When is the last time you were directly threatened by a "islamofacist"?
Um... September 11, 2006. Unless you don't consider that a direct threat to ME, although having been in NYC on THE 9/11, even without a patriotic nod towards "they attacked all of America", I was directly effected by the destruction of the WTCs.
And being that 9/11/2001 actually happened, the threats of 9/11/2006 shouldn't be taken so lightly.
That said, I'm appalled by the very foundations of this bill, and Congress's relative uselessness in the past 6 years to stand up to an administration that feels it is granted dictatorship privledges by 9/11 - which if you believe certain people was probably either organized or at least ignored by them to being with.
But yeah, al-q is real, and so were the London, India, USS Cole (sp?), etc. bombings - so not taking threats seriously - and personally - is pretty damned stupid.
Forget race. There's only one species of human. Culture, on the other hand, is huge (I include religion in "culture").
Agreed - look, people love to have something to complain about, to rebel about, to whine about. "Offending" someone is the ultimate crime these days. If you can show you've been offended, espeically if it has to do with race (but sex, creed, sexual orientation, gender, age, etc. are all on the table) the "offendor" is immediately chastised.
I too believe it's much ado about nothing. Move on, get lives. You have no right to not be offended - actually the Constitution protects my rights to "offend" you all I want. Why one offense is evil (stereotyping hispanics, lets say) and another is OK (smearing a picture of the virgin Mary with elephant dung) is beyond me.
How many times do you need to hear/see an advert for it to sink in?
I can't for the life of me remember the reference (anyone?) but I seem to recall reading that it was three times - as in you would have to see a commercial at least three times before your brain actually recals the product being sold more than a few seconds after it ends.
Pro users - the ones that update and use Flickr as they describe - a portfolio of sorts - if they are anything like me, started out with a P&S and quickly upgraded to a prosumer level DSLR for fine-tuning their art.
P&S are awesome for capturing memories of vacations, birthdays, new additions to the family, etc. I love that they are small and thin enough that I can carry a 6mp one in my pocket almost always.
But P&S leads to a desire to start capturing better shots - from ominous storms on the horizon to sunsets to raw human imagry... and that leads us to want a DSLR. I have #6, the NIKON D70s (as, apparently, do many people) and f-in love it. My P&S is responsible for the majority of my pictures, but the D70s is responsible for the majority of my pictures on Flickr.
It's cool - I've read about 60-70% of the books on the list.
It's odd - Call of the Wild has been challenged?
It's informative - I've just started reading The Satanic Verses, and now i have a new reading list
It's missing? - I can't believe Farenheit 451 isn't on that list...
It's scary - many people in the world are denied access to these books.
It's scarier - many people in this country would have these books banned
It's sad - in 100 years, who knows if we'll all still have access to these books.
It's encouraging - challenges, even recently, to these books in schools and libraries have failed - let's hope history repeats itself in such a fashion for years to come.
Flash failed? 98% browser penetration, full cross-platform support, millions of websites developed either with or entirely on it. Google Video and YouTube, not to mention a plethora of flash-based MP3 players - not to mention it's embeddable in Win32 apps.
$800 for TV is too much for a fancy cable that will be obsolete in no time.
Agreed - although $2k was fine for the TV;)
These things used to be leased or provided free. (HDTV is over-rated)
Free? When? Where? The best I can come up with is my Samsung Tivo/DVD player with a lifetime Tivo Basic subscription for free - which is basically just the programming guide. A cheap lease ($3-5/month) is more common. $800 is absurd.
This whole DRM business seems to be a license to gouge customers.
Just figuring that out now?
I'd rather get MythTV with a way to remote control my digital cable box. (as if that was possible.
It is... just not with HD programming (although, I'm sure you can get an OTA tuner...)
When my TiVo ceases to function (due to death, new channels I want to watch, whatever) I'm cancelling your service unless you offer a new Genuine TiVo I can purchase and use by then.
I see a common theme here - the cable/dish company giving or renting you a Tivo, but not your actually paying $800 for one. I love TV, but TIVO wants me to have a cable subscription ($60-100/m with HD) pay $800 for a Tivo box, PLUS pay a monthly subscription fee to Tivo?
