But don't you understand? That's why Slashdot geeks love owning PDAs, MP3 players, and other geek gadgets: for the first time in their lives, something bulges in their pants.
And with a PDA-cellphone, they can sit in a singles' bar and feel at home by IM'ing in a chat room as a beefier guy with all his hair.
A new class of hated Slashdot readers: evil Karma Thieves who post an article as an Anonymous Coward, thus depriving all the good, honest, hard-working Karma Whores of their cheap-ass mod points.
I thought it was sluts who deprived hard-working whores of the fruits of their labours, because sluts do it for free.
So you mean Karma Sluts.
Of course, this is only a theory: as a Slashdotter, I an too shy to have ever talked to a slut, and even whores just laugh at me.
How much do you rely on the Internet for information? Since getting online 7 or 8 years ago, I have gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news and information, to the point where they've pretty much disappeared from my life.
Don't worry, the mainstream media reports the same things as teh Intarweb.
These days, every other story in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and on ABC News is either Microsoft bashing, or about SCO.
And every other byline writer opens his article with "I, for one, welcome our new [ARTICLE SUBJECT] overlords."
They may not be evil, but they may not be too smart either.
When I went to buy one of their albums, Magnatune wanted me to type my credit card number on a NON-SSL page. Naturally, my attempted purchase ended right there. $5 to Magnatune and $5000 to man-in-the-middle hacker is not cheap.
According to Magnatune's "forum", they plan to add SSL "in a few days". That this wasn't a higher priority makes me very worried; even if they do set up SSL, it suggests they might not be too careful with say, customer lists and credit card numbers.
And there doesn't appear to be way to search through the albums for sale.
Still, Magnatune's a step in the right direction.
Re:Yet another way to turn the nickle
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I personally own all 7 seasons on DVD.... I actually own both versions of LOTR dvd sets.... One interesting thing to try is playing all the episodes starting from the last one. Try it out sometime.
Wow, that's a lot of DVD media. But there's one thing you clearly don't have.
It is not available on DVD, has nothing to do with Borgs or Hobbits, and is called "a life". Get one soon.
As already mentioned by Mattcelt, an Archos (without or preferably with Rockbox software) will do it, and will record quite a bit, given that it's recording to a hard drive.
A Sharp Zaurus will also do it, recording to a CF or MMC card.
I've got both a Zaurus and An Archos, and will mention that the Zaurus internal microphone may not be superior to the Archos internal microphone, but the Archos internal will pick up the (intermittant) sounds of the hard drive spinning.
The Zaurus, of course, uses a Linux file system; the Archos with Rocbox a FAT32 filesystem. The Archos records to mp3; I've forgotten what the Zaurus records to. Both allow you to trade audio quality for file size, however.
The Zaurus allows one-touch recording in its defualt out-of-the-box configuration, which can be handy if you plan on surreptitious or spur-of-the-moment recording. However, it's also very easy to inadvertantly record, and find you've used up most of your RAM-disk doing so.
Also, like Mattcelt, I'm (pereferally) on the Rockbox team (or at least mentioned in the credits).
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - revolutionary personal transportation system/overpriced, underpowered gimmick the Segway Human Transporter was found dead at the Consumer Product Safety Commission this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't buy it or buy into the hype about it, there's no denying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H it's easy to deny its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - writer/Paris Review founder George Plimpton was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Thursday night. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Sure, but the advantage of the TIE fighter was always supposed to be its speed and maneuverability. That's also why they didn't shield it; without the extra mass and power consumption of a shield generator the TIE could accelerate more quickly.
Sure, on Slashdot you may see a lot of I Am Not A Lawyer posts full of misguided legal "advice", but if you need an expert on the fictional details of the fictional physics of fictional military craft, you can be sure you'll see a post!
And people say Slashdot comments aren't a useful resource!
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I was just listening to talk radio and heard that rock singer Robert Palmer has died of a heart attack at age 54. His suave image and slick videos helped define the MTV image in the 80's, and I'm sure he'll be missed by many music fans around the world.
