consider this off-topic, but does anyone know if postage stamps are considered legal tender?
cause i would love to pay people in postage stamps and have them be forced to accept it
I'll compare it to normal space flight.
The last shuttle, Endeavor, completed in May 1991, cost $2.1 billion and was designed to be used for 100 trips (which divides out to $21 million per trip). This winds up being a rather minor part (7%) of the total cost of a space shuttle launch, estimated to be $300 million per launch for the first eight flights in any given year (through the year 2020). (taken from http://www.distant-star.com/issue13/april_2003_spa ce_launch_costs.htm)
So, thats actually pretty impresive if you ask me.
Here in Cedar Rapids IA, we already have it, i can go and see the units themselves mounted on the powerlines, and pick them up with kismet and netstumbler along glass road. Im a ham too, so i dont really care for this, they can find a better way to get broadband to everyone.
If you do packet remember that eveyone is going to have to pass thier technician license, and set up freaking TNC's and crap like that, and your messages are limited to 256 characters, I think, maybe not anymore. Oh and eveyone is gonna need radios for their computers and stuff. Point is, packet radio is pretty much dead, although TCP/IP over packet is available now. However, this won't really fulfill what the "slashdot-asker"(special-ed word, i know) is talking about.
Most people who read this stuff realize that the Microsoft ads are bull anyways. Microsoft is just helping to make sure OSDN webpages stay here and make sure that they dont need as much support from people like us. For those of you who have read the the ads, did it change your thinking in anyway to help out microsoft? I doubt it. Look at it this way. It makes microsoft look dumb and "unsportsman-like". And it helps to fund OSDN. Now, if Linuxtoday is really becoming biased then I would agree there is a problem that needs to be acknowledged.
The computer chips for cars are optimized for burning premium gas normally, and as long as you run premium gas you actually won't lose too much gas mileage.
why dont they microwave one dollar bills to see if its the ink that burn cause the face has the most ink doesnt it? so maybe it would burn in othe bills as well and if not mayebe there is somehting weird going on
it sounds like the dummy is not wearing a spcaesuit and you wouldnt purposefully be in space without a space suit would you? so the test doesnt sound all that great to me cause you would think that a spacesuit would block some of the radiation wouldnt you?
You might consider this flaimbait but here i go
You need to think of this logically not legally.
I dont agree with the tactics of the riaa. Imagine however that they did prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law. How many people would win the lawsuit?
The simple fact is that what you do when you downlaod music you do not own or redistribute it for other than personal use you are violating the copyright and violating the copyright is illegal
like john lennon said, "Music is everyone's posession. It's only the publishers who think they own it." The RIAA makes money from peoples records . The only reason they care about artists is so they will sell records so the riaa makes money. The simple truth is that artists benefit by good promotion from large labels. If they cant sell any cd's or get promoted how are they going to get anyone to experience their music in hope that they will pay for tickets to a show. Lots of artists make money from shows and special deals like pepsi commercials. Thats where the real money is. The Riaa does its job and just wants its end of the bargain even if they do take too much sometimes
Yes the riaa owns the music. That gives them the right to prosecute people who steal "their" music which is legal to do because you havent bought it from the riaa. So instead of countersuing for rackateering, just be glad they didnt sue you for 144,000 dollars for each of your 17 songs from kazaa cause that would be a little expensive would it not? I dont see why the RIAA woulnt win if they sued you for 144 grand either cause how do you defend something so blatently illegal? i dont think anyone can argue that what the RIAA is doing isnt legal. 2000 dollars isnt anything compared to the amount you could have to pay. If people werent so legalistic it would make things a hell of a lot less complicated.
Maybe for personal use, but fedora basically is redhat without th support is it not? My cousin just went and bought a magazine about linux cause he wanted to try it out (he doesnt get cable where he lives only 56k) but i think that stuff thats easy for people to obtain will help it grow, my cousin probably doesn even know how to burn a iso.. if peopel want to experince/ try out linux cause the realized MS sucks paying 80 dollars for suse or redhat at bestbuy may become a trend..
