It's true, a population armed with rifles, pistols, and shotguns will never be able to stand up to the U.S. military. (The Israeli military is essentially the U.S. military in Israel)
However, this doesn't justify repealing the second amendment. It just shows that Americans have vested too much power in their government.
Christ, I'm a lefty liberal but defending the constitution makes me sound like some kind of radical Randy Weaver Idaho militia zealot. I give up. I don't currently posess any firearms anyway. I don't even remember what the original post was about. Bruce Sterling was bitching again? Or was it another fucking SCO article?
a militia is an organized group of private citizens with training and ranks. You are some nut with a gun. Big difference.
When a government takes away it's citizens' right to keep and bear arms, then the citizens are no longer able to protect themselves from a potentially tyrannical government. This is the reason that James Madison included the second amendment in the bill of rights. The first ten amendments are not in some arbitrary order. Madison felt that the right to own firearms was second only to freedom of religion/speech/assembly/expression.
Nobody in their right mind is going to simply take it for granted that any given operating system is secure. Considering Microsoft's track record of programming, they are the last people anyone should blindly trust. The only way to deliver security on a project of this magnitude is to open the source to peer review.
MyFi is Neuros' name for the novel FM broadcast feature on the player. Using this feature, one can set the unit to transmit music files remotely through an empty FM frequency on any radio. The advantages are self-evident for anyone who has ever user a cassette adapter to connect their CD player to a car radio, and it is one of the most innovative and convenient features of the Neuros.
Wow. And wow. This is an amazingly cool idea, and not confined to the car.
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Oh, quitcher whining. No one is forcing you to use the latest release of Winamp. Hell, as far as I'm concerned, v2.23 was the last decent release. Guess which version I use? Sure, I try out the new releases, but I don't burst into tears when they fail to measure up to 2.23. I just delete them. There's a few hundred other audio players out there as well. Blast, this is offtopic.
Probably the same company that made the PIMP (and afterwards the SuperPIMP) install system...
And let's not forget the program packass.exe, which creates a big.ASS archive, similar to a tarball. No, I'm not kidding. Check it out. Buncha hooligans.
I wouldn't include WinAmp in that list. It is (or once was at least) a Win32 port of AMP (Audio Mpeg Player), one of the oldest mp3 players, an open source project by Tomislav Uzelac. That's a fairly straightforward name that implies the use.
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That link is goatse-esque. Yuck.
This elegant, though non-trivial, fix is possibly the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot. Thank you.
If you shift votes from the loser to the winner, the outcome should still be the same.
If there is any shifting of votes, then we *all* lose.
i think this could be very useful in applying birth control drugs...
Translation: I have sired several illegitimate children.
"Eastern Time" == "GMT -5"
for those outside the U.S.
It's true, a population armed with rifles, pistols, and shotguns will never be able to stand up to the U.S. military. (The Israeli military is essentially the U.S. military in Israel)
However, this doesn't justify repealing the second amendment. It just shows that Americans have vested too much power in their government.
Christ, I'm a lefty liberal but defending the constitution makes me sound like some kind of radical Randy Weaver Idaho militia zealot. I give up. I don't currently posess any firearms anyway. I don't even remember what the original post was about. Bruce Sterling was bitching again? Or was it another fucking SCO article?
a militia is an organized group of private citizens with training and ranks. You are some nut with a gun. Big difference.
When a government takes away it's citizens' right to keep and bear arms, then the citizens are no longer able to protect themselves from a potentially tyrannical government. This is the reason that James Madison included the second amendment in the bill of rights. The first ten amendments are not in some arbitrary order. Madison felt that the right to own firearms was second only to freedom of religion/speech/assembly/expression.
But seriously, what do these two stories have to do with each other, other than that they probably both belong in the "Your Rights Online" section?
That's simple. Both stories involve Americans having their first amendment rights legally injoined.
Nobody in their right mind is going to simply take it for granted that any given operating system is secure. Considering Microsoft's track record of programming, they are the last people anyone should blindly trust. The only way to deliver security on a project of this magnitude is to open the source to peer review.
Bait and switch. We were talking politics, not nuclear physics.
You really can't blame him if he is the anonymous reader.
/. has been clammoring for. Well, almost.
Nope, I don't blame him at all. It's not like he's pushing smack. This is something
I'm just curious, is all.
All Neuros did was build it into their player.
Yes, my point exactly.
Education doesn't make you intelligent, just... educated.
Apollogies to the source...
MyFi is Neuros' name for the novel FM broadcast feature on the player. Using this feature, one can set the unit to transmit music files remotely through an empty FM frequency on any radio. The advantages are self-evident for anyone who has ever user a cassette adapter to connect their CD player to a car radio, and it is one of the most innovative and convenient features of the Neuros.
Wow. And wow. This is an amazingly cool idea, and not confined to the car.
And you are the "anonymous reader", I presume?
Oh, quitcher whining. No one is forcing you to use the latest release of Winamp. Hell, as far as I'm concerned, v2.23 was the last decent release. Guess which version I use? Sure, I try out the new releases, but I don't burst into tears when they fail to measure up to 2.23. I just delete them. There's a few hundred other audio players out there as well. Blast, this is offtopic.
Probably the same company that made the PIMP (and afterwards the SuperPIMP) install system...
.ASS archive, similar to a tarball. No, I'm not kidding. Check it out.
And let's not forget the program packass.exe, which creates a big
Buncha hooligans.
:) == I'm pretty sure that was a joke
IIRC, Asimov is the only author to appear in every section of the
Dewey decimal system, despite the fact that he's best known for
his fiction.
Slaughterhouse Five is a brilliant piece of work, and fairly geeky as well. IIRC, the first line is, "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
Jailbird is another Vonnegut classic worth picking up.
I don't know what Real is like on Windows or elsewhere, but the Mac software is mediocrity in action.
It's not quite that good under Windows.
Total Recorder is a Windows app that will save anything that passes through a sound card.
...Kazaa, WinAmp, QuickTime, Nero, Real...
I wouldn't include WinAmp in that list. It is (or once was at least) a Win32 port of AMP (Audio Mpeg Player), one of the oldest mp3 players, an open source project by Tomislav Uzelac. That's a fairly straightforward name that implies the use.
There are only 7 base SI units (meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, and candela)
Sould, you're killing me! What's the seventh unit? Is it the mole?