Please, please. Get with the program! It's supposed to go like this:
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Brit Rock singer/composer Robert Palmer was found dead in Paris this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly a British icon.
But the format must follow the traditions of Slashdot:
start with "I just heard some sad news on talk radio"; "listening" doesn't scan corectly
follow with the 'no details' bit, even if there were details
then the 'contributions' sentence, qualified with the "even if you didn't enjoy" (possibly with "agree" substituting for "enjoy")
and ending with the "Truly a(n) _______ icon.
Just as a sonnet's not an Italian sonnet unless an eight line octet precedes a six line sestet, it's just not Slashdot poetry unless you follow the traditional format.
Well, when my girlfriend has her hand in my pocket.. one could argue that she is indeed getting something out of it. But really, I'm the one getting fondled.
Dude, you post to Slashdot. When your "girlfriend" has her hand in your pocket, she's going for your credit card.
To see how many more minutes you can afford on the "date".
Now: if you disagree, the very best thing to do is to tell your congressperson. They pass the laws that authorize the FTC to act;....
What??!!
You mean we shouldn't bother a judge who honestly applies the law -- even if he may not like the outcome --, and should instead ask our Congresspeople to get off their asses and do their jobs?
You mean, it's not the judge's fault that Congress prefers to only pass uncontroversial laws, while leaving the hard and unpopular decisions based on those laws to judges?
Why, you!!!
It shocks and exasperates me to see such a sober and insightful opinon on Slashdot! Please learn to post only knee-jerk opinions and "Beowulf Cluster jokes"; you're not up to our standards here!
I wish law enforcement had the resources to go after whomever is DDOSing these ant-spammers.
But I understand that, especially now during our war against terrorism, law enforcement must prioritize, and go after bigger threats to our well-being.
If these anti-spammers were serious, they'd do the right thing and incorporate as for-profit companies and make the campaign contributions that would purchase them real police protection. That they haven't makes it clear to me that they have no reason to expect law enforcement to take them seriously.
It says "to or from", so I'm guessing the recipient mailbox (where the user retrieved the mail) or the originator must be in California.
What's a recipient mailbox?
No, seriously, consider my case: I don't live in California, but my domain is hosted by a company located in California. Presumably they're incorporated in California too, but I don't know this for a certainty.
Email to addresses @ my domain hits their servers, and I POP3 up to their servers to collect it.
So is the recipient mailbox in California, or in my apartment (which is not in California)?
What about when I use their web interface to read my mail? Is that different? Does that "leave" it in California? What about when I read mail over the web interface and subsequently download it vai POP3?
In other news, SCO's Darl McBride plans to rush the stage during the presentation, grab the Pender award, and bill UPenn, Dennis Ritchie, and Kenneth Thompson $699 each before running off with the award.
McBride will then issue a press release claiming that the award was always his, but Ritchie and Thompson copied his citation for the award and scratched his named out, inserting theirs. The press release will explain that the original citation is "double secret", but can be revealed to anyone willing sign an NDA and read it in a Greek font.
The next morning, McBride will attempt to dump the award on Wall Street for 2000% of its appraised value.
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As long as it doesn't bulge my suit pocket
But don't you understand? That's why Slashdot geeks love owning PDAs, MP3 players, and other geek gadgets: for the first time in their lives, something bulges in their pants.
And with a PDA-cellphone, they can sit in a singles' bar and feel at home by IM'ing in a chat room as a beefier guy with all his hair.
A new class of hated Slashdot readers: evil Karma Thieves who post an article as an Anonymous Coward, thus depriving all the good, honest, hard-working Karma Whores of their cheap-ass mod points.
I thought it was sluts who deprived hard-working whores of the fruits of their labours, because sluts do it for free.
So you mean Karma Sluts.
Of course, this is only a theory: as a Slashdotter, I an too shy to have ever talked to a slut, and even whores just laugh at me.
Why do such obvious karma whores continue to get modded up?
Perhaps because the original article was in <FONT name="Eight-point Eyestrain">?
I suppose it "looks better" to some web "designer", but it's practically impossible to read at a resolution higher than 640x480.
