Wow - you must have a really inflated sense of yourself. The 'terrorists' aren't targetting you. Or really anyone else in particular. They kill, in the US, fewer people than traffic accidents. Probably fewer people than accidental firearm discharges, although the spike around 2001 makes this assertion more suspect.
And when the first nuke goes off in a major city will you still sing that tune? Don't even try to tell me that the terrorists won't use one the day after they get their hands on it. Don't know when that day will be, but I'm certain it will happen some day.
And the only way to fight back after the fact is by doing more of what we're already doing now. In the past we were safe because only countries had nukes and if they bombed us, well we'd bomb them twice as hard. Tended to keep the nuclear peace.
Can't do that with terrorists. There is no country to bomb in return. This war has to be fought in entirely different ways than anything major threat we've ever faced before.
So you're willing to give up private telephone conversations when there is no indication that doing so has aided the U.S. in its war on terror. Would you be willing to give up private email messages? Private snail mail? International travel? Domestic travel? Imported goods?
It's really hard to prove a negative. Hard to prove that because we took this step and no terrorist attack happened, that it was because of this step.
So what do you do instead? Wait for the next attack to happen and then curcify the current administration by telling them in hindsight this is what you should have been doing all along?
Don't even begin to tell me that would be a great policy. Then all we're doing is defending against the last terrorist attack -- not the next one.
Nom, you're a smart person, you use logic well.
Thanks. Now please consider what I've just said. The liberal element screams out against ever step of prevention claiming it's clearly not necessary because you can't prove it will prevent an attack. I don't want to wait for the next large scale attack to happen before I can shove it down their throats on how wrong they are. The very fact that there hasn't yet been another attack is proof enough to me that the steps we're taking are pretty effective. They will certainly fail some day, but we'll have less attacks than if we did nothing at all.
Looking at what Hoover did with the FBI's largely unfettered power to keep the reds at bay
Most of what Hoover did was create FBI files. He might have arrested a few people, but its the courts that would have convicted, sentenced, and reviewed over and over again through the appeals process -- along with the press who would seek to expose unlawful convictions. Hoover didn't do all that much to most people.
I, for one, do not wish to live under a highly corrupt, two hundred an sixteen year old country that wants to rule the world.
And I, for another one, do not wish to live under a fourteen hundred year old highly corrupt legal system based on a mis-interpretation of religious teachings that, for starters, doesn't even give equal rights to half the humans on the planet based on gender, nor protects anyone who doesn't ascribe to the religious party line. So there!
...it actually goes into effect -- if ever. Right now it is just a proposal passed by a legislative body and still subject to reconsideration and/or overturning in a number of ways. So don't get too excited yet.
Civil liberties are at the core of a strong democracy, and as they are eroded, so will be a democracy's strength.
And when your democracy is dead because you did not defend it againt enemies foreign and domestic, you don't have a weaker democracy afterwards. You have no democracy at all.
Tell me again how that means I actually won, because I'm not seeing it right now.
If we lose liberties present in the Constitution, the Amendments and The Bill of Rights, have the terrorists won?
Let me see here. Float a couple ideas out there:
1: We do not take steps against terrorists out of privacy concerns. Terrorists succeed with their next attack because of it. I'm dead.
Or...
2: We use all means at our disposal to locate terrorists and stop next attack. Terrorists caught or killed before being able to launch attack. I'm alive, but someone may have tapped my phone or e-mail.
3. A governement with a foreign policy that does not anger the rest of the planet.
Oh, tell me you kidding. Yes, I really do mean kidding. You don't really believe all we have to do is play nice with terrorists and they'll leave us alone, do you? Seriously? What? You do?? Like Saudi Arabia tried??? And others too.
Sir, you are dangerous to my own safety, and I sincerely hope you live a very long distance away from me -- like in another country entirely since you clearly do not understand that you offend terrorists simply by breathing and sharing the same planet with them.
I, for one, do not wish to live under a highly corrupt, fourteen hundred year old legal system. If you do, move where they have one. But do stop with the above stupid ideas. They're worse than useless, and will get us both killed if carried out to the extreme you no doubt have in mind.
Just whose XBox is it? If I paid for it then I should be able to do as I wish with it. Doctrine of First Sale -- Microsoft loses any further control over it. Yeah, if they want to get me for pirating games that's a charge they can take to court, BUT there should not be allowed any case against modding.
This whole article is a troll. It has already been debunked that this wasn't done in secret, all the necessary people were notified, and that the article writer is using the front page of the NYT to flog his book on this subject coming out in 10 days. (I wonder what the advertising rate for an author to use the front page is going for these days.)
But I guess whatever the NYT says is still the gold standard to some.
Best of all, Catalyst 5.13 will be a free upgrade scheduled to be released to the public next week.
Not best of all at all. Best of all is sending me the card free, sending out a technican to install it along with the drivers for free, and then paying me to use it all afterwards. A couple games, btw, would also be nice.
I submitted the story 2 days ago, but it was rejected (damn I hate when that happens)
We all hate when that happens. At least they didn't take the **Beatles-Beatles version.
