Hmmm. I understood everything that I read, but the article was short enough on details that I still feel like I understand very little about the technology.
It's so interesting how people long for vengeance... It really does seem to be quite a common human desire. I myself often desire vengeance against those I feel have wronged me.
Is it always advantageous, though? Does ass rape of prisoners really make them less likely to commit crimes in the future? Maybe, it makes them think I don't want to go back to prison again. Maybe it just makes them really fucking pissed off and crazy. A lot of research suggests that those who are victims of sexual abuse become abusers.
In any case, as a society, the most important goal of our punitary system is to prevent crime and especially to prevent serious crime. Now, prison rape is a crime and it is being ignored. Even if you think that we should only be protecting the innocent, we have to ask ourselves if it is really so great that we have the largest prison population in the world? Not all of the people in prison are career criminals. Some were just in a tight spot and needed a fast buck. Others are drug users. Others are even innocent of anything, but one thing is true of all of them. They are all in contact with brutal, violent criminals on a daily basis. Most will have problems finding a job when the are released. Many will have learned a lot about being a criminal in prison.
My point is this: vengeance is not necessarily helpful. People in prison should be learning some job skills other than being criminals, 'cause if they don't then they're going to be criminals when they get out. Ass Rape is probably not helpful either. I can't imagine that that experience would help make prisoners more calm productive members of society. If anyone can explain how it would, please do.
I didn't say TOO much when they censored broadcasts. I didn't get TOO upset when they changed the rules regarding station ownership, but this goes way too fucking far.
The FCC should come down IN FLAMES. It has proven time and again that it cares not for the consumer. It cares not for civil rights. It is quite simply the embodiment of fascism right in the US government (along with several other things).
Michael Powell, in particular, has proven that he is one of the most evil human being on the face of the Earth.
What can we do to rid our country of this cancer on our country known as the FCC? What can we do to make sure that Powell is expelled from the country?
This is a difficult problem. The FCC is not susceptible to public pressure, and it has proven that it doesn't actually care about the American people. There must be solution, though, to this terrible problem. If we all put our heads together, I'm sure we'll find it.
What's the point of simulating nuclear weapons anyway? Couldn't the government be putting such a machine to better use (like predicting the weather, simulating protein folding, or modelling the cosmos)?
Really shouldn't we have gotten past the point of trying to build technologies that wipe out all life on Earth?
A recent court decision upheld Kazaa's right to ditribute their product even though it is being used for illegal purposes (GO ILLEGAL PURPOSES!).
The key is that the intended use is legitimate. The same holds true for freenet (not that it matters, freenet is open source and has already been ditributed; any law can't make it disappear).
The RIAA can't track down the users of freenet or various other anonymous P2P networks. Too bad! You're shit out of luck!
I would just like to say in closing, fuck you RIAA!
I'm not cheap. I pay good money to my favorite bands to see them live. Best part? The RIAA sees little to nothing from that. The record companies can suck turds out of my ass, but that's all they're getting from me.
What are they going to do to me if I use freenet, Anonymous Coward? Please, I'm deathly afraid of an RIAA supoena. I'm shaking in my boots.
This only has small bearing on nuclear power. The bugs only help to ease the toxic properties of heavy metals (in particular Uranium). The radioactive properties are not affected. I believe radioactivity is the larger concern with respect to nuclear power.
Many artists didn't sign up up for the "Get Rock Star Rich" lottery. Many are serious musician who simply saw(see) the RIAA as the best promotional tool that they have, but that they make their real money by doing concerts. However, those artists probably don't care about piracy so much.
To all of the cool artists whose songs I have pirated. Come visit Rochester, NY. I'll go see your show and give you a bit of revenue. I might even buy a T-shirt.
I don't give a fuck who owns the copyright. IP law is so fucked up as to be irrelevant. I would like to give a reasonable amount of money to my favorite artists, so I go to concerts. I wouldn't mind giving a bit to the artists for the digital music I listen to, but FUCK THE RIAA!
I don't use Kazaa. Quite frankly, their interface pissed me off. More importantly, Gnutella is an open standard and works quite well thank you. Kazaa has already been worked around. Too bad for them.
First of all Judges shouldn't be making laws. They should be interpretting them. Secondly, if the system works, why are the people does the Supreme Court so blatantly disregard the Constitution on a regular basis?
You mean reforms like forcing those media companies to GRANT free portions of the PUBLIC's air-time to political candidates as part of the fee to let them use their part of the spectrum?
Why? Because the mass media has no interest in overthrowing the corrupt big-business driven world of politics. And why should they? All the major media companies are owned by huge corporations who profit by people not being fairly represented.
How does that work? Well, if people were fairly represented, then campaign finance reform would happen and businesses wouldn't be able to bribe our elected officials.
Yes, I know there's not a direct connection to Diebold voting systems except that Diebold IS big business.
It's affect. The fucking verb you want to use is affect. Effect as a verb means to cause to come into being. Spam does not effect bait e-mail accounts. It affects bait e-mail accounts....
