"all their communications happen in the microwave band."
I take it you dont have one of those new fangled "ovens" that use "microwaves" to "heat" the "food" up. Sure those are like 1000 watts, but the few watts from a cel is next to your brain. Ive had headaches caused by my celphone for sure. Do you think the romans knew that lead pipes make you crazy? They would have claimed that you were a pipe troll if you claimed that back in the day. Cel phones are like 10 years old and you think thats enough data to judge long term risks?
"Those who attack a person's faith (or lack thereof) with such vitriol are merely insecure in their own beliefs"
No not insecure, very secure. The reason that we need to ban religion is that it conditions the mind for compliance, order, and irrational submission to authority. I for one dont want people who are easily susceptible to mind control running around starting wars and killing civvys who believe in a different imaginary ghost or whatever.
For humanities sake we need to end the mass indoctrinate brainwashing that has occured for thousands of years. Religion is a cancer of the lazy stupid minds, and I for one think humanity has been bread to be religious for too long. We really need to get free or die.
"It really doesn't cost $15 bucks to pick, pull and pack that widget."
No it costs 15 bucks because of the many things that can happen to a package. Free returns, lost shipments, reships (say you forget to pick it up at the post office.. OOPS), large orders, courier damage - the list goes on. If a company charges everyone flat rate shipping, then you have to factor in and average out many many other costs than just the stamp, box and peanuts. You are basically paying for all the bad customers and fuckups of the entire postal system.
Yes your absolutely right. The internet should be fully compatable with 1995 technology for the rest of time. The issue isnt that you DESPERATELY need an upgrade, it's that the web is broken and needs to be redesigned.
"but Canon, like Apple tends to build the entire widget from the glass to the camera to the imaging chips"
Apple builds intel processors? To me, apple always says less versatility - not more. You should maybe tone down the fanboism lest people get the wrong idea.
Sorry, whats wrong with IPv4 and what problems that I have will be fixed with IPv6? You really want to start having to remember 8 groups of four hexidecimal digits just because "it da futar!"? Name one practical, real world use, that isnt solved by natting.
"There was no "OMG DIEBOLD" label. (Post voting research turned up the machines were 'Edge VeriVote' systems)"
Well that means nothing much as per hacking democracy that claimed diebold was re branding its new machines. Not saying you got one of those, but don't think your safe because some company changed their products name.
To "hack" these, you would have had to tell two dozen people "EVERYONE! LOOK OVER THERE FOR A FEW MINUTES!".... just to start.
Nope. All you need to do is preinfect the memory cards, or even better, some slight of hand when taking it out of the machine would do. Even say a poll worker pretends to trip spilling them onto the ground. Do you think they would disqualify them all because of something like that? Hacking democracy proved that you can even have the machine 0 initally, and then have a hack performed on the reading of the ballots. How do you know the cards were virus free previous to being shipped from diebold?
"I wouldn't though, to teach him that revenge doesn't solve anything."
While this is morally a sound way to go, its kind of false to just claim that - especially to impressionable children. I saw a study a year or so ago that said revenge is a socially functional instinct. The point im trying to make is that while it may not make up for the injustice that was done to you, it provides closure and puts a nice big smile on your face. ''Revenge can be a very good deterrent to bad behavior, and bring feelings of completeness and fulfillment.'' Turning the other cheek always seemed kind of meek to me and its one of the reasons I do not support christianity as a philosophy.
Well that was the same story with me like 7 or 8 years ago. The thing is, dont run it on your main machine. Set up a webserver, mailserver, ftp, ssh, etc on a old box you have kicking around.. Thats how I learned how to use linux. I mean im still pretty novice at it, but I had the same sort of problems when i started out (vi command syntax issues..). Then, through the errors and troubleshooting, I learned where various parts of the os were kept/var/log,/etc/init.d/usr/bin... Its all trial and error for everyone, no one is born just getting linux. It is the exact same with torubleshooting windows though - you have just been using windows longer so you know "how it rolls" so to speak. Try fixing a video card on windows without knowing what a driver or screen resolution is or where to change them. You would of course have to look it up. I actually like the man pages. MUCH more useful then windows help.. MUCH.
