This would be a disaster. Just look at what happened when AT&T allowed people to buy phones from someone other than Western Digital. Almost immediately the phone network completely collapsed and the planet imploded in a giant ball of rape, nuclear war, murder, and Pokemon. Do you want to repeat this again? This is why you must NOT buy a phone from anyone but your service provider.
I'm a liberal, and libertarians are quite distinguishable from conservatives. In fact, I wonder what the hell most liberals are thinking being in the same party where authoritarians feel comfortable. Authoritarians are the perfect enemies of libertarians when the moral values underlying beliefs are considered. If I were a libertarian, this would set off alarm bells. These strange bedfellows might have arrived at the same conclusions about an issue, but for very different reasons.
Libertarians in the conservative party in my analysis confuse the Republican rhetoric of "self-reliance" with the libertarian value of "independence." They are not the same moral value at all.
It had definitely been a while since I finished the barbecue arm off. That's a lot of meat to eat, and it was GuyverDH's wanking arm too. Very muscular, thick and meaty from hours of stroking his cock. What would GuyverDH do now without his wanking arm? I guess he was going to need some help. I stuck my hand in the pan, which was filled with about a quarter inch of fat and barbecue sauce, and I started to slowly stroke GuyverDH's cock into rigidity...
Actually, it doesn't render the UAC system pointless at all. It merely makes it useful to me, and my specific needs.
I'm a software developer. My Vista runs in a VM on a Linux host. I would turn off UAC completely, but then I would have no feedback as to when my code is triggering UAC messages. I want to minimize the UAC messages for my users, so I leave it on as I develop code. To minimize MY hassle, I have a NULL administrator password. Works just fine.
Plus, UAC is hardly a hassle. I see one about once a week usually.
UAC is as simple as sudo. Except, sudo will remember that you just typed in your password 5 minutes ago so it won't ask again. UAC asks every time.
But you're right, it's not a pain in the ass, and the people who are bitching about it are whiners. OR, maybe they don't know the trick that I know - set the administration password to a null password. That way, UAC doesn't require you to type anything at all. Just click the box and it's gone. You should know why the box popped up. It's your machine, so you should know the password, so asking for it is pointless. If you click on a UAC message without knowing why it's there, that's your fault.
And no, a NULL password is not the same as an empty password. You can send me an empty password theoretically with a string containing just a single null terminator. But how do you send me no password at all? That's like going to the mailbox and seeing it's empty, but just then your mom calls and asks if you didn't get the letter she didn't send you, and you reply that yes, you got no letter. Very Zen.
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But you can only waste time on Slashdot if you *both* agree to cover for each other. This is an unacceptable solution.
Compile your own kernel and Lenny can have it. I've been running Debian for 10 years and in all that time I've build my own vanilla kernels rather than rely on the packaged kernels. It works out just fine.
How's your Malaysian audience doing? Are they hearing you loud and clear? Will you be sending me a postcard from Kuala Lumpur anytime soon?
Careful now, when an American says they are going to be bringing an alternative viewpoint to your country you might think they mean via a newspaper thrown by a bicycled boy onto your porch. That bicycled boy might actually be an Army division, and they'll use a rocket to deliver it to your porch.
But last I checked, you were speaking mainly in America, to Americans. So I'm doing quite fine. And legitimate sedition laws? Hitler said that I think. Maybe it was Satan.
Hey, you can say what you want, and you can suggest I'm whatever. But when someone starts saying anything close to the idea that sedition laws might be legitimate, they're going to have to speak louder than me. You're free to speak, but anyone who can hear you will hear me too.
THAT is my purpose. I could actually give a shit about what you think of sedition and blogging or whatever wankery you want to go on about. You might not be sure if the Malaysian government is right to crack down on sedition. If I might use a bogus analogy of my own, some Nazis weren't quite sure if Hitler was right to crack down on the Jews either. Hope you figure it out soon.
