Seriously...where was this at? I read his site and didn't see where he's from.
I smell something very fishy here BTW. He showed the cop the second time that he wasn't connecting to anywhere and yet the cop told him to move along. Move along? He was on a bench on public land just looking at his computer! The cop had no right to tell him to move along!
Two sides to every story I suppose, but would be interesting to call the police station and get their take on it...if only I knew where this was all taking place.
Also, where is this story reported from? The submitter of the story said "Keith Shaw, in his weekly column" yet the link just goes to an index where I can't find anything on AKMA...nor does it even show up on a search of the site!
Can you purchase the Dell without an OS? Or with Linux already installed? I knew you could a few years ago, but can you still buy a desktop from them without an XP pre-installed?
If you CAN, then perhaps Dell is something to look at.
First, this is NOT meant as a flame at all. I would just like to know. Who here actually backs up their DVD's or CD's?
I ask this because I do not back up my media. Nor does my family. Nor does anyone in my wife's family. Nor does anyone I work with or even know. NO one I've met in "the real world" has backed up a DVD or CD. Ever! Sure, back when albums and tapes were the big thing I would make a tape of an album...but to listen to in my car really. But then again, they weren't really back-ups as the sound on analog tape was horrible compared to an album.
So I ask you, are there really people out there backing up all their media like this? By the way, I have kids, my wife's family also has many kids. So far, we haven't had anyone get a scratched DVD...not saying that we won't, but I guess we show the kids how to handle DVD's...not that it takes a genius to grasp the concept.
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Don't forget, in the future Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax make up "The Vice Presidential Action Rangers" whose job is to protect the space/time continuum!
Really! Vandalism is an expression of art and free speech! HOW DARE they arrest him!
I'm a serial killer...I kill people as my "art" and it represents my image of "man's inhumanity to man" in a creative and fun way! How dare they arrest me for that...that's breaking my constitutional right to free speech and expression!
Oh sure, first they take away our water-soluble chalk....then what's next? They take away all our guns! Then after that they take away all our freedoms and houses and SUV's and Bananna Republic stores where we get our "khakis"!!!
OH, now I know why you posted anonymously...you had mod points so you posted your silly post as anon THEN modded it as informative. What should have tipped me off is that this story was from yesterday and the people with mods are modding on the new stories...I mean, what loser goes back to old stories that no one is even going to read anymore and mod them?
I guess a loser like me that posts replies to stories that no one is going to read....
Bullshit....this post should be erased, modded back as flamebait...take your pick!
I fricken installed Gentoo, it was pretty easy! Can't say the same thing about installing XP and then having to update the entire OS with the updates from hell...that is if you can get it updated before someone finds your computer and starts cutting into the exploits...as was mentioned on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
Oh, and also there sparky, I install commercial software through "emerge" on my Gentoo installation quite a bit.
Please, tell us another one...oh, but of course, you hid behind the Anonymous Coward post because you KNOW everyone would cry BULLSHIT and mess up your karma!
I'll probably get modded down here for speaking my feelings about this, but I have karma to burn....
Don't tell me you're still building from source without some specific reason on a 2004 distro ? That's SO nineties;-)
Is having a whole distro built from source a good enough specific reason to still build from source?
Then again, with Gentoo, installing software is still just as easy as apt-get. Just type "emerge" instead of "apt-get".
Hell, it's pretty up-to-date too! But hey, to each their own. Which is why I love Linux. You may love Debian, I love Gentoo...it's still Linux.
I also wonder why people always throw out the "Linux on the desktop just isn't here yet". How "here" does it have to get? I mean, installing and configuring XP isn't a cake-walk either you know...especially when you have to download and install all the updates to it. OK, so installing Gentoo isn't totally intuitive, but it wasn't hard. Hell, if I can do it, anyone can!
But how many people buy a computer and THEN have to install the OS on it? If more people would simply buy computers WITH Linux installed...like this Laptop from HP...then wouldn't that make it "here" for the desktop?
