My excuse? Well, your wife had the day off work and actually spent the day over at my crib practicing positions out of the Kama Sutra. So I'm too tired to go out and do anything else but post on Slashdot. I bet your little minx of a wife is purring like a kitten right now though.:-)
Yeah but this law should create new jobs at ISPs! I always wanted to work at an ISP! Wait, does this mean that I'd have to move to Utah? Sorry but I'd rather die.
Yeah I remember when Ms Pac Man came out for the Atari 2600 and the graphics just totally blew the original Pac Man away. All the neighborhood kids were over in my parents basement just mesmerized by how great the Ms Pac Man graphics were. I think that was in about 1982.
Apparently if they put 'beta' in the corner, if absolves them from taking responsibility for it, like when it all goes wrong they can say 'well it was only in a testing stage so fuck you all'.
And what about those people who are narrow-minded enough to ignore the people who are narrow-minded enough to ignore other people's beliefs because they don't match their own?
Yeah. A soul (rolls eyes). I cannot believe that in 2005 in an industrialized first world country such as ours that the majority of the population still believes in things like; souls, angels, heaven, hell, gods and demons.
There is a spell checker extension that you can add to Firefox. It is downloadable from
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
Seeing as how slashdot will never add an integrated spell checker it would be nice if more users would start using spellbound.
but a fine and the threat of jail time isn't the answer.
I disagree. People seem to think that commiting crimes on a computer is somehow "not as bad" as the normal physical crimes of theft, tresspassing, etc. People need to be taught at a young age that doing things like putting a keystroke logger on a teachers computer is a real crime and not just harmless fun.
If that kid gets a job in an office and throws a keylogger on his bosses computer he will get into some real trouble and rightfully so. They need to learn early on that this kind of behaviour is unnacceptable.
But this is slashdot so I expect a bunch of replys saying that it is not the kids fault but it is the schools fault for not securing their computers.
it's the fact that (as scifi as this sounds) it could be introduced by the Chinese gov't (or heck, our own) as a new military.
Yeah the dreaded Chinese are going to create a race of half scorpion half humans who will parachute into your home town to rape and pillage! Be scared! Its not scifi it is fully legit right now!
And how long do you expect to keep a $500 machine? For that price even computers are easily disposable.
Shit. It better last me at least a decade. $500.00 may not be a lot to you but it is for many of us. I have an old Toshiba laptop that I bought around ~1994 and I still use it. It is currently running FreeDOS. The battery is long dead but I keep it plugged into the wall next to my bed. If I cannot sleep I grab it and start up vi.exe to read all the old text files that I have saved on its 81MB hard drive.
For some reason those Mac Minis don't look like they will last a decade of hard use. I could be wrong though.
Time to switch to Mac. Overstock.com here i come...
Every once in a while I think about getting a Mac. I used to think about buying a low end iBook. With the release of the Mac Mini I have been giving some thought to one of those.
My problem is that switching from a Wintel environment where I have a closed OS and open hardware to a Apple environment where I have a closed OS AND a closed hardware environment bothers me. Maybe if Macs really increase in popularity and we see lots more third party hardware manufacturers creating cheap Apple hardware then I could maybe see getting one. But right now I get all claustrophobic when I think of using a Mac.
I had a friend who built a DIY RealDoll. He bought a used Mannequin at a garage sale (I am sure you can buy them off of eBay, also) and he drilled out a big hole between its legs. He then inserted a Fleshlight http://www.fleshlight.com/ into the hole and sealed in in there with some kind of epoxy.
He normally kept it all dressed up and standing in its mannequin stand in the corner of his bedroom. Whenever me and friends went over to his place we would always lift up its skirt and laugh at the giant Fleshlight between its legs.
Why is it eye candy is so amazing and impressive if it's in OSX or KDE, but it's just bloat [...]if Microsoft plans it for an OS that's at least two years away
I think it is bloat in OSX and I think it is bloat in KDE. I don't use OSX and I don't use KDE. I use a really stripped down version of BlackBox that does exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.
You seem to be asuming that the people who talk about the eye candy in OSX and KDE are the same people who talk about the bloat in Longhorn. I think you are wrong. These are two distinct groups of people. I belong to the latter group. I hate bloat and flashy chrome crap on any OS.
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I have news for you, people who know how to make things work go into construction, not programming.
WTF? Have you ever worked construction? Everyone I have known in construction is only there because they didn't have the skills to do anything else.
I'm married, what's your excuse?
:-)
My excuse? Well, your wife had the day off work and actually spent the day over at my crib practicing positions out of the Kama Sutra. So I'm too tired to go out and do anything else but post on Slashdot. I bet your little minx of a wife is purring like a kitten right now though.
You asked the question "What am I missing" and now you answer your own question "This should not be a law but a service that ISP's."
Yeah but this law should create new jobs at ISPs! I always wanted to work at an ISP! Wait, does this mean that I'd have to move to Utah? Sorry but I'd rather die.
One more reason why Virtual PC is inferior to VMWare.
Yeah I remember when Ms Pac Man came out for the Atari 2600 and the graphics just totally blew the original Pac Man away. All the neighborhood kids were over in my parents basement just mesmerized by how great the Ms Pac Man graphics were. I think that was in about 1982.