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they sends lots of lead up in with sattelites to use as a ballast i know that, so maybe they are just using bodies now.. at a 11,000 dollars its cheaper for them and at 150 lbs for an avereage person...
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people have star treck weddings so why not a burial like spock!
I doubt this could do any sort of justice to the white album, not sure how many people who read this have it or have listened to it, but the white album was very very excellent. The best "rappers" are people who have thier own stuff and dont do sampling, for example outkast but i suppose thats closer to funk than rap. But then again i havent heard the gray album so maybe it is good. Im not a fan of messing with a good thing though.
How is the government going to track this stuff? RFID camera deals on every single streetblock? This rfid seems like it could be very useful to deter counterfit stuff, what about using it on money. Then we could track you down to place where you are spendidng your ransom money! the real problem is getting these things on every single street corner. i Think rfids will mainly used in a commercial sense where they can track your purchases and best buy can be alerted when one of their best customers come in so they can greet them with a sales rep who knows nothing. oh here's another idea RFID toilet paper, yes you can find out who the damn kid was who tp'ed your house!
when you can use chips its like hacking but its more user friendly for example for 249 dollars i can get 15 more horsepower and 13 lb ft of torque by just plugging in a chip dont have to worry about blowing my ingnition coils and shortin my ecu or somehting like that and if i do, i can tell the people with the chip that they caused it
honeslty, tune recylcer is being stupid. i for one will not give them my bottle caps and im wondering if anyone else will i mean there is good music that i want that i can get off of itunes and by golly is anyone really going to give them their bottlecaps?
why not just give them to someone you know rather than mailing them something, hell just go and buy some "open source zealot musicians" cd if its that big of a deal, but if you give them to tune recycler your almost wasting it in my opinion the artitsts only get 50 cents so send them a check and save yourself a stamp or some effort sending them an e-mail. hmm we could sign with a non-evil label and get lots of money back, or we could sign on a evil label get promoted better possibly make less money per cd, but sell more of them and make more money from volume i mean honestly sharing music is illegal if you are violating the copyright and whatnot. I dont give a crap about the RIAA being evil except i wish cd's were cheaper, but now i have itunes, im happy to pay for a good cd, but when i only want one song itunes is a much better deal. if music was open source we wouldnt have good music. because people wouldnt be very inspired to make music, they would like to go and make money in a real job, and you guys wouldnt support it and you know it. if you got it for free, for most of you freeloaders you wouldnt give anything back. how many people who use linux give things back willingly, i honestly have not given one distribution one cent so condemn me to hell. honestly, would we start open source music labs or something? The RIAA is definatley in it for themselves but its almost a neccesary evil.
traceroute to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
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SCO, meet MyDoom
I used ot play everquest and was in a guild where 2 of the players were a husband and wife duo they were both the same race and stuff too, it was sort of cute I guess.
I have had my iPod for a half a year now, and havent ever had a situation where I didnt have a charge. The ac adapter isnt very bulky and charged via the same cable you use for the transfers. 8 hours isnt to bad considering it has to spin a freaking hard-drive, I mean how long does your laptop battery last? 6 hours is probably the norm. When I was thinking about getting a ipod i didnt like the idea of rechargeable batteries, but i dont have to look for AA's with a charge on them. Now, i actually wouldnt buy a music player with AA type stuff cause its just a hassle, and if my battery dies unless you use rechargleables AA's will cost alot in the long run too. anything with a li-ion battery will have the risk of overheating time for the flamebiat..
honeslty just go buy yourself a fricking ipod, instead of waiting for OGG, FLAC, Bluetooth, and some crappy UI than cant compete with apple's and use the AAC format its actually pretty decent. i bet people are going to talk about he rio karma.. well i was looking at that and it said something about solid state electronics, so i asked rio about it i said something smart like "i know your karma must have a hardrive because you coundt offer Xgigs of compact flash or memory without moving parts, so could you please explain to me how it is that this has no moving parts?" then they sent me an email telling me that the hardrive doesnt count as moving parts. WTF? so i decided that if anything went wrong with that they probably couldnt fix it or be of any useful help well theres my rant
well come on all the dumb criminals use windows the reason macs frustrate them is because there arent as many gigantic holes you could drive a truck through compared to windows. plus it isnt as widely used and known by the fbi possibly?
