In this scam a pop up with no navigation and no URL box was presented to the user on top of a genuine web page. This confused the user into thinking the pop up came from citibank. Advertisers like such pop ups because it locks the user into a path specified by the advertiser and obscures the source of the ad. Some web designers like the format because they think it's looks less cluttered.
I am (currently) safe from the malware, because I think slashdot would immediately know about a Linux-based scam like this.:)
I have Mozilla set to not allow scripts to remove the address bar and other stuff. Not that that matters much, because Mozilla gives you those nice little handles that you can click on to see the page. Not to mention the popup blocker...
I don't think I've gotten this particular spam, not that it matters because I don't bank with Citibank. I'm familiar with the habits of my bank(s), so a scammer using them would also have to be familiar with the habits of my bank(s) to be able to take me. With one, I only do business face-to-face. I don't do emails with that bank unless it's trivial, non-private stuff (like asking for an API to connect to their online banking system because Free SOftware needs this stuff!).
Of course, I have KMail set to display HTML emails, but *not* run javascript (it never runs attachments by default, even when called from the javascript). KMail puts this black box next to HTML displayed email so I know it's HTML.
And finally, anytime *anyone* just asks me for my information when I have not instigated a series of events that would result in the query, I don't give it. Period. If I login to my bank and they ask me for my pin, I have instigated the event that caused them to ask, I give it. If someone out of the blue (regardless of how genuine it looks) sends me an email with *any* reason to ask for my information, I don't give it. Fact is, if it's law enforcement, they'll eventually show up with a warrant. If it's my bank, they'll call and identify themselves (and if it doesn't say my bank on the caller id, I don't give it).
Awhile back I was getting a bunch of credit card scams by phone, and another scam where they were trying to get my checking account information. They would say "restore your credit with this credit card! Just give us your bank account information for a one-time $200 transaction that covers all of your interest and yearly charges for the life of the card, and you get this HUGE credit card." Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.
hey never performed any exploits though, like actually trying to access the web server in russia to see what information they actually had...
Maybe I don't completely understand web servers, but one question I had left from the article was "How did they get the server log files they said reported the data about hits?"
First you say that more and more people are flunking out of college or not going at all, then you say how the number of people attending college is rising, so the value of finishing college will fall? I do not understand.
Do you understand population growth, or do I have to explain that to you, too? How about the fact that many jobs are going offshores? Further, have you any idea how many jobs have been reduced or replaced with machinery?
Most universities that I've seen numbers for (not many, I'll admit) report record levels of students each year, so the kids that are flunking out are being replaced quickly. These same universities are reporting record numbers of degrees earned each year, so yes, the number of college-educated fools is increasing every year. Personally, I have quite a job history, mostly in "unskilled" and mechanical work, and in every place I've worked, at least 1, usually more, college-educated fools worked alongside me. I usually outperformed them and outlasted them.
If the spammers did follow through on the scam and extract money from someone's account then it should be relatively trivial to trace the money and find the bad guys. Certainly much easier than trying to find through technological means.
First, I RTFA and I am well aware that the scammers perpetrating the bank scam are Americans, and therefore the law covers them.
However, many of these scam spams come from overseas, where we have no jurisdiction. We'd have to invade them, force them to setup a government according to our tastes, fight a war against angry retaliants, and ultimately not manage to catch the "bad guys" we were supposed to be after in the first place. So, I suppose we just can't solve this problem.;)
I'm wondering how they can expect a college degree in someone they aren't paying a living wage to....in light that most people have college loans to pay off and can't live and pay back both on this lousy salary....??
Simple. Regardless of how much conditioning you've accepted, college degrees aren't worth much anymore. High School education has gotten so shitty that people entering college don't know how to read, write, and do math. A lot of those people either fluck out of college, or never go in the first place, and have to learn all the stuff on the job.
So as the number of people going to college rises, so too will the value of that college education fall. It's supply and demand, something they teach in college, I understand. But i wouldn't know, because I didn't go.
d30? Kids today have no appreciation for the classics. In my day, we made do with the Plato's five perfect solids and a ten-sided die. But everyone knew that the ten-sided die was suspect.
