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Congratulations sir, here is your official membership pin to the Tin Foil Hat Brigade! Your address is really not all that confidential at all; anyone can get it if they want to. Your car's license plate number is by definition public information; what are you going to do, cover it up? To get the level of privacy you seem to be looking for, I recommend that you never leave your house except to purchase necessities, and then you must walk and not drive, wear a ski mask, pay with cash, and never buy anything that would require an ID. No, that doesn't sound like much fun to me either, so I'll put up with the occaisional annoyance, which is really all this stuff is.
Voting does not work because voters don't take it seriously. If 80% of eligible Americans voted, and they did plenty of research ahead of time to see who would best serve their interests, corporate lobbyists would lose all their power. Campaign funds can make a candidate widely known, but only votes can put them in office. The problem is, people for the most part don't really care enough about their government to change it. As long as their lives are generally OK, they're not going to be voting in record numbers. If more people voted, and voted on important issues as opposed to who says they're going to give them more free stuff, Democrats and Republicans would no longer be able to get away with being the same, unless they really offered what most people truly wanted.
Payphones never require quarters for a 911 call. Privately owned payphones are required by law to allow free 911 calls. Phones that have no service can't call 911 since, well, there's no service. Keeping inactive lines active only for emergency service at the phone company's expense has been found to be prohibitive, and of course we would all pay a lot for it on our phone bills. I'd say the actual instances where people need to call 911 but can't find a working phone are quite rare.
Chicago has 311 as their non-emergency number for city services. It is very handy, so that you don't have to worry about finding numbers or wondering if your situation is urgent enough for a 911 call. I don't know why more cities don't do this, since it couldn't possibly be as expensive as dealing with 911 calls that aren't all that urgent.
Looks like some mormons have mod points today, oops. On second thought, it was all stuff that needed to be said. Information control is getting harder in this day and age, even for slashdot moderators.
You are a brainwashed cult member. While the church still allows it, I recommend you use this big bad internet to do some real research of your own which will undermine every single lie purported by the Cult of Mormon. I researched it myself when I was dating a girl who came from a Mormon family and even though she was not currently practicing, the psychological issues that developed as a result of the cult-like attitudes of her family pretty much split us apart. Mind control really is a bad thing. Try out this free thought thing, really, you'll like it.
Cell-phones are dangerous because you have to focus on communicating something to someone else and that's not good while you are driving.
Ever driven somewhere with a passenger in your car? Did you remain silent the entire time? No, you mean you distracted yourself from driving by talking to your passenger? Most careless cell phone drivers would still be shitty drivers without their phones. Just like people with loud and annoying ring tones are usually loud and annoying in all aspects of life. A cellphone is merely a tool, not a definition of who someone is.
It doesn't sound like Mumma did anything that would really give them grounds to sue him. Even if he reported them for spamming, it sounds like they were in fact spamming him. Let's consider another fact as well: juries will NOT sympathise with spammers. Unless Mumma shot up the spammer's building or something like that, nobody will determine he owes money for being a spam victim. The average person will not be impressed with the spammer's lawyer's abilities to use legal technicalities to spin the case in favor of his client.
Since the case for a countersuit is so strong, my guess is that some attorney would agree to file a suit on contengency, and cover the defense in the original case in exchange for a higher cut from the countersuit. So even if the spammee were to give the lawyer 75% of what gets recovered in the countersuit, at least they wouldn't lose anything. As many posters have pointed out, the only reason the suit is being filed is to try to scare people away from reporting spam. Once a spammer is shut down through a countersuit and some case law is established regarding spammers suing victims, these suits will all but go away since it will be trivially easy to get a motion for summary judgement. Besides, even a spammer won't want to get his ass handed to him by a jury, so they'll settle once they see that the victim isn't going away.
That's because it makes no freaking sense. It was a great idea when processors were the size of large rooms, but now that computing devices have been getting constantly smaller and cheaper it makes less and less sense to centralize them and go back to the days of dumb terminals. Even when data transmission is fully wrestled away from monopoly phone companies and becomes cheaper and faster, dumb terminals will still be hard to justify in most situations. Funny how about every year and a half, somebody has this amazing revelation of the thin-client, and each time they make sure to describe it a little different than it was described the last time so people think it's something new, but really it's the same shit, different day.
