Re:Actually I agree with ya, matey...
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I think that the PCS modules are $20 new from the Handspring site right now. At least they were a little bit ago - I got mine for about $15 on eBay -- periodically, big batches come up for sale as people liquidate their stocks. Keep your eye out, and if you really want one, you'll find it for around that after a couple or few weeks.
No, although I do have a spare Visor Deluxe (I bought the Neo after Christmas because I thought I lost the Deluxe -- it was actually at my folks' house.).
If you want it for $40 (plus shipping), I would be happy to sell it for that.
GF.
Re:Zire is the only one that make sense
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I would suggest buying a used handspring visor. You get the PDA stuff and you can use the modules. My current favorite is the Sprint PCS module, which gives you a (slightly bulky) cellphone/PDA combo for about $15 bucks (eBay). A Visor Deluxe or Neo can be had for about $70. Whole deal is less than a Zire and far, far cooler.
The Pennsylvania legislature passed a law requiring such blocks.
Correct.
Since county courts (in most states; I assume PA is similar in this respect) do not have the power to declare a law unconstitutional, the judge has no choice but to order the blocking.
Wrong. Judges of the various Courts of Common Pleas _do_ have the power to declare statutes unconstitutional. I clerked for one who declared a law to be unconstitutional. If the constitutionality of a law is going to be raised in a court proceeding, there needs to be notice to the Attorney General. The Rules of Civil Procedure, promulgated by the Supreme Court of PA, clearly contemplate constitutional issues, including state statutes, being addressed in courts of original jurisdiction. How else could the PA Supremes rule on the issue if it is not raised and preserved at the trial level?
Ultimately this is a good thing.
No it isn't, since your statement was incorrect.
The order gets appealed to (the PA equivalent of) a state court,
Sometimes. Sometimes not.
which will (as those tend to lack the power to declare a law unconstitutional) uphold the county ruling.
The reporters are full of cases in the Superior and Commonwealth courts (both are intermediate courts of appeals with different subject matter jurisdictions in PA).
Once a state court issues an order, then the (PA equivalent of the) state Supreme Judicial Court would be able to take an appeal
Sometimes. Sometimes, the Supremes use their "King's Bench" power to pull an appeal directly from a Court of Common Pleas.
and (finally) declare the law unconstitutional (especially if the PA Constitution has a free speech clause).
It does. They might not.
FWIW, I think this law is abhorrent, and it makes me want to vomit to think about how fucking stupid the legislature is. Christ, they are fucking retards. I've had dinner with Mike Fisher before, and he is not an idiot. He is charged with enforcing the laws passed by the Legislature, however. If he failed to do his job, there would be a constitutional crisis. It is the job of the courts to pass on the constitutionality of the law, not the AG. I think Fisher, even if he agrees that the law is asinine, has no wiggle room on it. The fact that he just got done running (unsuccessfully) for governor and that he couldn't be seen as "soft" on child porn probably didn't help things, either.
Osenbaugh appears to be threatening legal action against some SQL Server developers
So...will Ballmer and Co. decide to indemnify the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS when the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS get SUED SUED SUED?
Maybe, just maybe, this (or the Caldera situation) might spur some reform of the patent process vis-a-vis software and busines processes. I'm not holding my breath, though.
The "why run linux on an xbox" question constantly comes up in every./ xbox story. Beige box computers are cheap. Why futz around with an xbox to run linux, then?
Here are my reasons:
1. Wife probably wouldn't mind an xbox, whereas she'd mind another computer.
2. Xbox has a nice form factor for my living room, where I would like to set up a media PC anyway.
3. Linux on the xbox will allow me to hook into my home LAN to pull MP3s from my Netfinity server and run same MP3s through a player on a tv-based interface. My tv audio runs through the stereo, so this would essentially allow me to reach all of my music without having to touch another CD. The CD storage cabinet can go in the attic.
4. I can run a web browser on my tv (at decent resolution once the HDTV thing settles in).
5. PVR.
6. MAME.
7. I can hack on websites and scripts in the family room with my wife and kid instead of doing so in office. These are "fun" items, not work, so concentration isn't too big a thing -- plus the kid might learn something.