Back in my day, when the d30 first came out, we used it for God-checks, and that was it.:)
Actually, I'm not sure if D&D originally used ten-sided dice. I think that was a later perversion, but I can't be certain. (I'm sure someone here knows, but no one is reading this thread anymore.)
Did they start using d10s? We used them in Vampire when it came out (I was a beta-tester for the first edition of Werewolf), and Marvel Super Heroes, and a few others, but I don't recall D&D or AD&D ever using d10s. I recall instead that they used d6s to generate stats and d20s for combat (and proficiency checks in AD&D), but no d10s anywhere. I came into AD&D when the second edition came out, and I was into D&D when there were five sets (the fifth one being about when your character becomes a god).
I expect you to stop buying vinyl when the sampling rates go over 98k and 32-bit float becomes the consumer-grade digital standard. 32-bit float has dynamic response that is far superior to vinyl, and the sampling rate will be the bottleneck at that time.
Personally, I prefer my equipment not do any default sound processing unless I choose for it to do so, and if vinyl "sounds warmer", then I'll contend that it doesn't sound "as recorded" and I don't want it.:) If I want to eq the thing, fine. If I want to throw a compressor on it, fine. But the media shouldn't automatically make the sound any different than it was recorded to sound.
For the record, the thing still holding many musicians back from digital gear is the coldness you've indirectly mentioned associated with digital gear. The real barrier, I think, is lack of understanding. I've got a really warm sounding guitar, and I can blues it out with the rest of them without having anybody even s'pect I'm using digital gear (24-bit is pretty good resolution, and I think the processor does 98k sampling). Of course, I also spent the time to learn all the dials and crap and fine-tune the sound. Also for the record, Joe Satriani switched out to digital years ago, and his sound certainly doesn't sound cold.
They will never defeat me and my swiss army knife and electrical tape. You'd be surprised at the splices I've done....;)
Unless they went to *gasp* optical wires and did the d/a conversion in the headphones themselves, or the amp (but it's too easy to splice the speakers into something useful, and most amps have outs anyway that you can just plugin to your computer).
Sure, give an argument about "barrier to entry" just to copy a damn song, but it won't stop "piracy". The only way to make your business so that "piracy" doesn't hurt it significantly is to offer a product people want at a price they're willing to pay (even if it is gouged a bit), and trust your customers. It may be true that most people will occasionally do dishonest things, but in my experience most people try to be honest, decent, and not rip each other off.
Although you *might* keep your VCR around for legacy purposes to PLAY movies _you_already_own_,
Why? When MPlayer will take streaming video and encode it for you (you should be able to specify a level of quality that'll eliminate most loss), and a video card to get the streaming video is pretty cheap, and you can then burn svcds that will show a picture on your tv that is indistinguishable from your vhs tapes, and your svcds will play in a $50 dvd player, and since they're optical media they will last as long as you don't destroy them, and you can make *easy* backup copies, why would you keep a VCR around? (Oh yeah, realtime recording, which a combination of MPlayer and cron should take care of as well)
Furthermore, after you've bought said video card which will plug into a tv, why bother keeping around your CD player, DVD player, etc al, when you can assemble a single box that will "do it all" for less than all the fancy equipment would cost, and only requires minimal software/hardware upgrades to support new forms of media?
Slightly off-topic, but are their any open-source, linux-type audio file burner/player apps, that exist today?
Burner/player apps? Would you mind explaining what you mean?
XMMS is a winAmp clone. cdrdao and cdrecord will both record cds. cdrdao will also record vcds and svcds, and dvds (I believe). cdrecord may also record all those things. Noatun is KDEs old media player, but I understand they've picked a new one.
Boy, the list goes on. There's also a lot of gui wrappers for mkisofs and cdrecord/cdrdao (XCDroast, gnome-toaster, etc).
