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  1. Re:Really cool if on NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space · · Score: 1

    Forget that, use it to clean out congress and the administration.

  2. sharing on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    Hasn't anyone noticed in just about all these filesharing programs that the file you are downloading is being shared at the same time and you have no control over it. The files come down in pieces and as another piece is downloaded the previously downloaded piece is being shared. It's all done in the program and is necessary for all the pieces to stay where they are in order for the file to be reconstituted by the program. The user cannot control that part of the process and given that description the current statement by the judge is flawed. Also program controls rarely affect this feature as it defeats the entire point of filesharing in the first place. If anything even if the file is blocked from being uploaded the filename isn't, just because you can see a filename doesn't mean you can get the file and upload capability isn't always indicated. Wake up judge, there is alot more here than meets the eye.

  3. tricks are not new on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Ronald Reagan was in, all they did was replace the attorney general every time some republican cronie was up for investigation to keep delaying the prosecution of said cronie. That's in addition to appointing idiots to the post anyway. In the end everyone got away scott free with the effect of creating a group of individuals that have contributed to the current system that is even more corrupt than before. Give it up, the constitution has been subverted. Democrats, get some balls or disband. By the way, impeachment for treason is not a radical act, executing the entire administration in the middle of 1600 Ave for treason is a radical act.

  4. Re:WTO on Allofmp3 Restarts Business · · Score: 1

    It's too late. We've already been raped and it will just continue to happen. Lady justice isn't just blind, the poor girl is in a coma. Of course, if she could see all this going on, her stroke from the massive abuse of law alone would have killed her. Other human agonies aside.

  5. names on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 1

    Funny how they used to call these clubs and competitions. Now it's open source, get a grip america. Wake up slashdot.

  6. Re:I don't know.... on IP Holders Press For Access To WHOIS Data · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You just described the world in annoying, backstabbing detail. You're going to have to sue the registrars if you want anything done. Make it really embarrassing and point it out to the central authority. The alternative is a private manhunt.

  7. Re:Unconstitutional? on Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail · · Score: 1

    "Am I depriving my child of her Constitutional rights?" Actually Yes. Are you being a bad parent? No. Your parenting responsibility is about guiding her to be the best she can be, not just what you think she should be. Besides maturity is often relative and nowhere as absolute as we like to think it is and kids are often smarter than we like to think. You are responsible for her safety, welfare, and development. Agreed. But do you realize what else your teaching her. Government sponsored censorship is ok and the weak have no rights in this country. You are free to raise her as you see fit, just remember that she will have to understand how to best intact with the world when its time for her to go out and make it on her own. We've all grown up with the more violent sports for nearly a century. We're still around and are just fine. Video games are no different than movies in the 70's and 80's or football and hockey that many of us played in our youth. Most of us turned out fine and so will your kids.

  8. Re:Yet they keep trying on Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail · · Score: 1

    Actually there is. The legislatures are intentionally wasting taxpayer money on this illegal drivel for their individual ends. Take them to court, sue their asses individually, put them in jail for misappropriation of state funds, and embarrass them publicly for wasting your tax money. They must be breaking a law somewhere, we have enough on the books, find it and nail them.

  9. erasure on US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database · · Score: 1

    Until they nuke the eastern and western seaboards I'll never believe its gone. EMP is a true friend of privacy. Oh, and while were at it, nuke Omaha and St. Paul. That way we can all be debt free again too.

  10. dangers on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1

    The spill going critical wouldn't have been major problem even with all that other fuel laying around. I'm more concerned about it getting to the water table where it would become an unstoppable national disaster. This country is highly dependent on ground water sources. I come from an area where private companies have already been proven to have contaminated the ground water supplies and they're still doing everything they can to weasel out from under it. They also had known for years about it and that it was them and said nothing. It's only hydrocarbons but still many wells have been rendered useless and what about the human and economic costs over the next hundred years since many people were drinking contaminated water and didn't know, even when they were getting sick and dying. Private companies care for little beyond profits even when it affects their own employees. They cover it up as long as they could and paid off government to make sure they would get away with it when the truth does come out. The contamination affects wells for over 50 miles around and this is just a little non-nuclear spill. A nuclear incident of this type would be a thousand times worse. Oversight and accountability matters along with public knowledge. How can the public decide on anything without information?
    Notice this also happened before the elections last year. I wonder what else is being played down? Thanks to the current crooks in government there is guaranteed to be no accountability to my current situation so what about accountability in a larger incident? And what about a response to stop a small problem before its to late? Private companies will play with fire as long as it profitable, there is a number of massive pollution examples over the last 50 years to prove this assertion and describe corporate ethics and behavior afterwards. The goals of business and government have been proven to be largely opposites. When will the public and government get the message that private industry cannot be trusted with responsibilities that are supposed to belong to the government and/or the public. Given the business culture and current government corruption, I won't hold my breath.
    Oh, by the way, I live in the nations breadbasket, so the rest of you should be really concerned since my incident was just one of many.

