Do it often enough and they'll bump it to a reckless charge. In some states, after X traffic violations (including parking tickets), you automatically get charged with careless driving.
It's kind of at their discretion, it's a weird setup.
At any time a prosecuter could (successfully) argue that anyone who drives 70 in a 65 zone is showing a reckless disregard for everyone else on the road, and thus deserves to be locked up.
Now say, the DA and local cops figure you for a drug dealer, but have no case against you... Now you're caught speeding, if they want you bad enough, they'll get you.
Cops regularly use traffic regulations to get around due process and your right not to be searched. I know this for a fact, since I write records and dispatching software for police, and work closely with them every day.
It's like this. Without probable cause, a cop has no right to search your vehicle. He can look in the windows for things in plain sight, but that's it.
Now, all the cop has to do is say he was worried that the rust spot on the back of your car. After all, your exhaust could be leaking into the passenger cabin. Now, for your safety, he's going to have to force you to open your trunk so he can check for leaks. And if they should happen to find a bag of weed in the trunk, well that was in plain sight.
Or you return home to find your front door torn from it's hinges and the house full of cops. Gee whiz, they heard your dog whining in it's kennel and figured someone was calling for help! They don't need a warrant to save lives. The figured someone might be in danger inside your sofa cushions, that's why they split them open and turned them inside out.
They do this all the time, it's not random, they usually have a target - ie; they KNOW the guy has the weed in his trunk or basement.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah. You can do time for speeding, if you're really on the cops/DA's "bad side".
When the Internet was created nobody envisioned that the killer app (application) would be e-mail or instant messaging
Huh? The Internet was created explicitly *FOR* e-mail and instant messaging, even if they weren't called that at the time.
I'm sure the media would have you believe it was created to make it easier for consumers to buy goods and services from the comfort of their own home, but from its very first days, it was a means for communication and nothing more.
30% of nothing. They figure it could in theory get 30% efficiency, just as soon as *INSERT BREAKTHROUGH IN CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL SCIENCE HERE* happens.
This sounds just like every other moon-man technology of the future. Hydrogen will revolutionize our economy! (Just as soon as we figure out how to collect and store it) A space elevator will mean cheap orbital trips, space tourism, extraplanetary mining, a trip to mars- all we need to do is invent the material we need to build it out of.
Bah.
They put metal in some paint and noticed it releases electrons when exposed to light.
It's called the photoelectric effect and it happens with all metals, and Einstein won a nobel prize for explaining it 100 years ago.
They're pushing hard for "three strikes" laws, and at the federal level.
This is really bad, because it takes away the one power a judge really has - the power to look at the merits of a case and decide an appropriate sentence.
But, I read a story of some guy who was charged with disturbing the peace (he cussed out some kid working at a movie theater), and as his "third strike", he's now a lifer. His original two charges were nothing major, a couple assault charges that could probably be chalked up to drunken assholery.
The bitch of it is, we all have to pay for all these convicts.
They call it the Department of Corrections, which is pure political bullshit. They've never corrected anything.
It's necessary to remove violent offenders from society for societies safety, but repeat offenses are high. Being in prison doesn't "teach" or "fix" or correct the problem.
Yet in America, we've set the system up so that virtually every last citizen belongs behind bars under the law.
We can start jailing kids for running kazaa, and it won't solve the problem.
It'll just increase the tax burden for the handful of people who manage to not get caught.
Everyone has done one of the following: tried drugs, infringed a copyright, exceeded the speed limit, drank alcohol underage, bought a violent video game for someone under 18, etc...
Why don't we just run razor wire along the coasts and borders, and declare everyone incarcerated?
Yes, the caste system is very much ingrained in many eastern cultures, even if it's not a matter of law.
It still is in the west, to a point. People tend to think someone who graduated from Harvard is "better" than a guy who graduated from local community college, even though they both studied the exact same things.