While I'm on the matter, good is not an adverb it's an adjective. Please use it accordingly. If you want to use it as an adverb, don't. Use well, instead. Grrrr.
The ALWAYS abreviate using GB. GB = (1024)^3 bytes. If they mean (1000)^3 bytes, they should abbreviate gB.
Even if they have a foot note, that doesn't give them the right to mislead the consumer in BOLDFACE by misusing units. Units are standard for a reason.
(a) it implies that all Slashdot readers are American or
(b) it disparages alternative energy sources or
(c) it sarcastically disparages Americans over-consumptive ways?
It's a little bit scary. I saw Al Gore debate GWB in 2000. Even though Gore didn't sound so brilliant, he didn't sound like he had his head up his ass. GWB was clearly giving his speeches from the inner sanctum of his rectum.
I draw a parallel there with the SCO case. No matter how shitty their argument smells, if a small amount of the population and a few judges enjoy the scent, we could all be fucked.
So when I first read this headline, I thought it was another government country X decides to convert such and such systems to OSS.
This seems to be more and more common. And why not? It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying M$ liscenses (as long as you aren't stupid enought to pay SCO).
Anyway, I started thinking, why doesn't the US do this? We have a $4.5 * 10^11 deficit; M$ liscense payments can't help that. Well, there are many reasons the US gub'ment doesn't go Open Source, but foremost is a powerful lobby. I have an in with a democratic presidential candidate (I won't say who).
I plan on writing up something as to what's wrong with IP law, especially the DMCA. I'd also like to include a rough proposal for U.S. government adoption of OSS.
Does anyone know of any numbers as to much the government would save by doing this? I couldn't begin to estimate how many Windows boxes the federal government runs or what the pay for the liscenses (surely not full price?). Any help would be appreciated.
I took my site down, but I thought it was only supposed to be a one day protest, so I brought it back up. Are we supposed to keep them down until a decision is made?
If each chip is basically four processors each of which can execute 16 operations simultaneously, it will be difficult for compilers to find 64 independent instructions to execute each cycle.
I guess one possibilty could be to execute instructions from four different processes simultaneously, thus reducing the probability that the instuctions will interfere.
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Hmmm. I understood everything that I read, but the article was short enough on details that I still feel like I understand very little about the technology.
It's so interesting how people long for vengeance... It really does seem to be quite a common human desire. I myself often desire vengeance against those I feel have wronged me.
Is it always advantageous, though? Does ass rape of prisoners really make them less likely to commit crimes in the future? Maybe, it makes them think I don't want to go back to prison again. Maybe it just makes them really fucking pissed off and crazy. A lot of research suggests that those who are victims of sexual abuse become abusers.
In any case, as a society, the most important goal of our punitary system is to prevent crime and especially to prevent serious crime. Now, prison rape is a crime and it is being ignored. Even if you think that we should only be protecting the innocent, we have to ask ourselves if it is really so great that we have the largest prison population in the world? Not all of the people in prison are career criminals. Some were just in a tight spot and needed a fast buck. Others are drug users. Others are even innocent of anything, but one thing is true of all of them. They are all in contact with brutal, violent criminals on a daily basis. Most will have problems finding a job when the are released. Many will have learned a lot about being a criminal in prison.
My point is this: vengeance is not necessarily helpful. People in prison should be learning some job skills other than being criminals, 'cause if they don't then they're going to be criminals when they get out. Ass Rape is probably not helpful either. I can't imagine that that experience would help make prisoners more calm productive members of society. If anyone can explain how it would, please do.
So you think it's cool that the violent gang members get to ass rape poor stoners?
I didn't say TOO much when they censored broadcasts. I didn't get TOO upset when they changed the rules regarding station ownership, but this goes way too fucking far.
The FCC should come down IN FLAMES. It has proven time and again that it cares not for the consumer. It cares not for civil rights. It is quite simply the embodiment of fascism right in the US government (along with several other things).
Michael Powell, in particular, has proven that he is one of the most evil human being on the face of the Earth.
What can we do to rid our country of this cancer on our country known as the FCC? What can we do to make sure that Powell is expelled from the country?
This is a difficult problem. The FCC is not susceptible to public pressure, and it has proven that it doesn't actually care about the American people. There must be solution, though, to this terrible problem. If we all put our heads together, I'm sure we'll find it.
What's the point of simulating nuclear weapons anyway? Couldn't the government be putting such a machine to better use (like predicting the weather, simulating protein folding, or modelling the cosmos)?
Really shouldn't we have gotten past the point of trying to build technologies that wipe out all life on Earth?
You are displaying your ignorance of the law.
A recent court decision upheld Kazaa's right to ditribute their product even though it is being used for illegal purposes (GO ILLEGAL PURPOSES!).
The key is that the intended use is legitimate. The same holds true for freenet (not that it matters, freenet is open source and has already been ditributed; any law can't make it disappear).
The RIAA can't track down the users of freenet or various other anonymous P2P networks. Too bad! You're shit out of luck!
