The only time Firefox crashes on me is when it's running a flash app (which it usually is, I use it as a radio and most stations use flash).
The nice thing about it is it apologizes, asks you if you want to restart it, and when it restarts all the tabs, windows (the radio stations' stream players all open in new windows, wven though the browser is configured to open new windows as new tabs), and web pages are reopened just as they were (not sure of it does that under Windows, my guess is it probably doesn't).
Your comment was insightful, but I almost missed it from your first sentence. I see after reading the whole thing you were being ironic/sarcastic.
I think the "war on terror" is just another tool on their war on (some) drugs, which has been going on since 1914 when they outlawed opiates (without a license). Note that the opiate laws were racist; there was no such war on the opiates used by whites (laudanum), just the opiates used by the Chinese (opium that wasn't mixed with alcohol as laudanum was).
I had my eyes opened wide by a history of organized crime I read recently. The people who most want these drugs outlawed are the ones who gain financially from them. Politicians who are for the continued outlawing of these substances are in the pay of the gangsters.
Consider marijuana -- the least harmful (and in many ways beneficial) psychoactive drug, a drug safer than aspirin, a drug that is not addictive and no more habuituating that orange juice, a drug with no known lethal dose, a drug that, when ingested, makes people less prone to violence than when sober (unlike alcohol, which often makes many people violent). An ounce of it goes for well over a hundred dollars. Contrast that to one of the most addictive and the most deadly drug known to man, cigarettes. Sold legally a pack cost about five bucks, four of that in taxes.
Billions of dollars change hands over ganja's sales, yet not a penny of it is taxed! No pot tax, not even income tax. Those billions in uncollected taxes would go a long way to decreasing the defecit.
Why would a politician be against collecting these taxes? They're in the pay of organized crime. Don't expect it to be legalized.
Meanwhile, they trumpet catching the tiny fraction of those selling it. The more they catch (and I suspect they catch the ones who aren't smart enough to make the proper bribes), the more they trumpet.
The war on terror and its revocation of our rights makes it easier to catch dope runners. This madness should stop; it's worse than counterproductive, as most of the societal problems caused by drugs are caused by the laws against them themselves. But don't hold your breath, there's way too much money to be made searching grandma's diaper in the name of counterterrorism that's really looking for drugs, for your corrupt government to ley the gravy train end.
This isn't an issue with the children's rights, its about the publishers' rights to free speech. However, I can see making them label the games so the kids' parents can decide. Parenting is for parents, not governments. I let my daughters play Quake when they were 12 (in fact we had lots of fun fragging each other on the home network) but it was MY decision. They were my kids, and I raised them like I wanted to (both are still gamers, the youngest is now assistant manager of a GameStop store making damned good money for someone her age).
By "bothered to upgrade" you mean "spent the money they didn't need to spend". Corprations have budgets; they'd be foolish to "upgrade" a working system unless it provided better productivity or in some other way improved their profits. A corporate computer isn't the same as a home computer, even if both of them are running Windows on exactly the same hardware.
What's more, in the last decade 3,000 people were killed by terrorists (in that ONE act) while 45,000 people die on the American highways EVERY SINGLE YEAR. The only terrorist I'm afraid of is the one yakking on his cellphone (or worse, texting) while driving his SUV like it's the only sports car on the road. Lack of respect for life, anyone?
The most dangerous part of your trip is the drive to the airport.
There was a comedian shortly after 911 (Jeff Foxworthy maybe? I don't remember) who said it was lucky for the terrorists that they hit the WTC instead of the Brewery in St Louis. "You'd have a hundred thousand rednecks with their shotguns and 30.06s crossing the ocean in their johnboats! Don't mess with out Budweiser!"
I only have six points left so I think I'll respond (even though I wouldn't have moderated your comment either way and left it at 1).
This is indeed a religious war. The US is fighting to protect its national religion -- the worship of money. Most "Christians" would probably denounce God and Christ if you offered them a hundred million bucks to do so, despite the fact that that's the worst sin a Christian could possibly commit (worse than mass murder). Most money worshiping Christians don't even realize that they love money more than they love Jesus.
Hypocrites. How many of these so-called "Christians" call for the death penalty, when the man they call their lord and savior said to love those that hate you, do good to those who harm you, and forgive your enemies? No wonder there are so many athiests, considering how hypocritical most "religious" people are (that includes Muslims and Jews as well as Christians).
The TSA is about instilling fear among the populace so the government can take away what few rights you still have. It should never have been started, and neither should DHS have been. Homeland security should be the military's job. If there is a TSA their job should be to make sure our deteriorating bridges don't collapse and the airliners don't have mechanical defects or drunken pilots.
