thats the way i see it, im an avid user of facebook, its a lot simpler(used to be) and a little more private than myspace. this new change could be really good, i have a few friends how didnt go to college and id like to keep up with them. It might end up being a great way to meet local friends with similar interests. But im a 19 year old guy, who internet-savvy and is cautiuos about new friend requests from people i dont know. I sure as hell dont think its a good idea if its opening high school age kids or anyone not-so-cautiuos to total strangers that could hurt them or ruin their life. My suggestion, give averyone an option to totally block anyone from knowing they exist outside of their networks. I understand that they want to get more people into facebook, but in reality they're just pissing off all the old loyal users
what gave you the impression im just a gamer? i only brought that up because its a big problem with linux. Truth is linux is a great OS, i run fedora on my mini-server. But it targeted mainly towards developers, and just doesnt appeal to the ordinary joe who wants to surf the net, type reports, and send email.
Wow guys, from your reactions it seems as though you don't like windows vista, or xp. What a fucking suprise. I know everyone here says that xp is crappy and unstable, but iv been running it on one of my systems with no problems (except for a few hardware fuckups). Hell, i was running another system on 98 for a solid five years without any thing to worry about until i broke down and got another xp license. For many people xp just plain works, and im sure vista will be the same way. For a grand majority of consumers that all the matters, frankly i have more important shit to worry about instead of making sure i can find hardware and device drivers for linux and that i can actually play the game i just purchased. Everyone knows vista is going to be the new standard and will be used in most new systems, if you want to bother complaining about it, go on. btw, im not trying to flamebait or troll, im just tired of reading this crap, on my xp system that has been running for 6 months straight i might add.
from what iv gathered its seems like bush didnt have much to do with this. There are plenty of other things to hate bush for, this doesnt sound like one of them.
Oh come on, the only thing that will be here after the looming massive nuclear war will be highly evolved cockroachs. Thats assumimg an asteriod the size of north carolina doesnt slam into "our" planet and wipe out all life. Not to mention the possibility that sentient robots will take control of earth and enslave the human race in a virtual world to feed off our electrical impulses. Seriously, we got bigger shit to worry about in the next few billion years than our moon being classified differently.
Im sick of hearing stuff about blu-ray, why? because none of the news is good. Its a crappy form of storage thats going to go the way of beta. I really dont understand some of the stuff the happens with blu-ray. Some of the things theyve done with it are selfish and paranoid, while everything else is just plain bad business. Just wonderin, does stuff like this happen with every new format that comes out? I was a youngin when cds and dvds got big.
my two cents
and thanks to this wondrous technology the war on drugs is over. Thats right, drugs like pot and cocaine are no longer found in the great US of A. Now maybe we could use that money to accomplish something...oh wait, thats not how it works around here.
have you watched cspan lately? scratch that, have you EVER watched CSPAN? the senate and house are so divided and so full of shit that they have become basicly useless. Wanna become cynical and depressed? watch CSPAN, that way your getting cynical about the right stuff.
I had a buddy in high school, when we graduated we went to different colleges. I tried to keep in touch with him and it seemed like he was doing pretty well. All the sudden, he dropped off the face of the earth. I tried to get a hold of him and talked to his roommate, turns out the guy dropped out, not because he was getting bad grades or it was too much pressure, but because he wanted to spend more time playing WoW. The guys future could be ruined now, all to play some MMORPG.
logically a minor scratch on a next gen format will mean more comprimised data. just another reason to say NO to hd-dvd and blu-ray, as if we didnt already know enough to stay away from them.
Am I the only one that finds it stupid that these "cyber terrorists" attacked sites associated with NASA? Sure, it's a.gov, but why not hit a site that will get more notice or is at least somewhat related to what is happening in the middle-east. Not like something like this matters, america backs isreal no matter what they do, some momentary annoyance isnt gonna stop that.
Alright, lets set the record straight. If you live in the USA, Every single right you think you have can be taken from you in an instant. Pretty much anyone anywhere can gather or purchase ALL of your private information in a matter of minutes. But being in the state that america is in currently, the government can justify these violations of our freedoms by citing terrorism and 9/11.
Frankly, Im totally happy with the current DVD format, I can store all of my important files (and not so important) on only a few discs. Like most people in this country, Im gonna wait till ALL the components of a High definition entertainment system are at a practical cost, which IMO includes reading and writing drives for PCs.
alright, alright, I get it, Im not going to get a PS3. Maybe slashdot should stop posting these types of articles, otherwise Sony isnt sell any of them.
I guess that means the government has taken care of terrorism, immigration, and the economy. Now we can focus on the important stuff, like making sure children never see anything violent or sexual and ensure homosexuals never have equal rights, not to mention prevent anyone from burning the american flag. Let me just say im proud of the government for taking care of this stuff so fast, i didnt even see it happen.
If there is a massive terrorist attack and many innocent people are killed these are the last people that should be protected in some uber-bunker. Why? because these are some of the few people in this country who are not innocent and could have stopped an attack. Shouldnt we be putting our best and brightest (pretty much all the/.ers) in something like this? Last time i checked the politicians are at the bottom of that list.
