Not quite so simple. The second an ISP decides to block *any* newsgroup, that ISP is no longer a common carrier and is then responsible for *every* newsgroup they do allow.
Without knowing more facts here, it sounds like the law is on the side of the ISP; as others have mentioned, they most likely pled guilty to avoid bankruptcy through court proceedings.
The extra revenue goes into making those idiotic "boing" commercials that make me want to tear my own eyeballs from their sockets and stuff them into my ear canals.
if Microsoft doesn't feel guilty for not honoring its EULA, I'm not going to feel guilty for pirating their software.
Mail-in rebates are a scam, as many others have already pointed out here. Even if you really push yourself to jump through all the hoops before the coupon expires, and you finally get your relatively small amount back, your name still goes into a marketing database, which most likely is then sold to other companies.
The point is not to use this as a viable means of encrypting messages, but as another way to bog down Echelon, Carnivore et. al. Now the FBI has to sift through tons of spammy garbage if they want to make sure they catch everything.
Come on, I can't be the only one here who bothered to follow the link and actually read the damn thing.
Must be a pretty swanky school. If I recall correctly, Maya Complete starts at around $3,000 (I believe that's per seat), and Maya Unlimited is around $16,000...
How do you expect an internet economy to support itself without some form of advertising to get you to places you haven't been before?
I don't. Contrary to popular belief, the internet is not your corporate playground. If you can't make it in the real world without resorting to spam, then you'd better find yourself another career.
ObMontyPython: "Well I wasn't expecting a kind of spammish imposition."
A "steering wheel limiter" that will lock your steering wheel if you don't have your blinker on (the wheels will still follow the road for curves and such).
A "bright lights limiter" that will prevent you from using your brights when someone is approaching, or is in front of you.
A "brake limiter" that will keep you from braking if you're on a slippery surface.
A "door limiter" that will keep your doors locked if you're in the car, so you don't accidentally fall out. (Actually, new VW Beetles automatically lock the doors if the key is in the ignition. My friend got locked out of her car when she had the engine running and needed her headlights for something she was doing outside of the car.)
"And the recent security problems with Linux, coupled with the lack of key enterprise elements in the new kernel, really call into question whether Linux should be used at all," Miller added.
Miller is obviously a troll (a good one, too...857 comments here from angry linux users so far!). The "recent security problems with Linux" are a drop in the ocean compared to the ongoing problems with Windows products. By his own tortured logic, we should question whether Windows should be used at all. (Shut yer traps, zealots, it does have its place.)
Lucent's "change in direction" should be a good thing for the company; the previous CEO (boo, hiss) thought that copper was the way to go, and optical wasn't going to be very big. Despite what everyone else in his own company knew, he decided to table optical switch development, which put Lucent about 2 years behind everyone else in switching. We have Bell Labs, though.:)
Note that I'm not particularly a big fan of some of Lucent's management (especially our former (*ahem*) OAM), but I do hope the company takes off again. I have stock, after all.
Try 16,000. As a Lucent employee, I can tell you that rumors fly pretty fast around here, and I haven't heard a thing about us "backing" anything like this yet.
Random selection seems highly dubious, given our experience with fruit flies -- almost all the mutations are "bad" and should get selected out.
"Random selection" wouldn't get organisms very far. Fortunately for us, there's no such thing in evolution.
Even if we accept selection in this way, we are left to wonder about structures like the retina, which require a staggering number of precise conditions (proteins, cell types, etc.), and according to the one gene one enzyme principle, couldn't be brought about by a single point mutation. However, if any of these chemicals, cells, etc. are missing, the retina doesn't work. That is, we would have to posit millions of years of non-working retinas that still managed to naturally select until they got to the point of a working retina. The fossil record doesn't bear this out.
