You realize it transmits over radio, and unencrypted? While it's illegal for someone to listen in, there's no way to detect someone listening in, so that's an unenforceable law.
What you do have is the right to say 'Put me on your do not call list' or 'Go to hell you blood sucking leeches'. You don't have a constitutional right to have a nice day. You have to exercise your rights when other initiate unwanted contact, you have to tell the Jehova's Witnesses to go away when they come to your door, you can't stop them from coming to your door.
There really is no problem with treating corporations like people. Let them have full legal rights like people. BUT also give them a limited lifespan, like people. A couple hundred years ago, corporations were typically chartered for a limited time only, to prevent exactly the kinds of problems we have now. The Dutch East India company was chartered to further a specific social goal, and then dissolved. Corporate personhood only becomes dangerous when combined with IMMORTALITY. Think about it, a person making umpteen billion dollars a year (cough, cough, Bill Gates) has a lot of power - but now imagine an IMMORTAL Bill Gates - well that's what we have with corporations. We'll never be able to re-institute limited lifespans being built into corporate charters. But we might be able to get corporate charters dissolved when the corporations are shown to have violated the law. I think the climate now is right for such a move, though there's nobody in government to sponsor such an idea.
i'm so sick of all you sanctimonious fucks saying 'well boycott it then'. HOW THE HELL are you going to boycott phones? oh, wait a minute..... let me guess, nobody calls you anyway, right? you cannot boycott phones.
let me make this clear. your boycott of the RIAA did NOTHING. your boycott of the MPAA did NOTHING. your boycott of the phone companies will do NOTHING. deal with it.
Ask to be put on their do not call list immediately? Do it first thing, before they even have a chance to start their pitch. They're not allowed to do anything but be polite, say yes, and end the call, and never call back. Cuts down on the number of calls a lot.
At first I thought I was just being paranoid. But if it occurred to you to within a matter of minutes, you can bet it will occur to someone in the new 'Homeland Security' department also. Collect everything (at huge expense) then throw it all in a database and get search warrants on anyone who calls the middle east on general principle.
One person in my office uses a Dvork keyboard. Nobody can sit down at his desk and interface with his computer, nor can he do the same at anyone else's computer. Dvorak is a much better interface, but anytime you're in a social situation you choose the most universal solution, not the optimal solution.
It should be up to the end user what the experience of the content provided by a web site. If you want your style sheet to override theirs, it should. If you want to block the pop-ups, you should be able to. If you want to see Gator's ads instead of the sites' ads, you should be able to. Now the question of whether people want to see Gators' ads instead is a valid one, and the answer is probably no. But if asked whether they would be willing to do so in exchange for a free form-filler-outer, many would say yes. Ad supported freeware has a decently long tradition - as do hacks to then prevent the ads from actually being seen. I support those as well, while obviously there the ad supported freeware people don't. The test to apply is always "Does this increase the ability of the end user to control what's on their desktop?", and while Gator does very little on that front, this lawsuit against Gator could potentially do a lot to hurt that goal.
I was the original poster of the line starting "Your thoughtful gift of....". This is the second 'identity' I've seen that seems to be a bot that harvests lines from other posters\. Is this the next level - capable of finding linked articles from a slashback and harvesting there? Just needs some work on the flow of the language. Also maybe throw in a "Sorry about me Hunglish" at the end and people will start to give it the benefit of the doubt.
I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that ninjas have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Ninjas are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Ninjas are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love ninjas with all of my body (including my pee pee).
Everyone who had high karma now just has 'excellent'. Since according to the editors, nothing over 25 karma really matters, I figure I've got 23 karma to burn with goatse.cx posts.
I've always loved your posts Subject Line Troll. To anyone that finds slashdot getting boring, start reading at -1.
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by (Score 5, Wow) on Friday July 12, @09:46AM (#3870383)
(User #592297 Info) NIce to see these sessions are still held. WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOOT Missed them [google.com] for a while.
