You don't have to be a US citizen to be a human being, and all human beings have the same "unalienable" rights. It doesn't matter what a piece of paper says. Hell, even if your government doesn't recognize your rights, you've still got them.
"A computer expert told KATU News there is no way to know if someone is using your wireless connection without permission."
There are a whole lot of ways to do that. My DD-WRT firmware lets me know the MAC address of all wireless clients connected, and allows me to ban them with a single click.
Sex offender doesn't mean that he rapes children. Like I said in a seperate comment on this story, public urination is considered a sex crime and can get you put on the sex offender registry.
If the shop's WiFi connection was encrypted, he may have done something illegal. But it was open and unencrypted. If someone broadcasts something over the air without encryption, I'm going to say that it's not illegal to use..
Actually, public urination is considered a sex crime and gets you added to the sex offender lists.. So he could have just pissed on the side of the road.
If I have 20' tall solid brick walls all around my property, what then? It's not in plain/public view. It's my private property... I can expect some privacy.
The flaws aren't in the system, they're in how the government refuses to do it's job at monopoly busting.
If you ask a wide group of people if they like McDonalds or Burger King, you're going to be able to have a discussion about that topic, because most people have had fast food. The problem with 'Windows' is that computers are just way beyond some people. You all know the type, too. They ask for tech help, and you ask them what OS they run, if you get a reply like "um, gateway" that person's never going to ever use Linux.
The problem is both that the government needs to step back up and bust a monoply, and that the other choices for operating systems need to step up and go "Hey, we're just as good, if not better!" I see apple doing that with their ad campaign, but there's also the part where you have to buy a $3k apple hardware product to get their $159 OS. If apple released a generic OSX for the existing PC market, they'd get a nice chunk of the market.
So why not go somewhere else for your news discussion? I see all the people who go "omg im levin 4 digg kuz/. r teh s uk, lol!" and the only thing I can say to them is "If you're interested in dupes, blog spam, and corporate plants getting their stories on the front page.. why leave slashdot? Hell, slashdot isn't really a pure news site, it's more of a news discussion site. Compare the comment system from digg to slashdot./. comes out on top, every time. The "unlimited" modpoint idea on digg an AWFUL idea that gets insightful and interesting comments burried, I love pointing out where the Kevin Rose fanbois are wrong, and they always down-mod in force. If they put a rule in that you couldn't moderate if you commented, that would be nice. In the current Digg system, the people I'm replying to are down-modding me for making a good counterpoint to "omg bush suk kuz he did 911 rofl"
Eh, this is an offtopic rant, but whatever. I love slashdot for it's commenting system that encourages at least SOME discussion, but Digg sometimes has an interesting link or a story that/. hasn't front paged yet.. *shrug*
I thought us fat stupid americans were supposed to be the slobs? At least I pick up after myself.. Oh, and why not put some NEWSPAPER down around the bird cage?
Rights do exist, you can just choose to ignore them.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, we all have the same rights. It's our governments who choose to ignore that.
The constitution, for example, grants us no rights. As we have had them since before the country existed. All that the constitution does, is list what rights the government recognizes.
It doesn't matter if you believe that we have rights, or you don't. The simple fact is that we do.
"AFAIK, its still a matter of booting into "safe mode" and then doing a dpkg-reconfigure (or a hand-edit of/etc/X11/xorg.conf) after downloading fglrx or the nvidia proprietary driver. I'm assuming you tried the release candidate. I never got past beta 2. Here's to hoping they'll fix it in a few hours."
Your comment is the exact reason why Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
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You're a twat.
You work for free?
I guess because people don't get paid at the end of every shift they work, they don't see that their reward is their paycheck.
You don't have to be a US citizen to be a human being, and all human beings have the same "unalienable" rights. It doesn't matter what a piece of paper says. Hell, even if your government doesn't recognize your rights, you've still got them.
From the 'news' story:
"A computer expert told KATU News there is no way to know if someone is using your wireless connection without permission."
There are a whole lot of ways to do that. My DD-WRT firmware lets me know the MAC address of all wireless clients connected, and allows me to ban them with a single click.
What kind of computer expert did they talk to?