While some of us do not have a "real" education, we do not feel the need to use stupid words that only appear in the Sunday Comics in an attempt to sound more intellectual while presenting a conclusion.
I also have not seen any of the new "Matrix" movies. I have no interest.
Face it: Americans' basic identity is "consumer". You guys here on/. all like new toys, too.
Quote from Phantom Menace.:)
"I'm not a [consumer]! I'm a person, and my name is Anakin!"
Personally, I'm pretty pissed that all Americans seem to think about is consuming, and that Americans as a whole have no trouble accepting that they are "consumers". That really really really sucks. I'm an American, but I'm not a consumer. I'm a customer, and when I buy something, I expect it to last a long time. If I have any reason to think it's a throwaway product (excepting diapers, ever try to clean a cloth diaper?), I won't buy it. (excepting paper plates and paper napkins--those serve a very useful purpose) I don't buy disposable cars. I wait until they've been on the market awhile and have proven their reliability before I'm willing to invest a small fortune into one. I won't buy a disposable house. When I move into a house that I own, I expect it to stand at least as long as I live, longer, because I intend to pass it down to my kids (and let them fight over it).
Another quote (also modified). POints to whoever can name the source and provide an unmodified version:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The relevant bit:
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,
There exists a double-standard. You have the right (part of your Miranda rights, which are just a paraphrase of this amendment) to have legal counsel present during questioning from the police. Your legal counsel is there to make sure you don't bear witness against yourself. That means that anytime a cop asks you a question that is potentially incriminating (such as "Have you been drinking?" when he pulls you over), you have the right to not answer the question, and that by not answering you have not admitted guilt. So...
Only if you're driving. It's called "implied consent". Basically, if you are driving a car, you have waived the right to not take a breathalizer. It's a choice you make.
This "implied consent" violates the fifth amendment, which guarantees that you cannot be compelled to give this information out. You are asked to take a breathalizer test without being "read your rights", because the simple fact is, if you don't take the test, you're under arrest for another crime.
You're not actually saying you'd rather have more drunks on the street, would you? And I'm still not sure that submitting to a physical measurement is self-incrimination.
The actual text is (quoted again):
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,
This has been interpreted to mean (from the Miranda case) that you don't have to be in an actual court case for it to be considered a violation of this amendment. If you give any information to a cop that is considered "witness against youself", that is covered by this information, and you *don't* have to give it.
The solution may work, but it's still unacceptable. I'm all for getting drunks off the streets, just like I'm all for defeating terrorism once and for all. But my civil rights are not to be compromised in the process.
* There may be other amendments that have been conveniently ignored in recent years - these are just the ones I'm pretty sure of.
The fifth amendment got thrown out long ago when you became legally required to take a breathalizer if a cop asks. I.e. you can say no, but then you're under arrest for some other crime (like interfering with the law or some bullshit). (I realize you're not in a court o' law at that time, but I don't recall the fifth amendment requiring that you be in a court o' law)
Yeah, sure, of course you're right. All the big movie studio heads are deeply concerned about the D&D faction. After all, piss them folk off and they'll whip out their +3 Blog of Scorn.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of a fairly large group of people, each individual being able to tell you 156 places you can strike a person that will cause instant death, 20 medieval weapons in a common kitchen, and other stuff.
Well, ya got a valid point about wasting other people's time. No, didn't occur to me that you all'd see a list of a buncha replies. And I apologize for that. As for wasting my time I was entertained by it.
No harm done, dude. This sort of thing doesn't happen very often. last time I saw anything of the sort was when an early comment in an SCO story turned the whole discussion into a religious fight. That was months ago.
On an unrelated note, I bookmarked your sig. While I'm at work tomorrow I'll listen to your songs. Got a coupla friends I'll forward it to also. No idea if I'll like the music or not, but it is nice to see a fellow artist getting his work out there.
