Great. So they'll have voice recognition listen to all of your conversations and interrupt with interesting advertisements relating to the conversation you're currently having with the other person. *sigh*
"We're such an impressionable people and we aspire so much to be like the West, that we take on anything that we believe is a symbol or a manifestation of Western culture."
Wait... WHAT?!
Sine WHEN?
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Well, since Groening lives in Portland (OR) and many of his characters are named or modeled after local "celebrities" or landmarks or streets, I think it's fairly safe to wager a guess. Especially since there's a power plant in it.
He deprived people of exactly as much as he would have deprived them if he had gone to the local library and checked the book out. In both cases, full content would be consumed for the price of only the one original. So . . . Don't get all high and mighty (or in this case, trolly - but a point was there to be made in response).
The point is that it's not the right of the United States to force this lack of censorship upon every country in the world.
Then let the rest of the world make their own DNS servers. There's nothing stopping them. I'm sure if Austria invented the internet and built the major initial infrastructure, they'd have developed the main root servers themselves and hosted them, too. Basically,everyone else is saying "you invented it, deployed it, put it to first major use... now gimme gimme gimme".
Besides, most of the root servers aren't even in America, if I recall.
This is just a bunch of whiney bitches wanting to edge in on something they didn't do the work for but reap the benefits of. Let's not forget where the net (darpa) originated, eh?
It certainly applies to bush, the bush kids, the Clinton family (his brother, if you recall) and Clinton himself for that matter. Oh - and Marion Berry(sp), of course. Not to mention John, Ted and William Kennedy at the least (although I don't recall which kennedy was the one that raped the 13 year old babysitter and got away with it - I know he's the one that raped the blue-dot-faced chick on the beach). Then, likely, Arnold. The list could probably go on and on.
No, I don't get lots of spam. Most of it is denied at the SMTP protocol level and is never even written to disk. Most of the rest is filtered out based on content and/dev/null'd before it reaches the mailbox delivery step. The client side filter is then left to handle the very small quantity of mail that is difficult to discern with more general measures and makes it past the SMTP and MDA level and is of course then downloaded by the useragent for fine-tuning of the local filter.
Taking a guy's belongings and sticking him in prison (like most people suggest should be done) isn't really a justified response for wasiting a few kilobytes of bandwidth on my server every day. And it most certainly isn't worth granting government that "exception" they need to start prodding their way around. Today it's spammers. Tomorrow, it's anyone else they just happen not to like.
Oh wait, indymedia... the new obscenity strike force... nevermind. Too late.
There are a lot of douchebags out there, but that doesn't mean it's right to take their property and support them being imprisoned or violently treated. I hate spammers as much as anyone else - I just see strong efforts by LAW ENFORCEMENT and LEGISLATION as an edge-in on their ENFORCING and LEGISLATING every other aspect of it.
I can avoid being annoyed by spam with a few minor pro-active steps. I can't really avoid being raped or assaulted or molested on the street. I can't avoid being run over by a drunk driver who's had six prior offenses and two revocations.
How does this guy destroy the usefulness of email? He can do whatever he wants - it doesn't prevent the SMTP/IMAP/POP protocols from working for me and people I want to communicate with.
This is an excellent opportunity to show your support that we STRONGLY support their action and efforts!
We do?
I couldn't care less. I hardly get any spam at all. I use spamassassin on my server and junkmatcher on my client. I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
The FBI surely has more important things to be doing, like going after corporate white collar criminals (Enron or Worldcom, anyone?) or Karl Rove or actual violent criminals.. Spam may be a nuisance, but it never killed anyone.
He must have been spamming something obscene, because the FBI doesn't have the resources to deal with spammers while they're on this moral crusade to re-puritanize this god fearing country.
Besides, spamming is okay as long as you're a big corporation that either does or may contribute or lobby congress at some point.
Spamming is only bad if you're a private citizen doing it, sort of like how raping teenage babysitters, doing coke, driving drunk and killing women when you drive off a bridge and wander away is only bad for private citizens.
Except, I'm pretty sure all he did was implement it. I don't keep up on the goings on of slashcode, but I seem to recall that others had cleaned up and fixed the CSS stuff in slashcode long ago and they just got around to actually activiating it on Slashdot itself.
So what is the next technology Malda needs to implement? And remember, it'll be a good six years before it actually happens. I'm thinking some sort of dupe-detector that does a quick link/headline search of previous articles and forces the editor to see a list of them after submitting the article, but before publishing. It's revolutionary, but ... it just might work!
The difference is, astronomers don't get naked and drunk and high on E and part underneath the moon all night, jiggling their astronomer bits about to celebrate yet another eclipse of one sort or another.
Well, maybe they do, but I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see it in that case.;)
Funny thing, though. I was just commenting the other night about how amazing it is to see such bright stars (and so many of them!) int he night sky here in Broomfield, Colorado. I'm used to Portland (Oregon), where you either have clouds overhead all the time or too much light pollution to see anything of interest.
