It's a shame KPN changed their passwords for them. They were about to learn a valuable lesson!
I doubt it. They'd just become part of a botnet.
The reasonably intelligent people only had to hear about one instance of fraud, one example of ID theft in the news, to understand that they need a decent password.
You confuse ignorance with stupidity. They heard about ID theft, they heard about phishing, they don't hear about weak passwords.
I'm pretty sure Paul's idea of internet freedom is to let ISPs do whatever the hell they want with no restrictions, including blocking sites that interfere with their core product (such as Comcast blocking Hulu and NetFlix).
The Libertarians are mostly for freedon of corporations to fuck you over, not so much about freedom for the common man.
Windows 7 seems to be stable; I've had it on a notebook for about a year and no crashes. However, Explorer does crash occasionally. Wierd, because I don't remember earlier versions of it crashing. Maybe before when the OS crashed it was because of an Explorer cars?
OTOH flash crashes constantly on my Linux box (pretty limited memory on that one) and occasionally on the Windows box.
Not only that, but the pedantry is incorrect. I built the computer in my living room, mostly from leftover junk and spare parts. I built it, in my living room. It was indeed made in the USA. None of the parts I built it with were, but the computer itself was.
When I was a teenager and guitar fuzzboxes were rediculously expensive, I'd take $10 Japanes transistor radios and $2 worth of parts and solder and turn them into fuzzboxes. They were made in America, even if what they were made of wasn't.
And if -- ghod forbid -- we discover a way to make the vacuum unstable, then we might learn how to make one really big boom. Just one, because it will consume the entire universe, but that one will be REALLY BIG.
Perhaps that's how our universe got started -- someone blew their own up.
And other times you realise that you need a lawyer because someone's fucking you over -- for instance, you have only liability insurance and someone with no insurance at all T-Bones you with his brand new Mercedes. You need that lawyer BAD.
Try divorcing an evil bitch without a lawyer. Try declaring bankruptcy after the divorce without a lawyer.
And when you need a lawyer because another lawyer is coming after you, in most cases they have a good case (meaning you fucked up) or they would have told the client that he couldn't win.
A flat tax is a regressive tax; the poor get far less out of government than the rich. To a rich man, the cop is a protector. To the poor man, a cop is a threat. The rich man with his fleet of trucks gets far more out of the highways than the poor man with his '87 Oldsmobile.
And you can bet that even if there were a flat tax, the rich would manage to add loopholes to it. Not being flat isn't tax's problem, the loopholes themselves are. Keep the graduated tax and eliminate all deductions and you have a simple, fair system for anyone who can do basic arithmetic.
Why the huge disparity? Probably has something to do with the fact that in the US there are a large # of people who secretly want "sinners" to get infected as punishment for their "deviancy", we call these people Republicans.
As much as I dislike Newt, Rush, and Mitt, I just don't see any evidence of that. More liikely, the reason we have so much more AIDS is that poor prople simply don't go to the doctor; they can't afford it. They go to the ER when they're at death's door, and by then have likely infected many, many people.
It's not that the Republcians are Christians (I can't believe that the above named individuals aren't closet athiests, because everything they preach is the opposite of what Christ taught), it's the fact that they's stingy bastards who don't care about other's suffering.
We can see it in the massive farce that is "abstinence only" education
That was ignorance, not malice. They actually believed that they could lower the rate of teenaged sex. Republicans think only the rich should have any fun or enjoyment in life, and that there's nothing at all wrong with imprisoning someone for getting stoned.
And it is not just the oppinion of some/. reader, there's even is an old joke about Microsoft's car, go google it. That joke was made by a normal person, not a computer geek.
If it's the joke I'm thinking of, I made it and posted it on my old Quake site some time before 2000. And I assure you, I am indeed a geek.
On the contrary, patent and copyright law concerns almost all nerds. It's not the legalities themselves that interest us, it's how they affect our work and hobbies.
Being a nerd isn't buying tech, it's designing and building and repurposing and progremming tech. As such, patent law affects us greatly.