Thanks! Fair warning, though.:) All that's there are rough mixes, missing bass guitar (because I don't have a bass guitar). I'm also not much of a sound tech, and I've recently learned stuff so that when I get around to working on it some more (hopefully in the beginning of December) I'll do better. It's metal, though. If you're willing to overlook some of the blatant amateurism there, and you like metal, I'd expect you to find stuff you like.:) Just make sure when you pass your judgement you don't judge poorly because of the poor quality of the engineering, because that part is admittedly poor (even stated so on the page).:)
Anyways, if you like it, and if you pass it on and other people like it, send me an email (through the convenient form on the website). Fact is, I don't have a lot of time to work on my record, and I haven't even touched it in months. If I could show enough interest that would be willing to spend actual money on it, though, I could justify putting time into it outside of my "spare time" (what's that?). Otherwise, anybody who's really interested will just have to wait until I find my own time (which will happen eventually, I do this for fun, not profit).
Of course, if I do get around to it and there is a lot of interest, I intend to redirect the interest into an online music distributor and building a record label with the internet as the core of its distribution model, so the music actually stands more as "this is what you can do with Free Software. You don't need RIAA labels any more", and I intend (when the record's complete) to use my website to prove the base distribution model. "If you build it, they will come" (gawd I can't stand Kevin Kostner).
The books, conversely, diverge quite a lot from the scripted version.
To add to that, Douglas Adams even said that he took some liberties with the books because it was a different medium, and it was possible to do things in the books that it wasn't possible to do on the Radio. I get the feeling he didn't have much to do with the TV series, because he doesn't talk about it much, other than to say that it roughly follows the first 6 episodes of the radio show. He did take part in the Infocom adventure game, and again he points out that while it only bore a slight resemblance to the original story, it was possible (necessary!) to do things that will never be possible to do with books or radio. I would expect a movie adaptation to more closely resemble the TV series than anything else, since this adaptation has already been partially done, and as you pointed out, all the script writing is done. Of course, they need to turn the scripts into a screenplay and then film and had special effects and crap, which is exactly what moviemaking is.:)
I'd do a star trek comparison, actually. There's lots of stuff that goes on in the books that wouldn't even be possible to do in a movie or a tv show. That doesn't make the books better or worse, because we already know that books require the reader to give a certain amount to the interpretation, and neither movies nor tv ask anything of the viewer except time.
Just as a note of trivia, according to Zemeckis on the big BTTF DVD set, 2 and 3 originally WERE one movie. With #3 being, essentially, the last act. Then they split them and expanded both parts.
Heh, maybe I outta watch that extra DVD in the set, eh?:) I remember hearing something like that, but had forgotten it for the moment. And they did intend to make a sequel, at least, they hoped the movie did well enough to make a sequel, since they ended it with "To be continued..." and that little routine about "Your kids, Marty, your kids! Something has gotta be done about those kids!" that turned into a minor subplot in the beginning of the second movie. AT least they knew they were making a movie good enough that people might want a sequel....;)
how to establish property rights as we settle outerspace
Ha! What makes you think we're "settling outerspace"? We ain't doing shit there, and nobody else is either. Sure, some probes are going out. Rumor has it some manned missions are going out, too. But there's absolutely no "settling" going on.
Hey dude, maybe you wanna take a look at this big page you've made that's nothing but you fighting with a stupid anonymous coward? At any point did you once think "I'm not gonna waste my time or anybody else's with this troll"?
SCO can't even find any real infringements in code they're allowed to read. How on earth would they have found an infringement in code they aren't allowed to read?
While you make a good point, the underlying reason your point fails is because SCO didn't read the Linux code in the first place. Considering that fact, they should have absolutely no trouble suing Microsoft for infringing. Also Apple (OS9, since OS X is based on BSD and has already been cleared), Amiga Inc, Palm, et al.
After all, SCO is claiming to own the original OS and that all else is either a licensed derivative or is going straight to hell unless they pony up some money.
Slashdot Mirror
Remove the space between % and 6f
Try clicking the link instead of reading it. Slashdot automatically inserts spaces in long words to prevent page-widening posts.