It's definately a measure of social status. If your father was a PhD, for you to be anything less is an insult to the family name.
At least 3 years of my 4 year degree were useless to me in any practical sense, I didn't learn anything new. I was just there to jump through the hoops and get a piece of paper.
I got pretty fed up with the whole University scene, and didn't even consider a masters. It won't do me any good.
Any employer *worth working for* is going to care about what you can do on the job, and not much else.
All of which have no problem being distributed through their website.
Why would I want to go through all this P2P hassle to download a 500K strongbad flash cartoon?
Besides, all of the above is just as copyrighted as anything else, and is not free for you to use on your private "Tv station" just because you found it on the 'web.
Let's see YOU create 24 hrs worth of content worth listening to or watching.
Now that I can tightly link my business and marketing with a new semantic oriented paradigm shift that's horizontally compatible with my vertical integration, I can finally think outside the box and my dynamicism will be prolific!
There's plenty of entertainment produced this way.
It's not from Hollywood, so you won't see it on Entertainment Tonight or the E! Channel, and it won't be picked up by your local Fox affiliate, but it's out there on the 'net.
Every year thousands of film students graduate, and they create plenty of good indy films, full length and shorts. They're generally mocked by the public at large as artsy-fartsy nonsense, but there are plenty of good ones.
The Blair Witch project is a good example of a student project that made it in the "real world".
South Park is another good example. Years before the show, there was the "Spirit of Christmas" short. For every show that lives on or gets picked up like South Park, there thousands that dont.
Then there's internet-only stuff like Homestar Runner, and millions of other flash based toons.
There's a ton of "free" entertainment online, you have to find it yourself, since there's no billion dollar marketing engine behind it.
Is this the protocol posted on/. a few weeks ago, that was like bittorrent, but let you transfer thing sequentially, so you could watch/seek in movies as they're transferring?
As for revolutionizing the world, I think TFA is getting ahead of itself. I don't care about Jimbo Q Nobody's online diary (I don't use the b word because it sounds retarded), and I can safely say I don't care to listen to his CD collection.
Too bad copyright law WRT radio and television broadcasts is such a mess. How cool would it be if every online TiVo was/had a P2P client? Forgot to tape Simpsons? Download it from the tivo-net.
Oh well, fuckit. Peercasting is DOA, there's no worthwhile content.
It may be wiser to get a single 6600GT now and SLI later
No! No! If you plan to SLI, buy two matching cards now. You'll pull your hair out trying to find the exact same model and revision to match the one you already have.
Same goes for multiple CPUs or dual channel RAM. Buy a matching set now, or you're in for a headache down the road.
PC Video cards have reached the point where, unless you're an "enthusiast" who likes to spend money, you don't need to spend more than 150-200 bucks.
Nowadays the race is who can run Doom 3 at 1600x1200 at 70 vs 72 FPS. If you consider the average home PC with a 17" monitor that can't even display 1600x1200, and most gaming is done at 1024x768 or 800x600, it seems kind of pointless.
I generally play at 1024x768, and all these new uber-cards really offer me nothing new over my Radeon 9800, and don't seem to be planning anything new for the next while. They're just ramping up the speed, but I haven't seen any landmark gee-whiz features (true steps forward like hardware T&L, programmable pixel shaders) being added.
Why would I want a dll stub left over in the windows directory?
It's like having spider eggs waiting to attach, one day some web app or whatnot calls some obscure function in that dll and my box is owned again.
At the least, it's cruft on my drive I don't want.
I want my anti-spyware tool to remove all of it, all registry entries, every trace of it. And while I'm on it, I want uninstallers to do so to. I'm sick of uninstallers leaving behind empty folders and.ini files and whatnot.
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and just see which fills up first.
That's all I have to say about it.
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Of course, if you don't already have an iPod, it would seem an Archos box would make the wiser investment, since you can basically do what you want with it, rather than be limited to certain "allowed" formats.
