Who says I'm worried about myself? It could be anyone. Pull any statistic you want, but 250 to 1 is one of the worst if not the worst re-entry odds ever.
Who's responsible for this mess? 250 to 1 is downright terrifying. If anything happens, the money hungry CEOs and large stockholders should do some jailtime for manslaughter and gross-negligence. Motorola will just get away scott-free with perhaps a well-crafted "oops" PR statement.
You'd think letting big corporations cheat consumers and pollute the planet would be enough, now they seemingly have the right to rain hot metal on our heads.
So what if its a "faithful reproduction" of Dick's story? Movies and books are worlds apart. How was the acting? Unconvincing to horrible. The pace and direction badly needed work. Just because I like most of Dick's writings doesn't mean I'm going to fall over backwards for a script that completely echoes to the story.
If your looking for "faithful reproductions" go to the bookstore, they're called paperbacks.
This is a great example of how spam mail is a waste of resources the same way it is a waste of resources to use a fax machine to spam other fax machines. Of course its illegal to do that and we need the same legislation to do the same to spammers.
I'm just sitting around waiting for this to hit critical mass, when mostly every mailserver and mailbox is jammed packed with crap. Maybe we'll start seeing some attention hungry politicians on TV giving a speech on how "our information age wil come to a crash unless we pass this measure immediately."
First off opening constantly opening attachments are how networked offices are run, and considering the more famous viruses ones take names from your address book it kind of defeats the "dont open from those you dont know" advice. Not to mention that viruses appear everywhere, I've gotten them on commercial software right out of the box, so don't expect virus companies to go out of business soon.
There simply is no easy solution.
And for the 100th time, virii isn't a word. viruses is.
I really don't like how the themes and ideas in a book suddenly become the unchanging life-long testimony of an author. It like there's this need to say, "Yes we agree completely and our beliefs are one and the same." These couple "No Heinlein is actually like this" posts miss the whole point.
Its a book, a work of fiction. Each reader interprets it they way they like. Maybe Heinlein didn't get why it was such a hit in the hippy/counterculture movement, which incidentaly wasn't pro-religion. Unless you consider anything that goes against scientific materism a religion. Is there a reason why he should be an expert on how ideas affect people?
How many users read the full terms of service? Perhapsmaybe.00385 (rounded).
At this point someone tosses in "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." But no one is breaking the law. Is this child porn? No.
Did they bother asking you if those mp3s are or aren't being distributed to non-CD owners, have they checked the logs to see if these things are being downloaded en masse. Did they ask the user if this he owns the work?
Nope, they just did a blanket delete of.mp3 extensions, be it Metallica or a recording of your child's first words. This isn't a fight against copyright violations its a fight against a file format.
I can imagine the day when most people have broadband and suddenly there's a blacklist on mov, mpg, asf, etc. We can degenerate back to a text only internet and toss in strict declarations of copyright because someone, somewhere might be sued.
Yes, he should leave that ISP. Anyone in that situation should inform others about their policies and blacklist them before they blacklist more of our formats.
Using your bad apple analogy, this is a country where we sell bongs, blank CDs, cable test chips, guns (constant abuse of sales and carry laws) etc. A small percentage of these things are used legally We accept things like these because a democracy has the responsibility to protect the rights of the minority.
Its going to be hilarious when your $400 dollar "discount" for signing a multi-year MSN dial-up contract is going to cost just a little less than what 1 megabit and above cable connection will cost you.
These "deals" should be illegal, they target the non-tech savvy and those with the least amount of money. They bind them to $22 a month dial-up, which in the industry is an unarguable rip-off. $10 dial-ups are common and there's always NetZero.
This is the problem with large conentrations of wealth, MS can take huge hits in profit because they know they can ride it out for a few thousand years, literally.
I'm half expecting a payday loan center in Best Buy and an MSAOL credit card with one free on-line purchase. I can see the hologram sticker now, at one angle its a smiling Bill at the other its a smiling Steve.
What the FTC should be looking at along with monopolistic practices is the effect on personal debt, which we know is at its all time highest.
"Slashdot: Election News for Leftist Neds. Ballot Stuffing that matters."
When I meet a leftist Ned I'll send him right over to slashdot. In the meantime finish reading a sentance before you post an opinion on the article. That's the trick with reading, you have to try read hard to get to that period.
