Don't forget "and can be held legally accountable for the lack to do so."
Agreed. The last few times police have been taken to court for screwing up (like not showing up to protect a woman after a 911 call complaining about that rapist at the door).
According to the Supreme Court, police are NOT responsible for our personal safety. If they don't show up to a 911 call and someone get's killed or raped or whatever then it's not their fault. Even though we're paying them through taxes. I was stunned to read this ruling.
I've had many heated debates with my family and friends on this subject. Some really good ones and I'm not saying the anti gun camp doesn't have good arguments. They simply can't figure out what to do with this environment we all live in to ensure we're protected by the Government from the Government and it's public servants.
Hi. Like the man said, 'from my cold dead hands.' Guns aren't just for the military, cops, and gang-bangers -- we have 'em to make sure that our government doesn't herd us into cattle-cars, and send us off to the thermal depolymerizor en masse. We've already got Extrordinary Rendition, what's after that?
I have '666' in my NRA membership number
I agree. What I'm curious is what Idiot would think we need to put an Ammendment into the Constitution to make sure our Military had guns??? The second Ammendment was put into our Constitution to make sure the people could protect themselves from a Government who is hell bent on shafting the people again. Hell... If I remember correctly there was a discussion in the Federalist Papers stating it was so the people would be empowered to remove the Government should it become necessary. I'll have to look up that reference again. it's been some time since I've read the darn thing.
Yea I know that sounds AntiGovernment or something. It's not. It's Pro People. The Government is for providing a structure for us to prosper.
Pretty sure the Department of Justice is condoning torture and crimes against humanity now. Not exactly the most credible source of opinion on such things.
Interestingly enough is those people they are committing crimes against humanity don't own a gun so they can't defend themselves. Yea Yea I know. Some of them were bad people WITH guns. Most OTOH are not involved and we're IMO in the wrong. If they all had guns they wouldn't have been as easily taken.
Personally I think it's a bunch of B.S. that this is back up again. As I recall, Hitler first started forcing people to register their guns before he forced them to give up their weapons. We all know what happened next.
Until the Police and Government are made responsible for my personal safety and can be relied on I'm keeping my weapons.
BTW, Not a troll. I'm simply stating my personal opinion on the matter.
What the government is probably trying to do here is gather any data the airline captures and see if there are any trends.
After some time, there may be a trend that terrorists always get the $5 snack pack with orange soda. Hey, you don't know.
The sad thing is our Government is so paranoid to the point that we don't need no stinking terrorists to destroy our country. We're already doing it to ourselves in the name of saving ourselves from the "bad guys".
The terrorists are winning because our Government is afraid.
Please don't take this wrong but I'm tired of hearing about this over and over again. So if SCO can't make any headway with Linux infringing and if Microsoft can't then will people simply stop this crap and allow us to do our job? This constant harasment is annoying and should be shutdown. After all these years I'm thinking there isn't anything to this crap.
After awhile I'd say let the naysayers put their money where their mouth is or simply stop harasing us.
What if Linux infringes? What if it doesn't? BTW, Microsoft is famous for stealing someone elses code then paying later when they are caught. How do we know they haven't stolen Linux code for XP or Vista? There are two sides to this argument.
Well, Slashdot, you've done it. After all the stories of insecure voting machines, I opted for a paper ballot. I sat in the corner with the old folks who shun technology, but at least I know where my vote went.
Perhaps if you could "fingerprint" every millisecond of video with a unique identifier which could be checked against a copyright database then that would change but I don't think there is any such system in place today.
This sounds reasonable enough. I've run into problems in the past and have asked if the copyright holder had any idea how "I" should just know it's not something you can freely distribute. Something like this sounds like it would help me at least determine if it's ok or not.
BTW, the copyright owner would mention I could use a search engine to determine if something is copyrighted or not. So if I don't have the legit name of the work and there is no fingerprint.... thus the problem. It's been frustrating for everyone.
some copyright holders have expressed irritation at the notion that they need to police YouTube themselves
And exactly whose job should that be?