How much do you rely on the Internet for information? Since getting online 7 or 8 years ago, I have gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news and information, to the point where they've pretty much disappeared from my life.
Don't worry, the mainstream media reports the same things as teh Intarweb.
These days, every other story in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and on ABC News is either Microsoft bashing, or about SCO.
And every other byline writer opens his article with "I, for one, welcome our new [ARTICLE SUBJECT] overlords."
I recently purchased textbooks for the current semester in college only to end up with an empty wallet and a sore back.
A sore back? Um, how exactly are you making money for college again?
They may not be evil, but they may not be too smart either.
When I went to buy one of their albums, Magnatune wanted me to type my credit card number on a NON-SSL page. Naturally, my attempted purchase ended right there. $5 to Magnatune and $5000 to man-in-the-middle hacker is not cheap.
According to Magnatune's "forum", they plan to add SSL "in a few days". That this wasn't a higher priority makes me very worried; even if they do set up SSL, it suggests they might not be too careful with say, customer lists and credit card numbers.
And there doesn't appear to be way to search through the albums for sale.
Still, Magnatune's a step in the right direction.
I personally own all 7 seasons on DVD....
I actually own both versions of LOTR dvd sets....
One interesting thing to try is playing all the episodes starting from the last one. Try it out sometime.
Wow, that's a lot of DVD media. But there's one thing you clearly don't have.
It is not available on DVD, has nothing to do with Borgs or Hobbits, and is called "a life". Get one soon.
As already mentioned by Mattcelt, an Archos (without or preferably with Rockbox software) will do it, and will record quite a bit, given that it's recording to a hard drive.
A Sharp Zaurus will also do it, recording to a CF or MMC card.
I've got both a Zaurus and An Archos, and will mention that the Zaurus internal microphone may not be superior to the Archos internal microphone, but the Archos internal will pick up the (intermittant) sounds of the hard drive spinning.
The Zaurus, of course, uses a Linux file system; the Archos with Rocbox a FAT32 filesystem. The Archos records to mp3; I've forgotten what the Zaurus records to. Both allow you to trade audio quality for file size, however.
The Zaurus allows one-touch recording in its defualt out-of-the-box configuration, which can be handy if you plan on surreptitious or spur-of-the-moment recording. However, it's also very easy to inadvertantly record, and find you've used up most of your RAM-disk doing so.
Also, like Mattcelt, I'm (pereferally) on the Rockbox team (or at least mentioned in the credits).
For a moment, I thought they were referring to a human teleporter..
....
Yeah, well, it seems flies can get into the transporter and
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - revolutionary personal transportation system/overpriced, underpowered gimmick the Segway Human Transporter was found dead at the Consumer Product Safety Commission this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't buy it or buy into the hype about it, there's no denying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H it's easy to deny its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - writer/Paris Review founder George Plimpton was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Thursday night. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Sure, but the advantage of the TIE fighter was always supposed to be its speed and maneuverability. That's also why they didn't shield it; without the extra mass and power consumption of a shield generator the TIE could accelerate more quickly.
Sure, on Slashdot you may see a lot of I Am Not A Lawyer posts full of misguided legal "advice", but if you need an expert on the fictional details of the fictional physics of fictional military craft, you can be sure you'll see a post!
And people say Slashdot comments aren't a useful resource!
Please, please. Get with the program! It's supposed to go like this:
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Brit Rock singer/composer Robert Palmer was found dead in Paris this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly a British icon.
Here's an example; here's another; and this is a third. I suppose you can paraphrase a little, as in this example.
But the format must follow the traditions of Slashdot:
Just as a sonnet's not an Italian sonnet unless an eight line octet precedes a six line sestet, it's just not Slashdot poetry unless you follow the traditional format.
1) Big window overlooking moutain range or lake ....
7) Glass window to see who is knocking at the door
8) Toothless but hot hooker under desk.
Becuase, hey, for some of us, playing first-person-shooter games over the LAN just isn't the tension-releaser it's claimed to be.
I have full-spectrum lighting, dude!
I can see light in 256 * 256 * 256 colors from my monitor, and that's the only light here in my mom's basement.
