Wow, your closing line zinged me. You started with you sir, simultaneously pointing out the dignity inherent in your upbringing in upper class victorian England, while acting as a foil for my sheer currishness of using bad words for emphasis, twice. I've got to know where you got that idea! It's so origional, so fresh! I've never seen anything like that on slashdot. Do you write your own material?
First you say Lowtax immediately jumped at the chance to misappropriate $30,000 of other peoples' money.Misappropriate means to embezzle, to take from one purpose, and to use as one's own. So, you were accusing Lowtax of stealing money from charity victims to take for his own. In reality, he did attempt to get the money to hurricane victims as soon as possible, even if it had to be through another organization. (As opposed to sitting on it for a few weeks which was the other option available at the time). Yes, that Lowtax surely is a felon for attempting to get money earmarked for hurricane victims to hurricane victims through whatever means possible.
In your later post, you continue on your theme of bashing people who've donated to help hurricane victims, This is par for the course for SA's userbase. I am sorry that they ruined it and I'm sorry that so many people's sincerity was hurt by them Yeah, those assholes who give money to cheritable causes! How dare the members of the something awful community donate through their own site! It was the SA users that were donating in the first place and SA has a great history of giving to cheritable causes. The only factor that differentiates this is payapal deciding to slam them.
You know these same SA users even went around to other forums who were running donation drives and insulted their efforts claiming that the "SomethingAwful donation drive is going to [crush your drive]" and the like. Great fucking job, guys.
I can see how this is a huge problem. After all, the members of those other sites are gonna immediately realize that they're beaten and begin to weep at the helplessness of their cause. The tears streaming down their eyes will short out their keyboards and prevent them from logging in to donate to paypal! Or, it could spawn a friendly rivelry with a site like fark, and become a competition as to which community could raise more money to help hurricane victims. But fark and SA never compete, ever! And such a battle would surely raze the internetes into a barren wasteland of desloation.
-Warmest regards!
P.S. A threat to killfile me is a hell of a lot more impressive, if it isn't delivered in a reply timestamped about 5 hours after you added me to your foes list. Is your kill file like the ultra-foe list that exists only for you people in moonland where communities donating money to charities are on par with ICP fans?
Yeah! Fuck those people for donating to help Katrina! What could possibly be worse than having a rivalry with other sites as to how much they could help hurricane victims! How dare they.
And you're totally right. There's no way he should have said anything about why his drive wasn't working, just 'paypal decided to take this under advisement, those poor people will still be there in 3-6 buisness days when paypal decides to make a decision.' After all, it's not like there's some reason the red cross could use the immediate help. And then he makes up some claim about how 'paypal' sucks for effectively stealing money being donated to victims in louisiana. (Yeah, money has a time value, so taking it, even with the intention to give it back is stealing)
And you were insightful enough to point out Lowtax's obvious failings. He got upset at being shut down automatically, when he should have known that it would be a horrible idea to offer to give out shirts to people. And then he had the the audacity to not ship them immediately.
Clearly, by taking the high road and refusing to simply donate the money to such a shady organization as the international red cross, paypal brings themselves into the right.
This isn't true for the most part.
If a job is menial and requires only a very finite set of skills, then it's either been automated or outsourced, or is being done by a secretary.
Fundimentally, it'll be most of our jobs to make available a huge base of information and to be able to figure out hard problems when they come up. So, yeah, a really good sysadmin will just be on his ass all day reading/., cause he's gotten the system set up and running like clockwork. A crappy sysadmin will always be busy.
The reason you pay him is so if/when something does break, he's there and either knows out how to fix it, or can figure it out.
Reading stuff like/. is what makes sure we have the base of knowledge that the company is paying us to keep in reserve. Sure, it's not directly relevant, but this sorta stuff is our way of keeping in top 'conditioning'.
I live in naperville. The irony here is, at least as of two days ago, I was able to take my powerbook in, and enjoy open, unfiltered, wireless access.
Thank god for blowing my tax dollars on stuff other than books, to provide an illusion of security!
Microsoft Replies: In light of this new data, we would like to announce a new, more secure operating system. It is based on our Windows ME technology. By simply accelerating the timer for the essential bluescreen feature we feel confident that NO hacker will be able to make use of a corrupted machine.
Further, we are offended by all the FUD spread about our products by the open source community. Our security features include and expanded install size, which severly limits the space available on disk available to anyone who co-opts your computer for use as an illicit server.
Also, the times recorded by this survey are non-relevant and obviously flawed. They claim that their machines were only compromised after more than 15 minutes of CONTINUOUS uptime. This simply does not occur on our new ME+ varient. We cannot accept responsibility for those who remove our essential security features by removing 'buggy' components, or running a 'stable' GUI.