At 50 bucks an hour, you'd have to eliminate almost 4 hours of commercials to come out ahead in terms of opportunity cost for your time. 240 minutes of commercials.
If the device eliminates 2 minutes of commercials, it would have to do that just 120 times to pay for itself. Why would you NOT buy the TiVo device.
Or a policeman can act on an attempt to disturb the peace, before the disturbance has taken place. Just like the policeman can act on a conspiracy to rob a bank, before the robbery (or attempted robbery) has taken place.
What does a disturbance of the peace look like before the peace is disturbed? It's all nice and quiet. Are we to then arrest all people being quiet on the theory that they were about to disturb the peace?
But you're still using stupid analogies. Before a robbery, there's evidence of what the robbers are planning. Perhaps they are stopped in their van with masks, guns, and demand notes to hand to the tellers. The analogy is worthy of a 7th grader.
And of course this is still beside my point: Sedition is sedition, whether it's a "blogger" or not. If you don't have a problem with it, then a seditious blog is no more of a problem than a seditious handbill. If you do have a problem with it, the it's just as much a problem on a streetcorner as on a webserver.
Sedition is just a particular kind of offensive speech. I have no problem with it, and in fact I think it's time we took torches to the capital building itself. I think we SHOULD put kegs of powder in the basement and blow it sky high. The people don't need a building, they need a symbol. I am calling for open revolt right now. Take to the streets and kill all the symbols of the establishment. Burn the towns and kick in wealthy heads. Let's do this. Tomorrow at 4 PM, right after my favorite soap opera. Deal?
Now arrest me. Arrest yourself. You're the product of sedition, if you were part of a former colony of a regent. What would you call a revolution or an independence movement?
Now see, that's the kind of fearful reaction that causes more problems than it solves. If a person's guilt in a crime is determined by some other person's interpretation of something that was merely spoken, then almost anybody can be arrested for almost anything.
We're not even talking about "attempted" as a distinction, which you bring up as a red herring. It's irrelevant to the conversation. An attempt at murder is an action, as is attempted burglary. But attempted incitement to riot? How do you know?
And your example of waiting until the lynching takes place is illogical. If a policeman is there to witness some supposed "incitement to lynch" then they will be there to see the rope go over the tree limb. Or, the policeman can act on disturbance of the peace. Or, they can act on a hundred other things to break up the crowd. Hell, make a law against molesting trees. But the policeman can't go over to the speaker and say "I don't like what you are saying, so I'm going to shut you up by throwing you in jail."
The charge levied against any American cannot be "speech offensive to the king" Pick something else. If you can't stop a lynching before it happens without infringing on the right to speech, then you're too dumb to be making up laws.
The response to hate speech is good speech. This is the lesson learned from opposing Klan rallies across the country. They do have the right to march and speak. But the rest of us also have the right to march and speak as well. When the Klan marches, that is a call to the rest of us to also march, to oppose their hateful message.
I'm surprised that you could reach an age where you could post all by yourself on Slashdot and not know this. My child is 4 and she already knows this.
Bah, I've had this argument before. Telling people to riot should be perfectly legal. If they actually riot, the charges should be incitement to riot. If they don't riot, there should be no charges at all.
Free Speech means you can say whatever you want. It doesn't mean that there is no accountability for what your speech causes. If the speech causes something illegal to happen, then the illegal activity is the problem, not the speech.
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This would be a disaster. Just look at what happened when AT&T allowed people to buy phones from someone other than Western Digital. Almost immediately the phone network completely collapsed and the planet imploded in a giant ball of rape, nuclear war, murder, and Pokemon. Do you want to repeat this again? This is why you must NOT buy a phone from anyone but your service provider.
This is such a stupid story, because it relies on the stupidity of the audience to completely misunderstand what it's all about.
I'm sure conservatives like Pudge will be all outraged by it.
There you go, propping up the IBM hegemony with factual information.
