But it will be in an alternate universe. I will be coming back to my own time afterwards, but in yet one more alternate universe. Luckily, none of you will notice it. See ya there!
I have purchased many things through TigerDirect.com over the years. I'm going to use NewEgg from now on for 2 reasons: 1. Your track record with other customers leads me to believe that I'll eventually get screwed by dealing with you. 2. Your suit against Apple for the use of Tiger is frivolous and silly. Tiger is the CODENAME of their product, and you cannot trademark the name of an animal to my knowledge. Plus, it's just one more example of an overly litigious corporate culture.
So, I won't be visiting your site anymore. That's it.
There are also three errors in my post, which are intentional. Let's see if the real pedants can find them.
Most will find 2. A rare individual will find the third.
Don't you think, though, that his statement as you quoted it places a little more significance on Mr. Gore's involvement in the initiative than would be expected for a congressman?
"I took the initiative in creating the internet" is a WAY more positive statement than "when it came to comittee I voted yes on the internet"?
It's typical Washington spin and he got busted on it. Nobody said he lied, they claimed that his statement was exaggerated.
You can go ahead and defend it if you're a Democratic Fanboy, but I would prefer to hold members of BOTH parties to task for their spin and deceptive campaigning.
The reason people were upset is that it seemed like he was fishing for votes from the uninformed who would assume from his statement that his involvement was somehow instrumental in bringing this technology to them, when it wasn't. Many scientists and computer engineers concieved, planned, and built the original internet. From there it organically became what it is now. It was not because of the actions of one man, or even a select few men, and Mr. Gore was taking credit for things when they weren't really his to take credit for.
A shielded signal guide could include coaxial cable, microwave waveguides and other conductors, but "wire" would not qualify as shielded or a "signal guide". It's a simple conductor.
A real hack is one who has a degree from MIT in computer science, and has never been to Massachusetts.
And didn't attend MIT.
And didn't enroll at MIT.
And doesn't own a computer.
And doesn't speak english.
And lives in Zimbabwe.
In a hut.
With his mother.
That would be a hack.
This, this is unauthorized network use from a local terminal. Not a hack.
Hillary and Republican fear-mongering censor-hounds:
The games you cite are clearly labeled and rated for content. Your moral outrage is foolish and silly, and is similar to someone getting angry at the possibility of children watching movies which are rated 'R' or listening to music which has explicit lyrics.
In any case, the government has no agency which is tasked with protecting children from such material, and this is why either our Creator or at very least our biological evolution has seen fit to provide children with one or more caretakers at birth. We call them parents. These beings are tasked with caring for the "child" segment of society. Let them do the job.
All of these politicians who continue to push legislation for the good of society at the cost of the individual need to re-read the Constitution and the Federalist papers, please.
Well, as long as you have an amateur radio operator's license it shouldn't be that much of a problem, except for a couple of minor problems:
1- if this thing modulates digitally, you're going to have to use a regular FM modulating transmitter to announce your call sign every 10 minutes minimum. Also you will have to monitor the frequencies in use by both the base station and the handset for requests by other operators to clear the frequency.
2. It would also be a good idea if the people who call you using this device also have an amateur license as they will also be operating your transmitter.
Oh, and do NOT play any "hold music" or any other type of music on the amateur band. Don't even sing happy birthday into the mic. Do not curse, or conduct business transactions unrelated to amateur radio over the air. Don't use this phone to order pizza. Don't use ANY form of encryption method. It's illegal. Do not use vocal codes or cyphers, or digital modulation other than the approved methods. Check that the frequency is clear before using the phone EVERY TIME YOU USE IT. Don't intentionally obfuscate the meaning of your conversations with codewords or code phrases. Do not transmit uninterrupted for more than 10 minutes. All use of the phone should be for bi-directional communication. You're screwed. Don't buy this. I'm a ham radio operator, and if someone stepped all over my authorized use with one of these phones, I'd make every effort to track down the base station and have it shut down.
Now, I have to preface my remarks by saying that I've been extremely critical of the chicken-little "my rights are being violated" crowd, but I ran across your post and it's the first one that makes sense.
I mean, why have an act which is hardly used to detain or imprison actual terrorists if its purpose is to do so?
You're right. Instead of trotting out the failures, the areas where it's being used a little unfairly to punish minor criminals, we should be asking when is it going to be used against actual terrorists.
I think that every law not passed by a 2/3 majority in both houses should be subject to an expiration date, laws should be evaluated for success against the stated goals at the time of enacting the legislation, and those which are ineffective should be sunsetted.
