That's the thing... punishments no longer fit the crime. Everything is being criminalized, and punishments far outstrip the crime or any consequence thereof. Soon enough, the government will be able to arrest you for anything and lock you away forever, or seize your assets with no obligation to prove you did anything wrong, or even present the charges against you.
Shining a green laser at a helicopter is stupid, but so is being sentenced to twenty years prison for doing it.
Vote Libertarian.
Given that this is Slashdot, and the only exercise that "some" (not all... I didn't say all...) Slashdotters get is in the jackatorium, obesity among Slashdotters on average is only going to escalate, if we develop a robot that will do it (punch the munchkin) for them. See this article for further reference.
Get a girlfriend. A real one. Even if she's not Princess Leia.
I agree that mandatory sentencing guidelines are crap. However, charging someone with wire fraud, identity theft, computer fraud, etc., for the SAME PHYSICAL ACT constitutes double jeopardy, and that's even more crap.
TFAuthor says "KDEnLive, Avidemux2 and Cinellera crash way too much for my taste"
So how often is that? For me it's once. For any software. At this rate, I'll never get to software Nirvana because authors are too busy adding "features" than optimizing and fixing old code.
Recidivism is low among convicted murderers because they often spend the rest of their lives in prison.
I've got no sympathy for this woman just because she says "It wasn't me!". That's the excuse kids use every time they get caught doing something they shouldn't. However, most outgrow it.
Murder however, is a capital offense, and the argument doesn't wash. Obviously the jury agrees.
Speaking of overload, in 2004, for the Cardinals/Red Sox series, I slept outside Busch Stadium with homeless people hired by the scalpers in 39 degree temperatures (I know, I know, up hill... both ways) and the only things that got overloaded there were the porta-potties.
In 2006 for the Cardinals/Tigers World Series, they opted for the online lottery method. Somehow, I still felt shit on.
Yes, and one of the news magazine shows (20/20, 60 minutes, I forget which) had an article about the complete lack of security at these reactors. Often, the security is a grad student with next to no sleep.
So how much carbon black or soot does it take to warm a hurricane to the point it changes direction? I'm picturing a hurricane that is redirected using this method dropping gobs of black rain on my car, house, driveway, yard, etc. That'll be fun.
Of course Viacom poo-poo'ed the idea of Google's video identification system. They are currently locked in battled with them in court. If they said "Yes, we like this new system, and it works to eliminate copyright violations of Viacom content on YouTube" there would be much less ammunition for them in their lawsuit.
That being said... screw Viacom for suing, and screw them for waiting for the acquisition to complete before suing, in the hopes that there would be a much larger pool of money to drain if they win.
When I was a small child, I was told by other children that one day, California would have a large enough earthquake to fall off the western edge of the U.S. In more recent years, I have come to believe that politically speaking, California has fallen off the left edge of the U.S.
It appears that at least metaphorically, and temporarily, this falling off of the rest of the world has finally happened. California fell (or was pushed) off the internet.
I understand that in certain places, carpool lanes have been abandoned because the number of drivers who use them is so low that they effectively take an entire lane away from the highways, and cause more congestion in the remaining lanes, thus worsening the problem. I really believe that it's entirely about the money, and the real asshats are the jackholes that came up with the idea of the carpool lane. Most tickets are written to generate revenue, not to improve safety or traffic flow. If someone can get away with "cheating" this system, then they become a sort of modern day Robin Hood in my book.
I fell for it again. I RTFA (RTFA'd?) and it got me pissed off again. I keep meaning to respond without RTFA-ing (R-ingTFA?) so I can lower my blood pressure at least a couple of hundred diastolic points, but I just can't make myself do it.
What the hell is it with people who allow themselves to be subjugated by their own oppressive governments? Another respondent said it best when he referenced Thomas Jefferson's belief that a violent overthrow every decade or so would be a good thing.
Absolutely right. The "paying customers" have the right to freely redistribute the source code to anyone they feel like as well. That's a big "fuck you" to anyone trying to not distribute source except to a few select groups.
So while we're waiting for the police to show up, we should politely ask the gunman not to shoot us right? TFA stated that the shooting started possibly two hours earlier in the dorms. If that's true, then where was the police response? Why was the entire campus not on lockdown? Protect and serve... yeah right...
I was waiting for this kind of non-thinking attitude to surface, and I didn't have to wait long.
Sigh....
The firearms industry, throughout the world, is already one of the most highly regulated industries. The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right, not a privilege, and it comes with grave responsibilities. It is a right born unto every American citizen, save for those that have forsaken their right due to felony conviction, domestic abuse, drug use, or mental incapacity. Gun control laws have repeatedly shown themselves to be ineffective, and even worse, they allow oppression to go unchecked. If you think that the current political climate is oppressive, what with the Patriot act allowing for warrantless searches, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, "National Security Letters", etc., just wait until you've given up your right to fight back. Time and time again, states have passed concealed carry laws, and the lies from the anti-gun crowd have been shown to be just that... lies. At worst, there is no increase or decrease in crime (by people who don't care about gun laws), and at best, people have been freed to protect themselves when necessary, without having to fear prosecution.