8. I can finally play Obi Wan and Jedi Knight 2.
9. I'll have another DVD player.
10. It'll just be fun to be able to do it.
Is the xbox an ideal platform for all of these things in a perfect world? No, but it is cheap and reasonably adaptable to all of the above-listed tasks. I could buy a micro atx mobo and case and assemble something, but the xbox would be cheaper and probably better looking and more solid than anything I could muster.
I have no real religious zealotry about MS. I don't care for expensive bloatware and I like to have a little more control over my stuff than MS usually permits. I understand that some people like MS stuff and I understand (and laugh at them myself) all the MS jokes you want to send my way.
The xbox could simply be a nifty little gadget. Like MS or not, the applications I can think of for this gadget intrigue me enough to overcome my marginally anti-ms personal bias. A tool is a tool. Besides, and xbox running linux would be greatly satisfying to me from a spriritual perspective.
Most people these days don't even use their ISP email addresses, because they may change and are often hard to remember in the first place.
My local ISP is named after my town, which has six letters. I have a three character username, so it is essentially xyz@mytown.net. That is a helluva lot easier than rox0r432@hotmail.com.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Boromir is Faramir' brother. Both are the sons of Denethor. Neither could ever be the king of Gondor, since they are the stewards, charged with taking care of the kingdom until the return of the rightful king. For Boromir to be Faramir's son would require some plot manipulations that even Peter Jackson would probably feel uncomfortable with.
A $10 FM radio will give you all the sound you need. Sure, fancy stereos have lots of buttons and knobs to twiddle, but the difference in sound quality is negligible--especially since all we really do with our sound systems is listen to talk radio, right?
That's why my 12 year old car has neither a cassette player nor a CD player. Just radio, baby. That plus the fact that I'm cheap.
I'm all for the right to bear arms, but not to the point where any criminal and retard can acquire a gun.
I'm all for the right to xxxxxx, but not to the point where any criminal and retard can xxxxxx.
Select an item from the following data set based on your personal prejudices and/or your sense of political expediency:
1. encrypt data 2. speak freely 3. marry someone of his/her choosing 4. vote 5. procreate 6. bear arms 7. have sex 8. use drugs 9. be gay 10. be be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
However, I think it is wrong to assign the blame for Amy's death on Docusearch. They were an "accessory to a crime", but did not commit the crime itself.
This case had nothing to do with criminal liability whatsoever. Your whole "criminal accessory" statement is a non sequitur.
The case at hand is strictly a money damages tort case. Since the decision discussed whether a cause of action could arise for the five circumstances outlined in the decision, I suspect it was before the court on an appeal from a motion for summary judgment. A little procedural history from the court would have helped this decision out a great deal. I will assume that this was a motion for summary judgment which was appealed (although that could be wrong).
Every case needs three legs to stand up:
(1) a deep pocket to sue/collect from. The gunman is presumably worth little -- let's go after the business instead, and maybe an umbrella liability policy.
(2) clear liability. This is now settled by the court.
(3) good damages. Nothing beats a dead plaintiff except a sympathetic dead plaintiff that wasn't uneducated or black or gay or a drug user or a criminal. It sucks, but not every life is worth the same to a jury.
This case was missing the liability leg, but now that is in place and there is the potential for decent payday, depending on the assets of the business and/or its insurer.
Did anyone else notice the amicus brief filed by the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association? Do you think that they are trolling for more dead girls killed by stalkers? In some respects, this case is about the Benjamins.
I have nothing but sympathy for the family of the slain woman. My office does lots of family law, and I sometimes get worried not only about the clients, but the people in my office being targeted by some of these fucking wackos. One guy in my office gets letters regularly from someone who write things like "I know that one day you and your entire family will burn for eternity in a lake of fire for what you do."
