It preserves the rights of ignorance and suppression, rather than allowing and encouraging creativity, invention, and development.
No it doesn't. It preserves fairness, which is what a government is supposed to do. Who gets rights to that material? Who gets to sell it? Who gets to give it away? It's the same with physical property. A car is abandoned on the side of the road. Does it become a "public" car? No. Does the first person who finds it get to keep it? No. There's no way of determining new ownership and rights, and there's no way a system of any kind could deal with the volume of abandoned copyrights to judiciously hand them out to the "best" party, whatever that may mean.
Oh sure, any car you buy is going to have locks. But if you buy it in a bad neighborhood, you'd better lock it immediately after buying it. The dealership isn't going to follow you around and lock it for you. Same thing here.
My shit-hole apartment would be cleaned out in about 4 minutes if I didn't lock the door, too. So what does this prove? That there are nasty things out there? That shouldn't be news to anybody, especially not the Slashdot crowd. Lock down your computer the same way you'd lock your car doors and you'd lock your house.
Paypal and eBay are nothing but shit. Full of scammers and scammers. Quite honestly, anybody that trusts eBay is a moron. And yes, I am referring to its millions of users. And yes, I am suggesting that millions of people are wrong.
A real, trustable single login is used by Yahoo. Yahoo has thousands of stores, their own services, and a very impressive, responsive infrastructure that isn't full of thieves (or run by thieves posing a bank).
Unless you like the fat, pasty look, I'd recommend a physical job, such as a warehouse job. Not only do you get exercise, but you get to NOT use your brain for a while. It's very refreshing and rewarding. I knew a Oracle DBA once who was a "thrower" or a baggage handler at a local airport. He loved it. A job like that provides a nice balance, while at the same time, eliminates the need for paying a gym out the nose.
S designers didn't write drivers to correctly handle an eject event. Windows either doesn't listen for, or doesn't care about CD eject events. The result is that a CD or floppy can be ejected and the dumb OS attempts to continue as if the media were still present.
Are you using Windows 3.1? I can't figure out what in the hell you're talking about. A new CD gets put in the drive. Windows asks what to do with it. You take it out, and it gives an error message if it's being used. Last night, I put a bad DVD in, it tried for a while to try to read it. I tried to eject it, and it wouldn't let me 'cause it was trying to read. So, all of this works fine for me. I've never seen Windows continue on happily when a CD is ejected.
No, I rely on it for my real life store. If any of my machines go down, we'd have to close the doors because we couldn't sell a single thing. As is, we've had 2+ years with no problems. As far as security, I really doubt that anybody would want to hack a cash register. Besides, that's what firewalls are for. Upgrading for the sake of upgrading is simply stupid, and is NOT something that you do with missino critical systems.
Well, my business and my entire livelihood depends on Windows 2000. So I have to disagree. If Windows 2000 were to break, I'd be both homeless and hungry. It hasn't let me down yet, so I've got to disagree.
No, FAT32 can't possible be as reliable as NTFS because NTFS is a journaling filesystem, while FAT32 isn't. Press the power button on a PC with a NTFS formatted hard drive, and 99% of the time, you'll be just fine. Do the same on a PC with a FAT formatted drive, and well... I hope you have a backup.
Not just advantageous, but necessary. Honestly, who uses FAT anymore these days? It's horrible slow, 100% insecure, inefficient as hell with drives much larger than a few hundred meg, and unreliable.
The only real news article here, from the BBC, says that this was "blown out of proportion". I agree. And Slashdot is part of the problem. This is a non-story.
I feel precisely the same way about alcohol and nicotine. It's poor taste to joke about something which addicts people, then takes their lives, hurting their families and friends.
Look, just because you're some right-wing whackjob doesn't mean that everybody else is. Personally, I think it's unhealthy to live in a culture like the US today and NOT be on some kind of drug. Homo sapiens did not evolve to handle work and stress that modern life presents. Personally, I think that various kinds of drugs are a perfectly natural way of adapting/coping with life today. I actually don't trust (and don't hire) any tee-totallers such as yourself, because I simply don't trust them.