It won't be long before every website that starts with the letter i will be taken over by Apple, because people will get confused if it doesn't.
This is a fairly extreme exaggeration, even for Slashdot. It's a bit ridiculous to claim that Apple is going to start shutting down sites like infinity.com (whoever owns that). There's a big difference between owning a domain name that just happens to become some company's product name some day and buying a domain right after a company publically announces a new product by that name. And it's not like the process of taking someone's domain name is instantaneous, right after a corporation sends a letter. This case has been going through hearings for about a year now, the purpose being that the registrant is entitled to the site unless it can be proven that he/she took it maliciously as it was in this case. This is hardly a situation where some company victimized the little guy with their expensive lawyers.
Considering digital cable has no real advantage over analog (the on screen channel guide, woohoo), they have to do something to get people to pay an extra $10 a month. Since I get no movie channels anyway, I dropped digital cable and get the same channels minus the slow as hell cable box, for about $12 less. I wonder how much longer until they get rid of the analog system and make everybody get digital, which starts at $60 a month in my area. That will be the day I give DirecTV a call.
For this reason, it would be an excellent idea to make the thing NOT look like a gun at all, even if it is unidirectional. People tend to get suspicious of strangers pointing gunlike objects around their neighborhood.
I think Microsoft realized that settling was a better option that facing obstruction of justice charges and then probably losing anyway. In this day and time, it's pretty much expected that big companies will pay out the occasional settlement for some wrongdoing, but criminal charges tend to result in a drop in stock price, along with possible jail time for certain executives.
So you're complaining because they are offering you a way to minimize getting screwed by your insurance company? If it's the junk mail that bothers you, trash it along with those pesky credit card "preapproval" offers. Seriously, when it comes to bad business practices, what you've described is saint-like compared to what I've seen and experienced.
Hmm, I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that you would do nothing of the sort. Talking shit on an internet forum is very easy, walking the walk is harder. If you really were such a badass, you would have no need to sit behind a keyboard and try to prove it.
Baylor is a private religious institution, and therefore allowed to discriminate. For the same reason, Bob Jones University was allowed to continue their ban on interracial dating until they dropped it a couple of years ago due to public pressure. Religious institutions are one of the only groups that do not have to follow civil rights laws and most other labor laws, since the government has been hesitant to regulate religious groups. And yes, you will find cases where people have abused this situation, disguising a business as a church.
Trust me, Comcast is not operating at a loss. With a complete monopoly in many areas and fees over $50 a month for just cable without movie channels, the only way they could be losing money is if they are really really bad about managing it. Now that I think about it, that wouldn't surprise me, considering how they manage everything else.
The law is meaningless, since it still gives businesses the right to deny you service for failure to provide the SSN. What protection does this give to anyone?
When it comes down to it, the delisting is almost irrelevant. The stock is held primarily by insiders (executives and the parent company), so it is not really traded on the open market so to speak. Anyone considering buying or selling obviously won't be averse to trading a pink sheet penny stock, since that's pretty much what it already is. So the delisting is merely a formality in SCO's drawn out demise.
I'm not saying that these ads are evil, but I question the wisdom of forcing ads on people who have taken steps to block them. What does the advertiser expect to accomplish? If their site is struggling so much that the only way they can keep it online is by forcing obnoxious ads on people, the internet would be a better place without them. Make your ads relevant and not super annoying, and maybe people will actually be interested in them.
Most home improvement stores have battery backup sump pumps. They can typically last a few days at normal load. Although they are expensive, they pay for themselves if they prevent just one basement flood. Also, these systems are designed to power electric motors so you don't have to worry about burning up an electronics-grade UPS.
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What have we learned today kids? People in authority don't like to have their incompetence exposed.
