Why waste your money on elaborate internet-connected electronics? There are plenty of things you can do to "enhance" your dream state.
1) Nicoderm Transdermal Patches. If worn during sleep, they have the tendency to cause very interesting and detailed dreams/nightmares. The only downside here is that you cant determine in advance which will happen. You could have an awesome dream, or, you could have a titanically bad nightmare. More interestingly, the number of patches you wear at night correlates directly with the vividness of the dream you have.
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3) Drugs. More adventurous and stupid people take drugs before going to sleep to produce interesting dreams. Drugs are bad, mmkay?
Around here, they actually break into programming with a Special Report, sometimes going on for hours. This is bad for two reason: 1) people not in the death zone don't really need two hours of continuous coverage of storms not in their area, and 2) people in the death zone should not have a plugged in and turned on TV sitting directly in front of them during a major electrical storm!
But you never hear the weather guy say, "If you are in this red zone, here, unplug the TV and get in the basement, moron! That cow wasn't flying past your window for fun!"
I don't have a problem with the translucent logos. It's stuff like Cartoon Network's bright red opaque Adult Swim logo (which I noticed they finally changed), or Starz Action's multi-colored logo, or the animated logo of some network that I can't remember (real good job that one did).
Honestly, you don't pay for local stations, the advertisers do. So its not really your choice.
Actually, it is. If I choose not to watch a channel due to their obnoxious logo, the advertisers lose money. Plus I really am paying for Starz's logos.
I dont know why people want to fight the tranfer to a better format, it is so much better, and less noisy, It would be like going from 640/480 on your PC to 1024/768
Except that I didn't have to buy a $10,000 monitor to get 1024/768 and I can still use a monitor capable of 640/480 after 2006.
Somehow we coming to the conclusion that there's no substitute for thorough searching of passenger's baggage and carry-on items. Though this is an invasion of privacy and an inconvenience to travelers, this is needed to avoid another tragedy like the events of Sept. 11th.
Even if the terrorists had been strip-searched and analy probed, they would have been allowed on the planes, because boxcutters were allowed on the planes at the time.
Got ads there. Even have to pay for the privledge to see them. Ok, so you obviouly don't do that.
I have never seen a magazine article with a 5-inch ad block right in the middle of the article's text. Even when an article is interrupted by ads, the magazine at least has the decency to tell me where it continues so that I can skip the pages with the ads. Most importantly, the ads in magazines are not constantly flashing and animating.
Watch regular TV?
Commercials. But it's free.
I'm not forced to watch those ads. I can go take a piss if I want. TV ads also attempt to be at least moderately entertaining to watch. TV ads (usually) don't constantly sit at the top and bottom of the screen, blocking content and constantly animating in different fluorescent colors.
WHAT is this _obsession_ this one button mice? Is your pinky on your other had broken so you can't press the control key?
My other hand is busy doing, um, other things.
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eBay Beats DMCA
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Since ebay is not a court of law, it is unlikely that they will be able to enter a "guilty" verdict on the accused's criminal record. So please stop pretending that a commercial site must be held to the same standards of evidence as a criminal or civil court.
I didn't say that they must be held to the same standards. I said that they should not be forced to take action based purely on heresay.
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eBay Beats DMCA
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It takes time and money to craft a letter asserting your legal position -- whether you do it yourself or pay an attorney. It is unreasonable for ebay to require that you do additional work to comply with some internal procedure that they have developed.
It takes a whole lot more time and money to file a frivilous lawsuit (meanwhile, the bootlegs are probably still being sold). I don't see how requiring someone to prove that their copyright is being violated before an auction is shut down is being unreasonable. Shutting down auctions (or websites) on the mere unsubstatiated accusation of infringement seems much more unreasonable. And I could see how that could very quickly turn into major legal and economic nightmare for Ebay.
It would be like your neighbor telling you that that he would not remove his car from your driveway until you filled out that "Car Removal Request Form" that he developed.
Except Ebay doesn't know you and it's not something so blindingly obvious as a car parked in the wrong driveway. Not to mention that there is a third party in this (the seller) who is being accused.
Side-note: Looking at the latest trolls that have been posted here, suggesting that there have been filters implemented on/. , I personally do get the idea that there's more going on behind the scenes than just some technical problems.