This is another common misconception of evolution that creationists keep ladling up, even in the face of logic (note that I'm not blaming you for it; it sounds reasonable to many people who read it in books like those of Morris). The retina (an imperfect "design," by the way--why the blind spot where the nerve bundle goes through the retina?) of today is the end result of billions of years of change. Its precursors were light-sensitive receptors that slowly (remember, it took billions of years) changed into what most mammals have today.
Sorry to hear about your security holes, but I'd rather use something that works best for me. If that means I use a non-GPL license, that's fine. If it means I use a closed-source (gasp! Horror!) program, that's fine, too.
I'm glad that Sega is planning a successor to DC; I was just talking about this with a co-worker the other night. I was sad that Sega didn't seem to be making plans to succeed the DC, even though I don't have a Sega system and haven't since the Genesis--I still like to see them in there fighting and making quality hardware and games, because competition is what keeps console gaming fun.
On a blatantly OT note, I've been having problems with my karma dropping lately for no good reason. I submitted the problem as an "ask/." question and naturally, it was rejected:
2001-01-30 02:14:14 What's the deal with karma? (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
And only minutes after I'd sent it, to boot. Here's the gist of it: I've watched my karma plummet from 19 to 10 in about a month, with only a few losses from downward moderation (unfairly, as in the case of "redundant" to my ontopic post to a thread where the only other post at the time was a troll), and one upward mod. I stopped moderating because I didn't want some yahoo meta-moderating *my* moderation as unfair and dropping my karma more, but I've still been losing points for no discernable reason. As I said in the "ask/." submission, I don't really care one way or another about my karma, but when it drops so low so I lose my "logged in" bonus, for absolutely no reason other than/.'s broken code (see also the broken "you can't submit more than one post per minute: -2703 seconds left" bit of fun), then I suppose I won't be posting anymore. Rob doesn't seem to care, as he hasn't responded to my polite email on the matter. I'm just wondering if this has happened to anyone else.
-Legion (hoping the first part will get me modded up enough to counter the modding down I'll get from moderators who don't pay attention)
You expect Slashdot to actually check the veracity of stories? You expect most of the readers to actually follow a link and read for themselves every once in a while? BAHAHAHAHAHA!
That's a very good point. For someone to try to communicate with us via laser, they would have to point it specifically so as to intercept the planet at a certain time (if the planet is elsewhere in its orbit, the laser will pass on by and we'd miss it). On the other hand, radio radiation spreads in a sphere, takes less energy to transmit, and will intercept the planet eventually if it isn't absorbed by something else along the way.
I wonder if that MIT experiment where they slowed and stopped light had any luck accelerating it...
Einstein says "nope." The speed of light in a vacuum ("c") is asymptotic according to general relativity; things starting out slower than c will never exceed it. Interestingly enough, relativity also allows for faster-than-c particles, but they would never be able to drop below c. Welcome to physics.:)
Good post, but there's an even stronger connection to be made: you don't have to buy a book to quote from it under fair use, you can check it out from the library. But even if you go out and buy a DVD, you cannot use any of it under the fair use laws because of the DMCA. This speaks volumes for the corporate nature of our "rights" these days.
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Not if they charge users $10/month for the "privilege" of sucking up to RIAA. -Legion
I'm thinking SATs and ACTs are Good Things [tm].
-Legion
Without knowing more facts here, it sounds like the law is on the side of the ISP; as others have mentioned, they most likely pled guilty to avoid bankruptcy through court proceedings.
-Legion
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Mail-in rebates are a scam, as many others have already pointed out here. Even if you really push yourself to jump through all the hoops before the coupon expires, and you finally get your relatively small amount back, your name still goes into a marketing database, which most likely is then sold to other companies.
-Legion
Come on, I can't be the only one here who bothered to follow the link and actually read the damn thing.
-Legion
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(Better known as "spam.")
-Legion
I don't. Contrary to popular belief, the internet is not your corporate playground. If you can't make it in the real world without resorting to spam, then you'd better find yourself another career.
ObMontyPython: "Well I wasn't expecting a kind of spammish imposition."