In this scam a pop up with no navigation and no URL box was presented to the user on top of a genuine web page. This confused the user into thinking the pop up came from citibank. Advertisers like such pop ups because it locks the user into a path specified by the advertiser and obscures the source of the ad. Some web designers like the format because they think it's looks less cluttered.
I am (currently) safe from the malware, because I think slashdot would immediately know about a Linux-based scam like this. :)
I have Mozilla set to not allow scripts to remove the address bar and other stuff. Not that that matters much, because Mozilla gives you those nice little handles that you can click on to see the page. Not to mention the popup blocker...
I don't think I've gotten this particular spam, not that it matters because I don't bank with Citibank. I'm familiar with the habits of my bank(s), so a scammer using them would also have to be familiar with the habits of my bank(s) to be able to take me. With one, I only do business face-to-face. I don't do emails with that bank unless it's trivial, non-private stuff (like asking for an API to connect to their online banking system because Free SOftware needs this stuff!).
Of course, I have KMail set to display HTML emails, but *not* run javascript (it never runs attachments by default, even when called from the javascript). KMail puts this black box next to HTML displayed email so I know it's HTML.
And finally, anytime *anyone* just asks me for my information when I have not instigated a series of events that would result in the query, I don't give it. Period. If I login to my bank and they ask me for my pin, I have instigated the event that caused them to ask, I give it. If someone out of the blue (regardless of how genuine it looks) sends me an email with *any* reason to ask for my information, I don't give it. Fact is, if it's law enforcement, they'll eventually show up with a warrant. If it's my bank, they'll call and identify themselves (and if it doesn't say my bank on the caller id, I don't give it).
Awhile back I was getting a bunch of credit card scams by phone, and another scam where they were trying to get my checking account information. They would say "restore your credit with this credit card! Just give us your bank account information for a one-time $200 transaction that covers all of your interest and yearly charges for the life of the card, and you get this HUGE credit card." Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.
hey never performed any exploits though, like actually trying to access the web server in russia to see what information they actually had...
Maybe I don't completely understand web servers, but one question I had left from the article was "How did they get the server log files they said reported the data about hits?"
First you say that more and more people are flunking out of college or not going at all, then you say how the number of people attending college is rising, so the value of finishing college will fall? I do not understand.
Do you understand population growth, or do I have to explain that to you, too? How about the fact that many jobs are going offshores? Further, have you any idea how many jobs have been reduced or replaced with machinery?
Most universities that I've seen numbers for (not many, I'll admit) report record levels of students each year, so the kids that are flunking out are being replaced quickly. These same universities are reporting record numbers of degrees earned each year, so yes, the number of college-educated fools is increasing every year. Personally, I have quite a job history, mostly in "unskilled" and mechanical work, and in every place I've worked, at least 1, usually more, college-educated fools worked alongside me. I usually outperformed them and outlasted them.
If the spammers did follow through on the scam and extract money from someone's account then it should be relatively trivial to trace the money and find the bad guys. Certainly much easier than trying to find through technological means.
First, I RTFA and I am well aware that the scammers perpetrating the bank scam are Americans, and therefore the law covers them.
However, many of these scam spams come from overseas, where we have no jurisdiction. We'd have to invade them, force them to setup a government according to our tastes, fight a war against angry retaliants, and ultimately not manage to catch the "bad guys" we were supposed to be after in the first place. So, I suppose we just can't solve this problem. ;)
I'm wondering how they can expect a college degree in someone they aren't paying a living wage to....in light that most people have college loans to pay off and can't live and pay back both on this lousy salary....??
Simple. Regardless of how much conditioning you've accepted, college degrees aren't worth much anymore. High School education has gotten so shitty that people entering college don't know how to read, write, and do math. A lot of those people either fluck out of college, or never go in the first place, and have to learn all the stuff on the job.
So as the number of people going to college rises, so too will the value of that college education fall. It's supply and demand, something they teach in college, I understand. But i wouldn't know, because I didn't go.
No, I'm saying that the requirement for the advice is tellingly stupid.
The go put the world in an asylum, Wonko.