So what means are justified in this situation? What could the FBI have done that would have satisfied you?
Tell us how YOU would have approached this situation, knowing now that the suspects WERE doing something bad. How could the FBI have done anything or found evidence that could link them to the crime, without the bad guys erasing everything they had?
I always see people talking about the government overstepping their bounds, yet offer no real solution that can actually catch bad guys red-handed. I mean, I kinda agree with you...I don't want the FBI breaking down someones door and taking away everything for no reason or because they "think" illegal activity may be going on. But I look at it from their point of view also, how are they going to catch people that don't play by the rules?
I'm glad you corrected me though, as I'm sure no one reading what I wrote could understand what I ment because I put an "e" instead of an "a" in the word.
I remember this story back in Feb with all the conspiricy people coming down on how the "FBI has overstepped their bounds again" and calling it another Ruby Ridge or Waco.
Click on the original story and even THAT makes it seem like they were just innocent people being unfairly picked on by the evil overlords known as the FBI.
If FBI agents showed up at your data center bearing a warrant, would you be able to provide them prompt access to customer data? BZZZZT! I'm sorry, but you've taken too long to answer. We'll be confiscating all the hardware you use, er, used to use, to run your business. But we'll get it back to you 'real soon now.' Thank you for playing.
Now it turns out the people raided were in fact "the bad guys" and the warrent (remember, the FBI HAD a warrent) was legit AND...er...warrented.
It's funny how everything changes when more facts are thrown in...and I'm sure not all the facts are even in yet!
CD sales are down...the RIAA is in panic mode. Many people already HAVE stopped supporting them which is why they're suing people left and right.
The cat is out of the bag...the horse has left the barn....the _________(insert favorite metaphor here). The MP3 Genie is out and they can't put it back in. Sorry, but it's a losing battle.
The industry will change...this is a fact. The RIAA doesn't like this because they're basically going to stop making the huge mark-up on the CD/Record Market they had cornered. But their monopoly is crumbling, and it's crumbling more and more as the day wears on. Their trying to plug the leaks but the whole dam is falling all around them.
Is this good or bad? I honestly don't know, but it's going to be an interesting thing to witness! We've seen it many times in the past here, when a business is failing, the last-ditch effort is to issue lawsuits.
Want to support a band/artist? Go see them in concert OR send money to them directly...and I mean directly TO them...not to the management/record company. Will people send off a check to Chili-Peppers? Don't know, stranger things have happened.
Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished.
Huh? You take a picture of yourself, it's yours. This is pure threatening bullshit just said to try to scare them. They don't have a leg to stand on if some athlete, with their own camera, took photos of themselves at the game and then 6 months later they put them up on the web to say "look what I did with MY camera taking pictures of MY person".
It's not like a ton of cash is exchanging hands anyway. Anyone even watching the games?
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Mod parent up...this isn't a troll.
or how about NOT corrupting them in the first place? Is that possible?
And why have an option to even open and repair...shouldn't it just repair if it sees it corrupted automagically?
I left Word behind many many moons ago. I'm not looking back.
Seriously...where was this at? I read his site and didn't see where he's from.
I smell something very fishy here BTW. He showed the cop the second time that he wasn't connecting to anywhere and yet the cop told him to move along. Move along? He was on a bench on public land just looking at his computer! The cop had no right to tell him to move along!
Two sides to every story I suppose, but would be interesting to call the police station and get their take on it...if only I knew where this was all taking place.
Also, where is this story reported from? The submitter of the story said "Keith Shaw, in his weekly column" yet the link just goes to an index where I can't find anything on AKMA...nor does it even show up on a search of the site!
Can you purchase the Dell without an OS? Or with Linux already installed? I knew you could a few years ago, but can you still buy a desktop from them without an XP pre-installed?
If you CAN, then perhaps Dell is something to look at.
