Maybe you should re-read the post and look at the part that says 'when you are driving' I put it in there just for that reason. Passengers can chat all they want.
This is a show-stopper on the Treo because it is virtually impossible to use the mobile telephone feature in your car at night without the backlight
Is it too much to ask that you pull over before you call someone in your car, at night? Maybe stop under a street light somewhere to chat? Driving around at night on your phone is dangerous, to you and to other people. Why can't you wait the 10 extra seconds to get somewhere that you can stop at? I for one am tired of getting almost run over by some idiot on a cellphone every day. I walk to work, and pretty much everywhere else. And when I get a walk signal in a cross walk and start a cross, and some guy on a cellphone comes around the corner making a right turn and almost kills me, it really ruins my mood. So do me a favor, stop it. Just put the damn phone down for 5 minutes, get where you are going, then talk after you park. There is no good reason to be on the phone while the vehicle is moving if you are driving. If it's an emergency you should probably be stopped anyways, if you're on the way to the hospital you should have called before you got in the car. Ugh... crazy yapping bastards on their phones...
It's a garaunteed victory for Bnetd assuming Blizziards lawyers don't apply the overwhelming spin of 'evil hackers who stole our code' and bamboozle the judge into believing it. It's possible for that to happen even if their entire stance is bullshit. So it shouldn't be discounted out of hand, it should be prepared for.
It's definately a stick place for the Bnetd guys to be. We know they didn't do anything wrong, but it's really hard to prove that you never saw Blizzards code and you came up with everything independant of anything Blizzard might have. Hopefully the bnetd group will come out of it ok, or at least swing a deal to sell their (far superior) server software to Blizzard....
The thing is, there is an almost garauntee that some block of code within Bnetd will resemble some block of code in Blizzards server software in some significant manner, simply because the two programs do the exact same thing. So Blizzard can point to that and say 'See! This whole thing was obviously ripped off from us via illegal hacker tactics and stuff!' and the judge, not knowing any better, is likely to look at the two pieces of paper and agree. The Bnetd lawyers would do well to find an expert witness, preferablly a CS professor from a decent university, who can tesitfy that the two programs have similar code because they perform similar tasks and that doesn't mean one borrowed code from the other.
Ohhh, I see. Since Linux developers can't make decent software I have to run a buggy windows emulator in order to get any decent software. Sure, makes perfect sense ot me. But it certainly doesn't say anything good about the linux development community does it?? So no, I still don't feel like an idiot.
Yeah, and I STILL can't get modded down for shit. I've been posting flames like that every few days trying to get below the Karma cap and I'm still at 77. No one mods me down for anything for some reason. This post is totally off topic and meaningless but I bet IT won't get modded down either!
Not to be outright offensive, aww fuck that, this is gonna be outright offensive.
If you are clinicly addicted to porn you are a fucking weak willed pathetic loser. If you lose your job because you are addicted to porn you deserve to be begging on the streets with a 40oz in a paper bag. What kind of pathetic wretch of a human can't stop themselves from looking at porn for 8 hours to go to work? For crying out lound! I look at a lot of porn and I'm married and it doesn't interfere with my work, or my marriage or anything. There isn't even an endorphine rush when you look at porn! It all looks the fucking same!! (literally) Hell, unless you're whacking off to the porn all the time you can't be getting that much out of it! Hey, maybe these guys didn't get enough from their wives, but damn, do the healthy American thing and get a mistress or buy a fucking hooker. Yeesh. Getting addicted to pornography has got to be the dumbest, most worthless addiction I've ever heard of! Anyone who DOES get addicted to pornography to the point where it affects their job performance or family life is just a complete fucking worthless human being who probably wasn't doing anything productive in the first place.
Kintanon Damn... all this talk about porn is getting me horny...
That's why Libraries will be the absolute dead last ass end of their attack strategy. Once you ahve everything else you have all of these case precedents, and everyone is used to having their media tightly controlled. So you launch your campaign against libraries and it probably rolls right on through using the same cliched 'save the children' bullshit that everything else got hosed by.
