This is completely OT, but why on earth do you think South Korea is under threat of invasion from North Korea? It could never ever happen. Firstly, South Korea has far more advanced weaponry than North Korea, and secondly - Do you really think the UN would do nothing against an invading country which the one superpower of the world already hates?
Your point is wrong. This law would _directly_ punish those who have not broken it. A better analogy would be if everyone in the same house lost their license too, if you did. No one would be bringing up this point if there was some way of just banning one person from the internet, and that was what was being advocated, because that would not mean that you were directly punishing the innocent. I rent a room and live in the same house as my landlord. Do you really think it is a good idea to punish him if I break this law (if he is ignorant of my crime), in any way whatsoever?
That was, if I may say so, a piece of really good driving on my part.
Really? A piece of really good driving? Far be it for me to judge, but from what I can tell, if you had maintained your speed around the rotary there would not have been an incident in the first place. You were just as much, if not more, of a cause of the incident as the other driver.
html mail is not a big overhead necessarily. All it is a markup language, and it only adds small amounts to emails if used well. If used poorly, it's diabolical. Blame the sender, not the medium - html emails do have their place.
Also, anyone who lets their mail reader access _any_ unkown outbound html connections is asking for trouble.
Why on earth is parent marked flamebait? The stupid question was made by the summary, not the AC. The AC responded accurately. Anyone who uses wikipedia as authoratative information should be shown what proper research is, or shot.
I am not saying that wikipedia is not useful, but claiming that it is authorative on the subject of tin whiskers is absurd.
Because if they had the technology to live on this planet hidden from us in viable populations to conduct a society more advanced than ours, then they would have the technology not to be detected in aircraft/spacecraft either.
Wait.... what? You're claiming that a race of aliens with the technology capable of travelling interstellar distances could not remain hidden on earth because their technology isn't good enough. Seriously?
I know, that's one of the main reasons I got a new PC. Saying that, however, the ti4200 would run games like doom3 (un?)happily, though I never got it. I wasn't going to just upgrade the graphics card because it was AGP, and the entire system was crap by this point anyway.
Actually, I hate the way processors are getting faster and faster and hungrier and hungrier.
Umm... don't know if you've been following the processor market recently, but they're not. A lot of the advances recently have been about lower voltages, lower power consumption, and more cores. Pure processor power increase has most definately not been a feature of the recent processor market, at least not compared to the past. I mean, AMD released over 2ghz processors 6 years ago....
Whenever I build a new PC for myself, I buy just below the best. My previous PC lasted me 5 years or so, with a ti4200 (a powerhouse of a card, which will still outperform some modern 256mb cards). I'm hoping I can last as long with my current 8800GT, though I'm guessing it may be more like 4 years before I replace it.
That's the thing about buying a decent spec PC - if you buy well, you will not have to replace it for years, and you'll be able to play just about anything because everyone else is buying generic PCs which have crap graphics cards in them every year or two. YMMV, as always.
It is most definately not abusing a service if you've paid for it and are within the rules. If someone sells me a 1 megabit always on connection, it is not abuse if I use it fully 24/7.
If you replace 'abuse' with 'use', your post makes a little more sense. Companies always oversell what they can deliver, and if they screw up, it's up to them to fix it.
I'd guess that in a market which is not dominated by flat rate lines, starting up a flat rate service would be a lot tougher, since you're naturally going to attract the heavy users. In a market in which nearly everyone's on flat rate, companies get all different types of customer.
Installing Windows is _not_ as easy as you make it seem. I recently built my own PC, and tried installing Vista64 on it. It just repeatedly got a little way through, threw a bsod and error codes at me, then immediately rebooted. It turns out Vista just does not work with a nVidia chipset motherboard, and 4gb or more of RAM without a hotfix (that I couldn't download because because I didn't have WGA). I've just realised how completely ass backwards this is - This is a hotfix for a bug that prevents Vista installing, which you can only download with a fully installed version of Vista. Very fucking useful. I installed win2k anyway, found out about the problem, then pulled 2gb out, installed, installed the hotfix, then put the 2gb back in. Then the wireless didn't work, despite claiming to be supported. It just failed. It was a Belkin card, and I eventually found out my revision was on a Ralink chipset, so I went and downloaded their drivers, which didn't work either. I finally tried using Vista's included Ralink drivers, and that did work. Woohoo, working system. Apart from the network copying "calculating time remaining" bug, it's working fine now - I just use robocopy from the command line, though whenever anyone suggests using the command line in Linux, people throw their arms in the air. Yes, that's right, on a new version of Windows, new install, I _have_ to use the command line to copy network files about.