Apparently if they put 'beta' in the corner, if absolves them from taking responsibility for it, like when it all goes wrong they can say 'well it was only in a testing stage so fuck you all'.
^^^^^ Truth! ^^^^^^
MCSE? Must Call Someone Experienced? You need a book on that subject?
OMFG! ROFFLEZ! U R TEH FUNNIEST MAN ON SLASHD0T!!
And what about those people who are narrow-minded enough to ignore the people who are narrow-minded enough to ignore other people's beliefs because they don't match their own?
a robot which will have a real human soul
Yeah. A soul (rolls eyes). I cannot believe that in 2005 in an industrialized first world country such as ours that the majority of the population still believes in things like; souls, angels, heaven, hell, gods and demons.
My internet banking works even though I don't run Window$
You said Window$. That is because Microsoft is teh big 3V1L corp that makes all teh $$$. Lollerz.
im sorry but im dsylexic and have Dysgraphia
There is a spell checker extension that you can add to Firefox. It is downloadable from http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/ Seeing as how slashdot will never add an integrated spell checker it would be nice if more users would start using spellbound.
but a fine and the threat of jail time isn't the answer.
I disagree. People seem to think that commiting crimes on a computer is somehow "not as bad" as the normal physical crimes of theft, tresspassing, etc. People need to be taught at a young age that doing things like putting a keystroke logger on a teachers computer is a real crime and not just harmless fun.
If that kid gets a job in an office and throws a keylogger on his bosses computer he will get into some real trouble and rightfully so. They need to learn early on that this kind of behaviour is unnacceptable.
But this is slashdot so I expect a bunch of replys saying that it is not the kids fault but it is the schools fault for not securing their computers.
As others have already said, a ten pack of CDRs that are compatible with this = $10.00.
it's the fact that (as scifi as this sounds) it could be introduced by the Chinese gov't (or heck, our own) as a new military.
Yeah the dreaded Chinese are going to create a race of half scorpion half humans who will parachute into your home town to rape and pillage! Be scared! Its not scifi it is fully legit right now!
And how long do you expect to keep a $500 machine? For that price even computers are easily disposable.
Shit. It better last me at least a decade. $500.00 may not be a lot to you but it is for many of us. I have an old Toshiba laptop that I bought around ~1994 and I still use it. It is currently running FreeDOS. The battery is long dead but I keep it plugged into the wall next to my bed. If I cannot sleep I grab it and start up vi.exe to read all the old text files that I have saved on its 81MB hard drive.
For some reason those Mac Minis don't look like they will last a decade of hard use. I could be wrong though.
Time to switch to Mac. Overstock.com here i come...
Every once in a while I think about getting a Mac. I used to think about buying a low end iBook. With the release of the Mac Mini I have been giving some thought to one of those.
My problem is that switching from a Wintel environment where I have a closed OS and open hardware to a Apple environment where I have a closed OS AND a closed hardware environment bothers me. Maybe if Macs really increase in popularity and we see lots more third party hardware manufacturers creating cheap Apple hardware then I could maybe see getting one. But right now I get all claustrophobic when I think of using a Mac.
what the hell is the mod down for redundant???
Because slashdot is a clusterfuck of ignorance and stupidity?
please dont confuse hackers with crackers
Please stop with that tired old hackers vs crackers debate. No one but ESR fanboi's and 40 year old virgins even care.
How in the hell can you include that piece of shit Eric Raymond in the same category as great people like Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman?
I had a friend who built a DIY RealDoll. He bought a used Mannequin at a garage sale (I am sure you can buy them off of eBay, also) and he drilled out a big hole between its legs. He then inserted a Fleshlight http://www.fleshlight.com/ into the hole and sealed in in there with some kind of epoxy.
He normally kept it all dressed up and standing in its mannequin stand in the corner of his bedroom. Whenever me and friends went over to his place we would always lift up its skirt and laugh at the giant Fleshlight between its legs.
Why is it eye candy is so amazing and impressive if it's in OSX or KDE, but it's just bloat [...]if Microsoft plans it for an OS that's at least two years away
I think it is bloat in OSX and I think it is bloat in KDE. I don't use OSX and I don't use KDE. I use a really stripped down version of BlackBox that does exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.
You seem to be asuming that the people who talk about the eye candy in OSX and KDE are the same people who talk about the bloat in Longhorn. I think you are wrong. These are two distinct groups of people. I belong to the latter group. I hate bloat and flashy chrome crap on any OS.
Places that are selling 300MHz G3's for $150-$200 are ripping you off. Thirty seconds on google found a Power Mac G3 266MHz with 448 MB RAM for a mere $50.00 http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/unit_view.asp?i d=1048890&bin_id=world. It is not 300MHz but it is close enough.
You posting because you think that the press is misusing the word "hacker" but then you turn around and misuse the word "cracker."
No. A cracker breaks copy protection schemes. That is the way that it has been since the old Apple and C64 days back in he 1980's.
Oh and tell that ruddy faced loudmouth ESR to STFU. K. Thx.