Please - if Comcast offers the Tivo box for rental - even for an additional $5 - over their shitty DVR, I'd love Tivo. But there is no way I'm paying for cable, $800 for a Tivo box, plus a monthly subscription fee to Tivo.
-if- it were the case that it does not dissipate, then there's a potential problem.
You sound like Einstein - "um, i don't THINK the a-bomb will create a chain reaction of splitting atoms that will destroy the universe as we know it... but... just in case you might wanna get you some of that AFLAK insurance."
Exactly - anything that is not in direct government control - or directly viewable by said government - is a haven for child pornographers. Don't you know anything?
This decision, along with a few others that helped solidify the idea of patenting ideas has unleashed an unprecidented number of patent applications and infringement suits in the US.
Microsoft, while patenting every business idea under the sun, has yet to file a patent infringement suit. MS picks up patents as a precautionary and quite wise premptive defensive strategy against anyone looking to profit from MS (Eolas, for example).
Bringing up MS is uninformed and just a grab at mod points. Business process patents are not an MS invention, and in fact actually HURT MS more then they help, because MS not only has to patent everything it can think of to stay off lawsuits, it must also pay for the applications and the lawyers, and still gets sued on a regular basis for infringement of business process patents.
IBM announced today that Lenovo brand computers would start shipping new ThinkPad palmtop computers with the new IBM BlueGene/L(M) chip. Capable of reaching 400 Gigaflops, the new mobile chip is named after IBM's one-time super-computer champion, the BlueGene/L. Completed exactly 30 years ago today, the original BlueGene/L was a supercomputer consisting of 128000 seperate computer processors. A single BlueGene/L(M) chip shipping in the Lenovo palmtop computers hold the same processing power that took over 128000 computer chips working in tandem nearly 30 years ago.
Lenovo says the new palmtops will be shipped with a base 1TB RAM, or can be configured to order.
If Star Trek had had stem cells, they may have been able to give Jordi true-color vision. You know, on top of his X-Ray, heat, infared, and gamma-ray vision.
But, you know, ethics and Bible beaters all got in Jordi's way...
I agree - besides, we need some experimentation in minor paradigm shifts in program UIs. I'm all for MS trying something new and innovative with their UI, rather than relying on what is a somewhat prettier Office 97 UI in Office 2003.
Besides, let's keep in mind that MS needs to do something to entice the user to upgrade - when 2003 resembles and pretty much works exactly like 97, businesses often feel no incentive to upgrade. But a complete overhaul in the product - both in format (and perhaps ODF support????) and in UI - may be more exciting for buyers.
People, as a group, resist change. But often said change is for the serious better (OS9 to OSX?) and having used the new interface, although there is a learning curve of some degree, I can see that they've put in some serious thought and really put the most commonly used tasks right up in your grill.
Now if we could just get Apple to redo the Finder...
Not to get off topic, but I saw Kids in the Hall live in Philly, and it was about the funniest show/thing I've ever seen.
Now if they'd just release those damned pills that can give worms to ex-girlfriends. Those guys just don't get it. Stummies can only keep the company afloat for so long...
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How this didn't get modded up - info straight from the horse's mouth - is beyond me. Anyway, thanks for putting some perspective on this story.
This is very different from what's going on here, where the claimants aren't showing their work, don't provide a mathematical proof, and can't demonstrate that their critics are wrong to contradict their claims for scientific and technical reasons.
But isn't this the very thing they're trying to do? I mean, not releasing it as like... "Open source" for lack of a better term is different than showing zero evidence. They're trying to get independent study on the situation (or, so it would seem) but also may want to protect some of the IP of what is potentially the most important discovery of the millenium.
But it's a wait-and-see game now.
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but I hate this crap about calling people traitors. It's being misused just like the word heros.
Really? Not to start a flame war, but there is a difference between supporting the troops and supporting the war effort. I would, IMHO if it makes you feel better, consider the RIAA a bunch traitors to this country if they tried to take away a few simple comforts of home to protect their bottom line from soldiers in the field.
I'm not calling someone who is against the Iraq war a traitor, I'm calling someone who cares more for their wallet than the soldiers on the other side of the world fighting for their lives a traitor - and I stick by that assessment. (Although, I understand your sentiment.)
