You have more chance of being killed next time you get in a car or try to cross the road. Or being murdered by your neighbour. Or having a heart attack from to omuch fast food.
The terorist threat is TINY and shouldn't have been allowed to affect life at all.
Whether that woman was wearing a burkha or not is immaterial. Your disproportionate levels of fear are the problem here.
I don't think "Upsetting other people" ought to be enough to get anyone arrested.
the naked rambler dude in the UK recently had his case upheld in court that he was perfectly allowed to wander around in the buff if he wanted to, as it wasn't a sexual or shocking thing. That's a good ruling, IMHO.
What are you trying to say? That "adult" shouldn't mean violent/depraved? Thay're not. The ratings boards are defining what is not suitable for children.
You would prefer "adult" entertainment to refer to serious, complex drama and art, I suppose? Well that's just fine, however there's little need to stop children from watching/playing that.
Walk into polling centre (these are set up in schools and community halls and are likely less than a mile from your house), pick up piece of paper, go to a booth, put your mark in the box next to a name (With a big sign up saying if you miss the box or mark two you're not going to be counted), put it in the ballot box.
Punch cards, machines, everything else, just unnecessary. I never understood the whole situation in the US where you have people queueing and some unable to vote due to being in line too long.
One would almost think the organisers didn't want people to vote...
I don't blame people for not buying the watered down version, the uncensored version is out in the wild anyway.
After all the hubbub, that's the version people will want.
OTOH, having played it a bit, it's not much different to manhunt one, or any random horror movie. But then I'm not a tv/radio shock-merchant and I seem to have this rare ability to differentiate games from reality.
The fact that Miss Couric throws in the bit about children shows how much people are still just *not* getting it. Manhunt 2 is NOT for your children. It is rated as M (or AO for the original), don't damn well give it to them.
Or rather, you can fix it with a little workaround.
I'd just like to say - THANKYOU SLASHDOT! for bringing this to my attention.
My laptop is only a couple of weeks old and the counter had already crept up to 7300. I have no idea if that's high or not, but after reading this in the office today I came home and switched the laptop on without putting the stereo on for a change. Not only was the counter going up, but I could hear the disk whine and click as it was spinning up and down. After applying hdparm -B 254, all is well again.
I would have been most pissed off if the drive had gone, especially seeing as the only warranty I have is on the other side of the atlantic!
>> "I don't know any non-zealot who believes the whole "Linux is easier to maintain and use on the desktop" nonsense."
I'm not a zealot. I am an extremely computer literate software engineer that uses solaris as his primary OS at work and (until recently used) XP Pro at home.
Then I bought a new laptop that came with Vista. Not only does Vista make the laptop crawl and grind its HD (this on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 with 2G of RAM), it also frequently stops me doing things, denies me permission to do certain other things, silently stops some programs from working, complains about all sorts of rubbish and constantly interrupts me.
Ubuntu, OTOH, works very nicely and flies along without annoying the hell out of me.
So no, I'm no Linux zealot, XP was great as far as I'm concerned. Vista, however, is the thing that's finally making me switch away from windows for good.
I have a "hacked" ps2 (softmod, not hardmod, using HD Advance) and use it to store games on the HD. The advantage? No more scratches and wrecked disks, no more worn out lasers and much faster loading times (in game it makes a huge difference). It also allows me to play out of region games.
Do you have figures on the asian population and whether or not they accept evolution?
Also, if you're going to call someone a fucktard for only considering one more continent then try mentioning more than one other. South America is largely catholic (a religion that explicitly supports evolution theory). Africa is quite diverse, Australia is evolution accepting, though australasia may not be, depending on where you draw borders, due to indonesia. Though I'm not familiar enough with indonesian islam to know what their opinions are.
In fact I just yesterday landed back in the UK after four weeks there.
My country (UK) is just as bad if not worse with surveilance, but one country having most of the traffic going through it isn't a good thing, IMHO, even if we're just talking about network resilience.
I hate to say it but I have to - if the current abuses (guantanamo bay etc) are not any worse than before then the US really needs to pipe down with this "freedom" rhetoric.