but why is this such a big deal? i mean how many slashdotters have the fbi cracking their computers? and heres the flamebait... most of you guys are all DRM, RFID, cracking my computer, and patriot act paranoid. if its questionable whether its legal or not or you dont want people to know what the hell your up to maybe you shouldnt be doing it? or maybe you should think about why you want it secretive. but i will admit that some of that DRM stuff and RFID, and people stealing my financial information stuff does sorta bother me but i think i can live with people knowing how many sticks of gum i've bought.
ROTFLMAO omg omg im so 733t macs are so suxor and real haxor could bork a mac typing with their nose. My pc running linux is so rule/secure it makes me want to crap my pants.
"and they are secure out of the box"
If that was funny enough to make you almost fall out of your chair from laughing you need to quit reading slashdot
looks like the thing that that Harold has on the red green show, if anyone here has ever seen it.. you know "if the women dont find you handsome they can at least find you handy"..
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consider this off-topic, but does anyone know if postage stamps are considered legal tender? cause i would love to pay people in postage stamps and have them be forced to accept it
I'll compare it to normal space flight.a ce_launch_costs.htm)
So, thats actually pretty impresive if you ask me.
The last shuttle, Endeavor, completed in May 1991, cost $2.1 billion and was designed to be used for 100 trips (which divides out to $21 million per trip). This winds up being a rather minor part (7%) of the total cost of a space shuttle launch, estimated to be $300 million per launch for the first eight flights in any given year (through the year 2020). (taken from http://www.distant-star.com/issue13/april_2003_sp
I also heard on the news thay had a problem with the engine cowling coming loose or breaking, something along those lines.
Here in Cedar Rapids IA, we already have it, i can go and see the units themselves mounted on the powerlines, and pick them up with kismet and netstumbler along glass road. Im a ham too, so i dont really care for this, they can find a better way to get broadband to everyone.
If you do packet remember that eveyone is going to have to pass thier technician license, and set up freaking TNC's and crap like that, and your messages are limited to 256 characters, I think, maybe not anymore. Oh and eveyone is gonna need radios for their computers and stuff. Point is, packet radio is pretty much dead, although TCP/IP over packet is available now. However, this won't really fulfill what the "slashdot-asker"(special-ed word, i know) is talking about.
Most people who read this stuff realize that the Microsoft ads are bull anyways. Microsoft is just helping to make sure OSDN webpages stay here and make sure that they dont need as much support from people like us. For those of you who have read the the ads, did it change your thinking in anyway to help out microsoft? I doubt it. Look at it this way. It makes microsoft look dumb and "unsportsman-like". And it helps to fund OSDN. Now, if Linuxtoday is really becoming biased then I would agree there is a problem that needs to be acknowledged.
The computer chips for cars are optimized for burning premium gas normally, and as long as you run premium gas you actually won't lose too much gas mileage.
how many slashdotters' actually shower?
why dont they microwave one dollar bills to see if its the ink that burn cause the face has the most ink doesnt it? so maybe it would burn in othe bills as well and if not mayebe there is somehting weird going on
it sounds like the dummy is not wearing a spcaesuit and you wouldnt purposefully be in space without a space suit would you? so the test doesnt sound all that great to me cause you would think that a spacesuit would block some of the radiation wouldnt you?
You might consider this flaimbait but here i go
You need to think of this logically not legally.
I dont agree with the tactics of the riaa. Imagine however that they did prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law. How many people would win the lawsuit?
