Since I'm reading Slashdot from class instead of paying attention, I'd like to quote from the opening paragraph of the chapter on gender inequality in my Sociology book (Sociology for the Twenty-First Century):
Because we have been socialized into a male-dominated society, some people assume that men are naturally superior to women. This assumption is false, of course, and it did not always exist in its present form. Although patriarchy has been common, in traditional societies there is much greater equality between men and women than in industrial societies, In many small-scale hunting and gathering societies, for instance, men and women play complementary roles, and their lives revolve around many shared activities. No one has a great deal of wealth or power, and men and women often view their relationships in terms of integration and balance (Maybury-Lewis 1992). In horticultural and agricultural societies, however, the balance of power shifts to men, and men begin to dominate women in the economy and other institutions of society. The transition to industrialism changes the relationship between the genders even more.
Our women's rights movements correct an inequality that began relatively recently with the Great Social Transformation, not a situation which has always existed.
Chicks want to be mistreated... I honestly suspect that it's some evolutionary hold-over from when we lived in caves.
Actually, take a Sociology class. Gender inequality is the least in hunting and gathering societies and ramps up to be the greatest in industrial society. When we lived in caves, men and women shared equal resposibilities with each other and neither sex was dominant over the other.
Read the link in this guy's post for an interesting editorial on the subject of "why the asshole gets the girl."
Seriously, how many Normal People® actually care about the security of their bits? How many open, unencrypted WiFi APs are out there? And you honestly think someone outside of the tinfoil crowd is going to care about their power lines being unshielded? In reality, normal people using powerline networking is actually much more secure than today's wide-open AP situation.
Bottom line: those that care about data security will encrypt and use regular wired Ethernet. Those that don't will use unecrypted WiFi or their unshielded powerlines.
Christ, take off your tinfoil! This is an entirely reasonable and proper use of legislative power.
This bill stops Bad Guys® from stealing the inexperienced users' life savings before they actually steal anyone's money. It does not outlaw building any website, just those designed with the intent and purpose to steal your bank password.
For Windows users, it's not a problem at all. The Proxomitron solves every anti-Web annoyance need. It acts as a rewriting HTTP proxy based on regexps that runs on your own machine. If you see an ad that makes it through, just whip up a quick regexp and poof, it's gone, no matter what domain it comes from.
Advertisers might be able to come up with new ways to make me see or hear their ads, but it will only happen once. It takes me only 2 minutes to ensure I never see their ad again. Honestly, when will Internet advertisers understand that when I've gone out of my way to block your ads, I really don't want to see them? I'm not going to say, "ooh! This guy figured out a way to get around my ad filters, he must make good products!" Get real. I'll never buy anything from X10 just because they were one of the biggest purveyors of popups back in the day.
Annoying people is not a good way to convince them to buy your product.
Once any source (GPL or not) is on your computer, you are free to do whatever you want with it. You can hack it or change it or whatever. You cannot, however, redistribute it as you see fit. The same applies to DTV. Once you have the signal, you're free to do whatever you want with it, including recording it and storing it on your computer for use later. The FCC has no right to tell me otherwise.
i firmly believe the originator of a program, just like the originator of source code, has every right to say how his material can be used.
Then you are in disagreement with the law. The law gives us fair use rights. We can do whatever we want (in a personal context) with the content we get. Big Media cannot come to my house and say I can only record their TV show on a certain (overpriced) brand of tape, and that's a good thing. If you really believe copyright holders have complete control over their content, I'll give you my mailing address. You can send me your VCR since you don't need it.
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why not let the Senator know that the people he's supposedly representing think copyright has gotten out of hand and software patents exist only to serve as corporate welfare.
You're talking about the kids who buy Abercrombie & Fitch when you can get better quality from K-Mart and buy Starbucks when you could get it for $5.50 less from the gas station. The same kids who will listen to the latest shit put out by $RIAA_CASH_COW but scoff at anything independent, no matter how much better it is.
What are you talking about? My NEO Verizon plan most certainly does charge.02 per message received. Cingular is.02/message. Sprint is $15 for 100 messages. The only carrier who doesn't charge for SMS messages is Northcoast PCS.
I think you're missing the point -- this is about having an OSS replacement for Dreamweaver Templates. Telling someone who has never edited HTML by hand to just jump in to HTML and PHP with a text editor is not a suitable replacement for Dreamweaver. The point here is to let someone switch without taking a hit in productivity.
Damn, meant to put this in my last post... shows me to use Preview.
how large does a usb key have to be- could it be made to go within a camera?
See the iStick. 1 5/8 inches long, 5/8 across. 1/16 deep. (actual size) I have a 128 MB stick. It's great. It even came with a credit card-sized holder so I can keep the thing in my wallet.
This would be an option when you're not too concerned about having a compact camera. You could keep the drive and power supply in a backback, for example. Or, if you're taking pictures from your car, you just plug in to the 12 VDC.
Which would bring another interesting application: If the camera's memory card slot is just a USB port, why not plug an external hard drive in? You'd obviously have to find an external power source for the HD, but after that, you've got gobs of storage for your pictures.
"Don't worry guy, we'll never use PATRIOT to prosecute citizens. We'll only use it to fight terrorism." (Imagine it coming from Saddam in South Park.)
Now we're using PATRIOT for day-to-day law enforcement. I'm not saying this guy should not be punished for his stupidity; I'm saying we should all be concerned for the day a National Security Letter and a unmarked van take you away.
In Arizona, Judge John Barclay ruled, "The facts in this case prohibit prosecution for the possession of marijuana because the tax imposed prior to the prosecution served a punitive purpose." Constitutional protections forbid an individual from being punished criminally twice for the same offense.
