Chavez is a stalinist? Who did he kill, even after the failed coup attempt on him? Where are his forced labor camps and starving masses? Chavez doesn't appear to be anything like that, as far as I can see. Ever see "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?"
Apple is going after a bunch of various PC-user groups. Small Businesses, corporations, IT professionals, Publishers, Coders, Film Editors, Musicians, Secretaries, Government workers, Photographers, AOL users, teenagers, parents, computer newbies, etc. Gamers are only one of those groups; corporate users for example don't care and likely don't want games on their systems.
Halo, the Sims, Neverwinter Nights, Bejeweled, Elite Force, Quake3, Unreal Tournament, World of Warcraft, and Doom3 are all out for the Mac. Sure there are plenty of non-Mac games out there, but the best-sellers are out there. Go check the closest Apple Store.
Apple's software update shows all the new updates for the system, point updates, Security updates, new iApps, etc. You can go to the menu and "ignore" any updates you want. You CAN, and I do all the time, download only security updates.
The biggest political partison on the air? Not Bill O'Reilly? Not Michael Savage? Not Ann Coulter? Jon Stewart is not a journalist, right?
95% of his guests were Kerry shills? Ed Gillespie? Fareed Zakaria? John Leguizamo? Samuel L. Jackson? Kevin Spacey? Jude Law? Desmond Tutu? Bill O'Reilly? Jerry Seinfeld?
New York Times: "All the News thats fit to print" Fox News: "Fair and Balanced" CNN: "The Most Trusted Name in News"
When did Fox News or NYTimes openly admit that they spin the news? Even O'Reilly denies that. The "No-Spin Zone," where he claims to be a registered independent, he claims that any bias towards conservatism is only an editorial decision of what he can fit in airtime.
I've been watching Jon Stewart for years. Typically, he doesn't hold a guest's "feet to the fire" as he likes to call it. He's not like O'Reilly where he tries to force them to answer. He had Kerry on, and treated him civilly, but he also warmly had on Republican chairman Ed Gillespie and a number of GOP candidates. He even had Bill O'Reilly on, and despite making fun of and criticizing him so many times, was just as civil as when he spoke to Kerry.
Stewart is nice to all of his guests. He sometimes asks them tricky questions (I remember when he tried to nicely throw Jon Stossel's idea right back at him when it seems apparent Stossel couldn't defend his thesis), but he always asks his audience to applaud the guest, whoever it is. Even Bill O'Reilly, who once insultingly referred to the audience as "stoned slackers" gave him some applause and you couldn't tell Stewart had any contempt for him by the interview.
Doesn't this bot remind you a bit of the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still?
OT, How come there are no more World's Fairs? Disney's EPCOT just doesn't do it for me anymore. Can't we see some futuristic cars and segways and all-digital homes all together instead of visiting the "Innoventions" exhibit?
Regarding your sig, it's baloney. WorldNetDaily is notorious for speculative stories that turn out to be bogus, this is one of them. The US would never and could never nuke Mecca. It would alienate America's allies, like the Saudi and Pakistani government, and trigger a massive war by Muslims worldwide. It would be like nuking the Vatican city to stop Catholic IRA terrorists.
Hundreds of thousands of servers out there, and you're making your case with a handful of government servers and a minority of servers which offer publicly available access logs. I don't see how the government can snoop some AOL user's traffic or my posts to/. Go read your ISP's EULA. The Patriot Act is an exception, it breaks the Bill of Rights in various ways, and it remains to be seen if some of its provisions will hold up in court AFAIK, and there are also those expiring sections this year.
I don't have to start naming RFC numbers to get your attention. That just sounds like snobbery, and a portion of the/. users wouldn't understand us (though I recommend RFC 793 and 1180 for IT hobbyists). We can be more abstract than that. The government, as it stands, cannot monitor the actions of its citizens within private property, private establishments, or generally when not in public. They cannot place surveillance cameras in your home, or in a restaurant without a warrant. They cannot easily enforce traffic laws on privately owned roads on private property. Monitoring the traffic between two private parties on a privately owned connection is not possible without a warrant. If the traffic goes through a government connection, then maybe they can do so as per the ISP agreement, but otherwise they cannot. If I don't see that server on my traceroute (RFC 1393), then they should not be able to view my traffic without my consent, my ISP's consent according to EULA, or a warrant.
