Ha, yeah...who'd have thought of saying such a thing. I think I read a book with something like that in it once...I forget the name though. The "Bubel"...no, the "Pible"....aw jeeze, I can't remember.
We also don't make it onto "Trading Spouses" like that insane "Christian" lady.
*yes, coming from another Christian, that lady was crazy, and an embarrassment to all Christians.
Maybe if more Christians took more of a stand and told people to stop swearing, drinking, screwing around or watching porn the society at large would be more courteous, have less drunk drivers, and broken marriages.
I think the better approach would be for Christians to stop doing those things first, and then, rather than condemning others for doing those things, try just simply loving others. How many people do you think would spring for a Christianity that offers love over judgement? Probably lots...
If it actually looked like something that would fit in with an entertainment system (like if it looked like a dvd player or a vcd, or something that at least looked like it belonged by my tv) I would really consider buying and replacing my dvd player with it. But right now, the white rounded-ness of it just doesn't jive.
And on a serious note, does anyone find it comical that now they are offering MP3 downloads? Seems like Sony realized that it's a CHEAPER and more EFFICIENT way of distributing music. Too bad the music companies aren't realizing this sooner.
Maybe no one ever considers this, but maybe the reason that the media appears to have a "right" slant is simply because the the "right" is right (as in correct) more often than the "left" is right.
On another note, I'd love a news channel or news paper that just gave facts without intensifying adjectives, or opinionated words, like terrible, amazing, criminal, beautiful, gruesome, etc etc. Adjectives that refer to facts, like size, shape, color, etc would be fine. I guess I mean objectivity rather than subjectivity.
I don't know if the number of science/math students is even an issue. I mean, if people aren't interested in those subjects, they simply aren't interested. You can't just turn a dial and get more students. So this guy is making claims about an issue that really isn't an issue and even if it was, there wouldn't be any solution anyway.
I don't know if it means much, but their stock price hasn't seemed to have suffered much from this. And it's been pretty stable for the last few years...
Sony will get a slap on the finger, if even that much. CD's aren't the only thing they sell, and really, for most people the whole rootkit thing doesn't matter. Heck, you still have to be pretty tech savvy to understand what the whole thing is about. I doubt this whole thing is on the top of Sony's list of issues...at least not for the company as a whole.
Maybe it depends where you go. I bought my 32 inch tv there for $50 less than the "best deals in town" tv store and $20 less than Wal-Mart. I bought a 512 mb Memory Stick for $30 less than Wal-mart. I just bought a flat panel dispay for about the same price as online. My wife gets her contact lenses there for the online price. Plus all the food I buy there is pretty cheap.
So really, I made my $45 membership fee back a long time ago.
But like I said, maybe it depends where your Costco is.
Of course, there's the part in the license about being able remove or delete the software. However, when I tried to do this (delete the files related to the program), I guess it broke the driver and Windows wouldn't boot.
I disagree. The purpose of a punishment is to deter people from doing something. This guy knew what the penalty could be for his actions, but he did it anyway. I'll leave it to a judge to decide what's appropriate, and if the law says four years in prison, then so be it.
Every now and then it's nice to see someone on Slashdot who gets it. Thank you.
THere's nothing illegal about sharing files, unless they are copyrighted works that you are not allowed to distribute. This guy did a crime, now he'll serve whatever the approproate punishment is.
And in reply to another post I read...just because you disagree with a law doesn't exempt you from the penalties. I might disagree with the 65mph speed limit on the freeway, but if Mr. Policeman catches me doing 80 mph, I'm still going to get a ticket.
Those terms give Blizzard the right to install a rootkit on your computer and communicate the information that the rootkit retrieves (like your bank account information and GPG keys) back to Blizzard...They're probably not doing this, but without the source code, how can you be sure?
Well, probably because if you're playing WoW, they already have your credit card/bank info. YOu're paying to play, remember?
H5N1 the strain of avian flu that has people so worried has been infecting humans since 1997 and has a mortality rate of over 50% (after having infected a total of around 120 people)
Yeah, in Asia where their healthcare is crap or non-existant. And maybe that 50% was older/unhealthy people. And maybe the number of infected people was well over 120, but no one ever found out because of, as I stated earlier, Asian crappy healthcare. So please, don't throw meaningless numbers around. That's what big media is for.
Exchange of genetic material between the human flu virus and the bird flu virus could form a new pathogenic flu virus and cause a pandemic.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but since when do viruses (virii) exchange genetic material? Please cite some kind of real world example of this actually happening...I'm really curious. Otherwise, stop the hype.
Remember all those stories last year during the vaccine shortage that had all those geezers in long lines? How did that hype-fest turn out?
Or how about SARS...which was a lot of hype over nothing? Or West Nile..which was hyped up, but barely killed anyone? Or Dan Rather's documents about Bush that turned out to be fake? Or the reported rapes and murders that supposedly happened in New Orleans, which turned out to be false? Or the news reports that said there could be 60,000 people dead after Katrina...and it turned out to be about 1200? Or the deadly/toxic water in New Orleans that turned out to be not much more harmful than their rain run-off?
And that's just recent stuff that I can think of off the top of my head.
So excuse me if I don't seem too concerned about this whole avian flu thing.
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Ha, yeah...who'd have thought of saying such a thing. I think I read a book with something like that in it once...I forget the name though. The "Bubel"...no, the "Pible"....aw jeeze, I can't remember.
We also don't make it onto "Trading Spouses" like that insane "Christian" lady. *yes, coming from another Christian, that lady was crazy, and an embarrassment to all Christians.