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*sigh* technophiles. Touch screens that print out punch ballots. Its really that simple and they can use the old punch readers over and over. No login, no eye-scan, no tokens (how i hate that word), etc. Computers and networks aren't the solution to everything, you can get amazing results by improving on traditional methods with technology without completely replacing it.
Maybe Jamie has a TV playing a video of a fire in his/her's fireplace. Naww, its a 3D simulation of a fireplace running off a remote server through a T3.
Katz might not think voting is worth it but there's only one candidate, Ralph, who wants a none of the above option in every election, and if none wins we get a new election with new people. At least then you can express your disgust instead of sitting at home and, umm expressing your disgust to your cat.
The problem is we do strategic social taxing constatly and its always pointed at the wrong people. We tax 6-7%, or 8% here in Chicago, on needed goods and services including food, yet I can trade a million dollars worth of stock and not pay a penny of taxes for the transaction.
The wealthy have a certain position of priveldge and a huge gap between them and becoming the working-poor or falling below the proverty line, in other words they can afford it. The richest always get taxed more and it will always be that way for this reason.
I'd rather see strategic taxing on cigarettes that helps support programs and subsidises medications/treatments to get people off of them who cannot do it by themselves.
Its like when they build the tollways, they promised it was just to make up for the price of building it and would go away after x amount of years. Thats strategic taxing, breaking that promise and taxing just because we can is the status quo.
I will for the rest of my days be paying X amound of tax a day, I'd much rather see it used wisely and responsibly instead of seeing more and more loopholes for the wealthy.
I'm surprised Nader isn't doing much better who else has come out publicaly against the patent system and/.'s villian Microsoft?
Unfortuantly, this vote reflects what a significant number of netizens think of slashdot, that its a sophmoric discussion board dominated by psuedo-liberals who are dying for their IPO fantasy so they can become the new Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos and practice business their style.
Exactly. Whats the big deal? If one week goes by without anyone living in the ISS will something terrible happen? Will the Guinness Book of records go out of business?
I'm much more excited and supportive for a permanent colony on the moon instead of mars missions or silly strech records.
Post no inflammatory or inslting words about Jon Katz and have a free dinner with him at some local hotspot. Though you wouldn't want to see his eating habits up close. Okay I'm out.
Oh my god its Ghost Rider and he's stuck in space! NASA please get him back, he fights on the side of good, regardless of his looks and I really need him for my halloween party. He looks so confused too, they much not teach much astronomy at Ghost Riding school.
These are the very same violent games and movies watched and playd in Europe yet they don't have the real actual crime we do.
The only politician running and openly criticizing the multi-nationals is Nader. Unless you want to include Gore's rhetoric about not being in the corporate pocket which is coming from an environmentalist who helped stopped the required raise in CAFE standards and supports NAFTA and the WTO. Toss in the best friend of the insurance industry VP and we have a pretty lousy ticket for liberals.
Even if Nader is never to be heard from again, at least he's opened political discourse for millions of minds accross the nation with real plans to curb corporate power and their media control, which helps keep this issue, perhaps the biggest of our times, from serious discussion in the two major parties.
Its one press release after another. Why don't we see topics about how many people are boycotting the PS2 hysteria because of Sony's constant wrongdoings? Sure send it via ask slashdot and watch it get rejected.
Even the stereotypes here are embarassing, they're not D&D sterotypes they're big studio types like, "Okay we need a wise-ass black urban kid who's streetsmart but in the end has a warm heart." I can't accept a 20th century wise-cracker and then this dramaticly role-played villian in the same movie based in a fictional past world.
Keep your characters and setting consistant, please. Not only does this look a lot like TPM, it'll be just as silly.
There are only so many plots and story elements to work with, if you intend to make a satisfying piece of work.
I'm sure anyone in film or the lowliest film student would disagree with that. Its called mass-marketing and a generic overly-used formula. There's tons of creativity out there, I've seen more 'satisfying pieces of work' at iFilm.com with a budget that is around what it costs to film 1/300th of a second of films like these.
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Who says I'm worried about myself? It could be anyone. Pull any statistic you want, but 250 to 1 is one of the worst if not the worst re-entry odds ever.
Who's responsible for this mess? 250 to 1 is downright terrifying. If anything happens, the money hungry CEOs and large stockholders should do some jailtime for manslaughter and gross-negligence. Motorola will just get away scott-free with perhaps a well-crafted "oops" PR statement.
