In fairness to you, both the headline and the summary not only completely failed to mention that they did this only after receiving a legitimate court order from their jurisdiction for the information they turned over, the tone of the title and summary implies that Hushmail just handed over information voluntarily in violation of agreements. The Article is poorly written, but the summary and headline are even worse. In general, I think a lot of people are a little too hard on Slashdot, but in this case, the criticism is duly warranted. The summary as written is borderline libelous.
I'm opposed to the stupid and wasteful "war on drugs"*. But that doesn't mean if I run a network service that drug runners are using I'm going to go to jail for them so they can stay in business, either. If you expect strangers to go to jail for you so you can continue to break the law then you're pretty stupid.
* - My brother-in-law got busted for toking up in September. He's in prison. It's a common story, right? Thing was, when he was toking up, HE WAS IN PRISON THEN, TOO. And he has been since 1991. Now tell me: If we can't keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, how the fuck are we going to keep them out of the country?
As others have said, you practically can't find a 15" monitor in this day and age. 17s and 19s are where the sweet spot is, and a little shopping around and patience can yield you even better deals. I bought a 22" ViewSonic widescreen monitor (1680x1050) from Fry's Online for 200 bucks a couple months ago. It's a nice looking digital/analog monitor with vivid colors and an excellent contrast ratio. I use it on my Windows box for music composition and playing games: mostly World in Conflict and Starcraft. Yes, even the 640x480 resolution looks halfway decent on it.
I would guess as competition heats up for the holiday season it wouldn't be too hard to find a similar deal in the next few weeks.
A state could possibly make it much harder to collect income taxes if they passed a law that made working for the IRS a felony and actually had state troopers and sheriffs enforce it.
Of course, for it to get to that level, it's pretty much on and you're well on your way to a genuine civil war.
+1 back at ya, for picking it up. Great series, though I've found Hamilton's later work... I dunno. Lacking. I think I stopped reading him after Fallen Dragon.
"Do we wait until they have nuclear tipped rockets that can reach the US? Do we do nothing until NY glows in the dark?"
Damn, I thought it was sweeps month, and here I am getting reruns:
"Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." - G.W. Bush, 7 Oct 2002
Sorry, but I've been down this road before, and I didn't really buy it the first time. Iran could hypothetically have anti-matter planet busters, but the only way I'll believe it coming from this administration is if they take me personally on a tour of Iran and show them to me. That's the funny thing about credibility. Once it's shot, it's REALLY hard to get it back.
Ironically, I always believed Iran to be a more credible threat to US interests than Iraq anyway. I was never in favor of the Iraq war, but the right argument with solid evidence might have got me behind hitting Iran. But that ship has sailed, and I won't be getting on the next one.
'I swear I am going to find the dude who invented the "blog" and kick him in the nuts. It has resulted in nothing but an endless crapshoot of self-rightious wankers who get off listening to themselves spew garbage on topics which they have not the slightest clue.'
I'm going to take a guess and say you've never seen Usenet, have you?
The additional irony here is that I'M the one with the cheapie inkjet printer. It's an HP 5800 $50 Fry's special. It is sophisticated enough to have an ethernet adapter, however. Our nice laser printer went belly-up years ago.
I'm sorry, these examples are not valid because they are not RFC2606 compliant.
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"The main thing that's kicking my butt with ubuntu these days is cups and network printing; every time I manage to get it working, it takes a couple of weekends of pulling my hair out, and then it breaks again at the next upgrade. For that, the book is certain to be useless to me because of obsolescence, and also probably because the issue with cups seems to have more to do with poor design and integration into the distro."
I think you're closer to the truth regarding distro integration, because my experience with CUPS in Slackware 12.0 was the exact opposite. I went into it dreading it too, because I am famous for not getting along with printers at all. I started at 11 am on Saturday, figuring the bulk of my weekend would need to be sacrificed just so I could print from my new system. All I did was start the CUPS server, logged on to it, told it the printer's IP and model number, and it Just Worked(tm). I was done and printing recipes for Ethiopian dishes at 11:02am:-). I was simultaneously pleased and flabbergasted all at once.
It's somewhat surprising to me a distro targeted in part at the newbie market would be such a bear to configure to do as common a task as using a printer, especially when it's using the same software package a "hard" distro like Slackware uses.
I don't think they're done with the IMAP rollout yet. I've been set to US English since Christ was a corporal and I still just have "Forwarding and POP". I even tried just now switching to UK English, then switching back. No dice.
Not a biggie for me, I doubt I'll use it. The web interface is fine for my needs.
"I think you forgot to mention the European Continent where people speak underdeveloped languages like French and German, and Asia of course, which is just slightly bigger than China alone (Indonesia alone has about 240 million inhabitants)"
What part of "or Google already has something for them(Language packs)" was unclear to you?
