I'm sure some people here will now question my sanity, but for every Borg in TNG, there was an episode featuring Troy and her mother doing something stupid.
Agreed. The only Trek series that I really liked was DS9. They allowed SOME character development in that series and did things that they wouldn't do in any of the others. Voyager was a waste and there are episodes of it I've never seen. The 4th season of Enterprise has been unseen by me as I just could hold myself to watch it. The space Nazi's was enough for me. I soon forgot about it. Battlestar Galatica and both Stargates are far better then any of the trek's have been. And neither SG is all that good....
It does block popups but it prevents me from manually override the block. It shows the URL in the popup blocker bar but when I click on it it still doesn't allow it to work.
Anyone else have it work like this? Guess I need to search bugzilla for this...
I don't follow your point. Those that are truly illiterate don't surf the web. There is a difference in not taking time to read and not being able to read.
You are a fucking troll. Please show me where in the GPL is says you can't sell Free Software? Please show me where RMS has retracted statements saying that you can't sell Free Software? How can you steal a project that is given away for free? How does that stop you from continuing your own development work? And how is RH proprietary? All the source code is downloadable. How do think sanitized versions of RHEL from CentOS arrive? If you have a beef with RH then spell it out. State the real problem or sit down, STFU, and read the damn GPL. This is bullshit covering for a real issue or you are just plain stupid.
I thought everyone knew that spammers did. Most all the viruses in the last 2 years or so have been spam pushing bots. Somebody is buying the damn things and someone is selling them.
Maybe Slashdot is interested in removing any scrap of jounalistic integrity that could possibly still exist?
This is assuming that Slashdot ever really had that as a goal to begin with. Slashdot is simply a bash portal. They gather no news. Nothing new orginates here. This is just a place to plop down something that has caught an/. editor's eye and sit back and watch the fireworks. This is not about news it is about opinions and verbal food fights.
Adama is shot, twice, by Boomer in the last scene of the last episode. The gun shots could be fatal. Adama could also be a cylon as they never did test him because they stopped to test Mrs. Tye. Not that Baltar would tell anyone about it.....
Is Adama dead or is he a dead cylon? Or is he alive? The way this show works we may never know.
For me the problem isn't Exchange. It's Oulook. People want to use outlook. They don't give a flying frack what it connects to but they want the useabilty of Outlook.
You need to learn more history. The Civil War had very little to do with slavery. It was a war of Taxation. Import and Export Duties. And Mercantilism.
Lincoln was no fan of abolishing slavery. He favored colonization. Rounding up all the Negroes and deporting them to any place other then North America.
Slavery was an abomination that the south should be ashamed of. But Lincoln was no Saint. I don't think it was worth killing 1/10 the population of the United States just to stop slavery. I don't think suspending habeas corpus, waging war on civilians, deporting a Congressman, cannoning draft rioters in New York, devaluing the dollar, sending Federal Troops in to Northern Newspapers to stop presses, running a secret police force that routinely "disappeared" people, and bombing and burning whole cities to the ground was worth it.
Meanwhile every else in the world slavery was been abolished peacefully. People were paid to end it.
I don't know about you. But I'd say we got overcharged.
The 2nd amendment was intended to provide arms for State Militia. The States had the right to leave the Union and they had the right have State run armies to protect us from the Federal Government. Lincoln's illegal war changed that.
I can create any damn kind of license that I want. What are they going to do. Claim it is not "Open Source" by changing the definition of Open Source. Sure it is confusing but all the different licenses exist because someone finds the GPL or the BSD license doesn't support how they want software to be distributed. Fix people then you can fix this mess.
A few years back Linuxiso.org got one these letters from Red Hat. They provide links to the sites so that you can download ISOs, get support, etc. RH requested that they stop all together. They did finally agree to a link without any logos. So all the other distro buttons on the site have the logo of the product Rat Hat does not. Totally stupid give away of free advertising on there part.
The issue against CentOS I can kind of understand. What if CentOS changes something and badly breaks something. If CentOS sucks then Red Hat must suck too. I can understand them wanting to protect themselves from that. Also Trademark law tries to protect companies from riding the coat tails of another company. CentOS's only reason to exist is to make a whitewashed, logo neutered version, of Red Hat. Thus the more successful RH is at promotion the more successful CentOS is and they don't have to spend any money.
