Also, I totally agree. Hitler, she is not. She's damn stupid and I don't want to see her become President, but she's not Hitler, and there's no need for hyperbole.
I'm fully aware that the power of the President is (supposed to be) limited. I know what checks and balances means. I know the purpose of the three branches of government are to prevent any one branch from getting too powerful.
I still don't want someone as stupid as Palin becoming the US Head of State. Even if the presidency was as limited as it was fifty years ago, she could still do quite a bit of damage, even if just in terms of worldwide perception.
This sounds good, but it could result in the majority voting "None of the Above" repeatedly and completely stalling the government for years. Some people would be for this, I guess, but I think most would start to miss the services the federal government provides.
Any site that will emails you your password as plaintext is doing it wrong - there is no reason that any authentication system should be able to retrieve your plaintext password.
Not necessarily, if the email was sent as part of the registration system (wherein the password may still be in memory from the user entering it). Of course, it's bad practice to send a password in plaintext at all to a persistent medium like email or a database.
When someone is arrested, isn't there a public record of it? Why not call the local police to verify instead of calling the guy directly?
Oh, they have their sources.
A bloke named Alex Tapanaris, whose name appeared on the PDF press release circulated by online trouble-makers Anonymous has had his web site disappeared from the web and, according to a post on pastebin.com, the unfortunate chap has been arrested.
People with more extreme views are louder, and their supporters are more dedicated (since they tend to focus on their pet peeve while the rest of us have more important things to do), so we tend to see them more.
They're not the majority though. I'd be willing to bet that most Slashdotters don't hate Moore or Assange... they're just not posting about their moderate stance as much as the extremists are yelling about theirs.
My God! The first modded up comment is about politics and not about the show at all, even though the show and Obama's appearance are completely apolitical! I am shocked! SHOCKED!
Thankfully, either they quickly patched it out of the released ROM or emulators are accurate enough that the game doesn't flag itself as pirated. Earthbound ROMs today play fine on modern emulators.
Because their own games won't run without a jailbreak, and the console makers have managed to successfully sue sources of jailbreak tools out of existence.
Why is this a troll? If I want to create a Nintendo DS game right now, I can either:
I highly recommend Guru, I find it a better business environment than the other sites. That said, you'll probably find cheaper programmers on the other sites, though the quality will match the price.
They are a non-profit organization which may allow them to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.
Citation please? I may be a crazy liberal Canadian living in the US but I gotta think that even in Kentucky, discrimination based on religion must be illegal. Right?
If Palin gets elected, moving back to Canada might be on the radar, depending how things get. Besides, if my wife and I have kids, Canada does have numerous advantages.
You're missing the point. There are no copyrighted materials stored on TPB. In fact, since they turned off their tracker about a year ago and relied on distributed methods, there are no copyrighted materials even passing through the TPB servers.
Think of a torrent like a web link; only the link describes a download and says where it might be found. In the case of TPB torrents, it doesn't even say where it might be found since the trackers it links to don't exist, just that it's out there.
Implementation is hard. But everyone who has a "great" idea always seems to think the implementation will be easy. Go to it, scientists! We don't need to prove anything!
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Were you at the Rally by any chance?
Also, I totally agree. Hitler, she is not. She's damn stupid and I don't want to see her become President, but she's not Hitler, and there's no need for hyperbole.
I'm fully aware that the power of the President is (supposed to be) limited. I know what checks and balances means. I know the purpose of the three branches of government are to prevent any one branch from getting too powerful.
I still don't want someone as stupid as Palin becoming the US Head of State. Even if the presidency was as limited as it was fifty years ago, she could still do quite a bit of damage, even if just in terms of worldwide perception.
I don't know, but it would still probably be my best choice in a US run by Palin.
This sounds good, but it could result in the majority voting "None of the Above" repeatedly and completely stalling the government for years. Some people would be for this, I guess, but I think most would start to miss the services the federal government provides.