Exactly. If the copyright holders aren't doing this then how on earth will we know? I've run into this problem before. No problem in removing it. But how do we know? I can google for it but it's not like they have everything in their system (not yet at least).
Unfortunately the *AAs could not care less if you watch/listen to their products. All they care about is that you *buy* their product.
Makes sense. But then after people get burned (again) they will stop buying their product and the *AA's get to bitch about P2P causing the drop in revenue. A self fulfilling prophecy basically.
Take this break in the JonBenet Ramsey case -- turns out it wasn't the parents, but some nut-job ex-teacher. But back 10 years ago, they were hounded by the media and public opinion was decidedly against them. True, they didn't make themselves look good, but the fact is people were browbeating them, hoping they'd confess.
It's weird almost. You would think people wouldn't act this way but it happens more often than not. For example, a few months ago I learned that someone was using a handle I typically use when playing Team Fortress or Counter Strike Source. I found one such instance on Yahoo for example. After a little digging I learned they were leaking information about me in some chat rooms. Some was true and other's were plain fabrications (thinking it was a personal grudge against me but who knows). So how the heck do you protect yourself against junk like that? And what's worse is this stuff happened like 8 years ago!!!
When it comes to information online, it's about as useful as reading the public restroom walls. Don't misunderstand. There are reputable sites in which you can learn about people and events. But even they get it wrong at times which doesn't say much about the less reputable sites.
Not the U.S. I think we made it adequately clear that our DHS doesn't exist to improve homeland security, rather just to scare the citizenry.
Much of it reminds me of Season 3 of Babylon 5. With groups like Nightwatch and the Ministery of Peace. It's very weird watching those episodes these days. I just hope we don't hire someone like President Clark. Scorched Earth doesn't sound all that great (end of Season 4 was intense).
Cruz said that when he heard a commotion, he walked out of his back door with his cell phone to see what was happening. He said that when he saw the street lined with police cars, he decided to take a picture of the scene.
Cruz said he got the shock of his life when an officer came to his back yard gate.
It's been argued in the press for years that in public, "We the People" don't have any reasonable expectation to privacy in public area's. This is about a public area as it get's. And he was taking the picture from his back yard. A private area.
"'Social networking sites, best known by the popular examples of MySpace, Friendster and Facebook, have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years,' said Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican and one of DOPA's original sponsors. Now, he added, those Web sites 'have become a haven for online sexual predators who have made these corners of the Web their own virtual hunting ground.'"
Now that it's well on it's way to becoming illegal, will we go after other social environments such as bars or clubs? They after all have predators there in their own live hunting ground.
Do you mean whether it will require DRM? All the current portable media players will play non-DRM media in some format or another, so I don't really understand the issue.
I was not aware of that. I had understood the iPOD would only play DRM iTunes music.
If you are against the player even supporting DRM, then you'll probably have a problem with this one too because I doubt Microsoft would sell a player that doesn't support DRM at all
The Creative Labs MP3 Player never mentioned whether it supported DRM at all. I'll check again but I don't recall seeing anything about it when I was checking out the product. It's very convenient being able to rip my own CD's and play them when I'm in the car. Now I can archive the originals in a safe place and not worry about damaging them.
Any word whether they will remove/support DRM on their player?
Personally I don't care for Microsoft... period. I'd consider their solution only if it was without DRM and easier to use than the Creative labs MP3 players I currently use.
I will be royally pissed if I received one of these messages after spending hundreds of dollars on a software product.
Wouldn't this also translate into a class action lawsuit? It was my understanding the company would be liable up to the purchase price according to the EULA.
Shutting down a customers Windows computer would be a brassy thing for them to do. It might not move home users to another OS however corporations would seriously consider it. At least sending people for training and evaluating this move. My last company had me spend several months setting up a dozen computers with a variety of linux distro's to try. People would sit down with their work and evaluate the environment against number of criteria.
