Great, what kind of chances does the average Joe geek have for making a house-area one of these out of old HDD magnets? Or something? Sounds like a fun project...
On top of that, why not issue a court-order prohibiting them from producing audio CDs? That, and a full-on FBI raid at 4:59PM, on every SonyBMG office and removal of all computer equipment. That's until the Feds can "be sure" that no state secrets are on any of Sony's PCs because surely, somewhere along the line, some Senator's daughter must have listened to it on Daddy's PC.
Never gonna happen, but we can only dream. Texas' civil penalties arent enough, IMO, to make DRM go the way of the dinosaur or to make record companies treat DRM like the snake oil it is. So, any slashdotters up for writing to their congressmen telling them that their PCs may have been hacked into by Sony? I'm sure some of them like to listen to Billy Armstrong.
Parent is dead right (mod parent up, etc.). There was a stage I went through when I was addicted to chat -- Excite! Virtual Places, if I recall. I'd get up every day at 12, go to bed at 4, 6, 8, 10 in the morning. I'd skip school and because I was living with mum, there was no need to get a job. She thought I needed help, took away the keyboard (I'd go buy another one), locked the door (I'd come in through the window), and so on. But it was my choice
Then one day I decided it was pointless to spend all day talking to virtual people, btter to do something productive. Like play computer games.
And so it started. Starcraft, Red Alert 2, I played (and beat) almost every game under the sun. Mum gave up and let me have a computer in my room, and that was the best desision she ever made (improved my relationship with her no end!)
And gradually, I stopped playing.
Two months ago I bought a brand new computer, Geforce 7800GTX, a gig of memory, and an Athlon XP x64 dual 4400. Awesome system, cost a bomb. But do you know how much I play nowadays? On a good (or bad) week, I spend maybe half an hour if I'm lucky. The rest of the time college work calls, or anything else of my shedule (part-time job training to be a shift-supervisor, volunteer teaching for a non-profit computer centre, or the occaisional really wild party). I'm saving for a visit to a refugee camp in the north of Thailand next summer as well, so that takes quite a bit of time. My point: now I have the deffinition of a fulfilled life. I chose to spend that time on chat, or playing games, it wasnt an addiction (though my mum said it was, tried to get me councilling), and now I dont play anymore. Was it hard? Not at all.
... they believe in unquestioning allegiance to their government
My favorite part was an interview with Britney Spears by some large network television crew. Quote:
"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens,"
Deeply, darkly terrifing. I am genuinely suprised OSB didnt hand in his kaslishnikov and surrender, given that the pop princess has been far more anti-American than he could ever be.
I thought the AC had a very good comment there - I would have modded up if I hadn't already posted. As it is, that comment has made its way into my slashdot folder, a collection of the most insightful things seen on slashdot.
Anyway. Shotgun posts a great strawman and is more than a little offtopic (we are talking about internet governence, not feeding children). Although you are right in what you say when you clarify shotgun's point, I must add that it becomes the federal government's job (or should become the FG's job) if the other agencies are not doing their job. Some countries of course dont have states or maybe the local authorities have very limited power. Then, after the parents, it is immediately the Government's job.
This gets extended to they must feed the old, too.
Perhaps shotgun would rather the old die from lack of food? (Note: the fabled 'freemarket' will have no problems feeding old people with money, so I'm assuming shotgun was refering to old people without the means to feed themselves.)
Then everybody must eat what the government provides for them, which they do at twice the cost in the form of taxes.
Becareful of that slippery slope: if you go down it you'll slip and then you'll be going so fast when you get to the bottam of the hill you'll carry on going and end up in the centre of the world. And its hot, you'll burn, and worse, you'll be called a cruel and heartless bastard. Shotgun is not a cruel and heartless bastard. Shotgun is merely logically challenged.
Connect to the Net, or create your own, I don't give a damn. But in no way should the UN have any control over how my computer communicates with another. This, however, I agree with. Luckily we have nothing to fear: control of how IPs are mapped to names via the root DNS servers is a policy issue so far removed from actual, technical, "control" of the internet that we should really write to the people concerned and tell them to go and get lessons in word processing, before they tackle the big stuff like "how the internet works".