On the other hand, private investigators serve a very useful function in locating people for process serving to initiate divorces and to collect child support. I have one working on finding a serial defrauder right now. I am not anxious for other state courts to adopt positions similar to the one adopted by New Hampshire.
FWIW, I am not sure of the New Hampshire rules regarding comparative or contributory negligence. I do not know what the joint and several liability rules are. Notably, the gunman was not sued, or at least the caption does not show this.
Youens knew where Amy lived, and he had been obsessed with her for years. It was just a matter of time.
This makes me wonder what the damages really were. Also, was tehre a PFA (protection from abuse, or NH's analogous procedure) in place? Did the killer simply ignore these? This case is interesting as a privacy issue, but also it serves as a warning to take bizarre, stalking-type behavior extremely seriously.
Many schools are having problems related to unauthorized downloads. Lehigh University is among these. Seventeen "cease and desist" orders. Seventeen! The university is cooperating the the RIAA and the MPAA in identifying the students involved.
6502 (still runs) 486-66 3 of the 486-100's (still in use as file servers, one in an old laptop) Celeron 400 (my home machine) Xeon 550 (in use on my "fun" linux server) P-III 600 (in use as a development server) P-II 333 (my desktop machine at work)
I have a couple more in my parts drawer -- an old P-75, a pile of 486's, and some other misc. junk.
But what is the "selfish" object? The individual network administrator or some larger body, such as a college or business?
What is the gene, and what is the gene's machine?
In the Spock case, the Starfleet is the selfish body benefitting by the "altruism". Spock is merely an automaton carrying out the selfish wishes of the organization. If he is benefitting his "genes", then his death is immaterial. Look at cooperative family behaviors.
Of course there is no physical gene in Spock's case, but perhaps the idea of a Starfleet is the meme that survives because of Spock's behavior.
If the "altruistic" behavior results in a better network, then isn't there a benefit for the altruistic behavior? Doesn't it cease being altruistic if there is a benefit? Aaggh! I'm caught in another Prisoner's Dilemma with an uncertain number of moves!
Where's my Dawkins? (That's twice today I've thought of him).
It goes past Hiroshima and Nagasaki somewhat, but not tremendously far. Basically, you're looking at a history of nuclear physics, chemistry, and the Manhattan Project. The H-bomb stuff is almost a postscript, but a longish one.
This is a very interesting book, btw. If you set aside the atomic bomb issues, it would still be an interesting history of chemistry and physics. I learned a lot more than I expected to learn when I read it a couple fo years ago.
Telling someone not to look at something is the surest way to get them to look at it. Besides, at least goatse is funny. The funniest part is that someone took those awful goatse pictures as part of a series of photos that were evidently meant to be erotic.
In any case, I find things at AOL, MSN, and Yahoo to be just as offensive as goatse.
Basically, to all you goatse haters, get a sense of humor for fsck's sake. And for you moderators with no sense of humor, I have karma to burn. Give it to me baby.
First, just because Google has an application that doesn't require them to buy beaucoup processors does not mean that, suddenly, the chip world will grind to a halt. Lots of people need big processors, especially if their computing task does not lend itself to parallel processing methods.
Second, Google will not fix its servers in time. As processing power continually becomes cheaper, Google will end up buying 64 bit Itanium processors. Either that, or they will be using my old 550 mhx Xeon in ten years when I am using my new 128 ghz Pentium XVII.
"4 Ghz of processing power is enough for anybody."
Bowling balls occasionally were rolled down the Hill at Lehigh when I was there. I have no idea who was responsible for such an action, but those seen chasing the bowling balls to observe the action were known to be harassed by the gendarmes.
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...but will it play MP3?
GF.
I think that the PCS modules are $20 new from the Handspring site right now. At least they were a little bit ago - I got mine for about $15 on eBay -- periodically, big batches come up for sale as people liquidate their stocks. Keep your eye out, and if you really want one, you'll find it for around that after a couple or few weeks.
GF.
No, although I do have a spare Visor Deluxe (I bought the Neo after Christmas because I thought I lost the Deluxe -- it was actually at my folks' house.).
