Undereducated I can deal with. An idiot is someone who believes "Turn $6 into $60000 in just 10 days" or doesn't question when someone without any provocation links them to a site they've never seen before.
Probably very few of *us*, if you're referring to Slashdot readers, who we shall assume have some degree of computer literacy. However, the vast majority of internet users are idiots. Simple fact.
Among some of the missions in the first GTA was one where you had to suicide-bomb a subway train, for example.
Suicide bomb? Man, you can run off the train before it explodes you know? Also, that was a side mission (activated by getting in the Counthash under the tracks in east Fort Law). Why do I still remember all this? Bit worrying.
Jeez, name me a book not prefixed with "The BabySitters Club" that does not contain violence, drugs, sex, profanity, greed, lust... etc. Thats what makes life interesting.
I don't think it's a race thing atall. GTA 1-3 had none speaking player characters, so you could play however you wanted to play the character. GTA:VC had Tommy Vercetti, who was a cold blooded killer, allowed the player to cause random deaths and murders without feeling it was out of character. CJ of San Andreas however was thrust into the situation against his will (framed by cops when he returned to San Andreas for his mum's funeral). During dialouge he is shown to have remorse and hesitation about murder and other criminal acts - meaning that it's harder to accept random senseless violence as the actions of the character. Incidentally, the early (top down) GTAs had characters of various races and sexes you could choose from.
Well, actually, there are considered to be 4 types of Lucid Dreams, each with a different level of control
I. You are aware of the fact you're dreaming, but can't seem to control even your own actions in the dream
II. You are aware that you're dreaming, can't control your actions within the dream, but you are able to wake up at will (I have these quite often)
III. You are able to control your own actions within the dream
IV. You are able to control your own actions, aswell as the entire dream environment. Very fun;)
It would be much better if every election had to have a 'none of the above' choice on the voting paper.
If you're using the the traditional cross-in-the-box system there's always the option to spoil your ballot. It should still be counted in the voter turnout numbers (at least it is in the UK). Of course, if your using a mechanical or electronic voting system, you may not this option.
I know it's a joke, but under UK law at least (possibly US aswell, but I'm not sure) incidental recording of copyrighted material isn't classed as an infringement of copyright.
Yeah, I've been stopped because I signed my name differently to my card (my card uses my first initial and surname, I signed with my full first name and surname). I had to show ID and the manager had to come and approve the transaction. It was only £25.
However, signing is being replaced by Chip&Pin now, so all it takes is for someone to look over your shoulder and grab your pin (but on the plus side, if someone just finds the card, or swipes it in the post, they won't have much luck - unless they say they forgot the pin and ask if they can sign for it instead, most places say yes)
Yeah, and like, when major Tech News sites with hundreds of thousands of users daily link to personal sites without informing the owners, or sites with massive downloads without giving the owner chance to set up mirrors... ridiculous!
Will the provide the data for use in Worldwind, or any other app? Presumably being the work of the US Government, it's free of copyright, so could it be imported into Worldwind anyway?
Actually, the images of the whitehouse that Google has are not supplied by DigitalGlobe, they are USGS images, which were censored by the USGS themselves, not Google. You can see this by using NASA WorldWind, which uses the same image source as Google does for Washington DC.
Yes, because Bittorrent is *so* secure and anonymous, allowing anyone on the torrent to get a list of the IPs of all other clients on the torrent... and also requires (or practically does) all downloaders to upload aswell, thereby making you a unauthorised distributer of copyright material, which is a more serious offense than just unauthorised possestion of copyrighted materials.
I usually look in the netherregions of the internet, my ISP (blueyonder) has an FTP server with loads of games demos, patches, mods, etc, as well as lots of free apps, linux mirrors. A lot of the other 'old' (most that have been operating since the mid to late '90s) ISPs have similar FTP servers.
Slashdot Mirror
It's all coming true!
Undereducated I can deal with. An idiot is someone who believes "Turn $6 into $60000 in just 10 days" or doesn't question when someone without any provocation links them to a site they've never seen before.
Probably very few of *us*, if you're referring to Slashdot readers, who we shall assume have some degree of computer literacy. However, the vast majority of internet users are idiots. Simple fact.
You do, you can move to another service (country).
Yeah, they're called taxpayers
Among some of the missions in the first GTA was one where you had to suicide-bomb a subway train, for example. Suicide bomb? Man, you can run off the train before it explodes you know? Also, that was a side mission (activated by getting in the Counthash under the tracks in east Fort Law). Why do I still remember all this? Bit worrying.
The Holy Bib... oh wait
IHBT?
I had £100 knocked off the price of a machine by asking for it to be supplied without windows
Self powered
Actually, many recent translations of the bible are still copyrighted (such as the New International Version).
Or maybe it's just because international intelligence work generally requires people of all backgrounds
I. You are aware of the fact you're dreaming, but can't seem to control even your own actions in the dream ;)
II. You are aware that you're dreaming, can't control your actions within the dream, but you are able to wake up at will (I have these quite often)
III. You are able to control your own actions within the dream
IV. You are able to control your own actions, aswell as the entire dream environment. Very fun
If you're using the the traditional cross-in-the-box system there's always the option to spoil your ballot. It should still be counted in the voter turnout numbers (at least it is in the UK). Of course, if your using a mechanical or electronic voting system, you may not this option.
The (programmable) computer was invented in the UK. Please kindly give us full control over all computers based in the US.
I would have thought the section entitled 'Incidental inclusion of copyright material' would be a good place to start.
I know it's a joke, but under UK law at least (possibly US aswell, but I'm not sure) incidental recording of copyrighted material isn't classed as an infringement of copyright.
However, signing is being replaced by Chip&Pin now, so all it takes is for someone to look over your shoulder and grab your pin (but on the plus side, if someone just finds the card, or swipes it in the post, they won't have much luck - unless they say they forgot the pin and ask if they can sign for it instead, most places say yes)
Yeah, and like, when major Tech News sites with hundreds of thousands of users daily link to personal sites without informing the owners, or sites with massive downloads without giving the owner chance to set up mirrors... ridiculous!
Yes, but you can return it for a full refund (excluding delivery costs) of 0.
Will the provide the data for use in Worldwind, or any other app? Presumably being the work of the US Government, it's free of copyright, so could it be imported into Worldwind anyway?
I did! I was wondering if it beeped everytime Microsoft filed a patent
Actually, the images of the whitehouse that Google has are not supplied by DigitalGlobe, they are USGS images, which were censored by the USGS themselves, not Google. You can see this by using NASA WorldWind, which uses the same image source as Google does for Washington DC.
Yes, because Bittorrent is *so* secure and anonymous, allowing anyone on the torrent to get a list of the IPs of all other clients on the torrent... and also requires (or practically does) all downloaders to upload aswell, thereby making you a unauthorised distributer of copyright material, which is a more serious offense than just unauthorised possestion of copyrighted materials.
I usually look in the netherregions of the internet, my ISP (blueyonder) has an FTP server with loads of games demos, patches, mods, etc, as well as lots of free apps, linux mirrors. A lot of the other 'old' (most that have been operating since the mid to late '90s) ISPs have similar FTP servers.