(I'm a christian)
Maybe if more Christians took more of a stand and told people to stop swearing, drinking, screwing around or watching porn the society at large would be more courteous, have less drunk drivers, and broken marriages.
I think the better approach would be for Christians to stop doing those things first, and then, rather than condemning others for doing those things, try just simply loving others. How many people do you think would spring for a Christianity that offers love over judgement? Probably lots...
If it actually looked like something that would fit in with an entertainment system (like if it looked like a dvd player or a vcd, or something that at least looked like it belonged by my tv) I would really consider buying and replacing my dvd player with it. But right now, the white rounded-ness of it just doesn't jive.
And on a serious note, does anyone find it comical that now they are offering MP3 downloads? Seems like Sony realized that it's a CHEAPER and more EFFICIENT way of distributing music. Too bad the music companies aren't realizing this sooner.
Sony is offering those who want to return the CDs the chance to download MP3 versions of the discs
Too late ya bastards, I already ripped me music off ye DRM'd cd. Yarrr!
Good luck getting advertisers to switch from a high traffic site like Google to a Windows version that will likely havea small customer base.
Maybe no one ever considers this, but maybe the reason that the media appears to have a "right" slant is simply because the the "right" is right (as in correct) more often than the "left" is right.
On another note, I'd love a news channel or news paper that just gave facts without intensifying adjectives, or opinionated words, like terrible, amazing, criminal, beautiful, gruesome, etc etc. Adjectives that refer to facts, like size, shape, color, etc would be fine. I guess I mean objectivity rather than subjectivity.
I don't know if the number of science/math students is even an issue. I mean, if people aren't interested in those subjects, they simply aren't interested. You can't just turn a dial and get more students. So this guy is making claims about an issue that really isn't an issue and even if it was, there wouldn't be any solution anyway.
I don't know if it means much, but their stock price hasn't seemed to have suffered much from this. And it's been pretty stable for the last few years...
Sony will get a slap on the finger, if even that much. CD's aren't the only thing they sell, and really, for most people the whole rootkit thing doesn't matter. Heck, you still have to be pretty tech savvy to understand what the whole thing is about. I doubt this whole thing is on the top of Sony's list of issues...at least not for the company as a whole.
The crew. The time the crew would be away from earth would be how long? 10 years? 20 years?
Why does it need a crew if it's just going to use gravity to nudge an asteroid?
Yeah, I meant the little two inch screen tv's.
Unfortunately, I did this before this article came out :(
On the upside, I just turned off autoplay on my cd drive and used Cdex to rip the tracks off. The DRM didn't get installed...woohoo.
Agreed. They've also had those little handheld tv's forever, but they never really seem to have caught on.
Maybe it depends where you go. I bought my 32 inch tv there for $50 less than the "best deals in town" tv store and $20 less than Wal-Mart. I bought a 512 mb Memory Stick for $30 less than Wal-mart. I just bought a flat panel dispay for about the same price as online. My wife gets her contact lenses there for the online price. Plus all the food I buy there is pretty cheap.
So really, I made my $45 membership fee back a long time ago.
But like I said, maybe it depends where your Costco is.
Of course, there's the part in the license about being able remove or delete the software. However, when I tried to do this (delete the files related to the program), I guess it broke the driver and Windows wouldn't boot.
I disagree. The purpose of a punishment is to deter people from doing something. This guy knew what the penalty could be for his actions, but he did it anyway. I'll leave it to a judge to decide what's appropriate, and if the law says four years in prison, then so be it.
Every now and then it's nice to see someone on Slashdot who gets it. Thank you.
THere's nothing illegal about sharing files, unless they are copyrighted works that you are not allowed to distribute. This guy did a crime, now he'll serve whatever the approproate punishment is.
And in reply to another post I read...just because you disagree with a law doesn't exempt you from the penalties. I might disagree with the 65mph speed limit on the freeway, but if Mr. Policeman catches me doing 80 mph, I'm still going to get a ticket.
Those terms give Blizzard the right to install a rootkit on your computer and communicate the information that the rootkit retrieves (like your bank account information and GPG keys) back to Blizzard...They're probably not doing this, but without the source code, how can you be sure?
Well, probably because if you're playing WoW, they already have your credit card/bank info. YOu're paying to play, remember?
My good sir, that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
But does this ever happen?
H5N1 the strain of avian flu that has people so worried has been infecting humans since 1997 and has a mortality rate of over 50% (after having infected a total of around 120 people)
Yeah, in Asia where their healthcare is crap or non-existant. And maybe that 50% was older/unhealthy people. And maybe the number of infected people was well over 120, but no one ever found out because of, as I stated earlier, Asian crappy healthcare. So please, don't throw meaningless numbers around. That's what big media is for.
What the hell?
Exchange of genetic material between the human flu virus and the bird flu virus could form a new pathogenic flu virus and cause a pandemic.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but since when do viruses (virii) exchange genetic material? Please cite some kind of real world example of this actually happening...I'm really curious. Otherwise, stop the hype.
Remember all those stories last year during the vaccine shortage that had all those geezers in long lines? How did that hype-fest turn out?
Or how about SARS...which was a lot of hype over nothing?
Or West Nile..which was hyped up, but barely killed anyone?
Or Dan Rather's documents about Bush that turned out to be fake?
Or the reported rapes and murders that supposedly happened in New Orleans, which turned out to be false?
Or the news reports that said there could be 60,000 people dead after Katrina...and it turned out to be about 1200?
Or the deadly/toxic water in New Orleans that turned out to be not much more harmful than their rain run-off?
And that's just recent stuff that I can think of off the top of my head.
So excuse me if I don't seem too concerned about this whole avian flu thing.