$5 Million for a KEYBOARD?!
How in the hell do you talk Investors into spending $5 Million on a damned keyboard? I mean, its not new technology, its not particularly inovative. Hell, does it have a Patent that it deserves this type of attention?
And from the creators of Vaporware, I mean, "The Phantom", a Second eternal hole to sink investors cashflow into.
Is it just me or is doing something illegal in the cyber-world more dangerous than the real world? How is it possible that I get more jail time for cracking into and defacing a web page than I'd get for shooting someone?
For our 'cyber-laws' we should be taking precidence from our existing laws. Instead of levying new fines for phishing, add this definition onto our current fraud and identity theft laws. Instead of creating crazy fines for spammers (although I want to see them pay just like everyone else) and model the punishments similarly to the do-no-call lists?
Law-makers don't see the internet as an extension of the physical world, and in term of law it should be seen in this light. Extend Current laws, don't make them up in a flight of fancy.
Okay... so next time a 17 year old gets drunk and wrecks daddy's car lets have parents sue Budweiser.
Next time a kid shoots someone at school let the city sue Marylin Manson, no no we used him, sue Puffy.
Parents, its time to wake up. If your child does not have the common sense to differentiate between reality and a computer game... you fucked up somewhere. If your child does something based on 'what the music told him to' or 'what that guy with the gun in that game did' there are fundamental issues at work here unrelated to outside influences such as a computer game.
There IS a real world, your job as parents is to teach your children how to navigate it. Take some fucking responsibility... you know... Face the real world your own damned selves.
Here in my department at FSU we are fortunate enough to have the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which develops the stongest magnets on the planet. Couple this with a professor with a sense of humor and you get.... That right! A Frog floating in a magnetic field! Along with golf balls, dice, and other things. When we asked him why he says, because you can.:) Check out the movies:
It is quite difficult to believe that IBM, the warehouse of over 10,000 patents sells a new industry in a sell-off. If they have the patents for RFID, I doubt they swindled it from IBM.
You install a "test" release on a box that _had_ to be secure? In my experience always test a new OS release on a non-critical system first. Given that you have an extra system with similar hardware so you can test any HW conflict of course.
An RPM build of apt-get for Fedora is available at
FreshRPMS. You can also install Synaptic which is a graphical GUI for apt-get.
Its all there for ya.
So you are telling me a "Phantom" console game that may not even exists has a market capitalization of $133 million while SCO, who is taking on Linux has a market cap of $127 million? Ha!
Best mud I've ever played. Gratuetous sex jokes, overpowered munchkins oppressing weak newbies, clan wars every day. Ardent violence, destruction, and power-hungry leveling. It don't get any better.
It is in the state of being rewritten. Check it out : Dark Castle
While I'm proud of my university this is quite old news. The Lab email announcing this is dated August 23rd. And this has been on./ before in a slightly altered form: FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research
Of course its still a damn neat achievment.
There is a national Do-Not-Call-List now. It works for cell phones as well as land lines. Find the link on Slashdot here(I'm too lazy just now) and sign up. If they call you get $500. Sound good?
What was that Lassie?
*woof* *woof*
Don't trust the RIAA?
*woof* *nods head* *woof*
They're only trying to destroy their customer base?
*woof* *nods head* *woof*
Good Lassie.. *pets Lassie*
Then, the week of Dec. 12, sequel "Two Towers" will unspool, just a month after having preemed on DVD,
The extended version of FOTR has been out since last year, when I bought it, just before TTT was release. And again they will release last year's movie on extended DVD before showing ROTK.
I do not understand how you can legally sue a someone for using software with a revoked license untill you revoke their license. But you cannot revoke the license untill you LEGALLY prove in court you can in fact revoke their license.
Did I miss the SCO vs. IBM trial already being settled? I didn't think so. So fuck off SCO.
IBM's suit revealed that Novell on June 12 effectively forbade SCO from terminating IBM's AIX license. SCO said it revoked the AIX license on June 16. Novell maintained the right to issue such instructions to SCO under the terms of the Unix sale, the suit said.
Holy shite.... that's just awsome...
"We revoke your right to sel.."
*Bitch-Slap*
"Shut up bitch, we said NO!"
They just got a information request from: kadafiomar@talibn.com
I am interested in more information in regards to your linux licensing. We have recently acquired a 128 processor system for doing building detonation dynamics and do not want to impede on your IP rights. Please send information concerning how to go about purchasing a liscence for out system.
For research purposes, could you also send size specification on your headquarters located 355 South 520 West.
Thank you,
-- Omar, K.
