Thanks for clarifying. Being insulted by someone on the web doesn't ruin my day, but making it clear that you were bugging my comment is a nice thing to do.
Sarcasm flamebait modded up as Funny, ought to at least include a link to Wikipedia to back its opinion up. To not do so is substandard Slashdot material. The guy was looking for something like the audio equivalent of YouTube, not someone to redo his roof for free. Chill?
"As far as training people that need their *hands* held when using a computer, they aren't really the people who are going to be using extentions, are they?"
Sure they are. Again, you've never seen someone install a weatherbug/spyware, when they could have had a clean Forecast Fox instead?
Not all participants in the movies are entirely willing though. In fact, on the Internet, you can even find *gasp* movies of people who don't know they are being filmed at all, and those sites even have spyware/adware on them too.
This case is a bit like watching ambulance chasers suing tobacco lobbyists. You kinda hope both sides annihilate each other.
"The last time we had an illegitimate government was prior to 1776,"
Opinion polls for the current President would suggest otherwise. Legitimacy is more complicated than saying someone wasn't elected democratically. It's part perception.
Also you can't afford NOT to use pencil and paper. It's the proven method of keeping an election fair and auditable, and legitimate in the eyes of the voters. If the vote takes about ten times to complete compared to an election in Canada, it would still be counted and settled in under two days if it was structured right at the polling levels.
Canada has methods to overcome each of those problems. You can't inspect electrons, but scrutineers from each party that registers one, can keep an eye on officials, and since there's a paper record an audit can be done of the ballots, which are numbered for added security.
You haven't taught a granny to use a computer before, have you? Or maybe I shouldn't say granny, but someone unwilling to learn a computer - yet required to either for their work or communication needs.
Your analogy stinks, and is sorta sick too, to boot.
Paper is neither inefficient, or backward. It's the only way to conduct an open and accurate election on a nation wide scale, without introducing unacceptable doubt into the legitimacy of the winner(s). Florida's paper chad system was a failure because machines more complicated than pencils, and obscuring of the working of the ballot was placed between the voter and the ballot. The result was a flawed result, and a delayed result, many times longer than the longest recent Canadian federal general elections.
The slashdot extension ought to have an OMG Ponies theme built into it. Taco's wife would be proud.
In FF3 I'd like to see integrated.torrent downloading, or at the very least a default Add On button in the corner of the window, so there's no menu a noob has to click into to install features that may become standard in other browsers. That way they are only 3 clicks away from installing a new feature, instead of missing out because it's part of a long menu with no highlighting graphic even.
" Why is the FCC going to give everyone a converter, Umm, "why" they are going to pay for it should be quite obvious."
Don't feel overwhelmed, just explain what you mean. Where can I apply to get a free digital to analogue signal converter for my TV set [were I an American]? I hadn't heard of this plan of the FCC's.
I understood the old channels would be sold and/or not allowed for existing television signals. Is that not the case?
Why is the FCC going to give everyone a converter, I don't get what you mean?
Not everyone wants to make room for a games TV, and a digital TV. Granted most people won't throw them out because they realize the extreme wastefulness the FCC is forcing.
What's your estimate for how many TVs are in North America? There are about 33 Million people in Canada, and considering nearly every household, and many workplaces have a TV, some with more than one, I'd say there are at least 15 million TVs in Canada [as a very rough conservative estimate, give or take 5 million]. The population of the USA is nearly 10 times that, so multiply 15 by 10 and you get maybe 150 million TV sets out there. What's the right answer?
"the introduction of television to the U.S. and the FCC in the 1940s and 50s, paints a picture of an organization that's totally different from the corporate shitbags we're burdened with today."
That's because it was before the bigwigs realized that if you put something on TV, the masses will demand it in stores so they can buy it... thus making them more money than Bill Gates, or Jesus.
The telephone may be the world's most culturally significant device invented in the 19th century, but the TV was certainly the 20th century's [if not the Internet]. It defined our consumer society, and provided it a way to flourish and build industries.
That looks like a load of crap. Of course there is bias in the media, but they make up their own criteria for what "left", "center", and "right" is. It's not something so easily defined.
"The fourth most centrist outlet was "Special Report With Brit Hume" on Fox News, which often is cited by liberals as an egregious example of a right-wing outlet. While this news program proved to be right of center, the study found ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News" to be left of center. All three outlets were approximately equidistant from the center, the report found."