How exactly is got a "stupid word that only appears in Sunday comics"? I [went out and] got an education.
Um, "ergo" is a stupid word that only appears in Sunday comics and some episode of the Matrix.
What's the matter, dude? Can't take a joke? -1, No sense of humor
d30? Kids today have no appreciation for the classics. In my day, we made do with the Plato's five perfect solids and a ten-sided die. But everyone knew that the ten-sided die was suspect.
Back in my day, when the d30 first came out, we used it for God-checks, and that was it. :)
Actually, I'm not sure if D&D originally used ten-sided dice. I think that was a later perversion, but I can't be certain. (I'm sure someone here knows, but no one is reading this thread anymore.)
Did they start using d10s? We used them in Vampire when it came out (I was a beta-tester for the first edition of Werewolf), and Marvel Super Heroes, and a few others, but I don't recall D&D or AD&D ever using d10s. I recall instead that they used d6s to generate stats and d20s for combat (and proficiency checks in AD&D), but no d10s anywhere. I came into AD&D when the second edition came out, and I was into D&D when there were five sets (the fifth one being about when your character becomes a god).
in 5 years, I'll still be buying vinyl too...
I expect you to stop buying vinyl when the sampling rates go over 98k and 32-bit float becomes the consumer-grade digital standard. 32-bit float has dynamic response that is far superior to vinyl, and the sampling rate will be the bottleneck at that time.
Personally, I prefer my equipment not do any default sound processing unless I choose for it to do so, and if vinyl "sounds warmer", then I'll contend that it doesn't sound "as recorded" and I don't want it. :) If I want to eq the thing, fine. If I want to throw a compressor on it, fine. But the media shouldn't automatically make the sound any different than it was recorded to sound.
For the record, the thing still holding many musicians back from digital gear is the coldness you've indirectly mentioned associated with digital gear. The real barrier, I think, is lack of understanding. I've got a really warm sounding guitar, and I can blues it out with the rest of them without having anybody even s'pect I'm using digital gear (24-bit is pretty good resolution, and I think the processor does 98k sampling). Of course, I also spent the time to learn all the dials and crap and fine-tune the sound. Also for the record, Joe Satriani switched out to digital years ago, and his sound certainly doesn't sound cold.
proprietary jack/plug
They will never defeat me and my swiss army knife and electrical tape. You'd be surprised at the splices I've done.... ;)
Unless they went to *gasp* optical wires and did the d/a conversion in the headphones themselves, or the amp (but it's too easy to splice the speakers into something useful, and most amps have outs anyway that you can just plugin to your computer).
Sure, give an argument about "barrier to entry" just to copy a damn song, but it won't stop "piracy". The only way to make your business so that "piracy" doesn't hurt it significantly is to offer a product people want at a price they're willing to pay (even if it is gouged a bit), and trust your customers. It may be true that most people will occasionally do dishonest things, but in my experience most people try to be honest, decent, and not rip each other off.
Although you *might* keep your VCR around for legacy purposes to PLAY movies _you_already_own_,
Why? When MPlayer will take streaming video and encode it for you (you should be able to specify a level of quality that'll eliminate most loss), and a video card to get the streaming video is pretty cheap, and you can then burn svcds that will show a picture on your tv that is indistinguishable from your vhs tapes, and your svcds will play in a $50 dvd player, and since they're optical media they will last as long as you don't destroy them, and you can make *easy* backup copies, why would you keep a VCR around? (Oh yeah, realtime recording, which a combination of MPlayer and cron should take care of as well)
Furthermore, after you've bought said video card which will plug into a tv, why bother keeping around your CD player, DVD player, etc al, when you can assemble a single box that will "do it all" for less than all the fancy equipment would cost, and only requires minimal software/hardware upgrades to support new forms of media?
Slightly off-topic, but are their any open-source, linux-type audio file burner/player apps, that exist today?
Burner/player apps? Would you mind explaining what you mean?