The simple fact is that what you do when you downlaod music you do not own or redistribute it for other than personal use you are violating the copyright and violating the copyright is illegal
like john lennon said, "Music is everyone's posession. It's only the publishers who think they own it." The RIAA makes money from peoples records . The only reason they care about artists is so they will sell records so the riaa makes money. The simple truth is that artists benefit by good promotion from large labels. If they cant sell any cd's or get promoted how are they going to get anyone to experience their music in hope that they will pay for tickets to a show. Lots of artists make money from shows and special deals like pepsi commercials. Thats where the real money is. The Riaa does its job and just wants its end of the bargain even if they do take too much sometimes
Yes the riaa owns the music. That gives them the right to prosecute people who steal "their" music which is legal to do because you havent bought it from the riaa. So instead of countersuing for rackateering, just be glad they didnt sue you for 144,000 dollars for each of your 17 songs from kazaa cause that would be a little expensive would it not? I dont see why the RIAA woulnt win if they sued you for 144 grand either cause how do you defend something so blatently illegal? i dont think anyone can argue that what the RIAA is doing isnt legal. 2000 dollars isnt anything compared to the amount you could have to pay. If people werent so legalistic it would make things a hell of a lot less complicated.
Maybe for personal use, but fedora basically is redhat without th support is it not? My cousin just went and bought a magazine about linux cause he wanted to try it out (he doesnt get cable where he lives only 56k) but i think that stuff thats easy for people to obtain will help it grow, my cousin probably doesn even know how to burn a iso.. if peopel want to experince/ try out linux cause the realized MS sucks paying 80 dollars for suse or redhat at bestbuy may become a trend..
they sends lots of lead up in with sattelites to use as a ballast i know that, so maybe they are just using bodies now.. at a 11,000 dollars its cheaper for them and at 150 lbs for an avereage person... its and idea at least
people have star treck weddings so why not a burial like spock!
I doubt this could do any sort of justice to the white album, not sure how many people who read this have it or have listened to it, but the white album was very very excellent. The best "rappers" are people who have thier own stuff and dont do sampling, for example outkast but i suppose thats closer to funk than rap. But then again i havent heard the gray album so maybe it is good. Im not a fan of messing with a good thing though.
How is the government going to track this stuff? RFID camera deals on every single streetblock? This rfid seems like it could be very useful to deter counterfit stuff, what about using it on money. Then we could track you down to place where you are spendidng your ransom money! the real problem is getting these things on every single street corner. i Think rfids will mainly used in a commercial sense where they can track your purchases and best buy can be alerted when one of their best customers come in so they can greet them with a sales rep who knows nothing. oh here's another idea RFID toilet paper, yes you can find out who the damn kid was who tp'ed your house!
when you can use chips its like hacking but its more user friendly for example for 249 dollars i can get 15 more horsepower and 13 lb ft of torque by just plugging in a chip dont have to worry about blowing my ingnition coils and shortin my ecu or somehting like that and if i do, i can tell the people with the chip that they caused it
honeslty, tune recylcer is being stupid. i for one will not give them my bottle caps and im wondering if anyone else will i mean there is good music that i want that i can get off of itunes and by golly is anyone really going to give them their bottlecaps?
why not just give them to someone you know rather than mailing them something, hell just go and buy some "open source zealot musicians" cd if its that big of a deal, but if you give them to tune recycler your almost wasting it in my opinion the artitsts only get 50 cents so send them a check and save yourself a stamp or some effort sending them an e-mail.
hmm we could sign with a non-evil label and get lots of money back, or we could sign on a evil label get promoted better possibly make less money per cd, but sell more of them and make more money from volume
i mean honestly sharing music is illegal if you are violating the copyright and whatnot. I dont give a crap about the RIAA being evil except i wish cd's were cheaper, but now i have itunes, im happy to pay for a good cd, but when i only want one song itunes is a much better deal. if music was open source we wouldnt have good music. because people wouldnt be very inspired to make music, they would like to go and make money in a real job, and you guys wouldnt support it and you know it. if you got it for free, for most of you freeloaders you wouldnt give anything back. how many people who use linux give things back willingly, i honestly have not given one distribution one cent so condemn me to hell. honestly, would we start open source music labs or something? The RIAA is definatley in it for themselves but its almost a neccesary evil.
