Despite the fact that you have a point, does the same standard apply to posters who take it upon themselves to routinely correct a simple usage error? Does anyone really give a shit about that?
I didn't bother to check, but what makes you automatically assume he's an American? I'm an American and I ensure that my posts use ensure and not insure when the context demands it. I grow tired of this repertoire of snide remarks emanating from the old country, the other side of the pond, or whatever figure of speech you "Elitist Europeans" would like to use. Please note, I am not saying all Europeans are elitists, but I am categorizing and yes, stereotyping a certain few of you that I think are Elitist. Get your nose out of the air, we aren't your child nor your red-headed step-sister. You'd think we'd be able to get along on the internet, but damn, some people are just too anal retentive.
Did you bother to read the article? This happened in Australia. They don't have the DMCA in australia. But judging by the way officials of the music industry can obtain warrants to bust into homes and businesses, it seems they are further along than the USofA any way. Hell, they make the DMCA look like one of those stupid sodomy laws.
I think the RIAA is putting all of these companies up to this. It's a reasonable assertion given that every song that you buy from these guys will likely be in a database somewhere for them to look at when they subpeona you for having "illegal" copies. They will be able to say what you are supposed to have. Anything extra will be held against you. Just my 2 cents.
Any one consider that this is an inside job, except for good reasons? Perhaps the developers realized what their project was going to be used for (remotely targeting palestinian homes for example) and decided that enough was enough and that no one would be getting this weapon. If this were the case, I'd be immensely proud of the folks who stole it.
When did he "nearly start a nuclear war"? It had always been US policy to base missiles in europe as a first wave against the soviets, well before kennedy came to office. The soviets saw this as unfair and wanted some moved to their new-found friend, Fidel. Having missiles 90 miles off our border scared us shitless, so yeah, we wanted them removed. It was Kennedy that wanted consolidation of and elimination of some of the many law enforcement/intelligence/etc organization this country has. The Bay of Pigs incident was exactly why. He had a great vendetta against the CIA afterward and its problably what got him killed. It was kennedy that pushed for the creation of the modern special forces, signing orders to create the green berets and the SEAL teams. Yeah, sure he had indiscresions with women, but god knows a lot of men do too. Would you get fired from your job for cheating on your wife? What does it have to do with getting your job done? When will this country get the message that the prez is just another guy like us?
I have no qualms with jews, I have a problem with zionists. They are very real and are the reason israel is labled the biggest threat to peace in the world by Europeans. Their lobbies and their spies line the halls of our capitol. The Israeli PM even said not to worry about america because the jews (meaning zionists) control them and they know it. There is a quote somewhere. Put in anything on the Mossad into google and you'll be amazed at the number of links that have info on bombings, 9/11, conspiracies, etc, against the US. For a country that makes up a whopping.05% of the middle east, they have a disproportionate amount of military might and their intelligence service makes the CIA look amateur. Don't think that they are the defenseless ones, the victims. They picked the wrong place to settle and pissed off a lot of people in the process. Had their lobbies not invaded america, they would have been run off by the arabs long ago.
Im sorry, they are all catering to overseas interests. Sure, domestically, a good democrat might be a better choice. Overseas however, they cater to zionist intrests, both parties.
or do i smell the stench of M$ somehow on this. A) you'd have to be pretty skilled to know even how to code for the kernel and to exploit it in this way. We may take this knowledge for granted here on/., but cmon people, the guy needed "5K1llz". B) Then, he needed a motive. What better way to keep your product on top than to prove that your enemy is riddled with a security hole worse than the the Nimbda worm?
This would most likely be a "test" run, since they would be stupid to think that no one would pick this up. They just wanted to see if it was possible. Now that it is, we'd better watch out. They will be subtle next time.
has anyone else just stepped back for a second to count the number of federal law enforcement agencies this country has? We make the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany look better. Let's hit the list:
Secret Service (SS anyone?)
Homeland Security
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Marshalls
Drug Enforcement Agency
Not to mention local and state law enforcement
There are probably more, but each one of these has their own little paramilitary branch, like a swat team, that goes in and takes people out. Is it really necessary to have this much? I mean c'mon. The KGB handled their shit pretty well and the SS and Gestapo handled their shit very well, why do we need >= 9 organizations to do this?