XMMS is a winAmp clone. cdrdao and cdrecord will both record cds. cdrdao will also record vcds and svcds, and dvds (I believe). cdrecord may also record all those things. Noatun is KDEs old media player, but I understand they've picked a new one.
Boy, the list goes on. There's also a lot of gui wrappers for mkisofs and cdrecord/cdrdao (XCDroast, gnome-toaster, etc).
While some of us got a real education
While some of us do not have a "real" education, we do not feel the need to use stupid words that only appear in the Sunday Comics in an attempt to sound more intellectual while presenting a conclusion.
I also have not seen any of the new "Matrix" movies. I have no interest.
Face it: Americans' basic identity is "consumer". You guys here on /. all like new toys, too.
Quote from Phantom Menace. :)
"I'm not a [consumer]! I'm a person, and my name is Anakin!"
Personally, I'm pretty pissed that all Americans seem to think about is consuming, and that Americans as a whole have no trouble accepting that they are "consumers". That really really really sucks. I'm an American, but I'm not a consumer. I'm a customer, and when I buy something, I expect it to last a long time. If I have any reason to think it's a throwaway product (excepting diapers, ever try to clean a cloth diaper?), I won't buy it. (excepting paper plates and paper napkins--those serve a very useful purpose) I don't buy disposable cars. I wait until they've been on the market awhile and have proven their reliability before I'm willing to invest a small fortune into one. I won't buy a disposable house. When I move into a house that I own, I expect it to stand at least as long as I live, longer, because I intend to pass it down to my kids (and let them fight over it).
Another quote (also modified). POints to whoever can name the source and provide an unmodified version:
"[Consumerism] means tag-along stupid"
The fifth amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The relevant bit:
There exists a double-standard. You have the right (part of your Miranda rights, which are just a paraphrase of this amendment) to have legal counsel present during questioning from the police. Your legal counsel is there to make sure you don't bear witness against yourself. That means that anytime a cop asks you a question that is potentially incriminating (such as "Have you been drinking?" when he pulls you over), you have the right to not answer the question, and that by not answering you have not admitted guilt. So...
Only if you're driving. It's called "implied consent". Basically, if you are driving a car, you have waived the right to not take a breathalizer. It's a choice you make.
This "implied consent" violates the fifth amendment, which guarantees that you cannot be compelled to give this information out. You are asked to take a breathalizer test without being "read your rights", because the simple fact is, if you don't take the test, you're under arrest for another crime.
You're not actually saying you'd rather have more drunks on the street, would you? And I'm still not sure that submitting to a physical measurement is self-incrimination.
The actual text is (quoted again):
* There may be other amendments that have been conveniently ignored in recent years - these are just the ones I'm pretty sure of.
The fifth amendment got thrown out long ago when you became legally required to take a breathalizer if a cop asks. I.e. you can say no, but then you're under arrest for some other crime (like interfering with the law or some bullshit). (I realize you're not in a court o' law at that time, but I don't recall the fifth amendment requiring that you be in a court o' law)
I'm not so sure that knowing which dice to make save throws and so on really counts as practical training in the martial arts.
Well, in any case, would *you* like to have thousands of geeks tossing d30s at you? That's one skill you *know* they've got...
Yeah, sure, of course you're right. All the big movie studio heads are deeply concerned about the D&D faction. After all, piss them folk off and they'll whip out their +3 Blog of Scorn.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of a fairly large group of people, each individual being able to tell you 156 places you can strike a person that will cause instant death, 20 medieval weapons in a common kitchen, and other stuff.
Well, ya got a valid point about wasting other people's time. No, didn't occur to me that you all'd see a list of a buncha replies. And I apologize for that. As for wasting my time I was entertained by it.
No harm done, dude. This sort of thing doesn't happen very often. last time I saw anything of the sort was when an early comment in an SCO story turned the whole discussion into a religious fight. That was months ago.
On an unrelated note, I bookmarked your sig. While I'm at work tomorrow I'll listen to your songs. Got a coupla friends I'll forward it to also. No idea if I'll like the music or not, but it is nice to see a fellow artist getting his work out there.
