The main claim is that government often creates more problems than it solves, then gets stuck in a loop of never ending quick fixes each generating more unintended consequences.
Yes, that's the main claim by right-wing fools.
My wife can't make decent cacciatore, but that's no reason to never eat cacciatore.
Or (according to the facts of the case that brought us this ruling), you are arrested for failing to pay a fine which you had already paid, even though you had proof of that payment, and showed it to the officer *before* you were arrested. In that case, you'll be arrested, kept in a cell for upwards of a week, and strip-searched *TWICE*.
Okay, to be fair, if your being arrested in this case, it's because you have a bench warrant out. The cop has no choice but to bring you in, or get permission from his superior to not bring you in. But to get the bench warrant squashed, a judge has to do it.
And by what you said, the person has a good case against the city or county, for them screwing up.
For example, back when i was a drug addict, i had got arrested and because of some medical stuff, they had to take me to the hospital. During my time their, they got called to a bigger case, so the sergeant gave them permission to leave me, and I was told I needed to check into the jail after I was done at the hospital or I was going to get a fleeing charge. The cops left, and I shortly left after, because I was a junkie and did not want to spend any time in jail. And yes, I did get a fleeing charge added to my charges.
During my time as a druggy and going to jail every now and then, I never, ever got strip searched. No cavity searches, nothing. I was a user, not a seller, they stripped searched the crack sellers they picked up all the time though, from what i understood. Or i guess anyone they brought in for selling drugs.
And unless there is a reason why they would have stuff hidden away on them, I completely think giving the cops the power to strip search for any reason is wrong, very very wrong.
Actually resisting arrest is a relatively serious crime....
Resisting Arrest is a bullshit crime that is totally a police's call at the time.
A cop can say your under arrest, and you say, "what? no way." Boom! You just resisted being arrested. You say, "what am i being arrested for?" Boom! You just resisted arrest. The cop don't like how you look? Boom! You just resisted arrest!
Your word against the cops. and...
Cops are allowed to lie (to suspects), so they are going to lie to you (your a suspect), and to the courts (because the case would fall apart if they told the truth) , because they are allowed to.
And since cops need to bring in money, they are going to be tripping up anyone they can. You think i'm lying? Check out how many tickets are being written in 2011+ compared to 2001+.
Plus times are tough, you have to hold on to your jobs, so cops will do even more shit to hold onto a job. They screwed up and denied your rights? They are going to lie about it so they don't get in trouble and possible fired (not that cops get fired, because they do no wrong, right?).
It's a police state, enjoy it, or fight against it.
Right up until you piss off the... Mormons... by saying something about their "prophet" that they interpret as derogatory (which you may well have intended as same) and they start to sue and harass you in court for "hate speech."
I can't speak for $cientologists or Muslims, but I am LDS - and I call BS on your accusation that the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - or individual members of the church - is suing anyone for "hate speech".
Can you cite an actual lawsuit (that doesn't involve what most non-Mormon Slashdot readers would say is real hate speech, and is just a form of tyrannical suppression of the freedom of expression)?
Mormons believes in more fucked up shit then just the bible. No one cares about what Mormons want, because to believe in Mormonism, you have to be fucking bat shit crazy.
Here in America, your allowed to be bat shit crazy, we just don't take you serious. Sorry.
... Fuck that. With my guinea olive skin I would hate some cracker to mistake me for a brother when I'm out on a cold morning doing tai chi in the park with my hoodie up and put a few shots in my back because seeing a potential black guy doing tai chi was just too threatening for him.
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Let's see, that "brother" will probably shoot you because you referred to him as a "cracker".
If your trying to convince us you are NOT black, using the term "cracker" for white peeps doesn't quite do it.
I think it's Enterprise that gives the middle finger to us users, really. Anyways, I don't think Mozilla makes firefox for the Enterprise (Star Trek, or business). I think it's for normal users, which is mostly what uses the web.
Anyways, Java doesn't sit on 1 version, it gets updated all the time, like any good software, so are you saying that Enterprise Users need to have old, outdated software that can be compromised to gain access to your computer? Sounds to me that isn't what the Enterprise needs.
Not sure which reality you pay attention to, but here, in the real world, software has bugs and those bugs need to be updated. Regularly.
