I do thank them. It is quite amazing no pandering politician has yet had US taxpayers waste billions of dollars to track a bunch of shit in the sky. I mean, we've made it this far without being wiped out by a chunk of mud and metal, so I say lets worry about all of the things with a greater than 1 in a billion chance of wiping us out, before we go spending all our money to track intergallactic dirtclods.
Of course it is totally wrong. It is called a settlement for a reason. You settle the dispute without any more court hearings and without admitting to anything. You simply pay an amount of money you find acceptable to not have to deal with the situation anymore.
Why is it that because MS can afford $23million without blinking that they must be admiting guilt? Would it be the same if the settled for $1 million, $1000, $1? Because all of those amounts are too much for MS to simply toss out there to get things done with and over.
That said, past behavior dictates erring on the side of MS using illegal tactics to squash competition. But it still doesn't mean paying $23mil means admission of anything, other than admission that MS has at least $23 mil in the bank.
I am in a similar situation, in that I've only been on for a few months now and one other person and I are doing all of the web programming for out site (asp.NET stuff). We've recently changed all of our services, billing procedure, web interfaces, etc... so that there is alot of work left to do to complete the transition as well as a whole bunch of work in fixing bugs that pop up in the new system.
I get requests for features from the higher ups, and maintence requests from my peers who need certain things to work in order for their software to interact with our site. In any case, I work as hard as I damned well can, but I basically prioritze what needs to be done and what can wait (at least for awhile). And the people working with me realize that is what I am doing and treat me pretty well even if I am a bit slower in getting their next feature done than they would like.
I would say that if you are in an evironment where the people around you expect you to do more with less when you are already working (and I mean seriously working) a full 8-10 hour shift, then you need to look for a new job. Obviously the current economy will make this hard (I've had to pass up on a move because of the economy), but working in a place where they want 5 people worth of work from just 1 person because they are too stingy-stupid-whatever to hire more people is just plain masochistic.
There is no legal problem here. There isn't some national law against card-counting. For christ sake, they own the business and the building, you are on their property... ergo they can pretty much tell you to fuck off because they don't like the silly grin on your face. If you don't like the casino's rules go someplace else.
Comparing child molestors to card counting rules in a privately run casino... Get your head out of your ass, man.
Which is an intersting statement....
Just think about this for a second (I do not claim this to be an end all statement about spam):
You pay for cable TV, and yet have to sit through over 12 minutes of advertisements when watching a 1 hour program. Now why is that advertising, yet getting spam email is not? You pay for both media per month, yet one is generally allowed "spam" but the other is not.
Please, go right on ahead and point out why spam is not the same as a commercial. I simply wanted to bring this topic up for discussion.
The article didn't mention SpamProbe. It is what I use, and it has worked quite well for the past month or so that I've been using it. Perhaps this is just because the author didn't test this spam filter yet, but I like it quite a lot with my current mutt/procmail setup. Take this for what it's worth.
I just sure as hell hope he meant "latest, best hope", because anyone who thinks bayesian is the LAST best hope doesn't understand CS technology at all. And such a person sure as all hell shouldn't be given an audience on/.
You know what else sucks? When people talk about computers without mentioning the huge cost to human life and the great depleation of our environment that they bring along with them.
Oh yeah, this is slashdot, where it is in generally (obviously not everyone thinks this way, but it seems most do) considered the "in" thing to bash any war related tech topics... all for "the innocent people being killed."
Guess what you narrow minded sheeple, you are killing plenty of people and ruining the environment with every new monitor you buy. Every computer you throw out, even some of the ones you send off to be "recycled" are just poisoning people and the world. Not just locally, but even overseas.
So why is it that we can't discuss the pros/cons/coolness factor of a new munition because of the death it can cause, while everyday we discuss the next new chipset and pledge that we will upgrade every 4 months... and nary a word is mentioned about how we are killing "innocent" people all over the world.
Well wahoo for you righteous peons. You truly are messengers of peace.
Actually, bombing some people is a "meaningful social program." Perhaps you need to live under tyranny for awhile to understand, but sometimes blowing some person/government to little pieces is just about the best thing that can happen. We don't live in a world where everyone agrees to sit down at a table eating danishes and sipping tea while discussing ways to feed the poor. And no matter how badly lots of us want others to be peaceful, it simply isn't ever going to happen. As long as humans have free will, some of them will decide to inslave/persecute/destory other people. That is life, war is life, and ignoring those facts while speaking of a magical world where everyone helps everyone else won't make this a better place to live.
