Interesting. Are handguns legal there? I've heard on tv that Great Britain has a higher violent crime rate than the USA. The story seemed to be blaming it on the fact that the British citizens have very restrictive gun laws, and the police force is similarly restricted.
The story was on the CBS evening news, but the first link to it that Google showed is the Christian Science Monitor.
In Indiana, the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a system in which $30 of the price for each sale of vehicle vanity plates (a $45 option) is split evenly between the two parties. This has given them each a $500,000+ financial jump on third party candidates for over 10 years (I can't remember when the sum broke the 1 mil mark, but the practice was ruled to be acceptable under the state constitution in 1984). The bureau of motor vehicles has been financially in the red for quite some time now, but neither party is even discussing the possibility of cutting their own free funding. This money goes to the Rep. and Dem. parties, btw, and not individual candidates.
My question is: How can ANY candidate not a member of the two parties currently in power realistically compete under such a system? Also, can any candidate realistically claim that the free air time for the "presidential debates" shown on the big 3 networks doesn't present the same problem on a national scale?
A complete moron?
Mr. Moron graduated manga cum laude from Princeton in 1955, and is a former editor of the Harvard law review. What are crackhead George's credentials? That "there should be limits to freedom" quote when he was talking about Zack Exley of gwbush.com? The body count he's racked up as Texas governor? Stop posting AC, grow some balls, and (most importantly) get some facts if you want to properly bash a candidate... any candidate.
In 1965, after he published Unsafe At Any Speed, General Motors tried to discredit him to save their hides. Their president ended up standing before the senate admitting wrongdoing, including invasion of privacy while tracking Mr. Nader. What makes you think you'll succeed where they failed... in a slashdot post?
well, there goes my karma, but politics is a touchy subject with me.
Are we starting up a classified section for slashdot? That doesn't sound like all that bad of an idea...
swg (single/ white/ geek) seeks aag (any/ any/ geek) 4 small apt. will split rent/util/caffiene/dsl
that looks like a joke, but i'm kinda serious.
anybody in the Louisville area interested?
None. Of course, I haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if you could get it running for any length of time even at 166, or at any speed. It's the whole "where does the heat go?" question. If the processor/heatsink is sitting in a vacuum, you've pretty much eliminated any cooling from conduction and convection, leaving only radiation (right? physics guys, help me out here).
I seem to remember something about the amount of heat dissipated from radiation being tied to the temperature of the object that is radiating it. Bottom line: yeah, space is really cold when you're far away from any heat source, not creating any heat of your own, and have had plenty of time to radiate away your stored heat. But heat transfer sucks unless you're talking high temps (higher energy EM radiation).
Then again, that cheap crack could be starting to effect (affect?) my posting skills...
You're missing the "big picture"...
When all the world's oil reserves start drying up, guess who's going to be holding all the cards (plus a solid economy that DOESN'T rely on oil exports to survive)? It looks like a cold and calculated strategy to me, and extreemly far-sighted for a group of politicians facing re-election challenges every 2-8 years.
shh!!! don't give them any ideas. After all, this is the network that threatened the Evolution Control Committee with a lawsuit after they released their "Rocked By Rape" single. The song was a parody of Dan Rather on the evening news, setting re-arranged samples of Rather to a mixed sample of AC/DC's Back in Black. You can click here for the details.
just out of curiosity, has slashdot ever had a story with over 1000 posts to it? I only remember the microsoft vs. andover story scoring 800 or so before the dos attack.
As far as I've heard, the NetPD list of 335,000 plus names that metallica wants to ban from napster doesn't discriminate between.mp3s off of bootlegs and.mp3s off of the commercially released albumns. My question is, how many people is metallica attempting to ban from napster for trading.mp3s of bootlegs that they were encouraged to make by the band?
Evidence? It was already sitting on my hard drive before/. got around to making it's announcement.
Contrary to popular opinion, there are news sources that (from time to time) are faster on the draw than the holy slashdot. I think I remember reading this first on either Wired or ZDnet.
BTW, don't bother trying www.wrapster.com (not there) or searching google. You can download it from c|net downloads @ http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10080-100-158 1508.html?tag=st.cn.sr.dl.1 Also, for an update on the Napster-Indiana University thingie, you might want to take a look at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2472 439,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 .
...that's the only free "groupware" product I can think of. I've seen it in use on more than one U.S. submarine. In my opinion, it's not bad, but it's not all that great either. The only other program that springs to mind is Goldmine, and that sure as hell ain't cheap, let alone free. Then again, I didn't spend much time onboard surface ships, so I may have missed something.
