Yeah, it is sad, like kid's squabbling over their parents possessions after they've passed on. Some of the worst sides of people come out. It just goes to show what influence Garcia had on the band.
Too bad more bands aren't like Mojo Nixon. This kerfuffle never would happen. He actively encourages you to download his music and share it. Mind you, he doesn't have to wrassle other members of the band.
Now flash will not only make for highly intrusive ads, they will keep running after you block and shut them down, and hog your system resources like never before.
This will spur innovation in ad blocking software for all common platforms. If you look at magazines now, more than 50 per cent of many are ads. I don't buy magazines anymore because of this. At least on the net you can kill them.
I agree it is a legal system, and always has been, in our country too (I am from Winnipeg). The abuse you state is also true. Thing is, a lot of people believe it is a justice system and it is plainly not and they also believe they are entitled to justice.
It always has been a legal system, where you legally try to get justice rather than taking the law into you own hands. Truth is, you are not entitled to justice, you are entitled to due process. It is one of the inherent difficulties if the courts are to be truly fair, they can only hear your case and render their best judgement. This is anywhere and not just in the US.
In the past I have had more trouble with Via chipsets on mobos than all other types combined (though SIS comes pretty damn close). Conflicts, bad drivers, wonky performance and incompatibilities. Further, looking on the web for solutions only ever brought me into contact with people who had the same problems, but no solutions. Via support at the same time was as responsive as the throttle on a Yugo.
I washed my hands of them and for Intel systems I'll stick to Intel chipsets and for AMD nVidia. Let someone else play guinea pig. I wouldn't buy their boards if they sold them for 10 bucks a pop.
Sony has been saying they did nothing wrong all along so it's not a surprise to hear the RIAA chime in. So others do it too, does that mean a burglar should get off because others have broken into your home? Protect their content, they are entitled to that, but not at the expense of our data.
This is another of the RIAA's great stabs at PR by pouring gasoline on a fire.
Makes you wonder of any of their people went to business school.
So we newer members and the editors/moderators owe you? Now who's on a horse?
My only point was that there is quality here, you just have to look for it and set your preferences. Back in the day, there were fewer people on the net and most of them were true geeks, so to speak. The world moved on and now the net is filled with yes, 12 year olds, housewives and other ordinary people. Some are trolls. I hit this site, television without pit, fark, digg and a few more sites. As popularity of the site increases, so do the number of people who just want to jerk around. It's life. More jerks hit the freeways too as more cars filled the roads. Slashdot is not immune.
You want to fix things. Make more intelligent post, do so often, and consistently. Any fool can just sit there and bitch. And frankly, as for your UID number, it just goes to show that there's no fool like an old fool.
It is subjective to be sure, and it has to do with reading comments from people who think, not just react (often with idiocy). Along those lines my subjectivity excludes comments like yours from the "good" pile.
Mind, this often comes from AC category. Most of whom have good reason for not identifying themselves.
Yes, yes I do come here for the commentary. Most of the time it is very good if you set your preferences right. Do you get goofballs, sure, show me a site where you don't. Frankly, it's people like you who lower the bar. Another whiner who instead of taking his/her show on the road to a site more suitable to you sits here and cries.
Don't like us, hang on here and I'll get you a lollipop.
So, this happens on sites all over the net. News is disseminated instantly over a large number of sites instantaneously. What makes slashdot good are the users who make good comments. You want a better site, quit whining and do that. The commentary is why I come here and digg's is not that good. Tech news I can get almost anywhere.
As for politics, more and more it is impacting the nerds of world due to nervous politicians and evil content companies pressuring them. We would be remiss to ignore it.
This thread is for FF RC3. I got mine automatically yesterday with no hitches. Considering how the last time I got an upgrade message it flopped about four times, this was an improvement.
Really, this is no different than any country that finds it has sourced what it considers strategic reources to other countries. In this case, a lot of countries have put data for their citizens (and attached data that should be secure) on the net and are now sweating about it as they don't control it. For my money, the insecurity comes less from the US than the fact that the internet is a lousy place to secure any important data. Futrther, if the US really controlled the net, then all those Al Qaida e-mails would have been instantly traced to source and damn near al of us would be in RIAA hell.
Npbody really controls the net.