Anyway, I'm not having a rant against Vista here - I quite like it. It's fast, it boots fast, and works decently. I'm just pointing out a few major problems I had with my most recent install of Vista. It most definately can be difficult to install. I've not gotten round to installing Linux yet (got a nice 400gb partition set aside for it though), I don't know how many problems I'll have with that.;)
Did you even view that video? If you think that is what constitutes terrorism now, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, but honestly, if you think that is an example of terrorism, you've either got a completely warped idea of what terrorism is, or you've bought into the propoganda telling us that eveything that is illegal is terrorism so completely you're just ignoring what happened. Your other link is from 3 years ago, and is written by Paul Watson. From that wikipedia link on Watson: In 1978, Watson was expelled from Greenpeace by a vote of 11 to 1 (only watson himself voted against it). Watson was expelled as he did not share Greenpeace's definition of non-violence. That same year, he founded his own group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
So your evidence for Greenpeace terrorism is a video in which two ships collide, one of them Greenpeace's, and those on the video claim no wrongdoing on their part (if there is evidence of wrongdoing, show it), and an article from someone who was expelled from Greenpeace because he was too violent. Honestly, if this is supposed to make me believe Greenpeace is a terrorist organisation, you've done a wonderful job convincing me otherwise.
I do not personally like a lot of what Greenpeace stands for (in particular their stance on Nuclear power), but please don't talk crap that's not even close to true. It doesn't help either side, it just muddies the waters (though I guess that could be your intention).
Actively interfering with operations you disapprove of is most definately acceptable political activism in many cases, in my opinion. Like the GP, I am not a big fan of Greenpeace, however there are many many examples of active interference that I am sure you'd agree with to some extent. Take for example the tank man. You may disagree with China's policies of that time, but many of those actively interfering now disagree just as much with their government's policies as you do with China's then. Eroding the right to direct action, and labelling it eco-terrorism is falling straight into the hands of those who want to completely marginalise any kind of different viewpoints.
I'm coming across here as a supporter of many forms of direct action - I want to emphasize that I'm not a supporter of most. I do believe those involved should be punished for their actions should they be criminal. However, sometimes the law is just not right, and direct action is one way to show that.
Mahatma Gandhi is probably the most famous proponent of non-violent direct action. His actions too caused significant economic damage to the government of the time.
Of course concealing is evil. I mean, just last week a pack of rabid dogs were after my next door neighbour's baby who I was babysitting. The first thing I thought was to conceal the baby, but then I realised that would have been evil, so I fed the baby to the dogs, knowing I'd done the right thing. I then worried that I was concealing my genitalia, thus causing harm to the parents. So when they got home I stood before them, butt naked, and told them I'd fed their child to a pack of dogs, safe in the knowledge I was doing no evil.
Seriously... get a grip. Concealing things is not necessarily evil.
My previous system was over 5 years old and had had Windows 2000 on since new, no reinstalls, nothing. It was stable as a rock until the end. Perhaps you're doing something you shouldn't with your Windows systems?
Just FYI, the word you were looking for is "nigh". Neigh is the sound a horse makes. I may be missing an obscure reference to the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, and to be honest I probably prefer your version anyway - makes you look at horses in a different light.
Another Vista user here, and it's mostly been fine - I've got a new system, so system reqs are no problem. One problem I did have on installation was that it just locked up half way through - turns out that Vista 64 does not like 4Gb on nvidia chipset motherboards, and will just die without warning or explanation. I tried grabbing the hotfix with my 2k install, but guess what - it's a certified users only deal, so I couldn't grab it. I eventually just took 2gb out until I got it all sorted. Secondly, my wireless took ages to get sorted. The driver that was supposed to work on Vista 64 didn't, again with no explanation why. I eventually found out what chipset it was, and tried the standard Vista driver, and it worked (Belkin wireless card revision 3, uses Railink drivers supplied with Vista, btw). Thirdly, I ran into the truly annoying and utterly shit "calculating remaining time" bug when transferring files across a network. It just sits there indeterminately, doing bugger all, then won't let you cancel, so you've got to kill explorer and let your desktop restart. I now always just use robocopy when copying files over the network.
That was the bad, now the good : everything else. Stability is 100% (the longest I've actually had it up is a fortnight or so), Speed is very good, it boots from the boot manager to desktop in 15 seconds (yes, that fast), and it is just pretty easy to use. Just don't try running it on older hardware, be prepared to take a little while to get it set up, and you should have few problems with it.
And the reason I bought it? - Gaming. I figure not paying MS just 60 quid in 5 years or so wouldn't have brought the giant to it's knees, so I'm not too fussed.
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But seriously, four digits should be enough for anyone, anyway. In my day, we only had 2 digits. And no card! And no bank account! And no money!
This is completely OT, but why on earth do you think South Korea is under threat of invasion from North Korea? It could never ever happen. Firstly, South Korea has far more advanced weaponry than North Korea, and secondly - Do you really think the UN would do nothing against an invading country which the one superpower of the world already hates?
