One of the main reason that you can't use inmates as cheap labor is that it will unfairly distort the economy.
You've never worked for a state government, have you? Here in Colorado, state agencies are bound by law to buy furniture through the Juniper Valley Corrections Facility. See, the prison put in the cheapest bid when the state was writing up contracts; as a result, state agencies may not buy any furniture from anyplace else, even though it can be had for as little as half as much, unless there are special circumstances (e.g., the furniture has to be built to exact specs that Juniper Valley can't handle).
Slave labor is here to stay.
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I'm using the plugin just fine on KDE 2.2.1. What, exactly, was changed? The ChangeLog is sparse on actual details.
Regarding the tollfree spam site: he mentions that you should *67 first to disable Caller ID. 800 numbers, as he almost mentions, use ANI to track calls. Call these spamming motherfuckers from payphones unless you want them to have your home phone.
Also, he talks about some 800 lines being on a flat monthly rate. Don't let that stop you from calling up and wasting their time anyway (or calling and setting the phone down for the 3-minute message). When 10,000 bored Slashdot readers call these guys and rack up the minutes, believe me, the phone company will notice. Enough calls might be enough to make the telco selling a flat rate line think twice about renewing a contract.
I...I'm having an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, I think every senator and congressman who votes these constitutionally illegal laws into existence is a traitor and should die for treason. On the other hand, I would gladly shell out big bucks to DOJ@msn.net to see spammers hung up by their balls and beaten like pinatas. What would Jesus do?
If some skript kiddie takes out a hospital computer system certainly lives could be in danger.
Certainly. Similarly, if a hospital's network were to crash on its own, lives could be in danger as well. But those are hypotheticals. He asked for proof of something that's already happened.
And no, I am not a fan of child pornography, but section 9.2.c seems to be making new clarifications to current pornography law, and 9.2.b is just very poorly worded.
If it weren't so pig-headed and blatant, it would almost be funny; for years the government has deemed child porn a crime because it victimizes children. That's a great reason to outlaw it, but now we see it isn't the real one. As vile as child porn is, who's being victimized when someone draws a child porn situation (c.f. some anime)? According to this new treaty, the "artist" himself is about to be victimized. Don't you just love moral agendas in the government?
In this time of massive corporate layoffs and 4 (going on 5) months of personal unemployment, I'd like some food. Maybe rent money. Definitely a job. Why is the IT market so lousy in Colorado?
(Qualifier: I don't program and I don't have an engineering degree. No one's looking for sysadmins or tier II-III support right now.)
The problem isn't the $1.1 billion fine. The problem is the fact that MS is using it as an excuse to get their product in hundreds of thousands of schools, ensuring a captive audience. When you commit a traffic infraction and are fined, you pay the city your fine; you aren't allowed to spend the money on yourself.
MS is spending the money on itself: this "fine" will show up on the advertising/marketing books, I can assure you.
NSI didn't want $30 or $35 or even $70 to re-up it... they wanted $150 for a year.
That sounds like fraud. Has your friend contacted the BBB and state attorney general's office for her state and the state NSI pays taxes in (Virginia)? If not, she should give it some serious consideration.
All the registrars I've dealt with also have two types of contact entry: the type they can reach you by and the type that shows up on whois/dig/host searches. My registrar can reach me, but people trying to find out where copkiller.org's owner lives are going to have a harder time.
I have a number of spam filters, but the two that seem to chop out 90-95% of the spam are these: "from: contains yahoo.com" and "body: contains
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They make laughable security schemes that are broken within days so they can go lobby congress: "See, these evil pirates keep stealing money from us despite our best efforts. That's why you should back the DMCA2 we're introducing next week. Here, have some money, and my aide will give you a suck job after lunch."
I misunderstood. I thought your disagreement was substantive, not semantical.
It was. I regret that you still can't see the difference between demanding information from the government (individual government employees are still representatives of the government, regardless of your semantic games) and demanding information from normal citizens (whom I believe compromise more of the Slashdot readership than government employees do).
When you understand the difference, you'll understand that there is nothing wrong with demanding accountability from the government while striving to protect personal privacies.