Couldn't have said it better myself. What you save in dollars you lose in the OS choice if you pick the Dell.
First, this is NOT meant as a flame at all. I would just like to know. Who here actually backs up their DVD's or CD's?
I ask this because I do not back up my media. Nor does my family. Nor does anyone in my wife's family. Nor does anyone I work with or even know. NO one I've met in "the real world" has backed up a DVD or CD. Ever! Sure, back when albums and tapes were the big thing I would make a tape of an album...but to listen to in my car really. But then again, they weren't really back-ups as the sound on analog tape was horrible compared to an album.
So I ask you, are there really people out there backing up all their media like this? By the way, I have kids, my wife's family also has many kids. So far, we haven't had anyone get a scratched DVD...not saying that we won't, but I guess we show the kids how to handle DVD's...not that it takes a genius to grasp the concept.
Don't forget, in the future Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax make up "The Vice Presidential Action Rangers" whose job is to protect the space/time continuum!
I miss Futurama
Are you just plain stupid?
I mean, couldn't you have spend 2 more minutes to actually find a REAL argument?
How can writing on a sidewalk be compared to killing other people?
The first one doesn't hurt anybody, it doesn't cause pain to anybody...doesn't vialote the rights of anybody
The second one, CERTAINLY violates the rights of somebody, cause pain to others and hurt them..
I know you are a troll, but at least be a SMART troll.
It was a joke...I was joking! When everyone gives me that look, it's a joke!
Guess you never heard of a little thing called "The 60's" huh?
Set your way-back machine to places like Kent State and the DNC of 1968 in Chicago.
Really! Vandalism is an expression of art and free speech! HOW DARE they arrest him!
I'm a serial killer...I kill people as my "art" and it represents my image of "man's inhumanity to man" in a creative and fun way! How dare they arrest me for that...that's breaking my constitutional right to free speech and expression!
Oh sure, first they take away our water-soluble chalk....then what's next? They take away all our guns! Then after that they take away all our freedoms and houses and SUV's and Bananna Republic stores where we get our "khakis"!!!
Then the Christians must have gone apeshit crazy about Call of Cthuhu!
well, if it took a while to take the elevator up, and it had private rooms...then you could play "Love in an Elevator"
OH, now I know why you posted anonymously...you had mod points so you posted your silly post as anon THEN modded it as informative. What should have tipped me off is that this story was from yesterday and the people with mods are modding on the new stories...I mean, what loser goes back to old stories that no one is even going to read anymore and mod them?
I guess a loser like me that posts replies to stories that no one is going to read....
Yep, it caused hearing damage alright...about as much damage that you could have a nice lawsuit and get a little payola from the companies.
Wonder how many people are going to try and find these phones and all of a sudden develop "hearing loss" and try to blackmail these companies now.
People suck sometimes....
Bullshit....this post should be erased, modded back as flamebait...take your pick!
I fricken installed Gentoo, it was pretty easy! Can't say the same thing about installing XP and then having to update the entire OS with the updates from hell...that is if you can get it updated before someone finds your computer and starts cutting into the exploits...as was mentioned on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
Oh, and also there sparky, I install commercial software through "emerge" on my Gentoo installation quite a bit.
Please, tell us another one...oh, but of course, you hid behind the Anonymous Coward post because you KNOW everyone would cry BULLSHIT and mess up your karma!
I'll probably get modded down here for speaking my feelings about this, but I have karma to burn....
Don't tell me you're still building from source without some specific reason on a 2004 distro ? That's SO nineties ;-)
Is having a whole distro built from source a good enough specific reason to still build from source?
Then again, with Gentoo, installing software is still just as easy as apt-get. Just type "emerge" instead of "apt-get".
Hell, it's pretty up-to-date too! But hey, to each their own. Which is why I love Linux. You may love Debian, I love Gentoo...it's still Linux.
