Scientists have previously suggested that a mere pencil-thick strand of silk could actually stop a Boeing 747 in mid flight. Sounds like "It can transmit the entire library of congress in less than a minute."
If the author of TFA needs to dumb it down for him/herself, fine. But I wish they wouldn't assume that we all have a G.W.Bush I.Q.
Your "law" would probably do exactly what you propose. It would also chill people's desire to make legitimate calls to 911, due to their having to think about whether they will get in trouble for running afoul of some ill-thought-out law.
Of course, there's a chance that the courts will not recognize the different scope of privacy interests at stake in computer searches, or will not be adept at crafting a rule that gives enough leeway and guidance to law enforcement, while also protecting privacy. At that point, the Constitution may fail us, and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age.
Did anyone else notice the lack of understanding of the separation of powers here?
The court's job is to interpret the laws. The Congress' job is to make the laws. The executive branch enforces them. The court should not be "crafting rules". Their job is to determine whether or not the executive branch (read: cops) violated the law. This sets precedence for further legal cases, but does NOT create new rules (read: laws).
Freakin' activist judges are part of the problem, not the solution.
Not how long till we see the drug in clinical trials or available in the pharmacy, but how long till I start getting spam advertising the new miracle cancer cure...DCA?
Agreed. Poster's last sentence is very much akin to saying that because there are huge snowfalls in Denver, that Global Warming isn't happening. It's purely anecdotal in the larger scheme.
9. Backspace and Delete Keys. The world holds millions and millions of computers that have Backspace (delete left) and Delete (delete right) keys. Most editors and writers who've been exposed to Windows notebook keyboards that have both of those keys can tell you that moving to a Mac notebook that has only a Backspace key (called "Delete" on the Mac) can be frustrating.
Isn't that a hardware design problem? Then the author suggests that instead of fn-backspace, you should download a utility that remaps the \ key to delete. Then if you need a \ you can type fn-\ which will produce a \
That's fucking brilliant. Solve one problem by introducing another and not really solving the first. Stupid "journalists".
If you look at U.S. vs. Verdugo-Urquidez you will see differently. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the people in the Second Amendment are the same as in the Fourth, and the same as the term "person" or "people" anywhere else in the Constitution. Does anyone actually fucking think that the people in the preamble are different than the people in the Second Amendment? I hope I'm not misunderstanding this post, because it looks like a troll to me.
So I can buy a copy of their development software and make signed programs and sucker people into executing them. So what? The only differences between doing it on a Crackberry and an XBox are the barriers to entry. The price of a dev license for Xbox is much higher, and Microsoft probably makes you sign an agreement stating that you won't do this or that blah blah blah.
Blackberry just makes it cheaper and apparently doesn't check credentials.
From TFA: one of the Word flaws is only present in the version made for Apple Macintosh systems
Is that to say that they aren't concentrating on fixing the Mac software, so as to intentionally make Macs less secure if they run MS software and bolster their argument that Macs are no more secure than Wintels?
Or is it that the people at MS writing Mac software are better at it?
Or is it that Macs are inherently more secure?
Or......a million others. I thought it was highly interesting that there were a high number of flaws in the Windows Office, but only one in the Mac Office. What say you/.?
TFA says that all this has made the department "less efficient for at least a month". So does that make their efficiency negative? I mean come on, it's the fucking government. It's inefficient by definition.
Let's analyze the sentence. First, Government...not the people, not corporations, not monkeys, just government. Second, spends money. Not saves money, not earns money, spends it. That's what they do. Third, inefficiently. Poorly, wastefully, full of fraud waste and abuse. Is anyone surprised that the government spent billions setting up DHS, updating NSAT&T's computers, creating huge bureaucracies, hundreds of new policies, etc., and none of it works?
And monkeys might fly out my butt...hey...what the fuck...
Seriously though...all the supposed iPod killers thus far have been pitiful imitators. The real iPod killer is likely to be either
A. something else from Apple, who spends a TON of money on interface design from an artistic and human approach, or
B. something entirely different, that is not just a media player. This is why you find iTunes on phones. Apple realizes that this or potentially the PDA market can displace them from their throne, and they are ahead of the curve.
While I am not the least bit surprise about a M$ product with massive holes in it, I will also say that no machine/software is completely secure from the moment it is connected to the network. If you want secure, unplug it, lock it in a nuclear waste transport container, and sink it in the Marianas Trench.
You have to decide which features you want at what price point and buy it at those marks. If you wait for the next widget that has 127 tera-bungles of printing prowess or whatever the fuck they say it has, you'll always be waiting. Set a benchmark and when the product hits it, buy it.
And the morality police should be allowed to scan your hard disk for smut. And the safety police should be allowed to make you wear a helmet in your car.
Since the dawn of the commercialization of the Internet, porn has been making it tick. Yes, the internet is great for online shopping, free information exchange, online collaboration, and more. But porn makes it tick. I say, make ALL porn sites reside in the.xxx domain, and that way the smut filters are bullet proof. Any domain serving porn that is not in the.xxx domain, gets shut down at the root servers.
This is only going to get worse if the FCC or (your govt' branch here) allows tiered internet service with the telcos NOT giving preference to competitors', such as Vonage's, traffic.
Hopefully this is not redundant, but did anyone else notice that they used the word "SourceForge" in various places on the web site, and I assume that the site is SF based, but you don't find a link to it by searching for Motorola on sourceforge.net?
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If the author of TFA needs to dumb it down for him/herself, fine. But I wish they wouldn't assume that we all have a G.W.Bush I.Q.