Yeah, very big of them to only region-lock the least expensive versions of the game. They're like freakin' heroes. I suppose, just like the article, I'm stupid, so would you explain to me why only you smart people have no problem with Valve doing this?
Personally, I think region locking is crap and I don't put up with it. I would agree with an argument that it's their stuff and they can do whatever they want with it. But that whole "X can do whatever X wants with X's stuff" cuts all ways and I won't reward them with this X's money for their region-locked crap.
I don't follow your argument. If you want an overclocking, nuclear-powered, death dealing gamer rig, that doesn't mean you still can't be frugal. Frugal is not the same thing as being cheap. If a person wants the functionality of a $1000 video card, has the means to procure it, but it aware they can do it for less money, they usually will. If a game is $50 in their local market and $30 online overseas, why is it so terrible of them to do that?
You as the end consumer are NOT bound by agreements between other people. The place where you bought it from may have sold something to you in contravention of their contracts with THEIR partners, but that's not your problem... or it SHOULDN'T be your problem... and if law and/or reality contradict that, then the law and/or reality is in error and needs fixing.
I thought Hale-Bopp was spectacular. You could clearly see the two tails and it was close enough that scientists discovered a third cometary tail.
And to the British guy who asked: I think the constellation Perseus is the same constellation in the UK. You may be screwed if you're in Australia though. I don't think you can see Perseus from there, but I'm not sure.
If that's the case, it would be a pretty stupid way of going about it. I mean, "we failed because everyone wanted to go to PAX instead!" is basically the same as saying "PAX is better than us and beat us."
'I guess the motto here at slashdot is "you must respect people's rights, unless we don't like them."
[ Reply to This'
Yes, because every person on slashdot has the exact same opinion on this issue, except for you. You're on to me, I guess. Actually, there's only two users on this whole system: You, and me. All the other accounts are my troll accounts.
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Death to all fanatics!
In fairness to you, both the headline and the summary not only completely failed to mention that they did this only after receiving a legitimate court order from their jurisdiction for the information they turned over, the tone of the title and summary implies that Hushmail just handed over information voluntarily in violation of agreements. The Article is poorly written, but the summary and headline are even worse. In general, I think a lot of people are a little too hard on Slashdot, but in this case, the criticism is duly warranted. The summary as written is borderline libelous.
I'm opposed to the stupid and wasteful "war on drugs"*. But that doesn't mean if I run a network service that drug runners are using I'm going to go to jail for them so they can stay in business, either. If you expect strangers to go to jail for you so you can continue to break the law then you're pretty stupid.
* - My brother-in-law got busted for toking up in September. He's in prison. It's a common story, right? Thing was, when he was toking up, HE WAS IN PRISON THEN, TOO. And he has been since 1991. Now tell me: If we can't keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, how the fuck are we going to keep them out of the country?
As others have said, you practically can't find a 15" monitor in this day and age. 17s and 19s are where the sweet spot is, and a little shopping around and patience can yield you even better deals. I bought a 22" ViewSonic widescreen monitor (1680x1050) from Fry's Online for 200 bucks a couple months ago. It's a nice looking digital/analog monitor with vivid colors and an excellent contrast ratio. I use it on my Windows box for music composition and playing games: mostly World in Conflict and Starcraft. Yes, even the 640x480 resolution looks halfway decent on it.
I would guess as competition heats up for the holiday season it wouldn't be too hard to find a similar deal in the next few weeks.
A state could possibly make it much harder to collect income taxes if they passed a law that made working for the IRS a felony and actually had state troopers and sheriffs enforce it.
Of course, for it to get to that level, it's pretty much on and you're well on your way to a genuine civil war.
+1 back at ya, for picking it up. Great series, though I've found Hamilton's later work... I dunno. Lacking. I think I stopped reading him after Fallen Dragon.
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
No need to apologize. I don't think either one reads /.
Not necessarily. Marry a gamer girl and choose both. :-)
"Do we wait until they have nuclear tipped rockets that can reach the US? Do we do nothing until NY glows in the dark?"
Damn, I thought it was sweeps month, and here I am getting reruns:
"Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." - G.W. Bush, 7 Oct 2002
Sorry, but I've been down this road before, and I didn't really buy it the first time. Iran could hypothetically have anti-matter planet busters, but the only way I'll believe it coming from this administration is if they take me personally on a tour of Iran and show them to me. That's the funny thing about credibility. Once it's shot, it's REALLY hard to get it back.
Ironically, I always believed Iran to be a more credible threat to US interests than Iraq anyway. I was never in favor of the Iraq war, but the right argument with solid evidence might have got me behind hitting Iran. But that ship has sailed, and I won't be getting on the next one.