And Lord, I SO want to see Bush getting a bill from the budgetary commitee show what the government owes to the company of the son of Sen. Hatch. Haha
Out of a total of 841 reconstructed embryos, only 22 developed to advanced embryos within about a week. Seventeen of those were introduced into nine mares, resulting in four pregnancies, but only one, Prometea, developed to full term.
Jeez... if you really want that genetically enhanced captain of the football team genius scientist Richard Gere looking son you better start soon!
If he's paying some crazy sum of money he expects to get what he pays for, right?
If I'm on dail-up I expect a slow connection. If I'm on a DSL 512kb I expect a 512kb connection. If I pay an arm, a leg, and sold my soul to the devil I expect a speedy connection with low latency.
What was that estimate? 93 million Americans use P2P? That is 93 million prisoners to house for 5 years, and $23,250,000,000,000 revenue for the government.
I think this is a great direction to head with our already broken justice system. Within a few years I'll be able to go to work with a loaded AK-47 and massacre... ohh lets say anywhere between 10-12 co-workers, and get a lighter sentence than if I downloaded a few songs/movies from the internet.
WTF is going on when I can assault someone, sell drugs, or some such and get a lenient sentence (which means I'll be out in less than half the time sentenced for) but if I do anything computer related its some gawd-awful thing.
Its called a "perceived threat". And the entertainment industies are scared shitless that, as the article indicates "they try to hold on to their business models", they may have to change models. Lawmakers see a threat because they're campaign funds come from these sales. And it is amplified by the fact most are technologically-inclined(Lets blow their computers up, yeah!). Here's a thought, using technology as a tool. But what good is a tool to them if they can't control it outright? That seems to be their outlook.
The entertainment industries have to take a good hard look at the future. Piss of your buyers or work to accomidate them while makeing cash.
Read the proposal: "not less than $15,000,000" "for investigation and prosecution of violations" of the "Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003". [Great acronym]
Shit, everytime I hear about a law like this I get to urge to move to another country, and even then you're not always safe from this sort of stupidity.
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$5 Million for a KEYBOARD?! How in the hell do you talk Investors into spending $5 Million on a damned keyboard? I mean, its not new technology, its not particularly inovative. Hell, does it have a Patent that it deserves this type of attention? And from the creators of Vaporware, I mean, "The Phantom", a Second eternal hole to sink investors cashflow into.
Is it just me or is doing something illegal in the cyber-world more dangerous than the real world? How is it possible that I get more jail time for cracking into and defacing a web page than I'd get for shooting someone?
For our 'cyber-laws' we should be taking precidence from our existing laws. Instead of levying new fines for phishing, add this definition onto our current fraud and identity theft laws. Instead of creating crazy fines for spammers (although I want to see them pay just like everyone else) and model the punishments similarly to the do-no-call lists?
Law-makers don't see the internet as an extension of the physical world, and in term of law it should be seen in this light. Extend Current laws, don't make them up in a flight of fancy.
Okay... so next time a 17 year old gets drunk and wrecks daddy's car lets have parents sue Budweiser.
Next time a kid shoots someone at school let the city sue Marylin Manson, no no we used him, sue Puffy.
Parents, its time to wake up. If your child does not have the common sense to differentiate between reality and a computer game... you fucked up somewhere. If your child does something based on 'what the music told him to' or 'what that guy with the gun in that game did' there are fundamental issues at work here unrelated to outside influences such as a computer game.
There IS a real world, your job as parents is to teach your children how to navigate it. Take some fucking responsibility... you know... Face the real world your own damned selves.
Here in my department at FSU we are fortunate enough to have the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which develops the stongest magnets on the planet. Couple this with a professor with a sense of humor and you get .... That right! A Frog floating in a magnetic field! Along with golf balls, dice, and other things. When we asked him why he says, because you can. :) Check out the movies:
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/science/levitation/
It is quite difficult to believe that IBM, the warehouse of over 10,000 patents sells a new industry in a sell-off. If they have the patents for RFID, I doubt they swindled it from IBM.
You install a "test" release on a box that _had_ to be secure? In my experience always test a new OS release on a non-critical system first. Given that you have an extra system with similar hardware so you can test any HW conflict of course.
An RPM build of apt-get for Fedora is available at FreshRPMS. You can also install Synaptic which is a graphical GUI for apt-get.
Its all there for ya.
So you are telling me a "Phantom" console game that may not even exists has a market capitalization of $133 million while SCO, who is taking on Linux has a market cap of $127 million? Ha!
Its discussed how to automatically update your fedora core through rpm on the fedora-test-list here. Hope that helps.
