On the other hand, could it be that the store that's locked down has actually had a higher incidence of shopliftting than the one that has everything out in the open, and the lockdown is a reaction to that?
Man, I wish I had mod points. I can't believe this is only at 1. You'd think that a geek site like/. would have more analyticaly minded people who would consider "shoplifting leads to tighter security" before assuming "racial profiling leads to tighter security".
...the christians seem to conveniently forget that we've had two major terroist incidents on US soil: 9/11 and Oklahoma City.
Does that then mean that I can go on a crusade to have them eradicated from our society?
I did a quick Google search and didn't find anything indicating that Timothy McVeigh was a fundamentalist Christian. The 9/11 attacks were committed by islamic fundamentalists. The OKC bombing was committed by anti-government nutjobs.
It doesn't work with my KVM switch, but then no OS but Windows ever has, for whatever reason.
I've had the same problem -- or at least, I assume it's the same problem where you can only use 640x480 resolution if you've got the KVM switch hooked up. I've found that if I switch the KVM to the Ubuntu box as soon as I turn it on, and leave it selected through the entire boot process, then I have all correct resolutions available. If Ubuntu (and several other distro's I've tried) isn't active on the KVM during boot - or most likely, when loading Xorg - then it doesn't detect the monitor and defaults to 640x480
PS3 has some time still to either get me really excited or turn me off completely to the PS3.
I don't know about you, but the Sony rootkit has managed to turn me off completely to the PS3.
I'm not going to make the mistake of believing that the general public would feel the same way, but I can't understand why anyone who reads/. would even consider sending money to Sony.
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I just sent them off an email and I'll call tomorrow when the switchboard is open. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Just remember, be polite and reasonable, and if using email, read over your message before you send it. Don't scream that Sony execs should be shot, just point out that Sony is breaking computer crime laws by damaging the security of thousands of computers. Point out their use of a fraudulent EULA that implies their software can be uninstalled. Mention that, even though they have recalled the CDs in question, the crimes have already been commited.
I don't think it will help a whole lot if the DOJ gets 100,000 emails that all look like typical/. posts.
I don't get a lot of spam on my Yahoo account. Unless of course you count Yahoo's approved spam. I have reported several emails from various big companies that I get. Fox Home Entertainment being one of them. The only thing I can figure is that Yahoo has some kind of deal with companies to allow them to spam their users.
I've wondered about that too. Somehow Sony got my Yahoo address, and now matter how many times I mark their crap as spam, it always lands in my inbox.
but if there is any male nudity where any amount of penis can be seen (regardless of context) the film is guaranteed and NC17 rating.
Usually, but not entirely true. I know American History X is an exception, and I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Schindler's List had brief male nudity as well.
And speaking of insecure males, I suppose at this point I should say something mildly witty to point out the fact that I am, in fact, straight. Unfortunately, nothing is coming to mind except: "I'm not gay, really! I'm married! Yes, to a woman."
This also begs the question, will this help make torrents more mainstream?
Considering this is Opera, probably not. I'm sure that in a week or 2, there will be a BitTorrent extention for Firefox, which probably won't make torrents more mainstream either. Most people that know how to install Firefox extensions are already familiar with BitTorrent. If Firefox would have it built in, or as a selectable option during install, (or when Microsoft 'innovates' it into IE), then BitTorrent will become more mainstream. I think it will be good when BitTorrent is mainstream. I love the thought of any large file being available as a torrent, and I like the thought of Slashdot-proofing the web by using it to serve up web pages. But having it available as an extention to the distant-second-place browser and embedded in the distant-third-place browser won't tip the balance.
I am a long time Opera lover, but I basicly just use it as a browser. I have tried M2, the built-in mail client, but switched to Thunderbird. I don't really use RSS. I use XNews for usenet. Most likely I'll still use Azureus for torrents. (But I am amazed that Opera, with RSS, email, usenet, and mouse gestures built in still runs faster, uses less memory, and is roughly a 25% smaller download than Firefox.)
Firstly, the word day is not a very good translation. More aptly, it would be 'age' or 'period.'
About a week ago, I was speaking with an uncle of mine who has spent several years studying Hebrew. The language has several words that can be translated "day". One is used in a literal, 24-hour sense. (It actually meant the time from sundown, considered the start of the day, till the next sundown.) Another is used to mean a period of time, as in "...back in my grandfather's day..."
The word used in the first chapter of Genesis is the literal term, as reinforced by the context. "And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."
The use of the literal term, however, does not eliminate it's use as a metaphor, however. I personally believe that the creation account given in Genesis is an allegory, designed to explain the process to the culture at the time.