"Linux has to support popular trends, such as iTunes. Can't play DRM'd tunes? No sale"
Everyone I know with problems playing media on windows, burning dvds, copying cds etc.. Are all caused by DRM or anti piracy things. When my neighbour says to me "hey i want to copy dvds!" and I go over and set up dvd43 to stip the protection, then dvd shrink to make it fit on a 4.5gb dvd, then nero to burn.. etc. Its way complicated! Much more so then if the system was designed to copy dvds. This is much the same with transcoding video, hundreds of video/audio codecs, etc. Copying dvds is one thing that normal users would love to do out of the box, but they cant because of DRM. DRM is political, and its bad politics to have it. it has nothing to do with greater useability as its actually breaking something that should work - the opposite of useful. Telling linux that it needs drm support is like saying "you also need viruses and spyware!". There are some reasons why linux is far far superior and doing illegal/unadvised shit is one of them.
There are some things that linux should not adopt just because windows and macos have it. Proprietary formats is another one. I dont care if "normies" cant use the computer, but if you break linux trying to fix it, then I would be pretty upset. Consumers don't know what they want. The salesmen says that you can copy dvds on your windows pc, so when you call me up to make it happen (tm) and I say, well the thing is......
Ill im saying is dont throw the baby out with the bath water. Linux doesnt have to be comercially acceptable to be popular. Just look at bittorrent. Its easily the best way to exchange files on the internet around today. No one makes any money from it, but its far superior than something like itunes. If you have to compromise the important philosophical decisions that open source and linux have made, then its not worth being popular. You need to be popular by being better than the alternative, not sinking to their level.
Well im not american I just thought it was an interesting question
I know some districts--and I would hope most to all--offer paper ballots on demand to those like yourself who would like to opt out of the electronic voting.
I hope thats true for all your sakes. Your insite should be modded up anyways, but it seems like the last few days not as much has been getting modded up, or things are modded to like +2. Maybe its a glitch.
What is the option for people when they go to the polls, who want to opt out of electronically submitting their vote? How does one go about objecting to the whole system and yet still have their vote cast?
How do they get away with releasing them for free on windows then?
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"One of my favorite video game pastimes right now is playing James Bond: Nightfire for the GameCube."
Your complaining about games in excruciating detail, and yet your not using a mouse and keyboard to play FPS?!?!
Its like spending fifty grand, or at least putting the thought in to spend it, to pimp out your 1987 ford festiva. When you have such a basic problem (owning a ford festiva - playing fps on a gamecube), don't you think you should solve that before dealing with the other issues?
In other words, pick up halflife 2 for the PC and all your problems with FPS's will be solved. It has most if not all of your requested features.
I think the issue that the comment your replying to and indeed the whole article, is not whether they are providing consulting services to the CIA, but whether they are allowing them access to what some might say is the biggest database of internet searches on the planet. Jesus man, if that doesnt make you a bit paranoid you are either the most squeaky clean pro government person ever (possible) or completely inappreciative of what powerful people can do with constant surveillance.
From the tone of your parent post "help keep people from being killed?", I would say its just a complete disconnect from reality. The CIA make people disappear. Saying that they keep people from being killed is like saying a gun is meant to save lives, or that wars objective is a more perfect peace. Its completely backwards.
How is this funny? I mean that 18 inch joke a few comments above me actually was funny, so I do have a sick sense of humor - but I cannont see wtf was the point of your comment... its just weird. Is SIDS an acronym for something technical as well?
"It is no different than neoliberal Senators who think that minimum wage laws protect the freedoms of workers (they don't)."
You know what? Fuck you. People like you, who had mommy and daddy hand them their little middle upperclass worlds and never had to work a day in their lives can eat a fucking dick. You've never worked for minimum wage, or you'd be singing a very different tune there brother. Minimum waged employees are treated like dogs by EVERYONE. Customers, management, chicks in bars, their friends... So fuck you and your slaver mentality. You make 8 bucks an hour (minimum where I am from), and your boss still finds ways to take as much as possible away. Dont want to work unpaid overtime? Well I guess I just have to find someone else who will then! Fuck laybor laws! Your minimum wage boss knows you havent got the strength to fight him in court over it - he'll just fire you on a technicality later.
I'd invite anyone who wants to abolish or not raise the minimum wage to get a job for 6 months making it. In fact this should be required. When you are eating rice and vegetables 6 days a week with a little meat thrown in on sunday as a special occasion then you can talk to me about how good the fucking poor have it.
Look at the p2p section. It clearly was written by someone that has a clue. Their tips are: limit upload, be careful what your sharing and run antivirus. Those are the same basic tips that I would recomend to people using p2p. They don't seem to be doing any shilling for the *IAA's and the site is actually well layed out.
