the word Microsoft appears in front of your eyes, the bigger the smil gets on their PR dept faces.. Slashdot is probably one of Microsofts biggest PR machines. Remember, there is no bad publicity..
This is only true to a point. It depends on what the target of the spotlight (Company A) has done to earn the publicity: I don't think Michael Jackson was too happy about the publicity he received when he was being accused of molesting children, after all. For a corporation, publicity is only good when it leads to sales--and let's face it, SlashDot is hardly MicroSoft's target market for OSS.
Besides, what does a monopoly need with publicity? Once you hit that height, publicity is more likely to be bad than good.
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But it will come to pass. M$ minions will tout their service as the best, most secure thing in the world since nobody can buy a friggin' thing because the server in Redmond has crashed after being cracked by the 11,111,111,111,111 script kiddie trying a new exploit.
It took me a moment to figure out that when you said, "11,111,111,111,111," you meant the number of script kiddies trying a new exploit. 111-1111111 used to work for Office 97 and NT4.0 OEM codes, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were some MSN administrator's password.
AOL used a trick similar to this back in the day (which is why I stuck with my good ol' PPP dialup) where in order to get the free hours you had to give them a credit card number for "verification". Of course, once your free hours ran out, they just started charging you. (Do they still do this?)
No, but I think they've started using banking account information in place of the credit cards. I can't be sure, though, since any AOL CD that arrives in my mailbox is either shattered into pieces, microwaved, or given to the No More AOL CDs collection.
First, a "copy-protected CD" isn't a CD, as it violates the standard which governs what is or is not a CD. Second, these copy-protected musicdiscs are the culprit, at least so far as anyone who's had one trash their CD-Rom drive or CD Player can tell.
Do the big boys have a right to protect their copyright? Yeah, sure--but they don't have the right to break innocent people's hardware doing it.
You can't really write law that restricts only a single technology. Even if they did, there is a matter known as the "spirit" of the law which is often more far reaching.
Sure you can. Simply prohibit companies that violate the Red Book standard CD format from using the term "Compact Disc" or "CD" to describe their wares.
Enemies make good customers. Just piss everyone off, and they will beat a path to your door, eh?
You're presuming the "enemies" are consumers in the first place. Some are, I'm sure; but for every person who buys a CD after hearing a few tracks, there's at least one person who just downloads what she wants and never bothers buying the CD. That's lost income as far as the record company and the artist are concerned.
Yeah, I think. . . I think hearing the word "boycott!" over and over again, anytime a company does something some whiner doesn't like, is getting really old. Further, I think it's become a catchphrase. . . for the sheep who have no better means of expressing their whine when a company does something they don't approve of.
As Inigo Montoya once said, "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Save the boycott talk for a company that's dumping toxins by the ton into public drinking water supplies, discriminating against minorities, or exploiting overseas child labor.
. ..as George Bush (the First) might have said, will kill this. It's what killed DivX as a competitor to DVD.
In the hardware market, these Palladium hooks are known as "features." Features cost money. . . so anyone who wants to sell a computer built for Palladium has to explain why consumers have to pay more money for a system that tells them what they can or cannot do with it.
Turn off all of those unrequested popups with a couple of mouse clicks, or you can go back to using IE and have to close a bazillion windows every time you are done surfing.
Actually, that's all it takes for IE, too--just use the highest possible security settings, including "Disable Active Scripting," for your "Internet" zone. Probably 90% of the websites I surf render just fine without it. And if I think I'm ever going to come back to one of the 10% that don't, I can add it to my "trusted" sites list, which uses "Internet"-level security settings.
10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody, so start building the infrastructure now and leave the telcos in the dust.
It doesn't matter how much bandwidth you give me, I will always want more. And so will the people who design software to run on higher-bandwidth networks.
". ..That's the beauty of the market. That's why it can't get too far afield. If they get every consumer mad at them, they'll be in big trouble."
Are you listening, RIAA? Either the mainstream is starting to realize just how full of it you really are, or this guy didn't get his payola check for the month.
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You don't need a driver's license; just some form of accepted photo identification. I've never shown my driver's license since 11 September when at an airport; I prefer to show my military ID.
Incidentally, the whole point of checking identification is to make sure that the person holding the ticket is the person whose name is on the ticket. I'm used to showing ID to go to work, cash a check, etc., that I guess I don't see this as a big deal.
That's like complaining that you could get LIFE in PRISON for using a screw driver. If you use that screw driver to tighten screws, you're fine. If you stick it in someone's eye and wiggle it around, you may be facing LIFE in PRISON for the MURDER that you committed with your SCREW DRIVER.
My god, he's right! We must make sure these screwdriver murderers face proper justice! There oughta be a law. . !
Seriously, if murder is already illegal, why does murder with a computer have have to have special legislation?
How many people buy their first PC over the Internet? They don't have a PC yet!
Are you going for a Funny mod on this? You don't have a "legal right to share" copyrighted work that dosen't belong to you.
Does this mean Internet Explorer is really just a poorly-hidden easter egg? Figures they couldn't even hide it well.
For those that wish not to fill in a number of required (!!) fields such as postal address, birth year, last name, etc. . .