Probably I agree with you in principle - people now are no worse in intent than ever before, it's just easier to achieve what the security state wants to acheive now, and it's also easier to report on all the bad stuff going on.
I think it would probably be more of an issue if the governments of the allies in question - like the UK for instance - weren't also spying on everything they can and exchanging onformation with each other.
It's like a big law-circumventing trading association. You can't wire tap an individual or set of individuals in your country because they're citizens, you have no legal grounds and your law prevents it? Well that other country over there can because they're not his citizens.
Then you can buy the intelligence from that country (again somehow not illegal) or maybe exchange it for a little info on his citizens that you've collected...
It's a sickening bending of the rules by governments to spy on their own citizens.
I, for one, do not welcome the casnning of my email by the USA, a country of which I am not a part and have no influence over. A country which is proving itself ever les freedom loving and ever more dubious over human rights and the rule of law (as it applies to governments, police, courts and the military).
I'm pretty sure HD-DVD has (or will have) region capabilities, there seems to have been a push on it in the HD-DVD forum (the people who make the standards).
"Is it because it allows you the convenience of assuming that you're always right?"
Get of your high horse, asshole.
"Unless you judge that the disadvantages of doing what you recommend outweigh the advantages of using the more permissive license."
There only "advantage" to the BSD license is the freedom for anyone to take it and use it for whatever they like. That's why you choose it, to get pissy when people use it is ridiculous.
It's like standing on a street corner shouting "free money" and then being annoyed that people come and ask you for it.
I know what you're driving at, vaguely, that BSD licensed code encourages propagation of standards a nnd interoperability, but for most that doesn't come close to outweighing the idea that they don't want their effort to be able to be taken and sold for profit by others. Asking them to change it (as if they hadn't even considered their license choice in the first place) is ridiculous, and having a pissed of rant is hypocritical. "I don't like you relicensing my code so you'd better relicense yours to my license that specifically allows relicensing". Idiocy.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe most open source devs don't think further than "GPL GOOD!", but somehow I doubt it. Most software folks I've ever met have been extremely clued in on the main two (GPL and BSD) licenses.
If you're going to release your code to the public under a license specifically allowing reuse and extension without releasing the source for the extensions, then get annoyed when people do exactly that -
You're doing it wrong!
What he wants is the GPL, that way people can't just take it and put it under other, incompatible licenses.
BSD licensed code really is 'free', or as near to free as you can get whilst not being PD, sure, but if you're going to sing its praises then shut the hell up when people use it exactly as intended.
Also I find it disheartening the number of folks saying "Well the Linux guys should just release their work under both". Why? That's entirely pointless. If you want your code under the GPL, you specifically don't want people to be able to take it and not fulfill their obligations, releasing under BSD as well would just allow anyone to circumvent that.
But there's more to cybercrime than copyright infringement.
Cracking/theft of secure data DDoS attacks Spam and the associated botnets Viruses
All of which come far higher on the evil list than copying music and movies. IMHO.
And the RIAA/MPAA hate is well documented on many sites and not unreasonable. So far the pirate bay has proven to be within the law in the place it is based and so is not related to crime at all.
My last two phones have had this capability, two cameras, one on each side.
I just don't like the idea of using it. I don't like speaking on the phone much, video is a step too far.
Both of these cultures are massively into text messages, what does that tell you? That they prefer offline, impersonal communication unless they are actually face to face.
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Sure, sure, being gay was "shocking" at some point in the recent path.
This is why the law needs to based on harm, not on social or moral offence. That's a recipe for oppression.
You have more chance of being killed next time you get in a car or try to cross the road. Or being murdered by your neighbour. Or having a heart attack from to omuch fast food.
The terorist threat is TINY and shouldn't have been allowed to affect life at all.
Whether that woman was wearing a burkha or not is immaterial. Your disproportionate levels of fear are the problem here.
Meh.
I don't think "Upsetting other people" ought to be enough to get anyone arrested.
the naked rambler dude in the UK recently had his case upheld in court that he was perfectly allowed to wander around in the buff if he wanted to, as it wasn't a sexual or shocking thing. That's a good ruling, IMHO.