Since it found something on Fox News to be "centrist" I take the whole study to be highly suspect, given what is public knowledge about the ownership and operational history of Fox News. The study didn't even take into account other global media outlets that cover American news, as a sort of sample control group.
Call me an old fogey, but I'm not ready yet for the death of broadcast TV. I don't watch more than an hour a week of the old style medium [not counting TV downloaded], but what I do watch is because it's instantaneous and convenient. I think the FCC should wait at least 15 more years for technology to migrate to digital and analogue capability, before rendering the TVs we have now piles of leaded junk for the landfill if someone doesn't buy a digital converter box for each set. Our environment can't take much more lead poisoning, and TVs will do that to us when thrown out by the hundreds of millions.
Some moderators saw fit to moderate me a troll, and the troll under me Up, after he was modded previously down to Troll where his comment belonged. My opinion is as valid as any other's on the web, and the fact that a troll felt it important enough to respond to my comment, is proof enough that people care.
The myth of a "liberal media" bias needs to die when it's just a myth. The "liberal media" is the corporate media, that's why it doesn't make sense a lot of the time. It's all about entertainment, not about informing the public. That's what's so neat about YouTube, is that the people can vote on what are the real news stories, and the ratings numbers show up for all to see them.
Don't forget that it includes PVP DRM, meaning Microsoft can compell your monitor not to show video unless it's sure that you've bought a comercial video disc.
Do not use a computer traceable to you, to pass sensitive information on to where you think it needs to go.
Print the email, and store it in a safe place. Transcribe the information to another paper media, and pass that along as anonymously as possible - the mail with non-lick stamps and evelopes possibly.
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"Just round them up and deport them to some far-away place. They're homeless so nobody would even notice or care."
I'd notice.
Where did I say "the entire industry". The ones hawking spyware and exploiting women are welcome to implode though.
Thanks for clarifying. Being insulted by someone on the web doesn't ruin my day, but making it clear that you were bugging my comment is a nice thing to do.
Doesn't that assume that the site is run from a location with laws against those sorts of videos?
Sarcasm flamebait modded up as Funny, ought to at least include a link to Wikipedia to back its opinion up. To not do so is substandard Slashdot material. The guy was looking for something like the audio equivalent of YouTube, not someone to redo his roof for free. Chill?
"As far as training people that need their *hands* held when using a computer, they aren't really the people who are going to be using extentions, are they?"
Sure they are. Again, you've never seen someone install a weatherbug/spyware, when they could have had a clean Forecast Fox instead?
Not all participants in the movies are entirely willing though. In fact, on the Internet, you can even find *gasp* movies of people who don't know they are being filmed at all, and those sites even have spyware/adware on them too.
This case is a bit like watching ambulance chasers suing tobacco lobbyists. You kinda hope both sides annihilate each other.
"The last time we had an illegitimate government was prior to 1776,"
Opinion polls for the current President would suggest otherwise. Legitimacy is more complicated than saying someone wasn't elected democratically. It's part perception.
Also you can't afford NOT to use pencil and paper. It's the proven method of keeping an election fair and auditable, and legitimate in the eyes of the voters. If the vote takes about ten times to complete compared to an election in Canada, it would still be counted and settled in under two days if it was structured right at the polling levels.
Canada has methods to overcome each of those problems. You can't inspect electrons, but scrutineers from each party that registers one, can keep an eye on officials, and since there's a paper record an audit can be done of the ballots, which are numbered for added security.
You haven't taught a granny to use a computer before, have you? Or maybe I shouldn't say granny, but someone unwilling to learn a computer - yet required to either for their work or communication needs.
Your analogy stinks, and is sorta sick too, to boot.
Paper is neither inefficient, or backward. It's the only way to conduct an open and accurate election on a nation wide scale, without introducing unacceptable doubt into the legitimacy of the winner(s). Florida's paper chad system was a failure because machines more complicated than pencils, and obscuring of the working of the ballot was placed between the voter and the ballot. The result was a flawed result, and a delayed result, many times longer than the longest recent Canadian federal general elections.
The slashdot extension ought to have an OMG Ponies theme built into it. Taco's wife would be proud.