Kimberly Hester does not have clean hands. Posting an offensive picture of a co-worker with pants around ankles could be considered sexual harassment.
This is not harmless fun "A parent and Facebook friend of Hester’s saw the photo and complained to the school." What teachers and employees do reflects upon the schools.
Teachers and school employees have a higher standard of care especially when posting comments about other employees. Schools can and have been sued for failure to act in cases of sexual harassment. The school district had reasonable suspicion.
So? Then the person, or school district can sue her in court to remove the picture, or shit, even ask her to remove the pictures, but access to her account? Not yet, Obama hasn't passed that law (yet).
Most people are dumb enough to use the same email addrs / username / password for all online sites. So to be "k00l and Trendy" you ask for the facebook password, but you know that is also her eHarmony login info, her bank login info, her amazon login info, probably her/. login info, etc.
acquiescence to "authority"
That is the obsession HR is looking for. A nice mindless sheep who will never say "no". Illegal? Who cares. Immoral and unethical? Who cares.
I'd be terrified if I had kids in the "Lewis Cass Intermediate School District". The people they are looking to hire will have to be absolute monsters, unsuited to being in charge of kids. Holy Nuremberg Defense batman!
How about the trend of other sites requiring your Facebook or Twitter Login to log into a completely different site?
DVB-T sticks based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap SDR, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q samples to the host, which is officially used for DAB/DAB+/FM demodulation. The possibility of this has been discovered by the V4L/DVB kernel developer Antti Palosaari. Specifications
The RTL2832U outputs 8-bit I/Q-samples, and the highest theoretically possible sample-rate is 3.2 MS/s, however, the highest sample-rate without lost samples that has been tested so far is 2.8 MS/s. The frequency range is highly dependent of the used tuner, sticks that use the Elonics E4000 offer the best range (64 - 1700 MHz). Supported Hardware
funny thing about this google cache link though, it's trying to load stuff from sdr.osmocom.org, which is currently slashdotted, so not sure if google knows what cache means anymore...
yes, sorry, https because that's how i roll baby...
Rounding prices will become the norm as the penny is gradually removed from circulation, the budget says. If consumers find themselves without pennies, cash transactions should be rounded to the nearest five-cent increment 'in a fair and transparent manner,' it says.
My guess is it will always be rounded up when your paying, and when they are paying you, rounded down.
If you buy the disc, it must be locked to a single PSN account.... If you then decide to trade that disc in, the pre-owned customer picking it up will be limited in what they can do
You expect this kind of craven, heavy-handed behavior out of a Samsung or a Panasonic, sure. But Sony?!?!?
But seriously, it's been clear that developers have been asking for this for some time. They already killed the used market for PC's. Now it's console time. Sadly, I suspect MS and Nintendo will follow suit if Sony goes through with it.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I expect from Sony. Not sure which reality you've been living in, but in mine, Sony does fucked up shit all the time.
I'm thinking that not being able to play used games like in the past will only push piracy. It might be because people want to try before they pay full price, or because they buy new games using money from selling their old games.
I bet Sony doesn't get a break from piracy like they did with the PS3.
When lots of desktop computers come with a 3 TB hard drive and your tapes only hold 1.5 TB apiece, that means that even home machines are split across multiple tapes. This means the $1500 bare tape drive isn't enough to back up even a home computer.
Huh?
So you have to use 2 tapes to backup a whole 3TB hard drive, so what? Plus why do you have to do a stupid ass drive image, instead of just backing up the files on the harddrive? Files that don't change, ie, media files, aren't going to need to be backed up all the time. Further more, you can keep your different media back ups seperate, on different tapes. One for Data, one for Movies, one for music, so on.
That way, you can easily do daily or weekly backups of the data, quickly and taking up less space then backing up the hard drive image every time.
I've already downloaded and read all the Harry Potter books. By waiting this long to release them in ebook format, they only encourage pirating of the ebooks.
Piracy destroyed the PSP software market. Sony should do everything possible to avoid that with the Vita and every other Sony platform.
It's not like Sony haters on Slashdot or any other pro-piracy site would ever say anything good about Sony. There's no sense in trying to appeal to people who actively seek to harm you. Hostile enemies should be treated like hostile enemies.