Um, sir, USA PATRIOT act has nothing to do with the NOFLY list at all. That's separate legislation which was passed much earlier.
And your claims are completely baseless, politically motivated chicanery without citing names, places, etc. I mean, anyone can claim the government is persecuting them, but it takes a class A narcissist to think that the FBI is targeting them because they don't like Bush.
Seriously, like 49% of the US doesn't like the guy, where are the concentration camps? The arrests of people for lawful activity? Yeah, I thought so.
I was told that my rights were being violated DAILY by one of you chicken-little assholes, and when I actually investigated the person arrested in the story, I found an angry socialist who laid down in the road blocking traffic during a demonstration, and refused to move when asked to by the police.
Let's just have a little refresher on what is and is not covered by the Bill of Rights, okay? You can talk all you want, wave banners, print leaflets, but NOTHING gives you the right to deny travel or movement, or use of public resources, to others in order to make your points. It's so simple- your rights to express yourself explicitly END when you use them to deny me my rights. You see? Civil disobedience is not protected!
So, I'm curious, what radical marxist eco-terrorist group do you belong to / burn down facilities for?
Because really that's what it takes. You have to be associated with an ARMED VIOLENT extremist group. And that activity is not protected by the first amendment. Because if you deny others the right to be secure in their persons or to keep their property, you forfeit your own rights in the process.
Sure, he's an OS guy, but really, his departure to Google would NOT support the notion that Google is planning an OS. He can't be involved in OS development for X period of time if he's signed NDAs and other separation agreements. I think he's just moving from an old technology company to a new one. Google needs his skills and he wants to work. I would assume he doesn't NEED to work considering how long he's been at Microsoft and I'd assume he's a millionaire by now.
Scales of any type are incapable of measuring mass unless they are completely within a vacuum. Otherwise, results are skewed by you measuring them with respect to the weight of the air they're in. Everything has some bouyancy in air, but its mass overwhelms that for objects heavier than air.
Wow, did you make up that $0 figure all by yourself? I mean, it's awful nice to be able to stroll into any forum and instantly attain the rank of expert in whatever topic is breached. Die, troll, die. There is plenty of private money used in many kinds of research. If the field looks promising, the money follows. You did know that there is a lot of money to be made in curing diseases, didn't you?
You're right about the power AT THE PUPIL but you forgot that the eye is a focusing device and the spot on your retina will be much smaller and with a higher power density per sq mm.
Actually, if you read the article, this cure was made possible with umbilical blood stem cells, not embryonic stem cells. This means it has nothing to do with Bush or his policies.
Also, it's in Korea, which is not governed by the USA, and it's a Korean woman not a citizen of the USA, and Korean umbilical blood, not American blood, so you know fuck all of what you speak.
Chad Clanton, senior campaign advisor for Kerry said "They [Sinclair] better hope we don't win." Vester immediately picked up on that as a direct unveiled threat and went with it. Clanton attempted to back off a bit but it was pretty much out already.
I got an email from my local Democrat party action committee saying Sinclair's execs had given big donations to the Republican party. That's interesting to me, so I did some research on the owners and newscasters on CNN , ABC and NBC and found that they all gave large sums to the Democratic party and candidates.
I guess the real issue is that we have media, they have views, and overall it looks like both sides are represented. Why should anyone threaten somebody's freedom of speech just because they don't like what they stand for?
I have no doubt that this Clanton fellow will be fired by Kerry. There's no way that a candidate for President should allow this extremism.
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There ought to be a +10 funny for that one. You are a funny funny dude.
This is actually quite silly. Market forces dictate that if enough companies want server and desktop hardware to run Linux, then the hardware will be built. If PHOENIX BIOS disallows boot to Linux, then another BIOS or OPENBIOS will take its place. If machines are made so proprietary that only one OS can use USB peripherals, then we go to court for further and more egregious violations of anti-trust laws.
This is "News for Nerds". It has been discovered that you are not, in fact, a bona fide nerd. This has been shown in your above post, where you quoted, as examples of speech recognition use from Star Trek, the following text:
"Computer, lights!"
"Computer, make coffee!"
"Computer, Earl Grey, hot!"
The actual text should read "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." With no "Computer" and with the added description of "tea". To my knowledge no one in any episode has requested "Computer, make coffee!" either.
Your Slashdot UID has been suspended until such time as you demonstrate competency with Star Trek references, and some minor Warcraft or Nethack experience.