Which of these departments are going to be able to shut off our trucks? A few of them, all of them? And for what reasons will they be able to? These are important questions. How far will these devices go? Will auto manufacturers be required to sell cars with them enabled one day? Will "suspicious" travel patterns make YOU the target of some unsubstanciated investigation? Or will the government say "This is as far as it goes"? Will they put rules into a computer that shut your car off when you try to get somewhere you shouldn't be? Once our cars are all tagged what will be next, our person?
It's okay if they put this on hazardous trucks, but please, leave it at that.
I don't want the next slashdot story to read "Truck transmitters a success. Feds consider putting them in cars also."
Dont know if you've noticed, but the democrats and the republicans ARE THE SAME THING. They both want the same thing in the end, just have subtly different ways of going about it. The only person that ever stood out and stood up was JFK, and look what happened to him.
Yes, people are too stupid to know what they want. Take for example, proposition 19 (or amendment 7 i think), put on the ballot in the 2002 elections here in florida, prop. 19 offered two things: cuts in higher education in order to decrease class sizes for elementary and middle school classes, and cuts in certain social services programs also to aide in reduction of class sizes. People voted for it, 72% of the people. Now, we are all yelling at bush because our higher education is suffering from lack of funding and people are having problems getting services. Why did the state offer this? Because the old retirement fuckers who hate education because they and their children aren't going to school, would have had a shit fit if they raised our taxes like they should have. We hardly pay anything in this state. You see, people ARE too stupid sometimes to make their own decisions. Also, i could be wrong about the prop. numbers, its been a while.
That's great! I'd love to see that happen. If i had mod points id mod you up. Add to that:
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Let's say you go out and buy a car. You find out a month later that the rear axle has a tendency to crack and cause horrific accidents. The car company issues a recall and has the part replaced.
In this case, BG would be telling all of the auto owners "Tough Shit. We don't have to be perfect. You should have fixed it yourself." That type of mentality is likely to get a car company pile driven into the ground by law suits. I pray that no one's life depends on Microsoft products.
Most good companies offer warranties and an excellent means to get problems fixed. Microsoft's warranty: If it doesn't work, you must unistall it from your system and pray for a refund.
You remember the days of the Ford Explorers and the Firestone tires? You can bet that the survivors were well compensated for their losses. I know it's different, an OS vs. a car that can kill, but in the end, you have to pay for both. Should both offer the same assurances?
Who gives a shit about the hard drives, did you hear about the battery life that these bitches were supposedly putting out? 10 hours? That's unreal. Granted, the hard drive improvements are great, but you can't beat 10 hour battery life.
I had just downloaded the last RC release the day before this story came out. Dammit. Well, that RC release is excellent. For as fast and as light as it is, it is the best looking as well. I'm still working on getting some menus working, but that should be trivial. I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.20-20.9 to 2.6.0test5 right after I install xfce4. Even though it was fast to begin with, the preempt support and better scheduling just rocked my world in combo with this desktop. I must say damn, linux has come a long way.
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The counter-suit: Sony-RockStar-TakeTwo vs. parents of two dumb ass kids. I mean seriously, I would be suing the parents of the kids who did this because they neglected to instill any sort of common sense or "morallity" in their children. Their lawsuit is baseless. To blame it on a company that made a video game and sue them for it is simply another case of profiteering after a tragic incident as well as redirecting the true blame. These kids parents ought to be shot themselves for obviously neglecting their kids (they claimed they were "bored") and not keeping firearms out of their little hands. The fact that they are looking to cash in on this only tells me that they are really shitty people to begin with. I hope, that if they do sue and do win by some terrible glitch in the legal system, that they give all of the settlement to the families of the victims. Otherwise, I hope they die.
There is nothing I hate more than the parents of the children that pull this shit off. I believe it all lies with them.
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Despite the fact that you have a point, does the same standard apply to posters who take it upon themselves to routinely correct a simple usage error? Does anyone really give a shit about that?
I didn't bother to check, but what makes you automatically assume he's an American? I'm an American and I ensure that my posts use ensure and not insure when the context demands it. I grow tired of this repertoire of snide remarks emanating from the old country, the other side of the pond, or whatever figure of speech you "Elitist Europeans" would like to use. Please note, I am not saying all Europeans are elitists, but I am categorizing and yes, stereotyping a certain few of you that I think are Elitist. Get your nose out of the air, we aren't your child nor your red-headed step-sister. You'd think we'd be able to get along on the internet, but damn, some people are just too anal retentive.
