A death threat can be illegal even if you never meant to act out on the threat and even if you can prove that you never meant to act out on it. You're intimidating someone and causing mental anguish. "Freedom" (free speech) doesn't mean you can piss on your neighbour's lawn.
Oops, slashdot doesn't log IP addresses, only hashes of the IPs. I'm sure you didn't know that and you were genuinely displaying your bravery and simultaenously making a bold statement.
Who the fuck modded parent as insightful? If you were the cheif of secret service and it was brought to your attention that someone made a threat of killing the president of USA, would you do something or would you sit with your thumb up your ass? And BTW, free speech does not protect making threats - even if you don't act out upon the threat.
theres something wrong with the world.
No, just USA, if anywhere.
Mods: just because you too have a blog doesn't mean doesn't mean I'm isulting you. Dont worry, I'm not saying you're inferior, have some fucking integrity.
What if that guy was mentally retarded and actually wanted to kill the president? After many 'tragedies' I read that the guy who made that tragedy happen "wrote things on his website" which indicated the nature of the person and the impending disaster. Sure the government won't take action if the threat was against some ordinary person, but this is the president of your country - they can NOT take any chances. And once they found out he was harmless, they let him go without any charges. Fair enough.
And the article is about a developed country. The developing countries aren't doing this - a developed country is. Learn to focus on the topic at hand without bashing the 'third world'.
The big deal is 'reality'. We all know that the world is male dominated (I'm a male too). And there are many cases of people aborting a female. In a male-dominated society, if someone gets the chance to choose between a male and a female child whom would you think they'd choose? Other than the moral (and political) bad aspects, this also has serious biological implication. The world doesn't belong to just you or me - it belongs to all of us. So when you bring a new person into the world, you have to follow some rules.
By what I've seen on slashdot (and other Internet forums) male domination exists in developed countries too. And AFAIK, all new potentially-exploitable technological breakthroughs were first exploited by the developed world before us.
Holy shit! Are they out of their fucking minds?! I just hope the UK society is not as male dominated as other places. There are already many sex-determined abortions of females (sorry, don't know the right word) happening in many places around the world.
Then you're a fucking idiot. Surprising that you got into MIT (or maybe you didn't.. you know, you might just be lying to make point here!! *gasp*!!). From the wikipedia article:
"X Window System" is commonly shortened to "X11" or simply "X". The term "X Windows" (in the manner of "Microsoft Windows") is officially deprecated and generally considered incorrect, though it has been in common use since the inception of X and has been used deliberately for literary effect, for example in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook.
If I search for a few more seconds, I might find some mention of this on x.org or xfree86.org somewhere, but you're not worth spending that much time on. And that thing about RMS and other MIT people calling it X WindowS (not by mistake) -- yeah, right. I believe you. And BTW, common usage doesn't make 'then' and 'than' interchangeable. It's still an error when you do that. Same thing with X.
Last time there was a Amazon patent article on/. I posted saying they are patenting concepts. But this one is even worse. In fact I don't even know the appropriate word. What are they patenting, common sense? The very concept of (or conclusions you can make from) business?
You're missing grandparent's point. He was saying that it is not X WindowS. It is always mentioned that the S should be left out - it's not Microsoft Windows and X Windows. Stop being a smartass karma-whore. A lot of people leave out "System" when the context is not formal.
Prior art? The IPv6 RFC was released on December 1998 and the Microsoft patent was filed on April 1998 - months before the RFC was released (although the idea of the patent must have existed in the standards comittee and its mailing lists earlier).
People only see what they want to see. I too get the 'korean' 'chinese' and 'russian' spam but that's not even 1% of the total spam I get. The rest is English. And the few that I've looked at seem like they're targetted at Americans.
Let's also hang you since you're a potential victim to a carjacking and therefore people like you keep the carjacking industry alive. Not to mention everyone else.
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A death threat can be illegal even if you never meant to act out on the threat and even if you can prove that you never meant to act out on it. You're intimidating someone and causing mental anguish. "Freedom" (free speech) doesn't mean you can piss on your neighbour's lawn.
Oops, slashdot doesn't log IP addresses, only hashes of the IPs. I'm sure you didn't know that and you were genuinely displaying your bravery and simultaenously making a bold statement.