Congratulations sir, here is your official membership pin to the Tin Foil Hat Brigade! Your address is really not all that confidential at all; anyone can get it if they want to. Your car's license plate number is by definition public information; what are you going to do, cover it up? To get the level of privacy you seem to be looking for, I recommend that you never leave your house except to purchase necessities, and then you must walk and not drive, wear a ski mask, pay with cash, and never buy anything that would require an ID. No, that doesn't sound like much fun to me either, so I'll put up with the occaisional annoyance, which is really all this stuff is.
Voting does not work because voters don't take it seriously. If 80% of eligible Americans voted, and they did plenty of research ahead of time to see who would best serve their interests, corporate lobbyists would lose all their power. Campaign funds can make a candidate widely known, but only votes can put them in office. The problem is, people for the most part don't really care enough about their government to change it. As long as their lives are generally OK, they're not going to be voting in record numbers. If more people voted, and voted on important issues as opposed to who says they're going to give them more free stuff, Democrats and Republicans would no longer be able to get away with being the same, unless they really offered what most people truly wanted.
I'd hate to imagine what joke number 69 must be about.
Payphones never require quarters for a 911 call. Privately owned payphones are required by law to allow free 911 calls. Phones that have no service can't call 911 since, well, there's no service. Keeping inactive lines active only for emergency service at the phone company's expense has been found to be prohibitive, and of course we would all pay a lot for it on our phone bills. I'd say the actual instances where people need to call 911 but can't find a working phone are quite rare.
Chicago has 311 as their non-emergency number for city services. It is very handy, so that you don't have to worry about finding numbers or wondering if your situation is urgent enough for a 911 call. I don't know why more cities don't do this, since it couldn't possibly be as expensive as dealing with 911 calls that aren't all that urgent.
Looks like some mormons have mod points today, oops. On second thought, it was all stuff that needed to be said. Information control is getting harder in this day and age, even for slashdot moderators.
You are a brainwashed cult member. While the church still allows it, I recommend you use this big bad internet to do some real research of your own which will undermine every single lie purported by the Cult of Mormon. I researched it myself when I was dating a girl who came from a Mormon family and even though she was not currently practicing, the psychological issues that developed as a result of the cult-like attitudes of her family pretty much split us apart. Mind control really is a bad thing. Try out this free thought thing, really, you'll like it.
Wouldn't this qualify as interference with interstate commerce, which is generally illegal for state and local governments to do?
Cell-phones are dangerous because you have to focus on communicating something to someone else and that's not good while you are driving.
Ever driven somewhere with a passenger in your car? Did you remain silent the entire time? No, you mean you distracted yourself from driving by talking to your passenger? Most careless cell phone drivers would still be shitty drivers without their phones. Just like people with loud and annoying ring tones are usually loud and annoying in all aspects of life. A cellphone is merely a tool, not a definition of who someone is.
It doesn't sound like Mumma did anything that would really give them grounds to sue him. Even if he reported them for spamming, it sounds like they were in fact spamming him. Let's consider another fact as well: juries will NOT sympathise with spammers. Unless Mumma shot up the spammer's building or something like that, nobody will determine he owes money for being a spam victim. The average person will not be impressed with the spammer's lawyer's abilities to use legal technicalities to spin the case in favor of his client.
Since the case for a countersuit is so strong, my guess is that some attorney would agree to file a suit on contengency, and cover the defense in the original case in exchange for a higher cut from the countersuit. So even if the spammee were to give the lawyer 75% of what gets recovered in the countersuit, at least they wouldn't lose anything. As many posters have pointed out, the only reason the suit is being filed is to try to scare people away from reporting spam. Once a spammer is shut down through a countersuit and some case law is established regarding spammers suing victims, these suits will all but go away since it will be trivially easy to get a motion for summary judgement. Besides, even a spammer won't want to get his ass handed to him by a jury, so they'll settle once they see that the victim isn't going away.
real thin-client accounting has yet to take root.