Yes, people can do amazing things if they want to, and unbelievable things if they need to. I've been working 80+ hours every week for the past 2 1/2 years. It's not fun, but I have no choice. A lot of people are in my position. Most normal people that I know these days (ie: not high paid programmers) have two jobs just to make ends meet. So, really, "can you do it?" isn't really a question or even an option. It's a necessity for most people.
Good point. Sorry. When I said "no TV", I meant no cable, satellite, or even bunny ears. My TV is just used for my PS2 for games and movies. Thus, my point that I'm not like typical Americans, and am not bombarded or influenced much at all by pop culture, yet there's not much that's more satisfying than shooting somebody in the back of the head at close range with a shotgun. I don't get it. I'm just saying that I don't think that games and culture are necessarily cause and effect.
Well, the government keeps our "news" very clean. The average US citizen knows virtually nothing about an ongoing, bloody, expensive war going on. Hell, most people in the US thinks that Iraq had something to do with 9/11/2001. The US government is good at keeping its people ignorant. Maybe they're thinking that if they remove violence from video games, that'll pacify the sheeple enough for now, while the big industries (TV and movies) can still make their money. I can tell you though, if the US gov't didn't censor news, and the people of the US saw what was going on Iraq, video games would be the least of their worries. Far, far more gruesome things are going on over there. I've never played a video game where I bombed schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings full of innocent people.
Or maybe they're just games, and they're completely unrelated to "culture". I, for example, have little to no contact with pop culture. I have no TV, I live in a progressive town that doesn't allow big box stores (which seems to be the heart of US culture these days), I rarely listen to the radio. But, I love the Grand Theft Auto series. They're fun games. Good relaxation after a 16 hour day of work. Culture has nothing to do with it. I'm glad games like these exist, else I'd be playing mindless, juvenile "Mario" games, which, I'm sorry, just aren't the same thing.
I can't imagine spending that much on a gizmo. I use a $10 Sony Walkman. Works great. I also couldn't even begin to consider buying an Apple. People who have that much disposable income are a completely different market segment than the general population. People such as yourself obviously don't understand that (or perhaps are part of that wealthy elite who do blow cash on toys like this). Marketing people do. It's not classism at all.
Also, I'd imagine money comes into play. Especially disposable income. iPod's are NOT cheap (especially for those of us who have to work for a living). Thus, I'd imagine that if they have $$ to spend on an iPod, then dropping 4 figures for a pretty shiny new computer that matches their iPod is no big deal.
Doesn't this bother anybody? Not only would something like this further hurt brick & mortar stores further, but why the obsession with mega-giant e-teailer Amazon? Has all of Slashdot become consumer whores, wiling to buy from anyone who has the lowest price by $0.01? I love how/.'ers lambast MS, then gladly fork over their money to the likes of Best Buy, Ebay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon. Corporate bitches you all are. If somebody was doing this in our store, they'd be escorted out. We pay all of the overhead that Amazon does not to let you see it in person and touch it and feel it and play with it.
To be perfectly honest, Tivo has never taken off in the US either. Like any other gadget, it has it's group of hardcore followers, but Tivo's market penetration in the US is tiny. Most people in the US have no clue as to what a Tivo is.
Just get a GREAT freeware program called DVD Shrink. You can dupe your DVD's and rip out all of the crap that you don't want (previews, ads, inane commentary, trailers, audio tracks in other languages that you don't know, etc.). 95% of all of the DVD's that I watch are my own dupes with none of that crap in there. Put it in the player, and it plays. Very simple.
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It preserves the rights of ignorance and suppression, rather than allowing and encouraging creativity, invention, and development.
