I have fond memories of playing the Vectrex console when I was a kid - I suppose there must be a few working units floating around out there but based on the way the graphics worked I wonder if you could ever truly emulate it on a PC.
Even if you could emulate the graphics you couldn't emulate the clear plastic templates you had to mount on the screen depending on the game:)
So your saying, that with our greater resolution video displays that a PC couldn't emualate a Vectrix, and on top of that, it wouldn't be able to emulate the clear plastic templates you put over it.
Do you even know what year it is? Not only has people made emulators for it, what you are asking for is very trivial to do.
Not sure why your "fond memories" part got informative, because of the rest of it's just wrong speculation.
We need to vote in the opposite of lawmakers... we need people who seek to remove laws and return control to the people. We need politicians who don't really want the job.
You realize that these same folks you vote in tomorrow will become the same people you despise in a few years? Your solution doesn't address root cause, it only sticks a band-aid on the problem.
The only way to accomplish your goals is with term limits, public funding, and no money allowed by any public interest to be funneled to a politician. It should not take money to get an idea into congress. That's why we have representatives.
Take away the fundraising drives, "donations", and institute term limits and you remove the things that allow so much corruption and the drive to go into politics just to make money. Force them into public funding, where every candidate gets equal air time to express their beliefs, and leave money out of the equation. Do all of those things, and the only folks willing to become public servants will be those that are truly interested in doing the public good, rather than serving their own pockets.
You're an idiot. The good guys do something good and you sit there and call them inept because they didn't do it in a timeframe you find acceptable? You think that they could just type in 'tracert' and show up at an address to arrest someone? How about congratulating them on bringing in a criminal instead of backseat quarterbacking.
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He's suspected.
Till he either confesses, or goes to court and gets proven guilty, he is, at least considered by our laws, innocent.
dudes. In all the years you've been around, your chasing everyone elses ideas haven't been doing you jack shit.
How about you get back to basics? Operating Systems (well, or you could start making Basic again). Why don't you stop trying to own everything, and start making the best fucking OS you can?
Of course, you aren't going to listen to me, which is cool, because what I really want, is to watch you fail.
Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains).
I can't believe people still confuse free as in beer and free as in freedom, despite how many times people point out the difference on here.
Free software types are not opposed to for-pay software, at all. The two concepts are not related.
Well the term "Free as in beer, and Free as in Freedom" is pretty confusing.
Beer isn't free. No where you can go to get free beer, because it cost money to make, to grow the items, etc. Freedom is an idea. ideas don't mean the same to everyone. ideas aren't tangible.
And honestly, the freedom isn't free either, it's going to cost lives, time, money, and pissing off others trying to spread your "freedom". (um, edit here. Actually, Freedom is free, as in, you can imagine it, think about it. But if you act on it, it's going to cost.)
So, what your saying is, nothing (acted upon) is free, so shut up and quit complaining?
Why don't we figure a saying that actually makes sense to everyone.
Seriously, I can't figure if "free software" or "Open Source" is supposed to be the beer, or the freedom in that example, because both, imo, fail.
Here's why I can't grok it. writing software takes time. and honestly, thats about it. You can't compare it to beer, because beer requires stuff grown from the ground, then you have to cook it, and do a bunch of processs to actually real stuff. You can't compare it to freedom, because freedom is an idea. Writing software isn't an idea, it's the doing action on an idea.
So, maybe you mean free as in freedom, for "free software", but really. Freedom is an idea. Software is the result of work. Someone took an idea and implemented it in software. That's not that same. Now, if they didn't bother to type the program down, then sure, it would be the same.
Maybe in this case, you should say, "Free as in fighting for freedom"?
Seriously, "Free as in beer, Free as in Freedom" sucks. come up with a better comparison if you want the masses to understand.
Just the other day we had a submission about how we aren't prepared for the "cyberwarz" because we can't get people who knows this sort of stuff, or thinks along these lines.
Well, damn, seems to me this would be a great excerise for the fbi/ hls, and whoever else to see about hiring/training peeps for those sort of jobs.
> How many months of bogus $10 charges will you tolerate?
Zero. My wife handles the credit cards and she verifies every single charge. I am required to save and annotate every slip and log every Internet or phone transaction.
Does she withhold sex if you don't?
Oh, what am I asking, your married, you don't get sex. my bad.
Not really. Things went downhill much sooner than that. I'd have a much lower UID than I have if I had seen the need for it, but the 'first poster' morons, etc., weren't much yet around, and there wasn't much value to HAVING a Slashdot account until some time after the account system was first implemented.
I know things were going downhill when they let me have an account.
This is the kind of piracy that we need to worry about because it isn't just a matter of copyright infringement, it is a matter of fraud. When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them, and you really are causing economic loss to the company who legitimately makes the product. That is a good deal different from simply copying something without permission. It is something worth trying to shut down because it is a real crime with real victims.
I'm all for spending resources on cracking down on crimes where there are victims. I'm not so interested in spending lots of resources on victimless crimes.
I have NO desire to spend money on crimes against corporations.
They can spend the money, but leave me & my gov out of it.
oh it can leave your 4 walls but you have to make at least a symbolic gesture that you wish it to be private.
