>when will we stand up...after we lose all privacy???
Aside from that you've already lost any and all privacy you ever thought you had (and remember - privacy is *not* guaranteed by the constitution)- aside from that, what makes you think that enough people will *ever* stand up to this shit to make a difference?
Trust me - they won't. We've become a nation of sheep. I know I'll get my cooties toasted for that comment, but remember where you heard it. Please, please, please - prove me wrong.
Oooh, too bad for you -- I've already patented the business method of "trolling for patent royalties via email."
Damn, you almost got away with this. The problem is that your comment obviously infringes on my trademarked "Ironic Twist". Looks like our attorneys will have to exchange nasty letters until they decide how much Microsoft will have to pay each of us to settle this matter out of court.
Sorry - I already patented putting words on blank web pages. Also graphics on blank web pages. I took out a 3rd patent on putting some combination of words and graphics together on a blank web page.
The entire content of the World Wide Web is in violation of my patent rights. E-mail me for the address to which you may send payments.
>As opposed to advertising companies who think that exposing you to their work every second >from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you go to sleep at night
Government has better things to do than investigate advertisers. There are plenty of groups willing to ferret out myths, lies and even viral marketers (snopes.com, consumer reports to name a couple). We really don't need to over-pay a bunch of fat-headed politicians to sit around mahogany lined rooms harrumphing about viral-marketing. Maybe they could expend a little of that indignation on energy problems, abuses of eminent domain, figuring out how to quell the mess they've made in the middle east or possibly they could attend classes to learn that the page and intern programs are *not* dating services for lonely politicians.
I don't know - just kinda seems like their priorities are a little screwed up.
To ensure that I can use it without accusations of grooming kids for sex offences, I make MySpace etc clearly aware that I am on the sex offenders register and that my actions on MySpace etc are totally traceable to ensure I don't do anything dodgy.
Not in the least. There is nothing in your post to ensure JQ Public that you don't also have an unregistered alter-ego.
After the state obtained a predator's e-mail addresses, officials would turn them over to MySpace. The company, using new software, would then block anyone using that e-mail address from entering the site
My gawd... this kind of blatant stupidity and lack of understanding from public officials is almost too painful to watch.
Maybe they should empanel a group of 9 year olds to review legislation before they actually propose it in public? Probably save themselves a lot of embarrassment.
Another case for never, ever voting for incumbent politicians. Apparently more than 1 term in office causes brain rot (along with ethics decay).
> Educating a bad moderator is never off-topic & while at the starting 1 point, > certainly not overrated.
Thank you, sir. I was beginning to feel like a lone wolf.
I actually thought the topic was somewhat interesting. I never knew I was so lucky my laptop handled hibernate so well. I have installed Suse 10.2 today and the hibernate actually works except the wireless network won't come back. But it's progress.
Hibernation doesn't save any time when it comes back up to rebooting
This must be a YMMV thing. My P4 laptop pops back from hibernation in under 10 seconds even with several open programs. It's flawless (almost). This is the one thing XP beats OpenSuSE at.
Would the idiot who modded the parent "FLAMEBAIT" please explain how they reached that moronic conclusion? Maybe because I said MS got something right? Gosh - I forgot that's considered flamebait on slashdot.
What a waste of mod points. You only get 5 of them - how about you spend them modding UP quality posts instead of promoting your own pet agenda?
>How does it do that? POST alone needs longer than 10 seconds.
OK... I just went and ran it through it's paces.
XP - Cold boot: 75 seconds XP - Power off: about the same XP - Hibernate: 0 seconds (just close the lid) XP - Wake up : 9 - 10 seconds (includes re-establish wireless connect)
OpenSUSE numbers are close except that suspend to disk (or ram) crashes every time. Never powers off, kills the battery. So in the end I have to do a longer cold boot process every time I use the machine, plus wait a minute or so while it powers off (because I keep the laptop in a case, just walking away while it powers off isn't a choice).