I would just like to say in closing, fuck you RIAA!
I'm not cheap. I pay good money to my favorite bands to see them live. Best part? The RIAA sees little to nothing from that. The record companies can suck turds out of my ass, but that's all they're getting from me.
What are they going to do to me if I use freenet, Anonymous Coward? Please, I'm deathly afraid of an RIAA supoena. I'm shaking in my boots.
This only has small bearing on nuclear power. The bugs only help to ease the toxic properties of heavy metals (in particular Uranium). The radioactive properties are not affected. I believe radioactivity is the larger concern with respect to nuclear power.
Many artists didn't sign up up for the "Get Rock Star Rich" lottery. Many are serious musician who simply saw(see) the RIAA as the best promotional tool that they have, but that they make their real money by doing concerts. However, those artists probably don't care about piracy so much.
To all of the cool artists whose songs I have pirated. Come visit Rochester, NY. I'll go see your show and give you a bit of revenue. I might even buy a T-shirt.
I don't give a fuck who owns the copyright. IP law is so fucked up as to be irrelevant. I would like to give a reasonable amount of money to my favorite artists, so I go to concerts. I wouldn't mind giving a bit to the artists for the digital music I listen to, but FUCK THE RIAA!
I don't use Kazaa. Quite frankly, their interface pissed me off. More importantly, Gnutella is an open standard and works quite well thank you. Kazaa has already been worked around. Too bad for them.
I agree completely. I actually feel guilty PAYING for music. So I don't do it. Fuck the RIAA.
I'd like to purchase some Frog Brigade or moe. CDs, but not if a single cent is going to the RIAA.
First of all Judges shouldn't be making laws. They should be interpretting them. Secondly, if the system works, why are the people does the Supreme Court so blatantly disregard the Constitution on a regular basis?
You mean reforms like forcing those media companies to GRANT free portions of the PUBLIC's air-time to political candidates as part of the fee to let them use their part of the spectrum?
Seven.
Kind of makes you think twice about those lifetime tenures, doesn't it?
Why? Because the mass media has no interest in overthrowing the corrupt big-business driven world of politics. And why should they? All the major media companies are owned by huge corporations who profit by people not being fairly represented. How does that work? Well, if people were fairly represented, then campaign finance reform would happen and businesses wouldn't be able to bribe our elected officials. Yes, I know there's not a direct connection to Diebold voting systems except that Diebold IS big business.
It's affect. The fucking verb you want to use is affect. Effect as a verb means to cause to come into being. Spam does not effect bait e-mail accounts. It affects bait e-mail accounts....
While I'm on the matter, good is not an adverb it's an adjective. Please use it accordingly. If you want to use it as an adverb, don't. Use well, instead. Grrrr.
Sorry, that really gets under my skin.
The ALWAYS abreviate using GB. GB = (1024)^3 bytes. If they mean (1000)^3 bytes, they should abbreviate gB.
Even if they have a foot note, that doesn't give them the right to mislead the consumer in BOLDFACE by misusing units. Units are standard for a reason.
Question to mods:
Was the parent modded down because:
(a) it implies that all Slashdot readers are American or
(b) it disparages alternative energy sources or
(c) it sarcastically disparages Americans over-consumptive ways?
Could the black box track the satellites inside a Faraday cage?
I dont't know...
It's a little bit scary. I saw Al Gore debate GWB in 2000. Even though Gore didn't sound so brilliant, he didn't sound like he had his head up his ass. GWB was clearly giving his speeches from the inner sanctum of his rectum.
I draw a parallel there with the SCO case. No matter how shitty their argument smells, if a small amount of the population and a few judges enjoy the scent, we could all be fucked.
So when I first read this headline, I thought it was another government country X decides to convert such and such systems to OSS.
This seems to be more and more common. And why not? It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying M$ liscenses (as long as you aren't stupid enought to pay SCO).
Anyway, I started thinking, why doesn't the US do this? We have a $4.5 * 10^11 deficit; M$ liscense payments can't help that. Well, there are many reasons the US gub'ment doesn't go Open Source, but foremost is a powerful lobby. I have an in with a democratic presidential candidate (I won't say who).
I plan on writing up something as to what's wrong with IP law, especially the DMCA. I'd also like to include a rough proposal for U.S. government adoption of OSS.
Does anyone know of any numbers as to much the government would save by doing this? I couldn't begin to estimate how many Windows boxes the federal government runs or what the pay for the liscenses (surely not full price?). Any help would be appreciated.
I took my site down, but I thought it was only supposed to be a one day protest, so I brought it back up. Are we supposed to keep them down until a decision is made?
Seriously, get a fucking life. It's actually a pretty clever user name.
If you are so PC, get the fuck off slashdot and go read cnn.com.
If each chip is basically four processors each of which can execute 16 operations simultaneously, it will be difficult for compilers to find 64 independent instructions to execute each cycle.
I guess one possibilty could be to execute instructions from four different processes simultaneously, thus reducing the probability that the instuctions will interfere.