Oh, but I learned my lesson early. I once saw a pack of football players/goons/rednecks tear into someone they tripped in the hall. The poor kid tripped and spilled his books - which included a Player's Handbook tucked into his stack of school books. You would have thought the gates of righteous hell had opened on that kid. Damn punks will eventually get their comeupance - I hope.
These kids have it easy. Why, in my day, we'd start White Plume Mountain or Temple of Elemental Evil on a Friday at 4pm (enough time to get off the bus, grab the backpack with books and dice and pedal over to someone's house) and game straight through until Sunday morning.
Anyone more familiar with the system know how it will help the "good guys" nab the "bad guys"? Seems like there would be a higher degree of success hanging out in a hay field and search for a needle.
I think they're keeping data in case they need it. Imagine being a prosecutor - there are records of all communication involving ISPs at your finger tips. While you're right about the massive amounts of data I'm sure these guys are thinking the advantage to state prosecutors outweighs any potential costs to the ISPs who will have to wrestle with this new requirement.
I don't agree with this, but from the perspective of state prosecution this likely makes a tremendous amount of sense.
It will be funny, though, when a state official is caught up in something because his/her email and web traffic was stored. If this data is available to the press or non-state invested investigators it could easily back fire!
Oh ya! Imagine the bumper stickers and Saturday Night Live skits to come from this! Two high school graduates, the valedictorian get's passed up for a scholarship to Big U School for a monkey.
I want to see a monkey and Kansas educator work out the problem of evolution, as well. My money is on knuckle dragging Lucy.
Out of the last five trips to a favorite (or used to be favorite) restaurant, the counter folks screwed my lunch up three times. Unfortunately, these were take-out orders with multiple folks' orders, so checking at the counter is incredibly inconvenient given how all orders end up in several bags.
If these folks can't remember to include the sauce in their Asian take out lunches (nothing like plain white rice and chicken in a plastic bowl - it has a negative moisture content), but rats can fly planes, I'm inclined to move to Kansas and burn my copies of Darwin's books.
I think you are absolutely right. Becoming a member of a private anything means you have to adhere to that group's values - otherwise you won't be a member. It's not unlike attending a Catholic Church and then complaining about the prohibition on polygamy. Research the depth of the pool before diving in and the experience will be a lot more pleasant!
I am sorry to report that the greatest document written in US history, is now a piece of subversion as declared by the "Patriot Act."
I fear you are correct, sir. You know, the first document I always made sure I've had on all the PDAs (and now iPod) I've owned over the years is the Declaration of Independence. My poor son, only seven and a Pokemon fanboy, politely suffers through my instruction on its importance to our lives. He's seen art prints depicting the French Revolution, photos from Tiananeman Square, stories and art from the American Revolution - because it's important to know destiny is ours to carve.
But the longer I live (and I'm only 37!) the greater the distance between today and the Declaration of Independence. I should take him to visit the graves of the great American Revolutionists before they are carted away.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
What is to stop anyone who has a subscription from simply bypassing all DRM at the kernel level with a simple module to record whatever they want?
Wouldn't it make everyone's year (at least those not associated with Sony or Rhapsody) if the rootkit installed by Sony's DRM invalidated the Rhapsody DRM?
Our D&D gaming group, which meets every two weeks, is comprised of people with the following day jobs:
Mental Health Therapist
Software Analyst/Designer
Finance Group V.P.
Two software developers
Asst. Attorney General
Paralegal
I'm glad to see D&D becoming more mainstream. It was a haven from a rather boring world as a child, and as an adult is a haven from a rather boring world;-) There were two women in the group - but one had to leave to finalize her job search (she's a professor of law).
Yeah, the nice thing about the OS X Dashboard widgets is their simplicity: HTML, javascript, and CSS. *Anyone* can figure that stuff out! And with HTTP post just about anything possible with widgets that's on Google Desktop.
As for them not supporting *nix - nearly the same with OS X. Because I use Firefox I have Toolbar, and outside of a Gmail notifier nothing else runs from the desktop on Mac. Though rather than feel slighted I like that - it means most of the stuff I use most often is accessible from nearly any browser. Web-based apps is where the distinction between Mac/Win/*Nix breaks down.
Yeah. Consider the 3rd party MacOS X Dashboard Widgets that mimmic Google Desktop features. Hell of a lot safer using Google services that way than via IE and Google Desktop.
By the way, some vendors offer PCs preinstalled with GNU/Linux, I guess these only contain compatible hardware.
Yeah - I've been keeping an eye on those for a future computer purchase. I also know most Linux distros are not more compatible than when I tried them - which was right after I bought a PC with Windows 98. The thing was about as stable as a person with bipolar - up and down more than a teeter totter - even with nothing by the OS installed.
It's not a problem if he buys it or codes it his damned self instead of complaining.
I tried three Linux distributions in an attempt to shed Windows (I eventually did and moved back to MacOS). In all three cases the following four things did not work:
Video Card
Sound Card
Printer
Modem
What was the solution when I called Redhat (for the first distro install) and then posted messages (from my work PC because that one could connect to the Internet) to boards with all the distros? "Just recompile the kernel for your model video card, sound card, and modem."