Already modded +5 funny, otherwise I'd have added. This is about the funniest one line post I've seen on /. - thanks for the laugh :).
Your point is wrong. This law would _directly_ punish those who have not broken it. A better analogy would be if everyone in the same house lost their license too, if you did. No one would be bringing up this point if there was some way of just banning one person from the internet, and that was what was being advocated, because that would not mean that you were directly punishing the innocent. I rent a room and live in the same house as my landlord. Do you really think it is a good idea to punish him if I break this law (if he is ignorant of my crime), in any way whatsoever?
That was, if I may say so, a piece of really good driving on my part.
Really? A piece of really good driving? Far be it for me to judge, but from what I can tell, if you had maintained your speed around the rotary there would not have been an incident in the first place. You were just as much, if not more, of a cause of the incident as the other driver.
html mail is not a big overhead necessarily. All it is a markup language, and it only adds small amounts to emails if used well. If used poorly, it's diabolical. Blame the sender, not the medium - html emails do have their place.
Also, anyone who lets their mail reader access _any_ unkown outbound html connections is asking for trouble.
Why on earth is parent marked flamebait? The stupid question was made by the summary, not the AC. The AC responded accurately. Anyone who uses wikipedia as authoratative information should be shown what proper research is, or shot.
I am not saying that wikipedia is not useful, but claiming that it is authorative on the subject of tin whiskers is absurd.
Because if they had the technology to live on this planet hidden from us in viable populations to conduct a society more advanced than ours, then they would have the technology not to be detected in aircraft/spacecraft either.
Wait.... what? You're claiming that a race of aliens with the technology capable of travelling interstellar distances could not remain hidden on earth because their technology isn't good enough. Seriously?
I know, that's one of the main reasons I got a new PC. Saying that, however, the ti4200 would run games like doom3 (un?)happily, though I never got it. I wasn't going to just upgrade the graphics card because it was AGP, and the entire system was crap by this point anyway.
Actually, I hate the way processors are getting faster and faster and hungrier and hungrier.
Umm... don't know if you've been following the processor market recently, but they're not. A lot of the advances recently have been about lower voltages, lower power consumption, and more cores. Pure processor power increase has most definately not been a feature of the recent processor market, at least not compared to the past. I mean, AMD released over 2ghz processors 6 years ago....
Whenever I build a new PC for myself, I buy just below the best. My previous PC lasted me 5 years or so, with a ti4200 (a powerhouse of a card, which will still outperform some modern 256mb cards). I'm hoping I can last as long with my current 8800GT, though I'm guessing it may be more like 4 years before I replace it.
That's the thing about buying a decent spec PC - if you buy well, you will not have to replace it for years, and you'll be able to play just about anything because everyone else is buying generic PCs which have crap graphics cards in them every year or two. YMMV, as always.
The major problem with CGI pron is that Uncanny Valley can take on a whole new meaning.
It is most definately not abusing a service if you've paid for it and are within the rules. If someone sells me a 1 megabit always on connection, it is not abuse if I use it fully 24/7.
If you replace 'abuse' with 'use', your post makes a little more sense. Companies always oversell what they can deliver, and if they screw up, it's up to them to fix it.
I'd guess that in a market which is not dominated by flat rate lines, starting up a flat rate service would be a lot tougher, since you're naturally going to attract the heavy users. In a market in which nearly everyone's on flat rate, companies get all different types of customer.
No it's not. It's lose. It's also "it's", not its. Also, look at this asshole who uses loser instead of looser! :P
There's a difference between property and intellectual property, you know. Hint - One's a physical thing, like land, one's not.
Installing Windows is _not_ as easy as you make it seem. I recently built my own PC, and tried installing Vista64 on it. It just repeatedly got a little way through, threw a bsod and error codes at me, then immediately rebooted. It turns out Vista just does not work with a nVidia chipset motherboard, and 4gb or more of RAM without a hotfix (that I couldn't download because because I didn't have WGA). I've just realised how completely ass backwards this is - This is a hotfix for a bug that prevents Vista installing, which you can only download with a fully installed version of Vista. Very fucking useful. I installed win2k anyway, found out about the problem, then pulled 2gb out, installed, installed the hotfix, then put the 2gb back in. Then the wireless didn't work, despite claiming to be supported. It just failed. It was a Belkin card, and I eventually found out my revision was on a Ralink chipset, so I went and downloaded their drivers, which didn't work either. I finally tried using Vista's included Ralink drivers, and that did work. Woohoo, working system. Apart from the network copying "calculating time remaining" bug, it's working fine now - I just use robocopy from the command line, though whenever anyone suggests using the command line in Linux, people throw their arms in the air. Yes, that's right, on a new version of Windows, new install, I _have_ to use the command line to copy network files about.
