Awesome post. So spot on, right down to the NIN reference. However I did prefer listing to Jesus and the Mary Chain "Darklands" while playing Darklands - which was the coolest RPG I had played at that point. I don't think I actually ever had any USB devices when I was still running 95 though - I think I was already rocking 98 when I got my first USB mouse.
But ship information isn't secret, and can be obtained by satellite images, listening to the dock radio transmissions, or simply going down to the docks and seeing for yourself. It Isn't like the ships aren't all sitting there in plain sight for all to see. Hardly classified, or even secret information. Or did you think that the US was broadcasting the names and locations of it's ships? They were simply broadcasting a generic public message to all the ships from what I understand. Not sure how the enemy could use "Do not leave the port or you will be destroyed" to gain a lot of tactical information.
I didn't quite explain that right. The bill is now higher because I got two $500 smart phones for $299. The higher bill is to make up for the "discount" they give you on the phones. If you own your phone flat out, (as in you didn't buy it at a discount from the carrier) the monthly bill is less because they don't need to make up the cost of the discounted phone.
Look harder. My T-Mobile bill was about $30 less a month when I bought my phones independently from the carrier after my contract was up. Now that I finally bought new smart phones and had to renew my contract, my bill is higher.
Yeah, they had better silence the person pointing out the fact they are broadcasting unencrypted radio messages in public. Sounds like a serious threat to national security. The military really isn't in the habit of publicly broadcasting classified information unencrypted. Telling ships not to leave the port is hardly information that needs to be kept top secret.
You realize that most "fireproof" safes are designed so paper will not burn - at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. If you read the fine print, the temperatures in those safes can hit well over 250 degrees, which I am sure your DVDs would not survive. Unless you bought a Fireproof safe specifically designed to protect DVDs, keeping them in there is probably a colossal waste of space and only provides a "feel good" solution that will not actually protect them from damage. I know becasue a friend of mine had a fireproof safe with computer backup DVDs in it that all melted into one big lump when he had a fire.
P.S. I can save you the time/money by letting you know all of Glenn Beck's books are absolute crap. No need to buy them in the first place - unless you like to be frightened by really dumb stuff.
The same answer as always - which ever one is cheaper. It has already been proven when software selling for $1 in a DRM-free package is being downloaded on Bittorrent, unauthorized, for free. Given the option of having something for free, or paying, I would guess the majority of folks would choose free.
The point is Google provides links to torrents as well. And on a magnitude greater than isohunt. So why isn't Google in trouble? That is, I believe, the point. 2 companies both doing the same thing, yet only one has trouble because of it.
When you start getting your information from sources other than the voices you hear in your own head, others may start to listen to you more seriously. Your ignorance is 4 to 5 orders of magnitude more than the average idiot. Just keep repeating all that nonsense to yourself - otherwise the fear may abate and you might suffer from sensible thinking.
The same could be said about the Bible, and has been said before. Funny, it seems that almost all religions seem to profess they are "the one true religion" and all non-believers will suffer in the end. Nothing unique about the Koran or Islam in that regard.
And the fact that 3rd party developers can put out software for Android that is malicious is somehow Android's fault? When you install an Android app, it tells you all the rights it is asking for, and you have the option to install or not at that point. If I am installing some stupid game and it wants full access to all areas of my phone, I won't install it. Chalk this one up to stupid users, not a flaw in Android. If you want to protect your Android phone from malicious software, there are plenty of apps for that as well. But if you download and install apps all willy-nilly without checking to see what they want access to, well, sooner or later bad things will happen. I am willing to have to use a little security diligence to gain a lot of openness. If you want an user-proof phone with a nice walled garden, get an iPhone.
Apparently by not selling software to the average non-technical customer unless they can prove they are not an idiot. I can see consumers going for this in a big way!
Except, in your bit of rhetoric, you forget that selling an OS to an idiot rarely results in death. Or any other condition that can't be solved with a format and re-install - using the same OS.
I mean for god sake my mother, yes my mother, installed Windows herself the last time, and she has zero expertise. So there may be some truth to the whole "easier to use THAN EVAR! No expertise required!" statement.
Nowhere - it isn't explicitly mentioned so therefore the federal government does not have the power to do so. The Constitution grants the federal government rights and any not listed are up to the states or "the people" as per the 10th Amendment.
Anonymous coward bitching about stuff on Slashdot = complaining and not doing anything.
70,000 protesters organizing and living in a public building to voice their opinions on what they think is a bad decision = doing something and not just complaining.
Senators fleeing their state in response to their constituents wishes = doing something and not just complaining.
Do you even read the news at all or do you just come to Slashdot to post uninformed drivel?
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Isn't that pretty much the equivalent of taping songs of the radio like was done in the olden days? What does the audio quality sound like?
Awesome post. So spot on, right down to the NIN reference. However I did prefer listing to Jesus and the Mary Chain "Darklands" while playing Darklands - which was the coolest RPG I had played at that point. I don't think I actually ever had any USB devices when I was still running 95 though - I think I was already rocking 98 when I got my first USB mouse.