Encrypt with WEP rather than broadcast it openly. Seal it in an envelope rather than writing it on a postcard. Speak it over a private telephone line rather than using a loudspeaker.
Go for a shit in the bathroom and you can expect privacy. Go for a shit in the middle of the public street and you can expect none. Even if you're deranged or stupid and convinced that you're invisible.
pull the curtain closed in the changing room if you want privacy rather than screaming that passers-by are violating your privacy when you don't.
if people don't know unsecured actually means "unsecured" then they need to learn.it's simple. the world does not need to bend over backwards for them.
Is that sort of like those ladies who were low cut shirts and then get pissed because your enjoying the view?
Information you broadcast without limiting who can receive/understand it - is not private information - your own actions have MADE it public information. (emphasis added)
Therein lies the problem. The average consumer does not think of wireless networking as "broadcast" information. They still consider it private. This is partially a lack of understand of the technology, and partially because it does not occur to most people that anyone else might try to snoop.
Ya, not my fault they are stupid, is it? If they bothered to check on the subject they would see that wifi isn't that secure.
I'm really tired of this "the average consumer does not think" excuse. I don't give a fuck, time for them to do some research.
That was some really nice street view mapping, location discovery, and concept of 'out in the public' we had there once:/
Yeah, we had such concepts once. That was before everything you did "out in the public" was recorded and followed you everywhere.
"You have no expectation of privacy in the public" was fine when "no privacy" meant that you could be observed, but stops being fine when "no privacy" means "everybody you ever interact with can view a record of everything you've ever done". I, for one, do not wish to live under the Lidless Eye.
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I have fond memories of playing the Vectrex console when I was a kid - I suppose there must be a few working units floating around out there but based on the way the graphics worked I wonder if you could ever truly emulate it on a PC.
Even if you could emulate the graphics you couldn't emulate the clear plastic templates you had to mount on the screen depending on the game :)
So your saying, that with our greater resolution video displays that a PC couldn't emualate a Vectrix, and on top of that, it wouldn't be able to emulate the clear plastic templates you put over it.
Do you even know what year it is? Not only has people made emulators for it, what you are asking for is very trivial to do.
Not sure why your "fond memories" part got informative, because of the rest of it's just wrong speculation.
You realize that these same folks you vote in tomorrow will become the same people you despise in a few years? Your solution doesn't address root cause, it only sticks a band-aid on the problem.
The only way to accomplish your goals is with term limits, public funding, and no money allowed by any public interest to be funneled to a politician. It should not take money to get an idea into congress. That's why we have representatives.
Take away the fundraising drives, "donations", and institute term limits and you remove the things that allow so much corruption and the drive to go into politics just to make money. Force them into public funding, where every candidate gets equal air time to express their beliefs, and leave money out of the equation. Do all of those things, and the only folks willing to become public servants will be those that are truly interested in doing the public good, rather than serving their own pockets.
word.
You're an idiot.
The good guys do something good and you sit there and call them inept because they didn't do it in a timeframe you find acceptable? You think that they could just type in 'tracert' and show up at an address to arrest someone? How about congratulating them on bringing in a criminal instead of backseat quarterbacking.
D
He's suspected.
Till he either confesses, or goes to court and gets proven guilty, he is, at least considered by our laws, innocent.
let them.
we have more then enough people in this world anyways.
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Fuck that pedo The Prophet Muhammad.
I like the sig, where can i buy a shirt version of it? =)
I like, how with how old of the earth is, and how we actually have so little data of what it does, that we can say anything.
Man don't know shit.
The cake is a lie.
No, the bake is a lie.
I do feel the heat from my gaming.
I7 proc, dual vid cards in sli.
Shit gets hot.
Plus it's summer, and I don't have no air conditioning.
What I don't want, is more fucking heat.
If they wanted to make the big money for their work, they should of gone into the music industry.
unicorns!!!!!!!
and man may die tomorrow.
And slashdot may get a good article in, for once.
I'm not holding my breath though.
may shouldn't even be used in a news story.
dudes. In all the years you've been around, your chasing everyone elses ideas haven't been doing you jack shit.
How about you get back to basics? Operating Systems (well, or you could start making Basic again). Why don't you stop trying to own everything, and start making the best fucking OS you can?
Of course, you aren't going to listen to me, which is cool, because what I really want, is to watch you fail.
I was taught to touch type just for that reason, so I can watch the screen while I type.
So, what, now I can watch porn while I masterba, eer, I mean, type?
cool.
Fun fact: the creator of the Fleshlight invented it while his wife was pregnant.
What? Pregnant women are hot!
All he did was take a rant about religon and swap words to make himself seem better.
honestly, just what I would expect from someone who thinks they are the spokesperson for linux because they have a popular distro amoungst the masses.
Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains).
I can't believe people still confuse free as in beer and free as in freedom, despite how many times people point out the difference on here.
Free software types are not opposed to for-pay software, at all. The two concepts are not related.
Well the term "Free as in beer, and Free as in Freedom" is pretty confusing.
Beer isn't free. No where you can go to get free beer, because it cost money to make, to grow the items, etc.
