They are renting you the photo hosting for the advertising traffic.
It's no different than leasing someone a car (to bring up the famous slashdot car analogy).
They have no right to tell you you can't listen to that "damn negro music" in that leased car, nor do they have a right to control the speed of the vehicle from the corporate office.
Yeah, and for 6 years when I was moved to the southeast with my family in the early 90's, we rented a house.
Maybe they should be allowed to put riders in my rental contract saying I can't campaign for my local green party, or post signs in the yard detailing exactly why supply side economics is flawed?
How long do you think that would fly in court.
There's a reason the federal government stared suing private citizens/businesses for violating people's constitutional rights in the late 60's.
At yet, grain commodities dropped significantly the last couple of days. So much for biofuels being the cause of higher food prices.
Biofuel processing plants have been going belly up recently as well, I wonder if there's a connection.
Either way, the population isn't going anywhere (until the pubs cause wwIII), so we should NOT be using food grade arable land to grow biomass for fuel. There are plenty of weed-like plants which can be used for biomass, one is non-marijuana grade hemp. It's not my fault politicians are so polarized they refuse to act for the good of the country and legalize its cultivation.
A constitutionally mandated 10 year sunset date on all laws should also be enacted. They cannot be renewed by simple riders either. The laws must be re-drafted from scratch.
I've suffered the same fate from misguided moderators. It would be great if people realised that flamebait/troll/overrated does NOT mean 'I don't agree with this guy'.
Obama scares the hell out of me. He's no different, and possibly worse, than your average politican yet his followers seem to think he can walk on water and part the Red Sea. What really scares me is not that he's hoodwinked so many people though; it's his absoulte lack of experience combined with his absolute dishonest that scares me.
I don't think he's absolutely dishonest, but he's misrepresenting himself as a "principled" person.
He's just like everyone else on the hill. He may not be a bush, but he's closer to clinton than he is to kennedy.
The 777 for instance, can take the same stresses a fighter jet can. The wings can be warped beyond 45 degrees before they disintegrate. Modern aircraft are incredibly durable.
The region is packed full of these "scared people".
The flags on display here remind me very much of the prevalence of the swastika in nazi germany, and people here think bush is the next best thing since apple pie.
Interestingly and predicatbly enough, a large number of these people are also creationist, and in the past couple years a so called "psychic" on a nearby road bulldozed her tar paper shack and built a 6000 square foot mc-mansion because her business has taken off so much.
This region is where things like kinoki foot pads get shipped to by the train-full.
The telecoms are private companies. The government has no right to "order" private citizens to do anything against their will without due process of law (read: JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT).
The government didn't do this legally, the telecoms' legal departments knew damn well, and so did their corporate officers.
They willingly engaged in criminal conspiracy against the American populace, and the only way to make them think twice before sleeping with sugar-daddy government is to hit them where they'll notice it: their pocketbooks.
Republicans argue it will discourage cooperation with law enforcement, and that's the whole god damned point. They deal with OUR private information, and should give that up when the government pries it from their cold, dead fingers!
There are two archetypes of nerds, which oddly parallel serial killer archetypes: disorganized and spontaneously creative vs organized and methodically calculating.
The M.O. he demonstrated in the crime indicates the disorganized type.
If he were the methodical type, his crime might not have even been noticed.
Municipal corporations versus privately held corporations. It doesn't matter who wins, the taxpayer/consumer loses.
I'm curious when the internet as we know it will essentially vanish. Usenet is already on the endangered species list, P2P is still a logistics nightmare if it goes prime time. Special interest groups want to censor every website. Barratry is rampant over intellectual property claims. Spam, spyware, trojans, worms, viruses, and other malwares are constantly trying to take over or kill the net. Governments want to tap into everybody's business while they're on the net. Telecoms want to repackage it with their own brand name all over it. The list of this degenerating garbage is endless, and yet people are still so desperate to get it!