Sex offender doesn't mean that he rapes children. Like I said in a seperate comment on this story, public urination is considered a sex crime and can get you put on the sex offender registry.
If the shop's WiFi connection was encrypted, he may have done something illegal. But it was open and unencrypted. If someone broadcasts something over the air without encryption, I'm going to say that it's not illegal to use..
Actually, public urination is considered a sex crime and gets you added to the sex offender lists.. So he could have just pissed on the side of the road.
He was being sarcastic.
If I have 20' tall solid brick walls all around my property, what then? It's not in plain/public view. It's my private property... I can expect some privacy.
Yes, but would it be an unlawful search of my property?
You're thinking of Bullshit.
But if I'm in my back yard, doing something illegal, and this spy drone sees me, and I get nabbed.. How's that going to work out?
How do you know I don't have $48 billion, and want to shoot that guy's mom in the face?
The flaws aren't in the system, they're in how the government refuses to do it's job at monopoly busting.
If you ask a wide group of people if they like McDonalds or Burger King, you're going to be able to have a discussion about that topic, because most people have had fast food. The problem with 'Windows' is that computers are just way beyond some people. You all know the type, too. They ask for tech help, and you ask them what OS they run, if you get a reply like "um, gateway" that person's never going to ever use Linux.
The problem is both that the government needs to step back up and bust a monoply, and that the other choices for operating systems need to step up and go "Hey, we're just as good, if not better!" I see apple doing that with their ad campaign, but there's also the part where you have to buy a $3k apple hardware product to get their $159 OS. If apple released a generic OSX for the existing PC market, they'd get a nice chunk of the market.
So why not go somewhere else for your news discussion? I see all the people who go "omg im levin 4 digg kuz /. r teh s uk, lol!" and the only thing I can say to them is "If you're interested in dupes, blog spam, and corporate plants getting their stories on the front page.. why leave slashdot? Hell, slashdot isn't really a pure news site, it's more of a news discussion site. Compare the comment system from digg to slashdot. /. comes out on top, every time. The "unlimited" modpoint idea on digg an AWFUL idea that gets insightful and interesting comments burried, I love pointing out where the Kevin Rose fanbois are wrong, and they always down-mod in force. If they put a rule in that you couldn't moderate if you commented, that would be nice. In the current Digg system, the people I'm replying to are down-modding me for making a good counterpoint to "omg bush suk kuz he did 911 rofl"
/. hasn't front paged yet.. *shrug*
Eh, this is an offtopic rant, but whatever. I love slashdot for it's commenting system that encourages at least SOME discussion, but Digg sometimes has an interesting link or a story that
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If I shot your mother in the face.. but, when I died, donated $48 Billion dollars to sick babies, would that be OK?
You're acting like the ends really justify.
Maybe if Ken Lay donated a few bucks to the Ronald McDonald house, Enron would have been just fine.
Because it's not the government's job to do that?
What's to say that the current bullshit going on with corporations owning Pols won't influance what patents get bought out?
The word you may be looking for is "viruses." "Virii" is not correct.
It's not "write" like "write it down," it's "right" like "you have the right to remain silent."
If you don't like podcasts, you've never heard Nobody Likes Onions.
Slashdot isn't some moderated kiddie forum, you can use big boy words here, you cum sucking shitfucker.
I thought us fat stupid americans were supposed to be the slobs? At least I pick up after myself.. Oh, and why not put some NEWSPAPER down around the bird cage?
The point is that I really don't have to, because it's just so glaringly obvious. I mean, we hold these truths to be self evident.
Rights do exist, you can just choose to ignore them.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, we all have the same rights. It's our governments who choose to ignore that.
The constitution, for example, grants us no rights. As we have had them since before the country existed. All that the constitution does, is list what rights the government recognizes.
It doesn't matter if you believe that we have rights, or you don't. The simple fact is that we do.
"AFAIK, its still a matter of booting into "safe mode" and then doing a dpkg-reconfigure (or a hand-edit of /etc/X11/xorg.conf) after downloading fglrx or the nvidia proprietary driver. I'm assuming you tried the release candidate. I never got past beta 2. Here's to hoping they'll fix it in a few hours."
Your comment is the exact reason why Linux isn't ready for the desktop.