You can get a portable DVD player designed for kids for about 100 bucks, though. We got our youngest one for christmas. It's not a sexy geek device, the battery is an old NiCad and weighs a ton, and only lasts 4 hours or so. But it works great, and it reads DVD-Rs and VCDs.
80 bucks for the player and pennies per blank disc, and you stay just as sane on a long car trip as with the 500 dollar iPod + 300 dollar "peripheral" (just guessing at what they'd charge, but that sounds right for what is essentially a self-contained media player and usb host, minus the hard drive).
If you have an autorun.inf file on the media, Windows (if configured to do so) will read it and do what it says.
I know it works with removable USB hard drives, we have various demos setup on usb drives, so all our dopey marketing folk have to do is plug it in to their laptop, and it starts up.
How about THINGS YOU CAN STICK YOUR IPOD IN?
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It doesn't work that way. Go do some real reading, not just the propoganda from "the sky is falling" types.
The Boot ROM has nothing to do with the windows license. It's the same as the boot ROM you have now, it's just encrypted with a key that lives in the CPU.
What you can't do is hack or modify the boot ROM without that key.
Someone could choose to sell a PC that will only boot windows. You can just as easily choose not to buy it.
Regardless of anyone else, I bet the guy can't wait to get his hands on an iPod and a TiVo, so he can buy DRM'ed songs from Apple, and (eventually) have a limited ability to copy his recorded TV shows to trusted computers on his local LAN./. geeks *love* DRM in their consumer electronics, unless they're from Microsoft or Intel.
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Do it often enough and they'll bump it to a reckless charge. In some states, after X traffic violations (including parking tickets), you automatically get charged with careless driving.
It's kind of at their discretion, it's a weird setup.
At any time a prosecuter could (successfully) argue that anyone who drives 70 in a 65 zone is showing a reckless disregard for everyone else on the road, and thus deserves to be locked up.
Now say, the DA and local cops figure you for a drug dealer, but have no case against you... Now you're caught speeding, if they want you bad enough, they'll get you.
Cops regularly use traffic regulations to get around due process and your right not to be searched. I know this for a fact, since I write records and dispatching software for police, and work closely with them every day.
It's like this. Without probable cause, a cop has no right to search your vehicle. He can look in the windows for things in plain sight, but that's it.
Now, all the cop has to do is say he was worried that the rust spot on the back of your car. After all, your exhaust could be leaking into the passenger cabin. Now, for your safety, he's going to have to force you to open your trunk so he can check for leaks. And if they should happen to find a bag of weed in the trunk, well that was in plain sight.
Or you return home to find your front door torn from it's hinges and the house full of cops. Gee whiz, they heard your dog whining in it's kennel and figured someone was calling for help! They don't need a warrant to save lives. The figured someone might be in danger inside your sofa cushions, that's why they split them open and turned them inside out.
They do this all the time, it's not random, they usually have a target - ie; they KNOW the guy has the weed in his trunk or basement.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah. You can do time for speeding, if you're really on the cops/DA's "bad side".
Sheeit, another idiot who thinks IR means heat.
Infrared light is just like any other light, only it's at a lower wavelength, and we can't see it.
IR is not heat, heat is not IR.
You'd need more than a quart, unless you live in a doghouse or something.
Even then, it'd have to be a pretty small doghouse.
When the Internet was created nobody envisioned that the killer app (application) would be e-mail or instant messaging
Huh? The Internet was created explicitly *FOR* e-mail and instant messaging, even if they weren't called that at the time.
I'm sure the media would have you believe it was created to make it easier for consumers to buy goods and services from the comfort of their own home, but from its very first days, it was a means for communication and nothing more.
30% of nothing. They figure it could in theory get 30% efficiency, just as soon as *INSERT BREAKTHROUGH IN CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL SCIENCE HERE* happens.