I could actually see it being a well rounded faq on common internet technologies for any age group. Just because its from the FCC doesnt mean its bad automatically. It does look like they did their home work on this one.
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I take it you dont have one of those new fangled "ovens" that use "microwaves" to "heat" the "food" up. Sure those are like 1000 watts, but the few watts from a cel is next to your brain. Ive had headaches caused by my celphone for sure. Do you think the romans knew that lead pipes make you crazy? They would have claimed that you were a pipe troll if you claimed that back in the day. Cel phones are like 10 years old and you think thats enough data to judge long term risks?
Condominiums?
No not insecure, very secure. The reason that we need to ban religion is that it conditions the mind for compliance, order, and irrational submission to authority. I for one dont want people who are easily susceptible to mind control running around starting wars and killing civvys who believe in a different imaginary ghost or whatever.
For humanities sake we need to end the mass indoctrinate brainwashing that has occured for thousands of years. Religion is a cancer of the lazy stupid minds, and I for one think humanity has been bread to be religious for too long. We really need to get free or die.
This is why clothes you buy from walmart do not say "walmart brand" on them. They come up with cute little brands.
1GB of secure digital memory is like 20 bucks...
Theres no way all that crap is worth 400 dollars more.
No it costs 15 bucks because of the many things that can happen to a package. Free returns, lost shipments, reships (say you forget to pick it up at the post office.. OOPS), large orders, courier damage - the list goes on. If a company charges everyone flat rate shipping, then you have to factor in and average out many many other costs than just the stamp, box and peanuts. You are basically paying for all the bad customers and fuckups of the entire postal system.
Yes your absolutely right. The internet should be fully compatable with 1995 technology for the rest of time. The issue isnt that you DESPERATELY need an upgrade, it's that the web is broken and needs to be redesigned.
Apple builds intel processors? To me, apple always says less versatility - not more. You should maybe tone down the fanboism lest people get the wrong idea.
Sorry, whats wrong with IPv4 and what problems that I have will be fixed with IPv6? You really want to start having to remember 8 groups of four hexidecimal digits just because "it da futar!"?
Name one practical, real world use, that isnt solved by natting.
Well that means nothing much as per hacking democracy that claimed diebold was re branding its new machines. Not saying you got one of those, but don't think your safe because some company changed their products name.
Nope. All you need to do is preinfect the memory cards, or even better, some slight of hand when taking it out of the machine would do. Even say a poll worker pretends to trip spilling them onto the ground. Do you think they would disqualify them all because of something like that? Hacking democracy proved that you can even have the machine 0 initally, and then have a hack performed on the reading of the ballots. How do you know the cards were virus free previous to being shipped from diebold?
In other news, 'Click Next to Continue' elected with 98% of the vote...
No it doesnt. It is either 1) Bundled by the OEM. or 2) Pirated. If people actually had to pay for windows it wouldnt be half as popular as it is.
While this is morally a sound way to go, its kind of false to just claim that - especially to impressionable children. I saw a study a year or so ago that said revenge is a socially functional instinct. The point im trying to make is that while it may not make up for the injustice that was done to you, it provides closure and puts a nice big smile on your face. ''Revenge can be a very good deterrent to bad behavior, and bring feelings of completeness and fulfillment.'' Turning the other cheek always seemed kind of meek to me and its one of the reasons I do not support christianity as a philosophy.
Well that was the same story with me like 7 or 8 years ago. The thing is, dont run it on your main machine. Set up a webserver, mailserver, ftp, ssh, etc on a old box you have kicking around.. Thats how I learned how to use linux. I mean im still pretty novice at it, but I had the same sort of problems when i started out (vi command syntax issues..). Then, through the errors and troubleshooting, I learned where various parts of the os were kept /var/log, /etc/init.d /usr/bin ... Its all trial and error for everyone, no one is born just getting linux. It is the exact same with torubleshooting windows though - you have just been using windows longer so you know "how it rolls" so to speak. Try fixing a video card on windows without knowing what a driver or screen resolution is or where to change them. You would of course have to look it up. I actually like the man pages. MUCH more useful then windows help.. MUCH.