OK, in a word, I DON'T USE WINDOWS. As far as I know this discussion began in regards to LINUX gnutella clients and had nothing to do with windows. But since you apparently didn't clue in on that I'll clarify, I have good gnutella clients for WINDOWS coming out my ass, it's LINUX I can't find one for. Geez, for someone with so much to say about other people not being informed you sure are one ignorant muther fucker in regards to the actual topic of the conversation aren't you??
No kidding! I can't find a gnutella client that can get the same file from multiple sources, and the gnutella network itself seems kind of crappy, I'm constantly registering only 1 or 2 hosts and only a few hundred megs to a couple of gigs of stuff available. And that's with my client attempting to make and hold between 20 and 100 connections. I can never find any of the things I look for. And the few things I do find are incredibly slow or just plain undownloadable.
OMG, does he have ANY idea what the BBB does to business that fuck with them?! He's going to get blasted to hell and back. If he thinks 'Unsatisfactory' is the worst they can do he's in for a nasty surprise. This sleezy antique dealership near lexington complained about the BBB after they got a poor rating because half of their merchandise was bootleg. The BBB had them shut down within 2 weeks. It was killer.
So does that mean a swedish citizen convicted of Statutory rape of a 17 year old would be forced to serve jail time in sweden where (I believe) the age of consent is lower than 17? If I'm wrong about that particular country don't flame me, just substitute a country with lower AoC laws.
But what if it's not a crime in one country? I'm assuming that the Russian government could demand custody of a person and then free them if they thought that was the right thing to do.
For which I care exactly nothing. The fact that some other asshole wants to distribute bad commercial music around in his spare time has exactly no impact on me. And it shouldn't affect my ability to distribute amateur martial arts movies online, or any other creative work which is a product of my own effort. If I need to make 100 copies of a CD that I'm selling for 15$ apiece because it has my cool Amateur Wuxia movie on it then one of these things would be great to have access to. If they're really paranoid about it pay some kid 5.25$ an hour to sit next to the machine and check CDs to make sure they are legit.
Now you're just being stupid. We have the information concerning Carbon based life. Therefore our hypothesis is that all life is Carbon Based. Now we have to go try to prove/disprove that. As soon as we find some life that isn't carbon based then we'll revise the hypothesis. So like you said, Developing a scientific hypothesis requires that you know what you are talking about and have at least some experimental evidence that suggests that we need another hypothesis. At the moment we don't have any evidence that suggests we need a hypothesis other than 'All life is Carbon based.' so that's our hypothesis.
Yeah, and here I was hoping for some crispy flameness... I've been getting modded up too much recently, how am I ever going to get back down to the Karma cap if I keep getting modded up?!
Muahahah! I was voluntarily sterilized, thank you very much. I have no desire to inflict more of myself on humanity, nor do I have any desire to inflict more of myself on me. My wife also has no desire for children and never has so she's quite happy with it.
And I'm not implying that the woman should PLAY the game, I'm saying she should just fucking log in if she wants to see who her son was talking to. It's gotta be less complicated than a lawsuit! Is it really too much to ask that she take some small personal initiative to find out on her own what was going on BEFORE she sues the company?
Well if she's too stupid to turn on his computer, log into EQ (His password is probably saved) and wait for someone to send his character a message I say fuck her. She's obviously too stupid to have children in the first place. She should be forcibly sterilized and told to fuck off.
Actually that's usually the first thing they do once someone stands up to them. I can't wait to see what the US is like in 10 or so years when China starts to flex its economic muscles and the US becomes a minor player in a world economy fueled by 2 billion emerging chinese consumers.
Kintanon
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If this is what it takes in this modern day and age for the law enforcement agencies to protect us, so be it.
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret here, Law enforcement is not here to 'protect' you. Law enforcement is here to clean up the mess after someone sprays your brains all over your apartment. They are trying to safeguard their jobs and government officials. For the same reason they don't give a flying fuck about what you write in your e-mail, they don't give a flying fuck if some militant islamist strolls into your house and kills you. They'll investigate afterwards, but they're more likely to just bug your house to get the killing on tape, THEN arrest the guy to make sure they get a conviction. They aren't interested in protecting you, and the sooner you realize that the better off you'll be. Protect yourself, stop whining for other people to do it for you.