That was my point; XCP was blatantly illegal, yet they suffered no repurcussions at all when they should have gone to prison for it. In some situations, IMO, vigilanteism is justified. Look at some history; the cited vigialantism was certainly justified, and IMO so was this. The reason nobody from Sony went to prison for "accessing a protected computer system" was because of corruption.
And IMO (agree or disagree, it's your right) anybody who would trust their information to an organization who would deliberately install malware on your computer, who would remove a feature you paid for after you've paid for the device is begging to get burned.
Had Sony not done this, had Citi (and other big banks) not ran forclosure rackets, and/or had they been hacked despite doing their best to keep your information secure (and they didn't), I'd agree with you.
And consider this -- if it's your information that was publically disclosed, the commerial black hats already had that information and were selling it. That's what they DO, but you wouldn't have known it without LulzSec. At least now you know you're in danger, and should thank these kids for making it obvious to you.
Damn, some incredibly stupid teabagger modded you "flamebait" for daring to joke about the evil Koches (and I'm not joking when I say "evil"). And here I sit with mod points, unable to mod you back up because I've commented in this discussion.
Too bad the predominant religion in America is the worship of money. Bash rich men? How dare he! Heresy! Blasphemy! Stone him! Crucify him!
Let 'em mod me however they want, modbombs haven't affected my karma so screw 'em. Anybody making less than $250k/yr who is a tea party member is incredibly stupid. The Koch brothers are trying as hard as they can to destroy the middle class (and, as you pointed out, the environment as well), and the idiotic middle class teabaggers are HELPING them do it!
If stupidity is counterevolutionary, why are there so many idiots? Even here at slashdot, where being "news for nerds" you would expect a higher than normal IQ rather than two digit morons. I don't get it.
What I find galling is when the fanbois mod you "troll" for pointing out how incredibly evil Sony is. XCP, OtherOS, insecure servers, yet these idiots keep buying Sony. I can understand "normal" people buying Sony, but I can't for the life of me understand why a nerd would even buy a Sony product, let alone be a fanboi.
That's just silly. How can the number of kids you have have anything to do with interstate commerce? Childbearing doesn't involve any commerce at all, unless you're talking about pregnant hookers. They may be able to use that clause to regulate how many kids hookers have, but between a man and a wife? It's patently absurd.
You can only push flawed logic (and I agree that using the interstate commerce clause for outlawing pot is flawed logic) so far before even dolts know it's utter tripe.
Well, I've lived in Tornado Alley for 59 years (except the 4 years in the USAF and five living in Florida), I've only been in one. He's right; the flood that happened in St Louis back in the '90s was what they call a "hundred year flood", much like the one we're discussing.
Tornados are incredibly destructive (they're actually like being in a giant blender), but usually destroy a very narrow path. The strong F2 (almost F3) I was in affected an area a couple or three miles long, but only a few blocks wide. The big F5s likke hit Joplin are exceedingly rare.
That little? Kind of a no-story then, even for clocks; my analog wall clocks run on batteries, and they're a minute or two off when I have to set them for daylight savings changes.
You should have posted this as a journal entry rather than a comment. With their new setup, your journal will be on the front page, at least for a little while.
At any rate, I actually went years without mod points -- but I was commenting prolifically, and seldom being modded down. Once in a while someone will modbomb me and I'll get a page of moderations in the "messages" page all modded down.
I went a month or so without commenting -- extra busy month at work and just glanced at stories to see if there were any new tech developments I'd missed elsewhere and started getting mod points out the yinyang. Sometimes I'd have mod points left and get more before they expired. Someone on my fans list (I friend anyone who friends me and read their journals, and for nobody) posted a journal asking why it seemed he got few points, only five at a time, and I had fifteen fresh points that morning. Started posting more often during a slow period at work and the mod points dried up.
There are a few asshats gaming the system with sock puppets, or at least that's a hypothesis put forward in someone's journal, and it seems reasonable to me. I occasionally get modbombed, but I just don't worry about it. My karma's never suffered (have a look at the number of +5s I've gotten since they started the "achievements" pages).
If your karma's good enough you can metamod any time -- that's where I saw this comment (and sorry, but I had to mod you offtopic, and am downmodding myself with the "no bonus" checkboxes). The way the new metamoderation works is strange and I wish they'd bring the old way back. It's like moderating without limits -- I've even seen my own comments while metamoderating!
At any rate, hope this was informative (but if anyone moderates it, please mod me offtopic).
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The only time Firefox crashes on me is when it's running a flash app (which it usually is, I use it as a radio and most stations use flash).
The nice thing about it is it apologizes, asks you if you want to restart it, and when it restarts all the tabs, windows (the radio stations' stream players all open in new windows, wven though the browser is configured to open new windows as new tabs), and web pages are reopened just as they were (not sure of it does that under Windows, my guess is it probably doesn't).