That's funnier than the fuckin spoof! Quality, just solid gold. Give this man a medal.
I figured they did, just wasn't sure of the name, though I knew it wasn't "DMCA". Thanks for the heads up.
Did you bother to read the article? This happened in Australia. They don't have the DMCA in australia. But judging by the way officials of the music industry can obtain warrants to bust into homes and businesses, it seems they are further along than the USofA any way. Hell, they make the DMCA look like one of those stupid sodomy laws.
I think the RIAA is putting all of these companies up to this. It's a reasonable assertion given that every song that you buy from these guys will likely be in a database somewhere for them to look at when they subpeona you for having "illegal" copies. They will be able to say what you are supposed to have. Anything extra will be held against you. Just my 2 cents.
Any one consider that this is an inside job, except for good reasons? Perhaps the developers realized what their project was going to be used for (remotely targeting palestinian homes for example) and decided that enough was enough and that no one would be getting this weapon. If this were the case, I'd be immensely proud of the folks who stole it.
Yeah, the japs did that and look what happened to them. I hope Free Software does not meet the same fate.
There was an NT/4 for sparc? I've never heard of such. Are you sure? Im not arguing, just making sure it wasn't a mistake.
When did he "nearly start a nuclear war"? It had always been US policy to base missiles in europe as a first wave against the soviets, well before kennedy came to office. The soviets saw this as unfair and wanted some moved to their new-found friend, Fidel. Having missiles 90 miles off our border scared us shitless, so yeah, we wanted them removed. It was Kennedy that wanted consolidation of and elimination of some of the many law enforcement/intelligence/etc organization this country has. The Bay of Pigs incident was exactly why. He had a great vendetta against the CIA afterward and its problably what got him killed. It was kennedy that pushed for the creation of the modern special forces, signing orders to create the green berets and the SEAL teams. Yeah, sure he had indiscresions with women, but god knows a lot of men do too. Would you get fired from your job for cheating on your wife? What does it have to do with getting your job done? When will this country get the message that the prez is just another guy like us?
I have no qualms with jews, I have a problem with zionists. They are very real and are the reason israel is labled the biggest threat to peace in the world by Europeans. Their lobbies and their spies line the halls of our capitol. The Israeli PM even said not to worry about america because the jews (meaning zionists) control them and they know it. There is a quote somewhere. Put in anything on the Mossad into google and you'll be amazed at the number of links that have info on bombings, 9/11, conspiracies, etc, against the US. For a country that makes up a whopping .05% of the middle east, they have a disproportionate amount of military might and their intelligence service makes the CIA look amateur. Don't think that they are the defenseless ones, the victims. They picked the wrong place to settle and pissed off a lot of people in the process. Had their lobbies not invaded america, they would have been run off by the arabs long ago.
Im sorry, they are all catering to overseas interests. Sure, domestically, a good democrat might be a better choice. Overseas however, they cater to zionist intrests, both parties.
or do i smell the stench of M$ somehow on this. A) you'd have to be pretty skilled to know even how to code for the kernel and to exploit it in this way. We may take this knowledge for granted here on /., but cmon people, the guy needed "5K1llz". B) Then, he needed a motive. What better way to keep your product on top than to prove that your enemy is riddled with a security hole worse than the the Nimbda worm?
This would most likely be a "test" run, since they would be stupid to think that no one would pick this up. They just wanted to see if it was possible. Now that it is, we'd better watch out. They will be subtle next time.
has anyone else just stepped back for a second to count the number of federal law enforcement agencies this country has? We make the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany look better. Let's hit the list:
Secret Service (SS anyone?)
Homeland Security
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Marshalls
Drug Enforcement Agency
Not to mention local and state law enforcement
There are probably more, but each one of these has their own little paramilitary branch, like a swat team, that goes in and takes people out. Is it really necessary to have this much? I mean c'mon. The KGB handled their shit pretty well and the SS and Gestapo handled their shit very well, why do we need >= 9 organizations to do this?