If you want it for $40 (plus shipping), I would be happy to sell it for that.
GF.
I would suggest buying a used handspring visor. You get the PDA stuff and you can use the modules. My current favorite is the Sprint PCS module, which gives you a (slightly bulky) cellphone/PDA combo for about $15 bucks (eBay). A Visor Deluxe or Neo can be had for about $70. Whole deal is less than a Zire and far, far cooler.
GF.
The Pennsylvania legislature passed a law requiring such blocks.
Correct.
Since county courts (in most states; I assume PA is similar in this respect) do not have the power to declare a law unconstitutional, the judge has no choice but to order the blocking.
Wrong. Judges of the various Courts of Common Pleas _do_ have the power to declare statutes unconstitutional. I clerked for one who declared a law to be unconstitutional. If the constitutionality of a law is going to be raised in a court proceeding, there needs to be notice to the Attorney General. The Rules of Civil Procedure, promulgated by the Supreme Court of PA, clearly contemplate constitutional issues, including state statutes, being addressed in courts of original jurisdiction. How else could the PA Supremes rule on the issue if it is not raised and preserved at the trial level?
Ultimately this is a good thing.
No it isn't, since your statement was incorrect.
The order gets appealed to (the PA equivalent of) a state court,
Sometimes. Sometimes not.
which will (as those tend to lack the power to declare a law unconstitutional) uphold the county ruling.
The reporters are full of cases in the Superior and Commonwealth courts (both are intermediate courts of appeals with different subject matter jurisdictions in PA).
Once a state court issues an order, then the (PA equivalent of the) state Supreme Judicial Court would be able to take an appeal
Sometimes. Sometimes, the Supremes use their "King's Bench" power to pull an appeal directly from a Court of Common Pleas.
and (finally) declare the law unconstitutional (especially if the PA Constitution has a free speech clause).
It does. They might not.
FWIW, I think this law is abhorrent, and it makes me want to vomit to think about how fucking stupid the legislature is. Christ, they are fucking retards. I've had dinner with Mike Fisher before, and he is not an idiot. He is charged with enforcing the laws passed by the Legislature, however. If he failed to do his job, there would be a constitutional crisis. It is the job of the courts to pass on the constitutionality of the law, not the AG. I think Fisher, even if he agrees that the law is asinine, has no wiggle room on it. The fact that he just got done running (unsuccessfully) for governor and that he couldn't be seen as "soft" on child porn probably didn't help things, either.
GF.
"If you could send a message back to your nerdy unpopular 12 year old self, what would you say?"
1. Buy Microsoft, Dell, and EMC.
2. When Jill tries to get busy with you, don't let your morals get in the way.
3. Go short the Nasdaq on March 1, 2000.
GF.
Osenbaugh appears to be threatening legal action against some SQL Server developers
So...will Ballmer and Co. decide to indemnify the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS when the DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS get SUED SUED SUED?
Maybe, just maybe, this (or the Caldera situation) might spur some reform of the patent process vis-a-vis software and busines processes. I'm not holding my breath, though.
GF.
The "why run linux on an xbox" question constantly comes up in every ./ xbox story. Beige box computers are cheap. Why futz around with an xbox to run linux, then?
Here are my reasons:
1. Wife probably wouldn't mind an xbox, whereas she'd mind another computer.
2. Xbox has a nice form factor for my living room, where I would like to set up a media PC anyway.
3. Linux on the xbox will allow me to hook into my home LAN to pull MP3s from my Netfinity server and run same MP3s through a player on a tv-based interface. My tv audio runs through the stereo, so this would essentially allow me to reach all of my music without having to touch another CD. The CD storage cabinet can go in the attic.
4. I can run a web browser on my tv (at decent resolution once the HDTV thing settles in).
5. PVR.
6. MAME.
7. I can hack on websites and scripts in the family room with my wife and kid instead of doing so in office. These are "fun" items, not work, so concentration isn't too big a thing -- plus the kid might learn something.