That's because it makes no freaking sense. It was a great idea when processors were the size of large rooms, but now that computing devices have been getting constantly smaller and cheaper it makes less and less sense to centralize them and go back to the days of dumb terminals. Even when data transmission is fully wrestled away from monopoly phone companies and becomes cheaper and faster, dumb terminals will still be hard to justify in most situations. Funny how about every year and a half, somebody has this amazing revelation of the thin-client, and each time they make sure to describe it a little different than it was described the last time so people think it's something new, but really it's the same shit, different day.
It won't be long before every website that starts with the letter i will be taken over by Apple, because people will get confused if it doesn't.
This is a fairly extreme exaggeration, even for Slashdot. It's a bit ridiculous to claim that Apple is going to start shutting down sites like infinity.com (whoever owns that). There's a big difference between owning a domain name that just happens to become some company's product name some day and buying a domain right after a company publically announces a new product by that name. And it's not like the process of taking someone's domain name is instantaneous, right after a corporation sends a letter. This case has been going through hearings for about a year now, the purpose being that the registrant is entitled to the site unless it can be proven that he/she took it maliciously as it was in this case. This is hardly a situation where some company victimized the little guy with their expensive lawyers.
Considering digital cable has no real advantage over analog (the on screen channel guide, woohoo), they have to do something to get people to pay an extra $10 a month. Since I get no movie channels anyway, I dropped digital cable and get the same channels minus the slow as hell cable box, for about $12 less. I wonder how much longer until they get rid of the analog system and make everybody get digital, which starts at $60 a month in my area. That will be the day I give DirecTV a call.
For this reason, it would be an excellent idea to make the thing NOT look like a gun at all, even if it is unidirectional. People tend to get suspicious of strangers pointing gunlike objects around their neighborhood.
I think Microsoft realized that settling was a better option that facing obstruction of justice charges and then probably losing anyway. In this day and time, it's pretty much expected that big companies will pay out the occasional settlement for some wrongdoing, but criminal charges tend to result in a drop in stock price, along with possible jail time for certain executives.
So you're complaining because they are offering you a way to minimize getting screwed by your insurance company? If it's the junk mail that bothers you, trash it along with those pesky credit card "preapproval" offers. Seriously, when it comes to bad business practices, what you've described is saint-like compared to what I've seen and experienced.
Hmm, I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that you would do nothing of the sort. Talking shit on an internet forum is very easy, walking the walk is harder. If you really were such a badass, you would have no need to sit behind a keyboard and try to prove it.
Baylor is a private religious institution, and therefore allowed to discriminate. For the same reason, Bob Jones University was allowed to continue their ban on interracial dating until they dropped it a couple of years ago due to public pressure. Religious institutions are one of the only groups that do not have to follow civil rights laws and most other labor laws, since the government has been hesitant to regulate religious groups. And yes, you will find cases where people have abused this situation, disguising a business as a church.
Trust me, Comcast is not operating at a loss. With a complete monopoly in many areas and fees over $50 a month for just cable without movie channels, the only way they could be losing money is if they are really really bad about managing it. Now that I think about it, that wouldn't surprise me, considering how they manage everything else.
The law is meaningless, since it still gives businesses the right to deny you service for failure to provide the SSN. What protection does this give to anyone?
When it comes down to it, the delisting is almost irrelevant. The stock is held primarily by insiders (executives and the parent company), so it is not really traded on the open market so to speak. Anyone considering buying or selling obviously won't be averse to trading a pink sheet penny stock, since that's pretty much what it already is. So the delisting is merely a formality in SCO's drawn out demise.
I'm not saying that these ads are evil, but I question the wisdom of forcing ads on people who have taken steps to block them. What does the advertiser expect to accomplish? If their site is struggling so much that the only way they can keep it online is by forcing obnoxious ads on people, the internet would be a better place without them. Make your ads relevant and not super annoying, and maybe people will actually be interested in them.
Most home improvement stores have battery backup sump pumps. They can typically last a few days at normal load. Although they are expensive, they pay for themselves if they prevent just one basement flood. Also, these systems are designed to power electric motors so you don't have to worry about burning up an electronics-grade UPS.