The release of this video is not about "disproving conspiracy theories". It's to remind the american people of what happened 5 years ago. Approval ratings are plummeting across the board, when were the president's approval ratings at their highest? right after 9/11. It's pretty clever, we havent had any other attacks to scare us into submission, why not bring the terrorist attacks of 9/11 back in the citizen's minds? Thats just my two cents
Since when did my parents get on slashdot? But you make a good argument, from now on I'll never use file-share programs to download copyrighted material. I hope you'll believe me and quit complianing, and whats with wishing the RIAA sues me? I'v only downloaded a few albums that I havent purchased beforehand or after. There are MILLIONS of people downloading stuff, so if they sue me, its really not going to effect the whole trend. But maybe it will set an example(sic). Just deal with the fact that people download material and go on with your life.
To be totally honest, i don't care who you applaud. If you wanna give money to them, be my guest. It doesn't really matter though, because whenever they try any of these stupid tactics, we find a way to get around it. So quit your bitching and go out and do something about it. Maybe you could irritate file-sharers too, you've already annoyed the hell out of one.
plenty of resources? Im a college student working on a double major, im lucky to find enough money in my dorm room to order chinese. I look forward to the day when i can buy any cd, movie, or video that i want. In many cases I will go out and purchase the media that i really want to support. I just dont think the methods used by the RIAA is the best approach to get there customers back. Do you really like the thought of purchasing a cd from a group that sends out fake torrents just to irritate people?
I agree, why should anyone waste their time on trivial things like this? And i mean ANYONE, why should RIAA and MPAA spend so much time and money on suing the parents of thirteen year-olds downloading music. Im sure they have an abundance of resources to help those in need, a lot more than i do for sure. I do what i can to help this world, iv gone on 4 mission trips, donated as much as i could to the tsunami and katrina relief efforts, and plan on working on things that will benifit this world as a whole during my career. I hope you dont get the impression that im some anarchist programmer looking to destroy capitalism or something like that, im just a programmer who likes this kind of stuff. Oh, and why just cancer? shouldnt i try curing AIDS and world famine too, if you would be up for helping, then lets get started.
Somebody wants to try to mess with the file-sharers? I welcome the challenge. There is an entire world filled with clever programmers (myself included) who love solving problems like this. It's all a game, they do something, we hit right back and keep the community alive.
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I'm gonna start one in North Carolina, around here the fundie stench is strong.
thats the way i see it, im an avid user of facebook, its a lot simpler(used to be) and a little more private than myspace. this new change could be really good, i have a few friends how didnt go to college and id like to keep up with them. It might end up being a great way to meet local friends with similar interests. But im a 19 year old guy, who internet-savvy and is cautiuos about new friend requests from people i dont know. I sure as hell dont think its a good idea if its opening high school age kids or anyone not-so-cautiuos to total strangers that could hurt them or ruin their life. My suggestion, give averyone an option to totally block anyone from knowing they exist outside of their networks. I understand that they want to get more people into facebook, but in reality they're just pissing off all the old loyal users
what gave you the impression im just a gamer? i only brought that up because its a big problem with linux. Truth is linux is a great OS, i run fedora on my mini-server. But it targeted mainly towards developers, and just doesnt appeal to the ordinary joe who wants to surf the net, type reports, and send email.
Wow guys, from your reactions it seems as though you don't like windows vista, or xp. What a fucking suprise. I know everyone here says that xp is crappy and unstable, but iv been running it on one of my systems with no problems (except for a few hardware fuckups). Hell, i was running another system on 98 for a solid five years without any thing to worry about until i broke down and got another xp license. For many people xp just plain works, and im sure vista will be the same way. For a grand majority of consumers that all the matters, frankly i have more important shit to worry about instead of making sure i can find hardware and device drivers for linux and that i can actually play the game i just purchased. Everyone knows vista is going to be the new standard and will be used in most new systems, if you want to bother complaining about it, go on. btw, im not trying to flamebait or troll, im just tired of reading this crap, on my xp system that has been running for 6 months straight i might add.
from what iv gathered its seems like bush didnt have much to do with this. There are plenty of other things to hate bush for, this doesnt sound like one of them.
alright, i get the sarcasm. but we can all agree that he sure as hell isnt jesus.
Oh come on, the only thing that will be here after the looming massive nuclear war will be highly evolved cockroachs. Thats assumimg an asteriod the size of north carolina doesnt slam into "our" planet and wipe out all life. Not to mention the possibility that sentient robots will take control of earth and enslave the human race in a virtual world to feed off our electrical impulses. Seriously, we got bigger shit to worry about in the next few billion years than our moon being classified differently.