The Z Solaris is POWER architecture code, which isn't to difficult to port to PowerPC. Next up, Solaris on obsolete Mac equipment.
So, they are frightened of the world outside their bedroom, but neat. Perfect roommates then.
I'm a liberal, and libertarians are quite distinguishable from conservatives. In fact, I wonder what the hell most liberals are thinking being in the same party where authoritarians feel comfortable. Authoritarians are the perfect enemies of libertarians when the moral values underlying beliefs are considered. If I were a libertarian, this would set off alarm bells. These strange bedfellows might have arrived at the same conclusions about an issue, but for very different reasons.
Libertarians in the conservative party in my analysis confuse the Republican rhetoric of "self-reliance" with the libertarian value of "independence." They are not the same moral value at all.
Amazing! This is truly a wonderful time to be a monkey.
Confucius say "Geeks have better sperm, and hourly samples to prove it."
Why does a call center need a community? Why don't you just call each other? I don't get it.
This would be Windows Antepenultimate
It had definitely been a while since I finished the barbecue arm off. That's a lot of meat to eat, and it was GuyverDH's wanking arm too. Very muscular, thick and meaty from hours of stroking his cock. What would GuyverDH do now without his wanking arm? I guess he was going to need some help. I stuck my hand in the pan, which was filled with about a quarter inch of fat and barbecue sauce, and I started to slowly stroke GuyverDH's cock into rigidity...
Confucius Say "Man who nitpick physics joke not fine man.
Actually, it doesn't render the UAC system pointless at all. It merely makes it useful to me, and my specific needs.
I'm a software developer. My Vista runs in a VM on a Linux host. I would turn off UAC completely, but then I would have no feedback as to when my code is triggering UAC messages. I want to minimize the UAC messages for my users, so I leave it on as I develop code. To minimize MY hassle, I have a NULL administrator password. Works just fine.
Plus, UAC is hardly a hassle. I see one about once a week usually.
UAC is as simple as sudo. Except, sudo will remember that you just typed in your password 5 minutes ago so it won't ask again. UAC asks every time.
But you're right, it's not a pain in the ass, and the people who are bitching about it are whiners. OR, maybe they don't know the trick that I know - set the administration password to a null password. That way, UAC doesn't require you to type anything at all. Just click the box and it's gone. You should know why the box popped up. It's your machine, so you should know the password, so asking for it is pointless. If you click on a UAC message without knowing why it's there, that's your fault.
And no, a NULL password is not the same as an empty password. You can send me an empty password theoretically with a string containing just a single null terminator. But how do you send me no password at all? That's like going to the mailbox and seeing it's empty, but just then your mom calls and asks if you didn't get the letter she didn't send you, and you reply that yes, you got no letter. Very Zen.
But you can only waste time on Slashdot if you *both* agree to cover for each other. This is an unacceptable solution.
Compile your own kernel and Lenny can have it. I've been running Debian for 10 years and in all that time I've build my own vanilla kernels rather than rely on the packaged kernels. It works out just fine.
We have. This "news" is literally decades old.
http://www.google.com/search?q=liquid+telescope+moon&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS264US264
http://inventorspot.com/articles/liquid_lunar_telescope_5345 That one says that it was first suggested in 1991. I bet someone thought of it earlier.
How's your Malaysian audience doing? Are they hearing you loud and clear? Will you be sending me a postcard from Kuala Lumpur anytime soon?
Careful now, when an American says they are going to be bringing an alternative viewpoint to your country you might think they mean via a newspaper thrown by a bicycled boy onto your porch. That bicycled boy might actually be an Army division, and they'll use a rocket to deliver it to your porch.
But last I checked, you were speaking mainly in America, to Americans. So I'm doing quite fine. And legitimate sedition laws? Hitler said that I think. Maybe it was Satan.
Hey, you can say what you want, and you can suggest I'm whatever. But when someone starts saying anything close to the idea that sedition laws might be legitimate, they're going to have to speak louder than me. You're free to speak, but anyone who can hear you will hear me too.