You don't just get to ignore the tragedy the Clinton presidency was. He fucking sold our nuke tech to China and killed your precious fucking hadron colider
Congress (more Rs than Ds, see numbers above from other commentors) killed the collider, and despite all the crying and hand-waving, what harm has come from selling nuke tech to China? OTOH he took the Bush deficit and balanced the budget, and turned the Bush recession into a boom. We had no war on his watch. The WTC was bombed and the bombers were brought to justice.
Tragedy? Bush II was a tragedy. Started with a balanced budget, a robust economy, and peace, and left office the only President to leave office with fewer American jobs than when he went in, crashed the economy (we almost went into a depression), ran up the biggest deficit the US had ever seen, and had us in two wars, one of them the longest in history. The nation was attacked under his watch a year after he was in office, and when he left eight years later Bin Laden was still living in luxury in Pakistan.
Clinton was a good President and Bush II was possibly the worst President in US history. THAT'S reality, son. Fucking deal with it.
Despite the fact that the Bush recession turned into a boom, and he balanced the budget, and IMO was the best President I've seen in my lifetime (and I've lived through 11 of them) they hate him for the simple fact that he's a Democrat and they're amoral (despite the fact that Republicans pretend to be God-fearing Christians).
You'll never convince me that Gingrish and Limbaugh aren't closet athiests.
By and large, they don't. Rather, Slashdot (and other news outlets) reports on the few stupid things to get reactions from people, because a rousing discussion is more profitable than objective journalism.
Your criticism of news outlets is warranted, but/. isn't about reporting news, it's about discussing it. The more rousing the discussion, the better.
It's no longer terminal with today's antiviral drug regimens. However, it is still incurable, and if you have HIV you'll need to take a very large cocktail of some very dangerous drugs for the rest of your life.
The founding fathers were a bunch of long haired open-source reefer-smoking hippie nerds. Too bad none like that are in office today, now we have parasites like bankers and lawyers running things.
I thought the GP was joking, but apparently a few of you don't understand how a heat pump works. A heat pump is simply a reversable air conditioner. Notice that if you stand outside by a winow AC, the air coming out is hotter than the air inside. The AC merely pumps heat from the inside of the house to the outside, and that takes energy. Notice how much your electric bill goes up in the summer?
Using a heat pump to recover energy is as silly as thinking you can build a perpetual motion machine by connecting a generator to a motor and having the motor power the generator. It's fantasy.
TO ANSWER THE ARTICLE: It's 10 degrees below normal in Los Angeles.
Here in Springfiueld it's been over 100 degrees every day for the last week or so. Not much of a chance of the power going out, unless a transformer overheats or something, and half of them were replaced after the 2006 tornados took out a lot of the infrastructure here.
My biggest problem with the heat is the AC's not working in my car. Well, that and I'm getting old, and being old and hot don't go well together. Plus I had two heat strokes when I was in my 20s.
Can human apply the earth laws, such as copyrights, into other corners in the universe?
Of course not. After the American revolution, neither the US nor Britain upheld the other's copyrights. The only way the laws would apply is if we made a traty with the Vulcans.
Oh, and Samzepus and Lawyers-in-space, it's not "copy-written" it's "copyrighted." They aren't copy-writes, they're copyrights. Please have another cup, you seem to need it this morning (I'm hung over, too, so don't feel too bad).
Why are things so heavy in the future? Has the Earth's gravity increased or something?
Actually, the Earth's mass increases slightly every time it captures a meteor. Plus, its rotation is slowing, reducing its Centrifugal force, so even if its and your mass stayed the same, a precise enough scale would show a constant increase in weight.
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It's a shame KPN changed their passwords for them. They were about to learn a valuable lesson!
I doubt it. They'd just become part of a botnet.
The reasonably intelligent people only had to hear about one instance of fraud, one example of ID theft in the news, to understand that they need a decent password.
You confuse ignorance with stupidity. They heard about ID theft, they heard about phishing, they don't hear about weak passwords.
