Why not? Microsoft products are all insecure. They've never written a secure app in their history. Their OS is the only one in the world that you can get a virus (I didn't say trojan) or spyware.
Breaking MS' DRM should be even easier than a shift key or a magic marker. This is good news!
Oh, I see, our two choices are do absolutely nothing whatever about terrorism, or flush the Constitution and give up all of our rights.
Two F-2 tornados tore through my town on March 12. No terrorist could ever hope to cause so much destruction. If Bin Laden had walked through my neighborhood the next day, he'd have given up, saying "we can't hurt these people."
Bin Laden has you and our government terrified. I'd say he accomplished his goals. Thanks for helping the terrorists, fool.
What I was saying was that you need a sense of perspective. And you, Mr. Coward, need to grow a spine. As do the President, the Senators, and the Congresspeople. Your and especially their cowardice make me sick.
BTW, so far 2/3 as many Americans have died in Bush's totally unneccessary, based on lies Iraq war as died from terrorism. And the terrorists are using Iraq as a recruiting tool.
With so many cowards living in my country, how can it ever survive?
Now go cower under your covers, Mr. AC, before Bush raises the threat level from "yellow" (fitting color, that) to "scared shitless."
Why fret over privacy loss if you aren't doing anything illegal/covert?
Adultery is legal in all fifty states, but you can still be blackmailed for it. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, do you want your wife (ok, this is/., your mom ok?) to know what you were doing on that business trip to Reno?
Some things just aren't your or government's or anybody else's business.
Fewer than 4,000 Americans were killed by terrorists in the last ten years, including OK city (which I think was a year earlier than ten years ago but we'll include it anyway). Let foreign governments worry about foreign cities being bombed, OK? My taxes are too high as it is.
Clearly, we should ban automobiles and medical doctors.
Here's another statistic for you: 100% of all people die. It might as well be by a terrorist bomb as a cigarette, a McDonald's hamburger, or a cell phone wielding bimbo in an SUV. One way or another you're going to die.
Whether or not you will live free beforehand is another question entirely.
It was not the government who said that, but croporate oligarchs who wanted to get Iraki oil.
This is also obviously false. Colin Powell was acting on behalf of the government...
You realise that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are both oil men, don't you? And that gasoline was about $1.00 per gallon when they assumed power? And that Powell works for Bush?
Without a union, you have no say if the boss' lazy-assed nephew gets a raise while reading slashdot all day (ahem). With a union, you can vote any contract that allows this down. Nobody else wants to do a lazy man's work, either.
If the union negotiates a contract that lets this happen, you can vote againt it. The "union boss" is a myth: he works for YOU, not the other way around.
If the job sucks or I don't think I am being treated fairly, I quit, simple as that... But with the same sentiment, when it comes times for initial salary negotiations, take the gloves off, and _fight for every penny_.
Fight? No, unless your skill is so unusual nobody else can do it, you mean beg.
The company is organized, all the shareholders and board is against you, you all by yourself. A union evens the playing field. "United we bargain, divided we beg."
Naive? Funny, most of the people I know from my elderly father's generation are retired, with a pension, after working at the same company all their lives. Why shouldn't you be able to as well?
And as a country, the LAST thing we need to be doing right now is making ourselves less competitive with regards to the rest of the world.
Where's my cluebat? There are no more American companies! At least, no publically traded ones. Crysler's profits don't help America a bit unless THEY HELP AMERICA'S WORKERS. I am an American, Sony and Disney and Crysler and Toyota aren't. I'm patriotic, a company cannot be.
How Toyota treats the workers in its North American plants affects America. Welcome to your new foreign overlords (I for one...)
The unions haven't killed the American auto industry, its incompetent management has. Japan sells more cars (made in unionized American plants) because they make what is percieved (probably rightly) as better cars. Note before the '70s a foreign car was rare on the highways. Then the oil crunch came, but Big American Auto continued to sell big, badly designed and built pieces of shit. It wasn't the unions that made the decision to ignore the Japanese.
So long as your employer treats you fairlly there is indeed no reason for a union. In the '80s, the head of the then non-union Eastern Airlines rightly stated that "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Folks only unionize when management comes from a Dilbert cartoon.
Apple has a right to ask that its copyrighted material be removed. Just like SCO has a right to Demand that Linux remove offending code. The problem is that both companies are acting like Microsoft. But only Dvorak or Orlowski seems to get a free pass on Slashdot. I for one am a fucking moron.
Six years ago, a US judge in a case brought by Ticketmaster ruled that deep linking does not violate the copyright act.
"I replied to Apple and told them basically to screw off because I'm not doing anything illegal," wrote Kyanka.
"NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING is even hosted on SA. All we have is a link going to somebody else's webspace. I guess Apple has no clue how the internet even works; they should be threatening to sue the ISP hosting the horribly illegal service manual, not some guy who runs a forum where his forum members are TRYING TO HELP people fix issues with their faulty Apple computers."
