On my way to pick up my first grader to go vote now. (Beaming.) There was an NPR piece this morning on research showing that kids who went to the polling place with their parents were twice as likely to vote as adults. Hey, I remember doing it with my mom.
What a great idea! I should have taken my 4 year old. I'll be sure to do that next election...thanks for the idea.
Who's the greater coward, the one who won't stand up for what's right even if a problem doesn't affect him directly, or one who will speak out against all evil?
Oh Stu...does this mean you're going around the workplace railing against this? At home? On the subway? Every waking moment? Of course not. If you read my post the point is I believe this is not the place to discuss it.
I'll assume that even you aren't stupid enough to actually believe this only affects criminals and terrorists.
So, how does it affect you, the system, or the society? What's next, Ma Bell won't be able to make a public announcement when they put a wiretap on a suspect? How is this different?
Do you want everyone to have absolute freedom? No. You want something between the extremes, so you trade your personal freedom for your personal security. Where do you draw the line?
By the way, the quote is from Benjamin Franklin, sunshine.
This is "news for nerds"? It may be important to discuss in the big scheme of things but let EFF run their own discussion boards on these topics. I suppose the criminal nerds and terrorist nerds have reason to be concerned but this is off topic for the average nerd.
It's time to implement modding of topics. Crap (like "version 0.1001a of 'abc' has been released!") can be shunted off to the dead pool for those that care and marginal topics that may have been rejected otherwise could get voted to the front page.
That's right, I'm not posting anon...but I know the cowards will come out to respond.
"On Feb. 1, 2002, a juvenile computer hacker known as ``Pimpshiz'' was sentenced in Contra Costa County, Calif. after pleading guilty to replacing a NASA web page at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md... His sentence included...a prohibition that he may not use the ``Pimpshiz'' nickname during his two-years probation."
Woo hoo! The Pimpshiz name is finally available again. Now how do I change my/. login?
I think Herbert and Anderson did an excellent job with the "House" prequels. The characterization was well done and there was...gasp...action! Original Dune is a great series but it really got dry as the series wore on. Herbert and Anderson have added much needed life to the series while remaining true to the original.
That being said I have not read "The Butlerian Jihad" but look forward to it. All the negative comments posted here don't deter me...just par for the course at slashdot. These are the same people raving about version 0.002 of some unfishished buggy software:)
"Paypal will resolve a problem with a prominent customer..."
"Prominent" customer? I hardly think the tip jar for the guy giving away a homebrewed word processor qualifies as "prominent". So, do you know how the money was taken? How do you know it was Paypal's fault?
I ran a mail order sales business and took PayPal. I started when PayPal started...in fact, I used their $10 free/$10 referral to drum up business. Sign up for PayPal through me and I'll give you the $10 referral I get in store credit. Worked great, business boomed.
Then PayPal took all my money (or allowed someone else to), forced me into bankruptcy, the bank took my house and my wife ran off with the PayPal support guy - we had so many problems they fell in love after talking on the phone and exchanging e-mails so much. Now I'm posting this from the public library, I sleep in my '75 Vega, shower at the Y (don't drop the soap), eat out of McDonald's dumpster.
Yeah, you all wish that was the story, don't you? The fact is neither I nor any customers had any trouble with PayPal. I continue to use PayPal for auctions, again without trouble. My password is "fraGTh1$BuddY**867-5309" so you see it's very secure and I keep it safe - not even my wife knows it.
Basic security precautions, people. The fault lies not with the stars but with ourselves (or something like that).
I've actually used that script. It's pretty funny...
Hey, you know, if it is slashdotted it will come back. Slashdotting is not some permanent erasure but a temporary unavailability. Just bookmark it (I have a "slashdotted" folder) and come back in a week.
Or instead of writing you a check, or getting a cashier's check, or getting a money order...
"Hey honey, let's ignore tried and true banking principles that have been in place for years and are regulated by the government and let's use this new website that just opened up instead!" "Ok, sounds great!"
[beep][beep][beep]Oh sorry, gotta run, my bullshit detector is going off...
He says, "...their system is notoriously insecure."
It seems to me that if the system is that insecure, the perps could have found something more lucrative to rob than the Abiword tip jar. I'm sure there are power sellers on ebay that do more business in a week than the tip jar sees in a year.
Perhaps his fund password was something like "abiword" or he responded to a scam e-mail...
Reading the complete post, I see "...Their silence implies to me that they are treating this matter as if I got mugged on the street, rather than as if someone walked into their bank and withdrew my money without my consent."
So it sounds as if it was not a hole but rather an error on Dom's part. I look forward to reading more about this to find out just how this happened.
Re:blogs are just the text version of The Sims...