Oh, it's much worse than that. You see, software vendors claim that when you buy software, it's not the media that you purchase, but the software product itself. This is the argument that they make against copying the ones and zeros that are on the media: That the media itself just carries their product.
Then, if their software product fails to work as advertised, or causes damage to your core OS or hardware, then they limit their liability to the cost of replacement media , claiming that the media is the extent of their product and its liability. That's why you can't return defective software to the store unless the MEDIA is scratched or damaged. They're getting it both ways, and not only do they sell their product for hundreds of dollars in many cases, but if it's buggy there isn't anything you can do to get your money back. I bought a game lately, Pirates Of the Carribean by Bethesda software. It had a bug which caused it to render a flat blue color over texels instead of texturing them with data. This made the game impossible to play. You couldn't see anything. I checked their site for a patch, and eleven months after the release date, there was still no patch. I called their tech support line, and I was told to wait, and that maybe there would be a patch, since other people had complained of the same problem. I figured that on a movie franchise game if they hadn't patched it within 11 months, it was over. No patch. I tried returning it to the store, no dice- I had opened it and they would only exchange it for the exact same product. So I called Bethesda and asked for a refund and they said that all they could do was send me a replacement media for 20 bucks.
Nice. Then when the same companies argue DRM, suddenly their product is the ones and zeroes that don't FREAKING PRODUCE THE IMAGES SHOWN ON THE BOX . Before, it was the disk!
What slant? You mean like the slant in the conservative mainstream media? Just kidding. If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward that you truly have to be an activist simply to pimp your extreme views to the masses. I was just pointing that out for flamebaiting purposes. I also predict that every independant, libertarian and republican sounding post will be modded to -5. This political stuff will be so obviously preaching to the Liberal Democrat choir that it would be stunning if any actual political debate takes place. This will end up as an on-line "free speech zone" where all the protesters are allowed to speak to one another, but are cloistered away from the rest of society. It was a bad idea by Ashcroft, and it's a bad idea by Slashdot. OOPS- sorry nerds, I meant 5145|-|d07
I completely agree re: shark jump status.
Lets face facts: MIT does not prepare you for the task of critiqueing socioeconomic injustice or global defense policy. It is simply shark jumping.
Slashdot Mirror
But it will be in an alternate universe. I will be coming back to my own time afterwards, but in yet one more alternate universe. Luckily, none of you will notice it. See ya there!
I have purchased many things through TigerDirect.com over the years. I'm going to use NewEgg from now on for 2 reasons:
1. Your track record with other customers leads me to believe that I'll eventually get screwed by dealing with you.
2. Your suit against Apple for the use of Tiger is frivolous and silly. Tiger is the CODENAME of their product, and you cannot trademark the name of an animal to my knowledge. Plus, it's just one more example of an overly litigious corporate culture.
So, I won't be visiting your site anymore. That's it.
There are also three errors in my post, which are intentional. Let's see if the real pedants can find them. Most will find 2. A rare individual will find the third.
I believe you mean that it's pedant time, not pendant time. A pendant is a necklace. The irony of your mistake astounds me.
Don't you think, though, that his statement as you quoted it places a little more significance on Mr. Gore's involvement in the initiative than would be expected for a congressman? "I took the initiative in creating the internet" is a WAY more positive statement than "when it came to comittee I voted yes on the internet"? It's typical Washington spin and he got busted on it. Nobody said he lied, they claimed that his statement was exaggerated. You can go ahead and defend it if you're a Democratic Fanboy, but I would prefer to hold members of BOTH parties to task for their spin and deceptive campaigning. The reason people were upset is that it seemed like he was fishing for votes from the uninformed who would assume from his statement that his involvement was somehow instrumental in bringing this technology to them, when it wasn't. Many scientists and computer engineers concieved, planned, and built the original internet. From there it organically became what it is now. It was not because of the actions of one man, or even a select few men, and Mr. Gore was taking credit for things when they weren't really his to take credit for.
A shielded signal guide could include coaxial cable, microwave waveguides and other conductors, but "wire" would not qualify as shielded or a "signal guide". It's a simple conductor.
A real hack is one who has a degree from MIT in computer science, and has never been to Massachusetts. And didn't attend MIT. And didn't enroll at MIT. And doesn't own a computer. And doesn't speak english. And lives in Zimbabwe. In a hut. With his mother. That would be a hack. This, this is unauthorized network use from a local terminal. Not a hack.