Im sick of hearing stuff about blu-ray, why? because none of the news is good. Its a crappy form of storage thats going to go the way of beta. I really dont understand some of the stuff the happens with blu-ray. Some of the things theyve done with it are selfish and paranoid, while everything else is just plain bad business. Just wonderin, does stuff like this happen with every new format that comes out? I was a youngin when cds and dvds got big. my two cents
and thanks to this wondrous technology the war on drugs is over. Thats right, drugs like pot and cocaine are no longer found in the great US of A. Now maybe we could use that money to accomplish something...oh wait, thats not how it works around here.
have you watched cspan lately? scratch that, have you EVER watched CSPAN? the senate and house are so divided and so full of shit that they have become basicly useless. Wanna become cynical and depressed? watch CSPAN, that way your getting cynical about the right stuff.
haha, very good point about the parking spaces. But should we equate WoW with drugs or religion?
I had a buddy in high school, when we graduated we went to different colleges. I tried to keep in touch with him and it seemed like he was doing pretty well. All the sudden, he dropped off the face of the earth. I tried to get a hold of him and talked to his roommate, turns out the guy dropped out, not because he was getting bad grades or it was too much pressure, but because he wanted to spend more time playing WoW. The guys future could be ruined now, all to play some MMORPG.
logically a minor scratch on a next gen format will mean more comprimised data. just another reason to say NO to hd-dvd and blu-ray, as if we didnt already know enough to stay away from them.
Am I the only one that finds it stupid that these "cyber terrorists" attacked sites associated with NASA? Sure, it's a .gov, but why not hit a site that will get more notice or is at least somewhat related to what is happening in the middle-east. Not like something like this matters, america backs isreal no matter what they do, some momentary annoyance isnt gonna stop that.
Alright, lets set the record straight. If you live in the USA, Every single right you think you have can be taken from you in an instant. Pretty much anyone anywhere can gather or purchase ALL of your private information in a matter of minutes. But being in the state that america is in currently, the government can justify these violations of our freedoms by citing terrorism and 9/11.
Frankly, Im totally happy with the current DVD format, I can store all of my important files (and not so important) on only a few discs. Like most people in this country, Im gonna wait till ALL the components of a High definition entertainment system are at a practical cost, which IMO includes reading and writing drives for PCs.
alright, alright, I get it, Im not going to get a PS3. Maybe slashdot should stop posting these types of articles, otherwise Sony isnt sell any of them.
I guess that means the government has taken care of terrorism, immigration, and the economy. Now we can focus on the important stuff, like making sure children never see anything violent or sexual and ensure homosexuals never have equal rights, not to mention prevent anyone from burning the american flag. Let me just say im proud of the government for taking care of this stuff so fast, i didnt even see it happen.
If there is a massive terrorist attack and many innocent people are killed these are the last people that should be protected in some uber-bunker. Why? because these are some of the few people in this country who are not innocent and could have stopped an attack. Shouldnt we be putting our best and brightest (pretty much all the /.ers) in something like this? Last time i checked the politicians are at the bottom of that list.
The release of this video is not about "disproving conspiracy theories". It's to remind the american people of what happened 5 years ago. Approval ratings are plummeting across the board, when were the president's approval ratings at their highest? right after 9/11. It's pretty clever, we havent had any other attacks to scare us into submission, why not bring the terrorist attacks of 9/11 back in the citizen's minds? Thats just my two cents
Since when did my parents get on slashdot? But you make a good argument, from now on I'll never use file-share programs to download copyrighted material. I hope you'll believe me and quit complianing, and whats with wishing the RIAA sues me? I'v only downloaded a few albums that I havent purchased beforehand or after. There are MILLIONS of people downloading stuff, so if they sue me, its really not going to effect the whole trend. But maybe it will set an example(sic). Just deal with the fact that people download material and go on with your life.
To be totally honest, i don't care who you applaud. If you wanna give money to them, be my guest. It doesn't really matter though, because whenever they try any of these stupid tactics, we find a way to get around it. So quit your bitching and go out and do something about it. Maybe you could irritate file-sharers too, you've already annoyed the hell out of one.
plenty of resources? Im a college student working on a double major, im lucky to find enough money in my dorm room to order chinese. I look forward to the day when i can buy any cd, movie, or video that i want. In many cases I will go out and purchase the media that i really want to support. I just dont think the methods used by the RIAA is the best approach to get there customers back. Do you really like the thought of purchasing a cd from a group that sends out fake torrents just to irritate people?
I agree, why should anyone waste their time on trivial things like this? And i mean ANYONE, why should RIAA and MPAA spend so much time and money on suing the parents of thirteen year-olds downloading music. Im sure they have an abundance of resources to help those in need, a lot more than i do for sure. I do what i can to help this world, iv gone on 4 mission trips, donated as much as i could to the tsunami and katrina relief efforts, and plan on working on things that will benifit this world as a whole during my career. I hope you dont get the impression that im some anarchist programmer looking to destroy capitalism or something like that, im just a programmer who likes this kind of stuff. Oh, and why just cancer? shouldnt i try curing AIDS and world famine too, if you would be up for helping, then lets get started.
Somebody wants to try to mess with the file-sharers? I welcome the challenge. There is an entire world filled with clever programmers (myself included) who love solving problems like this. It's all a game, they do something, we hit right back and keep the community alive.