Why doesn't this stupid thing just implode already?! Once it does, Tim Berners-Lee (with nothing better to do) can come out and design a whole new concept of network computing that no single entity can possibly own or control.
Meanwhile, Priva-corp vs Muni-corp can serve as yet another distraction from creating more practical advances in technology.
and this fine image of corruption is different from the rest of human civilization, how?
When the power goes out, so does VIOP. Eventually a mobile also has to be charged, and murphy's law states the power will go out on the evening it's due to be charged.
The redundancy offered by self-powered land lines is something which cannot be so readily ignored, at least to me.
No, the olympics are a completely different thing, and most americans can't afford such luxurious name-brand products with the dollar in its current condition.
Thus, china and wal-mart bring us, the OLYMICS!
the 400 lb limited hurdles, the permanent vegitative state skydiving competition, the senior citizen milk run championship! tune in, and see it all on FSPN!
Anyone interested in the dark side of direct neuro-prosthetic communication should watch ghost in the shell: stand alone complex.
In this show, set in the near future (about 25 years from now), a common means of entry into enemy strongholds involves directly hacking people's motor functions and turning them into marionettes.
A constant arms race is underway pitting entry vs "attack barrier" defenses which lash back against neuro-hackers and attempt to fry their brains.
Drive a girl to commit suicide, and get prosecuted for loggin in under a fake name...
I don't know whats worse, the ACTUAL crime that isn't criminal, or the prosecution under criminal statutes for something which shouldn't be considered a crime?
If you think it's heinous, but not illegal, you lobby to make it illegal.
This incident just proves we live in a police state where any politician who doesn't like you can open some obscure law books, scrutinize your everyday life, and pick an everyday activity to prosecute you out of the picture.
QAM has requirements for HDCP, end-to-end encryption, and selective output control because our fine FCC decided to defer to the "free market", and by "free market" they mean the monopoly content providers saying "you design your hardware this way"
"he's beaten my face to hamburger for the 15th time officer, but I don't want to charge him. After all, i was the one who pissed him off, I just need to stop pissing off my husband so he won't take the food processor to my left hand anymore"
honestly, while the transition to all digital broadcast (which happens to involve HD) is being used to cram DRM down our throats and sell out our fair use rights, I'm not drawing the connections you are.
HD streams have been around on the web for a while, and are now common on pirate sites as well.
Nobody is forcing alternative viewpoints to be in HD. slashdot isn't even in SD and I don't see it going anywhere.
The imposition of caps of the type theyre "experimenting" with in the US are most definitely a step backward which, if allowed to deploy universally, would seriously stifle the internet, but in a long history which at times involved heavy p2p use, I at no time managed to upload that quantity of data in a month.
I don't see 40 gigs as fundamentally unreasonable for upload on a residential account, and I also believe at least SOME of the burden for future applications of the internet should be placed on algorithms/compression rather than simple isp expansion.
40 or even 140 gigs is far too low for downstream though, given that the "last mile" was supposedly designed on the assumption of a structure in which the sending of data was overwhelmingly dominated by receipt.
my absolute favorite is the extra "kitchen sink" inclusion of "ions" to purify your body.
I would love to see them somehow manage to get loads of unbonded ions onto those pads. They tend not to be very picky about what they chemically bond with. I'd laugh so hard at the number of people whose feet have been eaten away.
Slashdot Mirror
They are renting you the photo hosting for the advertising traffic.
It's no different than leasing someone a car (to bring up the famous slashdot car analogy).
They have no right to tell you you can't listen to that "damn negro music" in that leased car, nor do they have a right to control the speed of the vehicle from the corporate office.
Yeah, and for 6 years when I was moved to the southeast with my family in the early 90's, we rented a house.
Maybe they should be allowed to put riders in my rental contract saying I can't campaign for my local green party, or post signs in the yard detailing exactly why supply side economics is flawed?
How long do you think that would fly in court.
There's a reason the federal government stared suing private citizens/businesses for violating people's constitutional rights in the late 60's.