Shhh... I was just trying to garner up some newbies to taunt. Besides I haven't played in years, although it was the best mud I have found.
Best mud I've ever played. Gratuetous sex jokes, overpowered munchkins oppressing weak newbies, clan wars every day. Ardent violence, destruction, and power-hungry leveling. It don't get any better.
It is in the state of being rewritten. Check it out : Dark Castle
While I'm proud of my university this is quite old news. The Lab email announcing this is dated August 23rd. And this has been on ./ before in a slightly altered form: FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research
Of course its still a damn neat achievment.
There is a national Do-Not-Call-List now. It works for cell phones as well as land lines. Find the link on Slashdot here(I'm too lazy just now) and sign up. If they call you get $500. Sound good?
What was that Lassie?
*woof* *woof*
Don't trust the RIAA?
*woof* *nods head* *woof*
They're only trying to destroy their customer base?
*woof* *nods head* *woof*
Good Lassie.. *pets Lassie*
Another BitTorrent from GameTab. GameTab seems to download faster than the Torrent in the story.
Torrent Link
Then, the week of Dec. 12, sequel "Two Towers" will unspool, just a month after having preemed on DVD,
The extended version of FOTR has been out since last year, when I bought it, just before TTT was release. And again they will release last year's movie on extended DVD before showing ROTK.
I do not understand how you can legally sue a someone for using software with a revoked license untill you revoke their license. But you cannot revoke the license untill you LEGALLY prove in court you can in fact revoke their license.
Did I miss the SCO vs. IBM trial already being settled? I didn't think so. So fuck off SCO.
IBM's suit revealed that Novell on June 12 effectively forbade SCO from terminating IBM's AIX license. SCO said it revoked the AIX license on June 16. Novell maintained the right to issue such instructions to SCO under the terms of the Unix sale, the suit said.
Holy shite.... that's just awsome...
"We revoke your right to sel.."
*Bitch-Slap*
"Shut up bitch, we said NO!"
They just got a information request from: kadafiomar@talibn.com
I am interested in more information in regards to your linux licensing. We have recently acquired a 128 processor system for doing building detonation dynamics and do not want to impede on your IP rights. Please send information concerning how to go about purchasing a liscence for out system. For research purposes, could you also send size specification on your headquarters located 355 South 520 West. Thank you, -- Omar, K.
And Lord, I SO want to see Bush getting a bill from the budgetary commitee show what the government owes to the company of the son of Sen. Hatch. Haha
Out of a total of 841 reconstructed embryos, only 22 developed to advanced embryos within about a week. Seventeen of those were introduced into nine mares, resulting in four pregnancies, but only one, Prometea, developed to full term.
Jeez... if you really want that genetically enhanced captain of the football team genius scientist Richard Gere looking son you better start soon!
The point being....
If he's paying some crazy sum of money he expects to get what he pays for, right?
If I'm on dail-up I expect a slow connection. If I'm on a DSL 512kb I expect a 512kb connection. If I pay an arm, a leg, and sold my soul to the devil I expect a speedy connection with low latency.
For the love of the Nine Hells(tm) someone please post a torrent link. 3 hours after the post and its still suffering from /.
Professor Xavier comes to mind?
This is a good point...
What was that estimate? 93 million Americans use P2P? That is 93 million prisoners to house for 5 years, and $23,250,000,000,000 revenue for the government.
Perfect way to balance the failing budget!
I think this is a great direction to head with our already broken justice system. Within a few years I'll be able to go to work with a loaded AK-47 and massacre... ohh lets say anywhere between 10-12 co-workers, and get a lighter sentence than if I downloaded a few songs/movies from the internet.
WTF is going on when I can assault someone, sell drugs, or some such and get a lenient sentence (which means I'll be out in less than half the time sentenced for) but if I do anything computer related its some gawd-awful thing.
Its called a "perceived threat". And the entertainment industies are scared shitless that, as the article indicates "they try to hold on to their business models", they may have to change models. Lawmakers see a threat because they're campaign funds come from these sales. And it is amplified by the fact most are technologically-inclined(Lets blow their computers up, yeah!). Here's a thought, using technology as a tool. But what good is a tool to them if they can't control it outright? That seems to be their outlook.
The entertainment industries have to take a good hard look at the future. Piss of your buyers or work to accomidate them while makeing cash.
Read the proposal: "not less than $15,000,000" "for investigation and prosecution of violations" of the "Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003". [Great acronym]
Shit, everytime I hear about a law like this I get to urge to move to another country, and even then you're not always safe from this sort of stupidity.