It doesn't matter is the stats say 0.01% of people are harmed - those people did not have a choice, so any number over 0 is unacceptable. (And I'm quite sure the number is far higher.) Under that reasoning we should be banning cell phone emissions too. I don't use a cell phone, but other peoples emissions are harming me, maybe. And the site of seeing people drive and use a cell phone causes stress that is for sure shortening my life and ending whoever life they are wrecking into at the moment.
I see dig pic framed everywhere anymore. I go to my Doc's office, he has two displaying hat he did with the money I paid on my last visit. My sister is a Realtor, she keeps two at her office too. My mom & dad gave one to all 5 of us for Christmas and they keep one running 24/7 in the kitchen. Mine is still in the box... shhhh don't tell mom. Great Grandma (two out of three) LOVE the thing.
The OP mentions plugging in the frame with a USB cable. I wonder about the ones that run off an SD chip. Does the SD chip become infected after it's placed in the frame? What about the ones that run off the wireless?
When I was in the service I was a das3 tech and would help the radio tech's out from time to time. One late night we had a 524 radio that the PS was arching to the chassis. So I stuck some gum I was chewing on the chassis at the point of arching and it stopped. We sent it and never had a complaint.
It sure seems like it. After all, "Something must can be done." I'm all in favor of E-voting.. someday. Just not today and not with Diebold.
You rescind your federal citizenship, declare your citizenship of your state as it was before reconstruction, rescind your birth certificate (to remove proof of being under the 14th), rescind your social security (to correct your status as a soverign instead of a corporation), then begin rescinding everything else; drivers lisence, fishing lisences, gun lisence, any contract with the federal government and it's munincipal corporations (read; the states are corporations).
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Then you simply stop paying income and social security taxes,
Good luck with this. Let us know how it works out for you.
It's been almost 5 years since I have purchased or rented a music cd or movie vhs/dvd. Other than a few new computer systems I haven't purchased a cd player or radio in about seven years now.
About once a month I get on a soap box somewhere and let people know I feel the RIAA/MPAA are evil. Yes, this includes writing my state reps.
I don't see any harm in the airlines requiring an ID to board there
planes. After all, most tickets you bye are non-transferable, so it
makes sense to make sure that the people you think are getting on are
actually the people whom are supposed to be getting on.
OTOH Ohio
is already making sure that you can't DRIVE anonymously through the
state by putting scanners on the turnpike that reads every license
plate. Won't be long and they will be asking for 'Papers' at every
state border.
A Chess City ? Why and what for? What a colossal waist of money. If the state I lived in proposed a tax payer funded chess city, at a cost of $2.6 billion, I would be hopping up and down mad. Clearly this would fall under the category of monumental fraud WAIST and abuse.
In this article by the Toledo Blade an alleged "computer expert" and state rep candidate Mr. Myers expresses his views as it pertains to paper trails and EVM's as "I liken this part of the bill to adding a ladder to an elevator. We had something good. Now it is just made more complex."
I guess adding a printer COULD make these pesky things a little more complex AND prone to failure, but I fail to see why. If a system can't pipe data to more than one output/storage device it's not worth having IMHO.
When we have up and coming wanna-be politicians whom are supposed to know better (you would think someone claiming to be a bonna-fide computer expert would) and we still get drivel from them like this I really feel they don't want honest elections. Trust being the core component behind most large issues in life, such as money, relationships, voting, driving...trust this : to error is human, to really screw something up takes a computer.
This just in: The Senate Judiciary Committee, is moving to outlaw UUCP. It's obvious that UUCP is stealing profits from legit copyright holders. In the interest of protecting children we owe it to them to free the computers of these malicious functions. From this day forward computers will not be allowed to be networked.
In another not so surprising argument : the copy command (Ctrl-c) and the equally insidious Paste (Ctrl-v) command illegally lure children into breaking the law. The Senate Judiciary Committee has also made a move to ban these commands for all non Gov't purposes.
Everyone thinks I'm nuts, but I haven't been to a movie in three years, bought a music recording or rented any movies either. No downloading though, no music library, no movie library. I do however listen to the radio. To heck with the RIAA people.
Given that all most people want a PC for is web browsing and email, why the f*ck haven't Microsoft come up with an OS which can do that, and just that, without any security risks at all? This puzzles me somewhat.
I was working on an old DPS 6 machine and we had 6 80meg hard drives. We only needed three to be working at any one time. These drives were the old 6 platter 15 inch removable type. Well, one of my "users" took a crashed disk and figured if it didn't work in one drive, he should just try it in another, and then another and so on until he had destroyed the heads in all six drives. I spent a few days replacing and aligning heads....
Another time I took the only working copy of our OS disk out of the drive, was putting the bottom cover on it and it dropped out of the housing and with a spectacular crash hit the floor. The tape back-ups were of course corrupted, the back up copy didn't work......ahh the joys of bad system overview. We even had off site copies, none of which worked. We spent a month rebuilding the OS pack.
Had another user who spilled coke on a 15 inch tape that we then sent on up the chain.....needless to say the guys who ran the coke tainted tape where no thrilled!!!!!!!!
Had a guy hook up power to a system, only he did it backward. All the fans on the air conditioners ran backwards....LOL
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Back when I was a Patriot guy I lived across the street from White Sands. Good ole Mcgreggor Range base camp.
We spent a lot of time out on the ranges, McGreggor, White Sands and Dona Anya. Those where good times!
done at White Sands.
I recognized the mountains in one of the test videos as being at white sands.
Guess what? White Sands missile range is not only HUGE it is located in the desert.
Why not bookmark slashdot?