No it doesn't. It preserves fairness, which is what a government is supposed to do. Who gets rights to that material? Who gets to sell it? Who gets to give it away? It's the same with physical property. A car is abandoned on the side of the road. Does it become a "public" car? No. Does the first person who finds it get to keep it? No. There's no way of determining new ownership and rights, and there's no way a system of any kind could deal with the volume of abandoned copyrights to judiciously hand them out to the "best" party, whatever that may mean.
paid to help business out - not the folks they are supposed to be helping.
If this is news to you, my advice is to get your head out of your ass. This is how it's always been.
Oh sure, any car you buy is going to have locks. But if you buy it in a bad neighborhood, you'd better lock it immediately after buying it. The dealership isn't going to follow you around and lock it for you. Same thing here.
My shit-hole apartment would be cleaned out in about 4 minutes if I didn't lock the door, too. So what does this prove? That there are nasty things out there? That shouldn't be news to anybody, especially not the Slashdot crowd. Lock down your computer the same way you'd lock your car doors and you'd lock your house.
Paypal and eBay are nothing but shit. Full of scammers and scammers. Quite honestly, anybody that trusts eBay is a moron. And yes, I am referring to its millions of users. And yes, I am suggesting that millions of people are wrong.
A real, trustable single login is used by Yahoo. Yahoo has thousands of stores, their own services, and a very impressive, responsive infrastructure that isn't full of thieves (or run by thieves posing a bank).
Unless you like the fat, pasty look, I'd recommend a physical job, such as a warehouse job. Not only do you get exercise, but you get to NOT use your brain for a while. It's very refreshing and rewarding. I knew a Oracle DBA once who was a "thrower" or a baggage handler at a local airport. He loved it. A job like that provides a nice balance, while at the same time, eliminates the need for paying a gym out the nose.
S designers didn't write drivers to correctly handle an eject event. Windows either doesn't listen for, or doesn't care about CD eject events. The result is that a CD or floppy can be ejected and the dumb OS attempts to continue as if the media were still present.
Are you using Windows 3.1? I can't figure out what in the hell you're talking about. A new CD gets put in the drive. Windows asks what to do with it. You take it out, and it gives an error message if it's being used. Last night, I put a bad DVD in, it tried for a while to try to read it. I tried to eject it, and it wouldn't let me 'cause it was trying to read. So, all of this works fine for me. I've never seen Windows continue on happily when a CD is ejected.
No, I rely on it for my real life store. If any of my machines go down, we'd have to close the doors because we couldn't sell a single thing. As is, we've had 2+ years with no problems. As far as security, I really doubt that anybody would want to hack a cash register. Besides, that's what firewalls are for. Upgrading for the sake of upgrading is simply stupid, and is NOT something that you do with missino critical systems.
Well, my business and my entire livelihood depends on Windows 2000. So I have to disagree. If Windows 2000 were to break, I'd be both homeless and hungry. It hasn't let me down yet, so I've got to disagree.
Let's start using something stable for critical shit, shall we?
And Windows 2000 isn't stable? Is this your first troll?
Yup. YMMV
No, FAT32 can't possible be as reliable as NTFS because NTFS is a journaling filesystem, while FAT32 isn't. Press the power button on a PC with a NTFS formatted hard drive, and 99% of the time, you'll be just fine. Do the same on a PC with a FAT formatted drive, and well... I hope you have a backup.
Not just advantageous, but necessary. Honestly, who uses FAT anymore these days? It's horrible slow, 100% insecure, inefficient as hell with drives much larger than a few hundred meg, and unreliable.
The only real news article here, from the BBC, says that this was "blown out of proportion". I agree. And Slashdot is part of the problem. This is a non-story.
I feel precisely the same way about alcohol and nicotine. It's poor taste to joke about something which addicts people, then takes their lives, hurting their families and friends.