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Um... September 11, 2006. Unless you don't consider that a direct threat to ME, although having been in NYC on THE 9/11, even without a patriotic nod towards "they attacked all of America", I was directly effected by the destruction of the WTCs.
And being that 9/11/2001 actually happened, the threats of 9/11/2006 shouldn't be taken so lightly.
That said, I'm appalled by the very foundations of this bill, and Congress's relative uselessness in the past 6 years to stand up to an administration that feels it is granted dictatorship privledges by 9/11 - which if you believe certain people was probably either organized or at least ignored by them to being with.
But yeah, al-q is real, and so were the London, India, USS Cole (sp?), etc. bombings - so not taking threats seriously - and personally - is pretty damned stupid.
Not to troll, but only under certain circumstances. Using a gun to kill in self defense or in service to your country is not illegal.
Fight crime, shoot back.
You mean like any ecommerce or membership based site, like, say, /., Amazon, and the like?
Agreed - look, people love to have something to complain about, to rebel about, to whine about. "Offending" someone is the ultimate crime these days. If you can show you've been offended, espeically if it has to do with race (but sex, creed, sexual orientation, gender, age, etc. are all on the table) the "offendor" is immediately chastised.
I too believe it's much ado about nothing. Move on, get lives. You have no right to not be offended - actually the Constitution protects my rights to "offend" you all I want. Why one offense is evil (stereotyping hispanics, lets say) and another is OK (smearing a picture of the virgin Mary with elephant dung) is beyond me.
PS - I agree with your sig too ;)
I can't for the life of me remember the reference (anyone?) but I seem to recall reading that it was three times - as in you would have to see a commercial at least three times before your brain actually recals the product being sold more than a few seconds after it ends.
No need to let people know the actual consequences of letting governments sensor reading materials...
Pro users - the ones that update and use Flickr as they describe - a portfolio of sorts - if they are anything like me, started out with a P&S and quickly upgraded to a prosumer level DSLR for fine-tuning their art.
P&S are awesome for capturing memories of vacations, birthdays, new additions to the family, etc. I love that they are small and thin enough that I can carry a 6mp one in my pocket almost always.
But P&S leads to a desire to start capturing better shots - from ominous storms on the horizon to sunsets to raw human imagry... and that leads us to want a DSLR. I have #6, the NIKON D70s (as, apparently, do many people) and f-in love it. My P&S is responsible for the majority of my pictures, but the D70s is responsible for the majority of my pictures on Flickr.
It's cool - I've read about 60-70% of the books on the list.
It's odd - Call of the Wild has been challenged?
It's informative - I've just started reading The Satanic Verses, and now i have a new reading list
It's missing? - I can't believe Farenheit 451 isn't on that list...
It's scary - many people in the world are denied access to these books.
It's scarier - many people in this country would have these books banned
It's sad - in 100 years, who knows if we'll all still have access to these books.
It's encouraging - challenges, even recently, to these books in schools and libraries have failed - let's hope history repeats itself in such a fashion for years to come.
Flash failed? 98% browser penetration, full cross-platform support, millions of websites developed either with or entirely on it. Google Video and YouTube, not to mention a plethora of flash-based MP3 players - not to mention it's embeddable in Win32 apps.
When did Flash fail in your mind?
Free? When? Where? The best I can come up with is my Samsung Tivo/DVD player with a lifetime Tivo Basic subscription for free - which is basically just the programming guide. A cheap lease ($3-5/month) is more common. $800 is absurd.
Just figuring that out now?
It is... just not with HD programming (although, I'm sure you can get an OTA tuner...)
I see a common theme here - the cable/dish company giving or renting you a Tivo, but not your actually paying $800 for one. I love TV, but TIVO wants me to have a cable subscription ($60-100/m with HD) pay $800 for a Tivo box, PLUS pay a monthly subscription fee to Tivo?
Please - if Comcast offers the Tivo box for rental - even for an additional $5 - over their shitty DVR, I'd love Tivo. But there is no way I'm paying for cable, $800 for a Tivo box, plus a monthly subscription fee to Tivo.
Death knoll for Tivo?
How this feature list only gets you from .19 to .20 is beyond me.
Version 1.0 - released 25 years from now - will be sick!
