With same-day registration and no proof-of-identity required, Wisconsin really leaves the door open for individuals intent on committing voting fraud. Milwaukee even had more votes in the 2004 election than registered voters! Granted, with unprecedented interest in the 2004 election, there could be an innocent explanation to the statistics, but it should seem at least a LITTLE suspicious. Unfortunately, the idea of requiring an ID is mired in racial issues. Apparently, minorities in the area lack photo IDs and don't drive, buy alcohol, or use tobacco products (or maybe they rely on getting cigarettes in exchange for votes). Don't look for solutions to the voting fraud problem from the area's political leadership.
Since requiring a photo ID is too much, my solution is to use the purple finger dye they used in Iraq. Hopefully there aren't too many outspoken fingerless individuals for that to work.
I can't seem to find a dns server with an ip address for tango-project.org. Anybody have a mirror of their icons?
Re:OT: Loving vs. loathing as the only choices
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What on earth are you trying to do with your macs that you consider them so slow? My ancient 366mhz iBook with 320MB of RAM from 1999 still manages my "GUI use" in a more responsive manner than most new Windows XP machines can do at the same tasks. Granted, I have to wait seven agonozing seconds for Safari to load, but once you get past that, browsing is remarkably quick. My disk I/O is rather slow, but that's to be expected with an old 6GB laptop hard drive. Fortunately, I have no problems handling large files on NFS exports over etherenet.
Upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3 sped many aspects of the system up considerably, so if you're not running 10.3, I would try that.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to upgrade it anytime soon, so I still get most of my work done on my freebsd desktop/server/spaceheater that's also rather obsolete. Apple never really intended the iBook to be used as much more than a basic all-purpose download/view/word processing machine. You're definitely not going to want to edit sound or graphics on it or use it for development. You will find that OSX does manage to make good use of the meager 800x600 display, and the interface designed for a single-button mouse makes using the trackpad with tapping rather nice--I can use my thumb for all my pointing and clicking. I find that it's the ideal machine for browsing and chatting on the couch in front of the TV, and that's probably what they had in mind when they designed it.
Apple's offerings aren't the fastest, and they CERTAINLY aren't the cheapest. They are just really well-designed for their intended use, and that's more-or-less what the article is about--speculation on what uses for computation Steve Jobs will bring us in the future. If you need a high-end workstation, you probably won't be disappointed with a G5 tower. If you need something portable, you'd probably like an iBook. If you just need something that doesn't suck, you probably won't be disappointed with a mac mini. You're still paying a bit of a tax just for that silly fruit on your case, but macs seem to last longer without going obsolete. Try running XP Pro on a low-end laptop from 1999 and tell me what you think of the disk I/O there.
Has anybody here tried using yahoo's messenger program? It's just so damned slow and quirky and none of the flash features that make my friends like it so much have been ported to the mac, and on top of all that the whole thing is crammed to the hilt with ads and extra entirely unrelated services. Now they want to search your desktop. Maybe it won't be as bad as the rest of their software, but I doubt yahoo is capable of putting forward anything other than spammy immitations of other people's more decent software.
Couldn't agree more. Natural gas prices may have been kept relatively low in recent years, but it still suffers the same problems that gasoline does as a fuel with a limited supply and increasing demand. The primary environmental reason for switching to natural gas from fuels like gasoline has always been emissions as natural gas burns much cleaner.
I've seen this on an old mac program long ago
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It was an expensive MIDI composing program for the Mac. I can't remember the name of it. The last time I used it was in '94. It let you shake off a tool that you selected.
2. a $10000 fine for any at fault accident, and a 90 day license suspension. You screw up, you pay.
The fine is too high, but the license suspension sounds like a good idea. I would rather see more fines for other wreckless driving behaviors like blatently inattentive driving and tailgating (ever driven on a thin layer of ice covered by 2" of snow with a giant SUV half a car length behind you?). The bottom line is, police should be concentrating on giving people tickets for dangerous driving behaviors.