Look, just because you're some right-wing whackjob doesn't mean that everybody else is. Personally, I think it's unhealthy to live in a culture like the US today and NOT be on some kind of drug. Homo sapiens did not evolve to handle work and stress that modern life presents. Personally, I think that various kinds of drugs are a perfectly natural way of adapting/coping with life today. I actually don't trust (and don't hire) any tee-totallers such as yourself, because I simply don't trust them.
I do more coke so I can work more hours so I can make more money so I can do more coke.
And what's wrong with that, exactly...?
Yes, people can do amazing things if they want to, and unbelievable things if they need to. I've been working 80+ hours every week for the past 2 1/2 years. It's not fun, but I have no choice. A lot of people are in my position. Most normal people that I know these days (ie: not high paid programmers) have two jobs just to make ends meet. So, really, "can you do it?" isn't really a question or even an option. It's a necessity for most people.
Good point. Sorry. When I said "no TV", I meant no cable, satellite, or even bunny ears. My TV is just used for my PS2 for games and movies. Thus, my point that I'm not like typical Americans, and am not bombarded or influenced much at all by pop culture, yet there's not much that's more satisfying than shooting somebody in the back of the head at close range with a shotgun. I don't get it. I'm just saying that I don't think that games and culture are necessarily cause and effect.
Well, the government keeps our "news" very clean. The average US citizen knows virtually nothing about an ongoing, bloody, expensive war going on. Hell, most people in the US thinks that Iraq had something to do with 9/11/2001. The US government is good at keeping its people ignorant. Maybe they're thinking that if they remove violence from video games, that'll pacify the sheeple enough for now, while the big industries (TV and movies) can still make their money. I can tell you though, if the US gov't didn't censor news, and the people of the US saw what was going on Iraq, video games would be the least of their worries. Far, far more gruesome things are going on over there. I've never played a video game where I bombed schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings full of innocent people.
Or maybe they're just games, and they're completely unrelated to "culture". I, for example, have little to no contact with pop culture. I have no TV, I live in a progressive town that doesn't allow big box stores (which seems to be the heart of US culture these days), I rarely listen to the radio. But, I love the Grand Theft Auto series. They're fun games. Good relaxation after a 16 hour day of work. Culture has nothing to do with it. I'm glad games like these exist, else I'd be playing mindless, juvenile "Mario" games, which, I'm sorry, just aren't the same thing.
I can't imagine spending that much on a gizmo. I use a $10 Sony Walkman. Works great. I also couldn't even begin to consider buying an Apple. People who have that much disposable income are a completely different market segment than the general population. People such as yourself obviously don't understand that (or perhaps are part of that wealthy elite who do blow cash on toys like this). Marketing people do. It's not classism at all.
Also, I'd imagine money comes into play. Especially disposable income. iPod's are NOT cheap (especially for those of us who have to work for a living). Thus, I'd imagine that if they have $$ to spend on an iPod, then dropping 4 figures for a pretty shiny new computer that matches their iPod is no big deal.
Doesn't this bother anybody? Not only would something like this further hurt brick & mortar stores further, but why the obsession with mega-giant e-teailer Amazon? Has all of Slashdot become consumer whores, wiling to buy from anyone who has the lowest price by $0.01? I love how /.'ers lambast MS, then gladly fork over their money to the likes of Best Buy, Ebay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon. Corporate bitches you all are. If somebody was doing this in our store, they'd be escorted out. We pay all of the overhead that Amazon does not to let you see it in person and touch it and feel it and play with it.
To be perfectly honest, Tivo has never taken off in the US either. Like any other gadget, it has it's group of hardcore followers, but Tivo's market penetration in the US is tiny. Most people in the US have no clue as to what a Tivo is.
They offer too little control for my taste
Just get a GREAT freeware program called DVD Shrink. You can dupe your DVD's and rip out all of the crap that you don't want (previews, ads, inane commentary, trailers, audio tracks in other languages that you don't know, etc.). 95% of all of the DVD's that I watch are my own dupes with none of that crap in there. Put it in the player, and it plays. Very simple.