'I swear I am going to find the dude who invented the "blog" and kick him in the nuts. It has resulted in nothing but an endless crapshoot of self-rightious wankers who get off listening to themselves spew garbage on topics which they have not the slightest clue.'
I'm going to take a guess and say you've never seen Usenet, have you?
"Sorry for not using a car analogy."
Here ya go: It's the difference between putting oil in the engine, and putting oil in the washer fluid reservoir.
Bad car analogy: check. Our slashdot experience is now complete. :-)
And it's obvious: the glue on envelopes causes mental illness.
Excuse me, I have to put on an eyepatch and commandeer a freighter now. I'm trying to slow down global warming.
Avast!
The additional irony here is that I'M the one with the cheapie inkjet printer. It's an HP 5800 $50 Fry's special. It is sophisticated enough to have an ethernet adapter, however. Our nice laser printer went belly-up years ago.
I'm sorry, these examples are not valid because they are not RFC2606 compliant.
"The main thing that's kicking my butt with ubuntu these days is cups and network printing; every time I manage to get it working, it takes a couple of weekends of pulling my hair out, and then it breaks again at the next upgrade. For that, the book is certain to be useless to me because of obsolescence, and also probably because the issue with cups seems to have more to do with poor design and integration into the distro."
I think you're closer to the truth regarding distro integration, because my experience with CUPS in Slackware 12.0 was the exact opposite. I went into it dreading it too, because I am famous for not getting along with printers at all. I started at 11 am on Saturday, figuring the bulk of my weekend would need to be sacrificed just so I could print from my new system. All I did was start the CUPS server, logged on to it, told it the printer's IP and model number, and it Just Worked(tm). I was done and printing recipes for Ethiopian dishes at 11:02am :-). I was simultaneously pleased and flabbergasted all at once.
It's somewhat surprising to me a distro targeted in part at the newbie market would be such a bear to configure to do as common a task as using a printer, especially when it's using the same software package a "hard" distro like Slackware uses.
I don't think they're done with the IMAP rollout yet. I've been set to US English since Christ was a corporal and I still just have "Forwarding and POP". I even tried just now switching to UK English, then switching back. No dice.
Not a biggie for me, I doubt I'll use it. The web interface is fine for my needs.
"I think you forgot to mention the European Continent where people speak underdeveloped languages like French and German, and Asia of course, which is just slightly bigger than China alone (Indonesia alone has about 240 million inhabitants)"
What part of "or Google already has something for them(Language packs)" was unclear to you?
Working for Veropedia without getting paid.
God, I remember when the IIfx came out. I really wanted one badly, but alas I was just a poor college student then.
That, and a NeXT cube.
Yeah, very big of them to only region-lock the least expensive versions of the game. They're like freakin' heroes. I suppose, just like the article, I'm stupid, so would you explain to me why only you smart people have no problem with Valve doing this?
Personally, I think region locking is crap and I don't put up with it. I would agree with an argument that it's their stuff and they can do whatever they want with it. But that whole "X can do whatever X wants with X's stuff" cuts all ways and I won't reward them with this X's money for their region-locked crap.
I don't follow your argument. If you want an overclocking, nuclear-powered, death dealing gamer rig, that doesn't mean you still can't be frugal. Frugal is not the same thing as being cheap. If a person wants the functionality of a $1000 video card, has the means to procure it, but it aware they can do it for less money, they usually will. If a game is $50 in their local market and $30 online overseas, why is it so terrible of them to do that?
You as the end consumer are NOT bound by agreements between other people. The place where you bought it from may have sold something to you in contravention of their contracts with THEIR partners, but that's not your problem... or it SHOULDN'T be your problem... and if law and/or reality contradict that, then the law and/or reality is in error and needs fixing.
That Theo... he's such a smooth talker. I'll bet he's quite a hit with the ladies.
I thought Hale-Bopp was spectacular. You could clearly see the two tails and it was close enough that scientists discovered a third cometary tail.
And to the British guy who asked: I think the constellation Perseus is the same constellation in the UK. You may be screwed if you're in Australia though. I don't think you can see Perseus from there, but I'm not sure.
If that's the case, it would be a pretty stupid way of going about it. I mean, "we failed because everyone wanted to go to PAX instead!" is basically the same as saying "PAX is better than us and beat us."
'I guess the motto here at slashdot is "you must respect people's rights, unless we don't like them." [ Reply to This'
Yes, because every person on slashdot has the exact same opinion on this issue, except for you. You're on to me, I guess. Actually, there's only two users on this whole system: You, and me. All the other accounts are my troll accounts.