"discrepancy" merely describes being at variance or disagreeing which can at times coexist to create a paradox.
Where is the discrepancy?
"We have the right to demand accountability from our government."
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information?
That's not what you said, nor was it what I was referring to. You were talking about people who demand information from their government but dislike providing information to others, as if they were hypocritical for doing so. I merely pointed out that that is not the case.
Would it not be irresponsible of those serving us to not even consider it?
Can the interests of the majority of citizens never prevail agains the interests of one citizen?
If you want to start debating a new topic I'll be more than happy to, but let's finish the one you started first.
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Does this mean people who are working on translations of Japanese game ROMs are going to stop for fear of lawsuits? I hope not.
Maybe it's time for a career change. Those lawyer cocksuckers make a bundle for nothing more than being sheer assholes.
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You've never worked for a state government, have you? Here in Colorado, state agencies are bound by law to buy furniture through the Juniper Valley Corrections Facility. See, the prison put in the cheapest bid when the state was writing up contracts; as a result, state agencies may not buy any furniture from anyplace else, even though it can be had for as little as half as much, unless there are special circumstances (e.g., the furniture has to be built to exact specs that Juniper Valley can't handle).
Slave labor is here to stay.
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Also, he talks about some 800 lines being on a flat monthly rate. Don't let that stop you from calling up and wasting their time anyway (or calling and setting the phone down for the 3-minute message). When 10,000 bored Slashdot readers call these guys and rack up the minutes, believe me, the phone company will notice. Enough calls might be enough to make the telco selling a flat rate line think twice about renewing a contract.
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Probably both. Go, Jesus!
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This is where Rubberhose comes in. Never thought I'd need it in America....
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Certainly. Similarly, if a hospital's network were to crash on its own, lives could be in danger as well. But those are hypotheticals. He asked for proof of something that's already happened.
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If it weren't so pig-headed and blatant, it would almost be funny; for years the government has deemed child porn a crime because it victimizes children. That's a great reason to outlaw it, but now we see it isn't the real one. As vile as child porn is, who's being victimized when someone draws a child porn situation (c.f. some anime)? According to this new treaty, the "artist" himself is about to be victimized. Don't you just love moral agendas in the government?
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(Qualifier: I don't program and I don't have an engineering degree. No one's looking for sysadmins or tier II-III support right now.)
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No.
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http://www.hebrewsoft.com/freeware/games/dreidel.h tml
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MS is spending the money on itself: this "fine" will show up on the advertising/marketing books, I can assure you.
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AN 1 Nov 20 agent213@fbi.gov (335) Hot Porn!
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Attachment: sexypix.htm.exe
Damn, I can't run it.
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That sounds like fraud. Has your friend contacted the BBB and state attorney general's office for her state and the state NSI pays taxes in (Virginia)? If not, she should give it some serious consideration.
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's rich. Oops, no pun intended.
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Tear him limb from limb in an orgy of violence?
Oh, wait, you meant in the way of satirical commentary, didn't you? Well, that could work too...I guess....
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That's not illegal in the US. Unethical, maybe, and definitely sleazy in the case of spammers, but not illegal.
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I'm also keeping a close eye on the preferences page for an "XBox" section I can uncheck so I don't have to see these useless stories anymore.
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It was. I regret that you still can't see the difference between demanding information from the government (individual government employees are still representatives of the government, regardless of your semantic games) and demanding information from normal citizens (whom I believe compromise more of the Slashdot readership than government employees do).
When you understand the difference, you'll understand that there is nothing wrong with demanding accountability from the government while striving to protect personal privacies.
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Where is the discrepancy?
"We have the right to demand accountability from our government."
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information?
That's not what you said, nor was it what I was referring to. You were talking about people who demand information from their government but dislike providing information to others, as if they were hypocritical for doing so. I merely pointed out that that is not the case.
Would it not be irresponsible of those serving us to not even consider it? Can the interests of the majority of citizens never prevail agains the interests of one citizen?
If you want to start debating a new topic I'll be more than happy to, but let's finish the one you started first.
-Legion