Since you went out of your way to ask nicely for no personal insults, I'd like to start out by saying you are an ugly son-of-a-whore, and anyone who ever liked you is a moron. (who the fuck asks for such things? Please try to keep your posts On-Topic!)
Now, your whole argument is "The government decides what is right and what is wrong"
Who could possibly argue against such a thing? here is a link to a site whose entire premise is pretty much the opposite of that claim. Try reading it for a while, and maybe you'll find some insight.
Now, talking to your congressman is certainly an important part of the proccess of getting laws changed, but to say "It's the law, so don't complain!" is completely contrary to the system, is it not?
However, your use of the term "Airwaves" makes me think you didn't understand the concept of this article- we're talking about Cable here. A physical line which is going in to your house and mine. When you pay for some of cable, they start sending you every channel (even the ones you dont pay for). This would be like someone handing you a book and telling you to only flip to certain pages or they could have you arrested. Yes, they'd need to make special books with those additional pages removed in order to keep their business model without using the law to push people around, but it is not the government's place to protect an invalid business model.
The signal is currently "scrambled" in such a way that anyone who pays them for their "de-scrambling" box can get back at the signals. These start out as unscrambled signals, and are then broadcast scrambled. By placing the scrambler at the street-level, they could scramble on a per-line basis (that is, destroy the signal so that not even their boxes can de-scramble them, which is easier than a controlled "scrambling"). This may have been rocket-science 30 years ago, but that's just not the case now.
There are very simple methods by which the box on the street, which you own, can be forced to not send signals into my home. Sorry, though, as any signals which you broadcast directly into my home without any contract between us, I will do whatever I want with. Anyone who thinks they shouldnt be allowed to recieve whatever signals are being broadcast into their home is an idiot. I'm not hacking in to your box, or touching your property at all. If you beam signals directly toward me, you don't get to complain when I use them. Stop sending signals to the homes of non-subscribers and you will absolutely never have this problem again. You are not allowed to take away basic rights of perception in order to save a few bucks.
maybe people just like the idea of buying a minimal set of neccessities, then only buying more things because they are fans, instead of playing a game where the object is to buy more cards.
In dungeons and dragons, your army and pool of resources grows because you are a strong leader (or at least have cheesy lines that the DM likes). In CCGs, your army and pool of resources grows because you have managed to buy more.
Saying that D&D and M:TG is the same genre.. that's a slap in the face.
if IBM releases a broken version of linux, free of SCO code, SCO can't dispute it. How could they say "Hey! Don't distribute linux without our code in it!"
a device is secondary.. we just need an ultimate universal interface which can be made to work with any other device- including a display and input method (along with audio and uh.. smell, or something, of course)
When all your devices act like one, you don't need a single all-doing device (and don't need to buy a new blender to get an updated toaster)
Just sit down, look at it. Look at it next to windows 2000. Which looks like an OS for doing business? Is it the rainbow-colored one with 1" borders around all the windows?
Yes, that can be turned off, but as far as first impressions go, you've just lost the whole of the business community./me has 2000 on his windows partition
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Hey look, one of the moderators never played KOTOR and decided they are a valid judge of a post regaurding it! Fucking morons. Here is a hint: If you are not familiar with the subject being discussed, do not decide that it is off-topic.
But a slashdot account is not exactly "_all_ about your life".. why the AC?:)
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If my personal information can be sold, it has value and I should always be paid for its use- the price is up to me, not the company doing the selling. (Imagine if you gave your car to a dealer to have it serviced, and when you got it back, they had installed a tracking device which delivered targetted advertising to you 24/7. Don't you need to agree to things like that before-hand? They can't just say "We've decided that the irritation you may feel is worth ten dollars, so here")
If my information has value, no offer should be allowed to use the term "free!" if your personal information will be sold by the company. If they sell it, it has cash value to them, and so the deal is not "free".
So now we can run a simple program and it will tell us what the media is really saying, without all their bullshit and padding. That is, it will go through an entire article, and pull out the stupid statistics like death counts. Thus, three pages of bullshiot and padding are reduced to:
10 People were killed, and 30 injured. Arabs Suck, America is great.
It took a complex computer program and years of research to figure out that all the news stories could be summed up in 3 lines.
(don't mark this as troll right-off, read the article first.)
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Since you went out of your way to ask nicely for no personal insults, I'd like to start out by saying you are an ugly son-of-a-whore, and anyone who ever liked you is a moron. (who the fuck asks for such things? Please try to keep your posts On-Topic!)
Now, your whole argument is "The government decides what is right and what is wrong"
Who could possibly argue against such a thing?
here is a link to a site whose entire premise is pretty much the opposite of that claim. Try reading it for a while, and maybe you'll find some insight.