Would be nice for Slashdot to have, in addition to Accepted and Rejected statuses, a Posted Another Subscriber's Version annotation to your submissions record. Might not sting quite as badly that way.
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And when the first nuke goes off in a major city will you still sing that tune? Don't even try to tell me that the terrorists won't use one the day after they get their hands on it. Don't know when that day will be, but I'm certain it will happen some day.
And the only way to fight back after the fact is by doing more of what we're already doing now. In the past we were safe because only countries had nukes and if they bombed us, well we'd bomb them twice as hard. Tended to keep the nuclear peace.
Can't do that with terrorists. There is no country to bomb in return. This war has to be fought in entirely different ways than anything major threat we've ever faced before.
And yes, I'm very afraid.
It's really hard to prove a negative. Hard to prove that because we took this step and no terrorist attack happened, that it was because of this step.
So what do you do instead? Wait for the next attack to happen and then curcify the current administration by telling them in hindsight this is what you should have been doing all along?
Don't even begin to tell me that would be a great policy. Then all we're doing is defending against the last terrorist attack -- not the next one.
Nom, you're a smart person, you use logic well.
Thanks. Now please consider what I've just said. The liberal element screams out against ever step of prevention claiming it's clearly not necessary because you can't prove it will prevent an attack. I don't want to wait for the next large scale attack to happen before I can shove it down their throats on how wrong they are. The very fact that there hasn't yet been another attack is proof enough to me that the steps we're taking are pretty effective. They will certainly fail some day, but we'll have less attacks than if we did nothing at all.
Most of what Hoover did was create FBI files. He might have arrested a few people, but its the courts that would have convicted, sentenced, and reviewed over and over again through the appeals process -- along with the press who would seek to expose unlawful convictions. Hoover didn't do all that much to most people.
And I, for another one, do not wish to live under a fourteen hundred year old highly corrupt legal system based on a mis-interpretation of religious teachings that, for starters, doesn't even give equal rights to half the humans on the planet based on gender, nor protects anyone who doesn't ascribe to the religious party line. So there!
And Performance. Don't forget this thing can end up running continuously consumung both memory and cpu cycles.
And you're surprised because...?
No one would agree to having this put on their computer if they actually knew what it was. So Sony has to sneak it on when you're not looking.
I would like the settlement for this make their recent $10M payola penality look like peanuts -- or Bill Gate's pocket change.
Sony needs to go down!
And when your democracy is dead because you did not defend it againt enemies foreign and domestic, you don't have a weaker democracy afterwards. You have no democracy at all.
Tell me again how that means I actually won, because I'm not seeing it right now.
Let me see here. Float a couple ideas out there:
1: We do not take steps against terrorists out of privacy concerns. Terrorists succeed with their next attack because of it. I'm dead.
Or...
2: We use all means at our disposal to locate terrorists and stop next attack. Terrorists caught or killed before being able to launch attack. I'm alive, but someone may have tapped my phone or e-mail.
Yeah, that's a really tough decision to make.
Tell me again how I'm safer under your approach. I missed that somewhere along the way.
Oh, tell me you kidding. Yes, I really do mean kidding. You don't really believe all we have to do is play nice with terrorists and they'll leave us alone, do you? Seriously? What? You do?? Like Saudi Arabia tried??? And others too.
Sir, you are dangerous to my own safety, and I sincerely hope you live a very long distance away from me -- like in another country entirely since you clearly do not understand that you offend terrorists simply by breathing and sharing the same planet with them.
I, for one, do not wish to live under a highly corrupt, fourteen hundred year old legal system. If you do, move where they have one. But do stop with the above stupid ideas. They're worse than useless, and will get us both killed if carried out to the extreme you no doubt have in mind.
Vanity press.
If Fox doesn't want anything more to do with it, why don't they just give them up? Let someone else take a chance if they dare?
There ought to be a law.
Wiretaps - Easy.
Slashdot taps - ???
1: Protection against government intrusion.
2: Protection against terrorism.
You're not going to get both.
Just whose XBox is it? If I paid for it then I should be able to do as I wish with it. Doctrine of First Sale -- Microsoft loses any further control over it. Yeah, if they want to get me for pirating games that's a charge they can take to court, BUT there should not be allowed any case against modding.
To big for my /. .sig, darn it!
But I guess whatever the NYT says is still the gold standard to some.
Not best of all at all. Best of all is sending me the card free, sending out a technican to install it along with the drivers for free, and then paying me to use it all afterwards. A couple games, btw, would also be nice.
This is just the next best thing.
That's one way to get the Google toolbar loaded on every browser shipped.
Eye scanners to personalize the displays can't be far behind.
We all hate when that happens. At least they didn't take the **Beatles-Beatles version.
Would be nice for Slashdot to have, in addition to Accepted and Rejected statuses, a Posted Another Subscriber's Version annotation to your submissions record. Might not sting quite as badly that way.
I disagree. According to this article Quanta plans to start shipping in Q4 of 2006 if it can reach acceptable arrangements with component suppliers.
Now you can crank your notebook to play your MP3's.
The first keyword on the list to filter: Kazaa_previous_version.exe