Piracy did NOT destroy the PSP software market. PSP did great in sales. It made Sony money.
What hurt the psp? Crappy battery life, stupid media formats, and then sony releases the PSP Go.
The PSP is still a good machine, I love playing PS1 classics on it (Military Madness currently), but i have to keep it plugged in because you can't find a good battery for it anymore (got an 1000).
While I'm sure you don't care, I know Alanis (my brother is her agent, so yes you can figure out who I am easily enough) and she thinks it's funny when people start foaming at the mouth about that song.
I tried to read the article, but the picture of the writer, with his unibrow just stopped me cold.
It's bad enough people try to use the big ass gap between their teeth as some sort of fashion, but unibrows? Please, that is not fashion, that is being straight up lazy.
You may think that it is some grand anti-piracy conspiracy, but Microsoft is right. TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware. There are people who use it to spread viruses and malware. It makes sense too - it's quite easy method to infect peoples computers.
Actually when people report files have malware, they usually get deleted.
Of course, cracks tend to bring up false postives all the time, which is the industries way of saying they have malware/trojans/kitchen sinks.
While yes, there are some malware to be had off tpb, I find it smaller compared to that amount on usenet and from websites with cracks/keygens and the such.
Not to mention tpb has trusted uploaders, so if your not stupid (which most people are) you can easily get the proper stuff downloaded, malware free.
Slashdot Mirror
The internet was originally called ARPANET! Arpa was the precursor to Darpa. With out government backing the internet would not exist as we know it!
Move on Nothing to see here!
No, I'm pretty sure Al Gore invented it.
Yes, that's the main claim by right-wing fools.
My wife can't make decent cacciatore, but that's no reason to never eat cacciatore.
It is if she's the one making it.
Or (according to the facts of the case that brought us this ruling), you are arrested for failing to pay a fine which you had already paid, even though you had proof of that payment, and showed it to the officer *before* you were arrested. In that case, you'll be arrested, kept in a cell for upwards of a week, and strip-searched *TWICE*.
Okay, to be fair, if your being arrested in this case, it's because you have a bench warrant out. The cop has no choice but to bring you in, or get permission from his superior to not bring you in. But to get the bench warrant squashed, a judge has to do it.
And by what you said, the person has a good case against the city or county, for them screwing up.
For example, back when i was a drug addict, i had got arrested and because of some medical stuff, they had to take me to the hospital. During my time their, they got called to a bigger case, so the sergeant gave them permission to leave me, and I was told I needed to check into the jail after I was done at the hospital or I was going to get a fleeing charge. The cops left, and I shortly left after, because I was a junkie and did not want to spend any time in jail. And yes, I did get a fleeing charge added to my charges.
During my time as a druggy and going to jail every now and then, I never, ever got strip searched. No cavity searches, nothing. I was a user, not a seller, they stripped searched the crack sellers they picked up all the time though, from what i understood. Or i guess anyone they brought in for selling drugs.
And unless there is a reason why they would have stuff hidden away on them, I completely think giving the cops the power to strip search for any reason is wrong, very very wrong.
...
Actually resisting arrest is a relatively serious crime. ...
Resisting Arrest is a bullshit crime that is totally a police's call at the time.
A cop can say your under arrest, and you say, "what? no way." Boom! You just resisted being arrested. You say, "what am i being arrested for?" Boom! You just resisted arrest. The cop don't like how you look? Boom! You just resisted arrest!
Your word against the cops. and...
Cops are allowed to lie (to suspects), so they are going to lie to you (your a suspect), and to the courts (because the case would fall apart if they told the truth) , because they are allowed to.
And since cops need to bring in money, they are going to be tripping up anyone they can. You think i'm lying? Check out how many tickets are being written in 2011+ compared to 2001+.
Plus times are tough, you have to hold on to your jobs, so cops will do even more shit to hold onto a job. They screwed up and denied your rights? They are going to lie about it so they don't get in trouble and possible fired (not that cops get fired, because they do no wrong, right?).
It's a police state, enjoy it, or fight against it.
While the rest of your post rings true...
Right up until you piss off the... Mormons... by saying something about their "prophet" that they interpret as derogatory (which you may well have intended as same) and they start to sue and harass you in court for "hate speech."