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"but the lines are blurring."
I suppose someone should tell you about tatoos and piercings. People have been modding their bodies for as long as they have been worshiping the eye in the sky. It is just now moving into the realm of using the current technology is all.
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I'd have to suggest against getting that surgery for anyone with HH (hyperhidrosis). I myself have HH, and looked into the surgery extensively. The surgery causes compensatory sweating on your upper body and it seems that many (though not all) report that the compensatory sweating is just as bad - if not worse - than the palmar HH.
That said, there is something you can do that is cheaper, less risky, and more effective. Check out drionic, which is a device you can use that will stop sweating for up to 6 weeks at a time. I've used it for over 3 months now and I'm happy as can be. Stopped the excessive sweat on my hands and my feet.
Also of interest for those of us who like to hack at things, is this site which shows you how to mod your drionic units to use a 9V wall adapter instead of their expensive proprietary batteries.
Wha? What the hell do you call breaking into someone's house, a jolly suprise? Maybe the law should actually say you cannot shoot people who break into your house, but instead MUST serve them milk and cookies and give them the combination to your safe. That way everyone will be happy and the world will be a better place... except for all the dead/raped/maimed/robbed occupents of the residence.
To me once you break into someone's house you are fair game. What is it with some people and insisting that criminals have some sort of right to not be harmed while commiting their crimes? What next, workers comp when the burglar breaks his leg climbing out a window?
When the F**K did property rights become a "great american tradition"?!?
Become? It always has been part of America.
Bill of Rights: Amendment V nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
That is twice, in just one amendment, that a citizen's property is protected. And this is in the Bill of Rights. The holy of holies for America. These are rights inherant to us all that cannot ever be taken away.
As much as everyone loves to bitch and moan about IP and such, owning property in general and having said property protected is one of the things that sets America apart from socialist debacles (aka countries). Just because some big moronic corporation tries to use one of our rights to take another of our rights away, it does not mean that either right is any less valid, important, or any less American.
Everyone must be adopting the RIAA method of calculating costs due to "illegal" actions.
Researchers: Hey, your company only makes $10 million net per year. How the hell are you claiming $1 billion in lost profit due to spam?
Company: Wha?? Look at the monkey! Look at the silly monkey...
Researchers: Oh, I see. $1 billion it is.
You would think they would be violating the DMCA. And the only way I could think they might not be violating the DMCA is if they are the copyright holders and are allowed to distribute the content... in which case anyone who downloaded the songs from them legally acquired the song from the copyright holder and is therefore not subject to the DMCA in the first place.
WHAT? You must have never run a new pipe anywhere in your house/yard have you? You have exactly 1 pipe for water coming to your property (think of it as your 1 IP address). From there you branch it off and can run it where ever you want, but it is still coming from that 1 same original pipe (think of this as your NAT).
So basically you are splitting 1 main point of entry into many applications. To try and compare having individuals IP addresses to a water system would mean that you would have 10-20 individual pipes coming from the water company all the way to your front door, which simply isn't the case.
And where you got the idea to throw buckets into this analogy I suppose I'll never know...
Wow, harping on people for not overstating the first portion of the sentence comprising the 2nd amendment, while you totally leave out the entire second half of that same sentence.
So lets get this straight:
"right of the people peaceably to assemble," "enumeration's herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people," and "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people" are all a part of our Constitution. And you will argue that "people" in those sentences refers to all the citizens of America as individuals?
However the 2nd amendment's "right of the people to keep and bear arms" refers only to the state?
Sorry buddy. You can't have your cake and eat it too in this situation. "People" means all of us, or it means the state. You simply cannot have it both ways.
No, seriously. I'm not attacking the vorbis codec. I love vorbis, and want a good hardware decoder for portable players, but I really need pigs to fly.
See, I got this all figured out:
1. Jump on the ogg bandwagon.
2. Get pigs to fly.
3. Profit!
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I wish I had some mod points for this. 'Tis a sad world indeed when both sides get what they want and yet someone still bitches.
That the tripe in the parent you responded to got modded so high is a sad testiment to how some people will always keep on bitching.
Unless of course you want to buy a Mercedes transmission...
Oh silly me, that isn't what YOU want, so we must change everything.
I do thank them. It is quite amazing no pandering politician has yet had US taxpayers waste billions of dollars to track a bunch of shit in the sky. I mean, we've made it this far without being wiped out by a chunk of mud and metal, so I say lets worry about all of the things with a greater than 1 in a billion chance of wiping us out, before we go spending all our money to track intergallactic dirtclods.