3. Mandatory driver retests every two years. Retests cover freeway driving (how to merge, how to use turn signals, no camping in the passing lane) and emergency procedures (lane change, spin recovery, etc.)
You must be insane, or an insanely funny troll, because there is no way you could be serious about wishing that kind of beaurocratic nighmare on you or anybody else. I'd like to think it could happen, but there is no way the DMV could pull it off. Around here, it can take months to get an appointment to take a road test. Now imagine what would happen if all the people waiting in line for hours just to fill out a form and have a picture taken had to take a lengthy road test instead.
With TV specials like this, shows like Survivor and Boston Public, and movies by the likes of Adam Sandler and Tom Green, one has to wonder when the entertainment industry in America will come up with something so rediculously stupid and obnoxious that nobody will watch it. We won't stop seeing entertainment like this until people stop buying it.
Part of it is the way Hollywood opperates. It's a lot more difficult to find and recognize talent with those who write the scripts than it is to find hot bodies to read the scripts. Why bother with clever scripts in the first place when hot bodies sell more consistantly?
Nothing is going to stop this downward slide until people stop settling for this kind of entertainment. There really aren't any signs that this is going to happen anytime soon, but it is already clear that Hollywood is already seeing the potential threats that the internet and other technologies will pose to their monopoly. Where now it is rather difficult for an unknown filmmaker to get their films in theaters and find audiences and rather impossible to get a TV show without extensive connections, the proliferation of broadband and video compression technologies like divx are just waiting to be exploited by intelligent people with something to say and nowhere to say it. That is why they want to keep control of the manufacture of DVDs.
I am no expert in understanding the health industry, so I would like to challenge somebody to explain this quote for me.
Wertz also believes that more laws are simply Band-Aids on the problem: "We need a public health system to fix this one."
When dealing with the issue of genetic discrimination, why would it be better to create a large government beaurocracy for healthcare as opposed to just barring anybody but your personal doctors from having access to such records? I've read enough articles about the private sector abusing the legal system and engaging in many other blatently immoral acts, but I still fail to see how so many people trust the government and its beaurocrats to be immune to similar types of corruption, wretched inefficiancy, and blatent abuse.
The parent post is lousy, here's why
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I've been running into a lot of posts like this. It's gotten to the point where I have to wade through so many karma whoring posts and crap like this that it isn't worth my time trying to look for the few decent posts out there.
I remember these things having been around for a while. That certainly doesn't diminish the potential of the technique.
This has become a rather cliche statement on slashdot. Why should we care if you remember seeing these things before? Neither the slashdot blurb nor the article make any claims of these robots being invented last week or anything. This is just another silly and pointless proclamation of, "been there, done that." This practice is all too widespread on slashdot. I don't know what anybody is expecting to acheive by doing this. What do you expect readers to think by saying this? "Wow, this dude has seen this before, he must have a giant cock!"
the main idea is that intelligence is something that *emerges* from the combination of the various behaviors.
You shouldn't need to summarize. We can read the article and understand this.
There is certainly some truth to that. But I am not altogether convinced that this is the full picture.
Why should we care what you think? Are you an AI expert? Why aren't you convinced?
I recall some articles about the potential data density of the brain. For example, the brain has an extraordinary high level of magnetite (?) in the cells. This makes the nuerons sensitive the magnetic fields. Since there is a high level of electic activity in the brain, this raises all kinds of subtle questions about the influence to nuerons of magnetism.
This whole paragraph is utterly pointless. Yes, it does contain a few random factoids, but it doesn't go anywhere with these or have any real purpose.
there are a number of similar questions in the field of nuerology, but I do not have them at my finger tips
Are you a nuerologist? Why do you think it is so important to point this out?
I'm not exactly sure what kind of I18N support gcc 2.95.2 is lacking, but whether or not it is worth having incompatable binaries requires a wait-and-see approach. Generally, I install things from the source, but it's not always possible to do that. Sometimes the software I want is only available in rpm. The real question is, is everybody going to provide Redhat 7.0 binaries AND normal binaries.
