I wonder if this "discovery" will cause the same kind of half-hysteria as the "discovery" that potatosnacks (chips, french fries etc.) contained a chemichal that could cause cancer. What was the name of the chemical? Acrylamid?
Indeed, the world needs anything, it's more scriptkiddies...
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Even if it's a nice plan, the device was supposed to detect if you had eyecontact, not if someone was simply looking at the... female attributes. Good plan however;)
It's depressing knowing that the potential of this technology is used for destruction. Hunting "terrorists" with a remote controlled laser-firing satelite ala some James Bond movie seems an awful lot like duck-hunting with a minigun. The US has the most technologically advanced army/navy/whatever in the world as far as I know already...
Am I the only one who doesn't want Joes' all over the world to migrate to Linux or *BSD?
I will never try to stop someone who wishes to migrate to a FOSS desktop, but neither will I today encourage people to switch unless they themselves want to.
In my world, Windows is for people who is either not interested in the world of computing, and for gamers. Linux is (once again in my world) be for people who are actually interested in computing, and wants to learn more.
Gah, i wish i could find a way to send a PM over slashdot (if such a thing exists), a discussion could prove interesting, same thing with "Vaste". The slashdot boards are not a place for this, really.
I don't have a personal grudge against piratbyrån, nor am I any undercover SÄPO agent trying to keep you peons in line;-) I'm not totally disagreeing with piratbyrån, but the image they portray (I believe that's the word...) of themselves render only a negative image to be viewed by outsiders. Pirating and continuing to "pirate" is one thing, trying to glorify it, and completely ridding the world of IP is quite another!
I'll have you know that my opinions concerning piratbyrån mostly come from my attempts of discussing different topics with various members. Big mistake. I was mostly met with hypocritical arguments, with punchlines like "Shut the fuck up", "you're wrong" and other heavy arguments.
It's not that I couldn't win an argument, it's that it was impossible to even have a normal discussion, not to mention trying to make a point. I'm also saying that the majority of the members are immature kids, not that you are or that every single one of you are.
As an individual, you may very well have actual arguments for you belief and may even be able to discuss something, instead of screaming something over and over again and refusing to listen to counter-arguments. I'll gladly discuss the topic, but discussing with a brick wall is rather pointless, no?
Numerous posts here on/. suggest that it's the missing hardware autodetection and lack of a graphical installer.
Aye, though not at the moment the question was posted.
Would anyone mind enlightening someone who hasn't ever used debian? What was the tricky part with the old installer? Gentoo doesn't really even have a real installer and most people appear to be fine with it. Slackware and FreeBSD have pretty straightforward installers, but they're not really difficult...
You would have a point, if things were as you seem to believe.
The vast majority of piratbyrån could care less about freedom of speech, or bringing evil big corporations down, they're afraid of getting caught for pirating. As I said in an earlier post, the absolute majority are kids who just discovered that they can download pr0n from kazaa, and 5 seconds later got to know that it's illegal.
We don't really have any witchhunt ala RI/MPAA here (and we don't want it) so your comparition is a bit out of context. People in the US gets sued for billions, and as far as I'm aware, the worst penalty a pirate here has got is a warning.
Things are different over here. In the US, we hear about the FBI wanting to spy on americans, we hear about the MP/RIAA suing people in every direction etc. This is of course very bad! We don't have that situation here (yet) though, so please don't try blow this baloon so big that it pops.
They raise awareness, but in a negative light. My fear is that more people will sympathize with Antipiratbyrån or som other worthless organization than take them seriously, since it honestly is hard to take piratbyrån seriously!
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To put it simple; Noone here takes em seriously and neither should you.
Re:Sigh... yes... piratbyrån
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True as that may be, piratbyrån is more of a focal point that says "We have pirate torrents at our site" rather than wishing for some reform, or to enlighten the swedish people. They're a bunch of kids, and one of the few with an IQ > 80 found out how to register a domain and set up a webserver.
Antipiratbyrån has been fairly quiet for a while now, which makes matters worse if you ask me, though they're both using the wrong methods of getting their points across.
You may have indeed have posted this as "It's Funny, Laugh"(tm), but someone is bound to take it seriously. Since it's popular to bash americans today, i'll say that some american is bound to take you seriously;)
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I replied before RTFA'ing, my fault (for once) ;)
Uh... they were required to make a "new" version of Windows without the media player built in?
Destroying mass is against the laws of physics, clearly these atlanteans are up to something nasty.
I wonder if this "discovery" will cause the same kind of half-hysteria as the "discovery" that potatosnacks (chips, french fries etc.) contained a chemichal that could cause cancer. What was the name of the chemical? Acrylamid?
Hey, thanks!