I've heard it's an alien/government conspiracy to steal our precious body fluids with fluoride.
Personally I don't see a difference with cameras or hiring an army of security guards.
Neither do I, and that's the problem. Is lots of cameras really any less of a police state than lots of police?
Being treated like a criminal is being treated like a criminal, regardless of the specifics.
No, I'm not saying that Borders can't do what they want in their own stores. But unless the government recently passed a new ammendment (guess which country I'm from), I'm still allowed to bitch and moan about their business practices and refuse to shop there.
THe article points out that the DeCSS trade secret was discovered and disclosed. So why isn't it rendered invalid. To my mind, the DeCSS trade secret was poorly protected if it was breakable by the crackers that accomplished it, and should no longer enjoy trade secret status.
Well, that would be great, except the law says (IANAL) that if a trade secret was discovered in an illegal manner, then it's still protected. Since there's no way to figure out the CSS encryption scheme without breaking the law, it will always remain a trade secret.
So, according to the US copyright office, hacking e-books is a common skill? In fact, a
neccessary skill to excersize our rights?
Yes, but it's a skill that you are not allowed to learn from anyone else.
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Meteor Showers
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Step 1: Go outside.
Step 2: Look up.
Seriously, you don't want to use binoculars. The meteors come from all over the sky. Just get a comfortable reclining lawn chair and look up. Make sure it's not cloudy and don't sit directly under a street lamp or anything. And don't expect to actually see one meteor a minute, especially if you aren't in a very dark location or are going out before midnight.
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Linux 2.4.8 is Out
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And believe me, for a server you don't need XFree 4.1.0 or emu10k.
But I have mine blare a Star Trek klaxon sound and start the Matrix code screensaver every time a Code Red probe is found!
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I'm surprised they can turn a profit, what with having to spend $80 to replace jammed ink cartridges every three minutes.
I can't find the "fucking" key. Story of my life.
"Did you see that ad in the superbowl for Bud Light with the two chicks?" -That's the sigh of a great ad.
That was Miller Lite.
We create
We innovate
We pass the ones that are late
Oh, they make kidney stones.
Why waste your money on elaborate internet-connected electronics? There are plenty of things you can do to "enhance" your dream state.
1) Nicoderm Transdermal Patches. If worn during sleep, they have the tendency to cause very interesting and detailed dreams/nightmares. The only downside here is that you cant determine in advance which will happen. You could have an awesome dream, or, you could have a titanically bad nightmare. More interestingly, the number of patches you wear at night correlates directly with the vividness of the dream you have.
skip...
3) Drugs. More adventurous and stupid people take drugs before going to sleep to produce interesting dreams. Drugs are bad, mmkay?
Mmkay.
But you never hear the weather guy say, "If you are in this red zone, here, unplug the TV and get in the basement, moron! That cow wasn't flying past your window for fun!"
Most of the logo's are translucent.
I don't have a problem with the translucent logos. It's stuff like Cartoon Network's bright red opaque Adult Swim logo (which I noticed they finally changed), or Starz Action's multi-colored logo, or the animated logo of some network that I can't remember (real good job that one did).
Honestly, you don't pay for local stations, the advertisers do. So its not really your choice.
Actually, it is. If I choose not to watch a channel due to their obnoxious logo, the advertisers lose money. Plus I really am paying for Starz's logos.
I've heard you can disinfect a DVD by microwaving it for a few seconds.
I dont know why people want to fight the tranfer to a better format, it is so much better, and less noisy, It would be like going from 640/480 on your PC to 1024/768
Except that I didn't have to buy a $10,000 monitor to get 1024/768 and I can still use a monitor capable of 640/480 after 2006.
From western-digital.com I can get a 40GB 7200RPM UATA/100 caviar harddrive for $117.00. That's 341.88MB per dollar.
Yes, but those are dog MB.
Pull the remake of King Kong from the shelves?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Somehow we coming to the conclusion that there's no substitute for thorough searching of passenger's baggage and carry-on items. Though this is an invasion of privacy and an inconvenience to travelers, this is needed to avoid another tragedy like the events of Sept. 11th.