Basically, paying your weed tax serves as your punishment for having weed. Then you cannot be charged with any drug crimes since that would be double jeopardy. Using this line of reasoning, perhaps one could argue they could not be charged with (criminal) copyright infringement since they have already paid the "copyright tax." Of course, this would not stop the RIAA from seeking damages.
I was trying to say, "what's wrong with the Interstates we have now? Why build all this totally unnececary infrastructure (rail, pipelines, and wires too? Come on...) when existing Interstates can just be expanded or bypasses can be added around urban areas?
My point is there's no need to bring out the bulldozer and march from Oklahoma to Mexico. Build on top of what we already have.
Turnpike rest areas (or "service centers" or whatever) are already like malls. On Ohio's turnpike, you get everything from the Burger King, Starbuck's and gift shops.
In terms of the traffic, there are 2 possible outcomes: The highway will sit almost completely unused or it will be a giant parking lot as everyone uses this megaroad to get wherever they're going.
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Yeah, I actually studied for my exam this time! ;)
Read the link in this guy's post for an interesting editorial on the subject of "why the asshole gets the girl."
Seriously, how many Normal People® actually care about the security of their bits? How many open, unencrypted WiFi APs are out there? And you honestly think someone outside of the tinfoil crowd is going to care about their power lines being unshielded? In reality, normal people using powerline networking is actually much more secure than today's wide-open AP situation.
Bottom line: those that care about data security will encrypt and use regular wired Ethernet. Those that don't will use unecrypted WiFi or their unshielded powerlines.
Whether or not the same pricing model would be carried over to the on-board access no one knows.
This bill stops Bad Guys® from stealing the inexperienced users' life savings before they actually steal anyone's money. It does not outlaw building any website, just those designed with the intent and purpose to steal your bank password.
The guy's username is "tubeguy"!
He is one of those asshats!
Advertisers might be able to come up with new ways to make me see or hear their ads, but it will only happen once. It takes me only 2 minutes to ensure I never see their ad again. Honestly, when will Internet advertisers understand that when I've gone out of my way to block your ads, I really don't want to see them? I'm not going to say, "ooh! This guy figured out a way to get around my ad filters, he must make good products!" Get real. I'll never buy anything from X10 just because they were one of the biggest purveyors of popups back in the day.
Annoying people is not a good way to convince them to buy your product.
Once any source (GPL or not) is on your computer, you are free to do whatever you want with it. You can hack it or change it or whatever. You cannot, however, redistribute it as you see fit. The same applies to DTV. Once you have the signal, you're free to do whatever you want with it, including recording it and storing it on your computer for use later. The FCC has no right to tell me otherwise.
Then you are in disagreement with the law. The law gives us fair use rights. We can do whatever we want (in a personal context) with the content we get. Big Media cannot come to my house and say I can only record their TV show on a certain (overpriced) brand of tape, and that's a good thing. If you really believe copyright holders have complete control over their content, I'll give you my mailing address. You can send me your VCR since you don't need it.
There's tax dollars well-spent asking Slashdot.
Well, duh. Would you want to have to listen to everyone's bitching on a Monday morning?
What's the address, I might have to give them a visit with my, erm, "light sabers" (known to some as matches).
I'll take donations for gas money. PayPal accepted.
Slashdot is a mighty beast which I would never wish upon a man's sever, but its traffic is a joke to the big boys.
Of course it matters what name is on the front.
What are you talking about? My NEO Verizon plan most certainly does charge .02 per message received. Cingular is .02/message. Sprint is $15 for 100 messages. The only carrier who doesn't charge for SMS messages is Northcoast PCS.
I think you're missing the point -- this is about having an OSS replacement for Dreamweaver Templates. Telling someone who has never edited HTML by hand to just jump in to HTML and PHP with a text editor is not a suitable replacement for Dreamweaver. The point here is to let someone switch without taking a hit in productivity.
(Just a satisfied customer here.)
This would be an option when you're not too concerned about having a compact camera. You could keep the drive and power supply in a backback, for example. Or, if you're taking pictures from your car, you just plug in to the 12 VDC.
Which would bring another interesting application: If the camera's memory card slot is just a USB port, why not plug an external hard drive in? You'd obviously have to find an external power source for the HD, but after that, you've got gobs of storage for your pictures.
"Don't worry guy, we'll never use PATRIOT to prosecute citizens. We'll only use it to fight terrorism." (Imagine it coming from Saddam in South Park.)
Now we're using PATRIOT for day-to-day law enforcement. I'm not saying this guy should not be punished for his stupidity; I'm saying we should all be concerned for the day a National Security Letter and a unmarked van take you away.
Make your friends think you bought a new car?
Seriously though, I'm struggling to see legitimate uses, other than perhaps in TV/movie production.
In Arizona, Judge John Barclay ruled, "The facts in this case prohibit prosecution for the possession of marijuana because the tax imposed prior to the prosecution served a punitive purpose." Constitutional protections forbid an individual from being punished criminally twice for the same offense.
Basically, paying your weed tax serves as your punishment for having weed. Then you cannot be charged with any drug crimes since that would be double jeopardy. Using this line of reasoning, perhaps one could argue they could not be charged with (criminal) copyright infringement since they have already paid the "copyright tax." Of course, this would not stop the RIAA from seeking damages.
I was trying to say, "what's wrong with the Interstates we have now? Why build all this totally unnececary infrastructure (rail, pipelines, and wires too? Come on...) when existing Interstates can just be expanded or bypasses can be added around urban areas?
My point is there's no need to bring out the bulldozer and march from Oklahoma to Mexico. Build on top of what we already have.
In terms of the traffic, there are 2 possible outcomes: The highway will sit almost completely unused or it will be a giant parking lot as everyone uses this megaroad to get wherever they're going.
What's wrong with Interstates?