(I must admit that I find it interesting to explain ancient Hebrew terms in a thread about Neal Stephenson's thoughts on Star Wars)
Somehow I don't think this would have a very positive effect on for instance open source software.
I'm not sure why this was modded troll. It does bring up a bit of thought. My first thought was that a copyright tax shouldn't affect GPL'd software. GPL'd software is copywrited by the FSF, which is a not-profit, tax-exempt entity, so in theory, they wouldn't pay taxes on the copyrights just like churches don't pay property taxes.
The problem with this it it would still be easy to bury a work. We'd see the non-profit "Disney Archive Organization" that would own the rights to anything Disney decides they don't want going public, but don't want to sell anymore.
I really like the idea of a copyright tax, since copyrights are treated as property, and, like real estate and vehicles, benefit from government-provided services. I think the solution is with an assessment, just like real estate is assessed for value. If the copyrighted work is sold for $X at retailers nationwide, the assessed value is based on sales. (Wholesale sales, not profits, since profits are whatever the accountants can come up with, but sales are a pretty set number.) If the copyrighted work is given away freely to anyone that wants a copy, the assessed value is 0. If the copyrighted work is not available to anyone at any price, the work is considered priceless and will be assessed at an extremely high value.
All assessments would be based on the age of the work, in addition to sales, so that the older a work is, and the longer it's been protected by the government-granted monopoly, the more it costs to continue that protection. People will always be willing to buy Beatles albums, but eventually the market will dictate that you can't sell enough of them to pay to maintain the copyright. If a company wants to take a controversial past work and bury it, it will cost them more and more to do so. If an organization wants to give away its product, but set restrictions on how that products is used, (see GPL,) they can do so without having to pay to maintain the copyright. The only remaining question I can think of is how to define "freely available".
On a related note, we should start a petition to keep the topless woman frame in The Rescuers.
Strange coincidence. When I look at the closeup of one of the images, there was also a Health and Human Services ad. The slogan? "Babies were born to be breast-fed."
I've gotta say that the lack of ogg support is what keeps me from even considering an iPod. I'm in the minority, fine, I accept that. But as I see it, the question is not why, but why not?
Why not give people another option? Why not support an established, open, royalty-free format? (And why should I have to re-rip all my CDs to either an inferior format (mp3) or a proprietary one (AAC))
I realize that decoding Ogg Vorbis takes a bit more horsepower than mp3, but current iPods should be more than capable. The development costs would be a one-time expense.The only arguement I've ever seen is that few people use it. Well, Apple doesn't exactly have a history of ignoring the minority. The iPod was originally Mac only, after all.
That's right. The Democrats try to add fraudulent voters to the roles. The Republicans, on the other hand, are busy trying to keep fraudulent voters off the roles.
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Man, I wish I had mod points. I can't believe this is only at 1. You'd think that a geek site like /. would have more analyticaly minded people who would consider "shoplifting leads to tighter security" before assuming "racial profiling leads to tighter security".
Does that then mean that I can go on a crusade to have them eradicated from our society?
I did a quick Google search and didn't find anything indicating that Timothy McVeigh was a fundamentalist Christian. The 9/11 attacks were committed by islamic fundamentalists. The OKC bombing was committed by anti-government nutjobs.
I've had the same problem -- or at least, I assume it's the same problem where you can only use 640x480 resolution if you've got the KVM switch hooked up. I've found that if I switch the KVM to the Ubuntu box as soon as I turn it on, and leave it selected through the entire boot process, then I have all correct resolutions available. If Ubuntu (and several other distro's I've tried) isn't active on the KVM during boot - or most likely, when loading Xorg - then it doesn't detect the monitor and defaults to 640x480
I always thought it stood for Monkey Computer Science Experiment
I don't know about you, but the Sony rootkit has managed to turn me off completely to the PS3.
I'm not going to make the mistake of believing that the general public would feel the same way, but I can't understand why anyone who reads /. would even consider sending money to Sony.
I don't think it will help a whole lot if the DOJ gets 100,000 emails that all look like typical /. posts.
...Thanks to the announcement of Google Graveyard Search (beta)
Interesting ad, but what are all these reddish-brown stains around it?
How sick is that - Moving from 2000 to ME is technically an "Upgrade"
Lately, that seems to be a job requirement for CEOs.
At least he's not throwing chairs.
I don't have any problem using Gmail in Opera. (Under Windows, anyway, can't remember trying it on my linux box)
Make sure you have Opera set to identify as Opera. It defaults to identify as IE, so gmail tries to use ActiveX.
I've wondered about that too. Somehow Sony got my Yahoo address, and now matter how many times I mark their crap as spam, it always lands in my inbox.