Sue for what? We should ask them to donate it to us. If they don't we can say that 'things will get much worse' and link them on/. every day until they see the light or their routers melt. Whever comes first.
Why not use nice, big touch screen computers, and then have them print ballots with both words and a BAR CODE which stores your vote? Then, your vote is simply scanned into a computer, and any discrepency would be obvious to the counters (hey Bob, this guys paper says, Nader but the scanners reading it as GW?) and verifiable to the humans. I for one feel a lot better putting a physical piece of paper into a box. Preseumably, I can follow that box all the way to the counting agency, and watch as the ballots are pulled out and read by hand. This is not true with a computer.
Ideally such a system would be simple, verifiable and accurate, with no hanging chads. Bar codes are used sucessfully by people who check out our purchases at stores, it shouldn't be hard for politicians. Also, the counting would go pretty damn fast.
To me this makes sense, unless, of course, the point of computerized voting is to make the system decidedly not accurate and verifiable.
This is TERRIBLE news! Just think, if information can come out of a black hole, maybe SCO will be able to produce that 'stolen' souce code! They might sue someone!
The problem now isn't ethics when it comes to genetic research, as those have been already established. The problem is that people representing the religious right stay in power by scaring the prudish masses they represent into taking strong opinions on issues they don't understand.
The supporters of the politicians who claim to see monsters lurking behind every scientific research proposal want to be seen as 'protecting' the masses from the evil scientists about to unleash such horrors as 'mutant tomatoes' or 'vaccines' upon the unsuspecting public.
So long as there are those people who are too uneducated to really understand that such concepts as ?genetic research? won?t produce evil mutant hybrids bent on destroying Tokyo (as it so often does in movies) there will be continuous political hindrances.
Thank you. Is refreshing to see that there are people out there who realize the fundimental problem with government doing ANYTHING is that it takes inneumerable signatures, and approvals before it goes forward. The whole process is more bloated than an MS product.
Although I'm certain these devices are 'tiny,' as the article says, that certainly doesn't mean 'embedded in product and impossible to remove.'
Personally I remove all the tags from clothing I buy long before I wear it, and don't expect that these radio transmitters will be any harder to take off the product once it's out of the store.
Even if the transmitters are attached to the product, like those dye tags used to prevent shoplifting, the company using them probably won't want to GIVE you a radio transmitter with every purchase. If nothing else, you can always trust corperate desire for $$ to keep you safe from this particular threat.
So long as we have ashcroft, there are bigger things to worry about.
Can anyone tell me if he's serious here? I honestly can't tell if he's joking to be prowd [sic] to be an American. Why do people like this even come to this site?
Aren't there some easy ways to stop this problem? Such as putting a limit of 100 messages per day per hotmail account? I'm sure there are a bunch of other things that could be done too. But low level solutions so often get forgotten by higher ups.
Does it seem to anyone else that this will just end up with another crowded lane, especially if there are too many stickers sold? And isn't the whole point to keep that lane uncontested so people actually use it?
This is just another example of government trying to get every dollar they can, and pandering to corporate interest.
What worries me more than any possible filter on file sharing is that the current lawmakers feel that they need to create one. All data, is nothing but binary information, and honestly, can get passed around quickly, even through file sharing, if people know what theyâ(TM)re doing. It doesnâ(TM)t take much to change a filename and extension, and that will defeat almost any filter possible. The real danger is not what the FBI will block, but what they will be monitoring.
I am a private citizen, and not currently under investigation for any crime of any sort, I even have a clean traffic record, but the only way Iâ(TM)m letting the federal government read my mail, electronic or otherwise, is when they produce a search warrant. What disturbs me is hearing my colleagues saying, âoeIf you havenâ(TM)t done anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide.â If I remember my constitution properly, the theme is that âoeUnless weâ(TM)re sure youâ(TM)ve done something wrong, we have no right to look,â or "innocent until proven guilty."
And as far as investigations by the FBI go, they would do well to realize a few simple things. Treason is defined as aiding or abetting the enemies of the United States. Our enemies have always been those people who wish to destroy our freedoms, and take away our inalienable rights. I have to wonder why the FBI is concerned with minor file sharers, rather than a certain attorney general, and some members of the house.
--- "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"- Benjamin Franklin
As a Webmaster for a library, I found that the Internet filters, and security programs installed are possibly the least effective programs I have used. If one wishes to find 'filth' then they are only a minor inconvenience. If one wishes to find legitimate information that has not yet been sterilized, then they are a firm roadblock, as there are many sources of filth, but precious few of real information.