Yeah. You can imagine how long an OS operating system stayed installed on my home computers.
That's no different than taking a hammer back to the hardware store because the head is loose and having the hardware salesman say "Just reforge the hammer and carve a new handle." I'm interested in computers as a tool, not a way of life.
Having said that, I'm commited to Firefox and had nothing but great luck running Apache (on Windows, not Linux;-) - so OS is slicker than glossy marketing materials from M$ in many cases, but my experience with Operating Systems is to treat them like guys in suits carrying Bibles and ringing my doorbell.
When I come home, I plug in my GBA Micro, PowerBook, Palm, cellphone and iPod to recharge alongside camera, and other devices.
That's a lot of stuff to haul around, isn't it? I finally ditched my Palm (after using them for seven years) and sync'd my Address Book and iCal to my iPod. That was the easy part: most of what I entered into my Palm was something someone else was asking me to do. Solution? "Hmmm. Maybe. Send me an email with these details and I'll prioritize that with my other tasks." Presto: fewer To Do items and fewer reasons to write them down, so I don't miss data input directly into my iPod.
Meanwhile I have power adapters for PCs, routers, access points, cable modems, monitors and external hard drives. Every time I buy a new gadget there's another cable (or two) to install.
This is going to sound like a personal attack, and perhaps it is, but isn't the solution simple: buy less stuff? Hell, I know someone who was an officer in an armored calvary group that was in Iraq. He waged war and didn't have all that stuff - despite having enough fire power to reduce the nearest CompUSA into a pile of rubble with less computing power than my old Commodore 64. This guy communicated with rear officers, helicopters, armored vehicles, and individual soldiers and he didn't have that much stuff.
The quickest way to fewer wires and power cables is to have fewer of them?
Nature is much bigger and more powerful than us and is totally beyond our control through methods like that.
Except the problem may have been caused by our activities, so the idea we can generate focused activity to alter something we set into motion isn't that far off?
The.dmg file loads into Safari instead of prompting to download. Guess they don't test that stuff in other browsers;-)
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Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth
Which language? English? Latin? Esperanto? Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth. Homogenous is great for milk, not so good for culture and people.
I stand corrected. Sheesh... what was I thinking? When we have someone like you around to clue all/. readers into what really matters, we don't have to think.
3. You don't get to cast Fireball until fifth level.
Well, darn - I stand corrected. Fireball is a third level spell granted at fifth level. But I do know quite a bit about Pokemen. The rest? No chance of a witty comeback for such truth!
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Oh, but I learned my lesson early. I once saw a pack of football players/goons/rednecks tear into someone they tripped in the hall. The poor kid tripped and spilled his books - which included a Player's Handbook tucked into his stack of school books. You would have thought the gates of righteous hell had opened on that kid. Damn punks will eventually get their comeupance - I hope.
These kids have it easy. Why, in my day, we'd start White Plume Mountain or Temple of Elemental Evil on a Friday at 4pm (enough time to get off the bus, grab the backpack with books and dice and pedal over to someone's house) and game straight through until Sunday morning.
I think they're keeping data in case they need it. Imagine being a prosecutor - there are records of all communication involving ISPs at your finger tips. While you're right about the massive amounts of data I'm sure these guys are thinking the advantage to state prosecutors outweighs any potential costs to the ISPs who will have to wrestle with this new requirement.
I don't agree with this, but from the perspective of state prosecution this likely makes a tremendous amount of sense.
It will be funny, though, when a state official is caught up in something because his/her email and web traffic was stored. If this data is available to the press or non-state invested investigators it could easily back fire!
Oh ya! Imagine the bumper stickers and Saturday Night Live skits to come from this! Two high school graduates, the valedictorian get's passed up for a scholarship to Big U School for a monkey. I want to see a monkey and Kansas educator work out the problem of evolution, as well. My money is on knuckle dragging Lucy.
Let the Flame mods begin ;-)
W00tkits of Mass Destruction (WMDs) are all over the place, man.
Out of the last five trips to a favorite (or used to be favorite) restaurant, the counter folks screwed my lunch up three times. Unfortunately, these were take-out orders with multiple folks' orders, so checking at the counter is incredibly inconvenient given how all orders end up in several bags.
If these folks can't remember to include the sauce in their Asian take out lunches (nothing like plain white rice and chicken in a plastic bowl - it has a negative moisture content), but rats can fly planes, I'm inclined to move to Kansas and burn my copies of Darwin's books.
I think you are absolutely right. Becoming a member of a private anything means you have to adhere to that group's values - otherwise you won't be a member. It's not unlike attending a Catholic Church and then complaining about the prohibition on polygamy. Research the depth of the pool before diving in and the experience will be a lot more pleasant!
I am sorry to report that the greatest document written in US history, is now a piece of subversion as declared by the "Patriot Act."
I fear you are correct, sir. You know, the first document I always made sure I've had on all the PDAs (and now iPod) I've owned over the years is the Declaration of Independence. My poor son, only seven and a Pokemon fanboy, politely suffers through my instruction on its importance to our lives. He's seen art prints depicting the French Revolution, photos from Tiananeman Square, stories and art from the American Revolution - because it's important to know destiny is ours to carve.
