Oh come on, of course they weren't going to do anything if no real threat emerged. They were making somewhere between 200,000 and 2,000,000 a month from the spammers. As a business in today's market would you give up that kind of cash flow w/o any repercussions coming your way?
They obviously know who the 148 people are so why will it take them 10 days to remove their accounts?
Are they going to send them a greeting card or something that says, "oh, even though you are great customers we are being told we can no longer host your illegal activities so you have 10 days to vacate?"
And considering the evidence that you love George Bush so much, I can understand how you confuse facts with 'shit'.... but try not to confuse the too or else you may convince yourself that those are facts spewing out your ass.:)
Wow, another post with no factual basis. You really shouldn't assume that because I disagree w/your post that I side with one candidate or the other.
You can't think of anything intelligent to say yourself so you have to repeat exact comments in the same thread?
Your link to the religion and IQ post was a blogger talking about two other bloggers' post about this topic. Sorry, back it up with facts and not with some blogger bullshit. The downfall of our society will be research papers based on "material" cited from blogs.
What does this have to do with anything? They don't intelligently discuss any topic because they don't give a shit not because they aren't intelligent enough to do so.
Most people don't care about politics because they see it as one side of assholes running the country against another side of assholes. They feel their vote doesn't really make much of a difference overall. As long as Reality TV carries on and comes out of the box in their living room they don't care what else is going on.
And considering the fact that the winner will get to pick 3 supreme court justices (hence setting the tone for laws in our country for the next 20 years), it's no wonder this has degraded into a schoolyard brawl.
People seriously believe that laws only affect those that break them. People don't care to have the ability to look ahead and see what is possible down the road. When you do speculate on the future you are labeled as a paranoid "freak" by your peers. "Oh the Patriot Act doesn't stop your freedom, don't you see Survivor is still on? It's ok!"
No one will even notice the books being burned by the torces in the "Tribal Council".
look forward to MS accommodating an open source implementation, while freezing out a GPL-compatible implementation.
Be happy that an open source implementation came out of them. You don't use Apache software because it's not GPL'd? That's a bit rough don't you think?
For a community that is generally pro-emulation I cannot believe you guys are supporting Atari! You don't want them to rerelease games for newer architectures. Then they are no longer pieces of abandonware software, they can claim anyone spreading their older software under emulation is warezing, etc...
Yay, I can run antiquated games on expensive modern hardware for money. Personally I was more pleased when it was getting spread around in the emulation scene for free.
It would appear that 100 years ago, one could apprentice themselves into a trade, and become a journeyman at it in thier teens, and a journeyman was considered an "adult" and could open their own shop. However, this thought is completely held as wrong in the current social environment, as 16-18yos aren't "mature" enough to be allowed to do such things.
100 years ago the majority of people didn't have education past 8th grade (nevermind past 12th grade) and they didn't have an average life expectancy of nearly 70 years.
You worked because the family needed the money and because you were physically strong enough to do so at that point. Just because you have the physical attributes of an adult doesn't mean that you have the mental ones.
If you don't vote you have no right to complain, because you could have done something about it, and didn't.
You have the right to complain about not having any decent choices to pick from. Republican/Democrat/Minority Party Candidate. Pick the lesser of the evils and suffer with the motherfucker and his cabinet choices for the next four to eight years.
What happens if you can't stand any of the jackasses running? Do you pick the Minority Party candidate and throw away your vote (no, the majority candidates don't give a fuck if you threw your vote away once they win)? Do you pick the one that you agree with slightly on some topics just because you can't stand the incumbents cabinet members? Or do you just not fucking vote because it won't matter anyway?
In a nutshell, we're doing this because we care, and because we can. We also like the idea of doing this because nobody else has done it before, and we like to do crazy, new things.
Plenty of institutions (MTV and the Republicans immediately come to mind) have done what they can to get people out to vote. I suppose in this day and age we basically have to coerce people into signing up to vote (which is exactly what the Hot or Not guys are doing).
My question is why do we have to coerce people to vote? Is it because popular opinion doesn't matter? Is it because of possible cheating at the polls? Is it because people just don't give a fuck?
Personally I believe it to be a mix of quite a few factors but I lean quite a bit towards not giving a fuck and it not mattering.
Perhaps part of the standardized testing that GWB has mandated should include more emphasis on Civic Duty? Perhaps they should better explain why it is important to vote even though we have a broken/antequated system that is unnecessary in this day and age. Fuck, perhaps we should just eliminate the entire Election system as it is and reinstate it as an episode of Survivor or American Idol.
Text message your votes now! Standard SMS rates apply!