You'd think letting big corporations cheat consumers and pollute the planet would be enough, now they seemingly have the right to rain hot metal on our heads.
So what if its a "faithful reproduction" of Dick's story? Movies and books are worlds apart. How was the acting? Unconvincing to horrible. The pace and direction badly needed work. Just because I like most of Dick's writings doesn't mean I'm going to fall over backwards for a script that completely echoes to the story.
If your looking for "faithful reproductions" go to the bookstore, they're called paperbacks.
This is a great example of how spam mail is a waste of resources the same way it is a waste of resources to use a fax machine to spam other fax machines. Of course its illegal to do that and we need the same legislation to do the same to spammers.
I'm just sitting around waiting for this to hit critical mass, when mostly every mailserver and mailbox is jammed packed with crap. Maybe we'll start seeing some attention hungry politicians on TV giving a speech on how "our information age wil come to a crash unless we pass this measure immediately."
First off opening constantly opening attachments are how networked offices are run, and considering the more famous viruses ones take names from your address book it kind of defeats the "dont open from those you dont know" advice. Not to mention that viruses appear everywhere, I've gotten them on commercial software right out of the box, so don't expect virus companies to go out of business soon.
There simply is no easy solution.
And for the 100th time, virii isn't a word. viruses is.
I really don't like how the themes and ideas in a book suddenly become the unchanging life-long testimony of an author. It like there's this need to say, "Yes we agree completely and our beliefs are one and the same." These couple "No Heinlein is actually like this" posts miss the whole point.
Its a book, a work of fiction. Each reader interprets it they way they like. Maybe Heinlein didn't get why it was such a hit in the hippy/counterculture movement, which incidentaly wasn't pro-religion. Unless you consider anything that goes against scientific materism a religion. Is there a reason why he should be an expert on how ideas affect people?
How many users read the full terms of service? Perhapsmaybe .00385 (rounded).
.mp3 extensions, be it Metallica or a recording of your child's first words. This isn't a fight against copyright violations its a fight against a file format.
At this point someone tosses in "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." But no one is breaking the law. Is this child porn? No.
Did they bother asking you if those mp3s are or aren't being distributed to non-CD owners, have they checked the logs to see if these things are being downloaded en masse. Did they ask the user if this he owns the work?
Nope, they just did a blanket delete of
I can imagine the day when most people have broadband and suddenly there's a blacklist on mov, mpg, asf, etc. We can degenerate back to a text only internet and toss in strict declarations of copyright because someone, somewhere might be sued.
Yes, he should leave that ISP. Anyone in that situation should inform others about their policies and blacklist them before they blacklist more of our formats.
Using your bad apple analogy, this is a country where we sell bongs, blank CDs, cable test chips, guns (constant abuse of sales and carry laws) etc. A small percentage of these things are used legally We accept things like these because a democracy has the responsibility to protect the rights of the minority.
Ah, its a Jamie post.
Its going to be hilarious when your $400 dollar "discount" for signing a multi-year MSN dial-up contract is going to cost just a little less than what 1 megabit and above cable connection will cost you.
These "deals" should be illegal, they target the non-tech savvy and those with the least amount of money. They bind them to $22 a month dial-up, which in the industry is an unarguable rip-off. $10 dial-ups are common and there's always NetZero.
This is the problem with large conentrations of wealth, MS can take huge hits in profit because they know they can ride it out for a few thousand years, literally.
I'm half expecting a payday loan center in Best Buy and an MSAOL credit card with one free on-line purchase. I can see the hologram sticker now, at one angle its a smiling Bill at the other its a smiling Steve.
What the FTC should be looking at along with monopolistic practices is the effect on personal debt, which we know is at its all time highest.
"Slashdot: Election News for Leftist Neds. Ballot Stuffing that matters."
When I meet a leftist Ned I'll send him right over to slashdot. In the meantime finish reading a sentance before you post an opinion on the article. That's the trick with reading, you have to try read hard to get to that period.
*sigh* technophiles. Touch screens that print out punch ballots. Its really that simple and they can use the old punch readers over and over. No login, no eye-scan, no tokens (how i hate that word), etc. Computers and networks aren't the solution to everything, you can get amazing results by improving on traditional methods with technology without completely replacing it.