Don't know what ever happened to that program. I had an awesome job offer come along and left months ago. I doubt the program was abandoned as the CIO was very serious about moving to another OS.
5 minutes before a child is born, it's a human being but it's still legal to abort it.
You fail to mention that it's only legal when the health of the woman is at stake. Take your strawman and go home. The vast majority of abortions involve a blob of cells.
Oh I don't know. I can name a few walking blob of cells who I think still need to be aborted to save the health of the gene pool:-)
"Western Union told me that if I send money to Sahir Mohammed, the money will be blocked because of his name,"
I'm not muslim nor is my name anything similar to Mohammed or anything. I've bumped against this recently. After taking out a home loan with one leader we decided it would be easier to have the money in our local bank when making payouts for home improvements. Boy were we wrong. It took nearly two weeks before the dust settled. We ended up calling our bank to find out the problem.
We were told it's standard procedure to investigate the money flow when they see "unusual" patterns (such as a large deposit of cash). Eventually they figured out we weren't terrorists and our contractor would like to get paid like anyone else.
He paused for a couple of seconds, then he picked up the printer and threw it at me. I dodged and it hit the wall and more or less exploded. He then walked calmly out of the store and we never saw him again.
if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you mind being watched?
This is why I feel the Government should be very careful with this line of thought. I turn it right back on them. If the Government isn't doing anything wrong then why should they mind us watching them.
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Don't forget "and can be held legally accountable for the lack to do so."
Agreed. The last few times police have been taken to court for screwing up (like not showing up to protect a woman after a 911 call complaining about that rapist at the door).
According to the Supreme Court, police are NOT responsible for our personal safety. If they don't show up to a 911 call and someone get's killed or raped or whatever then it's not their fault. Even though we're paying them through taxes. I was stunned to read this ruling.
I've had many heated debates with my family and friends on this subject. Some really good ones and I'm not saying the anti gun camp doesn't have good arguments. They simply can't figure out what to do with this environment we all live in to ensure we're protected by the Government from the Government and it's public servants.
Hi. Like the man said, 'from my cold dead hands.' Guns aren't just for the military, cops, and gang-bangers -- we have 'em to make sure that our government doesn't herd us into cattle-cars, and send us off to the thermal depolymerizor en masse. We've already got Extrordinary Rendition, what's after that?
I have '666' in my NRA membership number
I agree. What I'm curious is what Idiot would think we need to put an Ammendment into the Constitution to make sure our Military had guns??? The second Ammendment was put into our Constitution to make sure the people could protect themselves from a Government who is hell bent on shafting the people again. Hell... If I remember correctly there was a discussion in the Federalist Papers stating it was so the people would be empowered to remove the Government should it become necessary. I'll have to look up that reference again. it's been some time since I've read the darn thing.
Yea I know that sounds AntiGovernment or something. It's not. It's Pro People. The Government is for providing a structure for us to prosper.
Pretty sure the Department of Justice is condoning torture and crimes against humanity now. Not exactly the most credible source of opinion on such things.
Interestingly enough is those people they are committing crimes against humanity don't own a gun so they can't defend themselves. Yea Yea I know. Some of them were bad people WITH guns. Most OTOH are not involved and we're IMO in the wrong. If they all had guns they wouldn't have been as easily taken.
Personally I think it's a bunch of B.S. that this is back up again. As I recall, Hitler first started forcing people to register their guns before he forced them to give up their weapons. We all know what happened next.
Until the Police and Government are made responsible for my personal safety and can be relied on I'm keeping my weapons.
BTW, Not a troll. I'm simply stating my personal opinion on the matter.
"I didn't know that I was downloading copyrighted files. Their software should have prevented it."
:-)
She should have said she used to download movies but doesn't anymore. Also that her family sternly spoke to her about doing something like this.
She will be honest in the future
What the government is probably trying to do here is gather any data the airline captures and see if there are any trends.