I've run into a few developers who only test their software on the latest version of Redhat and claim it will only run on such a machine when in fact it works just fine using other distros. We will just have to wait and see if this new Redhat causes more people to take this approach.
This is a good example of how a component of the US government will take any opportunity it can to expand its power. The FBI is taking the opportunity to expand its power. This opportunity is the internet. The results of which have already brought about a degree of social change, and nobody can really say how much more change it will bring. How much of your life now ends up spewing out of your fingers onto your keyboard and out of your home or office into this great public network known as the internet? What communications you may now relegate to an e-mail, an IM, or even an IRC conversation with the internet may have taken place in a phone call, in a letter, or in person (...or maybe not at all) before you could use the internet. That is a big change. Who knows how much of your life will end up in some digital incarnation that can be searched for words, places, and names that the FBI might be interested in?
It's easy to dismiss issues like this, because you aren't up to any terrorism or kiddie porn trading. However, how much of this type of government Big Brotherism can you take? How much are you willing to let the government expand the scope of this into un-American activites other than kiddie porn and terrorism? The internet has the potential to give our government many new powers, and we need to decide whether or not we want to grant them the authority to use such powers, how they will be used, and who gets to use them. Just because you are not a criminal, doesn't mean that showing apathy to issues like this is not dangerous. This type of general public apathy provides politicians and law enforcement officials with a sufficiant excuse to expand their power in small increments at the expense of our personal liberties. As usual, they are parading this as an attack against a specific kind of scary vilian. Look at the freedoms we have already lost in the war on drugs for an example of how far this kind of paranoia can go.
The issue at the moment is whether or not we are comfortable with the idea of letting the FBI install mystery machines at our ISPs with the intent of monitoring internet communications. If Carnivore only reads the "To:" and "From:" fields and can only be used with a court order, why does the FBI need to supply the hardware when they could conceivably get the same type of court order to retrieve communications involving any individual from their ISP? Even if Carnivore is exactly what they say it is and nothing more, I still don't like the precedent it is setting.
The lyrics.ch mess received a lot less attention than it should have. It was a very powerful internet resource that is now lost for good. The RIAA argued that it could hurt the sales of sheet music. Yet, lyrics.ch was something very different. How many people do you know go to the music store and buy sheet music to look up lyrics? How many songs do we listen to on the radio have the lyrics and notes available in paper form at the music store? This myth that artists were somehow losing money to lyrics.ch is absolutely absurd. You can't argue that lyrics.ch was anything but promotional. When the site was in its prime, I used it too many times to count to track down the identity of a band and song through a few lines of the words I heard on the radio with the intent to buy the CD. The open nature of posting to the site enabled me to find relatively obscure material submitted by other users.
Now, lyrics.ch is back up. Unfortunately, it is severely crippled. When the servers aren't spewing out errors, you will find that much of the lyrics aren't available and those that are you are forced to view via a slow and buggy java applet to make sure you won't be able to cut and paste anything. Thank you lawyers for making this world a better place.
I want to assure you than even when I post at +2, I'm not awarded any more overall Karma. I am well aware of this.
The posts that I have made that earned 3, 4, or 5 were always geared to contribute diretly to the discussion, and I think that in the time I've been on slashdot I've been moderated down to zero very few times. That's still no excuse for your other heap of posts that have no business being moderated anywhere.
Overall I think my posts have had much to contribute, at least much more than the obnoxious AC's who all scurry to put up a "FIRST POST!" Surely you must be joking. I don't really need to say much more than that, because the average slashdotter certainly has enough intelligence to see through that bit of flawed logic (or rather I would hope that they would, but I'm not so sure of that anymore after running into the likes of you).
So I guess what I'm saying, at the risk of losing a little karma, is blow it out your ass. Sorry about the "sore butt" subject. I originally put it in there as a play on words with the original subject "sorry but..." (which doesn't really say much of anything about about any post and is all too common). I guess I got carried away and made it look like a cheap insult instead, so people would know what was coming when they read the rest of my post.
