The bottom line is that both parties will do anything they can to either get or stay in power. It's shameful on both sides. Anyone claiming that cheating is only occurring on one side or the other is a partisan hack.
(similar to how anyone that claims their party is 100% moral while the other is 0% moral is a partisan hack)
This kind of thing happens all the time in real methamphetamine labs across the country.
A group of like-minded people pool their resources within an abandoned house to create something and inevitably one of them puts a padlock on the formerly abandoned house to keep it all for himself.
...to have come out of the New Orleans disaster, it is this... Perhaps the US Government will stop ignoring the threat of Global Warming as somebody else's problem.
Your obvious implication being that you have some scientific evidence that global warming caused Katrina.
You must be one heck of a climatologist! Could you please share your data as to what proves that Katrina was caused by global warming? Does your data also show why the hundreds of other massive storms that have been recorded over the last several hundred years existed in the absence of global warming?
People like you do the environmental cause much more harm than good. Next time someone mentions global warming, your inane comment with no evidence will come to mind and they'll dismiss it.
DES, MD4, MD5 and, in some cases, the SHA1 encryption algorithm, which are "way too complicated to understand," said Michael Howard, senior security program manager at the company. "Instead, our R&D lab is doing great things with sophisticated XOR encryption that should be enough security for just about anyone."
In fairness, if parent didn't put the disclaimer in his comment (bitching), there would've been 20 people responding that had no idea what he was talking about saying that Windows does so do multi-tasking.
This country is ranked something like 43rd in rate of infant mortality. That's bad. If you want national pride, how about pushing that infant mortality rate up?
Actually, the United States is ranked 36th in infant mortality. As for using that metric as a gauge of poverty, it's ludicrous. Cuba is ranked higher than the United States! Ooh, can't wait to move to Cuba so that I can live in that prosperous nation where I can finally earn a decent wage and get out of poverty.
Why can't we be better than other countries by having a lower infant mortality rate?
You just proved parent's point completely. Morons won't let anyone do anything until all of the world's problems have been solved. "What are we doing with space travel? There are babies dying. Someone think of the children!"
The summary is very conclusive that Apple failed to do something required by law. Though from TFA:
"The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press."
Is the only source of this information in the summary this quote from an attorney working against Apple? If so, something stated by an opposing attoreny in the middle of a case shouldn't be taken as settled fact.
For an average of $300 per year, just about anyone can get Umbrella Liability Insurance. Such insurance shields you from many things including slander and libel claims.
That way, the evil corporation or incompetent doctor that wants to shut you up with a frivilous lawsuit will really be suing your multi-billion dollar insurance company. $1 Million worth of coverage is typically around $300 per year. Multi-million policies are frequently available for not much more.
Professor Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'. It has a trademark claim.
If you thought the summary is confusing, you should read the article and the claims therein. The company is asserting that Google is violationg their intellectual property rights. From TFA:
"We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said.
Simple case of a small company seeing a company with deep pockets and attempting to hold them hostage.
Yeah, I pay taxes that are pretty high, but I don't have to pay for health care at all
I've found that nothing in this life is truly free. A friend of mine has a mother that lives in Norway. She's on a 6-month waiting list for a necessary operation.
Sure, she doesn't have to pay for it. She just has to suffer with traumatic pain while she waits her turn.
"What do you get for YOUR taxes in the states?" I had to agree
Do you not use roads? Do you not use public transportation (which is subsidized by taxes)? Do you not use public water, public sewer, etc? Have you never called the police? I could go on forever. Your taxes are lower than the Europeans' taxes, and just because you don't get "free" healthcare doesn't mean you don't use governmental services. You use them every day.
It means less celebration of rampant excess (SUV) and more smarter management of your technology (hybrids). Forget this hurricane problem. Fix the society which fosters global warming..
I think SUV drivers are morons. I think any technology that truly decreases our energy consumption (including hybrids) is fantastic. I think global warming is real, man-made and bad.
What I'm trying to say is, I agree with your energy conservation philosophy. What I disagree with is your cavalier attitude toward assigning blame for a hurricane. Your spouting of your radical position that soccer moms' SUVs are causing hurricanes does more harm to the energy conservation cause than good. Where is your evidence? How do you refute the argument that hurricanes have been happening for at least hundreds of years?
Unfortunately, your argument is no more scientifically valid than the the people think it was caused by an angry god. And anyone that hears you spouting such nonsense only thinks less of you and the cause you stand for. That's bad for everyone.
I'm glad I caught your comment despite it being unfairly mod'd. Rest assured it will be modded back up and the people that modded you "Troll" will be meta-moderated into never having mod points again.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to Cracker Barrell for dinner tonight.
MSN Virtual Earth, Desktop Search and MSN Messenger will all be opened up for outside developers to extend...Google and Yahoo, already provide the hooks
Exactly how is introducing web services months after Google has introduced them a possibility of out-Googling Google?
Wouldn't Microsoft have to actually come out with a web tool that people use that Google didn't already have to even have the possibility of that description?
