And of course, AOL won't be releasing your search terms, the NSA won't be listening to your phone conversations or tracking your surfing habits, private companies won't be stockpiling huge warehouses of data to give to the government and you can trust a president who choked and fell while eating a pretzel to check and balance himself.
It's true that Apple attracts a certain "I don't know what" kind of person. Apple's success, however, is not based on its cosmetic appeal. Apple offers much more beyond just its good looks. It's like Apple and and its users signed up on eHarmony and found each other.
If Vista is stable and easy to use, then MS won't need the glitz and glamour to attract customers since they already have a majority of the customers. MS will only have to retain customers, which it can do with a great Vista release.
What's next? Outsource to malnourished kids. All they get is a little cookie (or several, depending on their privacy settings.) You can pay them even less than the Indian & Chinese programmers since these kids don't need money for food. They can just eat the cookies without getting any cache.
Of course, the LPR will save the children from the myspace terrorist perverts who try to cut and run so we don't have to fight them here in the asymmetric war on terror. Sounds great!
When they came for nmap, I did not protest because I did not use nmap. When they came for p2p, I did not protest because I never used p2p. When they came for the private encryption keys, I did not protest because I could never get ssh set up on my machine. When they came for Windows XP, I did not protest because frankly, I was glad they took it. When they came for Slashdot, there was no one left to cause slashdot effects on websites, freeing up bandwidth for the rest of the net. So yeah, I guess the LPR is a great idea.
If you're going to correct someone's post, you can at least do it correctly. Your semantic word mincing is childishly missplaced. Hopefully your work does not depend on your reading/arguing skills.
Your fabricated "argument" tries to create a false dichotomy between the word "detail" and the word "accusation," as if they are mutually exclusive.
Let me explain how basic language works. When someone is arrested as this guy here was, the government is accusing him of commiting a crime. In this case, no details of what crime he was charged with were given in the article. An unexplained arrest (i.e. an undetailed accusation) is heavy-handed.
However, once the details of the accusation came out--that his arrest was related to him tampering with witnesses--then the arrest itself was not heavy handed. Thus, the "details" of the accusation are now out--we now know why he was arrested (accused) and what he will be charged with (the details of the accusation.)
Before the details came out, I was a little concerned with FBI heavyhanded tactics. Now that the details are out, sounds like this Rambam guy will be spending time in the Slamslam.
I predict that in 2007 this guy will be making future predictions about which an interviewer will ask him what he was thinking in 2007 which someone on slashdot will correct and which will be followed by a new prediction by dotslashdot about the guy's 2008 prediction.
"This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone"
COULD BE used. Obviously it WON'T be limited to those situations. How will it help find missing children? Since they are missing, you don't know where to look, and you cannot possibly look everywhere in Los Angeles. If they are kidnapped, then how will the drone find them in a car or a house?
Searching for lost hikers is a legitimate use, but how often will it be used for that? I don't see an epidemic of lost hikers justifying purchasing this equipment.
As for use in a fire zone, why would the POLICE purchase a drone for that? Wouldn't the FIRE DEPARTMENT need it?
These are NOT the reasons for using these drones. These drones will be used to monitor the streets of Los Angeles to gather track citizens and citizen activities at the expense of intruding on people's privacy (not legally defined privacy, but real-life privacy).
These will be deployed during lawful public protests, for example, under the excuse of public safety. Since the Department of Homeland Security already has jurisdiction over pretty much everything, they can use it to build profiles of people at a lawful protest, adding to the data the DHS collects against citizens, allowing it to add people to no-fly and other blacklists. This is really just domestic spying, not to save the children, hikers or survey a fire. ("Mr. Fire, can we ask you a few questions?").
On the one hand, it's nice to see a fundamentalist Linux distribution like Debian standing up on principle against encroachment of commercialization. On the other hand, non-fundamentalists like the rest of us are puzzled at how much time the Debian team wastes in throwing tantrums over license purity instead of shipping their next version. I guess I'm not a target user of their system since I just want Java to work on my system without being strip searched and violated.
In a subsequent news conference, DART claimed it did not remember hitting on the target after being spaced out on AMBIEN, a method it used to help it sleep(500s) before its launch from Kennedy Space Center. DART claimed that it got several bytes to eat before drinking a cup of Java and collecting its garbage. Upon introspection DART agreed that, despite its name, hitting on the target showed little Class despite the size of its Package.
Today's warning sign is tomorrow's tourist attraction.