While I vividly recall playing Starcraft on the lan, it had no official reason to be there, along with redneck rampage and the FT's porn collection. Bottom line: the shit put on the system was put there because there was no experienced admin, NT "looks" easy, price wasn't a factor, and evidently the entire federal government was supposed to settle on a single operating system and NT was picked (thank you, Redmond political lobby). Want a truly scary site? Check out http://www.ntgov.com , a site that goes along with a magazine i've seen on every boat i've been stationed on, and at the Naval Reserve Center in Louisville, Ky.
About the Marines...Either he was full of shit, or you are. Speaking as a former submariner w/ 6yrs in, the only navy ships i know of with a marine detachment would be "gator freightors" (amphib assault), or carriers. And they do NOT learn tactics from Doom (unless you count sinking like a stone in water... we damn near drowned some jarheads once...looong story) Contrary to popular opinion, the security i've seen on surface ships isn't that tight. The most junior personnel are the ones who get stuck guarding the ship/boat. On surface ships, the crew is usually large enough, and the guards green enough, that they don't know the entire crew. (btw, us bubbleheads are much tighter knit. y'know what they say... 100 men go down, 50 couples come up...) As long as you wear the right uniform, show what looks like a green military id, and salute the watch and ensign properly, they haven't a clue. That's not to say i recommend trying it, however: even a tiny fast attack sub in stand-down with a skeleton crew onboard still has at least four people minimum up and alert at all times, with detailed plans for alerting the rest of the crew/base and armed defense.
Y'know, I used to think that building your own was definitely the way to go. After opening up a PII 400 Cow the other day to replace it's NIC, I was quite impressed by the amount of planning that had gone into it's construction: 1. thumbscrews on the case. I know, more and more companies are doing this, but it still isn't as prevalent as I'd like to see. 2. a snap-off cowl over the fan, focusing airflow over a PII heatsink that was larger than stock. 3. the motherboard used seemed to have the perfect location for every connection: IDE cables didn't hide the memory slots, and everything seemed extreemly easy to access. 4. ports on the back were color-coded, for the technologically impaired. My sister, a "nail technician", could have set this thing up.
That "Cow" forced me to look at my "Frankenstein" in a whole new light. They seem to be covering all the bases: they made it easy enough for an idiot to use, and a snap for anyone with the gumption to crack the thing open and go to town. Now if it only came with a linux distro pre-installed...
WARNING:POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILERS I swear Andy Kaufman came back from the dead just to screw with my mind: I saw MotM at the last showing on opening night at Clarksville, IN's River Falls Cinemas. Those of you who've seen the movie, please remember that in the begining of the film "Andy" addresses the audience, telling them he's cut out the sad parts (or something like that), and then rolls the credits. Now fast forward to where they are sitting in the restaurant where he tells his agent and girlfriend he has cancer. Just as he makes the announcement, our film broke! We're sitting there in the dark watching burnt edges of celluloid, wondering when the "joke" is going to be over.
And we waited.
And we waited some more.
Now we're wondering if that's how the movie ends, seeing as how the credits were at the beginning. Finally someone alerted the management, the film was stopped, and the lights came on. We're STILL not sure if the movie is simply over, or if something really did happen to the film. Then, one of the managers came in, said the film had shit the bed (my words, not hers), and gave us all cheezy looking re-admit tickets. Give the way Kaufman seemingly loved to torment his audiences, I couldn't be positively sure the tickets weren't just a stunt (like smell-o-rama, pokemon trading cards, and 3-D glasses) until I'd checked out IMDB's user reviews later that night. Leaving the theater I was thinking: If that's not the way the movie ends, then it damn well SHOULD be!
Another reason the RIAA doesn't go after Sony is that not only is Sony a huge Japanese conglomerate, making damn near every type of electronic product known to man, but it is also the world's largest recording label. RIAA doesn't touch Sony because, frankly, Sony could make their life hell. RIAA may be arrogant and stupid, but they aren't suicidal.
Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't the RIAA's job of proving Napster in the wrong be even more difficult than M$ trying to gun down BO2K? They're both routinely used for "less than honorable" purposes, but even though there were many bitches and moans from the boys in Redmond about BO, no lawsuit followed (at least none that I'm aware of).
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Sure it's possible. Didn't you see how they did it in Frequency? You probably just didn't realize that /. obeys the Hollywood laws of physics.
