In this day and age, terrorists no longer need to capture local TV or radio stations to get the attention of the nation. If a terrorist wants the attention of the nation, all he has to do is get an interview with CNN.
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That "amazingly large leap" is directly proportional to the leap between "subversive" and illegal. I don't hesitate to sound the alarm when Big Brother goes too far for my comfort. . . but this privacy you're trying to claim in regards to E-mail doesn't exist.
If police sat outside my home with binoculars, **shrugs** fine by me. Really. They'd learn that I don't leave my house much; that I have landscapers mow my lawn about once a month; they'd learn what I do for a living by virtue of what I wear to work. I don't consider any of this "private."
If the police asked to come inside my house to conduct a search, I would ask for a warrant--because that is when they're infringing on my privacy. Likewise if I were (still) operating a BBS from my home PC and they asked to search through E-mails going back and forth there.
I think a better analogy here is, if I'm talking to my fiancé in the mall and a salesperson happens to overhear our conversation and interrupt. It's incredibly rude, but there's no violation of privacy involved.
What everyone who's whining about privacy here needs to understand is this: it doesn't exist by default in public places, and the internet is a very public place. If you want privacy, find a way to make your communication private--in the Real World it's called "getting a room." Online, it's called encryption.
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Thank you John Asscroft, for making sure no one speaks out without repercussions.
. ..because Gods forbid citizens should be held responsible for abusing their free-speech rights.
If you write anything that leaves your computer for something on the Internet, presume someone else will read it, and respond with encryption or other countermeasures as you see fit. But don't complain that your privacy is invaded--you chose to transmit information that's going to bounce in-between at least three different computers; and in any case, you have the responsibility to account for the words you choose to express.
Just because they wrote this legalese into their contract, doesn't mean it's legal. If they include a clause that states, "You acknowledge that we have the right to sacrifice your firstborn child to Bill Gates," that doesn't give them any right to my son if I click OK.
This is even true outside EULAs. In legal contract matters, it's known as an unconscionable contract; and it's a concept that serves to protect people from just this form of predatory contracting.
It's easy to have high morals on a full stomach. . . but when the bills are due, who wouldn't take a dance with the devil, rather than go broke and hungry?
Finally what I would like to see is ISP's forcing people to use HARDWARE MODEMS.
As long as I'm not the one who has to tell Joe Sixpack why he can't connect to his ISP because the modem that came with his computer isn't good enough, fine by me. Yeah, people are ignorant, but most of the time they don't appreciate some support rep telling them that.
It looked to me like when you go to edit your prefrences, all of the answers default to yes. Yahoo is not dumb enough to unilatterally change everyone's shit.
They certainly are dumb enough to change everyone's shit--the answers default to their settings within Yahoo's database. I tested this by changing my preferences to "no" while I was at work earlier today; and when I came home, the changed preferences were still set to "no."
I've deleted my account since then. Any service that is dumb enough not only to change people's shit, but is also precocious enough to send shit to their mailboxes and telephones, doesn't deserve my web traffic.
It doesn't matter, whether you have a hundred witnesses or a hundred thousand.
Killing someone is a perfectly "legitimate" use of a firearm. However, lawyers in the United States have attempted to sue gun manufacturers because people used their firearms for this purpose.
American citizens have forgotten the meaning of personal responsibility, because they have been treated like children by a government that claims to know what's best for them. That, more than any law or court ruling, is the greatest threat to American citizens' rights under the Constitution.
They haven't told us that, and they're not going to for another eight years. So obviously, we need to land there as much as we can before they do tell us. I think.
Unsure what the time delay mentioned above is about.
Any communication to or from the robots would take up to two hours, depending on which side of the sun Jupiter's on in relation to us. It's a speed-of-light limitation.
We're talking about people who lost a $150 million Mars probe because they missed a metric system conversion. Sometimes the blindingly obvious isn't so blindingly obvious.
One additional plus I'd put in Intel's category is, the chips are much more resilient to overclocking--once you get past the hurdles Intel now puts in its chips to prevent said overclocking. I remember reading about stories of people who clocked their Celeron-300 chips to 450MHz and higher, though I was never courageous enough to try this myself.
