Australia has some of the toughest quarantine conditions in the world, with good reason, but our Customs department simply said they would fumigate the items.
Well, that would have been a great solution here. Just fumigate the musical instrument that's operated by putting the end of it in your mouth! That sounds perfectly safe...!
I won't believe it until Jade Rabbit takes a picture of footprints or flags!
Oh wait, wrong hoax...
(By the way, speaking of flags... am I the only one that thinks it's a terrible coincidence that they've faded to white just as the Chinese showed up?)
That Livescribe Pen looks really proprietary (and I don't even mean "not Free Software," I mean "compatible with hardly anything but itself"). The Galaxy Note is not only also proprietary, but the screen is way too small.
What is needed is an interoperable built-in standard, like Microsoft's Ink API.
I guess I should have been more specific. I was talking about a Wacom-type digitizer, with decent resolution and response (and ideally, pressure sensitivity and an eraser).
It also allows me to have my notes be fairly unstructured, include diagrams, and lots of other things I don't always find a good analog for in digital things.
This is what OneNote on a tablet with a stylus should have been good for. Unfortunately, as soon as tablets quit being impractical because they were too heavy and expensive, they started being impractical because they'd lost their styluses.
It may still be illegal to download these things, but it's now much more difficult to argue that it's unethical to do so. Distributing these works should be considered an act of civil disobedience.
I wouldn't expect explaining it to people who experienced direct loss to be either possible or -- ideally -- necessary. It is irresponsible governance for the politicians to respond to the impulsiveness of people too grief-stricken to think clearly.
There were nearly 300 million people in the United States in 2001. Even if the loss of each of the 2,977 9/11 victims directly affected 1000 people, that's still less than 1% of the population. The President should have made a speech after 9/11 to explain this concept to everybody else.
We also have the more important and fundamental issue, which is that things like the Boston Marathon bombing, Fort Hood and indeed 9/11 itself are worth it if the alternative is a totalitarian police state.
The victims of 9/11 should have been martyrs of freedom, but the PATRIOT Act, FISA etc. negated the value of their sacrifice.
Figure out a way for me to tell the terrorists without telling you and the rest of the general public and I will.
By the way, I've posted enough here that anyone sufficiently motivated could piece the info together. My combination of college degrees is probably enough to uniquely identify me by itself.
Who the fuck cares? Terrorists are irrelevant. Statistically, they hardly even exist! You have to be not only a monumental coward, but a fucking stupid one to be scared of them.
To all the terrorists in the world: You are all worthless, pathetic, impotent losers. Whatever cause you're fighting for is equally worthless. I insult your god(s) and or prophet(s), where applicable. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Come at me bro! I dare you!
Now, Mr. Fjord, watch a big fat load of nothing happen to me in response.
2.a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
I.e., what every NSA official except Snowden has either committed or abetted, because allegiance to the United States means allegiance to its Constitution and its people, not allegiance to the bureaucracy, the President, or Congress.
I don't have any problem with Snowden revealing mass surveillance on American citizens to American citizens, but spying on foreign governments is what the NSA is supposed to do.
Well then Hayden et all should have considered that before they decided to shit where they eat!
It is nothing more or less than the NSA's decision to act unconstitutionally that caused this.
Slashdot "editors" are editors the same way the garbage truck driver is a "sanitation engineer".
Sanitation engineering is a real thing (different from driving a truck). Real sanitation engineers are civil engineers who design landfills, wastewater treatment plants and recycling facilities.
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Well, that would have been a great solution here. Just fumigate the musical instrument that's operated by putting the end of it in your mouth! That sounds perfectly safe...!
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3" screen, according to the specs. Unless there's some other one that I don't know about?
I won't believe it until Jade Rabbit takes a picture of footprints or flags!
Oh wait, wrong hoax...
(By the way, speaking of flags... am I the only one that thinks it's a terrible coincidence that they've faded to white just as the Chinese showed up?)
That Livescribe Pen looks really proprietary (and I don't even mean "not Free Software," I mean "compatible with hardly anything but itself"). The Galaxy Note is not only also proprietary, but the screen is way too small.
What is needed is an interoperable built-in standard, like Microsoft's Ink API.
I guess I should have been more specific. I was talking about a Wacom-type digitizer, with decent resolution and response (and ideally, pressure sensitivity and an eraser).
Nah, Rand Paul is (unintentional) parody and therefore Fair Use. ; )
This is what OneNote on a tablet with a stylus should have been good for. Unfortunately, as soon as tablets quit being impractical because they were too heavy and expensive, they started being impractical because they'd lost their styluses.
Except that you necessarily had the skill to make the replacement part because you were the one who made the original...
That's almost the problem. In the middle ages, everything was user-serviceable (albeit mostly because everything was homemade).
It may still be illegal to download these things, but it's now much more difficult to argue that it's unethical to do so. Distributing these works should be considered an act of civil disobedience.
I wouldn't expect explaining it to people who experienced direct loss to be either possible or -- ideally -- necessary. It is irresponsible governance for the politicians to respond to the impulsiveness of people too grief-stricken to think clearly.
There were nearly 300 million people in the United States in 2001. Even if the loss of each of the 2,977 9/11 victims directly affected 1000 people, that's still less than 1% of the population. The President should have made a speech after 9/11 to explain this concept to everybody else.
Not to mention, Stallman surely wouldn't get caught dead using something like NetworkManager.
We also have the more important and fundamental issue, which is that things like the Boston Marathon bombing, Fort Hood and indeed 9/11 itself are worth it if the alternative is a totalitarian police state.
The victims of 9/11 should have been martyrs of freedom, but the PATRIOT Act, FISA etc. negated the value of their sacrifice.
We have an acronym for this; it's called FUD.
Complete with a hexadecimal number miraculously containing letters beyond f!
It's possible with religion too, if you're a polytheist.
The question in the summary left out an important word:
This would be a lot less of an issue if the company in question didn't have a monopoly on providing the required certification.
Figure out a way for me to tell the terrorists without telling you and the rest of the general public and I will.
By the way, I've posted enough here that anyone sufficiently motivated could piece the info together. My combination of college degrees is probably enough to uniquely identify me by itself.
I think -- I hope -- it's more likely that someone just failed to notice your sarcasm.
Who the fuck cares? Terrorists are irrelevant. Statistically, they hardly even exist! You have to be not only a monumental coward, but a fucking stupid one to be scared of them.
To all the terrorists in the world: You are all worthless, pathetic, impotent losers. Whatever cause you're fighting for is equally worthless. I insult your god(s) and or prophet(s), where applicable. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Come at me bro! I dare you!
Now, Mr. Fjord, watch a big fat load of nothing happen to me in response.
I.e., what every NSA official except Snowden has either committed or abetted, because allegiance to the United States means allegiance to its Constitution and its people, not allegiance to the bureaucracy, the President, or Congress.
Well then Hayden et all should have considered that before they decided to shit where they eat!
It is nothing more or less than the NSA's decision to act unconstitutionally that caused this.
Sanitation engineering is a real thing (different from driving a truck). Real sanitation engineers are civil engineers who design landfills, wastewater treatment plants and recycling facilities.
"If you can find it" (especially for any kind of reasonable price) is the hard part -- I gave up and ended up with a Ford Ranger.
Wow, that's cool. I had assumed these things were built more like tablets or "ultrabooks" (with soldered-on flash).