'If you don't know who's inside the theater, it's very difficult to provide security.'
Seems like a stupid statement at face value. But suing Craigslist for the identity of the seller won't even achieve the stated goal. If the seller sold the tickets, then he/she is not inside the theater, and thus they won't need security customized for his/her particular super-powers.
Well I don't plan on calling you so I won't have that problem. I don't know anyone who doesn't check their voicemail. I don't always do it right away, but I always get around to it sooner or later. How on earth do you know if you missed an important call if you don't check the message?
"Important" is in the ear of the beholder, I suppose. I never check my voicemail unless my wife sees the message waiting symbol on my phone and asks why I haven't checked my messages. My own fault: I haven't gone through and deleted everything before leaving my phone sitting out. If it's really important, they'll call back -- either that or their problem will go away on its own.
All you whippersnappers, I swear...Look me up by my real name, and you get nothing, nada, nihil, zip, because I made a very conscious decision to separate my online identity from my regular identity.
That won't help when someone else tags a photo (or whatever) with your real name.
And that is why I'm changing my real name to John Smith, making me a needle in a haystack. That and the Groucho glasses.
What, because a site's policy states something you think it's ok to not pay any attention to it? To blow-by the sign-up form with false data that just meets the field validation?
Yes. Yes I do. A lot of sites have "policies" that I really just ignore. To give anyone's web "policy" the force of law would be a bad idea.
Actually, you have the right to vote once. I'd say the difference between one vote and the right to cast one vote is just the difference between a stock and an option, both of which can be sold,
No-one is forced to spend their money on text messages.
Not 100% true. If you have Cingular/ATT disable text messaging on your phone, they don't promise that you won't receive any text messages. And I'm not talking about ATT's own free text-spam, but rather texts from people you don't know that you still get charged for. I wouldn't be surprised if other carriers do that too.
Bill didn't get impeached for getting a hummer, he got impeached for LIEING about getting a hummer.
You'd think, after 5 years of war, over 4000 US military deaths, tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, inept responses to natural disasters, the gutting of the bill of rights, the tarnishing of the image of the United States in the eyes of the world and an economy in the crapper, that even the most die-hard republican would have learned that there's no 'E' in 'LYING'!
Call and remind your representative that he or she has an oath of office and a public image to sustain, and voting for this bill cannot possibly be a supportive action for either.
Seriously, if this thing passes and becomes law, it should be the job of every/.er to write to their local newspaper and lambaste their representative for voting in support of a bill which violates every citizen's constitutional rights, and aids, abets, and forgives those who broke the law in ante facto.
My US Rep voted for this in the House last week, and I did write him to tell him how disgusted I was, in particular since he's a former prosecutor in the district he represents. I asked him how he'll like it when Americans serving on juries vote to give "retroactive immunity" to all the accused criminals they are expected to judge.
AC's have been posting this shit for only god knows how long and not one of you stupid fucks has bothered to clean up the formatting and improve the readability?
That's because the AC conspiracy has been denying the existence of the Shift key for decades.
Some people actually do live outside the US. This may come as a surprise to you, be we even have electricity and computers.
What's with the feigned outrage? To quote the summary:
Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code
There are sometimes stories and discussions on Slashdot that are obliviously US-centric. This is not such a case -- the summary clearly frames the subject.
Well, that about sums it up, doesn't it? Your actual desire, when someone else expresses their opinion, is to be violent. . . . Unlike you, whose first instinct - however well reigned in for fear of being caught - is to vandalize the property of someone you hate, I'm more inclined to either roll my eyes . ..
I don't want to sound like I'm calling you a liar here, but I really can't believe your implication that you have never had a violent thought toward something or someone you dislike. My sarcasm meter must be miscalibrated this morning.
Except that if you want to be able to play all those 1080p h.264.mkv-files you'll need at least around a 2,8 Ghz Core 2 Duo or X2 5600+ if you use the CoreAVC codec.
It took a few days to acquire such a video to test, but you're right. My AMD BE2350 and the ATI 1250 GFX are not sufficient for that. "Lucky" for me my room is too small to justify a TV large enough to justify resolution high enough to justify saving movies in that quality to justify the extra cost and noise of that horsepower in my HTPC for now -- I guess.
Yeah - the battery doesn't exactly have RoHS written all over it, either.
Interestingly enough, there are lead-(and other hazardous substance)-containing parts that are considered RoHS by exemption. Usually, this is because there is no existing viable alternative. Of course, a battery is also likely to be recycled, since it has a cash value even as junk.
I've got a Linux HTPC that satisfies me pretty well. The only case fan I need is on the power supply, since I'm using a low-power AMD 45W dual core CPU. The CPU fan is small and almost inadible. Since all the data storage is on the home server, the HTPC boots off a 4GB CF card. The power supply itself is "80 plus" rated PS with power factor correction, and the fan only runs as fast as it needs to, which isn't very fast since nothing in the box makes too much heat.
The performance specs aren't incredible, and this setup wouldn't be suitable for hard-core gaming, but it doesn't take much CPU horsepower these days to run video and audio codecs.
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'If you don't know who's inside the theater, it's very difficult to provide security.'
Seems like a stupid statement at face value. But suing Craigslist for the identity of the seller won't even achieve the stated goal. If the seller sold the tickets, then he/she is not inside the theater, and thus they won't need security customized for his/her particular super-powers.