I'm pretty sure Paul's idea of internet freedom is to let ISPs do whatever the hell they want with no restrictions, including blocking sites that interfere with their core product (such as Comcast blocking Hulu and NetFlix).
The Libertarians are mostly for freedon of corporations to fuck you over, not so much about freedom for the common man.
Windows 7 seems to be stable; I've had it on a notebook for about a year and no crashes. However, Explorer does crash occasionally. Wierd, because I don't remember earlier versions of it crashing. Maybe before when the OS crashed it was because of an Explorer cars?
OTOH flash crashes constantly on my Linux box (pretty limited memory on that one) and occasionally on the Windows box.
Not only that, but the pedantry is incorrect. I built the computer in my living room, mostly from leftover junk and spare parts. I built it, in my living room. It was indeed made in the USA. None of the parts I built it with were, but the computer itself was.
When I was a teenager and guitar fuzzboxes were rediculously expensive, I'd take $10 Japanes transistor radios and $2 worth of parts and solder and turn them into fuzzboxes. They were made in America, even if what they were made of wasn't.
Zaphod would laugh his ass off if he saw that message while in the Heart Of Gold.
And if -- ghod forbid -- we discover a way to make the vacuum unstable, then we might learn how to make one really big boom. Just one, because it will consume the entire universe, but that one will be REALLY BIG.
Perhaps that's how our universe got started -- someone blew their own up.
And other times you realise that you need a lawyer because someone's fucking you over -- for instance, you have only liability insurance and someone with no insurance at all T-Bones you with his brand new Mercedes. You need that lawyer BAD.
Try divorcing an evil bitch without a lawyer. Try declaring bankruptcy after the divorce without a lawyer.
And when you need a lawyer because another lawyer is coming after you, in most cases they have a good case (meaning you fucked up) or they would have told the client that he couldn't win.
A flat tax is a regressive tax; the poor get far less out of government than the rich. To a rich man, the cop is a protector. To the poor man, a cop is a threat. The rich man with his fleet of trucks gets far more out of the highways than the poor man with his '87 Oldsmobile.
And you can bet that even if there were a flat tax, the rich would manage to add loopholes to it. Not being flat isn't tax's problem, the loopholes themselves are. Keep the graduated tax and eliminate all deductions and you have a simple, fair system for anyone who can do basic arithmetic.
Why the huge disparity? Probably has something to do with the fact that in the US there are a large # of people who secretly want "sinners" to get infected as punishment for their "deviancy", we call these people Republicans.
As much as I dislike Newt, Rush, and Mitt, I just don't see any evidence of that. More liikely, the reason we have so much more AIDS is that poor prople simply don't go to the doctor; they can't afford it. They go to the ER when they're at death's door, and by then have likely infected many, many people.
It's not that the Republcians are Christians (I can't believe that the above named individuals aren't closet athiests, because everything they preach is the opposite of what Christ taught), it's the fact that they's stingy bastards who don't care about other's suffering.
We can see it in the massive farce that is "abstinence only" education
That was ignorance, not malice. They actually believed that they could lower the rate of teenaged sex. Republicans think only the rich should have any fun or enjoyment in life, and that there's nothing at all wrong with imprisoning someone for getting stoned.
I've noticed the same thing, but what's attacking the English language isn't slashdot, it's people who never read anything but the internet.
And it is not just the oppinion of some /. reader, there's even is an old joke about Microsoft's car, go google it. That joke was made by a normal person, not a computer geek.
If it's the joke I'm thinking of, I made it and posted it on my old Quake site some time before 2000. And I assure you, I am indeed a geek.
On the contrary, patent and copyright law concerns almost all nerds. It's not the legalities themselves that interest us, it's how they affect our work and hobbies.
Being a nerd isn't buying tech, it's designing and building and repurposing and progremming tech. As such, patent law affects us greatly.
You don't just get to ignore the tragedy the Clinton presidency was. He fucking sold our nuke tech to China and killed your precious fucking hadron colider
Congress (more Rs than Ds, see numbers above from other commentors) killed the collider, and despite all the crying and hand-waving, what harm has come from selling nuke tech to China? OTOH he took the Bush deficit and balanced the budget, and turned the Bush recession into a boom. We had no war on his watch. The WTC was bombed and the bombers were brought to justice.
