Does it seem odd to anyone else that additional laws are typically enacted to make previously criminal offenses even more criminal-y instead of enforcing those laws already enacted (or perhaps punishing the non-enforcement of said laws)? For instance: killing someone is already a crime - does it really need to be extra crime-y if the victim is somehow different from the perp?
I think you mean so that people on Xbox Live for fun don't get cussed out by 9-year-olds who have way too much free time and a vocabulary remarkable only in that it contains more curses and racial slurs than most people even knew existed.
Fuck this college. I can't believe how awful this place is. The INTERNET! is the last bastion of intelligence on this campus and that's kind of pathetic.
It's got to be pretty hard going through life hating every name-brand anything you come across. Yes, power tends to corrupt. However, it's also pretty difficult to get anything done without any sort of power.
A tinfoil hat isn't a bad idea, but a tinfoil suit? Come on. Take off the armor; leave the hat.
Is it just me or does he never talk about why he hates Web 2.0? All he does is rant about some lardass at an oversold event who kind of talks about Web 2.0, and thus it turns into hate by association.
Why do you assume that the sort of people who are always warning us against business monopolies never worry about monopolies of government power? Last time I checked people could be concerned with more than one thing.
I just checked again and I do, in fact, care about more than one side of an issue.
It might have something to do with the fact that while yes, the programmers do the actual coding, it isn't their code. The company they work for owns and sells the code. If the company wants to sell insecure programs then it isn't the programmer's fault. Also, it's not as if a programmer saying "$PROGRAM needs more deveopment and bug-testing" has ever wielded positive results.
Yeah. You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing. It's the kind of place where plainclothes police prowl the streets extorting bribes, where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone, and where some people paint "This House Is Not For Sale" in big letters on their homes, in case someone posing as the owner tries to put it on the market."
Because here in Amerikkka, we've never had run-down, teeming streets, grimy buildings or broken refrigerators. We certainly have never had corrupt police leeching off the community they swore to protect and never ever have we had mob justice exacted on those undeserving of capital punishment or someone steal something only to sell it.
You're right, Amerikkka is a magical land of fairies and money where everyone has everything they could ever need or want and we're greedily and spitefully not giving to those who have less. We deserve to have everything scammed out from underneath us because, after all, money doesn't grow on trees in Amerikkka, it grows on our palms.
I hate when people suggest that I should be feeding every starving child on the face of the planet because you know what? Yes, I am considered "middle class" and attend college but I still have trouble affording things like housing and food.
What exactly is it that CEOs do that they/shouldn't/ be reading email from their employees? Maybe I'm just uninformed, but don't CEOs merely preside over the company, while setting a direction and tone? It's not as if they spend all day coding or conducting experiments. What mission-critical function does the CEO serve such that reading employee email is a waste of time?
I guess I'm asking what, exactly, a CEO should be doing instead of reading employee email?
And your contention is that you can't get to a machine's actual BIOS if it's running VMWare? Christ, just pull the damn plug out of the case. Or does VMWare have a battery of magic that keeps the computer running indefinitely if the power cable is removed?
If the BIOS has a password, then you have reason to be concerned, but you can still get to a boot menu even if you can't tweak the BIOS.
Because virtual machines still have to boot. Lemme put it this way - reboot and in the BIOS, make sure that flash drives boot before hard drives. This is a non-issue.
I have to wonder how they plan on enforcing a termination fee? Isn't the punishment for not paying things like that the termination of your service? Will they give you super-no-service if you don't pay the termination fee? I must be missing something...
Well yes, the idea is not for it to be government-controlled but rather organized and unlikely to turn into a lynch mob. A bunch of people unaware of each other is not exactly organized, nor is it a milita. No dice.
It hasn't been "Us vs. Them" for a while. It's "Us vs. Us" now, with Them:=the government and Us:=citizens. I think it's telling that I'm more afraid of my neighbor being equipped with an M4 than I am of the cops having one.
Well, I suppose that the KKK is, in face, organized. As are street gangs. However, a few hundred thousand people who just happen to own guns aren't an organized group. They're a mob. With guns.
A militia is a group of citizens trained for military service. Like oh... I don't know... the actual Michigan Militia, for instance. Or perhaps the National Guard. Call me crazy, but I don't think a bunch of crazy rednecks who like Uzis are quite the same thing.
Read the first part of the sentence... If you aren't part of a well regulated militia, you have/no/ right to bear arms. Not like that's what the NRA would tell you, but don't you think they might be a little biased on the subject?
See, the funny thing about stereotypes is that they're largely true. Microsoft wouldn't have a bad reputation if they didn't do something(s) to earn it. Their status as "M$" is pretty much deserved.
However, you're probably right about the whole pricing thing. But think if that's a good thing or not. Because of those low prices that Microsoft have become the norm, every schmuck with $300 get a computer, get it infected with all sorts of trash and generally fuck things up for the rest of us. Script kiddies are a direct result of Microsoft, and for that, they can go to hell. They can go to hell and they can die.
Meaning that the original story is still on the front page. I love being able to see a story about something's eventual release on the same page as the story about the thing's actual release.
All the government does is stop rich people from making money.
You've got to be kidding me. Taxes on luxuries like this (insert argument about internet connection being luxury or necessity here) are in no way a hinderance to the rich. The only people taxes hinder are the middle class and the poor becuase surprise! they can't afford to spend more.
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Does it seem odd to anyone else that additional laws are typically enacted to make previously criminal offenses even more criminal-y instead of enforcing those laws already enacted (or perhaps punishing the non-enforcement of said laws)? For instance: killing someone is already a crime - does it really need to be extra crime-y if the victim is somehow different from the perp?