8. I can finally play Obi Wan and Jedi Knight 2.
9. I'll have another DVD player.
10. It'll just be fun to be able to do it.
Is the xbox an ideal platform for all of these things in a perfect world? No, but it is cheap and reasonably adaptable to all of the above-listed tasks. I could buy a micro atx mobo and case and assemble something, but the xbox would be cheaper and probably better looking and more solid than anything I could muster.
I have no real religious zealotry about MS. I don't care for expensive bloatware and I like to have a little more control over my stuff than MS usually permits. I understand that some people like MS stuff and I understand (and laugh at them myself) all the MS jokes you want to send my way.
The xbox could simply be a nifty little gadget. Like MS or not, the applications I can think of for this gadget intrigue me enough to overcome my marginally anti-ms personal bias. A tool is a tool. Besides, and xbox running linux would be greatly satisfying to me from a spriritual perspective.
GF.
Most people these days don't even use their ISP email addresses, because they may change and are often hard to remember in the first place.
My local ISP is named after my town, which has six letters. I have a three character username, so it is essentially xyz@mytown.net. That is a helluva lot easier than rox0r432@hotmail.com.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Boromir is Faramir' brother. Both are the sons of Denethor. Neither could ever be the king of Gondor, since they are the stewards, charged with taking care of the kingdom until the return of the rightful king. For Boromir to be Faramir's son would require some plot manipulations that even Peter Jackson would probably feel uncomfortable with.
GF.
A $10 FM radio will give you all the sound you need. Sure, fancy stereos have lots of buttons and knobs to twiddle, but the difference in sound quality is negligible--especially since all we really do with our sound systems is listen to talk radio, right?
That's why my 12 year old car has neither a cassette player nor a CD player. Just radio, baby. That plus the fact that I'm cheap.
GF.
I'm all for the right to bear arms, but not to the point where any criminal and retard can acquire a gun.
I'm all for the right to xxxxxx, but not to the point where any criminal and retard can xxxxxx.
Select an item from the following data set based on your personal prejudices and/or your sense of political expediency:
1. encrypt data
2. speak freely
3. marry someone of his/her choosing
4. vote
5. procreate
6. bear arms
7. have sex
8. use drugs
9. be gay
10. be be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
GF.
Plus, there is nothing on TV that I want to watch, since it is all brain-wiping horseshit.
GF.
However, I think it is wrong to assign the blame for Amy's death on Docusearch. They were an "accessory to a crime", but did not commit the crime itself.
This case had nothing to do with criminal liability whatsoever. Your whole "criminal accessory" statement is a non sequitur.
The case at hand is strictly a money damages tort case. Since the decision discussed whether a cause of action could arise for the five circumstances outlined in the decision, I suspect it was before the court on an appeal from a motion for summary judgment. A little procedural history from the court would have helped this decision out a great deal. I will assume that this was a motion for summary judgment which was appealed (although that could be wrong).
Every case needs three legs to stand up:
(1) a deep pocket to sue/collect from. The gunman is presumably worth little -- let's go after the business instead, and maybe an umbrella liability policy.
(2) clear liability. This is now settled by the court.
(3) good damages. Nothing beats a dead plaintiff except a sympathetic dead plaintiff that wasn't uneducated or black or gay or a drug user or a criminal. It sucks, but not every life is worth the same to a jury.
This case was missing the liability leg, but now that is in place and there is the potential for decent payday, depending on the assets of the business and/or its insurer.
Did anyone else notice the amicus brief filed by the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association? Do you think that they are trolling for more dead girls killed by stalkers? In some respects, this case is about the Benjamins.
I have nothing but sympathy for the family of the slain woman. My office does lots of family law, and I sometimes get worried not only about the clients, but the people in my office being targeted by some of these fucking wackos. One guy in my office gets letters regularly from someone who write things like "I know that one day you and your entire family will burn for eternity in a lake of fire for what you do."
On the other hand, private investigators serve a very useful function in locating people for process serving to initiate divorces and to collect child support. I have one working on finding a serial defrauder right now. I am not anxious for other state courts to adopt positions similar to the one adopted by New Hampshire.