I also wonder why people always throw out the "Linux on the desktop just isn't here yet". How "here" does it have to get? I mean, installing and configuring XP isn't a cake-walk either you know...especially when you have to download and install all the updates to it. OK, so installing Gentoo isn't totally intuitive, but it wasn't hard. Hell, if I can do it, anyone can!
But how many people buy a computer and THEN have to install the OS on it? If more people would simply buy computers WITH Linux installed...like this Laptop from HP...then wouldn't that make it "here" for the desktop?
Oh well, got off on a tangent there...
sorry, forgot to say "know now that the suspects WERE ALLEGEDLY doing something bad"
My mistake....so Western civilization can continue onwards.
So what means are justified in this situation? What could the FBI have done that would have satisfied you?
Tell us how YOU would have approached this situation, knowing now that the suspects WERE doing something bad. How could the FBI have done anything or found evidence that could link them to the crime, without the bad guys erasing everything they had?
I always see people talking about the government overstepping their bounds, yet offer no real solution that can actually catch bad guys red-handed. I mean, I kinda agree with you...I don't want the FBI breaking down someones door and taking away everything for no reason or because they "think" illegal activity may be going on. But I look at it from their point of view also, how are they going to catch people that don't play by the rules?
warrant warrant warrant warrant warrant warrant warrant warrant!
It's even in the quote!
Ok ok...sheesh...I was never good at spelling.
I'm glad you corrected me though, as I'm sure no one reading what I wrote could understand what I ment because I put an "e" instead of an "a" in the word.
I remember this story back in Feb with all the conspiricy people coming down on how the "FBI has overstepped their bounds again" and calling it another Ruby Ridge or Waco.
Click on the original story and even THAT makes it seem like they were just innocent people being unfairly picked on by the evil overlords known as the FBI.
If FBI agents showed up at your data center bearing a warrant, would you be able to provide them prompt access to customer data? BZZZZT! I'm sorry, but you've taken too long to answer. We'll be confiscating all the hardware you use, er, used to use, to run your business. But we'll get it back to you 'real soon now.' Thank you for playing.
Now it turns out the people raided were in fact "the bad guys" and the warrent (remember, the FBI HAD a warrent) was legit AND...er...warrented.
It's funny how everything changes when more facts are thrown in...and I'm sure not all the facts are even in yet!
CD sales are down...the RIAA is in panic mode. Many people already HAVE stopped supporting them which is why they're suing people left and right.
The cat is out of the bag...the horse has left the barn....the _________(insert favorite metaphor here). The MP3 Genie is out and they can't put it back in. Sorry, but it's a losing battle.
The industry will change...this is a fact. The RIAA doesn't like this because they're basically going to stop making the huge mark-up on the CD/Record Market they had cornered. But their monopoly is crumbling, and it's crumbling more and more as the day wears on. Their trying to plug the leaks but the whole dam is falling all around them.
Is this good or bad? I honestly don't know, but it's going to be an interesting thing to witness! We've seen it many times in the past here, when a business is failing, the last-ditch effort is to issue lawsuits.
Want to support a band/artist? Go see them in concert OR send money to them directly...and I mean directly TO them...not to the management/record company. Will people send off a check to Chili-Peppers? Don't know, stranger things have happened.
Thanks...I will.
Since you didn't seem to enlighten us with your wisdom!
If I'm wrong, please correct me with actual facts instead of trying (and failing) to be witty.
I wonder if some bozo, say...me...were to start writing a blog about the Olympics as if I'm really there covering it.
Could I get sued even though I'm not there and I'm just making everything I write up?
If I had the time I would...but I'm too busy writing Slashdot comments.
Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished.
Huh? You take a picture of yourself, it's yours. This is pure threatening bullshit just said to try to scare them. They don't have a leg to stand on if some athlete, with their own camera, took photos of themselves at the game and then 6 months later they put them up on the web to say "look what I did with MY camera taking pictures of MY person".
It's not like a ton of cash is exchanging hands anyway. Anyone even watching the games?