After some time, there may be a trend that terrorists always get the $5 snack pack with orange soda. Hey, you don't know.
The sad thing is our Government is so paranoid to the point that we don't need no stinking terrorists to destroy our country. We're already doing it to ourselves in the name of saving ourselves from the "bad guys".
The terrorists are winning because our Government is afraid.
So What If Linux Infringes On Microsoft IP?
Please don't take this wrong but I'm tired of hearing about this over and over again. So if SCO can't make any headway with Linux infringing and if Microsoft can't then will people simply stop this crap and allow us to do our job? This constant harasment is annoying and should be shutdown. After all these years I'm thinking there isn't anything to this crap.
After awhile I'd say let the naysayers put their money where their mouth is or simply stop harasing us.
What if Linux infringes? What if it doesn't? BTW, Microsoft is famous for stealing someone elses code then paying later when they are caught. How do we know they haven't stolen Linux code for XP or Vista? There are two sides to this argument.
Well, Slashdot, you've done it. After all the stories of insecure voting machines, I opted for a paper ballot. I sat in the corner with the old folks who shun technology, but at least I know where my vote went.
Dare I say it? Florida?
Perhaps if you could "fingerprint" every millisecond of video with a unique identifier which could be checked against a copyright database then that would change but I don't think there is any such system in place today.
.... thus the problem. It's been frustrating for everyone.
This sounds reasonable enough. I've run into problems in the past and have asked if the copyright holder had any idea how "I" should just know it's not something you can freely distribute. Something like this sounds like it would help me at least determine if it's ok or not.
BTW, the copyright owner would mention I could use a search engine to determine if something is copyrighted or not. So if I don't have the legit name of the work and there is no fingerprint
some copyright holders have expressed irritation at the notion that they need to police YouTube themselves
And exactly whose job should that be?
Exactly. If the copyright holders aren't doing this then how on earth will we know? I've run into this problem before. No problem in removing it. But how do we know? I can google for it but it's not like they have everything in their system (not yet at least).
Unfortunately the *AAs could not care less if you watch/listen to their products. All they care about is that you *buy* their product.
Makes sense. But then after people get burned (again) they will stop buying their product and the *AA's get to bitch about P2P causing the drop in revenue. A self fulfilling prophecy basically.
Congratulations, you've just been added to the terrorist suspect list ;-)
:-)
;-)
Awww, it's not that hard to get on. All you have to do it write "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a plastic bag and bam. You're on the list
Welcome to the club
(note to self... must start selling "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" T-Shirts and profit!)
Hey, remember back in the '90s, when you thought vinyl was dead? Well, we're selling just as many now as we did then!
;-)
I'm waiting for the comment here that BSD is dead... again
Take this break in the JonBenet Ramsey case -- turns out it wasn't the parents, but some nut-job ex-teacher. But back 10 years ago, they were hounded by the media and public opinion was decidedly against them. True, they didn't make themselves look good, but the fact is people were browbeating them, hoping they'd confess.
It's weird almost. You would think people wouldn't act this way but it happens more often than not. For example, a few months ago I learned that someone was using a handle I typically use when playing Team Fortress or Counter Strike Source. I found one such instance on Yahoo for example. After a little digging I learned they were leaking information about me in some chat rooms. Some was true and other's were plain fabrications (thinking it was a personal grudge against me but who knows). So how the heck do you protect yourself against junk like that? And what's worse is this stuff happened like 8 years ago!!!
When it comes to information online, it's about as useful as reading the public restroom walls. Don't misunderstand. There are reputable sites in which you can learn about people and events. But even they get it wrong at times which doesn't say much about the less reputable sites.
Not the U.S. I think we made it adequately clear that our DHS doesn't exist to improve homeland security, rather just to scare the citizenry.
Much of it reminds me of Season 3 of Babylon 5. With groups like Nightwatch and the Ministery of Peace. It's very weird watching those episodes these days. I just hope we don't hire someone like President Clark. Scorched Earth doesn't sound all that great (end of Season 4 was intense).