Fortunately, the library at which I work has filters installed on only two of it's computers, and these are clearly labeled. I think this solution is a very sane answer, as if a parent wishes to have their child protected, they can put them at the filtered computer, however, adults still have full access to the web.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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Wow, your closing line zinged me. You started with you sir, simultaneously pointing out the dignity inherent in your upbringing in upper class victorian England, while acting as a foil for my sheer currishness of using bad words for emphasis, twice. I've got to know where you got that idea! It's so origional, so fresh! I've never seen anything like that on slashdot. Do you write your own material?
First you say Lowtax immediately jumped at the chance to misappropriate $30,000 of other peoples' money. Misappropriate means to embezzle, to take from one purpose, and to use as one's own. So, you were accusing Lowtax of stealing money from charity victims to take for his own. In reality, he did attempt to get the money to hurricane victims as soon as possible, even if it had to be through another organization. (As opposed to sitting on it for a few weeks which was the other option available at the time). Yes, that Lowtax surely is a felon for attempting to get money earmarked for hurricane victims to hurricane victims through whatever means possible.
In your later post, you continue on your theme of bashing people who've donated to help hurricane victims, This is par for the course for SA's userbase. I am sorry that they ruined it and I'm sorry that so many people's sincerity was hurt by them Yeah, those assholes who give money to cheritable causes! How dare the members of the something awful community donate through their own site! It was the SA users that were donating in the first place and SA has a great history of giving to cheritable causes. The only factor that differentiates this is payapal deciding to slam them.
You know these same SA users even went around to other forums who were running donation drives and insulted their efforts claiming that the "SomethingAwful donation drive is going to [crush your drive]" and the like. Great fucking job, guys. I can see how this is a huge problem. After all, the members of those other sites are gonna immediately realize that they're beaten and begin to weep at the helplessness of their cause. The tears streaming down their eyes will short out their keyboards and prevent them from logging in to donate to paypal! Or, it could spawn a friendly rivelry with a site like fark, and become a competition as to which community could raise more money to help hurricane victims. But fark and SA never compete, ever! And such a battle would surely raze the internetes into a barren wasteland of desloation.
-Warmest regards!
P.S. A threat to killfile me is a hell of a lot more impressive, if it isn't delivered in a reply timestamped about 5 hours after you added me to your foes list. Is your kill file like the ultra-foe list that exists only for you people in moonland where communities donating money to charities are on par with ICP fans?
Yeah! Fuck those people for donating to help Katrina! What could possibly be worse than having a rivalry with other sites as to how much they could help hurricane victims! How dare they.
And you're totally right. There's no way he should have said anything about why his drive wasn't working, just 'paypal decided to take this under advisement, those poor people will still be there in 3-6 buisness days when paypal decides to make a decision.' After all, it's not like there's some reason the red cross could use the immediate help. And then he makes up some claim about how 'paypal' sucks for effectively stealing money being donated to victims in louisiana. (Yeah, money has a time value, so taking it, even with the intention to give it back is stealing)
And you were insightful enough to point out Lowtax's obvious failings. He got upset at being shut down automatically, when he should have known that it would be a horrible idea to offer to give out shirts to people. And then he had the the audacity to not ship them immediately.
Clearly, by taking the high road and refusing to simply donate the money to such a shady organization as the international red cross, paypal brings themselves into the right.
Fucking troll.
This isn't true for the most part. If a job is menial and requires only a very finite set of skills, then it's either been automated or outsourced, or is being done by a secretary. Fundimentally, it'll be most of our jobs to make available a huge base of information and to be able to figure out hard problems when they come up. So, yeah, a really good sysadmin will just be on his ass all day reading /., cause he's gotten the system set up and running like clockwork. A crappy sysadmin will always be busy.
The reason you pay him is so if/when something does break, he's there and either knows out how to fix it, or can figure it out.
Reading stuff like /. is what makes sure we have the base of knowledge that the company is paying us to keep in reserve. Sure, it's not directly relevant, but this sorta stuff is our way of keeping in top 'conditioning'.
I live in naperville. The irony here is, at least as of two days ago, I was able to take my powerbook in, and enjoy open, unfiltered, wireless access. Thank god for blowing my tax dollars on stuff other than books, to provide an illusion of security!
Microsoft Replies: In light of this new data, we would like to announce a new, more secure operating system. It is based on our Windows ME technology. By simply accelerating the timer for the essential bluescreen feature we feel confident that NO hacker will be able to make use of a corrupted machine.
Further, we are offended by all the FUD spread about our products by the open source community. Our security features include and expanded install size, which severly limits the space available on disk available to anyone who co-opts your computer for use as an illicit server.
Also, the times recorded by this survey are non-relevant and obviously flawed. They claim that their machines were only compromised after more than 15 minutes of CONTINUOUS uptime. This simply does not occur on our new ME+ varient. We cannot accept responsibility for those who remove our essential security features by removing 'buggy' components, or running a 'stable' GUI.