Freedom is an idea. ideas don't mean the same to everyone. ideas aren't tangible.
And honestly, the freedom isn't free either, it's going to cost lives, time, money, and pissing off others trying to spread your "freedom".
(um, edit here. Actually, Freedom is free, as in, you can imagine it, think about it. But if you act on it, it's going to cost.)
So, what your saying is, nothing (acted upon) is free, so shut up and quit complaining?
Why don't we figure a saying that actually makes sense to everyone.
Seriously, I can't figure if "free software" or "Open Source" is supposed to be the beer, or the freedom in that example, because both, imo, fail.
Here's why I can't grok it. writing software takes time. and honestly, thats about it. You can't compare it to beer, because beer requires stuff grown from the ground, then you have to cook it, and do a bunch of processs to actually real stuff.
You can't compare it to freedom, because freedom is an idea. Writing software isn't an idea, it's the doing action on an idea.
So, maybe you mean free as in freedom, for "free software", but really. Freedom is an idea. Software is the result of work. Someone took an idea and implemented it in software. That's not that same. Now, if they didn't bother to type the program down, then sure, it would be the same.
Maybe in this case, you should say, "Free as in fighting for freedom"?
Seriously, "Free as in beer, Free as in Freedom" sucks. come up with a better comparison if you want the masses to understand.
Just the other day we had a submission about how we aren't prepared for the "cyberwarz" because we can't get people who knows this sort of stuff, or thinks along these lines.
Well, damn, seems to me this would be a great excerise for the fbi/ hls, and whoever else to see about hiring/training peeps for those sort of jobs.
Of course, that makes sense and wouldn't be used.
> How many months of bogus $10 charges will you tolerate?
Zero. My wife handles the credit cards and she verifies every single charge. I am required to save and annotate every slip and log every Internet or phone transaction.
Does she withhold sex if you don't?
Oh, what am I asking, your married, you don't get sex. my bad.
> If you're going to quote Wikipedia, why not just link to it?
Perhaps he doesn't need to. Perhaps he REMEMBERS this stuff from when it originally happened.
Many of us were computing (even online) LONG before Slashdot was around.
ya, rub your low number in.
not all of us are able to be someone's bitch for a low UID (nor care to.)
nah, things went downhill about the 50k mark... ;)
Not really. Things went downhill much sooner than that. I'd have a much lower UID than I have if I had seen the need for it, but the 'first poster' morons, etc., weren't much yet around, and there wasn't much value to HAVING a Slashdot account until some time after the account system was first implemented.
I know things were going downhill when they let me have an account.
Unless the wifi network is at a Starbucks, a university or a corporation.
That creepy guy sitting two tables from you at the coffee shop? He can now read your e-mail.
No, the creepy guy sitting 2 tables from you? he's just viewing porn.
See that nice dressed business woman? She's stealing your data.
Wow is made for the average consumer. You know the ones, who are too stupid to actually do a little studying on what they consume?
So ya, i guess it would make it perfect for jobs.
This is the kind of piracy that we need to worry about because it isn't just a matter of copyright infringement, it is a matter of fraud. When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them, and you really are causing economic loss to the company who legitimately makes the product. That is a good deal different from simply copying something without permission. It is something worth trying to shut down because it is a real crime with real victims.
I'm all for spending resources on cracking down on crimes where there are victims. I'm not so interested in spending lots of resources on victimless crimes.
I have NO desire to spend money on crimes against corporations.
They can spend the money, but leave me & my gov out of it.
oh it can leave your 4 walls but you have to make at least a symbolic gesture that you wish it to be private.
Encrypt with WEP rather than broadcast it openly.
Seal it in an envelope rather than writing it on a postcard.
Speak it over a private telephone line rather than using a loudspeaker.
Go for a shit in the bathroom and you can expect privacy.
Go for a shit in the middle of the public street and you can expect none. Even if you're deranged or stupid and convinced that you're invisible.
pull the curtain closed in the changing room if you want privacy rather than screaming that passers-by are violating your privacy when you don't.
if people don't know unsecured actually means "unsecured" then they need to learn.it's simple. the world does not need to bend over backwards for them.
Is that sort of like those ladies who were low cut shirts and then get pissed because your enjoying the view?
Information you broadcast without limiting who can receive/understand it - is not private information - your own actions have MADE it public information. (emphasis added)
Therein lies the problem. The average consumer does not think of wireless networking as "broadcast" information. They still consider it private. This is partially a lack of understand of the technology, and partially because it does not occur to most people that anyone else might try to snoop.
Ya, not my fault they are stupid, is it? If they bothered to check on the subject they would see that wifi isn't that secure.
I'm really tired of this "the average consumer does not think" excuse. I don't give a fuck, time for them to do some research.
Yeah, we had such concepts once. That was before everything you did "out in the public" was recorded and followed you everywhere.
"You have no expectation of privacy in the public" was fine when "no privacy" meant that you could be observed, but stops being fine when "no privacy" means "everybody you ever interact with can view a record of everything you've ever done". I, for one, do not wish to live under the Lidless Eye.
In case you missed the memo, you already do.