Boys especially need to have a break at certain stages of their growth, usually about 13-15 yo, when they should be sent away from home to some sort of boarding school/military school/vocational school arrangement, at least for a time. It all depends on the kid.
I guess I was one of those kids that didn't need that. What kids do need is to go to college AWAY from home... When I mean AWAY I mean outside of a single day's drive. No going home on the weekends for laundry, food, family time. These people need to stay the fuck at school and experience the "half-way house" experience that College helps to create.
Sending someone off to boarding/military/vocational schools when they are in their mid-teens will do nothing but help to alienate the child in a time when they might be alienated enough.
Kids need time to be apart *AND* they need time to grow but seperating them from their family at this point of their lives is hardly the way to do it. Wait for them to be of a mature enough age 18+ here in the States and don't let the little bastards come back.
You learn a lot, grow a lot, and change a lot in those years but you are still under the light security blanket that the college envrionment creates.
Every discussion has some sort of political slant to it. You are somehow labeled as "right" or "left" depending on the whim of the moderators or random members of the community. People routinely claim you are some sort of radical communist just because you don't support the paying-off of public servants to create laws that benefit only the corporations. Obviously this is just one small example but it certainly reflects a good bit of what I experience here... We might really want to think about how the normal Slashdot moderation system is handled on this side of the site.
If anything Karma changes should be eliminated due to politically motivated moderation in this section. Some serious damage could occur to someone's account that is diametrically opposed to the rest of the Slashdot mentality.
I have been scouring books, articles, and random conversation for some intelligent and fair discussion about the state of politics today. I doubt that I will find too much "intelligent discussion" and I know we won't find any fairness here on Slashdot but we can always have hope;-)
BFD. I haven't had a working floppy drive in either of my computers in over 5 years because the hardware failed. Any disk I have tried to read recently on other computers has been full of disk errors. I was pretty glad I didn't have to deal with that shit anymore on a regular basis.
Now comes the USB SD/CF reader that I have been using in my digital camera for about 9 months. For some reason it decided that it no longer could hold 512MB and only could hold 40MB. Whatever was on there outside of the 40MB was gone and I had to copy over the remaining images and format the disk. Looks like a whole different problem for this type of media.
While USB keydrives have survived washing machines and dryers and SD cards can hold a TON more data than floppies (with faster speeds and less hassle) we might be opening ourselves to new problems as we move up in technology.
Seems a bit pricey compared to other small WISPs.
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The cost of the service ranges from $39.95 per month for 256 kilobits per second to $259.95 per month for 1.5 megabits per second, speeds that are five times to 30 times faster than dial-up connections. Husted, who plans to start marketing the service this month, expects 200 more customers by the end of the year.
Are they charging so much money because of lack of a userbase (100 people or so) or because of the amount of land covered? Chaska, MN has wireless coverage bursting to 3mbs bi-directional for $15.99 (residential) or $24.95 (commercial). I don't exactly see how $39.95 a month for 256k is all that fantastic. At that point you might be better off just staying with a $9.95 cheapo-ISP. YMMV I suppose.
that talking to me while I'm playing is like talking to a robot, or a zombie.
It's called concentration. When I am playing a game seriously I am lost in it. It's the same as a serious athletic event (or even practice). I would be completely blacked out from concentration. If I did happen to be able to discern what was going on around me I had lost concentration to the point of losing my edge in the competition.
Just because video games don't carry the same social weight as athletics doesn't mean your mind/body don't treat them the same way.
Now groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and their allies in Congress are scrambling for legislation such as the Induce Act that would overturn the 9th Circuit's ruling.
Does this mean that the 9th Circuit is a radical judge making rulings based on personal opinion? I especially love the term "allies in Congress" as if this is some sort of important war.
This isn't offtopic in the least. This is a reference to the movie Contact where a genius solves the coded messages sent by the aliens in 3D. He's located on space station Mir at the time.
God if you're going to moderate someone down at least know what you're doing.
They can't get him off the ground into LEO because of the incoming hurricane. Once they can get a shuttle out of the hangar and off the ground he will broadcast his 3D findings from Mir.
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Oh come on, of course they weren't going to do anything if no real threat emerged. They were making somewhere between 200,000 and 2,000,000 a month from the spammers. As a business in today's market would you give up that kind of cash flow w/o any repercussions coming your way?
If you say anything other than "no" you're lying.
They obviously know who the 148 people are so why will it take them 10 days to remove their accounts?
Are they going to send them a greeting card or something that says, "oh, even though you are great customers we are being told we can no longer host your illegal activities so you have 10 days to vacate?"