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Sue for what? We should ask them to donate it to us. If they don't we can say that 'things will get much worse' and link them on /. every day until they see the light or their routers melt. Whever comes first.
If so, let's all pay a visit Here and Here.
Why not use nice, big touch screen computers, and then have them print ballots with both words and a BAR CODE which stores your vote? Then, your vote is simply scanned into a computer, and any discrepency would be obvious to the counters (hey Bob, this guys paper says, Nader but the scanners reading it as GW?) and verifiable to the humans. I for one feel a lot better putting a physical piece of paper into a box. Preseumably, I can follow that box all the way to the counting agency, and watch as the ballots are pulled out and read by hand. This is not true with a computer. Ideally such a system would be simple, verifiable and accurate, with no hanging chads. Bar codes are used sucessfully by people who check out our purchases at stores, it shouldn't be hard for politicians. Also, the counting would go pretty damn fast. To me this makes sense, unless, of course, the point of computerized voting is to make the system decidedly not accurate and verifiable.
This is TERRIBLE news! Just think, if information can come out of a black hole, maybe SCO will be able to produce that 'stolen' souce code! They might sue someone!
The problem now isn't ethics when it comes to genetic research, as those have been already established. The problem is that people representing the religious right stay in power by scaring the prudish masses they represent into taking strong opinions on issues they don't understand. The supporters of the politicians who claim to see monsters lurking behind every scientific research proposal want to be seen as 'protecting' the masses from the evil scientists about to unleash such horrors as 'mutant tomatoes' or 'vaccines' upon the unsuspecting public. So long as there are those people who are too uneducated to really understand that such concepts as ?genetic research? won?t produce evil mutant hybrids bent on destroying Tokyo (as it so often does in movies) there will be continuous political hindrances.
Thank you. Is refreshing to see that there are people out there who realize the fundimental problem with government doing ANYTHING is that it takes inneumerable signatures, and approvals before it goes forward. The whole process is more bloated than an MS product.
Although I'm certain these devices are 'tiny,' as the article says, that certainly doesn't mean 'embedded in product and impossible to remove.' Personally I remove all the tags from clothing I buy long before I wear it, and don't expect that these radio transmitters will be any harder to take off the product once it's out of the store. Even if the transmitters are attached to the product, like those dye tags used to prevent shoplifting, the company using them probably won't want to GIVE you a radio transmitter with every purchase. If nothing else, you can always trust corperate desire for $$ to keep you safe from this particular threat. So long as we have ashcroft, there are bigger things to worry about.
Can anyone tell me if he's serious here? I honestly can't tell if he's joking to be prowd [sic] to be an American. Why do people like this even come to this site?
Aren't there some easy ways to stop this problem? Such as putting a limit of 100 messages per day per hotmail account? I'm sure there are a bunch of other things that could be done too. But low level solutions so often get forgotten by higher ups.
Does it seem to anyone else that this will just end up with another crowded lane, especially if there are too many stickers sold? And isn't the whole point to keep that lane uncontested so people actually use it? This is just another example of government trying to get every dollar they can, and pandering to corporate interest.
What worries me more than any possible filter on file sharing is that the current lawmakers feel that they need to create one. All data, is nothing but binary information, and honestly, can get passed around quickly, even through file sharing, if people know what theyâ(TM)re doing. It doesnâ(TM)t take much to change a filename and extension, and that will defeat almost any filter possible. The real danger is not what the FBI will block, but what they will be monitoring.
I am a private citizen, and not currently under investigation for any crime of any sort, I even have a clean traffic record, but the only way Iâ(TM)m letting the federal government read my mail, electronic or otherwise, is when they produce a search warrant. What disturbs me is hearing my colleagues saying, âoeIf you havenâ(TM)t done anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide.â If I remember my constitution properly, the theme is that âoeUnless weâ(TM)re sure youâ(TM)ve done something wrong, we have no right to look,â or "innocent until proven guilty."
And as far as investigations by the FBI go, they would do well to realize a few simple things. Treason is defined as aiding or abetting the enemies of the United States. Our enemies have always been those people who wish to destroy our freedoms, and take away our inalienable rights. I have to wonder why the FBI is concerned with minor file sharers, rather than a certain attorney general, and some members of the house.
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"- Benjamin Franklin
As a Webmaster for a library, I found that the Internet filters, and security programs installed are possibly the least effective programs I have used. If one wishes to find 'filth' then they are only a minor inconvenience. If one wishes to find legitimate information that has not yet been sterilized, then they are a firm roadblock, as there are many sources of filth, but precious few of real information. Fortunately, the library at which I work has filters installed on only two of it's computers, and these are clearly labeled. I think this solution is a very sane answer, as if a parent wishes to have their child protected, they can put them at the filtered computer, however, adults still have full access to the web. "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin