You can't use credit cards because the number will get skimmed at the restaurant or the electronics store. You can't use cash because you might get pulled over or mugged and have your cash seized.
I raise chickens. Does Fry's accept barter? How many chickens for an iPod? Oh wait, I forgot about bird flu.
This just adds another TLD for the porn industry to use. There's no way the U.S. can prevent existing foreign porn sites from remaining at their existing.com/.net/.org/.info/.whatever locations.
Must be election year. Folks, try to vote for people that at least demonstrate a vague understanding of the Internet.
IE is kind of boring nowadays because it isn't extensible. At least, not voluntarily.
I just can't imagine installing IE7 on my machine except if I REALLY have to to verify that my websites load and operate with it. And that would be really sad.
Write the couple years of "no DRM" off to "marketing", and enjoy the heavily DRM'ed future...
Until ONE copy of your HD content gets out unencumbered and the next-generation torrent is anonymously, invisibly,freely shared among anyone who wants it, because it's easier to grab just the torrent overnight, over your broadband connection than deal with stupid restrictions on your viewing capabilities.
BTW offtopic, but can anyone point me to the Without a Trace episode that got fined by the FCC? December 31, 2004, I believe. I want to see what CBS got fined for and supposedly won't broadcast ever again.
Seriously, when one of these really impacts something or other, the people who are responsible will figure out what went wrong, fix it, and life will go on as usual. Maybe some of us will get away from the keyboards for a while, chat at the water cooler or something. Some of us will get a day off and others will get plenty of overtime.
I've always wanted to try this, to get together a flash mob or even just a few people, and go in to a large franchise grocery store (SFW, Giant, Walmart, whatever).
If you have enough people, this type of DOS attack could be devastating. Everybody goes around picking out non-perishable items in large quantities and putting them into their carts. Go for the cat food cans (50 varieties!), the spice aisle, maybe the Jello aisle, and top off your cart with a few large 50-lb bags of kitty litter or something. At a predetermined time, everybody drives their loaded carts up to the front, parks them randomly in the way, and exits the store. It takes them forever to put everything back correctly. And if your group has a message, the management gets it because you can leave flyers everywhere on the shelves or at the bottom of the carts. Fun fun fun.
you may now exercise your 1st amendment right to free speech after the requisite 3-day waiting period from the day you file your application
Fortunately, that isn't going to work. Free speech cannot realistically be restricted anymore in the West. What, they're going to shut down slashdot? Whatever. The government would be unwise to mess with a unified underground organization of anti-government geeks. The root shell is mightier than the sword. You'd have to put us all in jail, and then you'd be overrun by spam from China.
I guess if I foolishly allowed a friend to stick one of their DRM rootkit-infected CD into my drive, I don't get a share of the settlement, because I can't provide the required proof-of-purchase documentation.
That doesn't seem fair. One CD could have infected multiple machines, but only the original owner gets "compensated" by Sony.
An interesting story. It prompts one to question what we do with the (possibly quite limited) time we have here in this life.
If you wouldn't want to show up at work, at least for a little while, during the last day you happen to live, why would you plan to get up in the morning and go there tomorrow, and the next day and the next, unless tomorrow's workday is just a temporary stepping stone to something you'd rather be doing, and which you can realistically transition to in the forseeable future?
It's all a matter of perspective.
Life does not consist of what you might have a chance to say in those last moments, days, or weeks. That isn't what they'll remember about you. What's important is what you actually do every day, how you grow as a human being and how you influence and help others in a positive way.
After all, you never know when you'll get hit by a bus. Or a car. Which isn't fun, but is a rather sobering experience...
How this made it up to +5 on slashdot I don't know. Come on people, check your facts.
For one thing, the interaction of sickle-cell anemia and malaria is more complex. You write:
. It is a genetic disease: You're born with or without it. Advantage of HAVING the disease? You don't die of Malaria (you do die of the disease, but most have had children by then).
Wrong. Carriers of the recessive allele are more resistant to malaria. They don't have the disease, but they do partially express it (i.e. they have some sickle-shaped cells). But they don't die of it. And they're more resistant to malaria. That's why the disease is passed on to unfortunate individuals who are the product of two carriers (25% chance of having both recessive alleles).
This is over the top: If five percent of your tribe "Simply doesn't like to eat chicken", and the H5N1 Chicken flue comes around, about 5% of the tribe is likely to survive to pass on a much elevated "don't like chicken" gene.
Whether or not you like chicken has little to do with your catching the "Chicken flue" [sic]. Living in close quarters with your poultry might make it more likely that you pick up the virus. But the emergence of a global H5N1 pandemic has more to do with the likelihood that the virus mutates or otherwise recombines with other bits of genetic material which afford it the capability to be transmitted from human to human.
Moderators, please don't mod up as "Informative" unless you're sure the posting is accurately so.
You forgot to add the workout you get by carrying that beast around.
I've been modded +5 Funny, and I wasn't kidding at all. I have no problem whatsoever with my setup. Yeah, you get a bit of exercise schlepping around 15 lbs of computer. Whatever. The human body evolved to be able to carry moderate loads around all the time, and since I ain't haulin' firewood, rocks, dead seals nor live babies, I get to haul around my computer. And I ALWAYS take the stairs to work off the 24-oz Code Reds I'm wont to consume when sedentarily working at said machine.
My desktop replacement notebook does just what I need it to do, it replaced my desktop. Plus it's mobile. I spend 90% of my time using it near an outlet anyway, so the brick just goes everywhere with me and the machine itself. Combined weight with brick and targus case is ~15 pounds. Battery lasts about an hour unless you try something ridiculous like transcoding and burning a dvd.
The nice thing is, the 2.8 GHz processor and constantly running fans literally warm up the entire room where I happen to be working and provide a pleasant, white-noise droning all the time. My hands stay nice and toasty because there are built-in handwarming areas. Plus I can keep my coffee reasonably warm by resting it on top of the power brick.
What would be nice is if the networks and content companies would simply release torrents for their TV shows immediately after the public broadcast. I wouldn't care if they contained commercials, because I could just as easily skip them and/or walk out of the room to get a snack anyway.
As it stands now, I'm downloading Wednesday night's new episode of Lost, which will be in hi-def and have no commercials. I don't want to watch Lost on Wednesday night at 9pm because it's damned inconvenient for me. And taping it on a VCR is even more inconvenient. But it'll be ready for me to watch by Thursday morning, and only 42 minutes instead of an hour with commercials. And far better quality than I could get with my over-the-air analog antenna (I don't want or need cable or satellite). But I could be downloading a company-sanctioned torrent of the episode instead, with commercials that I might even actually bother to watch, which might earn the content company some revenue. As of now, the only way they'll make money from me is IF I buy the DVD later, which will be lower quality anyway. Tough choice.
If bittorrent traffic gets throttled then it will simply motivate better obfuscation and encryption of traffic. If traffic gets metered then I'll switch to an ISP that doesn't meter bandwidth, or I'll share bandwidth with my neighbors in an anonymous wireless mesh network.
The content companies continue to ignore reality at their own peril.
Oh yeah, and NBC, you want to sue me for admitting that I download your TV shows? Well guess what, I'm posting here on slashdot promoting your silly island soap-opera I happen to be addicted to because it's actually pretty entertaining. What's that worth to you, eh? The ONLY reason I'm watching it is because some other random slashdot posters said it was good. Your twentysomething MBAs worship this so-called "viral marketing". How about leveraging and monetizing me?
We keep seeing examples of how open source software is changing everything and benefiting consumers, but there is no reasonable equivalent in the hardware arena. If the market trends toward closed, DRM-encumbered environments continue, what are we supposed to do? Where does the hardware equivalent of linux stand today?
By motivating nefarious evildoing individuals to devise new, more secretive ways of furtively sharing information more anonymously, the MPAA is supporting terrorism. So I say, GO GET 'EM, DUBYA!
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I raise chickens. Does Fry's accept barter? How many chickens for an iPod? Oh wait, I forgot about bird flu.
No.
Must be election year. Folks, try to vote for people that at least demonstrate a vague understanding of the Internet.
I just can't imagine installing IE7 on my machine except if I REALLY have to to verify that my websites load and operate with it. And that would be really sad.
Until ONE copy of your HD content gets out unencumbered and the next-generation torrent is anonymously, invisibly,freely shared among anyone who wants it, because it's easier to grab just the torrent overnight, over your broadband connection than deal with stupid restrictions on your viewing capabilities.
BTW offtopic, but can anyone point me to the Without a Trace episode that got fined by the FCC? December 31, 2004, I believe. I want to see what CBS got fined for and supposedly won't broadcast ever again.
The real risk is perhaps The Final Virus.
If you have enough people, this type of DOS attack could be devastating. Everybody goes around picking out non-perishable items in large quantities and putting them into their carts. Go for the cat food cans (50 varieties!), the spice aisle, maybe the Jello aisle, and top off your cart with a few large 50-lb bags of kitty litter or something. At a predetermined time, everybody drives their loaded carts up to the front, parks them randomly in the way, and exits the store. It takes them forever to put everything back correctly. And if your group has a message, the management gets it because you can leave flyers everywhere on the shelves or at the bottom of the carts. Fun fun fun.
Orwell is spinning in his grave. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. We are always at war. We live in constant fear of terror attacks.
The dystopian future I studied in high school is coming true. He erred only by two decades.
Fortunately, that isn't going to work. Free speech cannot realistically be restricted anymore in the West. What, they're going to shut down slashdot? Whatever. The government would be unwise to mess with a unified underground organization of anti-government geeks. The root shell is mightier than the sword. You'd have to put us all in jail, and then you'd be overrun by spam from China.
If you don't have the receipt, you can exchange the actual CD as proof of ownership.
That doesn't seem fair. One CD could have infected multiple machines, but only the original owner gets "compensated" by Sony.
If you wouldn't want to show up at work, at least for a little while, during the last day you happen to live, why would you plan to get up in the morning and go there tomorrow, and the next day and the next, unless tomorrow's workday is just a temporary stepping stone to something you'd rather be doing, and which you can realistically transition to in the forseeable future?
It's all a matter of perspective.
Life does not consist of what you might have a chance to say in those last moments, days, or weeks. That isn't what they'll remember about you. What's important is what you actually do every day, how you grow as a human being and how you influence and help others in a positive way.
After all, you never know when you'll get hit by a bus. Or a car. Which isn't fun, but is a rather sobering experience...
For one thing, the interaction of sickle-cell anemia and malaria is more complex. You write:
. It is a genetic disease: You're born with or without it. Advantage of HAVING the disease? You don't die of Malaria (you do die of the disease, but most have had children by then).
Wrong. Carriers of the recessive allele are more resistant to malaria. They don't have the disease, but they do partially express it (i.e. they have some sickle-shaped cells). But they don't die of it. And they're more resistant to malaria. That's why the disease is passed on to unfortunate individuals who are the product of two carriers (25% chance of having both recessive alleles).
This is over the top: If five percent of your tribe "Simply doesn't like to eat chicken", and the H5N1 Chicken flue comes around, about 5% of the tribe is likely to survive to pass on a much elevated "don't like chicken" gene.
Whether or not you like chicken has little to do with your catching the "Chicken flue" [sic]. Living in close quarters with your poultry might make it more likely that you pick up the virus. But the emergence of a global H5N1 pandemic has more to do with the likelihood that the virus mutates or otherwise recombines with other bits of genetic material which afford it the capability to be transmitted from human to human.
Moderators, please don't mod up as "Informative" unless you're sure the posting is accurately so.
I've been modded +5 Funny, and I wasn't kidding at all. I have no problem whatsoever with my setup. Yeah, you get a bit of exercise schlepping around 15 lbs of computer. Whatever. The human body evolved to be able to carry moderate loads around all the time, and since I ain't haulin' firewood, rocks, dead seals nor live babies, I get to haul around my computer. And I ALWAYS take the stairs to work off the 24-oz Code Reds I'm wont to consume when sedentarily working at said machine.
The nice thing is, the 2.8 GHz processor and constantly running fans literally warm up the entire room where I happen to be working and provide a pleasant, white-noise droning all the time. My hands stay nice and toasty because there are built-in handwarming areas. Plus I can keep my coffee reasonably warm by resting it on top of the power brick.
All in all, no complaints from me.
If you're going to offer a free wifi access point then please also run a Tor exit node.
Vodafone+Yahoo = Voodoo! [from slashdot.jp site]
Amazing... Over there they moderate each other up for different, yet equally stupid jokes.
As it stands now, I'm downloading Wednesday night's new episode of Lost, which will be in hi-def and have no commercials. I don't want to watch Lost on Wednesday night at 9pm because it's damned inconvenient for me. And taping it on a VCR is even more inconvenient. But it'll be ready for me to watch by Thursday morning, and only 42 minutes instead of an hour with commercials. And far better quality than I could get with my over-the-air analog antenna (I don't want or need cable or satellite). But I could be downloading a company-sanctioned torrent of the episode instead, with commercials that I might even actually bother to watch, which might earn the content company some revenue. As of now, the only way they'll make money from me is IF I buy the DVD later, which will be lower quality anyway. Tough choice.
If bittorrent traffic gets throttled then it will simply motivate better obfuscation and encryption of traffic. If traffic gets metered then I'll switch to an ISP that doesn't meter bandwidth, or I'll share bandwidth with my neighbors in an anonymous wireless mesh network.
The content companies continue to ignore reality at their own peril.
Oh yeah, and NBC, you want to sue me for admitting that I download your TV shows? Well guess what, I'm posting here on slashdot promoting your silly island soap-opera I happen to be addicted to because it's actually pretty entertaining. What's that worth to you, eh? The ONLY reason I'm watching it is because some other random slashdot posters said it was good. Your twentysomething MBAs worship this so-called "viral marketing". How about leveraging and monetizing me?
We keep seeing examples of how open source software is changing everything and benefiting consumers, but there is no reasonable equivalent in the hardware arena. If the market trends toward closed, DRM-encumbered environments continue, what are we supposed to do? Where does the hardware equivalent of linux stand today?
That's all I need to know. Will you marry me?
So why no link? I'll give it a try!
By motivating nefarious evildoing individuals to devise new, more secretive ways of furtively sharing information more anonymously, the MPAA is supporting terrorism. So I say, GO GET 'EM, DUBYA!
Thanks, I've just realized I'm sufficiently old that my own kid could mod me down on Slashdot.
And this could happen without either of us even knowing it. Great.
How to optimally store your marbles. Theoretically, of course. Don't you people read digg?
You're not alone. Don't worry, be happy.
The booze doesn't seem to be working.
Have you tried red, red wine?
Dammit, if I'm gonna suffer, some of you will have to suffer along with me :)