And considering the evidence that you love George Bush so much, I can understand how you confuse facts with 'shit'.... but try not to confuse the too or else you may convince yourself that those are facts spewing out your ass. :)
Wow, another post with no factual basis. You really shouldn't assume that because I disagree w/your post that I side with one candidate or the other.
You posted uneducated non-sense from a blog. That's not intelligent thought. That's spewing shit.
You can't think of anything intelligent to say yourself so you have to repeat exact comments in the same thread?
Your link to the religion and IQ post was a blogger talking about two other bloggers' post about this topic. Sorry, back it up with facts and not with some blogger bullshit. The downfall of our society will be research papers based on "material" cited from blogs.
Most of them can't even program the VCR.
What does this have to do with anything? They don't intelligently discuss any topic because they don't give a shit not because they aren't intelligent enough to do so.
Most people don't care about politics because they see it as one side of assholes running the country against another side of assholes. They feel their vote doesn't really make much of a difference overall. As long as Reality TV carries on and comes out of the box in their living room they don't care what else is going on.
And considering the fact that the winner will get to pick 3 supreme court justices (hence setting the tone for laws in our country for the next 20 years), it's no wonder this has degraded into a schoolyard brawl.
People seriously believe that laws only affect those that break them. People don't care to have the ability to look ahead and see what is possible down the road. When you do speculate on the future you are labeled as a paranoid "freak" by your peers. "Oh the Patriot Act doesn't stop your freedom, don't you see Survivor is still on? It's ok!"
No one will even notice the books being burned by the torces in the "Tribal Council".
look forward to MS accommodating an open source implementation, while freezing out a GPL-compatible implementation.
Be happy that an open source implementation came out of them. You don't use Apache software because it's not GPL'd? That's a bit rough don't you think?
For a community that is generally pro-emulation I cannot believe you guys are supporting Atari! You don't want them to rerelease games for newer architectures. Then they are no longer pieces of abandonware software, they can claim anyone spreading their older software under emulation is warezing, etc...
Yay, I can run antiquated games on expensive modern hardware for money. Personally I was more pleased when it was getting spread around in the emulation scene for free.
It would appear that 100 years ago, one could apprentice themselves into a trade, and become a journeyman at it in thier teens, and a journeyman was considered an "adult" and could open their own shop. However, this thought is completely held as wrong in the current social environment, as 16-18yos aren't "mature" enough to be allowed to do such things.
100 years ago the majority of people didn't have education past 8th grade (nevermind past 12th grade) and they didn't have an average life expectancy of nearly 70 years.
You worked because the family needed the money and because you were physically strong enough to do so at that point. Just because you have the physical attributes of an adult doesn't mean that you have the mental ones.
If you don't vote you have no right to complain, because you could have done something about it, and didn't.
You have the right to complain about not having any decent choices to pick from. Republican/Democrat/Minority Party Candidate. Pick the lesser of the evils and suffer with the motherfucker and his cabinet choices for the next four to eight years.
What happens if you can't stand any of the jackasses running? Do you pick the Minority Party candidate and throw away your vote (no, the majority candidates don't give a fuck if you threw your vote away once they win)? Do you pick the one that you agree with slightly on some topics just because you can't stand the incumbents cabinet members? Or do you just not fucking vote because it won't matter anyway?
In a nutshell, we're doing this because we care, and because we can. We also like the idea of doing this because nobody else has done it before, and we like to do crazy, new things.
Plenty of institutions (MTV and the Republicans immediately come to mind) have done what they can to get people out to vote. I suppose in this day and age we basically have to coerce people into signing up to vote (which is exactly what the Hot or Not guys are doing).
My question is why do we have to coerce people to vote? Is it because popular opinion doesn't matter? Is it because of possible cheating at the polls? Is it because people just don't give a fuck?
Personally I believe it to be a mix of quite a few factors but I lean quite a bit towards not giving a fuck and it not mattering.
Perhaps part of the standardized testing that GWB has mandated should include more emphasis on Civic Duty? Perhaps they should better explain why it is important to vote even though we have a broken/antequated system that is unnecessary in this day and age. Fuck, perhaps we should just eliminate the entire Election system as it is and reinstate it as an episode of Survivor or American Idol.
Text message your votes now! Standard SMS rates apply!
Boys especially need to have a break at certain stages of their growth, usually about 13-15 yo, when they should be sent away from home to some sort of boarding school/military school/vocational school arrangement, at least for a time. It all depends on the kid.
I guess I was one of those kids that didn't need that. What kids do need is to go to college AWAY from home... When I mean AWAY I mean outside of a single day's drive. No going home on the weekends for laundry, food, family time. These people need to stay the fuck at school and experience the "half-way house" experience that College helps to create.