I suspect they've ratcheted up the "popular" part of the search to the exclusion of actually matching keywords.
My crappy little site,, doesn't get any hits of the first 4 pages for a search of "mcgrew", despite the fact that the word "McGrew" is in the URL, the copyright notice, an alt tag, an there's even a copy of "Dangerous Dan McGrew" on the site.
I used to have another site back in the last century that regularly got linked by Blue's News, Planet Quake, sCary's, and tons of small sites. Five years ago "mcgrew" would have brought up the first page.
My pagerank is a negative number now? =(
Well, not negative; if I put in "antique sheet music mcgrew" it comes up after five other results, none of which contains the word "mcgrew." So it's listed, it's just ignoring some of your search words in favor of popularity (of which I've lost all of mine apparently).
I can't compete with someone who only has to pay thirty bucks a month for rent, and who can feed his family in a nice restaraunt for a dollar.
Environmental laws too strict? Simple, just spew your damned poison in a country that doesn't have those laws.
"Minimum wage? Environment? Health care? BWAHAHA! We're the multinational corporation, we can do anything we damned well please and there's nothing you or anybody else can do about it!"
many audio equipment manufacturers used to consider their craft an art, in that their goal was to provide a beautiful sound, rather than a necessarily "perfectly accurate" sound.
Actually, you have that backwards. Today they use acoustic tricks (like a subwoofer to make you think the bass doesn't sound flat) to make it sound better, while in earlier days pride was taken in sheer accuracy; making the frequency response as wide and flat as possible, with the lowest amount of distortion.
No recording of a musical performance sounds as good as the performance being recorded. The closer you get to the original performance, the more beautiful the sound.
I've heard LPs played on good equipment that you could swear was live, but I've never heard a CD that sounds real.
That said, I've been sampling all my vinyl and cassette to CD, then ripping to MP3 on the PC.
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You (and TFA) misspelled "empty-v".
Why not? Microsoft products are all insecure. They've never written a secure app in their history. Their OS is the only one in the world that you can get a virus (I didn't say trojan) or spyware.
Breaking MS' DRM should be even easier than a shift key or a magic marker. This is good news!
Oh, I see, our two choices are do absolutely nothing whatever about terrorism, or flush the Constitution and give up all of our rights.
Two F-2 tornados tore through my town on March 12. No terrorist could ever hope to cause so much destruction. If Bin Laden had walked through my neighborhood the next day, he'd have given up, saying "we can't hurt these people."
Bin Laden has you and our government terrified. I'd say he accomplished his goals. Thanks for helping the terrorists, fool.
What I was saying was that you need a sense of perspective. And you, Mr. Coward, need to grow a spine. As do the President, the Senators, and the Congresspeople. Your and especially their cowardice make me sick.
BTW, so far 2/3 as many Americans have died in Bush's totally unneccessary, based on lies Iraq war as died from terrorism. And the terrorists are using Iraq as a recruiting tool.
With so many cowards living in my country, how can it ever survive?
Now go cower under your covers, Mr. AC, before Bush raises the threat level from "yellow" (fitting color, that) to "scared shitless."
If you put it in the US every corner with a public camera would be full of bums with "will work for food" signs.
Try this one.
If Google's image search is to be believed, here's her mother (Looks kinda young for her age...)
I don't think this is exactly proof of identity...
Why fret over privacy loss if you aren't doing anything illegal/covert?
/., your mom ok?) to know what you were doing on that business trip to Reno?
Adultery is legal in all fifty states, but you can still be blackmailed for it. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, do you want your wife (ok, this is
Some things just aren't your or government's or anybody else's business.
Fewer than 4,000 Americans were killed by terrorists in the last ten years, including OK city (which I think was a year earlier than ten years ago but we'll include it anyway). Let foreign governments worry about foreign cities being bombed, OK? My taxes are too high as it is.
37,280 Americans died from auto accidents in 1997 alone.
In 1992, 80,000-150,000 people died from medical malpractice (link is to some law firm that came up with the first Google search, this is Google's HTML cache of a PDF. Wikipedia had no result).
Clearly, we should ban automobiles and medical doctors.
Here's another statistic for you: 100% of all people die. It might as well be by a terrorist bomb as a cigarette, a McDonald's hamburger, or a cell phone wielding bimbo in an SUV. One way or another you're going to die.
Whether or not you will live free beforehand is another question entirely.
Grammar Nazi is saying you have, in effect, three genders: Male, female, and sexless. Here is how the apostrophes are supposed to work:
George's
Mary's
The computer's
His
Hers
Its
"It's" (for those of you who are either non-English speakers) is the contraction for "it is"
Please mod me down as offtopic. Thanks.
Would you find it logical if a convicted burglar, rapist, etc. would need to supply, for example, the MAC addresses of all his computers?
What's logic got to do with the law?
It was not the government who said that, but croporate oligarchs who wanted to get Iraki oil.