THey did make their own network. Then they linked it to yours. Then they called this network of interconected networks the internet. This is the very nature of the internet, that no one controls it, not even the ICANN (hint: there are more than just the five rootservers in the States -- there are plenty more outside your borders).
This whole thing is a mess of bad reporting. I dont want "control" (in inverted commas, because such a term is meaningless) to go to the WGIG any more than you do, for the reasons you list, but please, if it does, we can just go and set up our own DNS Servers and be done with it.
(Oh, and by the way, many of my friends are Chinese. However, the only thing I get from Florida is spam.)
The entire difference lies in the fact that the public schools are part of the government and private institutions and parties are not
For sure you're right.
It's still wrong though. Why should a student going to a private school have any less rights than a student going to a state school? Why should he have to take down any website, infringing or not, while his neighbour down the road who goes to a state school, does not. (And lets not forget, the comments were in his guesbook for pete's sake!)
Schools, while not being equal in terms of academic performance, should certainly be equal in terms of not grossly overstepping the boundaries of common sense. In this respect, I think there should be a legal requirement which states public and private schools have the same obligations and responsiblities to the students.
I believe there was some large disagreement on weather to include it into the kernel. If memory serves, Linus didn't want it but Hans did. So I don't think it will be included unless there is some change which makes Linux consider his stance on filesystems.
Do a search on slashdot for Hans' posts, they are quite insightful.
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the public debate forum over "our nation's safety and security," or privacy.
No it wont be interesting to see how it turns out. This is because "safety and security" (and all the BS associated) wins out over privacy, the interests of the citizen, or just plan common sense, any day.
The price of eternal vigilance is a newspaper, some paper and a pen, and half an hour of your time per day. Write to your congressperson, senator, the white house, newspapers, anyone. But write.
I won't debate your statistics as another poster with more experience of the source has done that. However, your statement is flawed. Going with your own data of 150 attacks in the past twelve months, shall we assume an average of 3 perpetrators involved per attack? That seems generous to me, though. Anyway, we are now looking at around 450 people who killed themselves in the past 12 months. This is not a staggering number by any means, considering the global population of over 6 billion, the global Muslim population of 1.48 billion, or the fact that 132,353 individuals were hospitalized in the US following (non-terror, related, obviously) suicide attempts in 2002 (this is the eighth leading cause of death for all U.S. men).
Dude, terrorism is a drop in the bucket. It's not even worth the bandwidth we are using to discuss it.
Stereotypes do not imply that each and every single person must fit the type
Then what use is a stereotype at all? Why even mention it, when for every person you show me who "roughly" fits the stereotype, I will show you a hundred, nay, a thousand more who don't.
Stereotypes exist as a remnant of more primitive times: when it was easier to label someone, than to actually investigate and perhaps even befriend them.
Hmm. Your writing style is different from your earlier posts this thread. Just an observation. As an aside, thank you for taking the time to respond to these comments in the enlightened manner you have. Many slashdotters would flame, or worse, not respond at al.
Of course, I am not saying that no Americans are ignorant, obese, or racist, or some combination of the above, merely that the greatest hallmark of a fool (in my not-so-humble opinion) is someone who judges people based on stereotypes, or forms opinions based on stereotypes. I remind you of your earlier post (#13839207) in which you said "the vast majority of that shit is from Muslim fanatics who live primarily in the Middle East. The reason his post was funny is becuase although it's non-PC, everyone knows its true.", basing your judgements solely on that stereotype when as we have just demonstrated, stereotypes are not an accurate source of infomation on this, or any other, issue. Or would you believe all Americans are obese, ignorant, and racist?
the world threat of Tamil suicide bombes vs. Muslim suicide bombers is laughable
No, the threat of suicidie bombers is laughable.
Stereotypes come into existance for a reason, not out of thin air.
Like the stereotype of the ignorant, racist, fat American? Despite the fact that my experience of Americans directly contradicts that stereotype? (I've never been to America, though, and all the Americans I have met in South East Asia have been warm-hearted, cheery people with not the slightest hint of ignorance or racism.) I know the plural of "singular experience" is not "data", but neither is "stereotype" a synonym of "the way things actually are".
And yea that terrible Tamil Tiger scourge really has Israel,America,England,Malaysia,Russia etc all worried.