Tragedy? Bush II was a tragedy. Started with a balanced budget, a robust economy, and peace, and left office the only President to leave office with fewer American jobs than when he went in, crashed the economy (we almost went into a depression), ran up the biggest deficit the US had ever seen, and had us in two wars, one of them the longest in history. The nation was attacked under his watch a year after he was in office, and when he left eight years later Bin Laden was still living in luxury in Pakistan.
Clinton was a good President and Bush II was possibly the worst President in US history. THAT'S reality, son. Fucking deal with it.
Maybe that is why I always read the plaintif's name as carry-on.
I see it as carrion.
What the fuck do you all have against Clinton?
Despite the fact that the Bush recession turned into a boom, and he balanced the budget, and IMO was the best President I've seen in my lifetime (and I've lived through 11 of them) they hate him for the simple fact that he's a Democrat and they're amoral (despite the fact that Republicans pretend to be God-fearing Christians).
You'll never convince me that Gingrish and Limbaugh aren't closet athiests.
By and large, they don't. Rather, Slashdot (and other news outlets) reports on the few stupid things to get reactions from people, because a rousing discussion is more profitable than objective journalism.
/. isn't about reporting news, it's about discussing it. The more rousing the discussion, the better.
Your criticism of news outlets is warranted, but
No, it was hemp break, as in "smoke break". I wasn't aware that you could make brakes with hemp!
It's no longer terminal with today's antiviral drug regimens. However, it is still incurable, and if you have HIV you'll need to take a very large cocktail of some very dangerous drugs for the rest of your life.
The founding fathers were a bunch of long haired open-source reefer-smoking hippie nerds. Too bad none like that are in office today, now we have parasites like bankers and lawyers running things.
I thought the GP was joking, but apparently a few of you don't understand how a heat pump works. A heat pump is simply a reversable air conditioner. Notice that if you stand outside by a winow AC, the air coming out is hotter than the air inside. The AC merely pumps heat from the inside of the house to the outside, and that takes energy. Notice how much your electric bill goes up in the summer?
Using a heat pump to recover energy is as silly as thinking you can build a perpetual motion machine by connecting a generator to a motor and having the motor power the generator. It's fantasy.
"Inflationary environments" cause the capital to loose value
How can inflation cause capital to set value free? I think you just said the exact opposite of what you meant to say.
TO ANSWER THE ARTICLE: It's 10 degrees below normal in Los Angeles.
Here in Springfiueld it's been over 100 degrees every day for the last week or so. Not much of a chance of the power going out, unless a transformer overheats or something, and half of them were replaced after the 2006 tornados took out a lot of the infrastructure here.
My biggest problem with the heat is the AC's not working in my car. Well, that and I'm getting old, and being old and hot don't go well together. Plus I had two heat strokes when I was in my 20s.
Can human apply the earth laws, such as copyrights, into other corners in the universe?
Of course not. After the American revolution, neither the US nor Britain upheld the other's copyrights. The only way the laws would apply is if we made a traty with the Vulcans.
Oh, and Samzepus and Lawyers-in-space, it's not "copy-written" it's "copyrighted." They aren't copy-writes, they're copyrights. Please have another cup, you seem to need it this morning (I'm hung over, too, so don't feel too bad).
It's easier to build a good story using them. They are real characters, while the judeochristian God just doesn't have a personality to explore
Doesn't have a personality to explore?? That's just ignorant.
and tends to create massive plot holes via omnipotence.
Yet the Greek gods were only in one episode, while the omnipotent Q was a recurring character, from TNG's first episode to the last episode.
You want plot holes, read the book I'm halfway done writing.
Why are things so heavy in the future? Has the Earth's gravity increased or something?
Actually, the Earth's mass increases slightly every time it captures a meteor. Plus, its rotation is slowing, reducing its Centrifugal force, so even if its and your mass stayed the same, a precise enough scale would show a constant increase in weight.