Now, talking to your congressman is certainly an important part of the proccess of getting laws changed, but to say "It's the law, so don't complain!" is completely contrary to the system, is it not?
However, your use of the term "Airwaves" makes me think you didn't understand the concept of this article- we're talking about Cable here. A physical line which is going in to your house and mine. When you pay for some of cable, they start sending you every channel (even the ones you dont pay for).
This would be like someone handing you a book and telling you to only flip to certain pages or they could have you arrested.
Yes, they'd need to make special books with those additional pages removed in order to keep their business model without using the law to push people around, but it is not the government's place to protect an invalid business model.
The signal is currently "scrambled" in such a way that anyone who pays them for their "de-scrambling" box can get back at the signals. These start out as unscrambled signals, and are then broadcast scrambled. By placing the scrambler at the street-level, they could scramble on a per-line basis (that is, destroy the signal so that not even their boxes can de-scramble them, which is easier than a controlled "scrambling"). This may have been rocket-science 30 years ago, but that's just not the case now.
There are very simple methods by which the box on the street, which you own, can be forced to not send signals into my home.
Sorry, though, as any signals which you broadcast directly into my home without any contract between us, I will do whatever I want with.
Anyone who thinks they shouldnt be allowed to recieve whatever signals are being broadcast into their home is an idiot. I'm not hacking in to your box, or touching your property at all. If you beam signals directly toward me, you don't get to complain when I use them.
Stop sending signals to the homes of non-subscribers and you will absolutely never have this problem again. You are not allowed to take away basic rights of perception in order to save a few bucks.
maybe people just like the idea of buying a minimal set of neccessities, then only buying more things because they are fans, instead of playing a game where the object is to buy more cards.
In dungeons and dragons, your army and pool of resources grows because you are a strong leader (or at least have cheesy lines that the DM likes). In CCGs, your army and pool of resources grows because you have managed to buy more.
Saying that D&D and M:TG is the same genre.. that's a slap in the face.
Charisma is the only good stat!! >
if IBM releases a broken version of linux, free of SCO code, SCO can't dispute it. How could they say "Hey! Don't distribute linux without our code in it!"
This is not a troll post, the guy really is a moron. Read what he wrote. Think about it, hard.
Didnt I read this in a Heinlen novel already?
a device is secondary.. we just need an ultimate universal interface which can be made to work with any other device- including a display and input method (along with audio and uh.. smell, or something, of course)
When all your devices act like one, you don't need a single all-doing device (and don't need to buy a new blender to get an updated toaster)
Just sit down, look at it. Look at it next to windows 2000.
/me has 2000 on his windows partition
Which looks like an OS for doing business?
Is it the rainbow-colored one with 1" borders around all the windows?
Yes, that can be turned off, but as far as first impressions go, you've just lost the whole of the business community.
And so Spammers' automated scanners will.. ignore you because their message doesnt get through. Good for you, idiot.
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MOD PARENT UP!!!
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Don't you understand how computers WORK?
Hey look, one of the moderators never played KOTOR and decided they are a valid judge of a post regaurding it! Fucking morons.
Here is a hint: If you are not familiar with the subject being discussed, do not decide that it is off-topic.
Anyone else play "Knights of the Old Republic"?
Seriously, what is up with that?
We never had extra. We had projected extra.
I guess this is the Y-PoKe bug..
But a slashdot account is not exactly "_all_ about your life".. why the AC? :)
If my personal information can be sold, it has value and I should always be paid for its use- the price is up to me, not the company doing the selling. (Imagine if you gave your car to a dealer to have it serviced, and when you got it back, they had installed a tracking device which delivered targetted advertising to you 24/7. Don't you need to agree to things like that before-hand? They can't just say "We've decided that the irritation you may feel is worth ten dollars, so here")
If my information has value, no offer should be allowed to use the term "free!" if your personal information will be sold by the company. If they sell it, it has cash value to them, and so the deal is not "free".
Because you were 6 before you got a computer, nimwit. I never had hair on my chest before I started reading slashdot.
So now we can run a simple program and it will tell us what the media is really saying, without all their bullshit and padding. That is, it will go through an entire article, and pull out the stupid statistics like death counts. Thus, three pages of bullshiot and padding are reduced to:
10 People were killed, and 30 injured. Arabs Suck, America is great.
It took a complex computer program and years of research to figure out that all the news stories could be summed up in 3 lines.
(don't mark this as troll right-off, read the article first.)
Perhaps also you don't understand that I /like/ holding shift. Delete is a powerful word, you must use it with care.
I like the confirmation dialog, just not the recycle bin.
Because of windows recycle bin, I never hit "delete" without holding "shift". Recycle bin? There is no recycle bin!
I coulda sworn that real users run an FTP server and know lots of people..
I, for one, am planning on being very unhelpful. so fuck you.