Next you know, someone is going to tell me I can't have free speech in someone else's home!
If I can't go into random people's houses, and in privately owned property and say what I want, you are oppressing me!!!
"Next you know, someone is going to tell me I can't have free speech in the home I rented from someone else!"
"If I can't go into my rented house, and in privately owned property i'm renting and say what I want, you are oppressing me!!!"
Fixed.
Cue the Reaganites claiming nothing is wrong with this practice in 3... 2.. 1..
At yet, grain commodities dropped significantly the last couple of days. So much for biofuels being the cause of higher food prices.
Biofuel processing plants have been going belly up recently as well, I wonder if there's a connection.
Either way, the population isn't going anywhere (until the pubs cause wwIII), so we should NOT be using food grade arable land to grow biomass for fuel.
There are plenty of weed-like plants which can be used for biomass, one is non-marijuana grade hemp. It's not my fault politicians are so polarized they refuse to act for the good of the country and legalize its cultivation.
Wow, dude, that's a good idea, though I'd probably up it to 20 years, otherwise everything would just stop (hmmm...).
That's part of the point. Idle hands are the devil's playground.
A constitutionally mandated 10 year sunset date on all laws should also be enacted. They cannot be renewed by simple riders either. The laws must be re-drafted from scratch.
I've suffered the same fate from misguided moderators. It would be great if people realised that flamebait/troll/overrated does NOT mean 'I don't agree with this guy'.
Obama scares the hell out of me. He's no different, and possibly worse, than your average politican yet his followers seem to think he can walk on water and part the Red Sea. What really scares me is not that he's hoodwinked so many people though; it's his absoulte lack of experience combined with his absolute dishonest that scares me.
I don't think he's absolutely dishonest, but he's misrepresenting himself as a "principled" person.
He's just like everyone else on the hill. He may not be a bush, but he's closer to clinton than he is to kennedy.
but all later aircraft are rated for aerobatics.
The 777 for instance, can take the same stresses a fighter jet can. The wings can be warped beyond 45 degrees before they disintegrate. Modern aircraft are incredibly durable.
I live in the southeast.
The region is packed full of these "scared people".
The flags on display here remind me very much of the prevalence of the swastika in nazi germany, and people here think bush is the next best thing since apple pie.
Interestingly and predicatbly enough, a large number of these people are also creationist, and in the past couple years a so called "psychic" on a nearby road bulldozed her tar paper shack and built a 6000 square foot mc-mansion because her business has taken off so much.
This region is where things like kinoki foot pads get shipped to by the train-full.
The telecoms are private companies. The government has no right to "order" private citizens to do anything against their will without due process of law (read: JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT).
The government didn't do this legally, the telecoms' legal departments knew damn well, and so did their corporate officers.
They willingly engaged in criminal conspiracy against the American populace, and the only way to make them think twice before sleeping with sugar-daddy government is to hit them where they'll notice it: their pocketbooks.
Republicans argue it will discourage cooperation with law enforcement, and that's the whole god damned point. They deal with OUR private information, and should give that up when the government pries it from their cold, dead fingers!
I pointed this out in a recent story about revolts among the BO community, and was modded troll for daring to question the integrity of his holiness.
Thanks slashdot for helping them cover it up until it was too late.
Barack is incapable of evil, so supporting this like he is must be good, right?
There are two archetypes of nerds, which oddly parallel serial killer archetypes: disorganized and spontaneously creative vs organized and methodically calculating.
The M.O. he demonstrated in the crime indicates the disorganized type.
If he were the methodical type, his crime might not have even been noticed.
I hate seeing articles like this...
Municipal corporations versus privately held corporations. It doesn't matter who wins, the taxpayer/consumer loses.