This is also obviously false. Colin Powell was acting on behalf of the government...
You realise that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are both oil men, don't you? And that gasoline was about $1.00 per gallon when they assumed power? And that Powell works for Bush?
I try to avoid listening to Limbaugh. Some times there's a radio not under my control within listening distance.
I mean, the ones with families to feed? This Ann-Randian spewing is the sort to come from high school or Rush Limbaugh.
I certainly do not want to belong to an organization where I can only be guaranteed a salary increase across the board next to the same slacker programmer who didn't contribute.
Without a union, you have no say if the boss' lazy-assed nephew gets a raise while reading slashdot all day (ahem). With a union, you can vote any contract that allows this down. Nobody else wants to do a lazy man's work, either.
If the union negotiates a contract that lets this happen, you can vote againt it. The "union boss" is a myth: he works for YOU, not the other way around.
If the job sucks or I don't think I am being treated fairly, I quit, simple as that... But with the same sentiment, when it comes times for initial salary negotiations, take the gloves off, and _fight for every penny_.
Fight? No, unless your skill is so unusual nobody else can do it, you mean beg.
The company is organized, all the shareholders and board is against you, you all by yourself. A union evens the playing field. "United we bargain, divided we beg."
There is no such thing as a permanent job, and you're naive if you believed that.
Naive? Funny, most of the people I know from my elderly father's generation are retired, with a pension, after working at the same company all their lives. Why shouldn't you be able to as well?
And as a country, the LAST thing we need to be doing right now is making ourselves less competitive with regards to the rest of the world.
Where's my cluebat? There are no more American companies! At least, no publically traded ones. Crysler's profits don't help America a bit unless THEY HELP AMERICA'S WORKERS. I am an American, Sony and Disney and Crysler and Toyota aren't. I'm patriotic, a company cannot be.
How Toyota treats the workers in its North American plants affects America. Welcome to your new foreign overlords (I for one...)
If only we could make stupidity more painful...
Are you some kind of masochist?;)
"I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for." So? Your investment and choices in life are not your company's responsibility to deal with.
Which is precisely why if that company mistreats its workers it needs a union. They have no reason to give two shits about you or your needs.
It's better to loose *some* jobs than to have the entire company collapse like the auto industry is collapsing to foreign competition.
The unions haven't killed the American auto industry, its incompetent management has. Japan sells more cars (made in unionized American plants) because they make what is percieved (probably rightly) as better cars. Note before the '70s a foreign car was rare on the highways. Then the oil crunch came, but Big American Auto continued to sell big, badly designed and built pieces of shit. It wasn't the unions that made the decision to ignore the Japanese.
Why would I want the playing field artificially leveled? My playing field greatly favors me because I am better at my job than most people.
So long as your employer treats you fairlly there is indeed no reason for a union. In the '80s, the head of the then non-union Eastern Airlines rightly stated that "any company that gets a union deserves one."
Folks only unionize when management comes from a Dilbert cartoon.
Oh yes I loved being in new york when the trains werent running. 60K a year retire at 55 and they wanted to retire at 50.
No, I mean literally, get a bucket of water!
Oh, y tu ano es en fuego. Feliz Cinco de Mayo.
I suspect they've ratcheted up the "popular" part of the search to the exclusion of actually matching keywords.
My crappy little site,, doesn't get any hits of the first 4 pages for a search of "mcgrew", despite the fact that the word "McGrew" is in the URL, the copyright notice, an alt tag, an there's even a copy of "Dangerous Dan McGrew" on the site.
I used to have another site back in the last century that regularly got linked by Blue's News, Planet Quake, sCary's, and tons of small sites. Five years ago "mcgrew" would have brought up the first page.
My pagerank is a negative number now? =(
Well, not negative; if I put in "antique sheet music mcgrew" it comes up after five other results, none of which contains the word "mcgrew." So it's listed, it's just ignoring some of your search words in favor of popularity (of which I've lost all of mine apparently).
I can't compete with someone who only has to pay thirty bucks a month for rent, and who can feed his family in a nice restaraunt for a dollar.
Environmental laws too strict? Simple, just spew your damned poison in a country that doesn't have those laws.
"Minimum wage? Environment? Health care? BWAHAHA! We're the multinational corporation, we can do anything we damned well please and there's nothing you or anybody else can do about it!"
Actually, you have that backwards. Today they use acoustic tricks (like a subwoofer to make you think the bass doesn't sound flat) to make it sound better, while in earlier days pride was taken in sheer accuracy; making the frequency response as wide and flat as possible, with the lowest amount of distortion.
No recording of a musical performance sounds as good as the performance being recorded. The closer you get to the original performance, the more beautiful the sound.
I've heard LPs played on good equipment that you could swear was live, but I've never heard a CD that sounds real.
That said, I've been sampling all my vinyl and cassette to CD, then ripping to MP3 on the PC.