Just this weekend, the NRA annual meetings occurred in St. Louis. Do you know how many people were shot?
That's right... zero. Anyone want to guess why? Because potentially everyone there was armed. Perhaps no one was armed, but at least criminals were kept guessing.
I'm quite sure that my retort to your ill-thought-out post will be met with visceral reactions from people who believe that the government knows best and is most capable of protecting me, but I'm not buying any of it. I have respectfully refrained from cursing at you and calling you names, because I believe that to be unproductive. My best allies in this argument are truth and history. History shows, that the best way to control a populace is first to disarm it. The only way the anti-gunners will be successful in disarming this populace will be to lie and spread FUD.
If you wish to waive your freedom in the interest of a little perceived security, you deserve neither. I, on the other hand, will protect my freedom and security by practicing ALL of my rights under the constitution, and would fight to the death to protect yours as well.
I have been on a personal crusade, or jihad as it were, about these bad "layman's terms" analogies for a little while now. Thankfully, I now have brethren with me to take up the banner. I feel my rants have fallen on deaf ears, or perhaps I have been written off as crazy by the illuminati (illiterati ?), but you have lifted my soul, and given me sustenance to rant another day.
I was going to rail about the encoding bit rate, whether the MP3's had tags filled in, etc., but someone already pointed out that it's 129.453827 bps at this link.
And now some mini-rants Rant 1Rant 2Rant 3
From TFA:
She told the jury that it is known in the computer industry that if information stored on a 12 gigabyte computer was put on paper it would create a stack of paper higher than the Empire State Building.
Slashdot Mirror
That's the thing... punishments no longer fit the crime. Everything is being criminalized, and punishments far outstrip the crime or any consequence thereof. Soon enough, the government will be able to arrest you for anything and lock you away forever, or seize your assets with no obligation to prove you did anything wrong, or even present the charges against you.
Shining a green laser at a helicopter is stupid, but so is being sentenced to twenty years prison for doing it. Vote Libertarian.
Right, and Yahoo has never turned any Chinese dissidents over to the Chinese government either...
Given that this is Slashdot, and the only exercise that "some" (not all... I didn't say all...) Slashdotters get is in the jackatorium, obesity among Slashdotters on average is only going to escalate, if we develop a robot that will do it (punch the munchkin) for them. See this article for further reference. Get a girlfriend. A real one. Even if she's not Princess Leia.
ok, nitpicking again... can a pilot do high-g turns and operate weapons above mach 1 and withstand it?
Not to nitpick too much, but IBM still has a monopoly in the Mainframe space. No longer in the overall computing space, but certainly in mainframes.
They're gonna hook up someone's 200 pound unit to the top of a car, and then microwave it.
I agree that mandatory sentencing guidelines are crap. However, charging someone with wire fraud, identity theft, computer fraud, etc., for the SAME PHYSICAL ACT constitutes double jeopardy, and that's even more crap.
TFAuthor says "KDEnLive, Avidemux2 and Cinellera crash way too much for my taste"
So how often is that? For me it's once. For any software. At this rate, I'll never get to software Nirvana because authors are too busy adding "features" than optimizing and fixing old code.
73% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Recidivism is low among convicted murderers because they often spend the rest of their lives in prison.
I've got no sympathy for this woman just because she says "It wasn't me!". That's the excuse kids use every time they get caught doing something they shouldn't. However, most outgrow it.
Murder however, is a capital offense, and the argument doesn't wash. Obviously the jury agrees.
Speaking of overload, in 2004, for the Cardinals/Red Sox series, I slept outside Busch Stadium with homeless people hired by the scalpers in 39 degree temperatures (I know, I know, up hill... both ways) and the only things that got overloaded there were the porta-potties.
In 2006 for the Cardinals/Tigers World Series, they opted for the online lottery method. Somehow, I still felt shit on.
Yes, and one of the news magazine shows (20/20, 60 minutes, I forget which) had an article about the complete lack of security at these reactors. Often, the security is a grad student with next to no sleep.
So how much carbon black or soot does it take to warm a hurricane to the point it changes direction? I'm picturing a hurricane that is redirected using this method dropping gobs of black rain on my car, house, driveway, yard, etc. That'll be fun.
Of course Viacom poo-poo'ed the idea of Google's video identification system. They are currently locked in battled with them in court. If they said "Yes, we like this new system, and it works to eliminate copyright violations of Viacom content on YouTube" there would be much less ammunition for them in their lawsuit.
That being said... screw Viacom for suing, and screw them for waiting for the acquisition to complete before suing, in the hopes that there would be a much larger pool of money to drain if they win.