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Yesterday afternoon I had 48 karma. Today it's excellent. No announcement from the editors. No update of the faq which still says the karma cap is 50, not 'excellent'. Since I guess I don't have the ability to track karma on a point basis anymore, I'm not going to post as an anonymous coward, cuz now I really don't fucking care if you mod me down as off-topic. Since there is no story about this, there is nowhere for me to make this comment and have it be on-topic, but it's clearly relevant to the slashdot community.
Thank you so much editors, now I will be free to troll and troll and troll, which is what this is going to encourage for anyone that had high karma. You really might want to reconsider how you view karma, you don't see it as a point keeping system, but it is. Once I had maxed out my karma a while back, I really lost interest in posting about most issues. What keeps people playing games like Everquest? The eternal desire to have more experience, more gold, more of some kind of point system than others. Same thing kept me posting.
This might cause some problems if presented in the same format as the 'next n seconds' waveform. The waveform as a straight line is realllllllly long. All the grooves on the vinyl really are is the waveform of the music, and they take up a 12" spiral. But I guess the waveform could be compressed to a fairly high degree, that would actually make it easer to spot the breaks. I guess the natural thing to do would be to compress it to fit in with the time marker, so that rather than just being a progress bar, it could show you the map of the song. Hmm.... that's a pretty good idea, and would certainly make the program more appealing to anyone with only one sound card.
You do realize I hope, that vinyl is in 99.9% of cases digitally mastered before being pressed on an analog media.
The advantage of vinyl over cd/mp3 is all in the interface, which this maintains. He just needs to cram 100 times as much ram in there, to take it from 20 second samples (pretty useless) to 20 minute samples (which will fit any song).
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You realize it transmits over radio, and unencrypted? While it's illegal for someone to listen in, there's no way to detect someone listening in, so that's an unenforceable law.
What you do have is the right to say 'Put me on your do not call list' or 'Go to hell you blood sucking leeches'. You don't have a constitutional right to have a nice day. You have to exercise your rights when other initiate unwanted contact, you have to tell the Jehova's Witnesses to go away when they come to your door, you can't stop them from coming to your door.
There was nothing in the article saying that at all.
There really is no problem with treating corporations like people. Let them have full legal rights like people. BUT also give them a limited lifespan, like people. A couple hundred years ago, corporations were typically chartered for a limited time only, to prevent exactly the kinds of problems we have now. The Dutch East India company was chartered to further a specific social goal, and then dissolved. Corporate personhood only becomes dangerous when combined with IMMORTALITY. Think about it, a person making umpteen billion dollars a year (cough, cough, Bill Gates) has a lot of power - but now imagine an IMMORTAL Bill Gates - well that's what we have with corporations. We'll never be able to re-institute limited lifespans being built into corporate charters. But we might be able to get corporate charters dissolved when the corporations are shown to have violated the law. I think the climate now is right for such a move, though there's nobody in government to sponsor such an idea.
The restrictions we put on gov't agencies don't apply to private companies.
i'm so sick of all you sanctimonious fucks saying 'well boycott it then'. HOW THE HELL are you going to boycott phones? oh, wait a minute..... let me guess, nobody calls you anyway, right? you cannot boycott phones.
let me make this clear. your boycott of the RIAA did NOTHING. your boycott of the MPAA did NOTHING. your boycott of the phone companies will do NOTHING. deal with it.
Ask to be put on their do not call list immediately? Do it first thing, before they even have a chance to start their pitch. They're not allowed to do anything but be polite, say yes, and end the call, and never call back. Cuts down on the number of calls a lot.
At first I thought I was just being paranoid. But if it occurred to you to within a matter of minutes, you can bet it will occur to someone in the new 'Homeland Security' department also. Collect everything (at huge expense) then throw it all in a database and get search warrants on anyone who calls the middle east on general principle.
"Let's be precise in our use of language, or not."
Very compressed contentlessness.
One person in my office uses a Dvork keyboard. Nobody can sit down at his desk and interface with his computer, nor can he do the same at anyone else's computer. Dvorak is a much better interface, but anytime you're in a social situation you choose the most universal solution, not the optimal solution.