You sound like Einstein - "um, i don't THINK the a-bomb will create a chain reaction of splitting atoms that will destroy the universe as we know it... but... just in case you might wanna get you some of that AFLAK insurance."
Exactly - anything that is not in direct government control - or directly viewable by said government - is a haven for child pornographers. Don't you know anything?
What a big fat giant troll.
First, MS had nothing to do with business practices becoming patentable. Blame the federal court of appeals for State Street Bank & Trust Company v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. in 1998.
This decision, along with a few others that helped solidify the idea of patenting ideas has unleashed an unprecidented number of patent applications and infringement suits in the US.
Microsoft, while patenting every business idea under the sun, has yet to file a patent infringement suit. MS picks up patents as a precautionary and quite wise premptive defensive strategy against anyone looking to profit from MS (Eolas, for example).
Bringing up MS is uninformed and just a grab at mod points. Business process patents are not an MS invention, and in fact actually HURT MS more then they help, because MS not only has to patent everything it can think of to stay off lawsuits, it must also pay for the applications and the lawyers, and still gets sued on a regular basis for infringement of business process patents.
Do a little reading before blurting out a post next time.
April 23, 2035 (A.P. Wire):
IBM announced today that Lenovo brand computers would start shipping new ThinkPad palmtop computers with the new IBM BlueGene/L(M) chip. Capable of reaching 400 Gigaflops, the new mobile chip is named after IBM's one-time super-computer champion, the BlueGene/L. Completed exactly 30 years ago today, the original BlueGene/L was a supercomputer consisting of 128000 seperate computer processors. A single BlueGene/L(M) chip shipping in the Lenovo palmtop computers hold the same processing power that took over 128000 computer chips working in tandem nearly 30 years ago.
Lenovo says the new palmtops will be shipped with a base 1TB RAM, or can be configured to order.
Man, if this isn't the most insightful comment on /. this week, I just don't know what is. Being that I have no mod points, consider this my kudos.
Now, can we get them to run the tests on the Diebold voting machines?
yeah, but then you'll have to pay to read this article.
information wants to be had for a price, you know.
If Star Trek had had stem cells, they may have been able to give Jordi true-color vision. You know, on top of his X-Ray, heat, infared, and gamma-ray vision.
But, you know, ethics and Bible beaters all got in Jordi's way...
I agree - besides, we need some experimentation in minor paradigm shifts in program UIs. I'm all for MS trying something new and innovative with their UI, rather than relying on what is a somewhat prettier Office 97 UI in Office 2003.
Besides, let's keep in mind that MS needs to do something to entice the user to upgrade - when 2003 resembles and pretty much works exactly like 97, businesses often feel no incentive to upgrade. But a complete overhaul in the product - both in format (and perhaps ODF support????) and in UI - may be more exciting for buyers.
People, as a group, resist change. But often said change is for the serious better (OS9 to OSX?) and having used the new interface, although there is a learning curve of some degree, I can see that they've put in some serious thought and really put the most commonly used tasks right up in your grill.
Now if we could just get Apple to redo the Finder...
Not to get off topic, but I saw Kids in the Hall live in Philly, and it was about the funniest show/thing I've ever seen.
Now if they'd just release those damned pills that can give worms to ex-girlfriends. Those guys just don't get it. Stummies can only keep the company afloat for so long...
How this didn't get modded up - info straight from the horse's mouth - is beyond me. Anyway, thanks for putting some perspective on this story.
Oh, and thank you for your service.
But isn't this the very thing they're trying to do? I mean, not releasing it as like... "Open source" for lack of a better term is different than showing zero evidence. They're trying to get independent study on the situation (or, so it would seem) but also may want to protect some of the IP of what is potentially the most important discovery of the millenium.
But it's a wait-and-see game now.
Really? Not to start a flame war, but there is a difference between supporting the troops and supporting the war effort. I would, IMHO if it makes you feel better, consider the RIAA a bunch traitors to this country if they tried to take away a few simple comforts of home to protect their bottom line from soldiers in the field.
I'm not calling someone who is against the Iraq war a traitor, I'm calling someone who cares more for their wallet than the soldiers on the other side of the world fighting for their lives a traitor - and I stick by that assessment. (Although, I understand your sentiment.)