Couldn't have picked a better name for this idiot. With morons like this at the helm, it's a shame but no wonder that most people use Windows on their desktop.
The spelling of Slashdot editors sure has gotten bad lately.
Back to the topic, why would EBay want to buy a peanut butter manufacturer? And if they did want to, I would think Jif would be a more appropriate takeover target.
(...wondering how many mods have their humor hat on)
I highly doubt there will come a day where the average user NEEDS 500 gig
You are either really young or you just don't remember recent history.
History says that in a few short years, none of us will be able to compute without 500 gigabyte drives. As for backing up - add a second one mirrored to the first (RAID 1). Or add a second one in a $19 external USB enclosure and back it up manually.
that's a LOT of information to lose if the hard drive ever crashes. I'll stick with more, smaller drives, if I ever need 500 gig
That's an interesting strategy. Sure, you'll lose less data if a hard drive fails if you have n hard drives instead of 1. But your chance of a failure is n times more than 1 as well. Assuming of course you weren't proposing setting up a RAID 5 array with your more smaller hard drives (which you did not mention).
I usually have to replace a hard drive every five to six months
The culprit might not be shoddy manufacturing but rather power problems within your house. I am not an electrician but when I had one at my house recently he told me my line voltage was 105 volts. In my area, it's supposed to be 120 volts. In researching it, I discovered that most power companies guarantee 113 to 127 volts of power. Going outside of this range leads to premature failure of components and appliances, especially ones that have motors in them (like hard drives).
Again, I'm not an electrician and I'm sure someone will find something to correct me on but I was informed that when your voltage is too low, things like motors draw more current to compensate which makes them fail sooner.
It's worth checking with a $19 voltage meter, anyway, especially considering the fix is a free phone call to your power company for a free fix.
If you live in Iowa and are making $70k per year, it's a good job. If you live in Manhattan and you're making $70k per year, you're at the poverty line.
The only reason why publishing companies waste their time on such surveys is that people are so interested in the topic. The unfortunate thing is that the data is meaningless on a national scale. But, it sells advertising!
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Your example was an amazingly accurate rendition of how the Democratic party steals elections.
The bottom line is that both parties will do anything they can to either get or stay in power. It's shameful on both sides. Anyone claiming that cheating is only occurring on one side or the other is a partisan hack.
(similar to how anyone that claims their party is 100% moral while the other is 0% moral is a partisan hack)
This review is amazing!
I haven't been this excited since Slashdot's review of "Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition".
Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?
This kind of thing happens all the time in real methamphetamine labs across the country.
A group of like-minded people pool their resources within an abandoned house to create something and inevitably one of them puts a padlock on the formerly abandoned house to keep it all for himself.
Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma,
Is this the same Luca Mori that runs the www.ItalianSatellitePorn.com web site? I love that site!
At least he found something scientific for once!
...to have come out of the New Orleans disaster, it is this... Perhaps the US Government will stop ignoring the threat of Global Warming as somebody else's problem.
Your obvious implication being that you have some scientific evidence that global warming caused Katrina.
You must be one heck of a climatologist! Could you please share your data as to what proves that Katrina was caused by global warming? Does your data also show why the hundreds of other massive storms that have been recorded over the last several hundred years existed in the absence of global warming?
People like you do the environmental cause much more harm than good. Next time someone mentions global warming, your inane comment with no evidence will come to mind and they'll dismiss it.
DES, MD4, MD5 and, in some cases, the SHA1 encryption algorithm, which are "way too complicated to understand," said Michael Howard, senior security program manager at the company. "Instead, our R&D lab is doing great things with sophisticated XOR encryption that should be enough security for just about anyone."
targeting Novell's two corporate jets, its "overstaffed" R&D department
I wonder by cutting its overstaffed R&D department if they really just mean move them all to China?
I guess the execs will need those corporate jets to fly back and forth to China in style so they can visit their lower-paid works occasionally.
In fairness, if parent didn't put the disclaimer in his comment (bitching), there would've been 20 people responding that had no idea what he was talking about saying that Windows does so do multi-tasking.
This country is ranked something like 43rd in rate of infant mortality. That's bad. If you want national pride, how about pushing that infant mortality rate up?
Actually, the United States is ranked 36th in infant mortality. As for using that metric as a gauge of poverty, it's ludicrous. Cuba is ranked higher than the United States! Ooh, can't wait to move to Cuba so that I can live in that prosperous nation where I can finally earn a decent wage and get out of poverty.
Why can't we be better than other countries by having a lower infant mortality rate?
You just proved parent's point completely. Morons won't let anyone do anything until all of the world's problems have been solved. "What are we doing with space travel? There are babies dying. Someone think of the children!"
The summary is very conclusive that Apple failed to do something required by law. Though from TFA:
"The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press."
Is the only source of this information in the summary this quote from an attorney working against Apple? If so, something stated by an opposing attoreny in the middle of a case shouldn't be taken as settled fact.