I'm so glad that I get to read another post by tcd004. Rarely does a slashdot article appear without his insightful statements of the obvious rife with tactless bland "geek" humor.
Every spammer has a copy of your credit report? Really? What do you base this belief on? Just because offering quick fixes for bad credit is the fashionable scam these days doesn't mean anybody has been looking at your credit report. Why on Earth do you feel the need to tell all of/. about what kind of spam you get anyway? Why would we care? Frankly it's your fault for not paying attention to who you are sending your e-mail address to.
I don't think you'd want the government regulating databases. Do you really think it would be a better world when Big Brother government is the only entity allowed unrestricted use of databases of personal information? Besides, haven't we already seen enough articles here about how datamining isn't paying off as much as everybody claims it is? Why not just wait until everybody realizes that we don't pay attention to targeted e-mail ads?
Thanks tcd004 for making me realize that yes, there are blatent karma whores that detract so much from the discussion. I guess I should be looking at slashcode to figure out I could write a patch that would let you ignore certain users, so I don't have to put up with bullshit like this from you anymore when my threshold is at 2. Btw, your Microsoft parody isn't funny at all and lacks any semblance of originality.
Another problem with the type of users you are describing is that a fairly large majority prefer spending their energy filling themselves with rage and self-righteousness to even looking at any sort of manual or FAQ. They want to talk to somebody who knows how mad they are, and they want answers right away.
The Beatles (the Britney Spears of their generation) This shows quite a high level of ignorance on your part. It's not even worth my time to explain why you are so wrong.
This type of petty nitpicking never ceases to amuse me. You can't deny that if you asked a bunch of strangers off the street what a hacker was, you'd hear things like "making viruses" or "breaking into computers". While the media is almost certainly to blame for the widespread use of this definition, there really is not much that can be done to stop it, nor is there really even a good reason to attempt to settle the issue. This all goes back to the idea that the English language itself descriminates against certain groups. However, instead of coming up with new words or euphamisms like the politicaly correct thought police have done, those involved in the hacker/cracker argument want to change the definitions of existing words. This is almost like the NAACP declaring the word "nigger" now means "intelligent, successful person of African descent." If that were to happen, I wouldn't expect the KKK and friends to convey that meaning when they use that word (and they most certainly would).
There really is no good reason for running Linux on these palms (tho I'm sure you will see some sort of port floating around eventually). I think the effort would be better concentrated on making an ssh client and X11 server to give you the ability to view programs run on almost any UNIX-like OS. I don't know if wireless has enough bandwidth for something like X (it would definitely need low bandwidth X), but it shouldn't require too much with a lower resolution screen. Another challenge would be getting it to work with the touchscreen as a pointer and having some sort of onscreen keyboard. Would this be possible on a palm with an ARM processor and wireless?
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Since requiring a photo ID is too much, my solution is to use the purple finger dye they used in Iraq. Hopefully there aren't too many outspoken fingerless individuals for that to work.
I can't seem to find a dns server with an ip address for tango-project.org. Anybody have a mirror of their icons?
What on earth are you trying to do with your macs that you consider them so slow? My ancient 366mhz iBook with 320MB of RAM from 1999 still manages my "GUI use" in a more responsive manner than most new Windows XP machines can do at the same tasks. Granted, I have to wait seven agonozing seconds for Safari to load, but once you get past that, browsing is remarkably quick. My disk I/O is rather slow, but that's to be expected with an old 6GB laptop hard drive. Fortunately, I have no problems handling large files on NFS exports over etherenet.
Upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3 sped many aspects of the system up considerably, so if you're not running 10.3, I would try that.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to upgrade it anytime soon, so I still get most of my work done on my freebsd desktop/server/spaceheater that's also rather obsolete. Apple never really intended the iBook to be used as much more than a basic all-purpose download/view/word processing machine. You're definitely not going to want to edit sound or graphics on it or use it for development. You will find that OSX does manage to make good use of the meager 800x600 display, and the interface designed for a single-button mouse makes using the trackpad with tapping rather nice--I can use my thumb for all my pointing and clicking. I find that it's the ideal machine for browsing and chatting on the couch in front of the TV, and that's probably what they had in mind when they designed it.