What does that even mean?
What are you trying to say? That "adult" shouldn't mean violent/depraved?
Thay're not. The ratings boards are defining what is not suitable for children.
You would prefer "adult" entertainment to refer to serious, complex drama and art, I suppose? Well that's just fine, however there's little need to stop children from watching/playing that.
Walk into polling centre (these are set up in schools and community halls and are likely less than a mile from your house), pick up piece of paper, go to a booth, put your mark in the box next to a name (With a big sign up saying if you miss the box or mark two you're not going to be counted), put it in the ballot box.
Punch cards, machines, everything else, just unnecessary. I never understood the whole situation in the US where you have people queueing and some unable to vote due to being in line too long.
One would almost think the organisers didn't want people to vote...
I don't blame people for not buying the watered down version, the uncensored version is out in the wild anyway.
After all the hubbub, that's the version people will want.
OTOH, having played it a bit, it's not much different to manhunt one, or any random horror movie. But then I'm not a tv/radio shock-merchant and I seem to have this rare ability to differentiate games from reality.
The fact that Miss Couric throws in the bit about children shows how much people are still just *not* getting it. Manhunt 2 is NOT for your children. It is rated as M (or AO for the original), don't damn well give it to them.
As far as I'm concerned it either means to fortify, heat and spice (mulled wine, cider etc), or to think over/consider an idea or range of options.
Usage here is just fine.
Or rather, you can fix it with a little workaround.
I'd just like to say - THANKYOU SLASHDOT! for bringing this to my attention.
My laptop is only a couple of weeks old and the counter had already crept up to 7300. I have no idea if that's high or not, but after reading this in the office today I came home and switched the laptop on without putting the stereo on for a change. Not only was the counter going up, but I could hear the disk whine and click as it was spinning up and down. After applying hdparm -B 254, all is well again.
I would have been most pissed off if the drive had gone, especially seeing as the only warranty I have is on the other side of the atlantic!
That's a good idea, I shall do so. (after checking to see if it's already been reported).
Ubuntu has installed just fine, I'm using it now. I shall be investigating this hard disk thing though.
I wonder if it affects hybrid drives as badly...
I can't get the bugger to install on my new Vaio SZ
It just kinda sits there and hangs during install. Which is a shame as I love the debian OS in general.
PS3 now outselling Xbox by quite a margin in europe
So shut the hell up already. The PS3 is doing just fine, despite what y'all naysayers are moaning about.
>> "I don't know any non-zealot who believes the whole "Linux is easier to maintain and use on the desktop" nonsense."
I'm not a zealot. I am an extremely computer literate software engineer that uses solaris as his primary OS at work and (until recently used) XP Pro at home.
Then I bought a new laptop that came with Vista. Not only does Vista make the laptop crawl and grind its HD (this on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 with 2G of RAM), it also frequently stops me doing things, denies me permission to do certain other things, silently stops some programs from working, complains about all sorts of rubbish and constantly interrupts me.
Ubuntu, OTOH, works very nicely and flies along without annoying the hell out of me.
So no, I'm no Linux zealot, XP was great as far as I'm concerned. Vista, however, is the thing that's finally making me switch away from windows for good.
It's 128 bit address space. That means there are 2x10^38 addresses. You might be pinging for a while before you find anything.
I have a "hacked" ps2 (softmod, not hardmod, using HD Advance) and use it to store games on the HD. The advantage? No more scratches and wrecked disks, no more worn out lasers and much faster loading times (in game it makes a huge difference). It also allows me to play out of region games.
I'm not a pirate, so leave me the hell alone.
Do you have figures on the asian population and whether or not they accept evolution?
Also, if you're going to call someone a fucktard for only considering one more continent then try mentioning more than one other. South America is largely catholic (a religion that explicitly supports evolution theory). Africa is quite diverse, Australia is evolution accepting, though australasia may not be, depending on where you draw borders, due to indonesia. Though I'm not familiar enough with indonesian islam to know what their opinions are.
In fact I just yesterday landed back in the UK after four weeks there.