I'm curious when the internet as we know it will essentially vanish. Usenet is already on the endangered species list, P2P is still a logistics nightmare if it goes prime time. Special interest groups want to censor every website. Barratry is rampant over intellectual property claims. Spam, spyware, trojans, worms, viruses, and other malwares are constantly trying to take over or kill the net. Governments want to tap into everybody's business while they're on the net. Telecoms want to repackage it with their own brand name all over it. The list of this degenerating garbage is endless, and yet people are still so desperate to get it!
Why doesn't this stupid thing just implode already?! Once it does, Tim Berners-Lee (with nothing better to do) can come out and design a whole new concept of network computing that no single entity can possibly own or control.
Meanwhile, Priva-corp vs Muni-corp can serve as yet another distraction from creating more practical advances in technology.
and this fine image of corruption is different from the rest of human civilization, how?
When the power goes out, so does VIOP. Eventually a mobile also has to be charged, and murphy's law states the power will go out on the evening it's due to be charged.
The redundancy offered by self-powered land lines is something which cannot be so readily ignored, at least to me.
No, the olympics are a completely different thing, and most americans can't afford such luxurious name-brand products with the dollar in its current condition.
Thus, china and wal-mart bring us, the OLYMICS!
the 400 lb limited hurdles, the permanent vegitative state skydiving competition, the senior citizen milk run championship! tune in, and see it all on FSPN!
Anyone interested in the dark side of direct neuro-prosthetic communication should watch ghost in the shell: stand alone complex.
In this show, set in the near future (about 25 years from now), a common means of entry into enemy strongholds involves directly hacking people's motor functions and turning them into marionettes.
A constant arms race is underway pitting entry vs "attack barrier" defenses which lash back against neuro-hackers and attempt to fry their brains.
Drive a girl to commit suicide, and get prosecuted for loggin in under a fake name...
I don't know whats worse, the ACTUAL crime that isn't criminal, or the prosecution under criminal statutes for something which shouldn't be considered a crime?
If you think it's heinous, but not illegal, you lobby to make it illegal.
This incident just proves we live in a police state where any politician who doesn't like you can open some obscure law books, scrutinize your everyday life, and pick an everyday activity to prosecute you out of the picture.
QAM has requirements for HDCP, end-to-end encryption, and selective output control because our fine FCC decided to defer to the "free market", and by "free market" they mean the monopoly content providers saying "you design your hardware this way"
what kind of perverse reasoning is that.
It reminds me of battered wife syndrome.
"he's beaten my face to hamburger for the 15th time officer, but I don't want to charge him. After all, i was the one who pissed him off, I just need to stop pissing off my husband so he won't take the food processor to my left hand anymore"
I misred the story.. thats 40 gigs in a day
honestly, if you go through 40 gigs UPLOAD in a day, you've had enough for that day.
honestly, while the transition to all digital broadcast (which happens to involve HD) is being used to cram DRM down our throats and sell out our fair use rights, I'm not drawing the connections you are.
HD streams have been around on the web for a while, and are now common on pirate sites as well.
Nobody is forcing alternative viewpoints to be in HD. slashdot isn't even in SD and I don't see it going anywhere.
The imposition of caps of the type theyre "experimenting" with in the US are most definitely a step backward which, if allowed to deploy universally, would seriously stifle the internet, but in a long history which at times involved heavy p2p use, I at no time managed to upload that quantity of data in a month.
I don't see 40 gigs as fundamentally unreasonable for upload on a residential account, and I also believe at least SOME of the burden for future applications of the internet should be placed on algorithms/compression rather than simple isp expansion.
40 or even 140 gigs is far too low for downstream though, given that the "last mile" was supposedly designed on the assumption of a structure in which the sending of data was overwhelmingly dominated by receipt.
my absolute favorite is the extra "kitchen sink" inclusion of "ions" to purify your body.
I would love to see them somehow manage to get loads of unbonded ions onto those pads. They tend not to be very picky about what they chemically bond with. I'd laugh so hard at the number of people whose feet have been eaten away.
or we could use the dilbert catchphrase
"you're not CUTE anymore!"
let's replace Arecibo with "hubble" or "spitzer"..