.torrent downloading, or at the very least a default Add On button in the corner of the window, so there's no menu a noob has to click into to install features that may become standard in other browsers. That way they are only 3 clicks away from installing a new feature, instead of missing out because it's part of a long menu with no highlighting graphic even.
In FF3 I'd like to see integrated
Pardon me for not reading them all now. Do any of those others work in the visual spectrum, or for how far where Hubble is designed to work?
Your post gave me a flashback to the terrible BackSlash that timothy always posts.
" Why is the FCC going to give everyone a converter,
Umm, "why" they are going to pay for it should be quite obvious."
Don't feel overwhelmed, just explain what you mean. Where can I apply to get a free digital to analogue signal converter for my TV set [were I an American]? I hadn't heard of this plan of the FCC's.
I understood the old channels would be sold and/or not allowed for existing television signals. Is that not the case?
Why is the FCC going to give everyone a converter, I don't get what you mean?
Not everyone wants to make room for a games TV, and a digital TV. Granted most people won't throw them out because they realize the extreme wastefulness the FCC is forcing.
What's your estimate for how many TVs are in North America? There are about 33 Million people in Canada, and considering nearly every household, and many workplaces have a TV, some with more than one, I'd say there are at least 15 million TVs in Canada [as a very rough conservative estimate, give or take 5 million]. The population of the USA is nearly 10 times that, so multiply 15 by 10 and you get maybe 150 million TV sets out there. What's the right answer?
"the introduction of television to the U.S. and the FCC in the 1940s and 50s, paints a picture of an organization that's totally different from the corporate shitbags we're burdened with today."
That's because it was before the bigwigs realized that if you put something on TV, the masses will demand it in stores so they can buy it... thus making them more money than Bill Gates, or Jesus.
The telephone may be the world's most culturally significant device invented in the 19th century, but the TV was certainly the 20th century's [if not the Internet]. It defined our consumer society, and provided it a way to flourish and build industries.
That looks like a load of crap. Of course there is bias in the media, but they make up their own criteria for what "left", "center", and "right" is. It's not something so easily defined.
"The fourth most centrist outlet was "Special Report With Brit Hume" on Fox News, which often is cited by liberals as an egregious example of a right-wing outlet. While this news program proved to be right of center, the study found ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News" to be left of center. All three outlets were approximately equidistant from the center, the report found."
Since it found something on Fox News to be "centrist" I take the whole study to be highly suspect, given what is public knowledge about the ownership and operational history of Fox News. The study didn't even take into account other global media outlets that cover American news, as a sort of sample control group.
Call me an old fogey, but I'm not ready yet for the death of broadcast TV. I don't watch more than an hour a week of the old style medium [not counting TV downloaded], but what I do watch is because it's instantaneous and convenient. I think the FCC should wait at least 15 more years for technology to migrate to digital and analogue capability, before rendering the TVs we have now piles of leaded junk for the landfill if someone doesn't buy a digital converter box for each set. Our environment can't take much more lead poisoning, and TVs will do that to us when thrown out by the hundreds of millions.
Some moderators saw fit to moderate me a troll, and the troll under me Up, after he was modded previously down to Troll where his comment belonged. My opinion is as valid as any other's on the web, and the fact that a troll felt it important enough to respond to my comment, is proof enough that people care.
The myth of a "liberal media" bias needs to die when it's just a myth. The "liberal media" is the corporate media, that's why it doesn't make sense a lot of the time. It's all about entertainment, not about informing the public. That's what's so neat about YouTube, is that the people can vote on what are the real news stories, and the ratings numbers show up for all to see them.
Don't forget that it includes PVP DRM, meaning Microsoft can compell your monitor not to show video unless it's sure that you've bought a comercial video disc.
Do not use a computer traceable to you, to pass sensitive information on to where you think it needs to go.
Print the email, and store it in a safe place.
Transcribe the information to another paper media, and pass that along as anonymously as possible - the mail with non-lick stamps and evelopes possibly.
There is legit free music on google too. My favourite is the album from Harvey Danger.
Microsoft can't compete with iTunes because they are dead set on keeping their WMA DRM PlaysForSure-Maybe technology.
If anyone hopes to one day defeat iTunes, they'll have to do it by making music more convenient to listen to, not at least as hard.
If a soldier is going to get that frustrated, they should not be on duty.