Who the fuck modded parent as insightful? If you were the cheif of secret service and it was brought to your attention that someone made a threat of killing the president of USA, would you do something or would you sit with your thumb up your ass? And BTW, free speech does not protect making threats - even if you don't act out upon the threat.
theres something wrong with the world.
No, just USA, if anywhere.
Mods: just because you too have a blog doesn't mean doesn't mean I'm isulting you. Dont worry, I'm not saying you're inferior, have some fucking integrity.
Not everyone is supposed to know an American billionare.
What if that guy was mentally retarded and actually wanted to kill the president? After many 'tragedies' I read that the guy who made that tragedy happen "wrote things on his website" which indicated the nature of the person and the impending disaster. Sure the government won't take action if the threat was against some ordinary person, but this is the president of your country - they can NOT take any chances. And once they found out he was harmless, they let him go without any charges. Fair enough.
Dude, English? I piss patterns in snow which are more coherent than that.
And you're going to make the day of a sysadmin, who has already went through enough, worse. While McBride sits in his jaccuzi.
So, how is this much different from Apple claiming that PCs aren't good?
And the article is about a developed country. The developing countries aren't doing this - a developed country is. Learn to focus on the topic at hand without bashing the 'third world'.
Yeah, all countries other than yours are just full of immoral assholes.
Any reasons to select a gender can be nullified by selecting particular qualities in the child.
The big deal is 'reality'. We all know that the world is male dominated (I'm a male too). And there are many cases of people aborting a female. In a male-dominated society, if someone gets the chance to choose between a male and a female child whom would you think they'd choose? Other than the moral (and political) bad aspects, this also has serious biological implication. The world doesn't belong to just you or me - it belongs to all of us. So when you bring a new person into the world, you have to follow some rules.
By what I've seen on slashdot (and other Internet forums) male domination exists in developed countries too. And AFAIK, all new potentially-exploitable technological breakthroughs were first exploited by the developed world before us.
Holy shit! Are they out of their fucking minds?! I just hope the UK society is not as male dominated as other places. There are already many sex-determined abortions of females (sorry, don't know the right word) happening in many places around the world.
This too is not a sentence: Joke-e-oke, basically a karaoke with stand-up comedy material.
Then you're a fucking idiot. Surprising that you got into MIT (or maybe you didn't.. you know, you might just be lying to make point here!! *gasp*!!). From the wikipedia article:
"X Window System" is commonly shortened to "X11" or simply "X". The term "X Windows" (in the manner of "Microsoft Windows") is officially deprecated and generally considered incorrect, though it has been in common use since the inception of X and has been used deliberately for literary effect, for example in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook.
If I search for a few more seconds, I might find some mention of this on x.org or xfree86.org somewhere, but you're not worth spending that much time on. And that thing about RMS and other MIT people calling it X WindowS (not by mistake) -- yeah, right. I believe you. And BTW, common usage doesn't make 'then' and 'than' interchangeable. It's still an error when you do that. Same thing with X.
Last time there was a Amazon patent article on /. I posted saying they are patenting concepts. But this one is even worse. In fact I don't even know the appropriate word. What are they patenting, common sense? The very concept of (or conclusions you can make from) business?
You're missing grandparent's point. He was saying that it is not X WindowS. It is always mentioned that the S should be left out - it's not Microsoft Windows and X Windows. Stop being a smartass karma-whore. A lot of people leave out "System" when the context is not formal.
...the fonts suck. I still use fonts from windows on Linux. (I wish I was capable of creating a nice font.)
Will an AC please post the WSJ article?
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Prior art? The IPv6 RFC was released on December 1998 and the Microsoft patent was filed on April 1998 - months before the RFC was released (although the idea of the patent must have existed in the standards comittee and its mailing lists earlier).
No, they fucking make a sale. Most of them are not fraudsters, just spammers.
People only see what they want to see. I too get the 'korean' 'chinese' and 'russian' spam but that's not even 1% of the total spam I get. The rest is English. And the few that I've looked at seem like they're targetted at Americans.
Let's also hang you since you're a potential victim to a carjacking and therefore people like you keep the carjacking industry alive. Not to mention everyone else.