If someone ramped up a 1.6GHz Intel chip to the 2GHz range, how would it run compared to a 2000+ AMD chip, I wonder?
I ran across someone once who said he was an "MSCE." One of the technicians at Computer City was fixing his Hewlett-Packard PC, which he'd brought in because he hosed the Windows 98 operating system.
He had a personality, all right. He frightened me.
If it gets Joe Sixpack interested in what else space may hold in store for mankind, NASA can talk up spaceballs all it pleases. They need the PR--and whether you like it or not, NASA needs the public support of Joe and Jane Sixpack if it's going to remain viable into the next century.
I vote with my money. If I liked Lord of the Rings enough to see it three times--in fact, it's the only film I've seen this year--while I didn't go see A Beautiful Mind even once, obviously I've voted for LotR (thrice) as the best film.
Let's presume that other people vote with their money as well, knowingly or not--not so great a leap, given the equation of money with votes in the political arena. Then, the matter of which film was the best for a given year would be as simple as determining which film made the most money, ie., got the most votes.
Or we could accept that opinions are like assholes, and yeah, the Academy may have different ideas of what makes one film better than another. But I don't see where the Academy advertises its opinion as any more "right" than mine or my fiancée's or even CowboyNeal's. It's certainly more publicised, and perhaps based on more filmmaking experience. . . but that's it.
And in the end, it doesn't matter a lick to me--when it comes down to where I vote with my money, there's only one opinion that matters.
(No, not CowboyNeal's.)
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In this day and age, terrorists no longer need to capture local TV or radio stations to get the attention of the nation. If a terrorist wants the attention of the nation, all he has to do is get an interview with CNN.
That "amazingly large leap" is directly proportional to the leap between "subversive" and illegal. I don't hesitate to sound the alarm when Big Brother goes too far for my comfort. . . but this privacy you're trying to claim in regards to E-mail doesn't exist.
If police sat outside my home with binoculars, **shrugs** fine by me. Really. They'd learn that I don't leave my house much; that I have landscapers mow my lawn about once a month; they'd learn what I do for a living by virtue of what I wear to work. I don't consider any of this "private."
If the police asked to come inside my house to conduct a search, I would ask for a warrant--because that is when they're infringing on my privacy. Likewise if I were (still) operating a BBS from my home PC and they asked to search through E-mails going back and forth there.
I think a better analogy here is, if I'm talking to my fiancé in the mall and a salesperson happens to overhear our conversation and interrupt. It's incredibly rude, but there's no violation of privacy involved.
What everyone who's whining about privacy here needs to understand is this: it doesn't exist by default in public places, and the internet is a very public place. If you want privacy, find a way to make your communication private--in the Real World it's called "getting a room." Online, it's called encryption.
Thank you John Asscroft, for making sure no one speaks out without repercussions.
. . .because Gods forbid citizens should be held responsible for abusing their free-speech rights.
If you write anything that leaves your computer for something on the Internet, presume someone else will read it, and respond with encryption or other countermeasures as you see fit. But don't complain that your privacy is invaded--you chose to transmit information that's going to bounce in-between at least three different computers; and in any case, you have the responsibility to account for the words you choose to express.
IANAL. . . however:
Conclusion, everything Kazaa is doing is legal.
Just because they wrote this legalese into their contract, doesn't mean it's legal. If they include a clause that states, "You acknowledge that we have the right to sacrifice your firstborn child to Bill Gates," that doesn't give them any right to my son if I click OK.
This is even true outside EULAs. In legal contract matters, it's known as an unconscionable contract; and it's a concept that serves to protect people from just this form of predatory contracting.
"Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
At least until next year.
It's easy to have high morals on a full stomach. . . but when the bills are due, who wouldn't take a dance with the devil, rather than go broke and hungry?
Given the choice, I would much rather Outlook crap out on me than the pigeon.
Finally what I would like to see is ISP's forcing people to use HARDWARE MODEMS.