Oh, I don't know, my view is that for every underpaid, overworked programmer they have creating DRM schemes there are a thousand people goofing around trying to break it. Even by accident somebody will. As for hardware - cay you say mod-chip. Don't tell me that's illegal, when has that ever stopped anything that the determined wanted to circumvent.
Apple is moving more quickly towards a more diversified product line and has done so by bringing out some interesting and exciting products, but before anyone gets too excited, the bulk of their super profits over the last year has been largely due to the iPod. If they follow-up with another great product, they'll have a pretty secure future. However, if they can't follow iPods act with something just as (or close to) exciting, it's a short slide back.
Dell's efforts to diversify into TVs and the like, has so far left a lot to be desired. On the other hand, they're not dead yet.
Properly used, carbon dating is accurate. The restrictions are known and the technology has improved substantially. That said, even a micrometer improperly used will give inaccurate results. Write it caps all you want, it doesn't change that carbon dating is accurate enough to determine relative age. As for scientists ignoring 6000 year old data, they don't (unless it's plainly claptrap), they also don't ignore 8000, 10 000 or 100 000 year old data like the creationists ignore. The carbon dating thing is a creationist red herring.
Also, the evolutionary process indeed has been observed in the insect world and in the microbial level. No doubt you have heard rebuttals from those who claim the moon landing occurred in Arizona and that Elvis is still alive.
I did check out that museum of make believe you suggested I google. I found it amusing that you would use it as a support. All it lacks to get more hits is a two headed calf and John the Baptist's face in a jar of Skippy. If that is an example of what creationists want to teach in schools, then we'll have to include discussions of talking dogs and the Fiji mermaid. The site, and the rest of some of your claims, are ludicrous.
That said, I defend your right to your beliefs, I really do. Just not in science class.
As for why the hesitiation by learned people when they see ID stuff, they can't believe anyone would trot that stuff out as fact.
I know that ID is FAITH based, and that is why it has no place in a science classroom of any kind. Second, carbon dating has in fact been shown to be more reliable than any other method, and evolution has been repeatedly observed in the insect world. If people want to teach their kids ID,send them to sunday school where it belongs. Effectively evolution is a theory in name only.
I have said this before in many posts on this subject, and I keep telling myself I'll stay out of this one, but I keep getting suckered in...
So once again for the record, ID is absolutely unscientific at its core. Science is observing, analyzing, testing and drawing conclusions based in objective criteria. ID starts from the premise that some super-being did everything and tries to wrap everything from that context. If something disputes it, it us discarded, hence the attempt in ID to block all discussion of fossil records, carbon dating, continental drift etc. If something disputes a scientific theory, you adjust or discard the theory. That doesn't happen in ID. I can believe that at some point that the theory of evolution may be modified, but I never see the day coming that creationists will ever say that maybe there is no divine being involved.
This is in spite of the fact all data that has come out supports evolution and all the data refutes any form of creationism.
It's inherent in our nature to tinker with what is, which is how we got out of the caves. Whether it's modding governments through revolutions, putting a few more horsepower through that engine or moving our processors ahead a few MHz. Companies (or anyone) trying to stop it are fooling themselves as it is a true force of nature. Of course people are going to mod x-boxes, cell phones and things like people's habits through things like anti-smoking legislation. While making legal claims that say you are not allowed to mod may give a company a right to sue, there aren't enough lawyers in existence to make a small dent in what goes on. Even if there were enough lawyers, there aren't enough court rooms.
This is also a reason why attempts at computer security/anti-copy schemes are doomed to fail. They pay some poor schmoe to come up with these schemes and thousands out in the world treat it's arrival like the release of a new game. Who will win? As for telling people it's wrong, good luck. Most modders would rather ask forgiveness than permission and when they buy something take the attitude that you can't break into your own house. Make things onerous enough for them and they'll revolt. Technically, the American and French revolutions were illegal acts.
It's all very much like in Shogun when Toranaga tells Blackthorne that there is no mitigating circumstance when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord. Blackthorne replies, "unless you win". Which of course Toranaga realizes is the one mitigating circumstance.
Now get back there and unlock those cell phones and x-boxes. While your at it, mod those politicians to get them to tell these companies suck it up.
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Yeah, it is sad, like kid's squabbling over their parents possessions after they've passed on. Some of the worst sides of people come out. It just goes to show what influence Garcia had on the band.
Too bad more bands aren't like Mojo Nixon. This kerfuffle never would happen. He actively encourages you to download his music and share it. Mind you, he doesn't have to wrassle other members of the band.
Now flash will not only make for highly intrusive ads, they will keep running after you block and shut them down, and hog your system resources like never before.
This will spur innovation in ad blocking software for all common platforms. If you look at magazines now, more than 50 per cent of many are ads. I don't buy magazines anymore because of this. At least on the net you can kill them.
And everybody knows industry studies show beer causes cancer in asbestoes workers.
I agree it is a legal system, and always has been, in our country too (I am from Winnipeg). The abuse you state is also true. Thing is, a lot of people believe it is a justice system and it is plainly not and they also believe they are entitled to justice.
It always has been a legal system, where you legally try to get justice rather than taking the law into you own hands. Truth is, you are not entitled to justice, you are entitled to due process. It is one of the inherent difficulties if the courts are to be truly fair, they can only hear your case and render their best judgement. This is anywhere and not just in the US.
In the past I have had more trouble with Via chipsets on mobos than all other types combined (though SIS comes pretty damn close). Conflicts, bad drivers, wonky performance and incompatibilities. Further, looking on the web for solutions only ever brought me into contact with people who had the same problems, but no solutions. Via support at the same time was as responsive as the throttle on a Yugo.
I washed my hands of them and for Intel systems I'll stick to Intel chipsets and for AMD nVidia. Let someone else play guinea pig. I wouldn't buy their boards if they sold them for 10 bucks a pop.
Sony has been saying they did nothing wrong all along so it's not a surprise to hear the RIAA chime in. So others do it too, does that mean a burglar should get off because others have broken into your home? Protect their content, they are entitled to that, but not at the expense of our data.
This is another of the RIAA's great stabs at PR by pouring gasoline on a fire.
Makes you wonder of any of their people went to business school.
So we newer members and the editors/moderators owe you? Now who's on a horse?
My only point was that there is quality here, you just have to look for it and set your preferences. Back in the day, there were fewer people on the net and most of them were true geeks, so to speak. The world moved on and now the net is filled with yes, 12 year olds, housewives and other ordinary people. Some are trolls. I hit this site, television without pit, fark, digg and a few more sites. As popularity of the site increases, so do the number of people who just want to jerk around. It's life. More jerks hit the freeways too as more cars filled the roads. Slashdot is not immune.
You want to fix things. Make more intelligent post, do so often, and consistently. Any fool can just sit there and bitch. And frankly, as for your UID number, it just goes to show that there's no fool like an old fool.
It is subjective to be sure, and it has to do with reading comments from people who think, not just react (often with idiocy). Along those lines my subjectivity excludes comments like yours from the "good" pile.
Mind, this often comes from AC category. Most of whom have good reason for not identifying themselves.
Yes, yes I do come here for the commentary. Most of the time it is very good if you set your preferences right. Do you get goofballs, sure, show me a site where you don't. Frankly, it's people like you who lower the bar. Another whiner who instead of taking his/her show on the road to a site more suitable to you sits here and cries.
Don't like us, hang on here and I'll get you a lollipop.
So, this happens on sites all over the net. News is disseminated instantly over a large number of sites instantaneously. What makes slashdot good are the users who make good comments. You want a better site, quit whining and do that. The commentary is why I come here and digg's is not that good. Tech news I can get almost anywhere.
As for politics, more and more it is impacting the nerds of world due to nervous politicians and evil content companies pressuring them. We would be remiss to ignore it.
This thread is for FF RC3. I got mine automatically yesterday with no hitches. Considering how the last time I got an upgrade message it flopped about four times, this was an improvement.
Further, even if the electricity came from a plant (which it doesn't) the vast majority of Canadian plants are hydro-electric.
Really, this is no different than any country that finds it has sourced what it considers strategic reources to other countries. In this case, a lot of countries have put data for their citizens (and attached data that should be secure) on the net and are now sweating about it as they don't control it. For my money, the insecurity comes less from the US than the fact that the internet is a lousy place to secure any important data. Futrther, if the US really controlled the net, then all those Al Qaida e-mails would have been instantly traced to source and damn near al of us would be in RIAA hell. Npbody really controls the net.
AGB was a Canadian. HE married an American woman and moved there later.
Oh, I don't know, my view is that for every underpaid, overworked programmer they have creating DRM schemes there are a thousand people goofing around trying to break it. Even by accident somebody will. As for hardware - cay you say mod-chip. Don't tell me that's illegal, when has that ever stopped anything that the determined wanted to circumvent.
What the hell is this doing in a discussion about processors?!?
If it was a mistake, so be it, but if not, get a damn life!
Apple is moving more quickly towards a more diversified product line and has done so by bringing out some interesting and exciting products, but before anyone gets too excited, the bulk of their super profits over the last year has been largely due to the iPod. If they follow-up with another great product, they'll have a pretty secure future. However, if they can't follow iPods act with something just as (or close to) exciting, it's a short slide back. Dell's efforts to diversify into TVs and the like, has so far left a lot to be desired. On the other hand, they're not dead yet.
That is an entirely different animal. All it does is extend what they can already do with phones to a new medium.
And Canada rejected the DCMA style of controls
Properly used, carbon dating is accurate. The restrictions are known and the technology has improved substantially. That said, even a micrometer improperly used will give inaccurate results. Write it caps all you want, it doesn't change that carbon dating is accurate enough to determine relative age. As for scientists ignoring 6000 year old data, they don't (unless it's plainly claptrap), they also don't ignore 8000, 10 000 or 100 000 year old data like the creationists ignore. The carbon dating thing is a creationist red herring.
Also, the evolutionary process indeed has been observed in the insect world and in the microbial level. No doubt you have heard rebuttals from those who claim the moon landing occurred in Arizona and that Elvis is still alive.
I did check out that museum of make believe you suggested I google. I found it amusing that you would use it as a support. All it lacks to get more hits is a two headed calf and John the Baptist's face in a jar of Skippy. If that is an example of what creationists want to teach in schools, then we'll have to include discussions of talking dogs and the Fiji mermaid. The site, and the rest of some of your claims, are ludicrous.
That said, I defend your right to your beliefs, I really do. Just not in science class.
As for why the hesitiation by learned people when they see ID stuff, they can't believe anyone would trot that stuff out as fact.
Good luck to you.
I know that ID is FAITH based, and that is why it has no place in a science classroom of any kind. Second, carbon dating has in fact been shown to be more reliable than any other method, and evolution has been repeatedly observed in the insect world. If people want to teach their kids ID,send them to sunday school where it belongs. Effectively evolution is a theory in name only.
I have said this before in many posts on this subject, and I keep telling myself I'll stay out of this one, but I keep getting suckered in...
So once again for the record, ID is absolutely unscientific at its core. Science is observing, analyzing, testing and drawing conclusions based in objective criteria. ID starts from the premise that some super-being did everything and tries to wrap everything from that context. If something disputes it, it us discarded, hence the attempt in ID to block all discussion of fossil records, carbon dating, continental drift etc. If something disputes a scientific theory, you adjust or discard the theory. That doesn't happen in ID. I can believe that at some point that the theory of evolution may be modified, but I never see the day coming that creationists will ever say that maybe there is no divine being
involved.
This is in spite of the fact all data that has come out supports evolution and all the data refutes any form of creationism.
It's inherent in our nature to tinker with what is, which is how we got out of the caves. Whether it's modding governments through revolutions, putting a few more horsepower through that engine or moving our processors ahead a few MHz. Companies (or anyone) trying to stop it are fooling themselves as it is a true force of nature. Of course people are going to mod x-boxes, cell phones and things like people's habits through things like anti-smoking legislation. While making legal claims that say you are not allowed to mod may give a company a right to sue, there aren't enough lawyers in existence to make a small dent in what goes on. Even if there were enough lawyers, there aren't enough court rooms.
This is also a reason why attempts at computer security/anti-copy schemes are doomed to fail. They pay some poor schmoe to come up with these schemes and thousands out in the world treat it's arrival like the release of a new game. Who will win? As for telling people it's wrong, good luck. Most modders would rather ask forgiveness than permission and when they buy something take the attitude that you can't break into your own house. Make things onerous enough for them and they'll revolt. Technically, the American and French revolutions were illegal acts.
It's all very much like in Shogun when Toranaga tells Blackthorne that there is no mitigating circumstance when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord. Blackthorne replies, "unless you win". Which of course Toranaga realizes is the one mitigating circumstance.
Now get back there and unlock those cell phones and x-boxes. While your at it, mod those politicians to get them to tell these companies suck it up.