Hillary and Republican fear-mongering censor-hounds: The games you cite are clearly labeled and rated for content. Your moral outrage is foolish and silly, and is similar to someone getting angry at the possibility of children watching movies which are rated 'R' or listening to music which has explicit lyrics. In any case, the government has no agency which is tasked with protecting children from such material, and this is why either our Creator or at very least our biological evolution has seen fit to provide children with one or more caretakers at birth. We call them parents. These beings are tasked with caring for the "child" segment of society. Let them do the job. All of these politicians who continue to push legislation for the good of society at the cost of the individual need to re-read the Constitution and the Federalist papers, please.
Well, as long as you have an amateur radio operator's license it shouldn't be that much of a problem, except for a couple of minor problems:
1- if this thing modulates digitally, you're going to have to use a regular FM modulating transmitter to announce your call sign every 10 minutes minimum. Also you will have to monitor the frequencies in use by both the base station and the handset for requests by other operators to clear the frequency.
2. It would also be a good idea if the people who call you using this device also have an amateur license as they will also be operating your transmitter.
Oh, and do NOT play any "hold music" or any other type of music on the amateur band. Don't even sing happy birthday into the mic. Do not curse, or conduct business transactions unrelated to amateur radio over the air. Don't use this phone to order pizza. Don't use ANY form of encryption method. It's illegal. Do not use vocal codes or cyphers, or digital modulation other than the approved methods. Check that the frequency is clear before using the phone EVERY TIME YOU USE IT.
Don't intentionally obfuscate the meaning of your conversations with codewords or code phrases. Do not transmit uninterrupted for more than 10 minutes. All use of the phone should be for bi-directional communication. You're screwed. Don't buy this. I'm a ham radio operator, and if someone stepped all over my authorized use with one of these phones, I'd make every effort to track down the base station and have it shut down.
Now, I have to preface my remarks by saying that I've been extremely critical of the chicken-little "my rights are being violated" crowd, but I ran across your post and it's the first one that makes sense. I mean, why have an act which is hardly used to detain or imprison actual terrorists if its purpose is to do so? You're right. Instead of trotting out the failures, the areas where it's being used a little unfairly to punish minor criminals, we should be asking when is it going to be used against actual terrorists. I think that every law not passed by a 2/3 majority in both houses should be subject to an expiration date, laws should be evaluated for success against the stated goals at the time of enacting the legislation, and those which are ineffective should be sunsetted.
Um, sir, USA PATRIOT act has nothing to do with the NOFLY list at all. That's separate legislation which was passed much earlier. And your claims are completely baseless, politically motivated chicanery without citing names, places, etc. I mean, anyone can claim the government is persecuting them, but it takes a class A narcissist to think that the FBI is targeting them because they don't like Bush. Seriously, like 49% of the US doesn't like the guy, where are the concentration camps? The arrests of people for lawful activity? Yeah, I thought so. I was told that my rights were being violated DAILY by one of you chicken-little assholes, and when I actually investigated the person arrested in the story, I found an angry socialist who laid down in the road blocking traffic during a demonstration, and refused to move when asked to by the police. Let's just have a little refresher on what is and is not covered by the Bill of Rights, okay? You can talk all you want, wave banners, print leaflets, but NOTHING gives you the right to deny travel or movement, or use of public resources, to others in order to make your points. It's so simple- your rights to express yourself explicitly END when you use them to deny me my rights. You see? Civil disobedience is not protected! So, I'm curious, what radical marxist eco-terrorist group do you belong to / burn down facilities for? Because really that's what it takes. You have to be associated with an ARMED VIOLENT extremist group. And that activity is not protected by the first amendment. Because if you deny others the right to be secure in their persons or to keep their property, you forfeit your own rights in the process.
Sure, he's an OS guy, but really, his departure to Google would NOT support the notion that Google is planning an OS. He can't be involved in OS development for X period of time if he's signed NDAs and other separation agreements. I think he's just moving from an old technology company to a new one. Google needs his skills and he wants to work. I would assume he doesn't NEED to work considering how long he's been at Microsoft and I'd assume he's a millionaire by now.
Scales of any type are incapable of measuring mass unless they are completely within a vacuum. Otherwise, results are skewed by you measuring them with respect to the weight of the air they're in. Everything has some bouyancy in air, but its mass overwhelms that for objects heavier than air.
Wow, did you make up that $0 figure all by yourself?
I mean, it's awful nice to be able to stroll into any forum and instantly attain the rank of expert in whatever topic is breached. Die, troll, die.
There is plenty of private money used in many kinds of research. If the field looks promising, the money follows. You did know that there is a lot of money to be made in curing diseases, didn't you?
You're right about the power AT THE PUPIL but you forgot that the eye is a focusing device and the spot on your retina will be much smaller and with a higher power density per sq mm.