Only if that number didn't already belong to somebody else. In which case you'd just get the wrong person, but not ads.
Gee, thats such an astute observation...
Of course it is totally wrong. It is called a settlement for a reason. You settle the dispute without any more court hearings and without admitting to anything. You simply pay an amount of money you find acceptable to not have to deal with the situation anymore.
Why is it that because MS can afford $23million without blinking that they must be admiting guilt? Would it be the same if the settled for $1 million, $1000, $1? Because all of those amounts are too much for MS to simply toss out there to get things done with and over.
That said, past behavior dictates erring on the side of MS using illegal tactics to squash competition. But it still doesn't mean paying $23mil means admission of anything, other than admission that MS has at least $23 mil in the bank.
I am in a similar situation, in that I've only been on for a few months now and one other person and I are doing all of the web programming for out site (asp .NET stuff). We've recently changed all of our services, billing procedure, web interfaces, etc... so that there is alot of work left to do to complete the transition as well as a whole bunch of work in fixing bugs that pop up in the new system.
I get requests for features from the higher ups, and maintence requests from my peers who need certain things to work in order for their software to interact with our site. In any case, I work as hard as I damned well can, but I basically prioritze what needs to be done and what can wait (at least for awhile). And the people working with me realize that is what I am doing and treat me pretty well even if I am a bit slower in getting their next feature done than they would like.
I would say that if you are in an evironment where the people around you expect you to do more with less when you are already working (and I mean seriously working) a full 8-10 hour shift, then you need to look for a new job. Obviously the current economy will make this hard (I've had to pass up on a move because of the economy), but working in a place where they want 5 people worth of work from just 1 person because they are too stingy-stupid-whatever to hire more people is just plain masochistic.
How the hell did this get modded up?
There is no legal problem here. There isn't some national law against card-counting. For christ sake, they own the business and the building, you are on their property... ergo they can pretty much tell you to fuck off because they don't like the silly grin on your face. If you don't like the casino's rules go someplace else.
Comparing child molestors to card counting rules in a privately run casino... Get your head out of your ass, man.
Can't stand them, they have a business model where everybody has to give them money and they resent anybody with a legitimate claim to it.
Hah! I just about laughed out loud reading that. Why? It reminds me so very much of the US Federal Government.
Now I'm not quite sure why that registered as funny and not freaky, but hey, its early in the morning (for me).
Which is an intersting statement.... Just think about this for a second (I do not claim this to be an end all statement about spam): You pay for cable TV, and yet have to sit through over 12 minutes of advertisements when watching a 1 hour program. Now why is that advertising, yet getting spam email is not? You pay for both media per month, yet one is generally allowed "spam" but the other is not. Please, go right on ahead and point out why spam is not the same as a commercial. I simply wanted to bring this topic up for discussion.
The article didn't mention SpamProbe. It is what I use, and it has worked quite well for the past month or so that I've been using it. Perhaps this is just because the author didn't test this spam filter yet, but I like it quite a lot with my current mutt/procmail setup. Take this for what it's worth.
I just sure as hell hope he meant "latest, best hope", because anyone who thinks bayesian is the LAST best hope doesn't understand CS technology at all. And such a person sure as all hell shouldn't be given an audience on /.
You know what else sucks? When people talk about computers without mentioning the huge cost to human life and the great depleation of our environment that they bring along with them.
Oh yeah, this is slashdot, where it is in generally (obviously not everyone thinks this way, but it seems most do) considered the "in" thing to bash any war related tech topics... all for "the innocent people being killed."
Guess what you narrow minded sheeple, you are killing plenty of people and ruining the environment with every new monitor you buy. Every computer you throw out, even some of the ones you send off to be "recycled" are just poisoning people and the world. Not just locally, but even overseas.
So why is it that we can't discuss the pros/cons/coolness factor of a new munition because of the death it can cause, while everyday we discuss the next new chipset and pledge that we will upgrade every 4 months... and nary a word is mentioned about how we are killing "innocent" people all over the world.
Well wahoo for you righteous peons. You truly are messengers of peace.
Actually, bombing some people is a "meaningful social program." Perhaps you need to live under tyranny for awhile to understand, but sometimes blowing some person/government to little pieces is just about the best thing that can happen. We don't live in a world where everyone agrees to sit down at a table eating danishes and sipping tea while discussing ways to feed the poor. And no matter how badly lots of us want others to be peaceful, it simply isn't ever going to happen. As long as humans have free will, some of them will decide to inslave/persecute/destory other people. That is life, war is life, and ignoring those facts while speaking of a magical world where everyone helps everyone else won't make this a better place to live.
