>People pay once and can forget about worrying about any recurring charges or running up some kind of tab that will only come back and surprise them later.
Yeah, as anyone who buys pr0n pay-per-view knows, $150 cable bills are not good to find:).
>Isn't this because it's not possible to arrest someone who's carrying a gun (or owns a gun without a license)?
Dude, get your facts straight. We don't just allow anyone to carry a gun at all times. Very few states allow you to carry a gun on you (carrying a concealed weapon). Also, convicted felons aren't allowed to own a gun, and you're definitely not allowed to own a gun without a permit and license. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's unlawful.
Gun dealers are strictly regulated and a waiting period is mandatory to prevent "passion" gun buying and so the dealer can do a background check.
Sadly, what happens after the dealer sells the gun is unregulated, at least in Indiana (I'm talking about person to person gun sales).
Why don't you get your facts straight before you go sticking up for the "poor" multi-billion telcos. The federal government has no laws concerning these practices. It is left up to the states.
In Indiana, which is the only law I'm familiar with, SBC (which owns the lines, and isn't even based in the midwest) has to lease the lines to competitors AT COST. This means that the competitor pays SBC as much as it costs SBC to maintain the line. I wanted to take advantage of this, so I signed up with a competitor (Sure-Tel) which, I came to find out, was owned by SBC. Talk about an incestuous cluster-fsck. So, now I'm with a mom-and-pop telco and pay about half what I paid with SBC. If SBC can't turn a profit by offering good service at low prices, then so be it.
"This IS a gov't project, and this one is only getting funding because of people who watch the news too much and are becoming exactly what terrorists want: afraid."
No, terrorists don't Americans to be afraid, they want us to be DEAD.
It amazes me how people get so worked up over DARPA projects. It's not like anything will come of it. Large cities already use similar technologies to monitor traffic flow. DARPA funds lots of Orwellian-sounding projects. Remember the internet? A DARPA project to build a communications network in case the Russians took out our infrastructure.
And just because DARPA wants to investigate the possibilities doesn't mean anything will come of it. They were (and might still be) real big into projects that studied different ways to implement TIA. Yet, we just read that TIA will effectively be killed in the latest appropriations bill. So, it's not time to panic. When it's time to panic, I'll let you know.
But, on a side note, one great thing about technology is that sometimes it gets misused with unintended benefits. Indiana went from metal-stamped license plates to new plastic ones with screen-printed numbers (Just because we can (R)), and now the traffic cameras can't read the plates due to the glare. That's rich justice for ya.
After reading the article (and being intrigued by the Einstein quote), I remembered a biography of Einstein I saw on TV a while ago. I googled a bit and found a short biography on PBS.org.
It says that Einstein was married in 1903. Then in 1905, he published three papers, including his most famous one on the theory of relativity. So, the authors of the article used a quote from a man whose life contradicts the theory!
"I think the tendency for FPS and RolePlaying games to be online first, still shows the PC is home of the geek gamers (leading tech edge)."
I disagree. I consider myself a geek AND a gamer, but I can't stand PC games. They're all the same. Command & Conquer = Warcraft, most PC RPGs are just copies of D&D, all FPS's are Doom with a different setting, and who wants to play a sports game on a PC?
I say give me my PS2 and leave my PC for the purpose for which it was created: surfing for pr0n and typing hateful letters to the editor!
My supermarket closes for an hour at midnight every night for computer inventory. If I want to eat, this doesn't make me any less hungry. I wait until 1:15, then bike over.
You've got your analogies all messed up. Your supermarket is doing the equivalent of site maintenance. "Our site is temporarily down for maintenance" is a lot different than "This site is owned." and a bunch of vulgarities and shoutouts to the kid's peeps.
The supermarket equivalent of this is taggers breaking in and destroying all the food and replacing it with fecal matter.
Have you got any idea when the main case will happen?
Well, we are going into discovery now, starting in July. I suspect that will take us into the fall timeframe.
You mean I have to see daily/. stories about this until at least the fall?
/me runs into the closet, shuts the door, and assumes fetal position, awaiting SCO's wrath.
I would recommend that anyone in Indiana just keep their number on the state's registry. Not only is that the recommendation of AG Steve Carter, but also of everyone I've talked to that is familiar with the federal legislation.
A state lawmaker friend of mine has told me that while Indiana's registry exempts only charities, newspapers, insurance agents, and realtors (and even he is suspicious about the last three - strong lobby?), the federal list exempts many groups, including long-distance phone companies, airlines, and insurance agencies.
In other words, the FTC did what it does best, appear to help consumers while pandering to corporate pressure.