FWIW, I am not sure of the New Hampshire rules regarding comparative or contributory negligence. I do not know what the joint and several liability rules are. Notably, the gunman was not sued, or at least the caption does not show this.
Youens knew where Amy lived, and he had been obsessed with her for years. It was just a matter of time.
This makes me wonder what the damages really were. Also, was tehre a PFA (protection from abuse, or NH's analogous procedure) in place? Did the killer simply ignore these? This case is interesting as a privacy issue, but also it serves as a warning to take bizarre, stalking-type behavior extremely seriously.
GF.
Many schools are having problems related to unauthorized downloads. Lehigh University is among these. Seventeen "cease and desist" orders. Seventeen! The university is cooperating the the RIAA and the MPAA in identifying the students involved.
GF.
6502 (still runs)
486-66
3 of the 486-100's (still in use as file servers, one in an old laptop)
Celeron 400 (my home machine)
Xeon 550 (in use on my "fun" linux server)
P-III 600 (in use as a development server)
P-II 333 (my desktop machine at work)
I have a couple more in my parts drawer -- an old P-75, a pile of 486's, and some other misc. junk.
That's about it, I think.
GF.
But what is the "selfish" object? The individual network administrator or some larger body, such as a college or business?
What is the gene, and what is the gene's machine?
In the Spock case, the Starfleet is the selfish body benefitting by the "altruism". Spock is merely an automaton carrying out the selfish wishes of the organization. If he is benefitting his "genes", then his death is immaterial. Look at cooperative family behaviors.
Of course there is no physical gene in Spock's case, but perhaps the idea of a Starfleet is the meme that survives because of Spock's behavior.
GF.
GF.
If the "altruistic" behavior results in a better network, then isn't there a benefit for the altruistic behavior? Doesn't it cease being altruistic if there is a benefit? Aaggh! I'm caught in another Prisoner's Dilemma with an uncertain number of moves!
Where's my Dawkins? (That's twice today I've thought of him).
GF.
It goes past Hiroshima and Nagasaki somewhat, but not tremendously far. Basically, you're looking at a history of nuclear physics, chemistry, and the Manhattan Project. The H-bomb stuff is almost a postscript, but a longish one.
This is a very interesting book, btw. If you set aside the atomic bomb issues, it would still be an interesting history of chemistry and physics. I learned a lot more than I expected to learn when I read it a couple fo years ago.
GF
Moderation is retarded. Welcome to /.
Strike that. Moderation is not retarded. It is a good idea. Unfortunately, the people doing the moderating are often retarded (or careless).
GF.
Moderation is retarded. Welcome to /.
GF
Telling someone not to look at something is the surest way to get them to look at it. Besides, at least goatse is funny. The funniest part is that someone took those awful goatse pictures as part of a series of photos that were evidently meant to be erotic.
In any case, I find things at AOL, MSN, and Yahoo to be just as offensive as goatse.
Basically, to all you goatse haters, get a sense of humor for fsck's sake. And for you moderators with no sense of humor, I have karma to burn. Give it to me baby.
GF
Most counties also maintain free law libraries that are open to the public. Even little unus equis county seats in PA like where I live.
gf.
First, just because Google has an application that doesn't require them to buy beaucoup processors does not mean that, suddenly, the chip world will grind to a halt. Lots of people need big processors, especially if their computing task does not lend itself to parallel processing methods.
Second, Google will not fix its servers in time. As processing power continually becomes cheaper, Google will end up buying 64 bit Itanium processors. Either that, or they will be using my old 550 mhx Xeon in ten years when I am using my new 128 ghz Pentium XVII.
"4 Ghz of processing power is enough for anybody."
-Google
GF.
Bowling balls occasionally were rolled down the Hill at Lehigh when I was there. I have no idea who was responsible for such an action, but those seen chasing the bowling balls to observe the action were known to be harassed by the gendarmes.
GF.
How does the FSF intend to deal with the issue of software patents, particularly in light of Caldera's recent demands?
GF.