MyDoritos, Ding-Dongs, and Mountain Dew look great in this light.
Why would I need anything more?
I mean, except, I hope my mom will clean up down here in the basement soon.
it looks like it's time for a simplier and more efficient ways
And it looks like it's time for a simplier and more efficient way to spell-check submitted articles.
Well, when my girlfriend has her hand in my pocket.. one could argue that she is indeed getting something out of it. But really, I'm the one getting fondled.
Dude, you post to Slashdot. When your "girlfriend" has her hand in your pocket, she's going for your credit card.
To see how many more minutes you can afford on the "date".
Now: if you disagree, the very best thing to do is to tell your congressperson. They pass the laws that authorize the FTC to act;....
What??!!
You mean we shouldn't bother a judge who honestly applies the law -- even if he may not like the outcome --, and should instead ask our Congresspeople to get off their asses and do their jobs?
You mean, it's not the judge's fault that Congress prefers to only pass uncontroversial laws, while leaving the hard and unpopular decisions based on those laws to judges?
Why, you!!!
It shocks and exasperates me to see such a sober and insightful opinon on Slashdot! Please learn to post only knee-jerk opinions and "Beowulf Cluster jokes"; you're not up to our standards here!
Fuck you, bastard. I was born and raised here and have shit things out smarter than you. ....
Just because we don't have smog, incessant traffic, extremely dense population, and 30% higher retail prices DOESN'T mean we're backwards.
Apparently, along with smog, traffic, high population density, and high prices, Oklahomans also lack a sense of humor.
(Maybe it's because Will Rogers is gone?)
I wish law enforcement had the resources to go after whomever is DDOSing these ant-spammers.
But I understand that, especially now during our war against terrorism, law enforcement must prioritize, and go after bigger threats to our well-being.
I applaud John Ashcroft for realizing this, and using our scarce law enforcement resources to attack the real threats: Tommy Chong, the bong seller, and porn that personally offends him.
If these anti-spammers were serious, they'd do the right thing and incorporate as for-profit companies and make the campaign contributions that would purchase them real police protection. That they haven't makes it clear to me that they have no reason to expect law enforcement to take them seriously.
the biggest thing next to yahoo and slashdot combined with sex.com
Please, please, please never suggest slashdot combined with sex.com again.
The vision that flashed in my head when I read it made me what to flush my eyes with acid while destroying my occipital lobe with a baseball bat.
And I don't think I'll be able to keep down food for a week.
It says "to or from", so I'm guessing the recipient mailbox (where the user retrieved the mail) or the originator must be in California.
:) )
What's a recipient mailbox?
No, seriously, consider my case: I don't live in California, but my domain is hosted by a company located in California. Presumably they're incorporated in California too, but I don't know this for a certainty.
Email to addresses @ my domain hits their servers, and I POP3 up to their servers to collect it.
So is the recipient mailbox in California, or in my apartment (which is not in California)?
What about when I use their web interface to read my mail? Is that different? Does that "leave" it in California? What about when I read mail over the web interface and subsequently download it vai POP3?
(I duck while expecting lots of IANAL replies
It's a great idea but the heuristics need work:
"Your search for money grubbing scumbags near Lindon, UT did not match any documents within 15 miles."
That's because your spelling is wrong: it's
money grubbing SCOumbags
before some gammar nazi points it out, yes i made a goof. That last sentence should be "Like when their work doesn't get done...
You made an error. Your last sentence should have been, " As when their work doesn't get done."
Please report for flogging immediately.
In other news, SCO's Darl McBride plans to rush the stage during the presentation, grab the Pender award, and bill UPenn, Dennis Ritchie, and Kenneth Thompson $699 each before running off with the award.
McBride will then issue a press release claiming that the award was always his, but Ritchie and Thompson copied his citation for the award and scratched his named out, inserting theirs. The press release will explain that the original citation is "double secret", but can be revealed to anyone willing sign an NDA and read it in a Greek font.
The next morning, McBride will attempt to dump the award on Wall Street for 2000% of its appraised value.