traceroute to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 4 CDRRIACPH00CA01-AT1-0-1.mcleodusa.net (64.198.101.69) 18.068 ms 8.879 ms 9.771 ms 5 64-198-101-193.ip.mcleodusa.net (64.198.101.193) 32.402 ms 23.430 ms 22.699 ms 6 so-3-1.hsa1.Chicago1.Level3.net (64.154.65.65) 22.376 ms 23.189 ms 31.829 ms 7 unknown.Level3.net (64.159.1.225) 22.754 ms 23.325 ms 22.785 ms 8 so-7-0-0.edge1.Chicago1.Level3.net (209.244.8.14) 22.958 ms 22.558 ms 22.114 ms 9 xo-level3-oc12.Chicago1.Level3.net (209.0.225.14) 21.979 ms 23.040 ms 22.435 ms 10 p5-0-0.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net (65.106.6.133) 22.390 ms 24.080 ms * 11 p6-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.0.25) 47.023 ms 45.820 ms 46.428 ms 12 p0-0-0-2.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 54.374 ms 48.400 ms 46.745 ms 13 p4-0-0.MAR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 57.846 ms 60.157 ms 57.974 ms 14 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 58.014 ms 58.561 ms 58.608 ms 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * SCO, meet MyDoom
I used ot play everquest and was in a guild where 2 of the players were a husband and wife duo they were both the same race and stuff too, it was sort of cute I guess.
please send a picture of yourself with a sandwich on your head to youareadumbass@slashdot.net
I have had my iPod for a half a year now, and havent ever had a situation where I didnt have a charge. The ac adapter isnt very bulky and charged via the same cable you use for the transfers. 8 hours isnt to bad considering it has to spin a freaking hard-drive, I mean how long does your laptop battery last? 6 hours is probably the norm. When I was thinking about getting a ipod i didnt like the idea of rechargeable batteries, but i dont have to look for AA's with a charge on them. Now, i actually wouldnt buy a music player with AA type stuff cause its just a hassle, and if my battery dies unless you use rechargleables AA's will cost alot in the long run too.
anything with a li-ion battery will have the risk of overheating
time for the flamebiat.. honeslty just go buy yourself a fricking ipod, instead of waiting for OGG, FLAC, Bluetooth, and some crappy UI than cant compete with apple's and use the AAC format its actually pretty decent.
i bet people are going to talk about he rio karma.. well i was looking at that and it said something about solid state electronics, so i asked rio about it i said something smart like "i know your karma must have a hardrive because you coundt offer Xgigs of compact flash or memory without moving parts, so could you please explain to me how it is that this has no moving parts?" then they sent me an email telling me that the hardrive doesnt count as moving parts. WTF? so i decided that if anything went wrong with that they probably couldnt fix it or be of any useful help well theres my rant
well come on all the dumb criminals use windows the reason macs frustrate them is because there arent as many gigantic holes you could drive a truck through compared to windows. plus it isnt as widely used and known by the fbi possibly?
but why is this such a big deal? i mean how many slashdotters have the fbi cracking their computers?
and heres the flamebait... most of you guys are all DRM, RFID, cracking my computer, and patriot act paranoid. if its questionable whether its legal or not or you dont want people to know what the hell your up to maybe you shouldnt be doing it? or maybe you should think about why you want it secretive. but i will admit that some of that DRM stuff and RFID, and people stealing my financial information stuff does sorta bother me but i think i can live with people knowing how many sticks of gum i've bought.
ROTFLMAO omg omg im so 733t macs are so suxor and real haxor could bork a mac typing with their nose. My pc running linux is so rule/secure it makes me want to crap my pants. "and they are secure out of the box" If that was funny enough to make you almost fall out of your chair from laughing you need to quit reading slashdot
looks like the thing that that Harold has on the red green show, if anyone here has ever seen it.. you know "if the women dont find you handsome they can at least find you handy"..