All that said, in XP I can plug/unplug accessories, USB devices or whatever while it's suspended and it detects the change just fine. Toshiba must have made a deal with the devil to make S4 work so well on this machine. Maybe now that Novell made a deal with the devil, OpenSUSE will suspend just as well.
>Hibernation doesn't save any time when it comes back up to rebooting
This must be a YMMV thing. My P4 laptop pops back from hibernation in under 10 seconds even with several open programs. It's flawless (almost). This is the one thing XP beats OpenSuSE at.
>Do you mean suspend? Hibernate is only very slightly better than shutting down and restarting again. > Suspend on the other hand, is overwhelmingly fantastic.
Nope - hibernate (linux equiv - "suspend to disk"). Close the lid, it writes to hiberfil.sys and powers off until I open the lid. In XP this works flawlessly on my laptop and it comes back in under 10 seconds. This is my only gripe with OpenSuSE 10.1 on this beast - "suspend" of any kind (disk or ram) crashes, as with every other distro I tried. I'm anxious to upgrade to 10.2 - I really hate shutting down and restarting, just not enough to go back to XP.
Once I went laptop-only, hibernating became the truth, the light and the way. Before that I never hibernated because I never shut the desktop off.
Interesting that TFA says Vista hibernated fine in beta but not in the release version. Oddly, Xp hibernated flawlessly on my laptop but openSuSE 10.1 hangs every time. No Linux distro hibernates this particular laptop (toshiba). We'll see if 10.2 will as soon as ATI gets done developing Vista drivers and gives us a driver for Xorg 7.2
I guess I have to get on the common sense band wagon. I live in new england and we left the house over-winter. Shut off the utilities, drain the pipes. If you have a well you might need to shut off a valve at the well head.
The best thing I had was a guy I sent $100/month to drive by the house on his way to work. He also kept a spare car in the driveway and moved it around every couple days. Nobody knew the house was empty.
>The resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan has access to automatic weaponry and rocketry.
A friend of mine did 2 tours in Viet Nam. He has a great many stories about the havoc "charlie" raised with low-tech cast off crap. Also remember that a lot of the problem in Iraq (politics aside) is from "IED"s - "I" being "improvised".
In the end, there are too many guns in America to "disarm" the populace in any of our lifetimes anyway. I'd bet there are a hell of a lot more "unregistered" firearms in America than registered. And I bet a lot of those "registered" weapons would go mysteriously missing if some kind of total ban were enacted.
>A responsible researcher could have created a proof-of-concept, and raised awareness > through media channels, research paper, blog
I agree with what you're saying. The problem is that had he used the channels you describe, in 10 years we'd have 6 million reams of paper generated by the government to cover it's ass but no solution to the problem.
Remember - these are the same incompetent nitwits who can't fix potholes unless someone complains.
>Stop buying CDs? And what? Buy only downloaded compressed formats? Whatever. > Obviously you don't own a Squeezebox or nice hifi system.
I'm not sure why you think that's "obvious", but you miss the point. I know it's a Pollyanna kind of world, but if no CD's were sold in the next 30 days, don't you think the music industry would "change it's tune"? Same with downloading crippled-crap music - it it just stopped cold, the industry would react pretty quickly. In fact, if iTunes revenue went to *zero* for even one day, their world would rock.
But, it'll never happen... because frankly, not enough people care. [insert big *sigh*]
>He's alrerady admitted that he created Bittorrent in order to trade files illegally. > In my opinion,s it was all heade downhill from there.
I don't see why. Floppies, DAT tapes, CDs and DVDs have all been used to share illicit content and those media haven't died, except through obsolescence.
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>when will we stand up ...after we lose all privacy???
Aside from that you've already lost any and all privacy you ever thought you had (and remember - privacy is *not* guaranteed by the constitution)- aside from that, what makes you think that enough people will *ever* stand up to this shit to make a difference?
Trust me - they won't. We've become a nation of sheep. I know I'll get my cooties toasted for that comment, but remember where you heard it. Please, please, please - prove me wrong.
Oooh, too bad for you -- I've already patented the business method of "trolling for patent royalties via email."