As long as I'm not the one who has to tell Joe Sixpack why he can't connect to his ISP because the modem that came with his computer isn't good enough, fine by me. Yeah, people are ignorant, but most of the time they don't appreciate some support rep telling them that.
It looked to me like when you go to edit your prefrences, all of the answers default to yes. Yahoo is not dumb enough to unilatterally change everyone's shit.
They certainly are dumb enough to change everyone's shit--the answers default to their settings within Yahoo's database. I tested this by changing my preferences to "no" while I was at work earlier today; and when I came home, the changed preferences were still set to "no."
I've deleted my account since then. Any service that is dumb enough not only to change people's shit, but is also precocious enough to send shit to their mailboxes and telephones, doesn't deserve my web traffic.
"Neuhausplatz" is apparently Swiss for "Giant's Snot."
Not only that, She can't make up her mind on what color to make the universe. Turquoise, beige, salmon. . . make up your mind already!
Sheesh, women. . .
It doesn't matter, whether you have a hundred witnesses or a hundred thousand.
Killing someone is a perfectly "legitimate" use of a firearm. However, lawyers in the United States have attempted to sue gun manufacturers because people used their firearms for this purpose.
American citizens have forgotten the meaning of personal responsibility, because they have been treated like children by a government that claims to know what's best for them. That, more than any law or court ruling, is the greatest threat to American citizens' rights under the Constitution.
"Oh, hello Mr. Tyler. . . going down?"
There's no point in surfing for surfing's sake anymore, not for me at least. I reached the End of the Internet a couple months ago.
They haven't told us that, and they're not going to for another eight years. So obviously, we need to land there as much as we can before they do tell us. I think.
Aww, cripes, I hate temporal paradox.
Unsure what the time delay mentioned above is about.
Any communication to or from the robots would take up to two hours, depending on which side of the sun Jupiter's on in relation to us. It's a speed-of-light limitation.
Might as well say this, too, then. . .
All your planet are belong to us
We're talking about people who lost a $150 million Mars probe because they missed a metric system conversion. Sometimes the blindingly obvious isn't so blindingly obvious.
One additional plus I'd put in Intel's category is, the chips are much more resilient to overclocking--once you get past the hurdles Intel now puts in its chips to prevent said overclocking. I remember reading about stories of people who clocked their Celeron-300 chips to 450MHz and higher, though I was never courageous enough to try this myself.
If someone ramped up a 1.6GHz Intel chip to the 2GHz range, how would it run compared to a 2000+ AMD chip, I wonder?
. . .is that at least drug dealers offer the first hit for free.
And I love that "throughout the universe" bit.
But they didn't specify whether they meant their universe, or the universe that the rest of us live in.
I ran across someone once who said he was an "MSCE." One of the technicians at Computer City was fixing his Hewlett-Packard PC, which he'd brought in because he hosed the Windows 98 operating system.
He had a personality, all right. He frightened me.
If it gets Joe Sixpack interested in what else space may hold in store for mankind, NASA can talk up spaceballs all it pleases. They need the PR--and whether you like it or not, NASA needs the public support of Joe and Jane Sixpack if it's going to remain viable into the next century.
I vote with my money. If I liked Lord of the Rings enough to see it three times--in fact, it's the only film I've seen this year--while I didn't go see A Beautiful Mind even once, obviously I've voted for LotR (thrice) as the best film.
Let's presume that other people vote with their money as well, knowingly or not--not so great a leap, given the equation of money with votes in the political arena. Then, the matter of which film was the best for a given year would be as simple as determining which film made the most money, ie., got the most votes.
Or we could accept that opinions are like assholes, and yeah, the Academy may have different ideas of what makes one film better than another. But I don't see where the Academy advertises its opinion as any more "right" than mine or my fiancée's or even CowboyNeal's. It's certainly more publicised, and perhaps based on more filmmaking experience. . . but that's it.
And in the end, it doesn't matter a lick to me--when it comes down to where I vote with my money, there's only one opinion that matters.
(No, not CowboyNeal's.)
Maybe people can grant that wish as they're modding it up? I love the smell of +5 Trolls in the morning. . .