This sounds just like every other moon-man technology of the future. Hydrogen will revolutionize our economy! (Just as soon as we figure out how to collect and store it) A space elevator will mean cheap orbital trips, space tourism, extraplanetary mining, a trip to mars- all we need to do is invent the material we need to build it out of.
Bah.
They put metal in some paint and noticed it releases electrons when exposed to light.
It's called the photoelectric effect and it happens with all metals, and Einstein won a nobel prize for explaining it 100 years ago.
They're pushing hard for "three strikes" laws, and at the federal level.
This is really bad, because it takes away the one power a judge really has - the power to look at the merits of a case and decide an appropriate sentence.
But, I read a story of some guy who was charged with disturbing the peace (he cussed out some kid working at a movie theater), and as his "third strike", he's now a lifer. His original two charges were nothing major, a couple assault charges that could probably be chalked up to drunken assholery.
The bitch of it is, we all have to pay for all these convicts.
Jail doesn't work.
They call it the Department of Corrections, which is pure political bullshit. They've never corrected anything.
It's necessary to remove violent offenders from society for societies safety, but repeat offenses are high. Being in prison doesn't "teach" or "fix" or correct the problem.
Yet in America, we've set the system up so that virtually every last citizen belongs behind bars under the law.
We can start jailing kids for running kazaa, and it won't solve the problem.
It'll just increase the tax burden for the handful of people who manage to not get caught.
Everyone has done one of the following: tried drugs, infringed a copyright, exceeded the speed limit, drank alcohol underage, bought a violent video game for someone under 18, etc...
Why don't we just run razor wire along the coasts and borders, and declare everyone incarcerated?
Yes, the caste system is very much ingrained in many eastern cultures, even if it's not a matter of law.
It still is in the west, to a point. People tend to think someone who graduated from Harvard is "better" than a guy who graduated from local community college, even though they both studied the exact same things.
It's definately a measure of social status. If your father was a PhD, for you to be anything less is an insult to the family name.
At least 3 years of my 4 year degree were useless to me in any practical sense, I didn't learn anything new. I was just there to jump through the hoops and get a piece of paper.
I got pretty fed up with the whole University scene, and didn't even consider a masters. It won't do me any good.
Any employer *worth working for* is going to care about what you can do on the job, and not much else.
All of which have no problem being distributed through their website.
Why would I want to go through all this P2P hassle to download a 500K strongbad flash cartoon?
Besides, all of the above is just as copyrighted as anything else, and is not free for you to use on your private "Tv station" just because you found it on the 'web.
Let's see YOU create 24 hrs worth of content worth listening to or watching.
Because slashdot is nothing more than a thinly veiled astroturfing/schill site for Apple and IBM.
Someone has to pay the bandwidth bills, after all.
Now that I can tightly link my business and marketing with a new semantic oriented paradigm shift that's horizontally compatible with my vertical integration, I can finally think outside the box and my dynamicism will be prolific!
There's plenty of entertainment produced this way.
It's not from Hollywood, so you won't see it on Entertainment Tonight or the E! Channel, and it won't be picked up by your local Fox affiliate, but it's out there on the 'net.
Every year thousands of film students graduate, and they create plenty of good indy films, full length and shorts. They're generally mocked by the public at large as artsy-fartsy nonsense, but there are plenty of good ones.
The Blair Witch project is a good example of a student project that made it in the "real world".
South Park is another good example. Years before the show, there was the "Spirit of Christmas" short. For every show that lives on or gets picked up like South Park, there thousands that dont.
Then there's internet-only stuff like Homestar Runner, and millions of other flash based toons.
There's a ton of "free" entertainment online, you have to find it yourself, since there's no billion dollar marketing engine behind it.
I'm trying to use peercast right now.
Every "station" has 0 listeners and 0 relayers, save two or three japanese ones.
Yeah, sound's like the next big thing for bloggers. Another way to "express yourself" without anyone ever seeing or hearing.