Cruz said that when he heard a commotion, he walked out of his back door with his cell phone to see what was happening. He said that when he saw the street lined with police cars, he decided to take a picture of the scene.
Cruz said he got the shock of his life when an officer came to his back yard gate.
It's been argued in the press for years that in public, "We the People" don't have any reasonable expectation to privacy in public area's. This is about a public area as it get's. And he was taking the picture from his back yard. A private area.
This should get very interesting.
Ok. the guy who wrote that page isn't a sysadmin. I mean come on. Pizza is a staple of the SysAdmin :-)
"'Social networking sites, best known by the popular examples of MySpace, Friendster and Facebook, have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years,' said Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican and one of DOPA's original sponsors. Now, he added, those Web sites 'have become a haven for online sexual predators who have made these corners of the Web their own virtual hunting ground.'"
Now that it's well on it's way to becoming illegal, will we go after other social environments such as bars or clubs? They after all have predators there in their own live hunting ground.
I'm serious. Where do we draw the line?
Do you mean whether it will require DRM? All the current portable media players will play non-DRM media in some format or another, so I don't really understand the issue.
I was not aware of that. I had understood the iPOD would only play DRM iTunes music.
If you are against the player even supporting DRM, then you'll probably have a problem with this one too because I doubt Microsoft would sell a player that doesn't support DRM at all
The Creative Labs MP3 Player never mentioned whether it supported DRM at all. I'll check again but I don't recall seeing anything about it when I was checking out the product. It's very convenient being able to rip my own CD's and play them when I'm in the car. Now I can archive the originals in a safe place and not worry about damaging them.
Any word whether they will remove/support DRM on their player?
Personally I don't care for Microsoft... period. I'd consider their solution only if it was without DRM and easier to use than the Creative labs MP3 players I currently use.
I will be royally pissed if I received one of these messages after spending hundreds of dollars on a software product.
Wouldn't this also translate into a class action lawsuit? It was my understanding the company would be liable up to the purchase price according to the EULA.
Shutting down a customers Windows computer would be a brassy thing for them to do. It might not move home users to another OS however corporations would seriously consider it. At least sending people for training and evaluating this move. My last company had me spend several months setting up a dozen computers with a variety of linux distro's to try. People would sit down with their work and evaluate the environment against number of criteria.
Don't know what ever happened to that program. I had an awesome job offer come along and left months ago. I doubt the program was abandoned as the CIO was very serious about moving to another OS.
5 minutes before a child is born, it's a human being but it's still legal to abort it.
:-)
You fail to mention that it's only legal when the health of the woman is at stake. Take your strawman and go home. The vast majority of abortions involve a blob of cells.
Oh I don't know. I can name a few walking blob of cells who I think still need to be aborted to save the health of the gene pool
"Western Union told me that if I send money to Sahir Mohammed, the money will be blocked because of his name,"
I'm not muslim nor is my name anything similar to Mohammed or anything. I've bumped against this recently. After taking out a home loan with one leader we decided it would be easier to have the money in our local bank when making payouts for home improvements. Boy were we wrong. It took nearly two weeks before the dust settled. We ended up calling our bank to find out the problem.
We were told it's standard procedure to investigate the money flow when they see "unusual" patterns (such as a large deposit of cash). Eventually they figured out we weren't terrorists and our contractor would like to get paid like anyone else.
He paused for a couple of seconds, then he picked up the printer and threw it at me. I dodged and it hit the wall and more or less exploded. He then walked calmly out of the store and we never saw him again.
:-)
Was it something you said?
Google Sue(tm) will be in BETA for at least there years.
At least it will be in beta shorter than SCO Sue(tm).
straight out of 1984.
if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you mind being watched?
This is why I feel the Government should be very careful with this line of thought. I turn it right back on them. If the Government isn't doing anything wrong then why should they mind us watching them.
Democracy in action.