Your comment was insightful, but I almost missed it from your first sentence. I see after reading the whole thing you were being ironic/sarcastic.
I think the "war on terror" is just another tool on their war on (some) drugs, which has been going on since 1914 when they outlawed opiates (without a license). Note that the opiate laws were racist; there was no such war on the opiates used by whites (laudanum), just the opiates used by the Chinese (opium that wasn't mixed with alcohol as laudanum was).
I had my eyes opened wide by a history of organized crime I read recently. The people who most want these drugs outlawed are the ones who gain financially from them. Politicians who are for the continued outlawing of these substances are in the pay of the gangsters.
Consider marijuana -- the least harmful (and in many ways beneficial) psychoactive drug, a drug safer than aspirin, a drug that is not addictive and no more habuituating that orange juice, a drug with no known lethal dose, a drug that, when ingested, makes people less prone to violence than when sober (unlike alcohol, which often makes many people violent). An ounce of it goes for well over a hundred dollars. Contrast that to one of the most addictive and the most deadly drug known to man, cigarettes. Sold legally a pack cost about five bucks, four of that in taxes.
Billions of dollars change hands over ganja's sales, yet not a penny of it is taxed! No pot tax, not even income tax. Those billions in uncollected taxes would go a long way to decreasing the defecit.
Why would a politician be against collecting these taxes? They're in the pay of organized crime. Don't expect it to be legalized.
Meanwhile, they trumpet catching the tiny fraction of those selling it. The more they catch (and I suspect they catch the ones who aren't smart enough to make the proper bribes), the more they trumpet.
The war on terror and its revocation of our rights makes it easier to catch dope runners. This madness should stop; it's worse than counterproductive, as most of the societal problems caused by drugs are caused by the laws against them themselves. But don't hold your breath, there's way too much money to be made searching grandma's diaper in the name of counterterrorism that's really looking for drugs, for your corrupt government to ley the gravy train end.
Or ironically, blow up the security line at the airport.
I'd have to be wearing Zaphod's sunglasses to see their point of view.
That was quit some job you quite!
(Sorry, I though that typo was humorous :)
This isn't an issue with the children's rights, its about the publishers' rights to free speech. However, I can see making them label the games so the kids' parents can decide. Parenting is for parents, not governments. I let my daughters play Quake when they were 12 (in fact we had lots of fun fragging each other on the home network) but it was MY decision. They were my kids, and I raised them like I wanted to (both are still gamers, the youngest is now assistant manager of a GameStop store making damned good money for someone her age).
By "bothered to upgrade" you mean "spent the money they didn't need to spend". Corprations have budgets; they'd be foolish to "upgrade" a working system unless it provided better productivity or in some other way improved their profits. A corporate computer isn't the same as a home computer, even if both of them are running Windows on exactly the same hardware.
What's more, in the last decade 3,000 people were killed by terrorists (in that ONE act) while 45,000 people die on the American highways EVERY SINGLE YEAR. The only terrorist I'm afraid of is the one yakking on his cellphone (or worse, texting) while driving his SUV like it's the only sports car on the road. Lack of respect for life, anyone?
The most dangerous part of your trip is the drive to the airport.
There was a comedian shortly after 911 (Jeff Foxworthy maybe? I don't remember) who said it was lucky for the terrorists that they hit the WTC instead of the Brewery in St Louis. "You'd have a hundred thousand rednecks with their shotguns and 30.06s crossing the ocean in their johnboats! Don't mess with out Budweiser!"
I only have six points left so I think I'll respond (even though I wouldn't have moderated your comment either way and left it at 1).
This is indeed a religious war. The US is fighting to protect its national religion -- the worship of money. Most "Christians" would probably denounce God and Christ if you offered them a hundred million bucks to do so, despite the fact that that's the worst sin a Christian could possibly commit (worse than mass murder). Most money worshiping Christians don't even realize that they love money more than they love Jesus.
Hypocrites. How many of these so-called "Christians" call for the death penalty, when the man they call their lord and savior said to love those that hate you, do good to those who harm you, and forgive your enemies? No wonder there are so many athiests, considering how hypocritical most "religious" people are (that includes Muslims and Jews as well as Christians).
The TSA is about instilling fear among the populace so the government can take away what few rights you still have. It should never have been started, and neither should DHS have been. Homeland security should be the military's job. If there is a TSA their job should be to make sure our deteriorating bridges don't collapse and the airliners don't have mechanical defects or drunken pilots.
It was a headline of an AP story posted on Yahoo News last week, can't you Google? The link is to 146 news items about it!
That was my point; XCP was blatantly illegal, yet they suffered no repurcussions at all when they should have gone to prison for it. In some situations, IMO, vigilanteism is justified. Look at some history; the cited vigialantism was certainly justified, and IMO so was this. The reason nobody from Sony went to prison for "accessing a protected computer system" was because of corruption.