Is this the protocol posted on /. a few weeks ago, that was like bittorrent, but let you transfer thing sequentially, so you could watch/seek in movies as they're transferring?
As for revolutionizing the world, I think TFA is getting ahead of itself. I don't care about Jimbo Q Nobody's online diary (I don't use the b word because it sounds retarded), and I can safely say I don't care to listen to his CD collection.
Too bad copyright law WRT radio and television broadcasts is such a mess. How cool would it be if every online TiVo was/had a P2P client? Forgot to tape Simpsons? Download it from the tivo-net.
Oh well, fuckit. Peercasting is DOA, there's no worthwhile content.
It may be wiser to get a single 6600GT now and SLI later
No! No! If you plan to SLI, buy two matching cards now. You'll pull your hair out trying to find the exact same model and revision to match the one you already have.
Same goes for multiple CPUs or dual channel RAM. Buy a matching set now, or you're in for a headache down the road.
PC Video cards have reached the point where, unless you're an "enthusiast" who likes to spend money, you don't need to spend more than 150-200 bucks.
Nowadays the race is who can run Doom 3 at 1600x1200 at 70 vs 72 FPS. If you consider the average home PC with a 17" monitor that can't even display 1600x1200, and most gaming is done at 1024x768 or 800x600, it seems kind of pointless.
I generally play at 1024x768, and all these new uber-cards really offer me nothing new over my Radeon 9800, and don't seem to be planning anything new for the next while. They're just ramping up the speed, but I haven't seen any landmark gee-whiz features (true steps forward like hardware T&L, programmable pixel shaders) being added.
You fully recommend a product you don't have yet. Who needs a marketing department when you've got an army of fanboys?
Why would I want a dll stub left over in the windows directory?
.ini files and whatnot.
It's like having spider eggs waiting to attach, one day some web app or whatnot calls some obscure function in that dll and my box is owned again.
At the least, it's cruft on my drive I don't want.
I want my anti-spyware tool to remove all of it, all registry entries, every trace of it. And while I'm on it, I want uninstallers to do so to. I'm sick of uninstallers leaving behind empty folders and
In january 2006, noone will remember, much less give a rats ass about, what Cringley "predicted" a year prior.
...and plug it in.
and just see which fills up first.
That's all I have to say about it.
Of course, if you don't already have an iPod, it would seem an Archos box would make the wiser investment, since you can basically do what you want with it, rather than be limited to certain "allowed" formats.
You can get a portable DVD player designed for kids for about 100 bucks, though. We got our youngest one for christmas. It's not a sexy geek device, the battery is an old NiCad and weighs a ton, and only lasts 4 hours or so. But it works great, and it reads DVD-Rs and VCDs.
80 bucks for the player and pennies per blank disc, and you stay just as sane on a long car trip as with the 500 dollar iPod + 300 dollar "peripheral" (just guessing at what they'd charge, but that sounds right for what is essentially a self-contained media player and usb host, minus the hard drive).
If you have an autorun.inf file on the media, Windows (if configured to do so) will read it and do what it says.
I know it works with removable USB hard drives, we have various demos setup on usb drives, so all our dopey marketing folk have to do is plug it in to their laptop, and it starts up.
Like, your ass.
It doesn't work that way. Go do some real reading, not just the propoganda from "the sky is falling" types.
The Boot ROM has nothing to do with the windows license. It's the same as the boot ROM you have now, it's just encrypted with a key that lives in the CPU.
What you can't do is hack or modify the boot ROM without that key.
Someone could choose to sell a PC that will only boot windows. You can just as easily choose not to buy it.
Regardless of anyone else, I bet the guy can't wait to get his hands on an iPod and a TiVo, so he can buy DRM'ed songs from Apple, and (eventually) have a limited ability to copy his recorded TV shows to trusted computers on his local LAN. /. geeks *love* DRM in their consumer electronics, unless they're from Microsoft or Intel.