I personally believe in erring on the side of caution.
The US is one of the most restrictive when it comes to drugs and chemicals because of people like YOU. Its a game of numbers, and humanity's got a few to spare.
I'd rather have a 16Mhz computer with no blood on it than a 16 GHz responsable for the rape of the planet and the death of innocents.
Why do environmentalists always assume that the way the Earth is now MUST be the best? I really dont think nature gives a shit they way it is, look at our fellow planets.
Personally, I think anyone who disagrees should have the pleasure of living behind the IBM plant for a while.
This is why zoning exists. So a chemical plant is not next to a residential area.
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If you think it is so scary, please feel free to move away. I'm sure that someone would gladly snatch up your house in a couple of days for more than half a million. Personally, unless people are dropping dead, I don't really care. And I don't think most other people in the valley do either. After all, its not like everyone is deserting.
First off, my mother board is not a fibery substance that lets loose large amounts of dust. It is hard material, and it is much less likely for a chunk of my motherboard to be carried through the air into my mouth than it is for a small portion of asbestos insulation.
Second, what's this BS about asbestos only being dangerous where its made? Many carpenters who worked with asbestos in creating houses and other buildings are now dying of cancer that is believed to be from asbestos.
People didn't die to make my computer. If people died making computers, we would of noticed sooner. I live in Silicon Valley and I have not died. This is what you call Shock Reporting.
Well.. I dont like the idea of listening to a band because of something they did, and vice versa. It was your comment about Metallica being cool in the 80s that bugged me. Sorry if I sounded kind of short tempered.
Oh, excuuuuuuuuuse me for not listening to what you think is cool. You seem to lack an understanding of human diversity. You see, different people like different things. I may like some stuff you don't like, and you probably like things I don't like. AND THAT IS OK. You don't have to go around forcing other people to listen to what you listen to. I may think it sounds like shit. But the beauty of it is that I can CHOOSE not to listen to the same things you listen to.
As for what the hell the band does... I don't really care. Its not going to stop me from pirating. I listen to bands because I like their music. I dont listen to them because they stand for something, and I wont not listen to them because they did something bad. That guy from STP was addicted to heroin, that doesn't mean I was addicted to heroin. I don't know what most of the bands I listen to look like. What I listen to and what I do are completely different. Please understand that the band could be a bunch of dorks and as long as the music was good I wouldnt care.
I think that pretty soon storage will get so out of hand that nobody will care... becuase they have the option to store more data than they could reasonably use in their lifetime. Of course, there are physical limits to storage because there are physical limits to physics, but before we even reach that point we will be able to store more data than it is feasible to do anything with.
Oh, so now your high and mighty because you use Java? Give me a break.
No corporation should seriously use Java. For true cross-browser compatability, there is no choice but something performed server-side (with tools like PHP or ASP or ColdFusion or Perl). Server-side operations, besides being much more secure, have the added benifit that neither does the user have to download the program nor be using some new-fangled browser.
Java, when used correctly, can do some things that a server-side application can't, such as Yahoo games. But most serious web applications are NOT done in Java.
I remeber reading some time ago an article that said actually going to Mars would hold little value other than a politcal stunt. The author seemed to believe that all the tests that humans could do would be more expensive then sending up satellites to do the same thing. I dont really know, but the idea of NOT sending someone to Mars seems to bug me.
I know that there is a hotmail type program thats written in PHP that you can load unto a server.. and then users can check their email web-based. It's default apperearence seems easy enought to use, and because it is PHP you can custime it to hell. Now only if I can remeber the name...
The raid will attempt to strike fear into all those that dare oppose Bigcom Inc.
In our society, genious is not rewarded, you should know better. We (society) gleefully oppress all those who are different, joyously remove that which disturbes us, happily ransack all that opposes us, and gladly 'disapear' anything that stands between us and our destination. If it aint working for us, it might as well not exist, and if dares to work against us, well, so God help it.
DeCSS Boy sunk the unsinkable, and rather then make amends (and possibly better encryption), Bigcom Inc blew him out of the water, used a sand blaster on a saltine, went Big Brother on his ass.
Normally I'd say what happens happens, but this raid goes a tad too far. Apparently Bigcom Inc believes it is illegal for me to posses the same fucking algorythm as them. Yay, freedom for all that fit between the lines and don't dare try cracking the corporate shell.
You see I have my CD Player hooked into the Line In port... WAV recording software, and BladeInc... and thus: CDs (and records and tapes and radio for that matter) become MP3s!
Thats strange that you say that... I find the N64 controller kind of annoying. It may feel okay, but Im always wondering where to put my hand, seeing as I don't have three hands and there are three handles. Most games have you put your left hand in the center, which doesn't sound too ergonomic to me. I really prefer the Dreamcast II controller. I know there are different models but I dont know what to call it. All I know is that there were two handles, and with the left hand you had access to both the joystick and movement pad, as well as triggers under both handles. Seems like a rip off and an improvement of the N64 controller if you ask me.
I think that its just that when BigCom releases a fix they usually do it with one big shebang, vs. Open source its available as soon as the author decides to publish it.
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Well, technically that is the government's job.
I personally believe in erring on the side of caution.
The US is one of the most restrictive when it comes to drugs and chemicals because of people like YOU. Its a game of numbers, and humanity's got a few to spare.
I'd rather have a 16Mhz computer with no blood on it than a 16 GHz responsable for the rape of the planet and the death of innocents.
Why do environmentalists always assume that the way the Earth is now MUST be the best? I really dont think nature gives a shit they way it is, look at our fellow planets.
Personally, I think anyone who disagrees should have the pleasure of living behind the IBM plant for a while.