Hehe, considering all of the bomb jokes I was sending after 9/11 this post will probably be analyzed for coded messages to my terrorist cell! LOL! So just in case, I wouldn't want to disappoint them:
shpx lbh tbirazrag ovgpurf!
Kintanon
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To sum up: we don't know who the enemy exactly is, but we do know that the enemy does exist. To pretend the enemy doesn't exist is insanely moronic and, in the end, suicidal. Get over the concept that any inconvenience is a victory for the enemy, and at least allow for the possibility that the government may just be trying to save your pampered ass.
Ohhh. Of course, it all makes sense to me now, the government NEEDS to read my e-mail to save me from terrorists... Of course. And the fact that this system was in place BEFORE a handful of people with boxcutters (Sweet zombie jesus how do you take over a plane with a fucking boxcutter?!) hijacked and crashed 4 planes is meaningless. Maybe, JUST maybe, we should stop training our citizens to be mindless drones who follow the whims of anyone around them, hmmm? The reason those planes crashed into the WTC is that the people one the plane believed OUR Governments bullshit about the best way not to die in a hijacking. Just like hundreds of people are raped and killed each year because the cops teach them not to resist. I say fuck that! If you're in a hostage situation you should ASSUME you are going to die anyways! If someone is trying to rape you, you should ASSUME they are going to kill you afterwards. FIGHT BACK PEOPLE!!! Stand up for yourselves and your rights! You don't need the government to do it for you!
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you should re-read the post and look at the part that says 'when you are driving' I put it in there just for that reason. Passengers can chat all they want.
Kintanon
This is a show-stopper on the Treo because it is virtually impossible to use the mobile telephone feature in your car at night without the backlight
Is it too much to ask that you pull over before you call someone in your car, at night? Maybe stop under a street light somewhere to chat?
Driving around at night on your phone is dangerous, to you and to other people. Why can't you wait the 10 extra seconds to get somewhere that you can stop at? I for one am tired of getting almost run over by some idiot on a cellphone every day. I walk to work, and pretty much everywhere else. And when I get a walk signal in a cross walk and start a cross, and some guy on a cellphone comes around the corner making a right turn and almost kills me, it really ruins my mood. So do me a favor, stop it. Just put the damn phone down for 5 minutes, get where you are going, then talk after you park. There is no good reason to be on the phone while the vehicle is moving if you are driving. If it's an emergency you should probably be stopped anyways, if you're on the way to the hospital you should have called before you got in the car.
Ugh... crazy yapping bastards on their phones...
Kintanon
It's a garaunteed victory for Bnetd assuming Blizziards lawyers don't apply the overwhelming spin of 'evil hackers who stole our code' and bamboozle the judge into believing it. It's possible for that to happen even if their entire stance is bullshit. So it shouldn't be discounted out of hand, it should be prepared for.
Kintanon
It's definately a stick place for the Bnetd guys to be. We know they didn't do anything wrong, but it's really hard to prove that you never saw Blizzards code and you came up with everything independant of anything Blizzard might have. Hopefully the bnetd group will come out of it ok, or at least swing a deal to sell their (far superior) server software to Blizzard....
Kintanon
The thing is, there is an almost garauntee that some block of code within Bnetd will resemble some block of code in Blizzards server software in some significant manner, simply because the two programs do the exact same thing. So Blizzard can point to that and say 'See! This whole thing was obviously ripped off from us via illegal hacker tactics and stuff!' and the judge, not knowing any better, is likely to look at the two pieces of paper and agree. The Bnetd lawyers would do well to find an expert witness, preferablly a CS professor from a decent university, who can tesitfy that the two programs have similar code because they perform similar tasks and that doesn't mean one borrowed code from the other.