Actually, you're reading a fairly wealthy man's critiques of products he wouldn't by, while he's reading your stupid trollish response on his 17" powerbook in his office.
Now, the question is, if I'm going to waste money supporting the MPAA for a movie that I'm only going to watch a couple times, why am I going to do it with a stupid UMD that I can only watch on my 2" PSP screen instead of my 17" laptop or on one of my two 30" apple cinema displays or my 50" widescreen HDTV? Wherever I go, either my Thinkpad running debian or my powerbook is with me. And thanks, but I'd really rather pop in a DVD (or xvid) and watch it on my 17" than close up the laptop and enjoy the amazing "like really being there!" 2" screen PSP.
But hey, if you'd rather waste all of your money on a stupid UMD collection that you'll never get any use out of instead of buying really cool shit, that's fine with me. That's the difference between being cool and being trendy.
By the way, I hope you're enjoying your NGAGE, pussy.
If you paid $20 for content on UMD so you could watch it on a tiny little screen, you deserve to be shot. Spending $20+ on a full sized DVD that you can watch on your widescreen television once or twice in your life is absurd enough, much less this PSP UMD nonsense. But it just proves, people will buy anything!
Yeah, but don't forget that few people had internet access and the web hadn't espoded in its pants yet back when the original Doom released. You needed meat-shelf-space because that was the only place anyone was likely to set eyeballs on it. Now you have lots of indie-specific online outlets, a gaming television station (of sorts), magazines, websites and usenet groups focused on them.
A Tale in the Desert is an indie project, essentially. They aren't on any shelf anywhere and are distributed online. They're doing pretty well and have been for a couple years.
It's 2005. Why are we getting all giddy over a stupid eclipse? They're a fairly regular occurance. Why dont' we also get excited about a full moon? The only difference between the two is that one happens more or less every month and the other happens more or less every year.
This is the equivalant to a FOX news "news *ahem*" story.
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What does Dungeons and Dragons have to do with this?!
Great. So they'll have voice recognition listen to all of your conversations and interrupt with interesting advertisements relating to the conversation you're currently having with the other person. *sigh*
I'll keep paying the $20/mo, thanks.
"We're such an impressionable people and we aspire so much to be like the West, that we take on anything that we believe is a symbol or a manifestation of Western culture."
Wait... WHAT?!
Sine WHEN?
Well, since Groening lives in Portland (OR) and many of his characters are named or modeled after local "celebrities" or landmarks or streets, I think it's fairly safe to wager a guess. Especially since there's a power plant in it.
He deprived people of exactly as much as he would have deprived them if he had gone to the local library and checked the book out. In both cases, full content would be consumed for the price of only the one original. So . . . Don't get all high and mighty (or in this case, trolly - but a point was there to be made in response).
The point is that it's not the right of the United States to force this lack of censorship upon every country in the world.
,everyone else is saying "you invented it, deployed it, put it to first major use... now gimme gimme gimme".
Then let the rest of the world make their own DNS servers. There's nothing stopping them. I'm sure if Austria invented the internet and built the major initial infrastructure, they'd have developed the main root servers themselves and hosted them, too. Basically
Besides, most of the root servers aren't even in America, if I recall.
This is just a bunch of whiney bitches wanting to edge in on something they didn't do the work for but reap the benefits of. Let's not forget where the net (darpa) originated, eh?
Isn't it interesting how the fanboys rollout?
"I care because I didn't already know about this!" + 4, Informative.
"I didn't know about it until now and I still don't care" 0, Flamebait.
Gotta love the Slashdot fanboy moderation system.
Fact 1. I now work 50-80+ hours a week, free time isn't exacltly what it was in college.
;)
Yet here you are, posting on Slashdot with your free time.
I wasn't already aware of it and trust me, I still don't care.
Actually, who doesn't it apply to anymore?
It certainly applies to bush, the bush kids, the Clinton family (his brother, if you recall) and Clinton himself for that matter. Oh - and Marion Berry(sp), of course. Not to mention John, Ted and William Kennedy at the least (although I don't recall which kennedy was the one that raped the 13 year old babysitter and got away with it - I know he's the one that raped the blue-dot-faced chick on the beach). Then, likely, Arnold. The list could probably go on and on.
. . . blaim . . . ?
No, I don't get lots of spam. Most of it is denied at the SMTP protocol level and is never even written to disk. Most of the rest is filtered out based on content and /dev/null'd before it reaches the mailbox delivery step. The client side filter is then left to handle the very small quantity of mail that is difficult to discern with more general measures and makes it past the SMTP and MDA level and is of course then downloaded by the useragent for fine-tuning of the local filter.
Taking a guy's belongings and sticking him in prison (like most people suggest should be done) isn't really a justified response for wasiting a few kilobytes of bandwidth on my server every day. And it most certainly isn't worth granting government that "exception" they need to start prodding their way around. Today it's spammers. Tomorrow, it's anyone else they just happen not to like.