It should be up to the end user what the experience of the content provided by a web site. If you want your style sheet to override theirs, it should. If you want to block the pop-ups, you should be able to. If you want to see Gator's ads instead of the sites' ads, you should be able to. Now the question of whether people want to see Gators' ads instead is a valid one, and the answer is probably no. But if asked whether they would be willing to do so in exchange for a free form-filler-outer, many would say yes. Ad supported freeware has a decently long tradition - as do hacks to then prevent the ads from actually being seen. I support those as well, while obviously there the ad supported freeware people don't. The test to apply is always "Does this increase the ability of the end user to control what's on their desktop?", and while Gator does very little on that front, this lawsuit against Gator could potentially do a lot to hurt that goal.
I was the original poster of the line starting "Your thoughtful gift of....". This is the second 'identity' I've seen that seems to be a bot that harvests lines from other posters\. Is this the next level - capable of finding linked articles from a slashback and harvesting there? Just needs some work on the flow of the language. Also maybe throw in a "Sorry about me Hunglish" at the end and people will start to give it the benefit of the doubt.
That your daily commuter car gets 3mpg?
What, are you Satan?
I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that ninjas have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Ninjas are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Ninjas are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love ninjas with all of my body (including my pee pee).
(reprinted from realultimatepower.net)
you have a serious drinking problem.
:)
get help
i love this new system that no longer punishes me for goatse.cx links. exactly what slashdot needed.
I wonder if in their wisdom the editors might consider the fact that the desire to get to 50 karma kept people posting good useful posts?
Nah.... who cares about that....
I don't give a fuck if i'm modded offtopic, because i have at least 23 karma to burn before i'll even be able to notice.
:P
This karma decision was UTTERLY STUPID and should really have been discussed with some users first.
And you clearly clicked on the "OT: where's my karma gone?" comment to read about karma anyway biznitch
Everyone who had high karma now just has 'excellent'. Since according to the editors, nothing over 25 karma really matters, I figure I've got 23 karma to burn with goatse.cx posts.
I've always loved your posts Subject Line Troll. To anyone that finds slashdot getting boring, start reading at -1.
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by (Score 5, Wow) on Friday July 12, @09:46AM (#3870383)
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NIce to see these sessions are still held. WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOOT Missed
them [google.com] for a while.
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No more karma for me...... no more karma for you...... suck the fart from my asshole editors
Yesterday afternoon I had 48 karma. Today it's excellent. No announcement from the editors. No update of the faq which still says the karma cap is 50, not 'excellent'. Since I guess I don't have the ability to track karma on a point basis anymore, I'm not going to post as an anonymous coward, cuz now I really don't fucking care if you mod me down as off-topic. Since there is no story about this, there is nowhere for me to make this comment and have it be on-topic, but it's clearly relevant to the slashdot community.
Thank you so much editors, now I will be free to troll and troll and troll, which is what this is going to encourage for anyone that had high karma. You really might want to reconsider how you view karma, you don't see it as a point keeping system, but it is. Once I had maxed out my karma a while back, I really lost interest in posting about most issues. What keeps people playing games like Everquest? The eternal desire to have more experience, more gold, more of some kind of point system than others. Same thing kept me posting.
This might cause some problems if presented in the same format as the 'next n seconds' waveform. The waveform as a straight line is realllllllly long. All the grooves on the vinyl really are is the waveform of the music, and they take up a 12" spiral. But I guess the waveform could be compressed to a fairly high degree, that would actually make it easer to spot the breaks. I guess the natural thing to do would be to compress it to fit in with the time marker, so that rather than just being a progress bar, it could show you the map of the song. Hmm.... that's a pretty good idea, and would certainly make the program more appealing to anyone with only one sound card.
That's a really interesting question.
Obviously, this guy has mastered the time cube, and is scratching forward in time.
You do realize I hope, that vinyl is in 99.9% of cases digitally mastered before being pressed on an analog media.
The advantage of vinyl over cd/mp3 is all in the interface, which this maintains. He just needs to cram 100 times as much ram in there, to take it from 20 second samples (pretty useless) to 20 minute samples (which will fit any song).