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The use of the third-person plural pronoun they to refer to a singular noun or pronoun is attested as early as 1300, and many admired writers have used they, them, themselves, and their to refer to singular nouns such as one, a person, an individual, and each...The usage is so common in speech that it generally passes unnoticed. However, despite the convenience of third-person plural forms as substitutes for generic he and for structurally awkward coordinate forms like his/her, many people avoid using they to refer to a singular antecedent out of respect for the traditional grammatical rule concerning pronoun agreement. Most of the Usage Panelists reject the use of they with singular antecedents. Eighty-two percent find the sentence The typical student in the program takes about six years to complete their course work unacceptable.
It sounds like they're merely taking control of their networks.
Nothing to see here; Michael hit the panic button prematurely. Had this been a real emergency you would have been instructed to write your congressman.
I agree with you. What is wrong with the providers capping bandwidth or transfer? It is their commodity - if users don't like it they can find another source.
The reason, Michael, that this issue "has gotten very little from the mainstream press" is that what the companies want to do is reasonable. No one is going to get a T1 for $40/month. I don't get unlimited gas, water, electricity for a flat rate either. While data is not a physical commodity there are still costs associated with it that need to be covered. This isn't like cable tv where I can leave my tv on all the time without degrading the experience of my neighbor. Pay for what you use...common sense
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...or the Osbournes, or Anna Nicole Smith's show, or...
You're just sitting around watching (reading about) someone else living his* life. Perhaps the Sims is a little better, as you can direct the action.
Wouldn't it be great to have a life so good that you didn't have time to read about someone else's, or better yet, publish the details of yours (and your thoughts)?
Well, it is.
And no, I'm not being lifeless by writing this because I have to be at my computer now; I'm at work This also means I'm getting paid to write this, so double bonus for me.
* his is used instead of the incorrect "their" or the annoying "his/her". The author recognizes that women have blogs but has chosen to standardize on "his"
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On my way to pick up my first grader to go vote now. (Beaming.) There was an NPR piece this morning on research showing that kids who went to the polling place with their parents were twice as likely to vote as adults. Hey, I remember doing it with my mom.
What a great idea! I should have taken my 4 year old. I'll be sure to do that next election...thanks for the idea.
Many things matter. Starving children. Cancer. Child/spouse/animal abuse. Should it all be discussed here?
I voted. Did you?
Your name calling has proven to be an irrefutable argument. I stand humbled by your eloquence.
...makes me very happy that I am not an American
Hey, we don't disagree on everything!
Who's the greater coward, the one who won't stand up for what's right even if a problem doesn't affect him directly, or one who will speak out against all evil?
Oh Stu...does this mean you're going around the workplace railing against this? At home? On the subway? Every waking moment? Of course not. If you read my post the point is I believe this is not the place to discuss it.
I'll assume that even you aren't stupid enough to actually believe this only affects criminals and terrorists.
So, how does it affect you, the system, or the society? What's next, Ma Bell won't be able to make a public announcement when they put a wiretap on a suspect? How is this different?
all things are allowed. No cops. No FBI. No CIA
nothing is allowed. Big brother pervades.
Do you want everyone to have absolute freedom? No. You want something between the extremes, so you trade your personal freedom for your personal security. Where do you draw the line?
By the way, the quote is from Benjamin Franklin, sunshine.
This is "news for nerds"? It may be important to discuss in the big scheme of things but let EFF run their own discussion boards on these topics. I suppose the criminal nerds and terrorist nerds have reason to be concerned but this is off topic for the average nerd.
It's time to implement modding of topics. Crap (like "version 0.1001a of 'abc' has been released!") can be shunted off to the dead pool for those that care and marginal topics that may have been rejected otherwise could get voted to the front page.
That's right, I'm not posting anon...but I know the cowards will come out to respond.
"On Feb. 1, 2002, a juvenile computer hacker known as ``Pimpshiz'' was sentenced in Contra Costa County, Calif. after pleading guilty to replacing a NASA web page at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md... His sentence included...a prohibition that he may not use the ``Pimpshiz'' nickname during his two-years probation."
/. login?
Woo hoo! The Pimpshiz name is finally available again. Now how do I change my
Oh...just saw the pics. Never mind.
I think Herbert and Anderson did an excellent job with the "House" prequels. The characterization was well done and there was...gasp...action! Original Dune is a great series but it really got dry as the series wore on. Herbert and Anderson have added much needed life to the series while remaining true to the original.
That being said I have not read "The Butlerian Jihad" but look forward to it. All the negative comments posted here don't deter me...just par for the course at slashdot. These are the same people raving about version 0.002 of some unfishished buggy software
Hmmm...then I suppose posting anonymously was pointless...
...more of your wife in her swimsuit...woo hoo!
http://www.designmethod.com/JWF/Swim/
I'll take a picture #9, but could you have her switch the the bikini next time? Thanks man. Oh yeah, um, nice case.
Even though you got no love from the moderators I appreciated your post...pretty damn clever I think.