I can't speak for $cientologists or Muslims, but I am LDS - and I call BS on your accusation that the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - or individual members of the church - is suing anyone for "hate speech".
Can you cite an actual lawsuit (that doesn't involve what most non-Mormon Slashdot readers would say is real hate speech, and is just a form of tyrannical suppression of the freedom of expression)?
Mormons believes in more fucked up shit then just the bible. No one cares about what Mormons want, because to believe in Mormonism, you have to be fucking bat shit crazy.
Here in America, your allowed to be bat shit crazy, we just don't take you serious. Sorry.
... Fuck that. With my guinea olive skin I would hate some cracker to mistake me for a brother when I'm out on a cold morning doing tai chi in the park with my hoodie up and put a few shots in my back because seeing a potential black guy doing tai chi was just too threatening for him.
...
Let's see, that "brother" will probably shoot you because you referred to him as a "cracker".
If your trying to convince us you are NOT black, using the term "cracker" for white peeps doesn't quite do it.
I think it's Enterprise that gives the middle finger to us users, really. Anyways, I don't think Mozilla makes firefox for the Enterprise (Star Trek, or business). I think it's for normal users, which is mostly what uses the web.
Anyways, Java doesn't sit on 1 version, it gets updated all the time, like any good software, so are you saying that Enterprise Users need to have old, outdated software that can be compromised to gain access to your computer? Sounds to me that isn't what the Enterprise needs.
Not sure which reality you pay attention to, but here, in the real world, software has bugs and those bugs need to be updated. Regularly.
After all, the ocean is way bigger then any sewage. It will dilute it.
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Also, if there's something *continually* spitting out debris or something similar, tracking it down to stop it would be important.
That "something" is called man.
Kimberly Hester does not have clean hands. Posting an offensive picture of a co-worker with pants around ankles could be considered sexual harassment.
This is not harmless fun "A parent and Facebook friend of Hester’s saw the photo and complained to the school."
What teachers and employees do reflects upon the schools.
Teachers and school employees have a higher standard of care especially when posting comments about other employees.
Schools can and have been sued for failure to act in cases of sexual harassment. The school district had reasonable suspicion.
So? Then the person, or school district can sue her in court to remove the picture, or shit, even ask her to remove the pictures, but access to her account? Not yet, Obama hasn't passed that law (yet).
Most people are dumb enough to use the same email addrs / username / password for all online sites. So to be "k00l and Trendy" you ask for the facebook password, but you know that is also her eHarmony login info, her bank login info, her amazon login info, probably her /. login info, etc.
acquiescence to "authority"
That is the obsession HR is looking for. A nice mindless sheep who will never say "no". Illegal? Who cares. Immoral and unethical? Who cares.
I'd be terrified if I had kids in the "Lewis Cass Intermediate School District". The people they are looking to hire will have to be absolute monsters, unsuited to being in charge of kids. Holy Nuremberg Defense batman!
How about the trend of other sites requiring your Facebook or Twitter Login to log into a completely different site?
rtl-sdr
DVB-T sticks based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap SDR, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q samples to the host, which is officially used for DAB/DAB+/FM demodulation. The possibility of this has been discovered by the V4L/DVB kernel developer Antti Palosaari.
Specifications
The RTL2832U outputs 8-bit I/Q-samples, and the highest theoretically possible sample-rate is 3.2 MS/s, however, the highest sample-rate without lost samples that has been tested so far is 2.8 MS/s. The frequency range is highly dependent of the used tuner, sticks that use the Elonics E4000 offer the best range (64 - 1700 MHz).
Supported Hardware
So far, the following devices are supported:
ezcap EzTV668 USB 2.0 DVB-T/DAB/FM stick (Elonics E4000 tuner) (sources: AliExpress, Dealextreme)
ezcap EzTV666 USB 2.0 DVB-T/DAB/FM stick (Elonics E4000 tuner, picture Download)
Hama nano DVB-T stick (Elonics E4000 tuner)
Terratec NOXON DAB/DAB+ USB-Stick (Fitipower FC0013 tuner)
People over at reddit are collecting a list of other devices that are compatible.