Maybe Jamie has a TV playing a video of a fire in his/her's fireplace. Naww, its a 3D simulation of a fireplace running off a remote server through a T3.
Katz might not think voting is worth it but there's only one candidate, Ralph, who wants a none of the above option in every election, and if none wins we get a new election with new people. At least then you can express your disgust instead of sitting at home and, umm expressing your disgust to your cat.
The problem is we do strategic social taxing constatly and its always pointed at the wrong people. We tax 6-7%, or 8% here in Chicago, on needed goods and services including food, yet I can trade a million dollars worth of stock and not pay a penny of taxes for the transaction.
/.'s villian Microsoft?
The wealthy have a certain position of priveldge and a huge gap between them and becoming the working-poor or falling below the proverty line, in other words they can afford it. The richest always get taxed more and it will always be that way for this reason.
I'd rather see strategic taxing on cigarettes that helps support programs and subsidises medications/treatments to get people off of them who cannot do it by themselves.
Its like when they build the tollways, they promised it was just to make up for the price of building it and would go away after x amount of years. Thats strategic taxing, breaking that promise and taxing just because we can is the status quo.
I will for the rest of my days be paying X amound of tax a day, I'd much rather see it used wisely and responsibly instead of seeing more and more loopholes for the wealthy.
I'm surprised Nader isn't doing much better who else has come out publicaly against the patent system and
Unfortuantly, this vote reflects what a significant number of netizens think of slashdot, that its a sophmoric discussion board dominated by psuedo-liberals who are dying for their IPO fantasy so they can become the new Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos and practice business their style.
Flat tax? Are you serious, it'll pummel the lower classes and give the wealthy a much larger break than they already have.
Exactly. Whats the big deal? If one week goes by without anyone living in the ISS will something terrible happen? Will the Guinness Book of records go out of business?
I'm much more excited and supportive for a permanent colony on the moon instead of mars missions or silly strech records.
Considering the source, they're just hedging their bets on the Rapture occuring in the next decade.
Post no inflammatory or inslting words about Jon Katz and have a free dinner with him at some local hotspot. Though you wouldn't want to see his eating habits up close. Okay I'm out.
Oh my god its Ghost Rider and he's stuck in space! NASA please get him back, he fights on the side of good, regardless of his looks and I really need him for my halloween party. He looks so confused too, they much not teach much astronomy at Ghost Riding school.
These are the very same violent games and movies watched and playd in Europe yet they don't have the real actual crime we do.
The only politician running and openly criticizing the multi-nationals is Nader. Unless you want to include Gore's rhetoric about not being in the corporate pocket which is coming from an environmentalist who helped stopped the required raise in CAFE standards and supports NAFTA and the WTO. Toss in the best friend of the insurance industry VP and we have a pretty lousy ticket for liberals.
Even if Nader is never to be heard from again, at least he's opened political discourse for millions of minds accross the nation with real plans to curb corporate power and their media control, which helps keep this issue, perhaps the biggest of our times, from serious discussion in the two major parties.
Yes, bad drugs - physically addictive or easy to be injured or killed by using.
Good drugs - non-physically addictive and does same/around damage that smoking and drinking do.
Its one press release after another. Why don't we see topics about how many people are boycotting the PS2 hysteria because of Sony's constant wrongdoings? Sure send it via ask slashdot and watch it get rejected.
Remember the power of the club, and how useful it was in both battle and domestic chores. Now they can be found anywhere!
Oh, and the alphabet, oh man that stuff is worthless.
And the halycion days of the gentleman's motorcar, now any idiot can have at one by going to the nearest used car dealership!
Kinda elitist, lets move on its just technology.
Why they're all right here:
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Even the stereotypes here are embarassing, they're not D&D sterotypes they're big studio types like, "Okay we need a wise-ass black urban kid who's streetsmart but in the end has a warm heart." I can't accept a 20th century wise-cracker and then this dramaticly role-played villian in the same movie based in a fictional past world.
Keep your characters and setting consistant, please. Not only does this look a lot like TPM, it'll be just as silly.
There are only so many plots and story elements to work with, if you intend to make a satisfying piece of work.
I'm sure anyone in film or the lowliest film student would disagree with that. Its called mass-marketing and a generic overly-used formula. There's tons of creativity out there, I've seen more 'satisfying pieces of work' at iFilm.com with a budget that is around what it costs to film 1/300th of a second of films like these.