Luckily, I'm a Canadian citizen, so I can always head north. :^P
President Palin.
Any site that will emails you your password as plaintext is doing it wrong - there is no reason that any authentication system should be able to retrieve your plaintext password.
Not necessarily, if the email was sent as part of the registration system (wherein the password may still be in memory from the user entering it). Of course, it's bad practice to send a password in plaintext at all to a persistent medium like email or a database.
The state does have a right to prosecute since this was technically illegal, but hopefully a good judge just sees that the lesson was learned.
My guess is that it won't even get to a judge; they've probably just given the mother a large ticket. It's all about revenue for the police nowadays.
When someone is arrested, isn't there a public record of it? Why not call the local police to verify instead of calling the guy directly?
Oh, they have their sources.
A bloke named Alex Tapanaris, whose name appeared on the PDF press release circulated by online trouble-makers Anonymous has had his web site disappeared from the web and, according to a post on pastebin.com, the unfortunate chap has been arrested.
Everyone knows that pastebin is irrefutable.
People with more extreme views are louder, and their supporters are more dedicated (since they tend to focus on their pet peeve while the rest of us have more important things to do), so we tend to see them more.
They're not the majority though. I'd be willing to bet that most Slashdotters don't hate Moore or Assange... they're just not posting about their moderate stance as much as the extremists are yelling about theirs.
Reality: The TSA would push back so much that the episode wouldn't air.
My God! The first modded up comment is about politics and not about the show at all, even though the show and Obama's appearance are completely apolitical! I am shocked! SHOCKED!
I don't want to run a company like Zynga. Profit isn't the only thing that's important to me... in fact, it's a far second to ethics.
Thankfully, either they quickly patched it out of the released ROM or emulators are accurate enough that the game doesn't flag itself as pirated. Earthbound ROMs today play fine on modern emulators.
Because their own games won't run without a jailbreak, and the console makers have managed to successfully sue sources of jailbreak tools out of existence.
Why is this a troll? If I want to create a Nintendo DS game right now, I can either:
a) Grab a DS, a flash loader, devkitPro / libnds, and code something up on my own time, for free.
b) Be a well-known game developer already that Nintendo approves of, sign an NDA with them, and pay Nintendo upwards of $50,000 for an official devkit.
If Nintendo (and other console manufacturers) were more open with development, they might not be seeing their platforms cracked so fully.
"A clone of" or "Like X" consist of 50% of the freelance projects I see in my inbox on a daily basis. I ignore 100% of them.
I highly recommend Guru, I find it a better business environment than the other sites. That said, you'll probably find cheaper programmers on the other sites, though the quality will match the price.
They are a non-profit organization which may allow them to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.
Citation please? I may be a crazy liberal Canadian living in the US but I gotta think that even in Kentucky, discrimination based on religion must be illegal. Right?
If Palin gets elected, moving back to Canada might be on the radar, depending how things get. Besides, if my wife and I have kids, Canada does have numerous advantages.
So, do you vote for the Modern Whigs?
Add -torrent to your search, that should filter out torrent sites pretty effectively.
You're missing the point. There are no copyrighted materials stored on TPB. In fact, since they turned off their tracker about a year ago and relied on distributed methods, there are no copyrighted materials even passing through the TPB servers.
Think of a torrent like a web link; only the link describes a download and says where it might be found. In the case of TPB torrents, it doesn't even say where it might be found since the trackers it links to don't exist, just that it's out there.
"All people who sign this list will also automatically be tracked to make sure you're not downloading illegal porn, and the list will be made public."
Want to sign now?
If they were to rewrite Windows and base it on this mature tech, Windows would be a lot more stable and secure.
They did this. It was, for a while. It was called Windows NT.
Might be time for another rewrite, honestly. *shrugs and continues running Linux*
Implementation is hard. But everyone who has a "great" idea always seems to think the implementation will be easy. Go to it, scientists! We don't need to prove anything!