Sending someone off to boarding/military/vocational schools when they are in their mid-teens will do nothing but help to alienate the child in a time when they might be alienated enough.
Kids need time to be apart *AND* they need time to grow but seperating them from their family at this point of their lives is hardly the way to do it. Wait for them to be of a mature enough age 18+ here in the States and don't let the little bastards come back.
You learn a lot, grow a lot, and change a lot in those years but you are still under the light security blanket that the college envrionment creates.
Every discussion has some sort of political slant to it. You are somehow labeled as "right" or "left" depending on the whim of the moderators or random members of the community. People routinely claim you are some sort of radical communist just because you don't support the paying-off of public servants to create laws that benefit only the corporations. Obviously this is just one small example but it certainly reflects a good bit of what I experience here... We might really want to think about how the normal Slashdot moderation system is handled on this side of the site.
;-)
If anything Karma changes should be eliminated due to politically motivated moderation in this section. Some serious damage could occur to someone's account that is diametrically opposed to the rest of the Slashdot mentality.
I have been scouring books, articles, and random conversation for some intelligent and fair discussion about the state of politics today. I doubt that I will find too much "intelligent discussion" and I know we won't find any fairness here on Slashdot but we can always have hope
is there such thing as a USB extension cord without buying a hub?
Yeah I recently purchased a Netgear USB wireless adapter for my Tivo and it had exactly that. A USB cable with a male and female end.
BFD. I haven't had a working floppy drive in either of my computers in over 5 years because the hardware failed. Any disk I have tried to read recently on other computers has been full of disk errors. I was pretty glad I didn't have to deal with that shit anymore on a regular basis.
Now comes the USB SD/CF reader that I have been using in my digital camera for about 9 months. For some reason it decided that it no longer could hold 512MB and only could hold 40MB. Whatever was on there outside of the 40MB was gone and I had to copy over the remaining images and format the disk. Looks like a whole different problem for this type of media.
While USB keydrives have survived washing machines and dryers and SD cards can hold a TON more data than floppies (with faster speeds and less hassle) we might be opening ourselves to new problems as we move up in technology.
The cost of the service ranges from $39.95 per month for 256 kilobits per second to $259.95 per month for 1.5 megabits per second, speeds that are five times to 30 times faster than dial-up connections. Husted, who plans to start marketing the service this month, expects 200 more customers by the end of the year.
Are they charging so much money because of lack of a userbase (100 people or so) or because of the amount of land covered? Chaska, MN has wireless coverage bursting to 3mbs bi-directional for $15.99 (residential) or $24.95 (commercial). I don't exactly see how $39.95 a month for 256k is all that fantastic. At that point you might be better off just staying with a $9.95 cheapo-ISP. YMMV I suppose.
Make a directory of 0 length files called starcraft.zip, brittanysuckingcock.mp3, and DSOTM.mp3.
You don't have to rename your files anything. Just piss them off with false positives on garbage.
that talking to me while I'm playing is like talking to a robot, or a zombie.
It's called concentration. When I am playing a game seriously I am lost in it. It's the same as a serious athletic event (or even practice). I would be completely blacked out from concentration. If I did happen to be able to discern what was going on around me I had lost concentration to the point of losing my edge in the competition.
Just because video games don't carry the same social weight as athletics doesn't mean your mind/body don't treat them the same way.
How can the price range be so slow when the processing power is claimed to be so many times faster than Intel chips?
Ah, more leftist tripe from garcia. Clearly any desire to maintain ownership of property is labeled as "greed"... until its your property in question.
Perhaps I wasn't clear... The government officials that are accepting payoffs to put through laws favorable to the coroporations are greedy.
but, are the people making this laws STUPID?
Greed is a powerful thing. The laws are being made by people who enjoy the perks of working for the corporations.
Now groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and their allies in Congress are scrambling for legislation such as the Induce Act that would overturn the 9th Circuit's ruling.
Does this mean that the 9th Circuit is a radical judge making rulings based on personal opinion? I especially love the term "allies in Congress" as if this is some sort of important war.
Too bad Elizabeth Shue isn't spearheading the research. At least she's something to see.
This isn't offtopic in the least. This is a reference to the movie Contact where a genius solves the coded messages sent by the aliens in 3D. He's located on space station Mir at the time.
God if you're going to moderate someone down at least know what you're doing.
They can't get him off the ground into LEO because of the incoming hurricane. Once they can get a shuttle out of the hangar and off the ground he will broadcast his 3D findings from Mir.