"Paypal will resolve a problem with a prominent customer..."
"Prominent" customer? I hardly think the tip jar for the guy giving away a homebrewed word processor qualifies as "prominent". So, do you know how the money was taken? How do you know it was Paypal's fault?
I ran a mail order sales business and took PayPal. I started when PayPal started...in fact, I used their $10 free/$10 referral to drum up business. Sign up for PayPal through me and I'll give you the $10 referral I get in store credit. Worked great, business boomed.
Then PayPal took all my money (or allowed someone else to), forced me into bankruptcy, the bank took my house and my wife ran off with the PayPal support guy - we had so many problems they fell in love after talking on the phone and exchanging e-mails so much. Now I'm posting this from the public library, I sleep in my '75 Vega, shower at the Y (don't drop the soap), eat out of McDonald's dumpster.
Yeah, you all wish that was the story, don't you? The fact is neither I nor any customers had any trouble with PayPal. I continue to use PayPal for auctions, again without trouble. My password is "fraGTh1$BuddY**867-5309" so you see it's very secure and I keep it safe - not even my wife knows it.
Basic security precautions, people. The fault lies not with the stars but with ourselves (or something like that).
I've actually used that script. It's pretty funny...
Hey, you know, if it is slashdotted it will come back. Slashdotting is not some permanent erasure but a temporary unavailability. Just bookmark it (I have a "slashdotted" folder) and come back in a week.
Call him "Rumpole of the Kernel"...he who must be obeyed...
...my son pooped on the potty today. Neither event is newsworthy (well, the pooping thing is, but only in our house)
Is it that slow of a news day that a 0.4 release makes the front page? What, Cartoon Network didn't issue any press releases today?
It couldn't be Linus Van Pelt...hmmm..who else might it be?
Oh yeah, that Linus. What, he's like Prince and Madonna now, only needs one name?
Here's a nice tall glass of "no kidding"...
Hmmm...sounds like someone's watched too many episodes of "Friends".
Or instead of writing you a check, or getting a cashier's check, or getting a money order...
"Hey honey, let's ignore tried and true banking principles that have been in place for years and are regulated by the government and let's use this new website that just opened up instead!" "Ok, sounds great!"
[beep][beep][beep]Oh sorry, gotta run, my bullshit detector is going off...
He says, "...their system is notoriously insecure."
It seems to me that if the system is that insecure, the perps could have found something more lucrative to rob than the Abiword tip jar. I'm sure there are power sellers on ebay that do more business in a week than the tip jar sees in a year.
Perhaps his fund password was something like "abiword" or he responded to a scam e-mail...
Reading the complete post, I see "...Their silence implies to me that they are treating this matter as if I got mugged on the street, rather than as if someone walked into their bank and withdrew my money without my consent."
So it sounds as if it was not a hole but rather an error on Dom's part. I look forward to reading more about this to find out just how this happened.
oh yeah?
Usage Problem. His, her, or its
Usage note at they:
The use of the third-person plural pronoun they to refer to a singular noun or pronoun is attested as early as 1300, and many admired writers have used they, them, themselves, and their to refer to singular nouns such as one, a person, an individual, and each...The usage is so common in speech that it generally passes unnoticed. However, despite the convenience of third-person plural forms as substitutes for generic he and for structurally awkward coordinate forms like his/her, many people avoid using they to refer to a singular antecedent out of respect for the traditional grammatical rule concerning pronoun agreement. Most of the Usage Panelists reject the use of they with singular antecedents. Eighty-two percent find the sentence The typical student in the program takes about six years to complete their course work unacceptable.
It sounds like they're merely taking control of their networks.
Nothing to see here; Michael hit the panic button prematurely. Had this been a real emergency you would have been instructed to write your congressman.
I agree with you. What is wrong with the providers capping bandwidth or transfer? It is their commodity - if users don't like it they can find another source.
The reason, Michael, that this issue "has gotten very little from the mainstream press" is that what the companies want to do is reasonable. No one is going to get a T1 for $40/month. I don't get unlimited gas, water, electricity for a flat rate either. While data is not a physical commodity there are still costs associated with it that need to be covered. This isn't like cable tv where I can leave my tv on all the time without degrading the experience of my neighbor. Pay for what you use...common sense
...or the Osbournes, or Anna Nicole Smith's show, or...
You're just sitting around watching (reading about) someone else living his* life. Perhaps the Sims is a little better, as you can direct the action.
Wouldn't it be great to have a life so good that you didn't have time to read about someone else's, or better yet, publish the details of yours (and your thoughts)?
Well, it is.
And no, I'm not being lifeless by writing this because I have to be at my computer now; I'm at work This also means I'm getting paid to write this, so double bonus for me.
* his is used instead of the incorrect "their" or the annoying "his/her". The author recognizes that women have blogs but has chosen to standardize on "his"