Also, it should be noted that NASA did not build Helios. It was built by a private company with NASA funding. That's like saying that Because someone has funding from DARPA, it's a DARPA project.
I saw a documentary on Helios (actually, it was on the head of this company, who is quite an unmanned-flight pioneer, from what I gather.) The designers have also designed mini-planes, including one the size of a deck of cards!
This is only a minor setback, as Helios is a smashing success in this field.
It's probably because the mac's biggest audience until very recently was comprised of mostly artistic types. Also, Macs are so much more stylish than PCs to begin with.
Sort of. It's true that SCO participation in development is irrelevant
No, that's very relevant. What the guy is saying is that SCO's participation in Linux even after suspecting that there was UNIX code in it condoned it and basically waived SCO's right to contest it. (Remember, SCO claimed that they knew about this infringemnt for about a year before they filed the suit and filed only after not hearing back from IBM.)
Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft
And it isn't now? If I do remember correctly, one of the bigger points in the Sun v. Microsoft case was that MS was changing the Java compiler that shipped with Windows. In effect, if Red Hat made an OSS Java, Microsoft would have every right to submit code to it. In fact, MS could theoretically take that and release its own distro of it, though if RH does follow with the plan, it'd probably be GPL'd and MS wouldn't touch it (damn viral GPL!)
The truth is, I don't really see a need for this. I'm not saying there isn't, just that I don't see it. I've never heard anyone complain that Java needed to be open. I have a feeling Java would become too much like Perl, where there's so many ways to do one thing, that it's hard to follow anyone else's code unless it's heavily commented. I like Java's strictness and its "Do it this way, or don't do it at all" attitude. But, that's just me.
I thought that one of the "features" of a Mac is that it's so intuitive, you don't need to read a big heavy book to use it. I guess that's what you get when you take a toy computer and put UNIX on it.
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Solaris can do that. Sun's UNIX license gives it freedom to do whatever it wants with Solaris, even GPL it.
SCO's claim is that IBM had no such rights in its license, and so violated it by GPL'ing certain UNIX source, however false those claims may be.
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>People pay once and can forget about worrying about any recurring charges or running up some kind of tab that will only come back and surprise them later.
:).
Yeah, as anyone who buys pr0n pay-per-view knows, $150 cable bills are not good to find
>OK, so I assume you disregard as "unsolicited" any email that comes from your bosses, too...
/. all day long.
As a matter of fact, I DID! That's why I can read
>Isn't this because it's not possible to arrest someone who's carrying a gun (or owns a gun without a license)?
Dude, get your facts straight. We don't just allow anyone to carry a gun at all times. Very few states allow you to carry a gun on you (carrying a concealed weapon). Also, convicted felons aren't allowed to own a gun, and you're definitely not allowed to own a gun without a permit and license. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's unlawful.
Gun dealers are strictly regulated and a waiting period is mandatory to prevent "passion" gun buying and so the dealer can do a background check.
Sadly, what happens after the dealer sells the gun is unregulated, at least in Indiana (I'm talking about person to person gun sales).
>The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
/dev/null.
No, it gets forwarded to
Why don't you get your facts straight before you go sticking up for the "poor" multi-billion telcos. The federal government has no laws concerning these practices. It is left up to the states.
In Indiana, which is the only law I'm familiar with, SBC (which owns the lines, and isn't even based in the midwest) has to lease the lines to competitors AT COST. This means that the competitor pays SBC as much as it costs SBC to maintain the line. I wanted to take advantage of this, so I signed up with a competitor (Sure-Tel) which, I came to find out, was owned by SBC. Talk about an incestuous cluster-fsck. So, now I'm with a mom-and-pop telco and pay about half what I paid with SBC. If SBC can't turn a profit by offering good service at low prices, then so be it.
"This IS a gov't project, and this one is only getting funding because of people who watch the news too much and are becoming exactly what terrorists want: afraid."
No, terrorists don't Americans to be afraid, they want us to be DEAD.
It amazes me how people get so worked up over DARPA projects. It's not like anything will come of it. Large cities already use similar technologies to monitor traffic flow. DARPA funds lots of Orwellian-sounding projects. Remember the internet? A DARPA project to build a communications network in case the Russians took out our infrastructure.
And just because DARPA wants to investigate the possibilities doesn't mean anything will come of it. They were (and might still be) real big into projects that studied different ways to implement TIA. Yet, we just read that TIA will effectively be killed in the latest appropriations bill. So, it's not time to panic. When it's time to panic, I'll let you know.
But, on a side note, one great thing about technology is that sometimes it gets misused with unintended benefits. Indiana went from metal-stamped license plates to new plastic ones with screen-printed numbers (Just because we can (R)), and now the traffic cameras can't read the plates due to the glare. That's rich justice for ya.