Interesting. Are handguns legal there? I've heard on tv that Great Britain has a higher violent crime rate than the USA. The story seemed to be blaming it on the fact that the British citizens have very restrictive gun laws, and the police force is similarly restricted.
The story was on the CBS evening news, but the first link to it that Google showed is the Christian Science Monitor.
In Indiana, the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a system in which $30 of the price for each sale of vehicle vanity plates (a $45 option) is split evenly between the two parties. This has given them each a $500,000+ financial jump on third party candidates for over 10 years (I can't remember when the sum broke the 1 mil mark, but the practice was ruled to be acceptable under the state constitution in 1984). The bureau of motor vehicles has been financially in the red for quite some time now, but neither party is even discussing the possibility of cutting their own free funding. This money goes to the Rep. and Dem. parties, btw, and not individual candidates.
My question is: How can ANY candidate not a member of the two parties currently in power realistically compete under such a system? Also, can any candidate realistically claim that the free air time for the "presidential debates" shown on the big 3 networks doesn't present the same problem on a national scale?
I was pissed and not thinking clearly. I apologize.
A complete moron?
Mr. Moron graduated manga cum laude from Princeton in 1955, and is a former editor of the Harvard law review. What are crackhead George's credentials? That "there should be limits to freedom" quote when he was talking about Zack Exley of gwbush.com? The body count he's racked up as Texas governor? Stop posting AC, grow some balls, and (most importantly) get some facts if you want to properly bash a candidate... any candidate.
In 1965, after he published Unsafe At Any Speed, General Motors tried to discredit him to save their hides. Their president ended up standing before the senate admitting wrongdoing, including invasion of privacy while tracking Mr. Nader. What makes you think you'll succeed where they failed... in a slashdot post?
well, there goes my karma, but politics is a touchy subject with me.
I'm just hoping the Red Hat Network has better commercials than the Microsoft Network.
I knew that joke was coming, I was just surprised at how long it took someone to jump on it.
Are we starting up a classified section for slashdot? That doesn't sound like all that bad of an idea...
swg (single/ white/ geek) seeks aag (any/ any/ geek) 4 small apt. will split rent/util/caffiene/dsl
that looks like a joke, but i'm kinda serious.
anybody in the Louisville area interested?
None. Of course, I haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if you could get it running for any length of time even at 166, or at any speed. It's the whole "where does the heat go?" question. If the processor/heatsink is sitting in a vacuum, you've pretty much eliminated any cooling from conduction and convection, leaving only radiation (right? physics guys, help me out here).
I seem to remember something about the amount of heat dissipated from radiation being tied to the temperature of the object that is radiating it. Bottom line: yeah, space is really cold when you're far away from any heat source, not creating any heat of your own, and have had plenty of time to radiate away your stored heat. But heat transfer sucks unless you're talking high temps (higher energy EM radiation).
Then again, that cheap crack could be starting to effect (affect?) my posting skills...
You're missing the "big picture"...
When all the world's oil reserves start drying up, guess who's going to be holding all the cards (plus a solid economy that DOESN'T rely on oil exports to survive)? It looks like a cold and calculated strategy to me, and extreemly far-sighted for a group of politicians facing re-election challenges every 2-8 years.
shh!!! don't give them any ideas. After all, this is the network that threatened the Evolution Control Committee with a lawsuit after they released their "Rocked By Rape" single. The song was a parody of Dan Rather on the evening news, setting re-arranged samples of Rather to a mixed sample of AC/DC's Back in Black. You can click here for the details.
just out of curiosity, has slashdot ever had a story with over 1000 posts to it? I only remember the microsoft vs. andover story scoring 800 or so before the dos attack.
As far as I've heard, the NetPD list of 335,000 plus names that metallica wants to ban from napster doesn't discriminate between .mp3s off of bootlegs and .mp3s off of the commercially released albumns. My question is, how many people is metallica attempting to ban from napster for trading .mp3s of bootlegs that they were encouraged to make by the band?
Evidence? /. got around to making it's announcement.
8 1508.html?tag=st.cn.sr.dl.1 2 439,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 .
It was already sitting on my hard drive before
Contrary to popular opinion, there are news sources that (from time to time) are faster on the draw than the holy slashdot. I think I remember reading this first on either Wired or ZDnet.
BTW, don't bother trying www.wrapster.com (not there) or searching google. You can download it from c|net downloads @ http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10080-100-15
Also, for an update on the Napster-Indiana University thingie, you might want to take a look at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,247
...that's the only free "groupware" product I can think of. I've seen it in use on more than one U.S. submarine. In my opinion, it's not bad, but it's not all that great either.