Other sticks based on the RTL2832U might be added in the future as well.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRixFRVwNjoJ:sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
funny thing about this google cache link though, it's trying to load stuff from sdr.osmocom.org, which is currently slashdotted, so not sure if google knows what cache means anymore...
yes, sorry, https because that's how i roll baby...
Yes, force people who do NOT want to be social to be social, that is a great way to get product support.
Stupid fucking gits.
If that shit worked, I'd be religious.
No mistaeks!!!
Rounding prices will become the norm as the penny is gradually removed from circulation, the budget says. If consumers find themselves without pennies, cash transactions should be rounded to the nearest five-cent increment 'in a fair and transparent manner,' it says.
My guess is it will always be rounded up when your paying, and when they are paying you, rounded down.
If you buy the disc, it must be locked to a single PSN account. ... If you then decide to trade that disc in, the pre-owned customer picking it up will be limited in what they can do
You expect this kind of craven, heavy-handed behavior out of a Samsung or a Panasonic, sure. But Sony?!?!?
But seriously, it's been clear that developers have been asking for this for some time. They already killed the used market for PC's. Now it's console time. Sadly, I suspect MS and Nintendo will follow suit if Sony goes through with it.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I expect from Sony. Not sure which reality you've been living in, but in mine, Sony does fucked up shit all the time.
I'm thinking that not being able to play used games like in the past will only push piracy. It might be because people want to try before they pay full price, or because they buy new games using money from selling their old games.
I bet Sony doesn't get a break from piracy like they did with the PS3.
I'm free to post first!!! woot!
But seriously, your cutting freedoms on the internet on the other hand while doing this crap.
When lots of desktop computers come with a 3 TB hard drive and your tapes only hold 1.5 TB apiece, that means that even home machines are split across multiple tapes. This means the $1500 bare tape drive isn't enough to back up even a home computer.
Huh?
So you have to use 2 tapes to backup a whole 3TB hard drive, so what? Plus why do you have to do a stupid ass drive image, instead of just backing up the files on the harddrive? Files that don't change, ie, media files, aren't going to need to be backed up all the time. Further more, you can keep your different media back ups seperate, on different tapes. One for Data, one for Movies, one for music, so on.
That way, you can easily do daily or weekly backups of the data, quickly and taking up less space then backing up the hard drive image every time.
If being in contempt of DHS was punishable, we would all be in jail.
They are working on that.
I've already downloaded and read all the Harry Potter books. By waiting this long to release them in ebook format, they only encourage pirating of the ebooks.
Piracy destroyed the PSP software market. Sony should do everything possible to avoid that with the Vita and every other Sony platform.
It's not like Sony haters on Slashdot or any other pro-piracy site would ever say anything good about Sony. There's no sense in trying to appeal to people who actively seek to harm you. Hostile enemies should be treated like hostile enemies.
Piracy did NOT destroy the PSP software market. PSP did great in sales. It made Sony money.
What hurt the psp? Crappy battery life, stupid media formats, and then sony releases the PSP Go.
The PSP is still a good machine, I love playing PS1 classics on it (Military Madness currently), but i have to keep it plugged in because you can't find a good battery for it anymore (got an 1000).
While I'm sure you don't care, I know Alanis (my brother is her agent, so yes you can figure out who I am easily enough) and she thinks it's funny when people start foaming at the mouth about that song.
I like the song and I'd do her.
Set me up.
I tried to read the article, but the picture of the writer, with his unibrow just stopped me cold.
It's bad enough people try to use the big ass gap between their teeth as some sort of fashion, but unibrows? Please, that is not fashion, that is being straight up lazy.
You may think that it is some grand anti-piracy conspiracy, but Microsoft is right. TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware. There are people who use it to spread viruses and malware. It makes sense too - it's quite easy method to infect peoples computers.
Actually when people report files have malware, they usually get deleted.
Of course, cracks tend to bring up false postives all the time, which is the industries way of saying they have malware/trojans/kitchen sinks.
While yes, there are some malware to be had off tpb, I find it smaller compared to that amount on usenet and from websites with cracks/keygens and the such.
Not to mention tpb has trusted uploaders, so if your not stupid (which most people are) you can easily get the proper stuff downloaded, malware free.