Even if the terrorists had been strip-searched and analy probed, they would have been allowed on the planes, because boxcutters were allowed on the planes at the time.
Got ads there. Even have to pay for the privledge to see them. Ok, so you obviouly don't do that.
I have never seen a magazine article with a 5-inch ad block right in the middle of the article's text. Even when an article is interrupted by ads, the magazine at least has the decency to tell me where it continues so that I can skip the pages with the ads. Most importantly, the ads in magazines are not constantly flashing and animating.
Watch regular TV?
Commercials. But it's free.
I'm not forced to watch those ads. I can go take a piss if I want. TV ads also attempt to be at least moderately entertaining to watch. TV ads (usually) don't constantly sit at the top and bottom of the screen, blocking content and constantly animating in different fluorescent colors.
WHAT is this _obsession_ this one button mice? Is your pinky on your other had broken so you can't press the control key?
My other hand is busy doing, um, other things.
Since ebay is not a court of law, it is unlikely that they will be able to enter a "guilty" verdict on the accused's criminal record. So please stop pretending that a commercial site must be held to the same standards of evidence as a criminal or civil court.
I didn't say that they must be held to the same standards. I said that they should not be forced to take action based purely on heresay.
It takes time and money to craft a letter asserting your legal position -- whether you do it yourself or pay an attorney. It is unreasonable for ebay to require that you do additional work to comply with some internal procedure that they have developed.
It takes a whole lot more time and money to file a frivilous lawsuit (meanwhile, the bootlegs are probably still being sold). I don't see how requiring someone to prove that their copyright is being violated before an auction is shut down is being unreasonable. Shutting down auctions (or websites) on the mere unsubstatiated accusation of infringement seems much more unreasonable. And I could see how that could very quickly turn into major legal and economic nightmare for Ebay.
It would be like your neighbor telling you that that he would not remove his car from your driveway until you filled out that "Car Removal Request Form" that he developed.
Except Ebay doesn't know you and it's not something so blindingly obvious as a car parked in the wrong driveway. Not to mention that there is a third party in this (the seller) who is being accused.
Side-note: Looking at the latest trolls that have been posted here, suggesting that there have been filters implemented on /. , I personally do get the idea that there's more going on behind the scenes than just some technical problems.
I've heard it's an alien/government conspiracy to steal our precious body fluids with fluoride.
The next time you get stopped at a DUI checkpoint and asked for your papers and destination, ask the uniform about your Fourth Amendment rights.
Maybe my memory's a little faulty, but I seem to recall that the Supreme Court recently ruled this practice unconstitutional.
Especially since recent statistics on a Slashdotting show that the vast majority of us use IE
Well, right now Slashdot thinks my Mozilla web browser is really IE 5.5. It's pretty hard to say how many people like me there are.
Personally I don't see a difference with cameras or hiring an army of security guards.
Neither do I, and that's the problem. Is lots of cameras really any less of a police state than lots of police?
Being treated like a criminal is being treated like a criminal, regardless of the specifics.
No, I'm not saying that Borders can't do what they want in their own stores. But unless the government recently passed a new ammendment (guess which country I'm from), I'm still allowed to bitch and moan about their business practices and refuse to shop there.
You're right, if you don't like it, don't shop there. If you're really lucky, you'll end up with no bookstores to shop at all because you're paranoid.
Or you'll end up with bookstores that don't treat their own customers like criminals.
Either way, you end up with fewer bookstores that do treat their customers like criminals.
Well, that would be great, except the law says (IANAL) that if a trade secret was discovered in an illegal manner, then it's still protected. Since there's no way to figure out the CSS encryption scheme without breaking the law, it will always remain a trade secret.
Yes, but it's a skill that you are not allowed to learn from anyone else.
Step 1: Go outside.
Step 2: Look up.
Seriously, you don't want to use binoculars. The meteors come from all over the sky. Just get a comfortable reclining lawn chair and look up. Make sure it's not cloudy and don't sit directly under a street lamp or anything. And don't expect to actually see one meteor a minute, especially if you aren't in a very dark location or are going out before midnight.
And believe me, for a server you don't need XFree 4.1.0 or emu10k.
But I have mine blare a Star Trek klaxon sound and start the Matrix code screensaver every time a Code Red probe is found!