Anyway, I'm not having a rant against Vista here - I quite like it. It's fast, it boots fast, and works decently. I'm just pointing out a few major problems I had with my most recent install of Vista. It most definately can be difficult to install. I've not gotten round to installing Linux yet (got a nice 400gb partition set aside for it though), I don't know how many problems I'll have with that. ;)
Hardhack is short for hardware hack.
Did you even view that video? If you think that is what constitutes terrorism now, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, but honestly, if you think that is an example of terrorism, you've either got a completely warped idea of what terrorism is, or you've bought into the propoganda telling us that eveything that is illegal is terrorism so completely you're just ignoring what happened. Your other link is from 3 years ago, and is written by Paul Watson. From that wikipedia link on Watson :
In 1978, Watson was expelled from Greenpeace by a vote of 11 to 1 (only watson himself voted against it). Watson was expelled as he did not share Greenpeace's definition of non-violence. That same year, he founded his own group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
So your evidence for Greenpeace terrorism is a video in which two ships collide, one of them Greenpeace's, and those on the video claim no wrongdoing on their part (if there is evidence of wrongdoing, show it), and an article from someone who was expelled from Greenpeace because he was too violent. Honestly, if this is supposed to make me believe Greenpeace is a terrorist organisation, you've done a wonderful job convincing me otherwise.
I do not personally like a lot of what Greenpeace stands for (in particular their stance on Nuclear power), but please don't talk crap that's not even close to true. It doesn't help either side, it just muddies the waters (though I guess that could be your intention).
Actively interfering with operations you disapprove of is most definately acceptable political activism in many cases, in my opinion. Like the GP, I am not a big fan of Greenpeace, however there are many many examples of active interference that I am sure you'd agree with to some extent. Take for example the tank man. You may disagree with China's policies of that time, but many of those actively interfering now disagree just as much with their government's policies as you do with China's then. Eroding the right to direct action, and labelling it eco-terrorism is falling straight into the hands of those who want to completely marginalise any kind of different viewpoints.
I'm coming across here as a supporter of many forms of direct action - I want to emphasize that I'm not a supporter of most. I do believe those involved should be punished for their actions should they be criminal. However, sometimes the law is just not right, and direct action is one way to show that.
Mahatma Gandhi is probably the most famous proponent of non-violent direct action. His actions too caused significant economic damage to the government of the time.
However many cores you have, if they're all running at 5.5mhz, you're not going to be playing Crisis 3 :P.
Of course concealing is evil. I mean, just last week a pack of rabid dogs were after my next door neighbour's baby who I was babysitting. The first thing I thought was to conceal the baby, but then I realised that would have been evil, so I fed the baby to the dogs, knowing I'd done the right thing. I then worried that I was concealing my genitalia, thus causing harm to the parents. So when they got home I stood before them, butt naked, and told them I'd fed their child to a pack of dogs, safe in the knowledge I was doing no evil.
Seriously... get a grip. Concealing things is not necessarily evil.
Do you know what they put in car radiators? You'll find some of the same ingredients in many brands of ice cream.
Don't tell me they're putting water in ice cream now?! What the hell is the world coming to?
My previous system was over 5 years old and had had Windows 2000 on since new, no reinstalls, nothing. It was stable as a rock until the end. Perhaps you're doing something you shouldn't with your Windows systems?
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Just FYI, the word you were looking for is "nigh". Neigh is the sound a horse makes. I may be missing an obscure reference to the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, and to be honest I probably prefer your version anyway - makes you look at horses in a different light.
Another Vista user here, and it's mostly been fine - I've got a new system, so system reqs are no problem. One problem I did have on installation was that it just locked up half way through - turns out that Vista 64 does not like 4Gb on nvidia chipset motherboards, and will just die without warning or explanation. I tried grabbing the hotfix with my 2k install, but guess what - it's a certified users only deal, so I couldn't grab it. I eventually just took 2gb out until I got it all sorted. Secondly, my wireless took ages to get sorted. The driver that was supposed to work on Vista 64 didn't, again with no explanation why. I eventually found out what chipset it was, and tried the standard Vista driver, and it worked (Belkin wireless card revision 3, uses Railink drivers supplied with Vista, btw). Thirdly, I ran into the truly annoying and utterly shit "calculating remaining time" bug when transferring files across a network. It just sits there indeterminately, doing bugger all, then won't let you cancel, so you've got to kill explorer and let your desktop restart. I now always just use robocopy when copying files over the network.
That was the bad, now the good : everything else. Stability is 100% (the longest I've actually had it up is a fortnight or so), Speed is very good, it boots from the boot manager to desktop in 15 seconds (yes, that fast), and it is just pretty easy to use. Just don't try running it on older hardware, be prepared to take a little while to get it set up, and you should have few problems with it.
And the reason I bought it? - Gaming. I figure not paying MS just 60 quid in 5 years or so wouldn't have brought the giant to it's knees, so I'm not too fussed.