I know this sounds incredible, but it's actually possible to be in a shower with a girl in person without the aid of technology.
If you're just naturally invisible? If you're both plumbers? C'mon, tell us how! Slashdot wants to know.
If you never check voicemail, do you at least record something stating that you never check voicemail?
It doesn't help. I had a VM greeting that said I don't check my messages and people still left them. Optimists, I guess.
Well I don't plan on calling you so I won't have that problem. I don't know anyone who doesn't check their voicemail. I don't always do it right away, but I always get around to it sooner or later. How on earth do you know if you missed an important call if you don't check the message?
"Important" is in the ear of the beholder, I suppose. I never check my voicemail unless my wife sees the message waiting symbol on my phone and asks why I haven't checked my messages. My own fault: I haven't gone through and deleted everything before leaving my phone sitting out. If it's really important, they'll call back -- either that or their problem will go away on its own.
All you whippersnappers, I swear...Look me up by my real name, and you get nothing, nada, nihil, zip, because I made a very conscious decision to separate my online identity from my regular identity.
That won't help when someone else tags a photo (or whatever) with your real name.
And that is why I'm changing my real name to John Smith, making me a needle in a haystack. That and the Groucho glasses.
What, because a site's policy states something you think it's ok to not pay any attention to it? To blow-by the sign-up form with false data that just meets the field validation?
Yes. Yes I do. A lot of sites have "policies" that I really just ignore. To give anyone's web "policy" the force of law would be a bad idea.
You don't have a vote. You have a right to vote.
Actually, you have the right to vote once. I'd say the difference between one vote and the right to cast one vote is just the difference between a stock and an option, both of which can be sold,
No-one is forced to spend their money on text messages.
Not 100% true. If you have Cingular/ATT disable text messaging on your phone, they don't promise that you won't receive any text messages. And I'm not talking about ATT's own free text-spam, but rather texts from people you don't know that you still get charged for. I wouldn't be surprised if other carriers do that too.
What happened to owning your own property? Why should central authority have the abiity to override everything?
Sounds like maybe Socialism is indistinguishable from Capitalism for an sufficiently non-capitalized individual.
And in that case, WTF is wrong with just making a phone call?
That's a joke, son.
Text used to be a noun, now it's used both interchangeably as a verb and a noun. So many words in modern English are starting to be used like this.
Verbing weirds language.
Bill didn't get impeached for getting a hummer, he got impeached for LIEING about getting a hummer.
You'd think, after 5 years of war, over 4000 US military deaths, tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, inept responses to natural disasters, the gutting of the bill of rights, the tarnishing of the image of the United States in the eyes of the world and an economy in the crapper, that even the most die-hard republican would have learned that there's no 'E' in 'LYING'!
Call and remind your representative that he or she has an oath of office and a public image to sustain, and voting for this bill cannot possibly be a supportive action for either.
Seriously, if this thing passes and becomes law, it should be the job of every /.er to write to their local newspaper and lambaste their representative for voting in support of a bill which violates every citizen's constitutional rights, and aids, abets, and forgives those who broke the law in ante facto.
My US Rep voted for this in the House last week, and I did write him to tell him how disgusted I was, in particular since he's a former prosecutor in the district he represents. I asked him how he'll like it when Americans serving on juries vote to give "retroactive immunity" to all the accused criminals they are expected to judge.
Got a better theory as to why they can't make their retroactive case to a stacked, secret kangaroo court? Sheer volume, maybe?
His British what?
AC's have been posting this shit for only god knows how long and not one of you stupid fucks has bothered to clean up the formatting and improve the readability?
That's because the AC conspiracy has been denying the existence of the Shift key for decades.
Ooo, good point. Cause if they have the pictures, then they'll know that they're aiming at a satellite, and not just empty space.
What's with the feigned outrage? To quote the summary:
Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States CodeThere are sometimes stories and discussions on Slashdot that are obliviously US-centric. This is not such a case -- the summary clearly frames the subject.
His math is OK. He meant his guess is "the center of the Earth" for every unknown location.
I'd say you're both right.
I don't want to sound like I'm calling you a liar here, but I really can't believe your implication that you have never had a violent thought toward something or someone you dislike. My sarcasm meter must be miscalibrated this morning.
It took a few days to acquire such a video to test, but you're right. My AMD BE2350 and the ATI 1250 GFX are not sufficient for that. "Lucky" for me my room is too small to justify a TV large enough to justify resolution high enough to justify saving movies in that quality to justify the extra cost and noise of that horsepower in my HTPC for now -- I guess.
Interestingly enough, there are lead-(and other hazardous substance)-containing parts that are considered RoHS by exemption. Usually, this is because there is no existing viable alternative. Of course, a battery is also likely to be recycled, since it has a cash value even as junk.
I've got a Linux HTPC that satisfies me pretty well. The only case fan I need is on the power supply, since I'm using a low-power AMD 45W dual core CPU. The CPU fan is small and almost inadible. Since all the data storage is on the home server, the HTPC boots off a 4GB CF card. The power supply itself is "80 plus" rated PS with power factor correction, and the fan only runs as fast as it needs to, which isn't very fast since nothing in the box makes too much heat.
The performance specs aren't incredible, and this setup wouldn't be suitable for hard-core gaming, but it doesn't take much CPU horsepower these days to run video and audio codecs.. . . welcome our flying incendiary mammalian overlords. And at the same time, nominate this as a candidate for Worst. Weapon. Ever.