Which of these departments are going to be able to shut off our trucks? A few of them, all of them? And for what reasons will they be able to? These are important questions. How far will these devices go? Will auto manufacturers be required to sell cars with them enabled one day? Will "suspicious" travel patterns make YOU the target of some unsubstanciated investigation? Or will the government say "This is as far as it goes"? Will they put rules into a computer that shut your car off when you try to get somewhere you shouldn't be? Once our cars are all tagged what will be next, our person?
It's okay if they put this on hazardous trucks, but please, leave it at that.
I don't want the next slashdot story to read "Truck transmitters a success. Feds consider putting them in cars also."
Dont know if you've noticed, but the democrats and the republicans ARE THE SAME THING. They both want the same thing in the end, just have subtly different ways of going about it. The only person that ever stood out and stood up was JFK, and look what happened to him.
Yes, people are too stupid to know what they want. Take for example, proposition 19 (or amendment 7 i think), put on the ballot in the 2002 elections here in florida, prop. 19 offered two things: cuts in higher education in order to decrease class sizes for elementary and middle school classes, and cuts in certain social services programs also to aide in reduction of class sizes. People voted for it, 72% of the people. Now, we are all yelling at bush because our higher education is suffering from lack of funding and people are having problems getting services. Why did the state offer this? Because the old retirement fuckers who hate education because they and their children aren't going to school, would have had a shit fit if they raised our taxes like they should have. We hardly pay anything in this state. You see, people ARE too stupid sometimes to make their own decisions. Also, i could be wrong about the prop. numbers, its been a while.
That's great! I'd love to see that happen. If i had mod points id mod you up. Add to that:
search "windows xp" returned 4 results
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- Windows XP - How do I stop viruses? Buy a Mac
- Replacing your windows based IIS server with OpenBSD
- Getting your money back for unwanted Windows XP licenses
Due to the terms of the Sherman Anti-Trust act, 4,140,312 results have been
omitted from this search to help induce fair behavior and level the playing
field for the under-dogs.
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Let's say you go out and buy a car. You find out a month later that the rear axle has a tendency to crack and cause horrific accidents. The car company issues a recall and has the part replaced.
In this case, BG would be telling all of the auto owners "Tough Shit. We don't have to be perfect. You should have fixed it yourself." That type of mentality is likely to get a car company pile driven into the ground by law suits. I pray that no one's life depends on Microsoft products.
Most good companies offer warranties and an excellent means to get problems fixed. Microsoft's warranty: If it doesn't work, you must unistall it from your system and pray for a refund.
You remember the days of the Ford Explorers and the Firestone tires? You can bet that the survivors were well compensated for their losses. I know it's different, an OS vs. a car that can kill, but in the end, you have to pay for both. Should both offer the same assurances?
Who gives a shit about the hard drives, did you hear about the battery life that these bitches were supposedly putting out? 10 hours? That's unreal. Granted, the hard drive improvements are great, but you can't beat 10 hour battery life.
I had just downloaded the last RC release the day before this story came out. Dammit. Well, that RC release is excellent. For as fast and as light as it is, it is the best looking as well. I'm still working on getting some menus working, but that should be trivial. I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.20-20.9 to 2.6.0test5 right after I install xfce4. Even though it was fast to begin with, the preempt support and better scheduling just rocked my world in combo with this desktop. I must say damn, linux has come a long way.
they are up to 80 Hz. Pretty damn good already, eh? A poster up above has a link to the BBC article saying this.
If we had that, we would not have to worry about asteroids anymore. That would be great.
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Yeah, I know know after RTFA. My bad.
The counter-suit: Sony-RockStar-TakeTwo vs. parents of two dumb ass kids. I mean seriously, I would be suing the parents of the kids who did this because they neglected to instill any sort of common sense or "morallity" in their children. Their lawsuit is baseless. To blame it on a company that made a video game and sue them for it is simply another case of profiteering after a tragic incident as well as redirecting the true blame. These kids parents ought to be shot themselves for obviously neglecting their kids (they claimed they were "bored") and not keeping firearms out of their little hands. The fact that they are looking to cash in on this only tells me that they are really shitty people to begin with. I hope, that if they do sue and do win by some terrible glitch in the legal system, that they give all of the settlement to the families of the victims. Otherwise, I hope they die.
There is nothing I hate more than the parents of the children that pull this shit off. I believe it all lies with them.