Apple's offerings aren't the fastest, and they CERTAINLY aren't the cheapest. They are just really well-designed for their intended use, and that's more-or-less what the article is about--speculation on what uses for computation Steve Jobs will bring us in the future. If you need a high-end workstation, you probably won't be disappointed with a G5 tower. If you need something portable, you'd probably like an iBook. If you just need something that doesn't suck, you probably won't be disappointed with a mac mini. You're still paying a bit of a tax just for that silly fruit on your case, but macs seem to last longer without going obsolete. Try running XP Pro on a low-end laptop from 1999 and tell me what you think of the disk I/O there.
Has anybody here tried using yahoo's messenger program? It's just so damned slow and quirky and none of the flash features that make my friends like it so much have been ported to the mac, and on top of all that the whole thing is crammed to the hilt with ads and extra entirely unrelated services. Now they want to search your desktop. Maybe it won't be as bad as the rest of their software, but I doubt yahoo is capable of putting forward anything other than spammy immitations of other people's more decent software.
Couldn't agree more. Natural gas prices may have been kept relatively low in recent years, but it still suffers the same problems that gasoline does as a fuel with a limited supply and increasing demand. The primary environmental reason for switching to natural gas from fuels like gasoline has always been emissions as natural gas burns much cleaner.
It was an expensive MIDI composing program for the Mac. I can't remember the name of it. The last time I used it was in '94. It let you shake off a tool that you selected.
2. a $10000 fine for any at fault accident, and a 90 day license suspension. You screw up, you pay.
The fine is too high, but the license suspension sounds like a good idea. I would rather see more fines for other wreckless driving behaviors like blatently inattentive driving and tailgating (ever driven on a thin layer of ice covered by 2" of snow with a giant SUV half a car length behind you?). The bottom line is, police should be concentrating on giving people tickets for dangerous driving behaviors.
3. Mandatory driver retests every two years. Retests cover freeway driving (how to merge, how to use turn signals, no camping in the passing lane) and emergency procedures (lane change, spin recovery, etc.)
You must be insane, or an insanely funny troll, because there is no way you could be serious about wishing that kind of beaurocratic nighmare on you or anybody else. I'd like to think it could happen, but there is no way the DMV could pull it off. Around here, it can take months to get an appointment to take a road test. Now imagine what would happen if all the people waiting in line for hours just to fill out a form and have a picture taken had to take a lengthy road test instead.
With TV specials like this, shows like Survivor and Boston Public, and movies by the likes of Adam Sandler and Tom Green, one has to wonder when the entertainment industry in America will come up with something so rediculously stupid and obnoxious that nobody will watch it. We won't stop seeing entertainment like this until people stop buying it.
Part of it is the way Hollywood opperates. It's a lot more difficult to find and recognize talent with those who write the scripts than it is to find hot bodies to read the scripts. Why bother with clever scripts in the first place when hot bodies sell more consistantly?
Nothing is going to stop this downward slide until people stop settling for this kind of entertainment. There really aren't any signs that this is going to happen anytime soon, but it is already clear that Hollywood is already seeing the potential threats that the internet and other technologies will pose to their monopoly. Where now it is rather difficult for an unknown filmmaker to get their films in theaters and find audiences and rather impossible to get a TV show without extensive connections, the proliferation of broadband and video compression technologies like divx are just waiting to be exploited by intelligent people with something to say and nowhere to say it. That is why they want to keep control of the manufacture of DVDs.
This has become a rather cliche statement on slashdot. Why should we care if you remember seeing these things before? Neither the slashdot blurb nor the article make any claims of these robots being invented last week or anything. This is just another silly and pointless proclamation of, "been there, done that." This practice is all too widespread on slashdot. I don't know what anybody is expecting to acheive by doing this. What do you expect readers to think by saying this? "Wow, this dude has seen this before, he must have a giant cock!"
You shouldn't need to summarize. We can read the article and understand this.