Really? Than let me take a whack at your iPhone with my wooden Louisville Slugger - something tells me I could put a scratch in it.
But ship information isn't secret, and can be obtained by satellite images, listening to the dock radio transmissions, or simply going down to the docks and seeing for yourself. It Isn't like the ships aren't all sitting there in plain sight for all to see. Hardly classified, or even secret information. Or did you think that the US was broadcasting the names and locations of it's ships? They were simply broadcasting a generic public message to all the ships from what I understand. Not sure how the enemy could use "Do not leave the port or you will be destroyed" to gain a lot of tactical information.
And now T-Mobile is going to be AT&T so that may go away too. Great.
I didn't quite explain that right. The bill is now higher because I got two $500 smart phones for $299. The higher bill is to make up for the "discount" they give you on the phones. If you own your phone flat out, (as in you didn't buy it at a discount from the carrier) the monthly bill is less because they don't need to make up the cost of the discounted phone.
Look harder. My T-Mobile bill was about $30 less a month when I bought my phones independently from the carrier after my contract was up. Now that I finally bought new smart phones and had to renew my contract, my bill is higher.
Yeah, they had better silence the person pointing out the fact they are broadcasting unencrypted radio messages in public. Sounds like a serious threat to national security. The military really isn't in the habit of publicly broadcasting classified information unencrypted. Telling ships not to leave the port is hardly information that needs to be kept top secret.
You realize that most "fireproof" safes are designed so paper will not burn - at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. If you read the fine print, the temperatures in those safes can hit well over 250 degrees, which I am sure your DVDs would not survive. Unless you bought a Fireproof safe specifically designed to protect DVDs, keeping them in there is probably a colossal waste of space and only provides a "feel good" solution that will not actually protect them from damage. I know becasue a friend of mine had a fireproof safe with computer backup DVDs in it that all melted into one big lump when he had a fire.
P.S. I can save you the time/money by letting you know all of Glenn Beck's books are absolute crap. No need to buy them in the first place - unless you like to be frightened by really dumb stuff.
The same answer as always - which ever one is cheaper. It has already been proven when software selling for $1 in a DRM-free package is being downloaded on Bittorrent, unauthorized, for free. Given the option of having something for free, or paying, I would guess the majority of folks would choose free.
The point is Google provides links to torrents as well. And on a magnitude greater than isohunt. So why isn't Google in trouble? That is, I believe, the point. 2 companies both doing the same thing, yet only one has trouble because of it.
Yeah, I mean look at the surplus of jobs around now that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have created. If only we had the people to fill them!
In case you hadn't noticed, fur coats and diamonds rarely "trickle down".
Or even "Staying on a platform - it isn't like it is rocket science or anything..." *slides sunglasses on to face*
I think that would technically be art referencing real life seeing the spiders were around long before Chuck.
You mean like the one at the top of the front page of TFA?
67% of the time, a quoted percentage has no apparent relationship with anything.
Yes becasue no other search engines exist and people are forced to use Google for any online searching.
When you start getting your information from sources other than the voices you hear in your own head, others may start to listen to you more seriously. Your ignorance is 4 to 5 orders of magnitude more than the average idiot. Just keep repeating all that nonsense to yourself - otherwise the fear may abate and you might suffer from sensible thinking.
The same could be said about the Bible, and has been said before. Funny, it seems that almost all religions seem to profess they are "the one true religion" and all non-believers will suffer in the end. Nothing unique about the Koran or Islam in that regard.
But who gets to decide which are the important ones and which are not? That is the $64,000 question.
And the fact that 3rd party developers can put out software for Android that is malicious is somehow Android's fault? When you install an Android app, it tells you all the rights it is asking for, and you have the option to install or not at that point. If I am installing some stupid game and it wants full access to all areas of my phone, I won't install it. Chalk this one up to stupid users, not a flaw in Android. If you want to protect your Android phone from malicious software, there are plenty of apps for that as well. But if you download and install apps all willy-nilly without checking to see what they want access to, well, sooner or later bad things will happen. I am willing to have to use a little security diligence to gain a lot of openness. If you want an user-proof phone with a nice walled garden, get an iPhone.
Apparently by not selling software to the average non-technical customer unless they can prove they are not an idiot. I can see consumers going for this in a big way!
Except, in your bit of rhetoric, you forget that selling an OS to an idiot rarely results in death. Or any other condition that can't be solved with a format and re-install - using the same OS.
I mean for god sake my mother, yes my mother, installed Windows herself the last time, and she has zero expertise. So there may be some truth to the whole "easier to use THAN EVAR! No expertise required!" statement.
Nowhere - it isn't explicitly mentioned so therefore the federal government does not have the power to do so. The Constitution grants the federal government rights and any not listed are up to the states or "the people" as per the 10th Amendment.
Anonymous coward bitching about stuff on Slashdot = complaining and not doing anything.
70,000 protesters organizing and living in a public building to voice their opinions on what they think is a bad decision = doing something and not just complaining.
Senators fleeing their state in response to their constituents wishes = doing something and not just complaining.
Do you even read the news at all or do you just come to Slashdot to post uninformed drivel?