Simple because the average end user is so ignorant, lazy, and or stupid, that they think it is somehow there fault. They are intimidated by computers, confused by them, but they know that EVERYONE has to have one and they don't like looking like the poor sot who can't even drive a car. Everyone knows how to drive a car, right? Well everyone ought to know how to drive a computer? It is all about pride.
Plus it is also about motivation. While everyone wants to learn how to drive most people don't really want to learn about a computer. It's too much work and most of it isn't fun or helpful. At least driving for most people is fun(at least part of the time.) Computer maintaince is just too much work.
He's right. I personally like Suse. Yet I know people that will spit teeth before using Suse. I like Suse because of its ease of administration via Yast. Some hate that and perfer the command line. Gotta try'em before you use'em. Support and scalability are an issue too. I sell servers to small SOHO type offices. Most any Linux will do the job. I don't expect the download version of Suse to handle a grid cluster.
The next two flights will be the most triple checked in Shuttle history as all eyeballs will be on NASA. It is unlikely that anything will go wrong on those flights. It's the 10th or so flight and beyond when NASA is again crunched for time and money when it gets extra dangerous. People will ignore and cover up things because they don't want to be the cause of a holdup.
Shuttle should never fly again and the money better spent on newer and simpler methods of getting man from ground to orbit. The shuttle's bad design make more accidents very likely.
You can protect the stupid people from the world if you want, but you can't protect them from themselves.
Rather the reverse I would say. You can't protect stupid people from the world. Too many of them to protect. One can only protect onesself from the stupid people. Which is why I install firewalls, AV, programs and update patches. Depending of Microsoft to do it for you just is asking for someone to exploit you.
By real world property I was meaning physical property which is what you normally mean with "property".
I understand that. But what you are failing to understand is that US law generally supports that Data has a monitary value because it is property. The problem is that is often is very hard to put a dollar value on data. This case is very easy to guys agreed to a set value and money exchanged hands. If done often enough by enough people that will out weigh the notion that this data is worthless.
Besides, just because YOU put value to something, doesn't mean you are entiteled to getting money for Blizzard for losing the data.
That is for a Judge to decide is it not? One random guy claiming his character is worth $100 is just one fool. Hundreds of people trading them on Ebay and bidding on them is a clear demostation of value. Several people bid on it and made counter offers. The value is clearly spelt out.
We are not talking real world property and we are not talking about a situation were Blizzard take care of my belongings for me!
Data is considered real world property. Yes it's all ones and zeros but it is real world property to me. You delete my quickbooks data and I'll be ruined. So I back it up. If I entrust that job to someone else and the screw up then I'll sue them.
Now If I'm such a hard core gammer that I've run out to e-bay to buy a character or some item in a game and some nit at Blizard looses it I might be angry enough to sue them. I have a real loss of property(data)because I paid for it. That gives it value. Just as if someone paid to steal my quickbooks data. That gives it value. Data is property. Now just because YOU think that this property is worthless is not the point. Two people agreed that that data has value and let money exchange hands.
It is all about the insurance!
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If two people make some deal, what would Blizzard have to do with it?
Nothing except that they are the ones holding the item for you. Think of it like a valet parking garage. You give your car over to the valet dude to park your car and he crashes it. He doesn't care that you just sold the car but he is now responsible for the loss of the car. So he has insurance to protect himself should he damage a car that he is parking.
Blizzard is afraid that they may be blamed for any faults that happen while they are "valeting"/housing your things.
It means that they are going to have to be insured for losses(if the server crashes) as selling the "items" on ebay is proof of value. If they can stop that from occurring or make it illegal they avoid the legal necessity of liability insurance.
Well after viewing "33" and "Water" I'd have to disagree about Survival being the basic motive. This is more revenge based. The Cylons are fucking with the humans. Playing games. It was just survival they'd just blow every human away on site. Yet we've got Cylons running around and even sacrificing themselves(or at least just a body, as the mind is transfered) just to play mind games on the humans.
In the mini-series. Six and two centurions allows themselves to be killed by there own missiles just so Number Six can watch the expression on the poor officer's face as he dies.
The whole Baltar/Six thread is an mind game. What I don't know is if Baltar is been tracked and controlled by the Cylons or if the chip is an independent program. Either way the cylons are some sadistic group of robots.
I take back not wanting to know the cylon's motives. I was fearful the it might not something the series had really considered. The old series had not, IMO. This one has even if the answer might be collective madness(in human terms.) Real slick writing and thought is in this show.
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God damn fucking sonofabitch! Where are my God Damn mother fucking mod points when I fucking need them?