Kintanon
Ohhh, I see. Since Linux developers can't make decent software I have to run a buggy windows emulator in order to get any decent software. Sure, makes perfect sense ot me. But it certainly doesn't say anything good about the linux development community does it??
So no, I still don't feel like an idiot.
Kintanon
Yeah, and I STILL can't get modded down for shit.
I've been posting flames like that every few days trying to get below the Karma cap and I'm still at 77. No one mods me down for anything for some reason. This post is totally off topic and meaningless but I bet IT won't get modded down either!
Kintanon
Not to be outright offensive, aww fuck that, this is gonna be outright offensive.
If you are clinicly addicted to porn you are a fucking weak willed pathetic loser. If you lose your job because you are addicted to porn you deserve to be begging on the streets with a 40oz in a paper bag. What kind of pathetic wretch of a human can't stop themselves from looking at porn for 8 hours to go to work? For crying out lound! I look at a lot of porn and I'm married and it doesn't interfere with my work, or my marriage or anything. There isn't even an endorphine rush when you look at porn! It all looks the fucking same!! (literally) Hell, unless you're whacking off to the porn all the time you can't be getting that much out of it!
Hey, maybe these guys didn't get enough from their wives, but damn, do the healthy American thing and get a mistress or buy a fucking hooker. Yeesh. Getting addicted to pornography has got to be the dumbest, most worthless addiction I've ever heard of! Anyone who DOES get addicted to pornography to the point where it affects their job performance or family life is just a complete fucking worthless human being who probably wasn't doing anything productive in the first place.
Kintanon
Damn... all this talk about porn is getting me horny...
That's why Libraries will be the absolute dead last ass end of their attack strategy. Once you ahve everything else you have all of these case precedents, and everyone is used to having their media tightly controlled. So you launch your campaign against libraries and it probably rolls right on through using the same cliched 'save the children' bullshit that everything else got hosed by.
Kintanon
www.ninenine.com
.sig at slashdot, all of the free porn you could ever need. Heh, amazing isn't it?
I got that site off of someones
Kintanon
OK, in a word, I DON'T USE WINDOWS. As far as I know this discussion began in regards to LINUX gnutella clients and had nothing to do with windows. But since you apparently didn't clue in on that I'll clarify, I have good gnutella clients for WINDOWS coming out my ass, it's LINUX I can't find one for.
Geez, for someone with so much to say about other people not being informed you sure are one ignorant muther fucker in regards to the actual topic of the conversation aren't you??
Kintanon
No kidding!
I can't find a gnutella client that can get the same file from multiple sources, and the gnutella network itself seems kind of crappy, I'm constantly registering only 1 or 2 hosts and only a few hundred megs to a couple of gigs of stuff available. And that's with my client attempting to make and hold between 20 and 100 connections. I can never find any of the things I look for. And the few things I do find are incredibly slow or just plain undownloadable.
Kintanon
OMG, does he have ANY idea what the BBB does to business that fuck with them?! He's going to get blasted to hell and back. If he thinks 'Unsatisfactory' is the worst they can do he's in for a nasty surprise. This sleezy antique dealership near lexington complained about the BBB after they got a poor rating because half of their merchandise was bootleg. The BBB had them shut down within 2 weeks. It was killer.
Kintanon
Sure, I'll second that opinion. They seem like real assholes considering their behaviour in this case.
Kintanon
So does that mean a swedish citizen convicted of Statutory rape of a 17 year old would be forced to serve jail time in sweden where (I believe) the age of consent is lower than 17? If I'm wrong about that particular country don't flame me, just substitute a country with lower AoC laws.
Kintanon
But what if it's not a crime in one country? I'm assuming that the Russian government could demand custody of a person and then free them if they thought that was the right thing to do.
Kintanon
For which I care exactly nothing. The fact that some other asshole wants to distribute bad commercial music around in his spare time has exactly no impact on me. And it shouldn't affect my ability to distribute amateur martial arts movies online, or any other creative work which is a product of my own effort. If I need to make 100 copies of a CD that I'm selling for 15$ apiece because it has my cool Amateur Wuxia movie on it then one of these things would be great to have access to. If they're really paranoid about it pay some kid 5.25$ an hour to sit next to the machine and check CDs to make sure they are legit.