I think you mean so that people on Xbox Live for fun don't get cussed out by 9-year-olds who have way too much free time and a vocabulary remarkable only in that it contains more curses and racial slurs than most people even knew existed.
Fuck this college. I can't believe how awful this place is. The INTERNET! is the last bastion of intelligence on this campus and that's kind of pathetic.
It's got to be pretty hard going through life hating every name-brand anything you come across. Yes, power tends to corrupt. However, it's also pretty difficult to get anything done without any sort of power.
A tinfoil hat isn't a bad idea, but a tinfoil suit? Come on. Take off the armor; leave the hat.
Is it just me or does he never talk about why he hates Web 2.0? All he does is rant about some lardass at an oversold event who kind of talks about Web 2.0, and thus it turns into hate by association.
If Michael Moore can own stock in Halliburton, why can't Jack Thompson own shares of Take Two?
Becauase no one takes Michael Moore seriously - just like no one takes Jack Thompson seriously.
I know that Livejournal is a completely trustworhty for news and good poetry. That's why I hope to see more Livejournals quoted here on Slashdot.
Why do you assume that the sort of people who are always warning us against business monopolies never worry about monopolies of government power? Last time I checked people could be concerned with more than one thing.
I just checked again and I do, in fact, care about more than one side of an issue.
It might have something to do with the fact that while yes, the programmers do the actual coding, it isn't their code. The company they work for owns and sells the code. If the company wants to sell insecure programs then it isn't the programmer's fault. Also, it's not as if a programmer saying "$PROGRAM needs more deveopment and bug-testing" has ever wielded positive results.
Yeah. You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing. It's the kind of place where plainclothes police prowl the streets extorting bribes, where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone, and where some people paint "This House Is Not For Sale" in big letters on their homes, in case someone posing as the owner tries to put it on the market."
Because here in Amerikkka, we've never had run-down, teeming streets, grimy buildings or broken refrigerators. We certainly have never had corrupt police leeching off the community they swore to protect and never ever have we had mob justice exacted on those undeserving of capital punishment or someone steal something only to sell it.
You're right, Amerikkka is a magical land of fairies and money where everyone has everything they could ever need or want and we're greedily and spitefully not giving to those who have less. We deserve to have everything scammed out from underneath us because, after all, money doesn't grow on trees in Amerikkka, it grows on our palms.
I hate when people suggest that I should be feeding every starving child on the face of the planet because you know what? Yes, I am considered "middle class" and attend college but I still have trouble affording things like housing and food.
What exactly is it that CEOs do that they /shouldn't/ be reading email from their employees? Maybe I'm just uninformed, but don't CEOs merely preside over the company, while setting a direction and tone? It's not as if they spend all day coding or conducting experiments. What mission-critical function does the CEO serve such that reading employee email is a waste of time?
I guess I'm asking what, exactly, a CEO should be doing instead of reading employee email?
And your contention is that you can't get to a machine's actual BIOS if it's running VMWare? Christ, just pull the damn plug out of the case. Or does VMWare have a battery of magic that keeps the computer running indefinitely if the power cable is removed?
If the BIOS has a password, then you have reason to be concerned, but you can still get to a boot menu even if you can't tweak the BIOS.
Because virtual machines still have to boot. Lemme put it this way - reboot and in the BIOS, make sure that flash drives boot before hard drives. This is a non-issue.
Hold down the power button until it shuts down. Press the power button again. If it sticks at the BIOS then there's no OS. CS 100 strikes again!
I have to wonder how they plan on enforcing a termination fee? Isn't the punishment for not paying things like that the termination of your service? Will they give you super-no-service if you don't pay the termination fee? I must be missing something...
"We are selling our songs through iPod"
Funny, I thought they were selling their songs through iTunes Music Store. Silly me.
How is a marching band organized without using firearms? Discipline and structure have nothing to do with playing with guns.
Well yes, the idea is not for it to be government-controlled but rather organized and unlikely to turn into a lynch mob. A bunch of people unaware of each other is not exactly organized, nor is it a milita. No dice.
It hasn't been "Us vs. Them" for a while. It's "Us vs. Us" now, with Them:=the government and Us:=citizens. I think it's telling that I'm more afraid of my neighbor being equipped with an M4 than I am of the cops having one.
Well, I suppose that the KKK is, in face, organized. As are street gangs. However, a few hundred thousand people who just happen to own guns aren't an organized group. They're a mob. With guns.
A militia is a group of citizens trained for military service. Like oh... I don't know... the actual Michigan Militia, for instance. Or perhaps the National Guard. Call me crazy, but I don't think a bunch of crazy rednecks who like Uzis are quite the same thing.
Read the first part of the sentence... If you aren't part of a well regulated militia, you have /no/ right to bear arms. Not like that's what the NRA would tell you, but don't you think they might be a little biased on the subject?
Oh snap! You /are/ a clever one...
See, the funny thing about stereotypes is that they're largely true. Microsoft wouldn't have a bad reputation if they didn't do something(s) to earn it. Their status as "M$" is pretty much deserved.
However, you're probably right about the whole pricing thing. But think if that's a good thing or not. Because of those low prices that Microsoft have become the norm, every schmuck with $300 get a computer, get it infected with all sorts of trash and generally fuck things up for the rest of us. Script kiddies are a direct result of Microsoft, and for that, they can go to hell. They can go to hell and they can die.
"Reported on recently here on Slashdot."
Meaning that the original story is still on the front page. I love being able to see a story about something's eventual release on the same page as the story about the thing's actual release.
All the government does is stop rich people from making money.
You've got to be kidding me. Taxes on luxuries like this (insert argument about internet connection being luxury or necessity here) are in no way a hinderance to the rich. The only people taxes hinder are the middle class and the poor becuase surprise! they can't afford to spend more.