Why should we care what you think? Are you an AI expert? Why aren't you convinced?
This whole paragraph is utterly pointless. Yes, it does contain a few random factoids, but it doesn't go anywhere with these or have any real purpose.
Are you a nuerologist? Why do you think it is so important to point this out?
I'm not exactly sure what kind of I18N support gcc 2.95.2 is lacking, but whether or not it is worth having incompatable binaries requires a wait-and-see approach. Generally, I install things from the source, but it's not always possible to do that. Sometimes the software I want is only available in rpm. The real question is, is everybody going to provide Redhat 7.0 binaries AND normal binaries.
I've run into a few developers who only test their software on the latest version of Redhat and claim it will only run on such a machine when in fact it works just fine using other distros. We will just have to wait and see if this new Redhat causes more people to take this approach.
This is a good example of how a component of the US government will take any opportunity it can to expand its power. The FBI is taking the opportunity to expand its power. This opportunity is the internet. The results of which have already brought about a degree of social change, and nobody can really say how much more change it will bring. How much of your life now ends up spewing out of your fingers onto your keyboard and out of your home or office into this great public network known as the internet? What communications you may now relegate to an e-mail, an IM, or even an IRC conversation with the internet may have taken place in a phone call, in a letter, or in person (...or maybe not at all) before you could use the internet. That is a big change. Who knows how much of your life will end up in some digital incarnation that can be searched for words, places, and names that the FBI might be interested in?
It's easy to dismiss issues like this, because you aren't up to any terrorism or kiddie porn trading. However, how much of this type of government Big Brotherism can you take? How much are you willing to let the government expand the scope of this into un-American activites other than kiddie porn and terrorism? The internet has the potential to give our government many new powers, and we need to decide whether or not we want to grant them the authority to use such powers, how they will be used, and who gets to use them. Just because you are not a criminal, doesn't mean that showing apathy to issues like this is not dangerous. This type of general public apathy provides politicians and law enforcement officials with a sufficiant excuse to expand their power in small increments at the expense of our personal liberties. As usual, they are parading this as an attack against a specific kind of scary vilian. Look at the freedoms we have already lost in the war on drugs for an example of how far this kind of paranoia can go.
The issue at the moment is whether or not we are comfortable with the idea of letting the FBI install mystery machines at our ISPs with the intent of monitoring internet communications. If Carnivore only reads the "To:" and "From:" fields and can only be used with a court order, why does the FBI need to supply the hardware when they could conceivably get the same type of court order to retrieve communications involving any individual from their ISP? Even if Carnivore is exactly what they say it is and nothing more, I still don't like the precedent it is setting.
I find it ironic that an article written about superhuman vision is done in such a small font. Maybe it's my browser though.
Who cares about Hari, it's all Daneel.
The lyrics.ch mess received a lot less attention than it should have. It was a very powerful internet resource that is now lost for good. The RIAA argued that it could hurt the sales of sheet music. Yet, lyrics.ch was something very different. How many people do you know go to the music store and buy sheet music to look up lyrics? How many songs do we listen to on the radio have the lyrics and notes available in paper form at the music store? This myth that artists were somehow losing money to lyrics.ch is absolutely absurd. You can't argue that lyrics.ch was anything but promotional. When the site was in its prime, I used it too many times to count to track down the identity of a band and song through a few lines of the words I heard on the radio with the intent to buy the CD. The open nature of posting to the site enabled me to find relatively obscure material submitted by other users.
Now, lyrics.ch is back up. Unfortunately, it is severely crippled. When the servers aren't spewing out errors, you will find that much of the lyrics aren't available and those that are you are
forced to view via a slow and buggy java applet to make sure you won't be able to cut and paste anything. Thank you lawyers for making this world a better place.
I want to assure you than even when I post at +2, I'm not awarded any more overall Karma.
I am well aware of this.
The posts that I have made that earned 3, 4, or 5 were always geared to contribute diretly to the discussion, and I think that in the time I've been on slashdot I've been moderated down to zero very few times.