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That's just what I needed! My list is now narrowed down to 6 persons
Are you trying to say that "Finding Nemo" isn't based on a true story?!?
Snow is REALLY cold.
Google is searching through a very big number of webpages! Don't you all see? :)
Neither am I a US citizen, I merely took a guess and missed. No need to make a hen out of a feather.
I did indeed, most slashdotters tend to afaik.
Houston? I'm not that much into US cities, but I do belive that's the most polluted one?
Indeed, after a few measly million years on earth.
Indeed, the world needs anything, it's more scriptkiddies...
Even if it's a nice plan, the device was supposed to detect if you had eyecontact, not if someone was simply looking at the... female attributes. Good plan however ;)
"One mans death is a tradgedy, a million deaths is a statistic"
It's depressing knowing that the potential of this technology is used for destruction. Hunting "terrorists" with a remote controlled laser-firing satelite ala some James Bond movie seems an awful lot like duck-hunting with a minigun.
The US has the most technologically advanced army/navy/whatever in the world as far as I know already...
Someone's been looking at movies ala "The One" a tad to much...
Am I the only one who doesn't want Joes' all over the world to migrate to Linux or *BSD?
I will never try to stop someone who wishes to migrate to a FOSS desktop, but neither will I today encourage people to switch unless they themselves want to.
In my world, Windows is for people who is either not interested in the world of computing, and for gamers. Linux is (once again in my world) be for people who are actually interested in computing, and wants to learn more.
Gah, i wish i could find a way to send a PM over slashdot (if such a thing exists), a discussion could prove interesting, same thing with "Vaste". The slashdot boards are not a place for this, really.
;-)
I don't have a personal grudge against piratbyrån, nor am I any undercover SÄPO agent trying to keep you peons in line
I'm not totally disagreeing with piratbyrån, but the image they portray (I believe that's the word...) of themselves render only a negative image to be viewed by outsiders.
Pirating and continuing to "pirate" is one thing, trying to glorify it, and completely ridding the world of IP is quite another!
Ah, this is irony at it's best.
I'll have you know that my opinions concerning piratbyrån mostly come from my attempts of discussing different topics with various members. Big mistake. I was mostly met with hypocritical arguments, with punchlines like "Shut the fuck up", "you're wrong" and other heavy arguments.
It's not that I couldn't win an argument, it's that it was impossible to even have a normal discussion, not to mention trying to make a point. I'm also saying that the majority of the members are immature kids, not that you are or that every single one of you are.
As an individual, you may very well have actual arguments for you belief and may even be able to discuss something, instead of screaming something over and over again and refusing to listen to counter-arguments.
I'll gladly discuss the topic, but discussing with a brick wall is rather pointless, no?
Numerous posts here on /. suggest that it's the missing hardware autodetection and lack of a graphical installer.
Aye, though not at the moment the question was posted.
Clears it all up though, thanks.
Would anyone mind enlightening someone who hasn't ever used debian? What was the tricky part with the old installer?
Gentoo doesn't really even have a real installer and most people appear to be fine with it.
Slackware and FreeBSD have pretty straightforward installers, but they're not really difficult...
You would have a point, if things were as you seem to believe.
The vast majority of piratbyrån could care less about freedom of speech, or bringing evil big corporations down, they're afraid of getting caught for pirating. As I said in an earlier post, the absolute majority are kids who just discovered that they can download pr0n from kazaa, and 5 seconds later got to know that it's illegal.
We don't really have any witchhunt ala RI/MPAA here (and we don't want it) so your comparition is a bit out of context. People in the US gets sued for billions, and as far as I'm aware, the worst penalty a pirate here has got is a warning.
Things are different over here. In the US, we hear about the FBI wanting to spy on americans, we hear about the MP/RIAA suing people in every direction etc. This is of course very bad!
We don't have that situation here (yet) though, so please don't try blow this baloon so big that it pops.
They raise awareness, but in a negative light. My fear is that more people will sympathize with Antipiratbyrån or som other worthless organization than take them seriously, since it honestly is hard to take piratbyrån seriously!
To put it simple; Noone here takes em seriously and neither should you.
True as that may be, piratbyrån is more of a focal point that says "We have pirate torrents at our site" rather than wishing for some reform, or to enlighten the swedish people. They're a bunch of kids, and one of the few with an IQ > 80 found out how to register a domain and set up a webserver.
;)
Antipiratbyrån has been fairly quiet for a while now, which makes matters worse if you ask me, though they're both using the wrong methods of getting their points across.
You may have indeed have posted this as "It's Funny, Laugh"(tm), but someone is bound to take it seriously. Since it's popular to bash americans today, i'll say that some american is bound to take you seriously