Oh wait, indymedia... the new obscenity strike force... nevermind. Too late.
There are a lot of douchebags out there, but that doesn't mean it's right to take their property and support them being imprisoned or violently treated. I hate spammers as much as anyone else - I just see strong efforts by LAW ENFORCEMENT and LEGISLATION as an edge-in on their ENFORCING and LEGISLATING every other aspect of it.
I can avoid being annoyed by spam with a few minor pro-active steps. I can't really avoid being raped or assaulted or molested on the street. I can't avoid being run over by a drunk driver who's had six prior offenses and two revocations.
How does this guy destroy the usefulness of email? He can do whatever he wants - it doesn't prevent the SMTP/IMAP/POP protocols from working for me and people I want to communicate with.
This is an excellent opportunity to show your support that we STRONGLY support their action and efforts!
We do?
I couldn't care less. I hardly get any spam at all. I use spamassassin on my server and junkmatcher on my client. I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
The FBI surely has more important things to be doing, like going after corporate white collar criminals (Enron or Worldcom, anyone?) or Karl Rove or actual violent criminals.. Spam may be a nuisance, but it never killed anyone.
He must have been spamming something obscene, because the FBI doesn't have the resources to deal with spammers while they're on this moral crusade to re-puritanize this god fearing country.
Besides, spamming is okay as long as you're a big corporation that either does or may contribute or lobby congress at some point.
Spamming is only bad if you're a private citizen doing it, sort of like how raping teenage babysitters, doing coke, driving drunk and killing women when you drive off a bridge and wander away is only bad for private citizens.
Except, I'm pretty sure all he did was implement it. I don't keep up on the goings on of slashcode, but I seem to recall that others had cleaned up and fixed the CSS stuff in slashcode long ago and they just got around to actually activiating it on Slashdot itself.
.. it just might work!
So what is the next technology Malda needs to implement? And remember, it'll be a good six years before it actually happens. I'm thinking some sort of dupe-detector that does a quick link/headline search of previous articles and forces the editor to see a list of them after submitting the article, but before publishing. It's revolutionary, but .
The difference is, astronomers don't get naked and drunk and high on E and part underneath the moon all night, jiggling their astronomer bits about to celebrate yet another eclipse of one sort or another.
;)
Well, maybe they do, but I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see it in that case.
Funny thing, though. I was just commenting the other night about how amazing it is to see such bright stars (and so many of them!) int he night sky here in Broomfield, Colorado. I'm used to Portland (Oregon), where you either have clouds overhead all the time or too much light pollution to see anything of interest.
Actually, you're reading a fairly wealthy man's critiques of products he wouldn't by, while he's reading your stupid trollish response on his 17" powerbook in his office.
Now, the question is, if I'm going to waste money supporting the MPAA for a movie that I'm only going to watch a couple times, why am I going to do it with a stupid UMD that I can only watch on my 2" PSP screen instead of my 17" laptop or on one of my two 30" apple cinema displays or my 50" widescreen HDTV? Wherever I go, either my Thinkpad running debian or my powerbook is with me. And thanks, but I'd really rather pop in a DVD (or xvid) and watch it on my 17" than close up the laptop and enjoy the amazing "like really being there!" 2" screen PSP.
But hey, if you'd rather waste all of your money on a stupid UMD collection that you'll never get any use out of instead of buying really cool shit, that's fine with me. That's the difference between being cool and being trendy.
By the way, I hope you're enjoying your NGAGE, pussy.
Hi, you must be new here.
Slashdot only implemented proper CSS within the last couple weeks.
If you paid $20 for content on UMD so you could watch it on a tiny little screen, you deserve to be shot. Spending $20+ on a full sized DVD that you can watch on your widescreen television once or twice in your life is absurd enough, much less this PSP UMD nonsense. But it just proves, people will buy anything!
UMD? More like D U M! Giggady giggady gig!
Yeah, but don't forget that few people had internet access and the web hadn't espoded in its pants yet back when the original Doom released. You needed meat-shelf-space because that was the only place anyone was likely to set eyeballs on it. Now you have lots of indie-specific online outlets, a gaming television station (of sorts), magazines, websites and usenet groups focused on them.
A Tale in the Desert is an indie project, essentially. They aren't on any shelf anywhere and are distributed online. They're doing pretty well and have been for a couple years.
What we need is an open source alternative to Steam.
That is the best idea I have heard all year. Sounds like another Google project, too. Maybe for next year's summer of code. Heh.
It's 2005. Why are we getting all giddy over a stupid eclipse? They're a fairly regular occurance. Why dont' we also get excited about a full moon? The only difference between the two is that one happens more or less every month and the other happens more or less every year.
This is the equivalant to a FOX news "news *ahem*" story.
I'm not sure if you're being rhetorical and sarcastic or not.
Presuming you're not, you're asking "what's so difficult about re-encoding all of your content before copying to your ipod"?
The idea is convenience. Spending forever re-encoding every download and every video just to see it on my ipod isn't worth the trouble.