But the longer I live (and I'm only 37!) the greater the distance between today and the Declaration of Independence. I should take him to visit the graves of the great American Revolutionists before they are carted away.
What is to stop anyone who has a subscription from simply bypassing all DRM at the kernel level with a simple module to record whatever they want?
Wouldn't it make everyone's year (at least those not associated with Sony or Rhapsody) if the rootkit installed by Sony's DRM invalidated the Rhapsody DRM?
Our D&D gaming group, which meets every two weeks, is comprised of people with the following day jobs:
I'm glad to see D&D becoming more mainstream. It was a haven from a rather boring world as a child, and as an adult is a haven from a rather boring world ;-) There were two women in the group - but one had to leave to finalize her job search (she's a professor of law).
Yeah, the nice thing about the OS X Dashboard widgets is their simplicity: HTML, javascript, and CSS. *Anyone* can figure that stuff out! And with HTTP post just about anything possible with widgets that's on Google Desktop. As for them not supporting *nix - nearly the same with OS X. Because I use Firefox I have Toolbar, and outside of a Gmail notifier nothing else runs from the desktop on Mac. Though rather than feel slighted I like that - it means most of the stuff I use most often is accessible from nearly any browser. Web-based apps is where the distinction between Mac/Win/*Nix breaks down.
Yeah. Consider the 3rd party MacOS X Dashboard Widgets that mimmic Google Desktop features. Hell of a lot safer using Google services that way than via IE and Google Desktop.
By the way, some vendors offer PCs preinstalled with GNU/Linux, I guess these only contain compatible hardware.
Yeah - I've been keeping an eye on those for a future computer purchase. I also know most Linux distros are not more compatible than when I tried them - which was right after I bought a PC with Windows 98. The thing was about as stable as a person with bipolar - up and down more than a teeter totter - even with nothing by the OS installed.
It's not a problem if he buys it or codes it his damned self instead of complaining.
I tried three Linux distributions in an attempt to shed Windows (I eventually did and moved back to MacOS). In all three cases the following four things did not work:
What was the solution when I called Redhat (for the first distro install) and then posted messages (from my work PC because that one could connect to the Internet) to boards with all the distros? "Just recompile the kernel for your model video card, sound card, and modem."
Yeah. You can imagine how long an OS operating system stayed installed on my home computers.
That's no different than taking a hammer back to the hardware store because the head is loose and having the hardware salesman say "Just reforge the hammer and carve a new handle." I'm interested in computers as a tool, not a way of life.
Having said that, I'm commited to Firefox and had nothing but great luck running Apache (on Windows, not Linux ;-) - so OS is slicker than glossy marketing materials from M$ in many cases, but my experience with Operating Systems is to treat them like guys in suits carrying Bibles and ringing my doorbell.
When I come home, I plug in my GBA Micro, PowerBook, Palm, cellphone and iPod to recharge alongside camera, and other devices.
That's a lot of stuff to haul around, isn't it? I finally ditched my Palm (after using them for seven years) and sync'd my Address Book and iCal to my iPod. That was the easy part: most of what I entered into my Palm was something someone else was asking me to do. Solution? "Hmmm. Maybe. Send me an email with these details and I'll prioritize that with my other tasks." Presto: fewer To Do items and fewer reasons to write them down, so I don't miss data input directly into my iPod.
Meanwhile I have power adapters for PCs, routers, access points, cable modems, monitors and external hard drives. Every time I buy a new gadget there's another cable (or two) to install.
This is going to sound like a personal attack, and perhaps it is, but isn't the solution simple: buy less stuff? Hell, I know someone who was an officer in an armored calvary group that was in Iraq. He waged war and didn't have all that stuff - despite having enough fire power to reduce the nearest CompUSA into a pile of rubble with less computing power than my old Commodore 64. This guy communicated with rear officers, helicopters, armored vehicles, and individual soldiers and he didn't have that much stuff.
The quickest way to fewer wires and power cables is to have fewer of them?
Nature is much bigger and more powerful than us and is totally beyond our control through methods like that.
Except the problem may have been caused by our activities, so the idea we can generate focused activity to alter something we set into motion isn't that far off?
The .dmg file loads into Safari instead of prompting to download. Guess they don't test that stuff in other browsers ;-)
Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth
Which language? English? Latin? Esperanto? Let's have one culture/language/religion be the standard for people on earth. Homogenous is great for milk, not so good for culture and people.
Goes back a bit further than that to Senator Church, from Idaho. "COINTELPRO" ring a bell?
What happens when someone registers http://localhost/ ?
Argh! And to be caught empty handed ... no mod points to flag this Funny!
10:1 says that, after a shift, she's the only one saying to her co-workers "I just can't believe how nice people are."
And no, it doesn't matter.
I stand corrected. Sheesh ... what was I thinking? When we have someone like you around to clue all /. readers into what really matters, we don't have to think.
3. You don't get to cast Fireball until fifth level.
Well, darn - I stand corrected. Fireball is a third level spell granted at fifth level. But I do know quite a bit about Pokemen. The rest? No chance of a witty comeback for such truth!