The bar searches your bookmarks too. When I type s slashdot is always the first mark returned.
I find the bookmark search has value because my history gets deleted so often.
Seems to me that if the Telcos get amnesty then a few lawyers will make money filing suits.
If they don't get amnesty then an orgy of lawyers will get rich.
What would the average Joe get? Nada, zip, nothing.
While most could pass the ASVAB I doubt most could pass Basic Training.
That would require leaving their parents basements. Not gonna happen.
Welcome to the No Clue club for idiots.
My parents live on a lake in Michigan. For years they languished on a very slow dial up. Satellite was not an option.
This year they went to the air card. After some initial set up problems I went up and got it up and running for them.
The air card has worked great for them. It's a lot faster than their old dial up.
I have looked forward to Spore for a long time but the DRM scheme was a deal breaker for me. Now, it's game on again!
I didn't want another browser. What really bothered me was it was being pushed as an update when I didn't have it to begin with.
I see dig pic framed everywhere anymore. I go to my Doc's office, he has two displaying hat he did with the money I paid on my last visit. My sister is a Realtor, she keeps two at her office too. My mom & dad gave one to all 5 of us for Christmas and they keep one running 24/7 in the kitchen. Mine is still in the box ... shhhh don't tell mom. Great Grandma (two out of three) LOVE the thing.
The OP mentions plugging in the frame with a USB cable. I wonder about the ones that run off an SD chip. Does the SD chip become infected after it's placed in the frame? What about the ones that run off the wireless?
Jordan's stories are wonderful IMO. RJ is also a decorated combat vet. RIP old friend.
"As a soldier it's always better to be tried by twelve, than carried by six."
When I was in the service I was a das3 tech and would help the radio tech's out from time to time. One late night we had a 524 radio that the PS was arching to the chassis. So I stuck some gum I was chewing on the chassis at the point of arching and it stopped. We sent it and never had a complaint.
If there isn't enough good ice for the ice fishing season there will be plenty of complaining. Trust me on that.
It's been almost 5 years since I have purchased or rented a music cd or movie vhs/dvd. Other than a few new computer systems I haven't purchased a cd player or radio in about seven years now.
About once a month I get on a soap box somewhere and let people know I feel the RIAA/MPAA are evil. Yes, this includes writing my state reps.
I don't see any harm in the airlines requiring an ID to board there planes. After all, most tickets you bye are non-transferable, so it makes sense to make sure that the people you think are getting on are actually the people whom are supposed to be getting on.
OTOH Ohio is already making sure that you can't DRIVE anonymously through the state by putting scanners on the turnpike that reads every license plate. Won't be long and they will be asking for 'Papers' at every state border.
A Chess City ? Why and what for? What a colossal waist of money. If the state I lived in proposed a tax payer funded chess city, at a cost of $2.6 billion, I would be hopping up and down mad. Clearly this would fall under the category of monumental fraud WAIST and abuse.
Just my 2 worth
Why even bother? Everyone knows ALL the tech jobs are headed for India and/or China.
In this article by the Toledo Blade an alleged "computer expert" and state rep candidate Mr. Myers expresses his views as it pertains to paper trails and EVM's as "I liken this part of the bill to adding a ladder to an elevator. We had something good. Now it is just made more complex."
I guess adding a printer COULD make these pesky things a little more complex AND prone to failure, but I fail to see why. If a system can't pipe data to more than one output/storage device it's not worth having IMHO.
When we have up and coming wanna-be politicians whom are supposed to know better (you would think someone claiming to be a bonna-fide computer expert would) and we still get drivel from them like this I really feel they don't want honest elections. Trust being the core component behind most large issues in life, such as money, relationships, voting, driving...trust this : to error is human, to really screw something up takes a computer.
This just in: The Senate Judiciary Committee, is moving to outlaw UUCP. It's obvious that UUCP is stealing profits from legit copyright holders. In the interest of protecting children we owe it to them to free the computers of these malicious functions. From this day forward computers will not be allowed to be networked.
In another not so surprising argument : the copy command (Ctrl-c) and the equally insidious Paste (Ctrl-v) command illegally lure children into breaking the law. The Senate Judiciary Committee has also made a move to ban these commands for all non Gov't purposes.
but I make my stance by boycotting their products
Everyone thinks I'm nuts, but I haven't been to a movie in three years, bought a music recording or rented any movies either. No downloading though, no music library, no movie library. I do however listen to the radio. To heck with the RIAA people.
Given that all most people want a PC for is web browsing and email, why the f*ck haven't Microsoft come up with an OS which can do that, and just that, without any security risks at all? This puzzles me somewhat.
I thought they did. Wasn't it called web tv?
Thats what that high tech on off buttons for ??
I was working on an old DPS 6 machine and we had 6 80meg hard drives. We only needed three to be working at any one time. These drives were the old 6 platter 15 inch removable type. Well, one of my "users" took a crashed disk and figured if it didn't work in one drive, he should just try it in another, and then another and so on until he had destroyed the heads in all six drives. I spent a few days replacing and aligning heads....
Another time I took the only working copy of our OS disk out of the drive, was putting the bottom cover on it and it dropped out of the housing and with a spectacular crash hit the floor. The tape back-ups were of course corrupted, the back up copy didn't work......ahh the joys of bad system overview. We even had off site copies, none of which worked. We spent a month rebuilding the OS pack.
Had another user who spilled coke on a 15 inch tape that we then sent on up the chain.....needless to say the guys who ran the coke tainted tape where no thrilled!!!!!!!!
Had a guy hook up power to a system, only he did it backward. All the fans on the air conditioners ran backwards....LOL