For an average of $300 per year, just about anyone can get Umbrella Liability Insurance. Such insurance shields you from many things including slander and libel claims.
That way, the evil corporation or incompetent doctor that wants to shut you up with a frivilous lawsuit will really be suing your multi-billion dollar insurance company. $1 Million worth of coverage is typically around $300 per year. Multi-million policies are frequently available for not much more.
Professor Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'. It has a trademark claim.
If you thought the summary is confusing, you should read the article and the claims therein. The company is asserting that Google is violationg their intellectual property rights. From TFA:
"We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said.
Simple case of a small company seeing a company with deep pockets and attempting to hold them hostage.
Yeah, I pay taxes that are pretty high, but I don't have to pay for health care at all
I've found that nothing in this life is truly free. A friend of mine has a mother that lives in Norway. She's on a 6-month waiting list for a necessary operation.
Sure, she doesn't have to pay for it. She just has to suffer with traumatic pain while she waits her turn.
"What do you get for YOUR taxes in the states?" I had to agree
Do you not use roads? Do you not use public transportation (which is subsidized by taxes)? Do you not use public water, public sewer, etc? Have you never called the police? I could go on forever. Your taxes are lower than the Europeans' taxes, and just because you don't get "free" healthcare doesn't mean you don't use governmental services. You use them every day.
It means less celebration of rampant excess (SUV) and more smarter management of your technology (hybrids). Forget this hurricane problem. Fix the society which fosters global warming ..
I think SUV drivers are morons. I think any technology that truly decreases our energy consumption (including hybrids) is fantastic. I think global warming is real, man-made and bad.
What I'm trying to say is, I agree with your energy conservation philosophy. What I disagree with is your cavalier attitude toward assigning blame for a hurricane. Your spouting of your radical position that soccer moms' SUVs are causing hurricanes does more harm to the energy conservation cause than good. Where is your evidence? How do you refute the argument that hurricanes have been happening for at least hundreds of years?
Unfortunately, your argument is no more scientifically valid than the the people think it was caused by an angry god. And anyone that hears you spouting such nonsense only thinks less of you and the cause you stand for. That's bad for everyone.
I'm glad I caught your comment despite it being unfairly mod'd. Rest assured it will be modded back up and the people that modded you "Troll" will be meta-moderated into never having mod points again.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to Cracker Barrell for dinner tonight.
MSN Virtual Earth, Desktop Search and MSN Messenger will all be opened up for outside developers to extend...Google and Yahoo, already provide the hooks
Exactly how is introducing web services months after Google has introduced them a possibility of out-Googling Google?
Wouldn't Microsoft have to actually come out with a web tool that people use that Google didn't already have to even have the possibility of that description?
What a pompous ass.
Couldn't have picked a better name for this idiot. With morons like this at the helm, it's a shame but no wonder that most people use Windows on their desktop.
The spelling of Slashdot editors sure has gotten bad lately.
Back to the topic, why would EBay want to buy a peanut butter manufacturer? And if they did want to, I would think Jif would be a more appropriate takeover target.
(...wondering how many mods have their humor hat on)
I highly doubt there will come a day where the average user NEEDS 500 gig
You are either really young or you just don't remember recent history.
History says that in a few short years, none of us will be able to compute without 500 gigabyte drives. As for backing up - add a second one mirrored to the first (RAID 1). Or add a second one in a $19 external USB enclosure and back it up manually.
that's a LOT of information to lose if the hard drive ever crashes. I'll stick with more, smaller drives, if I ever need 500 gig
That's an interesting strategy. Sure, you'll lose less data if a hard drive fails if you have n hard drives instead of 1. But your chance of a failure is n times more than 1 as well. Assuming of course you weren't proposing setting up a RAID 5 array with your more smaller hard drives (which you did not mention).
I usually have to replace a hard drive every five to six months
The culprit might not be shoddy manufacturing but rather power problems within your house. I am not an electrician but when I had one at my house recently he told me my line voltage was 105 volts. In my area, it's supposed to be 120 volts. In researching it, I discovered that most power companies guarantee 113 to 127 volts of power. Going outside of this range leads to premature failure of components and appliances, especially ones that have motors in them (like hard drives).
Again, I'm not an electrician and I'm sure someone will find something to correct me on but I was informed that when your voltage is too low, things like motors draw more current to compensate which makes them fail sooner.
It's worth checking with a $19 voltage meter, anyway, especially considering the fix is a free phone call to your power company for a free fix.
Who would've thought that the inventor of the World Wide Web would declare it is good for people and society as a whole?
Next up on Slashdot: Authors reviewing their own books!
You can store the first Slashdot story on the first drive, and the second Slashdot story on the second drive.
If you live in Iowa and are making $70k per year, it's a good job. If you live in Manhattan and you're making $70k per year, you're at the poverty line.
The only reason why publishing companies waste their time on such surveys is that people are so interested in the topic. The unfortunate thing is that the data is meaningless on a national scale. But, it sells advertising!