What does the government control on the internet, besides a handful of government servers and Root name server A? Post-secondary education is still mostly private parties, and its users still have to consent to internet use guidelines before signing up. Business is probably the majority of all online infrastructure.
I didn't say the government didn't own any of it, I said that my traffic is most likely to go through third party PRIVATELY owned connections rather than government servers. A simple traceroute from me to slashdot goes through my LAN, 7.net addresses, and then slashdot.org. I don't see any government sites, ergo the government has no right to snoop my password or anything private I transmit (to slashdot at least).
Oh I'm sure it goes through other routers besides my ISP's, but I'm pretty sure those other routers are by other companies that have their own EULA's. I don't believe any of the routers I use are government-owned, and thus are still private property. It is illegal to break into one. Maybe if the government started providing public ISPs, then privacy could be waived (as the courts ruled in the case of public roadways), but otherwise I don't see any legal standpoint to suppor the government snooping privately-owned connections without a warrant.
Apple to reward employees with free iPod Shuffles. "Seeing as last year we all received additional vacation time, an iPod shuffle is a small investment for a company to reward its employees for the best quarter in our history," remarked one employee.
My net traffic goes through ISPs who I've signed an EULA for, and whose employees likely have NDAs they have to agree to. It's not public, ie. it's not like driving on taxpayer-funded highways.
In real life, a bunch of cops at some precinct used a metal colander with a wire to a photocopier to fool some crook into confessing. They told him it was a lie detector, and every time he denied the crime, they pushed "copy" where it printed out a page saying "He's lying." Eventually, he broke down and confessed.
Sidetrack's author said he's not going to offer it, at least for the time being. Only the hardware in Aluminum Powerbooks can recognize two fingers, and he's also concerned that Apple perhaps patented the idea.
Recent PowerBook models (most Aluminum case models) have had "W-Enhanced" pads that can detect two-fingers on the pad simultaneously. One driver expert suspects that this is what Apple is using. If this is the case there is a chance that Apple will be able to offer this feature on most Aluminum models.
The maker of Sidetrack has a link on his site to what he deems "Prior art," but it isn't by him. He also said he will not be offering two-finger scrolling, and I don't recall it being offered beforehand.
Apple's X11 system allows the use of the Apple and option or whatever modifier keys you want to function as other mouse buttons> Or, you just go wityh a USB mouse. Or, you can install Sidetrack on your Powerbook, which works wonders.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple is going after a bunch of various PC-user groups. Small Businesses, corporations, IT professionals, Publishers, Coders, Film Editors, Musicians, Secretaries, Government workers, Photographers, AOL users, teenagers, parents, computer newbies, etc. Gamers are only one of those groups; corporate users for example don't care and likely don't want games on their systems.
Halo, the Sims, Neverwinter Nights, Bejeweled, Elite Force, Quake3, Unreal Tournament, World of Warcraft, and Doom3 are all out for the Mac. Sure there are plenty of non-Mac games out there, but the best-sellers are out there. Go check the closest Apple Store.
Apple's software update shows all the new updates for the system, point updates, Security updates, new iApps, etc. You can go to the menu and "ignore" any updates you want. You CAN, and I do all the time, download only security updates.
Monkey to monkey?
(It's actually mano a mano. Sorry to be pedantic)
The biggest political partison on the air? Not Bill O'Reilly? Not Michael Savage? Not Ann Coulter? Jon Stewart is not a journalist, right?
95% of his guests were Kerry shills? Ed Gillespie? Fareed Zakaria? John Leguizamo? Samuel L. Jackson? Kevin Spacey? Jude Law? Desmond Tutu? Bill O'Reilly? Jerry Seinfeld?
New York Times: "All the News thats fit to print"
Fox News: "Fair and Balanced"
CNN: "The Most Trusted Name in News"
When did Fox News or NYTimes openly admit that they spin the news? Even O'Reilly denies that. The "No-Spin Zone," where he claims to be a registered independent, he claims that any bias towards conservatism is only an editorial decision of what he can fit in airtime.
Did Rather say who he was voting for? Did he go on any campaign stops to support someone?