It says that Einstein was married in 1903. Then in 1905, he published three papers, including his most famous one on the theory of relativity. So, the authors of the article used a quote from a man whose life contradicts the theory!
Everyone who uses stereotypes are racist, bigoted, neo-Nazis!
(If you don't get the irony, go back to school.)
"I think the tendency for FPS and RolePlaying games to be online first, still shows the PC is home of the geek gamers (leading tech edge)."
I disagree. I consider myself a geek AND a gamer, but I can't stand PC games. They're all the same. Command & Conquer = Warcraft, most PC RPGs are just copies of D&D, all FPS's are Doom with a different setting, and who wants to play a sports game on a PC?
I say give me my PS2 and leave my PC for the purpose for which it was created: surfing for pr0n and typing hateful letters to the editor!
Wow, Don King reads Slashdot?
Alternately:
Wow, Jesse Jackson reads Slashdot?
Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association
Isn't that the casino owner/Yakuza warlord in GTA III? It's nice to see he got out of that mess with the Cartel.
My supermarket closes for an hour at midnight every night for computer inventory. If I want to eat, this doesn't make me any less hungry. I wait until 1:15, then bike over.
You've got your analogies all messed up. Your supermarket is doing the equivalent of site maintenance. "Our site is temporarily down for maintenance" is a lot different than "This site is owned." and a bunch of vulgarities and shoutouts to the kid's peeps.
The supermarket equivalent of this is taggers breaking in and destroying all the food and replacing it with fecal matter.
Have you got any idea when the main case will happen?
Well, we are going into discovery now, starting in July. I suspect that will take us into the fall timeframe.
You mean I have to see daily /. stories about this until at least the fall?
I would recommend that anyone in Indiana just keep their number on the state's registry. Not only is that the recommendation of AG Steve Carter, but also of everyone I've talked to that is familiar with the federal legislation.
A state lawmaker friend of mine has told me that while Indiana's registry exempts only charities, newspapers, insurance agents, and realtors (and even he is suspicious about the last three - strong lobby?), the federal list exempts many groups, including long-distance phone companies, airlines, and insurance agencies.
In other words, the FTC did what it does best, appear to help consumers while pandering to corporate pressure.
Do you realize that 0m = 0ft = sea leval?
Do you realize that 8000m doesn't equal 8000ft?
Also, it should be noted that NASA did not build Helios. It was built by a private company with NASA funding. That's like saying that Because someone has funding from DARPA, it's a DARPA project. I saw a documentary on Helios (actually, it was on the head of this company, who is quite an unmanned-flight pioneer, from what I gather.) The designers have also designed mini-planes, including one the size of a deck of cards! This is only a minor setback, as Helios is a smashing success in this field.
It's probably because the mac's biggest audience until very recently was comprised of mostly artistic types. Also, Macs are so much more stylish than PCs to begin with.
Sort of. It's true that SCO participation in development is irrelevant
No, that's very relevant. What the guy is saying is that SCO's participation in Linux even after suspecting that there was UNIX code in it condoned it and basically waived SCO's right to contest it. (Remember, SCO claimed that they knew about this infringemnt for about a year before they filed the suit and filed only after not hearing back from IBM.)
Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft
And it isn't now? If I do remember correctly, one of the bigger points in the Sun v. Microsoft case was that MS was changing the Java compiler that shipped with Windows. In effect, if Red Hat made an OSS Java, Microsoft would have every right to submit code to it. In fact, MS could theoretically take that and release its own distro of it, though if RH does follow with the plan, it'd probably be GPL'd and MS wouldn't touch it (damn viral GPL!)
The truth is, I don't really see a need for this. I'm not saying there isn't, just that I don't see it. I've never heard anyone complain that Java needed to be open. I have a feeling Java would become too much like Perl, where there's so many ways to do one thing, that it's hard to follow anyone else's code unless it's heavily commented. I like Java's strictness and its "Do it this way, or don't do it at all" attitude. But, that's just me.
I thought that one of the "features" of a Mac is that it's so intuitive, you don't need to read a big heavy book to use it. I guess that's what you get when you take a toy computer and put UNIX on it.
Solaris can do that. Sun's UNIX license gives it freedom to do whatever it wants with Solaris, even GPL it.
SCO's claim is that IBM had no such rights in its license, and so violated it by GPL'ing certain UNIX source, however false those claims may be.
Next he will sue Philips and Sony to remove the volume controls from cd players, or else listeners have to much control over their "IP".
Nah., he'll say that if listeners can turn it up too loud, other people who didn't fork over the $18 might hear it.
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