This is why zoning exists. So a chemical plant is not next to a residential area.
If you think it is so scary, please feel free to move away. I'm sure that someone would gladly snatch up your house in a couple of days for more than half a million. Personally, unless people are dropping dead, I don't really care. And I don't think most other people in the valley do either. After all, its not like everyone is deserting.
Its like the Sammy Hagar song: Heavy.... heavy metals!
First off, my mother board is not a fibery substance that lets loose large amounts of dust. It is hard material, and it is much less likely for a chunk of my motherboard to be carried through the air into my mouth than it is for a small portion of asbestos insulation.
Second, what's this BS about asbestos only being dangerous where its made? Many carpenters who worked with asbestos in creating houses and other buildings are now dying of cancer that is believed to be from asbestos.
People didn't die to make my computer. If people died making computers, we would of noticed sooner. I live in Silicon Valley and I have not died. This is what you call Shock Reporting.
Well.. I dont like the idea of listening to a band because of something they did, and vice versa. It was your comment about Metallica being cool in the 80s that bugged me. Sorry if I sounded kind of short tempered.
Oh, excuuuuuuuuuse me for not listening to what you think is cool. You seem to lack an understanding of human diversity. You see, different people like different things. I may like some stuff you don't like, and you probably like things I don't like. AND THAT IS OK. You don't have to go around forcing other people to listen to what you listen to. I may think it sounds like shit. But the beauty of it is that I can CHOOSE not to listen to the same things you listen to.
As for what the hell the band does... I don't really care. Its not going to stop me from pirating. I listen to bands because I like their music. I dont listen to them because they stand for something, and I wont not listen to them because they did something bad. That guy from STP was addicted to heroin, that doesn't mean I was addicted to heroin. I don't know what most of the bands I listen to look like. What I listen to and what I do are completely different. Please understand that the band could be a bunch of dorks and as long as the music was good I wouldnt care.
I think that pretty soon storage will get so out of hand that nobody will care... becuase they have the option to store more data than they could reasonably use in their lifetime. Of course, there are physical limits to storage because there are physical limits to physics, but before we even reach that point we will be able to store more data than it is feasible to do anything with.
LCD Projection Device? Does it project LCDs?
I try not to store the only copy of data on a CDR... I've had the stuff on the back tear off by accident.
Anyhoo, how old are CDs? I didn't know you could get them 20 yrs ago...
Yeah, if you store them in liquid shit.
If you take good care of your CDs, they aren't going to die anytime soon. Seriously, that 5-10 years thing is a worst case senario.
Yes, but what if Im running Lynx through a telnet window?
Oh, so now your high and mighty because you use Java? Give me a break.
No corporation should seriously use Java. For true cross-browser compatability, there is no choice but something performed server-side (with tools like PHP or ASP or ColdFusion or Perl). Server-side operations, besides being much more secure, have the added benifit that neither does the user have to download the program nor be using some new-fangled browser.
Java, when used correctly, can do some things that a server-side application can't, such as Yahoo games. But most serious web applications are NOT done in Java.
I think the reasons are more political than scientific. They always are. Watch Wings of the Honneamise (US Manga) if you want a better explanation.
No no no Its "One more Electric Energy, then I can attack with Zapdos!"
The only reason I can find that we, as a race, are striving for artificial intelligence, is because the natural stuff seems rather hard to find.
I remeber reading some time ago an article that said actually going to Mars would hold little value other than a politcal stunt. The author seemed to believe that all the tests that humans could do would be more expensive then sending up satellites to do the same thing. I dont really know, but the idea of NOT sending someone to Mars seems to bug me.
I'd like to take this moment to point out that nomatter what the real reasons may have been, the entire Slashdot Posting Squad IS male...
I know that there is a hotmail type program thats written in PHP that you can load unto a server .. and then users can check their email web-based. It's default apperearence seems easy enought to use, and because it is PHP you can custime it to hell. Now only if I can remeber the name...
Im smelling propaganda.
Geeze... I was brought up in the US and they tell us that the propanda age went out with the USSR, but it hasn't really.
The raid will attempt to strike fear into all those that dare oppose Bigcom Inc.
In our society, genious is not rewarded, you should know better. We (society) gleefully oppress all those who are different, joyously remove that which disturbes us, happily ransack all that opposes us, and gladly 'disapear' anything that stands between us and our destination. If it aint working for us, it might as well not exist, and if dares to work against us, well, so God help it.
DeCSS Boy sunk the unsinkable, and rather then make amends (and possibly better encryption), Bigcom Inc blew him out of the water, used a sand blaster on a saltine, went Big Brother on his ass.
Normally I'd say what happens happens, but this raid goes a tad too far. Apparently Bigcom Inc believes it is illegal for me to posses the same fucking algorythm as them. Yay, freedom for all that fit between the lines and don't dare try cracking the corporate shell.
Sheesh were screwed.
You see I have my CD Player hooked into the Line In port... WAV recording software, and BladeInc... and thus: CDs (and records and tapes and radio for that matter) become MP3s!
Thats strange that you say that... I find the N64 controller kind of annoying. It may feel okay, but Im always wondering where to put my hand, seeing as I don't have three hands and there are three handles. Most games have you put your left hand in the center, which doesn't sound too ergonomic to me. I really prefer the Dreamcast II controller. I know there are different models but I dont know what to call it. All I know is that there were two handles, and with the left hand you had access to both the joystick and movement pad, as well as triggers under both handles. Seems like a rip off and an improvement of the N64 controller if you ask me.
I think that its just that when BigCom releases a fix they usually do it with one big shebang, vs. Open source its available as soon as the author decides to publish it.