Your post implies that the leaders of these countries are afraid of Al'Quada, et al, but are not afraid of the Tamil Tigers. Your post misses a fundaemental point, which is that "they" (I'm assuming you mean the politicians of Israel, America, England, Malaysia, Russia, et al.) are mostly not at all worried about any kind of terrorism, they simply like to pretend they are. Despite the fact that 50 of my countrymen were killed on 7/7 and many more in Iraq, terrorism is a phantom. Given that there is a far, far greater chance of you dying after being hit by a car, it serves no purpose for either you or me to be afraid.
Wow. That's awesome. Can we *please* have some kind of translation on this? It seems to me just like a regular Simpsons episode translated into ?Arabic? -- complete with English titles.
Slashdot Mirror
Although I like (and partially agree with) your conclusion, the plural of anecdote is not data, unfortunately.
one of the latest attempts to multitask common items, whether we want it or not
Its not hard to understand that if you dont want it, dont buy it.
I for one certainly want one.
Great, what kind of chances does the average Joe geek have for making a house-area one of these out of old HDD magnets? Or something? Sounds like a fun project...
(PS: I have just spent the last two hours googling, no luck :-|
Never gonna happen, but we can only dream. Texas' civil penalties arent enough, IMO, to make DRM go the way of the dinosaur or to make record companies treat DRM like the snake oil it is. So, any slashdotters up for writing to their congressmen telling them that their PCs may have been hacked into by Sony? I'm sure some of them like to listen to Billy Armstrong.
Uptime is good! It gives the servers time to rest!
The William Shatner book, though, was very, very good. Probably the best Trek book I've ever read.
Yes, but in the vernacular, it has come to mean 802.11*. I do not work anywhere near either industry, but thats imediately what I thought of too.
Then one day I decided it was pointless to spend all day talking to virtual people, btter to do something productive. Like play computer games.
And so it started. Starcraft, Red Alert 2, I played (and beat) almost every game under the sun. Mum gave up and let me have a computer in my room, and that was the best desision she ever made (improved my relationship with her no end!)
And gradually, I stopped playing.
Two months ago I bought a brand new computer, Geforce 7800GTX, a gig of memory, and an Athlon XP x64 dual 4400. Awesome system, cost a bomb. But do you know how much I play nowadays? On a good (or bad) week, I spend maybe half an hour if I'm lucky. The rest of the time college work calls, or anything else of my shedule (part-time job training to be a shift-supervisor, volunteer teaching for a non-profit computer centre, or the occaisional really wild party). I'm saving for a visit to a refugee camp in the north of Thailand next summer as well, so that takes quite a bit of time. My point: now I have the deffinition of a fulfilled life. I chose to spend that time on chat, or playing games, it wasnt an addiction (though my mum said it was, tried to get me councilling), and now I dont play anymore. Was it hard? Not at all.
My favorite part was an interview with Britney Spears by some large network television crew. Quote:
Deeply, darkly terrifing. I am genuinely suprised OSB didnt hand in his kaslishnikov and surrender, given that the pop princess has been far more anti-American than he could ever be.
Because how the hell are we supposed to figure out the IP address corresponding to Slashdot.org without it?
You mean you havn't memorised it? Hand in your geek card now...
Anyway. Shotgun posts a great strawman and is more than a little offtopic (we are talking about internet governence, not feeding children). Although you are right in what you say when you clarify shotgun's point, I must add that it becomes the federal government's job (or should become the FG's job) if the other agencies are not doing their job. Some countries of course dont have states or maybe the local authorities have very limited power. Then, after the parents, it is immediately the Government's job.
This gets extended to they must feed the old, too.
Perhaps shotgun would rather the old die from lack of food? (Note: the fabled 'freemarket' will have no problems feeding old people with money, so I'm assuming shotgun was refering to old people without the means to feed themselves.)
Then everybody must eat what the government provides for them, which they do at twice the cost in the form of taxes.
Becareful of that slippery slope: if you go down it you'll slip and then you'll be going so fast when you get to the bottam of the hill you'll carry on going and end up in the centre of the world. And its hot, you'll burn, and worse, you'll be called a cruel and heartless bastard. Shotgun is not a cruel and heartless bastard. Shotgun is merely logically challenged.