Your "law" would probably do exactly what you propose. It would also chill people's desire to make legitimate calls to 911, due to their having to think about whether they will get in trouble for running afoul of some ill-thought-out law.
Did anyone else notice the lack of understanding of the separation of powers here?
The court's job is to interpret the laws. The Congress' job is to make the laws. The executive branch enforces them. The court should not be "crafting rules". Their job is to determine whether or not the executive branch (read: cops) violated the law. This sets precedence for further legal cases, but does NOT create new rules (read: laws).
Freakin' activist judges are part of the problem, not the solution.
Not how long till we see the drug in clinical trials or available in the pharmacy, but how long till I start getting spam advertising the new miracle cancer cure...DCA?
You mean like this
x /nseries_nb
x /nseries
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.asp
or this
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.asp
?
Come on! TFA says "ionic wind" and "corona discharge"! There's got to be a B&B joke in there somewhere. Screw it, I'll do it myself.
Huh, huh...you said wind.
Yeah, and then you said discharge. hmmm...hmmm..
Agreed. Poster's last sentence is very much akin to saying that because there are huge snowfalls in Denver, that Global Warming isn't happening. It's purely anecdotal in the larger scheme.
Isn't that a hardware design problem? Then the author suggests that instead of fn-backspace, you should download a utility that remaps the \ key to delete. Then if you need a \ you can type fn-\ which will produce a \
That's fucking brilliant. Solve one problem by introducing another and not really solving the first. Stupid "journalists".
Shit, I'm so late making this comment. But then again, Slashdot is waaaaay late posting the article.t m
From 2005: http://www.nih.gov/nihrecord/03_01_2005/story03.h
If you look at U.S. vs. Verdugo-Urquidez you will see differently. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the people in the Second Amendment are the same as in the Fourth, and the same as the term "person" or "people" anywhere else in the Constitution. Does anyone actually fucking think that the people in the preamble are different than the people in the Second Amendment? I hope I'm not misunderstanding this post, because it looks like a troll to me.
You've obviously never known the joy of making your own fireworks.
So I can buy a copy of their development software and make signed programs and sucker people into executing them. So what? The only differences between doing it on a Crackberry and an XBox are the barriers to entry. The price of a dev license for Xbox is much higher, and Microsoft probably makes you sign an agreement stating that you won't do this or that blah blah blah. Blackberry just makes it cheaper and apparently doesn't check credentials.
From TFA: one of the Word flaws is only present in the version made for Apple Macintosh systems /.?
Is that to say that they aren't concentrating on fixing the Mac software, so as to intentionally make Macs less secure if they run MS software and bolster their argument that Macs are no more secure than Wintels?
Or is it that the people at MS writing Mac software are better at it?
Or is it that Macs are inherently more secure?
Or......a million others. I thought it was highly interesting that there were a high number of flaws in the Windows Office, but only one in the Mac Office. What say you
TFA says that all this has made the department "less efficient for at least a month". So does that make their efficiency negative? I mean come on, it's the fucking government. It's inefficient by definition.
Government spends money inefficiently.
Let's analyze the sentence. First, Government...not the people, not corporations, not monkeys, just government. Second, spends money. Not saves money, not earns money, spends it. That's what they do. Third, inefficiently. Poorly, wastefully, full of fraud waste and abuse. Is anyone surprised that the government spent billions setting up DHS, updating NSAT&T's computers, creating huge bureaucracies, hundreds of new policies, etc., and none of it works?
The largest LBO ever completed was RJR Nabisco in 1989 for $31.3 billion.
I know I'm nitpicking here, but TFA states that it was an LBO of HCA at $33bn US.
There will be an iPod killer
And monkeys might fly out my butt...hey...what the fuck...
Seriously though...all the supposed iPod killers thus far have been pitiful imitators.
The real iPod killer is likely to be either
A. something else from Apple, who spends a TON of money on interface design from an artistic and human approach, or
B. something entirely different, that is not just a media player. This is why you find iTunes on phones. Apple realizes that this or potentially the PDA market can displace them from their throne, and they are ahead of the curve.
While I am not the least bit surprise about a M$ product with massive holes in it, I will also say that no machine/software is completely secure from the moment it is connected to the network. If you want secure, unplug it, lock it in a nuclear waste transport container, and sink it in the Marianas Trench.
You have to decide which features you want at what price point and buy it at those marks.
If you wait for the next widget that has 127 tera-bungles of printing prowess or whatever the fuck they say it has, you'll always be waiting. Set a benchmark and when the product hits it, buy it.
It's a codpiece.
In the 2004 Presidential election, many people criticized Republicans (especially in Ohio) of not having enough polling stations in black communities.
So why are Republicans to blame? Unfreaking believable...
And the morality police should be allowed to scan your hard disk for smut. And the safety police should be allowed to make you wear a helmet in your car.
.xxx domain, and that way the smut filters are bullet proof. Any domain serving porn that is not in the .xxx domain, gets shut down at the root servers.
Since the dawn of the commercialization of the Internet, porn has been making it tick. Yes, the internet is great for online shopping, free information exchange, online collaboration, and more. But porn makes it tick. I say, make ALL porn sites reside in the
It's here Here
This is only going to get worse if the FCC or (your govt' branch here) allows tiered internet service with the telcos NOT giving preference to competitors', such as Vonage's, traffic.
Hopefully this is not redundant, but did anyone else notice that they used the word "SourceForge" in various places on the web site, and I assume that the site is SF based, but you don't find a link to it by searching for Motorola on sourceforge.net?