Usually, but not entirely true. I know American History X is an exception, and I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Schindler's List had brief male nudity as well.
And speaking of insecure males, I suppose at this point I should say something mildly witty to point out the fact that I am, in fact, straight. Unfortunately, nothing is coming to mind except: "I'm not gay, really! I'm married! Yes, to a woman."
Considering this is Opera, probably not. I'm sure that in a week or 2, there will be a BitTorrent extention for Firefox, which probably won't make torrents more mainstream either. Most people that know how to install Firefox extensions are already familiar with BitTorrent. If Firefox would have it built in, or as a selectable option during install, (or when Microsoft 'innovates' it into IE), then BitTorrent will become more mainstream. I think it will be good when BitTorrent is mainstream. I love the thought of any large file being available as a torrent, and I like the thought of Slashdot-proofing the web by using it to serve up web pages. But having it available as an extention to the distant-second-place browser and embedded in the distant-third-place browser won't tip the balance.
I am a long time Opera lover, but I basicly just use it as a browser. I have tried M2, the built-in mail client, but switched to Thunderbird. I don't really use RSS. I use XNews for usenet. Most likely I'll still use Azureus for torrents. (But I am amazed that Opera, with RSS, email, usenet, and mouse gestures built in still runs faster, uses less memory, and is roughly a 25% smaller download than Firefox.)
It looks like you're writing a letter! Would you like me to start randomly adjusting the formatting for you?
But according to Godwin's Law, the arguement's over and Durbin automatically loses!
About a week ago, I was speaking with an uncle of mine who has spent several years studying Hebrew. The language has several words that can be translated "day". One is used in a literal, 24-hour sense. (It actually meant the time from sundown, considered the start of the day, till the next sundown.) Another is used to mean a period of time, as in "...back in my grandfather's day..."
The word used in the first chapter of Genesis is the literal term, as reinforced by the context. "And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."
The use of the literal term, however, does not eliminate it's use as a metaphor, however. I personally believe that the creation account given in Genesis is an allegory, designed to explain the process to the culture at the time.
(I must admit that I find it interesting to explain ancient Hebrew terms in a thread about Neal Stephenson's thoughts on Star Wars)
If I buy a house and rent it out, I get taxed on the rental income and on the property itself.
I'm not sure why this was modded troll. It does bring up a bit of thought. My first thought was that a copyright tax shouldn't affect GPL'd software. GPL'd software is copywrited by the FSF, which is a not-profit, tax-exempt entity, so in theory, they wouldn't pay taxes on the copyrights just like churches don't pay property taxes.
The problem with this it it would still be easy to bury a work. We'd see the non-profit "Disney Archive Organization" that would own the rights to anything Disney decides they don't want going public, but don't want to sell anymore.
I really like the idea of a copyright tax, since copyrights are treated as property, and, like real estate and vehicles, benefit from government-provided services. I think the solution is with an assessment, just like real estate is assessed for value. If the copyrighted work is sold for $X at retailers nationwide, the assessed value is based on sales. (Wholesale sales, not profits, since profits are whatever the accountants can come up with, but sales are a pretty set number.) If the copyrighted work is given away freely to anyone that wants a copy, the assessed value is 0. If the copyrighted work is not available to anyone at any price, the work is considered priceless and will be assessed at an extremely high value.
All assessments would be based on the age of the work, in addition to sales, so that the older a work is, and the longer it's been protected by the government-granted monopoly, the more it costs to continue that protection. People will always be willing to buy Beatles albums, but eventually the market will dictate that you can't sell enough of them to pay to maintain the copyright. If a company wants to take a controversial past work and bury it, it will cost them more and more to do so. If an organization wants to give away its product, but set restrictions on how that products is used, (see GPL,) they can do so without having to pay to maintain the copyright. The only remaining question I can think of is how to define "freely available".
This isn't Norm MacDonald, by chance, is it?
Strange coincidence. When I look at the closeup of one of the images, there was also a Health and Human Services ad. The slogan? "Babies were born to be breast-fed."
Why not give people another option? Why not support an established, open, royalty-free format? (And why should I have to re-rip all my CDs to either an inferior format (mp3) or a proprietary one (AAC))
I realize that decoding Ogg Vorbis takes a bit more horsepower than mp3, but current iPods should be more than capable. The development costs would be a one-time expense.The only arguement I've ever seen is that few people use it. Well, Apple doesn't exactly have a history of ignoring the minority. The iPod was originally Mac only, after all.
That's right. The Democrats try to add fraudulent voters to the roles. The Republicans, on the other hand, are busy trying to keep fraudulent voters off the roles.
I'm unhappy because I was grabbed off the street. May I go now?
Please?