Kintanon
Now you're just being stupid.
We have the information concerning Carbon based life. Therefore our hypothesis is that all life is Carbon Based. Now we have to go try to prove/disprove that. As soon as we find some life that isn't carbon based then we'll revise the hypothesis. So like you said, Developing a scientific hypothesis requires that you know what you are talking about and have at least some experimental evidence that suggests that we need another hypothesis. At the moment we don't have any evidence that suggests we need a hypothesis other than 'All life is Carbon based.' so that's our hypothesis.
Kintanon
Yeah, and here I was hoping for some crispy flameness... I've been getting modded up too much recently, how am I ever going to get back down to the Karma cap if I keep getting modded up?!
Kintanon
Muahahah! I was voluntarily sterilized, thank you very much. I have no desire to inflict more of myself on humanity, nor do I have any desire to inflict more of myself on me. My wife also has no desire for children and never has so she's quite happy with it.
And I'm not implying that the woman should PLAY the game, I'm saying she should just fucking log in if she wants to see who her son was talking to. It's gotta be less complicated than a lawsuit!
Is it really too much to ask that she take some small personal initiative to find out on her own what was going on BEFORE she sues the company?
Oh, and for the record, I hate Star Trek.
Kintanon
Well if she's too stupid to turn on his computer, log into EQ (His password is probably saved) and wait for someone to send his character a message I say fuck her. She's obviously too stupid to have children in the first place. She should be forcibly sterilized and told to fuck off.
Kintanon
Actually that's usually the first thing they do once someone stands up to them. I can't wait to see what the US is like in 10 or so years when China starts to flex its economic muscles and the US becomes a minor player in a world economy fueled by 2 billion emerging chinese consumers.
Kintanon
If this is what it takes in this modern day and age for the law enforcement agencies to protect us, so be it.
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret here, Law enforcement is not here to 'protect' you. Law enforcement is here to clean up the mess after someone sprays your brains all over your apartment. They are trying to safeguard their jobs and government officials. For the same reason they don't give a flying fuck about what you write in your e-mail, they don't give a flying fuck if some militant islamist strolls into your house and kills you. They'll investigate afterwards, but they're more likely to just bug your house to get the killing on tape, THEN arrest the guy to make sure they get a conviction. They aren't interested in protecting you, and the sooner you realize that the better off you'll be. Protect yourself, stop whining for other people to do it for you.
Kintanon
Hehe, considering all of the bomb jokes I was sending after 9/11 this post will probably be analyzed for coded messages to my terrorist cell!
LOL! So just in case, I wouldn't want to disappoint them:
shpx lbh tbirazrag ovgpurf!
Kintanon
To sum up: we don't know who the enemy exactly is, but we do know that the enemy does exist. To pretend the enemy doesn't exist is insanely moronic and, in the end, suicidal. Get over the concept that any inconvenience is a victory for the enemy, and at least allow for the possibility that the government may just be trying to save your pampered ass.
Ohhh. Of course, it all makes sense to me now, the government NEEDS to read my e-mail to save me from terrorists... Of course. And the fact that this system was in place BEFORE a handful of people with boxcutters (Sweet zombie jesus how do you take over a plane with a fucking boxcutter?!) hijacked and crashed 4 planes is meaningless. Maybe, JUST maybe, we should stop training our citizens to be mindless drones who follow the whims of anyone around them, hmmm? The reason those planes crashed into the WTC is that the people one the plane believed OUR Governments bullshit about the best way not to die in a hijacking. Just like hundreds of people are raped and killed each year because the cops teach them not to resist. I say fuck that! If you're in a hostage situation you should ASSUME you are going to die anyways! If someone is trying to rape you, you should ASSUME they are going to kill you afterwards. FIGHT BACK PEOPLE!!! Stand up for yourselves and your rights! You don't need the government to do it for you!
Kintanon