  11. Re:I wish I could join the ACLU on FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration · · Score: 1

    "Second Amendment a 'Collective' right"

    The second amendment fiasco sounds like a government protectionism. A decision decided in a time of near war, everyone knew it was coming, and part of a power grab of the time by a government becoming increasingly more powerful. Why put it in the constitution at all if not to guarantee self-protection to people who came from a country that only off and on allowed such protection and learned better. Self-defense and food were reasons then. Just because the definition is absurd by todays standards doesn't make it less true or needed. Using the accepted definition just defeats the purpose and need of a standing federal army. Besides after the articles a confederation debacle, the last thing the founding fathers would want to do is give the states their own armies. And it's unlike the rest of the eight amendments which largely prohibit improper government behavior against the public. The 2nd as written is that the public itself is an armed independent army to counter greater federal controls/potential abuses. You can't have a free state without a free public, that means free from its own government too, when necessary. It doesn't say the right of militias to keep and bear arms it says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed".
    You can't have a free public without a public capable of defending itself against their government. 'Freedom demands eternal vigilance' isn't any less true for the public vs. government as it is between countries. History has already proven it on numerous occasions, but we rarely ever notice unless its convenient and usually it's too late.
    In the 2nd amendment article, the reference to cars is irrelevant as cars aren't mentioned in the constitution, guns are. Besides what part of "shall not be infringed" can't you understand. The rest just defines what is needed to have a free country.
    If you want an example unions would be better. When unions could strike and fight they made a difference. Most of you didn't even have to think about safety and good pay in the workplace any longer because of them. At least, not until about a few years ago. Now it's basically illegal to strike and unions are largely irrelevant and the middle class is being wiped out of existence along with safety and decent pay for work. Just keep an eye on your mail if you still don't get it, those of you who are still getting their mail. If you don't have a big stick, screaming is often meaningless to those who are intentionally deaf. What was it, "I speak softly, but I carry a big stick!"
    To a public that is basically apathetic to irrelevancy, those words are needed more than ever. In this world, real power is firepower, don't ever forget it. Why do you think every country is trying to disarm its populace for?
    Besides how absurd is the public being powerful enough to fight the government? Bin laden proved it. People are arrested off and on with very lethal weapons of extreme destructive power with few advanced resources. That doesn't make them terrorists, just as Reagan put it in reference to the contras, they're "freedom fighters". Besides all gun control laws really do is make sure the criminals only have weapons and if they can't buy them they'll make them. It's easy enough with current technology and general knowledge. Pick your weapon type, ex:a simple biological accident is all it takes, even a legal lab can slip up and sometimes they do, ex:England, foot and mouth. The anthrax mail incident. Obviously, we the people can take out armies, if not governments with our own homemade arms, raised in vote or shooting to kill. So what's the current definition of the 2nd amendment supposed to allow the government to stop again? Why don't we just follow what it says instead of making up our own meanings? Lady justice would have to be blind on this one. The second amendment as written is a little dated, remember the biggest weapon at the time was a gunpowder based cannon, but in these times it is still as relevant if not more than it was back then,

  12. Re:Not going to get what they want on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    You forgot one: Know the basics of survival The kid should be able to balance a checkbook and other finances, cook so they don't starve, cleaning and basic medical, and understand enough legal to survive on their own.

  13. Re:Funny you mention Asia on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    I stated in an earlier comment we need to teach kids the basic survival skills they will need as early as possible. Thinking is the most necessary skill as it allows that person to go anywhere that is selected later on. Even here in the states I have seen more memorization and less thinking over the last thirty years. The latest glaring example, our president, actually an effect, but I digress. Teachers actually don't teach and students don't learn. Teachers dictate and students memorize long enough to pass the test. What's worse is that the students thought processes follow that behavior through their lives to where now information goes in and out with little or no thought other than what someone else's opinion of it is. A lot of the time the actual thinking students are the ones who drop out from sheer frustration with the entire system. Maybe they should get the diplomas for thinking out of the box. I have seen examples of brilliant kids who gave up on the system because they knew the system was broken and refused waste their time bending over and kissing ass(essentially what dictation and testing is). I'd like to see things get better but until we get rid of the over-complicated legal system and bureaucracy that abuses it nothing will change. Let's not forget the intentionally blind attitude that keeps the whole system going, ex:babysitting, held by both government and parents. Right now, kids are cattle, at least to the school bureaucracy. Otherwise, ten bureaucrats to every kid wouldn't exist, proof it's just a paycheck and like all mass production quality is sacrificed to profit.