The only other program that springs to mind is Goldmine, and that sure as hell ain't cheap, let alone free. Then again, I didn't spend much time onboard surface ships, so I may have missed something.
While I vividly recall playing Starcraft on the lan, it had no official reason to be there, along with redneck rampage and the FT's porn collection. Bottom line: the shit put on the system was put there because there was no experienced admin, NT "looks" easy, price wasn't a factor, and evidently the entire federal government was supposed to settle on a single operating system and NT was picked (thank you, Redmond political lobby).
Want a truly scary site? Check out http://www.ntgov.com , a site that goes along with a magazine i've seen on every boat i've been stationed on, and at the Naval Reserve Center in Louisville, Ky.
About the Marines...Either he was full of shit, or you are. Speaking as a former submariner w/ 6yrs in, the only navy ships i know of with a marine detachment would be "gator freightors" (amphib assault), or carriers. And they do NOT learn tactics from Doom (unless you count sinking like a stone in water... we damn near drowned some jarheads once...looong story) Contrary to popular opinion, the security i've seen on surface ships isn't that tight. The most junior personnel are the ones who get stuck guarding the ship/boat. On surface ships, the crew is usually large enough, and the guards green enough, that they don't know the entire crew. (btw, us bubbleheads are much tighter knit. y'know what they say... 100 men go down, 50 couples come up...) As long as you wear the right uniform, show what looks like a green military id, and salute the watch and ensign properly, they haven't a clue. That's not to say i recommend trying it, however: even a tiny fast attack sub in stand-down with a skeleton crew onboard still has at least four people minimum up and alert at all times, with detailed plans for alerting the rest of the crew/base and armed defense.
Y'know, I used to think that building your own was definitely the way to go. After opening up a PII 400 Cow the other day to replace it's NIC, I was quite impressed by the amount of planning that had gone into it's construction:
1. thumbscrews on the case. I know, more and more companies are doing this, but it still isn't as prevalent as I'd like to see.
2. a snap-off cowl over the fan, focusing airflow over a PII heatsink that was larger than stock.
3. the motherboard used seemed to have the perfect location for every connection: IDE cables didn't hide the memory slots, and everything seemed extreemly easy to access.
4. ports on the back were color-coded, for the technologically impaired. My sister, a "nail technician", could have set this thing up.
That "Cow" forced me to look at my "Frankenstein" in a whole new light. They seem to be covering all the bases: they made it easy enough for an idiot to use, and a snap for anyone with the gumption to crack the thing open and go to town.
Now if it only came with a linux distro pre-installed...
WARNING:POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILERS
I swear Andy Kaufman came back from the dead just to screw with my mind:
I saw MotM at the last showing on opening night at Clarksville, IN's River Falls Cinemas. Those of you who've seen the movie, please remember that in the begining of the film "Andy" addresses the audience, telling them he's cut out the sad parts (or something like that), and then rolls the credits. Now fast forward to where they are sitting in the restaurant where he tells his agent and girlfriend he has cancer. Just as he makes the announcement, our film broke! We're sitting there in the dark watching burnt edges of celluloid, wondering when the "joke" is going to be over.
And we waited.
And we waited some more.
Now we're wondering if that's how the movie ends, seeing as how the credits were at the beginning. Finally someone alerted the management, the film was stopped, and the lights came on. We're STILL not sure if the movie is simply over, or if something really did happen to the film.
Then, one of the managers came in, said the film had shit the bed (my words, not hers), and gave us all cheezy looking re-admit tickets. Give the way Kaufman seemingly loved to torment his audiences, I couldn't be positively sure the tickets weren't just a stunt (like smell-o-rama, pokemon trading cards, and 3-D glasses) until I'd checked out IMDB's user reviews later that night.
Leaving the theater I was thinking: If that's not the way the movie ends, then it damn well SHOULD be!
If you were microsoft, would YOU want a side-by-side, same machine comparison against linux?
Another reason the RIAA doesn't go after Sony is that not only is Sony a huge Japanese conglomerate, making damn near every type of electronic product known to man, but it is also the world's largest recording label. RIAA doesn't touch Sony because, frankly, Sony could make their life hell.
RIAA may be arrogant and stupid, but they aren't suicidal.
Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't the RIAA's job of proving Napster in the wrong be even more difficult than M$ trying to gun down BO2K? They're both routinely used for "less than honorable" purposes, but even though there were many bitches and moans from the boys in Redmond about BO, no lawsuit followed (at least none that I'm aware of).