Everyone I know with problems playing media on windows, burning dvds, copying cds etc.. Are all caused by DRM or anti piracy things. When my neighbour says to me "hey i want to copy dvds!" and I go over and set up dvd43 to stip the protection, then dvd shrink to make it fit on a 4.5gb dvd, then nero to burn.. etc. Its way complicated! Much more so then if the system was designed to copy dvds. This is much the same with transcoding video, hundreds of video/audio codecs, etc. Copying dvds is one thing that normal users would love to do out of the box, but they cant because of DRM. DRM is political, and its bad politics to have it. it has nothing to do with greater useability as its actually breaking something that should work - the opposite of useful. Telling linux that it needs drm support is like saying "you also need viruses and spyware!". There are some reasons why linux is far far superior and doing illegal/unadvised shit is one of them.
There are some things that linux should not adopt just because windows and macos have it. Proprietary formats is another one. I dont care if "normies" cant use the computer, but if you break linux trying to fix it, then I would be pretty upset. Consumers don't know what they want. The salesmen says that you can copy dvds on your windows pc, so when you call me up to make it happen (tm) and I say, well the thing is......
Ill im saying is dont throw the baby out with the bath water. Linux doesnt have to be comercially acceptable to be popular. Just look at bittorrent. Its easily the best way to exchange files on the internet around today. No one makes any money from it, but its far superior than something like itunes. If you have to compromise the important philosophical decisions that open source and linux have made, then its not worth being popular. You need to be popular by being better than the alternative, not sinking to their level.
I hope thats true for all your sakes. Your insite should be modded up anyways, but it seems like the last few days not as much has been getting modded up, or things are modded to like +2. Maybe its a glitch.
What is the option for people when they go to the polls, who want to opt out of electronically submitting their vote? How does one go about objecting to the whole system and yet still have their vote cast?
How do they get away with releasing them for free on windows then?
Your complaining about games in excruciating detail, and yet your not using a mouse and keyboard to play FPS?!?!
Its like spending fifty grand, or at least putting the thought in to spend it, to pimp out your 1987 ford festiva. When you have such a basic problem (owning a ford festiva - playing fps on a gamecube), don't you think you should solve that before dealing with the other issues?
In other words, pick up halflife 2 for the PC and all your problems with FPS's will be solved. It has most if not all of your requested features.
I think the issue that the comment your replying to and indeed the whole article, is not whether they are providing consulting services to the CIA, but whether they are allowing them access to what some might say is the biggest database of internet searches on the planet. Jesus man, if that doesnt make you a bit paranoid you are either the most squeaky clean pro government person ever (possible) or completely inappreciative of what powerful people can do with constant surveillance.
From the tone of your parent post "help keep people from being killed?", I would say its just a complete disconnect from reality. The CIA make people disappear. Saying that they keep people from being killed is like saying a gun is meant to save lives, or that wars objective is a more perfect peace. Its completely backwards.
How is this funny? I mean that 18 inch joke a few comments above me actually was funny, so I do have a sick sense of humor - but I cannont see wtf was the point of your comment... its just weird. Is SIDS an acronym for something technical as well?
You know what? Fuck you. People like you, who had mommy and daddy hand them their little middle upperclass worlds and never had to work a day in their lives can eat a fucking dick. You've never worked for minimum wage, or you'd be singing a very different tune there brother. Minimum waged employees are treated like dogs by EVERYONE. Customers, management, chicks in bars, their friends... So fuck you and your slaver mentality. You make 8 bucks an hour (minimum where I am from), and your boss still finds ways to take as much as possible away. Dont want to work unpaid overtime? Well I guess I just have to find someone else who will then! Fuck laybor laws! Your minimum wage boss knows you havent got the strength to fight him in court over it - he'll just fire you on a technicality later.
I'd invite anyone who wants to abolish or not raise the minimum wage to get a job for 6 months making it. In fact this should be required. When you are eating rice and vegetables 6 days a week with a little meat thrown in on sunday as a special occasion then you can talk to me about how good the fucking poor have it.
Look at the p2p section. It clearly was written by someone that has a clue. Their tips are: limit upload, be careful what your sharing and run antivirus. Those are the same basic tips that I would recomend to people using p2p. They don't seem to be doing any shilling for the *IAA's and the site is actually well layed out.
I could actually see it being a well rounded faq on common internet technologies for any age group. Just because its from the FCC doesnt mean its bad automatically. It does look like they did their home work on this one.
This is clearly a new low. Such an obvious fake, it puts bash.org to shame.
Um this was posted politics.slashdot.org not it.slashdot.org. Maybe you should re check your address bar if you are getting confused.