My country (UK) is just as bad if not worse with surveilance, but one country having most of the traffic going through it isn't a good thing, IMHO, even if we're just talking about network resilience.
I hate to say it but I have to - if the current abuses (guantanamo bay etc) are not any worse than before then the US really needs to pipe down with this "freedom" rhetoric.
Probably I agree with you in principle - people now are no worse in intent than ever before, it's just easier to achieve what the security state wants to acheive now, and it's also easier to report on all the bad stuff going on.
I think it would probably be more of an issue if the governments of the allies in question - like the UK for instance - weren't also spying on everything they can and exchanging onformation with each other.
It's like a big law-circumventing trading association. You can't wire tap an individual or set of individuals in your country because they're citizens, you have no legal grounds and your law prevents it? Well that other country over there can because they're not his citizens.
Then you can buy the intelligence from that country (again somehow not illegal) or maybe exchange it for a little info on his citizens that you've collected...
It's a sickening bending of the rules by governments to spy on their own citizens.
I know it's a bit late to reply , but - I was under the impression that BluRay wasn't region locked yet?
I know the PS3 games are region fre as I have a Japanese PS3 and a mix of US, UK and JP games which all work.
I've not actually bought any bluray movies yet though, they're expensive and I just don't care enough about HD.
I, for one, do not welcome the casnning of my email by the USA, a country of which I am not a part and have no influence over. A country which is proving itself ever les freedom loving and ever more dubious over human rights and the rule of law (as it applies to governments, police, courts and the military).
Meh, guess I'll keep using ssh wherever possible.
I'm pretty sure HD-DVD has (or will have) region capabilities, there seems to have been a push on it in the HD-DVD forum (the people who make the standards).
Meh. They both seem nasty to me.
"Is it because it allows you the convenience of assuming that you're always right?"
Get of your high horse, asshole.
"Unless you judge that the disadvantages of doing what you recommend outweigh the advantages of using the more permissive license."
There only "advantage" to the BSD license is the freedom for anyone to take it and use it for whatever they like. That's why you choose it, to get pissy when people use it is ridiculous.
It's like standing on a street corner shouting "free money" and then being annoyed that people come and ask you for it.
I know what you're driving at, vaguely, that BSD licensed code encourages propagation of standards a nnd interoperability, but for most that doesn't come close to outweighing the idea that they don't want their effort to be able to be taken and sold for profit by others. Asking them to change it (as if they hadn't even considered their license choice in the first place) is ridiculous, and having a pissed of rant is hypocritical. "I don't like you relicensing my code so you'd better relicense yours to my license that specifically allows relicensing". Idiocy.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe most open source devs don't think further than "GPL GOOD!", but somehow I doubt it. Most software folks I've ever met have been extremely clued in on the main two (GPL and BSD) licenses.
If you're going to release your code to the public under a license specifically allowing reuse and extension without releasing the source for the extensions, then get annoyed when people do exactly that -
You're doing it wrong!
What he wants is the GPL, that way people can't just take it and put it under other, incompatible licenses.
BSD licensed code really is 'free', or as near to free as you can get whilst not being PD, sure, but if you're going to sing its praises then shut the hell up when people use it exactly as intended.
Also I find it disheartening the number of folks saying "Well the Linux guys should just release their work under both". Why? That's entirely pointless. If you want your code under the GPL, you specifically don't want people to be able to take it and not fulfill their obligations, releasing under BSD as well would just allow anyone to circumvent that.
But there's more to cybercrime than copyright infringement.
Cracking/theft of secure data
DDoS attacks
Spam and the associated botnets
Viruses
All of which come far higher on the evil list than copying music and movies. IMHO.
And the RIAA/MPAA hate is well documented on many sites and not unreasonable. So far the pirate bay has proven to be within the law in the place it is based and so is not related to crime at all.
My last two phones have had this capability, two cameras, one on each side.
I just don't like the idea of using it. I don't like speaking on the phone much, video is a step too far.
Both of these cultures are massively into text messages, what does that tell you? That they prefer offline, impersonal communication unless they are actually face to face.