"but the lines are blurring."
I suppose someone should tell you about tatoos and piercings. People have been modding their bodies for as long as they have been worshiping the eye in the sky. It is just now moving into the realm of using the current technology is all.
I'd have to suggest against getting that surgery for anyone with HH (hyperhidrosis). I myself have HH, and looked into the surgery extensively. The surgery causes compensatory sweating on your upper body and it seems that many (though not all) report that the compensatory sweating is just as bad - if not worse - than the palmar HH.
That said, there is something you can do that is cheaper, less risky, and more effective. Check out drionic, which is a device you can use that will stop sweating for up to 6 weeks at a time. I've used it for over 3 months now and I'm happy as can be. Stopped the excessive sweat on my hands and my feet.
Also of interest for those of us who like to hack at things, is this site which shows you how to mod your drionic units to use a 9V wall adapter instead of their expensive proprietary batteries.
We all know what you really want that super-powerful arm for...
Sorry, couldn't resist the ease of making that joke.
Wha? What the hell do you call breaking into someone's house, a jolly suprise? Maybe the law should actually say you cannot shoot people who break into your house, but instead MUST serve them milk and cookies and give them the combination to your safe. That way everyone will be happy and the world will be a better place... except for all the dead/raped/maimed/robbed occupents of the residence.
To me once you break into someone's house you are fair game. What is it with some people and insisting that criminals have some sort of right to not be harmed while commiting their crimes? What next, workers comp when the burglar breaks his leg climbing out a window?
I've seen the "NAT means you have to remember the address AND the port number. Too much to remember..."
Well lets see: 100.200.300.400:45634, kinda long
But IPv6: fe80::212:23ff:fe12, well, kinda still long
I like IPv6 and hope the whole world switches soon as it can, but c'mon, lets not toss around bullshit arguments like NAT is too hard to use.
When the F**K did property rights become a "great american tradition"?!?
Become? It always has been part of America.
Bill of Rights: Amendment V
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
That is twice, in just one amendment, that a citizen's property is protected. And this is in the Bill of Rights. The holy of holies for America. These are rights inherant to us all that cannot ever be taken away.
As much as everyone loves to bitch and moan about IP and such, owning property in general and having said property protected is one of the things that sets America apart from socialist debacles (aka countries). Just because some big moronic corporation tries to use one of our rights to take another of our rights away, it does not mean that either right is any less valid, important, or any less American.
Everyone must be adopting the RIAA method of calculating costs due to "illegal" actions.
Researchers: Hey, your company only makes $10 million net per year. How the hell are you claiming $1 billion in lost profit due to spam?
Company: Wha?? Look at the monkey! Look at the silly monkey...
Researchers: Oh, I see. $1 billion it is.
You would think they would be violating the DMCA. And the only way I could think they might not be violating the DMCA is if they are the copyright holders and are allowed to distribute the content... in which case anyone who downloaded the songs from them legally acquired the song from the copyright holder and is therefore not subject to the DMCA in the first place.
Good stuff.
WHAT? You must have never run a new pipe anywhere in your house/yard have you? You have exactly 1 pipe for water coming to your property (think of it as your 1 IP address). From there you branch it off and can run it where ever you want, but it is still coming from that 1 same original pipe (think of this as your NAT).
So basically you are splitting 1 main point of entry into many applications. To try and compare having individuals IP addresses to a water system would mean that you would have 10-20 individual pipes coming from the water company all the way to your front door, which simply isn't the case.
And where you got the idea to throw buckets into this analogy I suppose I'll never know...
Wow, harping on people for not overstating the first portion of the sentence comprising the 2nd amendment, while you totally leave out the entire second half of that same sentence.
So lets get this straight:
"right of the people peaceably to assemble," "enumeration's herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people," and "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people" are all a part of our Constitution. And you will argue that "people" in those sentences refers to all the citizens of America as individuals?
However the 2nd amendment's "right of the people to keep and bear arms" refers only to the state?
Sorry buddy. You can't have your cake and eat it too in this situation. "People" means all of us, or it means the state. You simply cannot have it both ways.
"Too Many Users"
Strangest ink blot I've ever seen.
that pigs will soon fly.
No, seriously. I'm not attacking the vorbis codec. I love vorbis, and want a good hardware decoder for portable players, but I really need pigs to fly.
See, I got this all figured out:
1. Jump on the ogg bandwagon.
2. Get pigs to fly.
3. Profit!