So does this mean it'll get better gas mileage in the city than it does on the highway?
At the risk of being flagged "redundant"...
So what, now I'm not *supposed* to take a leak in a spacecraft?
When I was a small child, I was told by other children that one day, California would have a large enough earthquake to fall off the western edge of the U.S. In more recent years, I have come to believe that politically speaking, California has fallen off the left edge of the U.S.
It appears that at least metaphorically, and temporarily, this falling off of the rest of the world has finally happened. California fell (or was pushed) off the internet.
I understand that in certain places, carpool lanes have been abandoned because the number of drivers who use them is so low that they effectively take an entire lane away from the highways, and cause more congestion in the remaining lanes, thus worsening the problem. I really believe that it's entirely about the money, and the real asshats are the jackholes that came up with the idea of the carpool lane. Most tickets are written to generate revenue, not to improve safety or traffic flow. If someone can get away with "cheating" this system, then they become a sort of modern day Robin Hood in my book.
I fell for it again. I RTFA (RTFA'd?) and it got me pissed off again. I keep meaning to respond without RTFA-ing (R-ingTFA?) so I can lower my blood pressure at least a couple of hundred diastolic points, but I just can't make myself do it. What the hell is it with people who allow themselves to be subjugated by their own oppressive governments? Another respondent said it best when he referenced Thomas Jefferson's belief that a violent overthrow every decade or so would be a good thing.
Absolutely right. The "paying customers" have the right to freely redistribute the source code to anyone they feel like as well. That's a big "fuck you" to anyone trying to not distribute source except to a few select groups.
Looks like nanocr.eu is groaning under the ./ effect.
Hell, I wouldn't pay $29.95 for a lifetime license or subscription to Windows.
So while we're waiting for the police to show up, we should politely ask the gunman not to shoot us right? TFA stated that the shooting started possibly two hours earlier in the dorms. If that's true, then where was the police response? Why was the entire campus not on lockdown? Protect and serve... yeah right...
I was waiting for this kind of non-thinking attitude to surface, and I didn't have to wait long.
Sigh....
The firearms industry, throughout the world, is already one of the most highly regulated industries. The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right, not a privilege, and it comes with grave responsibilities. It is a right born unto every American citizen, save for those that have forsaken their right due to felony conviction, domestic abuse, drug use, or mental incapacity. Gun control laws have repeatedly shown themselves to be ineffective, and even worse, they allow oppression to go unchecked. If you think that the current political climate is oppressive, what with the Patriot act allowing for warrantless searches, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, "National Security Letters", etc., just wait until you've given up your right to fight back. Time and time again, states have passed concealed carry laws, and the lies from the anti-gun crowd have been shown to be just that... lies. At worst, there is no increase or decrease in crime (by people who don't care about gun laws), and at best, people have been freed to protect themselves when necessary, without having to fear prosecution.
Just this weekend, the NRA annual meetings occurred in St. Louis. Do you know how many people were shot?
That's right... zero. Anyone want to guess why? Because potentially everyone there was armed. Perhaps no one was armed, but at least criminals were kept guessing.
I'm quite sure that my retort to your ill-thought-out post will be met with visceral reactions from people who believe that the government knows best and is most capable of protecting me, but I'm not buying any of it. I have respectfully refrained from cursing at you and calling you names, because I believe that to be unproductive. My best allies in this argument are truth and history. History shows, that the best way to control a populace is first to disarm it. The only way the anti-gunners will be successful in disarming this populace will be to lie and spread FUD.
If you wish to waive your freedom in the interest of a little perceived security, you deserve neither. I, on the other hand, will protect my freedom and security by practicing ALL of my rights under the constitution, and would fight to the death to protect yours as well.
I have been on a personal crusade, or jihad as it were, about these bad "layman's terms" analogies for a little while now. Thankfully, I now have brethren with me to take up the banner. I feel my rants have fallen on deaf ears, or perhaps I have been written off as crazy by the illuminati (illiterati ?), but you have lifted my soul, and given me sustenance to rant another day.
I was going to rail about the encoding bit rate, whether the MP3's had tags filled in, etc., but someone already pointed out that it's 129.453827 bps at this link.
And now some mini-rants
Rant 1 Rant 2 Rant 3
From TFA: She told the jury that it is known in the computer industry that if information stored on a 12 gigabyte computer was put on paper it would create a stack of paper higher than the Empire State Building.
d =17700180 7 46858
See my previous posts about dumbing down relevant facts at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=218008&ci
and:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=218630&cid=17
I mean are we talking 24 pound cotton stock? Card stock? What kind of paper? Are we printing the 1's and 0's? Or are we printing the text of documents? What size font? AUTHORS, PLEASE STOP USING TERRIBLY DUMBED DOWN ANALOGIES.