And IMO (agree or disagree, it's your right) anybody who would trust their information to an organization who would deliberately install malware on your computer, who would remove a feature you paid for after you've paid for the device is begging to get burned.
Had Sony not done this, had Citi (and other big banks) not ran forclosure rackets, and/or had they been hacked despite doing their best to keep your information secure (and they didn't), I'd agree with you.
And consider this -- if it's your information that was publically disclosed, the commerial black hats already had that information and were selling it. That's what they DO, but you wouldn't have known it without LulzSec. At least now you know you're in danger, and should thank these kids for making it obvious to you.
Damn, some incredibly stupid teabagger modded you "flamebait" for daring to joke about the evil Koches (and I'm not joking when I say "evil"). And here I sit with mod points, unable to mod you back up because I've commented in this discussion.
Too bad the predominant religion in America is the worship of money. Bash rich men? How dare he! Heresy! Blasphemy! Stone him! Crucify him!
Let 'em mod me however they want, modbombs haven't affected my karma so screw 'em. Anybody making less than $250k/yr who is a tea party member is incredibly stupid. The Koch brothers are trying as hard as they can to destroy the middle class (and, as you pointed out, the environment as well), and the idiotic middle class teabaggers are HELPING them do it!
If stupidity is counterevolutionary, why are there so many idiots? Even here at slashdot, where being "news for nerds" you would expect a higher than normal IQ rather than two digit morons. I don't get it.
What I find galling is when the fanbois mod you "troll" for pointing out how incredibly evil Sony is. XCP, OtherOS, insecure servers, yet these idiots keep buying Sony. I can understand "normal" people buying Sony, but I can't for the life of me understand why a nerd would even buy a Sony product, let alone be a fanboi.
You're referring to the old TV show, right?
That's just silly. How can the number of kids you have have anything to do with interstate commerce? Childbearing doesn't involve any commerce at all, unless you're talking about pregnant hookers. They may be able to use that clause to regulate how many kids hookers have, but between a man and a wife? It's patently absurd.
You can only push flawed logic (and I agree that using the interstate commerce clause for outlawing pot is flawed logic) so far before even dolts know it's utter tripe.
Well, I've lived in Tornado Alley for 59 years (except the 4 years in the USAF and five living in Florida), I've only been in one. He's right; the flood that happened in St Louis back in the '90s was what they call a "hundred year flood", much like the one we're discussing.
Tornados are incredibly destructive (they're actually like being in a giant blender), but usually destroy a very narrow path. The strong F2 (almost F3) I was in affected an area a couple or three miles long, but only a few blocks wide. The big F5s likke hit Joplin are exceedingly rare.
I should have said "Mordor" (or spelled it correctly :)
Well, that's the thing -- comments don't have editors. If I make a dumb typo, I appreciate it when someone corrects me.
I've seen threads where all of the ACs were -1, even when the comment was relevant to the discussion and unmoderated. But this guy explained it.
That little? Kind of a no-story then, even for clocks; my analog wall clocks run on batteries, and they're a minute or two off when I have to set them for daylight savings changes.
You should have posted this as a journal entry rather than a comment. With their new setup, your journal will be on the front page, at least for a little while.
At any rate, I actually went years without mod points -- but I was commenting prolifically, and seldom being modded down. Once in a while someone will modbomb me and I'll get a page of moderations in the "messages" page all modded down.
I went a month or so without commenting -- extra busy month at work and just glanced at stories to see if there were any new tech developments I'd missed elsewhere and started getting mod points out the yinyang. Sometimes I'd have mod points left and get more before they expired. Someone on my fans list (I friend anyone who friends me and read their journals, and for nobody) posted a journal asking why it seemed he got few points, only five at a time, and I had fifteen fresh points that morning. Started posting more often during a slow period at work and the mod points dried up.
There are a few asshats gaming the system with sock puppets, or at least that's a hypothesis put forward in someone's journal, and it seems reasonable to me. I occasionally get modbombed, but I just don't worry about it. My karma's never suffered (have a look at the number of +5s I've gotten since they started the "achievements" pages).
If your karma's good enough you can metamod any time -- that's where I saw this comment (and sorry, but I had to mod you offtopic, and am downmodding myself with the "no bonus" checkboxes). The way the new metamoderation works is strange and I wish they'd bring the old way back. It's like moderating without limits -- I've even seen my own comments while metamoderating!
At any rate, hope this was informative (but if anyone moderates it, please mod me offtopic).
If the damn \. search was half useful
Google to the rescue. "[search phrase] site:slashdot.org"
Try this link ;)
ACs start at -1
First they trojan my PC with XCP, now they want to hack my hand!