Actually, I don't mind filling those out at all:
If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
News Flash - Over 90% of /.ers don't care about the spam in Taco's inbox, claim "He should install a fscking filter if he doesn't like spam."
Okay, so that's not really news. But then, neither is the state of Taco's inbox.
In other news, Microsoft still sucks and you're still stealing television content when you take a crap during the commercial break.
the more times the word Microsoft appears in front of your eyes, the bigger the smil gets on their PR dept faces.. Slashdot is probably one of Microsofts biggest PR machines. Remember, there is no bad publicity..
This is only true to a point. It depends on what the target of the spotlight (Company A) has done to earn the publicity: I don't think Michael Jackson was too happy about the publicity he received when he was being accused of molesting children, after all. For a corporation, publicity is only good when it leads to sales--and let's face it, SlashDot is hardly MicroSoft's target market for OSS.
Besides, what does a monopoly need with publicity? Once you hit that height, publicity is more likely to be bad than good.
But it will come to pass. M$ minions will tout their service as the best, most secure thing in the world since nobody can buy a friggin' thing because the server in Redmond has crashed after being cracked by the 11,111,111,111,111 script kiddie trying a new exploit.
It took me a moment to figure out that when you said, "11,111,111,111,111," you meant the number of script kiddies trying a new exploit. 111-1111111 used to work for Office 97 and NT4.0 OEM codes, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were some MSN administrator's password.
AOL used a trick similar to this back in the day (which is why I stuck with my good ol' PPP dialup) where in order to get the free hours you had to give them a credit card number for "verification". Of course, once your free hours ran out, they just started charging you. (Do they still do this?)
No, but I think they've started using banking account information in place of the credit cards. I can't be sure, though, since any AOL CD that arrives in my mailbox is either shattered into pieces, microwaved, or given to the No More AOL CDs collection.
Copy-protected CDs are NOT the culprit.
Two items of correction:
First, a "copy-protected CD" isn't a CD, as it violates the standard which governs what is or is not a CD. Second, these copy-protected musicdiscs are the culprit, at least so far as anyone who's had one trash their CD-Rom drive or CD Player can tell.
Do the big boys have a right to protect their copyright? Yeah, sure--but they don't have the right to break innocent people's hardware doing it.
Yeah, really. . . those thieves didn't even pay for the privilege of seeing the helicopter. Damned Australian movie pirates, anyway.
You can't really write law that restricts only a single technology. Even if they did, there is a matter known as the "spirit" of the law which is often more far reaching.
Sure you can. Simply prohibit companies that violate the Red Book standard CD format from using the term "Compact Disc" or "CD" to describe their wares.
I'm no corporation, but you've just given me 34 million good reasons to reject any non-IE browser from viewing my personal webpage.
I don't suppose uninstalling Flash is an option. . ?
Enemies make good customers. Just piss everyone off, and they will beat a path to your door, eh?
You're presuming the "enemies" are consumers in the first place. Some are, I'm sure; but for every person who buys a CD after hearing a few tracks, there's at least one person who just downloads what she wants and never bothers buying the CD. That's lost income as far as the record company and the artist are concerned.
Ya think?
Yeah, I think. . . I think hearing the word "boycott!" over and over again, anytime a company does something some whiner doesn't like, is getting really old. Further, I think it's become a catchphrase. . . for the sheep who have no better means of expressing their whine when a company does something they don't approve of.
As Inigo Montoya once said, "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Save the boycott talk for a company that's dumping toxins by the ton into public drinking water supplies, discriminating against minorities, or exploiting overseas child labor.
This action by overpeer, at the behest of the RIAA and the labels is harassment of music fans. What do they hope to gain by angering us?
I dunno, maybe they just want you to buy their music instead of stealing it.
I mean, seriously, how carefully is Uncle Sam going to keep tabs on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bin_laden_and_a_goat ?
. . .as George Bush (the First) might have said, will kill this. It's what killed DivX as a competitor to DVD.
In the hardware market, these Palladium hooks are known as "features." Features cost money. . . so anyone who wants to sell a computer built for Palladium has to explain why consumers have to pay more money for a system that tells them what they can or cannot do with it.
What's next, are they going to put in clauses saying that you agree that they may place virus' on your computer?
Then again, isn't that what you did by installing Windows on your PC in the first place?
Turn off all of those unrequested popups with a couple of mouse clicks, or you can go back to using IE and have to close a bazillion windows every time you are done surfing.
Actually, that's all it takes for IE, too--just use the highest possible security settings, including "Disable Active Scripting," for your "Internet" zone. Probably 90% of the websites I surf render just fine without it. And if I think I'm ever going to come back to one of the 10% that don't, I can add it to my "trusted" sites list, which uses "Internet"-level security settings.
That's an impressive list of arrests and accusations, but none of them are convictions. In the United States, you're innocent until found guilty.
10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody, so start building the infrastructure now and leave the telcos in the dust.
It doesn't matter how much bandwidth you give me, I will always want more. And so will the people who design software to run on higher-bandwidth networks.
". . .That's the beauty of the market. That's why it can't get too far afield. If they get every consumer mad at them, they'll be in big trouble."
Are you listening, RIAA? Either the mainstream is starting to realize just how full of it you really are, or this guy didn't get his payola check for the month.