Agreed. The only Trek series that I really liked was DS9. They allowed SOME character development in that series and did things that they wouldn't do in any of the others. Voyager was a waste and there are episodes of it I've never seen. The 4th season of Enterprise has been unseen by me as I just could hold myself to watch it. The space Nazi's was enough for me. I soon forgot about it. Battlestar Galatica and both Stargates are far better then any of the trek's have been. And neither SG is all that good....
Thanks now I'll never get that song out of my head.
I need to go shoot up a post office now. Make the music stop. Make it stop. AAAUUUGGGGHHH!!!!
It does block popups but it prevents me from manually override the block. It shows the URL in the popup blocker bar but when I click on it it still doesn't allow it to work.
Anyone else have it work like this? Guess I need to search bugzilla for this...
I don't follow your point. Those that are truly illiterate don't surf the web. There is a difference in not taking time to read and not being able to read.
Cool. Now I can write off my iPod as a "tool of trade" on my taxes!
You are a fucking troll. Please show me where in the GPL is says you can't sell Free Software? Please show me where RMS has retracted statements saying that you can't sell Free Software? How can you steal a project that is given away for free? How does that stop you from continuing your own development work? And how is RH proprietary? All the source code is downloadable. How do think sanitized versions of RHEL from CentOS arrive? If you have a beef with RH then spell it out. State the real problem or sit down, STFU, and read the damn GPL. This is bullshit covering for a real issue or you are just plain stupid.
I thought everyone knew that spammers did. Most all the viruses in the last 2 years or so have been spam pushing bots. Somebody is buying the damn things and someone is selling them.
This is assuming that Slashdot ever really had that as a goal to begin with. Slashdot is simply a bash portal. They gather no news. Nothing new orginates here. This is just a place to plop down something that has caught an
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Adama is shot, twice, by Boomer in the last scene of the last episode. The gun shots could be fatal. Adama could also be a cylon as they never did test him because they stopped to test Mrs. Tye. Not that Baltar would tell anyone about it.....
Is Adama dead or is he a dead cylon? Or is he alive? The way this show works we may never know.
Agreed.
For me the problem isn't Exchange. It's Oulook. People want to use outlook. They don't give a flying frack what it connects to but they want the useabilty of Outlook.
You need to learn more history. The Civil War had very little to do with slavery. It was a war of Taxation. Import and Export Duties. And Mercantilism.
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Lincoln was no fan of abolishing slavery. He favored colonization. Rounding up all the Negroes and deporting them to any place other then North America.
Let me suggest a book for you to read. The Real Lincoln. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076
It does hold an anti-Lincoln bias but it does site it's sources which are from both sides. I'd read them as well.
Slavery was an abomination that the south should be ashamed of. But Lincoln was no Saint. I don't think it was worth killing 1/10 the population of the United States just to stop slavery. I don't think suspending habeas corpus, waging war on civilians, deporting a Congressman, cannoning draft rioters in New York, devaluing the dollar, sending Federal Troops in to Northern Newspapers to stop presses, running a secret police force that routinely "disappeared" people, and bombing and burning whole cities to the ground was worth it.
Meanwhile every else in the world slavery was been abolished peacefully. People were paid to end it.
I don't know about you. But I'd say we got overcharged.
The 2nd amendment was intended to provide arms for State Militia. The States had the right to leave the Union and they had the right have State run armies to protect us from the Federal Government. Lincoln's illegal war changed that.
No the Secret Service will stop you if you try that.
I can create any damn kind of license that I want. What are they going to do. Claim it is not "Open Source" by changing the definition of Open Source. Sure it is confusing but all the different licenses exist because someone finds the GPL or the BSD license doesn't support how they want software to be distributed. Fix people then you can fix this mess.
A few years back Linuxiso.org got one these letters from Red Hat. They provide links to the sites so that you can download ISOs, get support, etc. RH requested that they stop all together. They did finally agree to a link without any logos. So all the other distro buttons on the site have the logo of the product Rat Hat does not. Totally stupid give away of free advertising on there part.
The issue against CentOS I can kind of understand. What if CentOS changes something and badly breaks something. If CentOS sucks then Red Hat must suck too. I can understand them wanting to protect themselves from that. Also Trademark law tries to protect companies from riding the coat tails of another company. CentOS's only reason to exist is to make a whitewashed, logo neutered version, of Red Hat. Thus the more successful RH is at promotion the more successful CentOS is and they don't have to spend any money.