Thanks! Fair warning, though. :) All that's there are rough mixes, missing bass guitar (because I don't have a bass guitar). I'm also not much of a sound tech, and I've recently learned stuff so that when I get around to working on it some more (hopefully in the beginning of December) I'll do better. It's metal, though. If you're willing to overlook some of the blatant amateurism there, and you like metal, I'd expect you to find stuff you like. :) Just make sure when you pass your judgement you don't judge poorly because of the poor quality of the engineering, because that part is admittedly poor (even stated so on the page). :)
Anyways, if you like it, and if you pass it on and other people like it, send me an email (through the convenient form on the website). Fact is, I don't have a lot of time to work on my record, and I haven't even touched it in months. If I could show enough interest that would be willing to spend actual money on it, though, I could justify putting time into it outside of my "spare time" (what's that?). Otherwise, anybody who's really interested will just have to wait until I find my own time (which will happen eventually, I do this for fun, not profit).
Of course, if I do get around to it and there is a lot of interest, I intend to redirect the interest into an online music distributor and building a record label with the internet as the core of its distribution model, so the music actually stands more as "this is what you can do with Free Software. You don't need RIAA labels any more", and I intend (when the record's complete) to use my website to prove the base distribution model. "If you build it, they will come" (gawd I can't stand Kevin Kostner).
I'm sure talking to you a lot in this article. :)
The books, conversely, diverge quite a lot from the scripted version.
To add to that, Douglas Adams even said that he took some liberties with the books because it was a different medium, and it was possible to do things in the books that it wasn't possible to do on the Radio. I get the feeling he didn't have much to do with the TV series, because he doesn't talk about it much, other than to say that it roughly follows the first 6 episodes of the radio show. He did take part in the Infocom adventure game, and again he points out that while it only bore a slight resemblance to the original story, it was possible (necessary!) to do things that will never be possible to do with books or radio. I would expect a movie adaptation to more closely resemble the TV series than anything else, since this adaptation has already been partially done, and as you pointed out, all the script writing is done. Of course, they need to turn the scripts into a screenplay and then film and had special effects and crap, which is exactly what moviemaking is. :)
I'd do a star trek comparison, actually. There's lots of stuff that goes on in the books that wouldn't even be possible to do in a movie or a tv show. That doesn't make the books better or worse, because we already know that books require the reader to give a certain amount to the interpretation, and neither movies nor tv ask anything of the viewer except time.
Just as a note of trivia, according to Zemeckis on the big BTTF DVD set, 2 and 3 originally WERE one movie. With #3 being, essentially, the last act. Then they split them and expanded both parts.
Heh, maybe I outta watch that extra DVD in the set, eh? :) I remember hearing something like that, but had forgotten it for the moment. And they did intend to make a sequel, at least, they hoped the movie did well enough to make a sequel, since they ended it with "To be continued..." and that little routine about "Your kids, Marty, your kids! Something has gotta be done about those kids!" that turned into a minor subplot in the beginning of the second movie. AT least they knew they were making a movie good enough that people might want a sequel.... ;)
how to establish property rights as we settle outerspace
Ha! What makes you think we're "settling outerspace"? We ain't doing shit there, and nobody else is either. Sure, some probes are going out. Rumor has it some manned missions are going out, too. But there's absolutely no "settling" going on.
Hey dude, maybe you wanna take a look at this big page you've made that's nothing but you fighting with a stupid anonymous coward? At any point did you once think "I'm not gonna waste my time or anybody else's with this troll"?
SCO can't even find any real infringements in code they're allowed to read. How on earth would they have found an infringement in code they aren't allowed to read?
While you make a good point, the underlying reason your point fails is because SCO didn't read the Linux code in the first place. Considering that fact, they should have absolutely no trouble suing Microsoft for infringing. Also Apple (OS9, since OS X is based on BSD and has already been cleared), Amiga Inc, Palm, et al.
After all, SCO is claiming to own the original OS and that all else is either a licensed derivative or is going straight to hell unless they pony up some money.