THAT is my purpose. I could actually give a shit about what you think of sedition and blogging or whatever wankery you want to go on about. You might not be sure if the Malaysian government is right to crack down on sedition. If I might use a bogus analogy of my own, some Nazis weren't quite sure if Hitler was right to crack down on the Jews either. Hope you figure it out soon.
At 50 bucks an hour, you'd have to eliminate almost 4 hours of commercials to come out ahead in terms of opportunity cost for your time. 240 minutes of commercials.
If the device eliminates 2 minutes of commercials, it would have to do that just 120 times to pay for itself. Why would you NOT buy the TiVo device.
Or a policeman can act on an attempt to disturb the peace, before the disturbance has taken place. Just like the policeman can act on a conspiracy to rob a bank, before the robbery (or attempted robbery) has taken place.
What does a disturbance of the peace look like before the peace is disturbed? It's all nice and quiet. Are we to then arrest all people being quiet on the theory that they were about to disturb the peace?
But you're still using stupid analogies. Before a robbery, there's evidence of what the robbers are planning. Perhaps they are stopped in their van with masks, guns, and demand notes to hand to the tellers. The analogy is worthy of a 7th grader.
And of course this is still beside my point: Sedition is sedition, whether it's a "blogger" or not. If you don't have a problem with it, then a seditious blog is no more of a problem than a seditious handbill. If you do have a problem with it, the it's just as much a problem on a streetcorner as on a webserver.
Sedition is just a particular kind of offensive speech. I have no problem with it, and in fact I think it's time we took torches to the capital building itself. I think we SHOULD put kegs of powder in the basement and blow it sky high. The people don't need a building, they need a symbol. I am calling for open revolt right now. Take to the streets and kill all the symbols of the establishment. Burn the towns and kick in wealthy heads. Let's do this. Tomorrow at 4 PM, right after my favorite soap opera. Deal?
Now arrest me. Arrest yourself. You're the product of sedition, if you were part of a former colony of a regent. What would you call a revolution or an independence movement?
Now see, that's the kind of fearful reaction that causes more problems than it solves. If a person's guilt in a crime is determined by some other person's interpretation of something that was merely spoken, then almost anybody can be arrested for almost anything.
We're not even talking about "attempted" as a distinction, which you bring up as a red herring. It's irrelevant to the conversation. An attempt at murder is an action, as is attempted burglary. But attempted incitement to riot? How do you know?
And your example of waiting until the lynching takes place is illogical. If a policeman is there to witness some supposed "incitement to lynch" then they will be there to see the rope go over the tree limb. Or, the policeman can act on disturbance of the peace. Or, they can act on a hundred other things to break up the crowd. Hell, make a law against molesting trees. But the policeman can't go over to the speaker and say "I don't like what you are saying, so I'm going to shut you up by throwing you in jail."
The charge levied against any American cannot be "speech offensive to the king" Pick something else. If you can't stop a lynching before it happens without infringing on the right to speech, then you're too dumb to be making up laws.
Hate speech is despicable, but not illegal.
The response to hate speech is good speech. This is the lesson learned from opposing Klan rallies across the country. They do have the right to march and speak. But the rest of us also have the right to march and speak as well. When the Klan marches, that is a call to the rest of us to also march, to oppose their hateful message.
I'm surprised that you could reach an age where you could post all by yourself on Slashdot and not know this. My child is 4 and she already knows this.
Bah, I've had this argument before. Telling people to riot should be perfectly legal. If they actually riot, the charges should be incitement to riot. If they don't riot, there should be no charges at all.
Free Speech means you can say whatever you want. It doesn't mean that there is no accountability for what your speech causes. If the speech causes something illegal to happen, then the illegal activity is the problem, not the speech.
For a Java program, prove that it cannot possibly run out of memory. Impossible to do in a language which allows dynamic allocations.