Connect to the Net, or create your own, I don't give a damn. But in no way should the UN have any control over how my computer communicates with another. This, however, I agree with. Luckily we have nothing to fear: control of how IPs are mapped to names via the root DNS servers is a policy issue so far removed from actual, technical, "control" of the internet that we should really write to the people concerned and tell them to go and get lessons in word processing, before they tackle the big stuff like "how the internet works".
This whole thing is a mess of bad reporting. I dont want "control" (in inverted commas, because such a term is meaningless) to go to the WGIG any more than you do, for the reasons you list, but please, if it does, we can just go and set up our own DNS Servers and be done with it.
(Oh, and by the way, many of my friends are Chinese. However, the only thing I get from Florida is spam.)
Fight it, mate. We're depending on you.
The entire difference lies in the fact that the public schools are part of the government and private institutions and parties are not
For sure you're right.It's still wrong though. Why should a student going to a private school have any less rights than a student going to a state school? Why should he have to take down any website, infringing or not, while his neighbour down the road who goes to a state school, does not. (And lets not forget, the comments were in his guesbook for pete's sake!)
Schools, while not being equal in terms of academic performance, should certainly be equal in terms of not grossly overstepping the boundaries of common sense. In this respect, I think there should be a legal requirement which states public and private schools have the same obligations and responsiblities to the students.
I believe there was some large disagreement on weather to include it into the kernel. If memory serves, Linus didn't want it but Hans did. So I don't think it will be included unless there is some change which makes Linux consider his stance on filesystems.
Do a search on slashdot for Hans' posts, they are quite insightful.
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the public debate forum over "our nation's safety and security," or privacy.
No it wont be interesting to see how it turns out. This is because "safety and security" (and all the BS associated) wins out over privacy, the interests of the citizen, or just plan common sense, any day.
The price of eternal vigilance is a newspaper, some paper and a pen, and half an hour of your time per day. Write to your congressperson, senator, the white house, newspapers, anyone. But write.
Dude, terrorism is a drop in the bucket. It's not even worth the bandwidth we are using to discuss it.
Stereotypes do not imply that each and every single person must fit the type
Then what use is a stereotype at all? Why even mention it, when for every person you show me who "roughly" fits the stereotype, I will show you a hundred, nay, a thousand more who don't.
Stereotypes exist as a remnant of more primitive times: when it was easier to label someone, than to actually investigate and perhaps even befriend them.
Of course, I am not saying that no Americans are ignorant, obese, or racist, or some combination of the above, merely that the greatest hallmark of a fool (in my not-so-humble opinion) is someone who judges people based on stereotypes, or forms opinions based on stereotypes. I remind you of your earlier post (#13839207) in which you said "the vast majority of that shit is from Muslim fanatics who live primarily in the Middle East. The reason his post was funny is becuase although it's non-PC, everyone knows its true.", basing your judgements solely on that stereotype when as we have just demonstrated, stereotypes are not an accurate source of infomation on this, or any other, issue. Or would you believe all Americans are obese, ignorant, and racist?
the world threat of Tamil suicide bombes vs. Muslim suicide bombers is laughable
No, the threat of suicidie bombers is laughable.
Stereotypes come into existance for a reason, not out of thin air.
Like the stereotype of the ignorant, racist, fat American? Despite the fact that my experience of Americans directly contradicts that stereotype? (I've never been to America, though, and all the Americans I have met in South East Asia have been warm-hearted, cheery people with not the slightest hint of ignorance or racism.) I know the plural of "singular experience" is not "data", but neither is "stereotype" a synonym of "the way things actually are".
And yea that terrible Tamil Tiger scourge really has Israel,America,England,Malaysia,Russia etc all worried.
Your post implies that the leaders of these countries are afraid of Al'Quada, et al, but are not afraid of the Tamil Tigers. Your post misses a fundaemental point, which is that "they" (I'm assuming you mean the politicians of Israel, America, England, Malaysia, Russia, et al.) are mostly not at all worried about any kind of terrorism, they simply like to pretend they are. Despite the fact that 50 of my countrymen were killed on 7/7 and many more in Iraq, terrorism is a phantom. Given that there is a far, far greater chance of you dying after being hit by a car, it serves no purpose for either you or me to be afraid.
And you, sir, cannot spell.
Wow. That's awesome. Can we *please* have some kind of translation on this? It seems to me just like a regular Simpsons episode translated into ?Arabic? -- complete with English titles.