Actually, if you read the article, this cure was made possible with umbilical blood stem cells, not embryonic stem cells. This means it has nothing to do with Bush or his policies. Also, it's in Korea, which is not governed by the USA, and it's a Korean woman not a citizen of the USA, and Korean umbilical blood, not American blood, so you know fuck all of what you speak.
Chad Clanton, senior campaign advisor for Kerry said "They [Sinclair] better hope we don't win." Vester immediately picked up on that as a direct unveiled threat and went with it. Clanton attempted to back off a bit but it was pretty much out already. I got an email from my local Democrat party action committee saying Sinclair's execs had given big donations to the Republican party. That's interesting to me, so I did some research on the owners and newscasters on CNN , ABC and NBC and found that they all gave large sums to the Democratic party and candidates. I guess the real issue is that we have media, they have views, and overall it looks like both sides are represented. Why should anyone threaten somebody's freedom of speech just because they don't like what they stand for? I have no doubt that this Clanton fellow will be fired by Kerry. There's no way that a candidate for President should allow this extremism.
There ought to be a +10 funny for that one. You are a funny funny dude.
This is actually quite silly. Market forces dictate that if enough companies want server and desktop hardware to run Linux, then the hardware will be built. If PHOENIX BIOS disallows boot to Linux, then another BIOS or OPENBIOS will take its place. If machines are made so proprietary that only one OS can use USB peripherals, then we go to court for further and more egregious violations of anti-trust laws.
This is "News for Nerds". It has been discovered that you are not, in fact, a bona fide nerd. This has been shown in your above post, where you quoted, as examples of speech recognition use from Star Trek, the following text:
"Computer, lights!"
"Computer, make coffee!"
"Computer, Earl Grey, hot!"
The actual text should read "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." With no "Computer" and with the added description of "tea". To my knowledge no one in any episode has requested "Computer, make coffee!" either.
Your Slashdot UID has been suspended until such time as you demonstrate competency with Star Trek references, and some minor Warcraft or Nethack experience.
The Management
Oh, it's much worse than that.
You see, software vendors claim that when you buy software, it's not the media that you purchase, but the software product itself. This is the argument that they make against copying the ones and zeros that are on the media: That the media itself just carries their product.
Then, if their software product fails to work as advertised, or causes damage to your core OS or hardware, then they limit their liability to the cost of replacement media , claiming that the media is the extent of their product and its liability. That's why you can't return defective software to the store unless the MEDIA is scratched or damaged. They're getting it both ways, and not only do they sell their product for hundreds of dollars in many cases, but if it's buggy there isn't anything you can do to get your money back. I bought a game lately, Pirates Of the Carribean by Bethesda software. It had a bug which caused it to render a flat blue color over texels instead of texturing them with data. This made the game impossible to play. You couldn't see anything. I checked their site for a patch, and eleven months after the release date, there was still no patch. I called their tech support line, and I was told to wait, and that maybe there would be a patch, since other people had complained of the same problem. I figured that on a movie franchise game if they hadn't patched it within 11 months, it was over. No patch. I tried returning it to the store, no dice- I had opened it and they would only exchange it for the exact same product. So I called Bethesda and asked for a refund and they said that all they could do was send me a replacement media for 20 bucks. Nice. Then when the same companies argue DRM, suddenly their product is the ones and zeroes that don't FREAKING PRODUCE THE IMAGES SHOWN ON THE BOX . Before, it was the disk!
What slant? You mean like the slant in the conservative mainstream media?
Just kidding. If you actually think ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have a right wing agenda then your frame of reference must be so far leftward that you truly have to be an activist simply to pimp your extreme views to the masses. I was just pointing that out for flamebaiting purposes. I also predict that every independant, libertarian and republican sounding post will be modded to -5. This political stuff will be so obviously preaching to the Liberal Democrat choir that it would be stunning if any actual political debate takes place.
This will end up as an on-line "free speech zone" where all the protesters are allowed to speak to one another, but are cloistered away from the rest of society.
It was a bad idea by Ashcroft, and it's a bad idea by Slashdot. OOPS- sorry nerds, I meant 5145|-|d07
I completely agree re: shark jump status.
Lets face facts: MIT does not prepare you for the task of critiqueing socioeconomic injustice or global defense policy. It is simply shark jumping.
Okay, please leave out lame cliches like this when posting to slashdot. It makes me sad.
Bad monkey didn't attribute to the source of your "witty" cut and paste job. You're a WHORE!