If anything, the warning signs will attract tourists, exposing them to more radiation. "Hey lookie here FuturoBillyBob, these ancient symbols must lead to treasure, because no ancient symbol would ever be a warning, right?"
This will inevitably lead to naturally selecting out curious tourists who will die out from radiation poisoning and not pass on the curious gene. The "Where's Waldo" series will plummet in sales, causing its publisher to go out of business, reducing the sales of red and white horizontally striped sweaters, thick glasses, blue pants and brown shoes as well as stocking hats, unleashing an economic chain reaction leading to a global economic collapse that will start nuclear war, resulting in the annihilation of mankind.
So don't mess this up, LA!
Apparently you cannot take and publish a picture you take of certain Chicago buildings either because the designers of the buildings have a copyright on the design. So the French law is not that crazy compared to Amerikan Copyright law.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/06/chicagos_publ ic_scul.html
How would you like a birth control patch that also doubles as a nicotine patch without your knowledge? Sure you can have sex without worrying about getting pregnant, but there would be no cigarette afterwards.
What MS has done is taken away the cigarette from the consumer. My Windows sex machine can "interface" all night long without getting pregnant, but it can still get STDs and won't be smoking any more afterwards.
In other news, Automatix was so successful in making Ubuntu the dominant Linux distribution, she changed her name to Dominatix, making every Linux user LILO under her bootp.
Sorry!
Yes, what could possibly go wrong with computer voting?
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.htm l
Your example is ridiculous. The problem with computer voting using a closed-source voting software program whose data is easily manipulated without leaving any trace is that anyone can more easily alter votes without detection. The fact that it rained on some SAT scores is irrelevant because it doesn't address the issue of manipulating votes.
Surely you understand that someone can easily change the outcome of an election by changing a massive number of votes without leaving a trace?
Sure, accidents happen, but adding this unprotected, unaudited code in the mix makes manipulating votes easier, not harder, which is troublesome, given Diebold's connections to the Republican party.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/0 4/159216
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And of course, AOL won't be releasing your search terms, the NSA won't be listening to your phone conversations or tracking your surfing habits, private companies won't be stockpiling huge warehouses of data to give to the government and you can trust a president who choked and fell while eating a pretzel to check and balance himself.
It's true that Apple attracts a certain "I don't know what" kind of person. Apple's success, however, is not based on its cosmetic appeal. Apple offers much more beyond just its good looks. It's like Apple and and its users signed up on eHarmony and found each other. If Vista is stable and easy to use, then MS won't need the glitz and glamour to attract customers since they already have a majority of the customers. MS will only have to retain customers, which it can do with a great Vista release.
What's next? Outsource to malnourished kids. All they get is a little cookie (or several, depending on their privacy settings.) You can pay them even less than the Indian & Chinese programmers since these kids don't need money for food. They can just eat the cookies without getting any cache.
Of course, the LPR will save the children from the myspace terrorist perverts who try to cut and run so we don't have to fight them here in the asymmetric war on terror. Sounds great!
When they came for nmap, I did not protest because I did not use nmap.
When they came for p2p, I did not protest because I never used p2p.
When they came for the private encryption keys, I did not protest because I could never get ssh set up on my machine.
When they came for Windows XP, I did not protest because frankly, I was glad they took it.
When they came for Slashdot, there was no one left to cause slashdot effects on websites, freeing up bandwidth for the rest of the net.
So yeah, I guess the LPR is a great idea.
If you're going to correct someone's post, you can at least do it correctly. Your semantic word mincing is childishly missplaced. Hopefully your work does not depend on your reading/arguing skills. Your fabricated "argument" tries to create a false dichotomy between the word "detail" and the word "accusation," as if they are mutually exclusive. Let me explain how basic language works. When someone is arrested as this guy here was, the government is accusing him of commiting a crime. In this case, no details of what crime he was charged with were given in the article. An unexplained arrest (i.e. an undetailed accusation) is heavy-handed. However, once the details of the accusation came out--that his arrest was related to him tampering with witnesses--then the arrest itself was not heavy handed. Thus, the "details" of the accusation are now out--we now know why he was arrested (accused) and what he will be charged with (the details of the accusation.)
Before the details came out, I was a little concerned with FBI heavyhanded tactics. Now that the details are out, sounds like this Rambam guy will be spending time in the Slamslam.
I predict that in 2007 this guy will be making future predictions about which an interviewer will ask him what he was thinking in 2007 which someone on slashdot will correct and which will be followed by a new prediction by dotslashdot about the guy's 2008 prediction.