-Legion
A "bright lights limiter" that will prevent you from using your brights when someone is approaching, or is in front of you.
A "brake limiter" that will keep you from braking if you're on a slippery surface.
A "door limiter" that will keep your doors locked if you're in the car, so you don't accidentally fall out. (Actually, new VW Beetles automatically lock the doors if the key is in the ignition. My friend got locked out of her car when she had the engine running and needed her headlights for something she was doing outside of the car.)
Remember, it's for our own good. :P
-Legion
"And the recent security problems with Linux, coupled with the lack of key enterprise elements in the new kernel, really call into question whether Linux should be used at all," Miller added.
Miller is obviously a troll (a good one, too...857 comments here from angry linux users so far!). The "recent security problems with Linux" are a drop in the ocean compared to the ongoing problems with Windows products. By his own tortured logic, we should question whether Windows should be used at all. (Shut yer traps, zealots, it does have its place.)
-Legion
Lucent's "change in direction" should be a good thing for the company; the previous CEO (boo, hiss) thought that copper was the way to go, and optical wasn't going to be very big. Despite what everyone else in his own company knew, he decided to table optical switch development, which put Lucent about 2 years behind everyone else in switching. We have Bell Labs, though. :)
Note that I'm not particularly a big fan of some of Lucent's management (especially our former (*ahem*) OAM), but I do hope the company takes off again. I have stock, after all.
-Legion
-Legion
"Random selection" wouldn't get organisms very far. Fortunately for us, there's no such thing in evolution.
Even if we accept selection in this way, we are left to wonder about structures like the retina, which require a staggering number of precise conditions (proteins, cell types, etc.), and according to the one gene one enzyme principle, couldn't be brought about by a single point mutation. However, if any of these chemicals, cells, etc. are missing, the retina doesn't work. That is, we would have to posit millions of years of non-working retinas that still managed to naturally select until they got to the point of a working retina. The fossil record doesn't bear this out.
This is another common misconception of evolution that creationists keep ladling up, even in the face of logic (note that I'm not blaming you for it; it sounds reasonable to many people who read it in books like those of Morris). The retina (an imperfect "design," by the way--why the blind spot where the nerve bundle goes through the retina?) of today is the end result of billions of years of change. Its precursors were light-sensitive receptors that slowly (remember, it took billions of years) changed into what most mammals have today.
-Legion
Sorry to hear about your security holes, but I'd rather use something that works best for me. If that means I use a non-GPL license, that's fine. If it means I use a closed-source (gasp! Horror!) program, that's fine, too.
-Legion
On a blatantly OT note, I've been having problems with my karma dropping lately for no good reason. I submitted the problem as an "ask /." question and naturally, it was rejected:
2001-01-30 02:14:14 What's the deal with karma? (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
And only minutes after I'd sent it, to boot. Here's the gist of it: I've watched my karma plummet from 19 to 10 in about a month, with only a few losses from downward moderation (unfairly, as in the case of "redundant" to my ontopic post to a thread where the only other post at the time was a troll), and one upward mod. I stopped moderating because I didn't want some yahoo meta-moderating *my* moderation as unfair and dropping my karma more, but I've still been losing points for no discernable reason. As I said in the "ask-Legion (hoping the first part will get me modded up enough to counter the modding down I'll get from moderators who don't pay attention)
-Legion
Yeah, good luck with that. Maybe you and your family should look into zoos, museums and parks, and rely less on the tube to bring you meaning in life.
-Legion
-Legion
Einstein says "nope." The speed of light in a vacuum ("c") is asymptotic according to general relativity; things starting out slower than c will never exceed it. Interestingly enough, relativity also allows for faster-than-c particles, but they would never be able to drop below c. Welcome to physics. :)
-Legion
"Their would like to use good day I restroom more finely please"
It might be more effective to just speak in your own language and use gestures to try to get your point across.
-Legion
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