That's still no excuse for your other heap of posts that have no business being moderated anywhere.
Overall I think my posts have had much to contribute, at least much more than the obnoxious AC's who all scurry to put up a "FIRST POST!"
Surely you must be joking. I don't really need to say much more than that, because the average slashdotter certainly has enough intelligence to see through that bit of flawed logic (or rather I would hope that they would, but I'm not so sure of that anymore after running into the likes of you).
So I guess what I'm saying, at the risk of losing a little karma, is blow it out your ass.
Sorry about the "sore butt" subject. I originally put it in there as a play on words with the original subject "sorry but..." (which doesn't really say much of anything about about any post and is all too common). I guess I got carried away and made it look like a cheap insult instead, so people would know what was coming when they read the rest of my post.
I'm so glad that I get to read another post by tcd004. Rarely does a slashdot article appear without his insightful statements of the obvious rife with tactless bland "geek" humor.
/. about what kind of spam you get anyway? Why would we care? Frankly it's your fault for not paying attention to who you are sending your e-mail address to.
Every spammer has a copy of your credit report? Really? What do you base this belief on? Just because offering quick fixes for bad credit is the fashionable scam these days doesn't mean anybody has been looking at your credit report. Why on Earth do you feel the need to tell all of
I don't think you'd want the government regulating databases. Do you really think it would be a better world when Big Brother government is the only entity allowed unrestricted use of databases of personal information? Besides, haven't we already seen enough articles here about how datamining isn't paying off as much as everybody claims it is? Why not just wait until everybody realizes that we don't pay attention to targeted e-mail ads?
Thanks tcd004 for making me realize that yes, there are blatent karma whores that detract so much from the discussion. I guess I should be looking at slashcode to figure out I could write a patch that would let you ignore certain users, so I don't have to put up with bullshit like this from you anymore when my threshold is at 2. Btw, your Microsoft parody isn't funny at all and lacks any semblance of originality.
Another problem with the type of users you are describing is that a fairly large majority prefer spending their energy filling themselves with rage and self-righteousness to even looking at any sort of manual or FAQ. They want to talk to somebody who knows how mad they are, and they want answers right away.
The Beatles (the Britney Spears of their generation)
This shows quite a high level of ignorance on your part. It's not even worth my time to explain why you are so wrong.
This type of petty nitpicking never ceases to amuse me. You can't deny that if you asked a bunch of strangers off the street what a hacker was, you'd hear things like "making viruses" or "breaking into computers". While the media is almost certainly to blame for the widespread use of this definition, there really is not much that can be done to stop it, nor is there really even a good reason to attempt to settle the issue. This all goes back to the idea that the English language itself descriminates against certain groups. However, instead of coming up with new words or euphamisms like the politicaly correct thought police have done, those involved in the hacker/cracker argument want to change the definitions of existing words. This is almost like the NAACP declaring the word "nigger" now means "intelligent, successful person of African descent." If that were to happen, I wouldn't expect the KKK and friends to convey that meaning when they use that word (and they most certainly would).
- Buy Driver for the playstation or PC
- Familiarize yourself with the controls and gain some skill at controlling the car
- Grab a few beers, smoke a few joints, or drop some acid (well, for the brave or just plain stupid)
- Enjoy
Just don't get any wild ideas and try to play Driver in your own car.People is getting confused
I'm foreign!
I am not on crack. I am smoking a big fat joint. I was moderator until I posted this.
e2 seems to have been slashdotted. Anybody see the humor in this? Mirror anyone?
There really is no good reason for running Linux on these palms (tho I'm sure you will see some sort of port floating around eventually). I think the effort would be better concentrated on making an ssh client and X11 server to give you the ability to view programs run on almost any UNIX-like OS. I don't know if wireless has enough bandwidth for something like X (it would definitely need low bandwidth X), but it shouldn't require too much with a lower resolution screen. Another challenge would be getting it to work with the touchscreen as a pointer and having some sort of onscreen keyboard. Would this be possible on a palm with an ARM processor and wireless?