What? Joe Lieberman is advocating the marketing of violent Indie games? Or is he advocating outsourcing marketing to Indie?
"This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone" COULD BE used. Obviously it WON'T be limited to those situations. How will it help find missing children? Since they are missing, you don't know where to look, and you cannot possibly look everywhere in Los Angeles. If they are kidnapped, then how will the drone find them in a car or a house? Searching for lost hikers is a legitimate use, but how often will it be used for that? I don't see an epidemic of lost hikers justifying purchasing this equipment. As for use in a fire zone, why would the POLICE purchase a drone for that? Wouldn't the FIRE DEPARTMENT need it? These are NOT the reasons for using these drones. These drones will be used to monitor the streets of Los Angeles to gather track citizens and citizen activities at the expense of intruding on people's privacy (not legally defined privacy, but real-life privacy). These will be deployed during lawful public protests, for example, under the excuse of public safety. Since the Department of Homeland Security already has jurisdiction over pretty much everything, they can use it to build profiles of people at a lawful protest, adding to the data the DHS collects against citizens, allowing it to add people to no-fly and other blacklists. This is really just domestic spying, not to save the children, hikers or survey a fire. ("Mr. Fire, can we ask you a few questions?").
Since poker is illegal now, people playing "Texas Holdem" are now playing "Texas Holdem Up, Keepem where I can seeem."
On the one hand, it's nice to see a fundamentalist Linux distribution like Debian standing up on principle against encroachment of commercialization. On the other hand, non-fundamentalists like the rest of us are puzzled at how much time the Debian team wastes in throwing tantrums over license purity instead of shipping their next version. I guess I'm not a target user of their system since I just want Java to work on my system without being strip searched and violated.
Does that mean you can't buy & sell stocks online?
It brings tiers to my eyes.
If they lose, do they go Sing Sing?
That cross dressing site management software "Drupal" says too many connections.
In a subsequent news conference, DART claimed it did not remember hitting on the target after being spaced out on AMBIEN, a method it used to help it sleep(500s) before its launch from Kennedy Space Center. DART claimed that it got several bytes to eat before drinking a cup of Java and collecting its garbage. Upon introspection DART agreed that, despite its name, hitting on the target showed little Class despite the size of its Package.
Today's warning sign is tomorrow's tourist attraction. If anything, the warning signs will attract tourists, exposing them to more radiation. "Hey lookie here FuturoBillyBob, these ancient symbols must lead to treasure, because no ancient symbol would ever be a warning, right?" This will inevitably lead to naturally selecting out curious tourists who will die out from radiation poisoning and not pass on the curious gene. The "Where's Waldo" series will plummet in sales, causing its publisher to go out of business, reducing the sales of red and white horizontally striped sweaters, thick glasses, blue pants and brown shoes as well as stocking hats, unleashing an economic chain reaction leading to a global economic collapse that will start nuclear war, resulting in the annihilation of mankind. So don't mess this up, LA!
Maybe it's just happy to see you.
I can now finally say "no" when asked, "Arent' you glad you used dial?"
Apparently you cannot take and publish a picture you take of certain Chicago buildings either because the designers of the buildings have a copyright on the design. So the French law is not that crazy compared to Amerikan Copyright law. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/06/chicagos_publ ic_scul.html
How would you like a birth control patch that also doubles as a nicotine patch without your knowledge? Sure you can have sex without worrying about getting pregnant, but there would be no cigarette afterwards. What MS has done is taken away the cigarette from the consumer. My Windows sex machine can "interface" all night long without getting pregnant, but it can still get STDs and won't be smoking any more afterwards.
I was pissed off about the water free urinals.
In other news, Automatix was so successful in making Ubuntu the dominant Linux distribution, she changed her name to Dominatix, making every Linux user LILO under her bootp. Sorry!
It was only a matter of time before someone brought a Penguin suit.
Yes, what could possibly go wrong with computer voting? http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.htm l
Your example is ridiculous. The problem with computer voting using a closed-source voting software program whose data is easily manipulated without leaving any trace is that anyone can more easily alter votes without detection. The fact that it rained on some SAT scores is irrelevant because it doesn't address the issue of manipulating votes.
Surely you understand that someone can easily change the outcome of an election by changing a massive number of votes without leaving a trace?
Sure, accidents happen, but adding this unprotected, unaudited code in the mix makes manipulating votes easier, not harder, which is troublesome, given Diebold's connections to the Republican party.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/0 4/159216