Simple because the average end user is so ignorant, lazy, and or stupid, that they think it is somehow there fault. They are intimidated by computers, confused by them, but they know that EVERYONE has to have one and they don't like looking like the poor sot who can't even drive a car. Everyone knows how to drive a car, right? Well everyone ought to know how to drive a computer? It is all about pride.
Plus it is also about motivation. While everyone wants to learn how to drive most people don't really want to learn about a computer. It's too much work and most of it isn't fun or helpful. At least driving for most people is fun(at least part of the time.) Computer maintaince is just too much work.
He's right. I personally like Suse. Yet I know people that will spit teeth before using Suse. I like Suse because of its ease of administration via Yast. Some hate that and perfer the command line. Gotta try'em before you use'em. Support and scalability are an issue too. I sell servers to small SOHO type offices. Most any Linux will do the job. I don't expect the download version of Suse to handle a grid cluster.
The next two flights will be the most triple checked in Shuttle history as all eyeballs will be on NASA. It is unlikely that anything will go wrong on those flights. It's the 10th or so flight and beyond when NASA is again crunched for time and money when it gets extra dangerous. People will ignore and cover up things because they don't want to be the cause of a holdup.
Shuttle should never fly again and the money better spent on newer and simpler methods of getting man from ground to orbit. The shuttle's bad design make more accidents very likely.
Rather the reverse I would say. You can't protect stupid people from the world. Too many of them to protect. One can only protect onesself from the stupid people. Which is why I install firewalls, AV, programs and update patches. Depending of Microsoft to do it for you just is asking for someone to exploit you.
By real world property I was meaning physical property which is what you normally mean with "property".
I understand that. But what you are failing to understand is that US law generally supports that Data has a monitary value because it is property. The problem is that is often is very hard to put a dollar value on data. This case is very easy to guys agreed to a set value and money exchanged hands. If done often enough by enough people that will out weigh the notion that this data is worthless.
Besides, just because YOU put value to something, doesn't mean you are entiteled to getting money for Blizzard for losing the data.
That is for a Judge to decide is it not? One random guy claiming his character is worth $100 is just one fool. Hundreds of people trading them on Ebay and bidding on them is a clear demostation of value. Several people bid on it and made counter offers. The value is clearly spelt out.
We are not talking real world property and we are not talking about a situation were Blizzard take care of my belongings for me!
Data is considered real world property. Yes it's all ones and zeros but it is real world property to me. You delete my quickbooks data and I'll be ruined. So I back it up. If I entrust that job to someone else and the screw up then I'll sue them.
Now If I'm such a hard core gammer that I've run out to e-bay to buy a character or some item in a game and some nit at Blizard looses it I might be angry enough to sue them. I have a real loss of property(data)because I paid for it. That gives it value. Just as if someone paid to steal my quickbooks data. That gives it value. Data is property. Now just because YOU think that this property is worthless is not the point. Two people agreed that that data has value and let money exchange hands.
If two people make some deal, what would Blizzard have to do with it?
Nothing except that they are the ones holding the item for you. Think of it like a valet parking garage. You give your car over to the valet dude to park your car and he crashes it. He doesn't care that you just sold the car but he is now responsible for the loss of the car. So he has insurance to protect himself should he damage a car that he is parking.
Blizzard is afraid that they may be blamed for any faults that happen while they are "valeting"/housing your things.
It means that they are going to have to be insured for losses(if the server crashes) as selling the "items" on ebay is proof of value. If they can stop that from occurring or make it illegal they avoid the legal necessity of liability insurance.
Indeed, this is a whole lot better then Enterprise and it's Evil Space Alien Nazis or the various plots on Stargate.
Well after viewing "33" and "Water" I'd have to disagree about Survival being the basic motive. This is more revenge based. The Cylons are fucking with the humans. Playing games. It was just survival they'd just blow every human away on site. Yet we've got Cylons running around and even sacrificing themselves(or at least just a body, as the mind is transfered) just to play mind games on the humans.
In the mini-series. Six and two centurions allows themselves to be killed by there own missiles just so Number Six can watch the expression on the poor officer's face as he dies.
The whole Baltar/Six thread is an mind game. What I don't know is if Baltar is been tracked and controlled by the Cylons or if the chip is an independent program. Either way the cylons are some sadistic group of robots.
I take back not wanting to know the cylon's motives. I was fearful the it might not something the series had really considered. The old series had not, IMO. This one has even if the answer might be collective madness(in human terms.) Real slick writing and thought is in this show.