  14. Re:This is what we did in the UK at age 14... on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    Funny, I understood ohms law and op-amp theory after 2 years of trade school. Of course, I also understood it before I went to school. In observing the rest of my class, they were just being taught enough to get them through the classes and many were demanding answers instead of figuring them out. I liked the 30 year old whining about the FCC test having semantic traps in the questions. Then there was just the general apathy in the course because alot of the job potential was being priced down to oblivion. And this was before the consumer electronic collapse of the mid-90's. Concurrently, there were the people who were in just to get the government payouts for retraining who were slowing down the classes. That was over ten years ago. The mass education system is turning out students of the lowest common denominator, ok idiots, even in their area of expertise. Too much partying with some education on the side, even in high school. Maybe we need to forget all the social bullshit that is the only reason to keep schools(ok, temp prisons for kids) open and teach kids at home via the internet. It might help with accountability a bit too since the parents would know what's going on instead of what the kid tells them. Parents you want control, here's your chance. It would also get rid of a lot of the social problems generated by dumping a bunch of kids into the same building that we are now dealing with. Think of the tax savings and the lower government waste. I had a girlfriend then in accounting classes who couldn't even balance a checkbook and my 22 year old brother and his girlfriend who can't even cook!! It would be nice if schools would teach the basics of survival in this country before they even worry about the cerebral courses. When you're out on your own it's a little to late. Teach it early so it's out of the way(around middle school) and then they can concentrate on more specialized issues. I could go on about stupid things I've observed over 40 years and potential fixes, but I'm starting to feel like George Carlin screaming at the masses who are laughing at him while he's pointing out obvious problems in our country/culture. The sad part is the masses don't think beyond the funny joke to the very real compliant.

  15. Re:This is stupid. on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    John Candy bitching out a careerist principle saying "kids should be kids" in "Uncle Buck". The funny part about a lot of things is hollywood is pointing out in movies alot of problems that are now finally being noticed. That movie is what about 15 years old now.

  16. Re:All this really says is ....... on Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect · · Score: 1

    "Treating the symptom is not going to cure the disease. But it will lead to other symptoms that will further be treated."

    That's how all political systems deal with things, from columbine to 9/11. It makes sure that it will happen again, just to keep the rest of us afraid and manipulable. 9/11 root cause saudia arabia, and they're doing little to prevent it from happening again. Columbine, caused by creating a closed school society that doesn't take into effect combining so many individuals with the hyper-amplified viewpoints and behaviors of children and their lack of limits. We treated the limits some but not the parent society or school society that creates and enforces the viewpoints. So guess what, more disasters of our own making are coming and in plain view too.

  17. Re:Benefit or detriment? on Why We Need to Expand into Space · · Score: 1

    The simple reason is that if we don't keep expanding we will stagnate and eventually collapse in on ourselves, perhaps for the last time. It's part of the human condition. Evidence has already exists for recent previous stagnation so hold on to your hats. All universe based reasons are self-serving, self-important bullshit. If you need a reason how about survival of the species. For the rest, I saw an interview given by the first year commander of babylon5. It maybe a fictional show but his reason was at a least noble one and its as good if not better than any of the others. This is not a direct quote: When the sun goes it won't just take us. It will take socrates and aristotle, and all that we have been and done, the best part of all of us. I'll have to look at that show again, reminder of a more optimistic time (1990's). If we don't go into space and the end happens, who will there be to remember us? Or to continue on?

  18. Re:Good old Holywood on Voltron Headed For The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Here, Here!!! A live action Robotech with full story and full robotic action would certainly be great. It better be multiple movie otherwise they would have to jump around to much. Episode:"Glovals report" would make a good summary of the first year, at least the combat aspects but not the characters stories. That way maybe hookerwood wouldn't butcher the story up so much.

  19. Re:You forgot one on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    Just remember Tucker, his car was decades ahead of the times in safety and reliability. The auto industry was less than amused. Just think of all the lives his cars could have saved if the industry with government help hadn't drove him out of business first. The power of lobbying doubtfully made any difference considering the oil lobby is a thousand times larger and richer.

  20. Re:Fitting location on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 1

    tagline reads -- "As a state gets corrupt, its laws multiply; the most corrupt states have the most numerous laws. (Tacitus, Annales 3:27)" Has anyone seen the size of the american lawbook lately? Obviously history hasn't taught us much.

  21. Re:European Water on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 1

    unfortunately, human responsibility and attention c.2005 is not as good a c.1950.

  22. Re:This is a massively sad event, and we get jokes on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    I already had my disaster last year. At least you had some warning(day and a half) and were told to leave. We had none. I can't be sympathetic about people too stupid to leave during a mandatory evacuation. You hung yourselves in a man made disaster prone area, take responsibility for it and die. I had to pull myself out of my disaster. FEMA helped me little to nothing. I had to fight the insurance company for every dime.(no government help) Bush will be running to fund your asses, there weren't enough voters in my disaster for him to care(fund support for local government not the public). At least mine was an actual natural disaster and not a man-made one. You got what was coming now take heed and move somewhere else.

  23. Re:important on Good PC-BSD Guide Available · · Score: 1

    I've been looking for a comparison document for months between the various bsds so I would have an idea which way to go. Even looking at the websites I can tell how dated and inaccurate this is. Waste someone else's time you jerk. This isn't the first one of these documents I've run into either. Please take the time to update before posting. Btw, I have now tried all three bsd variants (including freebsd 5.4 and 6.0 beta) and none will touch my motherboard (Msi915p combo) w/ marvel/yukon networking chipset(not recognizing) or my netgear 311t wireless cards(recognizing sometimes but dies within a minute). Ndiswrapper doesn't compile the drivers either. Slackware works fine on both so its not a hardware or compatibility problem. I have been a slackware user for 10 years and would like to switch as I have found bsd (especially freebsd) to be more than a respectable alternative if I can get the networking going.