I've been watching Jon Stewart for years. Typically, he doesn't hold a guest's "feet to the fire" as he likes to call it. He's not like O'Reilly where he tries to force them to answer. He had Kerry on, and treated him civilly, but he also warmly had on Republican chairman Ed Gillespie and a number of GOP candidates. He even had Bill O'Reilly on, and despite making fun of and criticizing him so many times, was just as civil as when he spoke to Kerry.
Stewart is nice to all of his guests. He sometimes asks them tricky questions (I remember when he tried to nicely throw Jon Stossel's idea right back at him when it seems apparent Stossel couldn't defend his thesis), but he always asks his audience to applaud the guest, whoever it is. Even Bill O'Reilly, who once insultingly referred to the audience as "stoned slackers" gave him some applause and you couldn't tell Stewart had any contempt for him by the interview.
Doesn't this bot remind you a bit of the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still?
OT, How come there are no more World's Fairs? Disney's EPCOT just doesn't do it for me anymore. Can't we see some futuristic cars and segways and all-digital homes all together instead of visiting the "Innoventions" exhibit?
OK fair enough. Sorry if i ruffled your feathers.
Regarding your sig, it's baloney. WorldNetDaily is notorious for speculative stories that turn out to be bogus, this is one of them. The US would never and could never nuke Mecca. It would alienate America's allies, like the Saudi and Pakistani government, and trigger a massive war by Muslims worldwide. It would be like nuking the Vatican city to stop Catholic IRA terrorists.
Hundreds of thousands of servers out there, and you're making your case with a handful of government servers and a minority of servers which offer publicly available access logs. I don't see how the government can snoop some AOL user's traffic or my posts to /. Go read your ISP's EULA. The Patriot Act is an exception, it breaks the Bill of Rights in various ways, and it remains to be seen if some of its provisions will hold up in court AFAIK, and there are also those expiring sections this year.
/. users wouldn't understand us (though I recommend RFC 793 and 1180 for IT hobbyists). We can be more abstract than that. The government, as it stands, cannot monitor the actions of its citizens within private property, private establishments, or generally when not in public. They cannot place surveillance cameras in your home, or in a restaurant without a warrant. They cannot easily enforce traffic laws on privately owned roads on private property. Monitoring the traffic between two private parties on a privately owned connection is not possible without a warrant. If the traffic goes through a government connection, then maybe they can do so as per the ISP agreement, but otherwise they cannot. If I don't see that server on my traceroute (RFC 1393), then they should not be able to view my traffic without my consent, my ISP's consent according to EULA, or a warrant.
I don't have to start naming RFC numbers to get your attention. That just sounds like snobbery, and a portion of the
What does the government control on the internet, besides a handful of government servers and Root name server A? Post-secondary education is still mostly private parties, and its users still have to consent to internet use guidelines before signing up. Business is probably the majority of all online infrastructure.
.net addresses, and then slashdot.org. I don't see any government sites, ergo the government has no right to snoop my password or anything private I transmit (to slashdot at least).
I didn't say the government didn't own any of it, I said that my traffic is most likely to go through third party PRIVATELY owned connections rather than government servers. A simple traceroute from me to slashdot goes through my LAN, 7
Wasn't that a Bjork video?
Or you could get a headless iRobot, dubbed the Robot mini, and then attach any head you want on it...
Oh I'm sure it goes through other routers besides my ISP's, but I'm pretty sure those other routers are by other companies that have their own EULA's. I don't believe any of the routers I use are government-owned, and thus are still private property. It is illegal to break into one. Maybe if the government started providing public ISPs, then privacy could be waived (as the courts ruled in the case of public roadways), but otherwise I don't see any legal standpoint to suppor the government snooping privately-owned connections without a warrant.
My net traffic goes through ISPs who I've signed an EULA for, and whose employees likely have NDAs they have to agree to. It's not public, ie. it's not like driving on taxpayer-funded highways.
In real life, a bunch of cops at some precinct used a metal colander with a wire to a photocopier to fool some crook into confessing. They told him it was a lie detector, and every time he denied the crime, they pushed "copy" where it printed out a page saying "He's lying." Eventually, he broke down and confessed.
Note my cousin post, it apparently will only be availible for the Aluminum 'books as they have the new trackpad hardware.