Damn, you almost got away with this. The problem is that your comment obviously infringes on my trademarked " Ironic Twist ". Looks like our attorneys will have to exchange nasty letters until they decide how much Microsoft will have to pay each of us to settle this matter out of court.
>$20 bills I was able to scan them at 1200dpi resolution with no problem at all using ACDsee and its built in photo editor
Did it spend OK?
>Oh yeah? Bring it on!
/. will someone know where to find a blank webpage. Clearly, I need to call my patent attorney... :)
Only on
Sorry - I already patented putting words on blank web pages. Also graphics on blank web pages. I took out a 3rd patent on putting some combination of words and graphics together on a blank web page.
The entire content of the World Wide Web is in violation of my patent rights. E-mail me for the address to which you may send payments.
Assholes.
>As opposed to advertising companies who think that exposing you to their work every second
>from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you go to sleep at night
Government has better things to do than investigate advertisers. There are plenty of groups willing to ferret out myths, lies and even viral marketers (snopes.com, consumer reports to name a couple). We really don't need to over-pay a bunch of fat-headed politicians to sit around mahogany lined rooms harrumphing about viral-marketing. Maybe they could expend a little of that indignation on energy problems, abuses of eminent domain, figuring out how to quell the mess they've made in the middle east or possibly they could attend classes to learn that the page and intern programs are *not* dating services for lonely politicians.
I don't know - just kinda seems like their priorities are a little screwed up.
>Now we need to come up with a term for what will eventually prove to be its opposite.
Maybe we need to come up with a name for government sticking it's fat nose into anything and everything.
To ensure that I can use it without accusations of grooming kids for sex offences, I make MySpace etc clearly aware that I am on the sex offenders register and that my actions on MySpace etc are totally traceable to ensure I don't do anything dodgy.
Not in the least. There is nothing in your post to ensure JQ Public that you don't also have an unregistered alter-ego.
After the state obtained a predator's e-mail addresses, officials would turn them over to MySpace. The company, using new software, would then block anyone using that e-mail address from entering the site
My gawd ... this kind of blatant stupidity and lack of understanding from public officials is almost too painful to watch.
Maybe they should empanel a group of 9 year olds to review legislation before they actually propose it in public? Probably save themselves a lot of embarrassment.
Another case for never, ever voting for incumbent politicians. Apparently more than 1 term in office causes brain rot (along with ethics decay).
> Educating a bad moderator is never off-topic & while at the starting 1 point,
> certainly not overrated.
Thank you, sir. I was beginning to feel like a lone wolf.
I actually thought the topic was somewhat interesting. I never knew I was so lucky my laptop handled hibernate so well. I have installed Suse 10.2 today and the hibernate actually works except the wireless network won't come back. But it's progress.
Hibernation doesn't save any time when it comes back up to rebooting
This must be a YMMV thing. My P4 laptop pops back from hibernation in under 10 seconds even with several open programs. It's flawless (almost). This is the one thing XP beats OpenSuSE at.
Would the idiot who modded the parent "FLAMEBAIT" please explain how they reached that moronic conclusion? Maybe because I said MS got something right? Gosh - I forgot that's considered flamebait on slashdot.
What a waste of mod points. You only get 5 of them - how about you spend them modding UP quality posts instead of promoting your own pet agenda?
No really - feel free to mod this one down, too.
>How does it do that? POST alone needs longer than 10 seconds.
... I just went and ran it through it's paces.
OK
XP - Cold boot: 75 seconds
XP - Power off: about the same
XP - Hibernate: 0 seconds (just close the lid)
XP - Wake up : 9 - 10 seconds (includes re-establish wireless connect)
OpenSUSE numbers are close except that suspend to disk (or ram) crashes every time. Never powers off, kills the battery. So in the end I have to do a longer cold boot process every time I use the machine, plus wait a minute or so while it powers off (because I keep the laptop in a case, just walking away while it powers off isn't a choice).
All that said, in XP I can plug/unplug accessories, USB devices or whatever while it's suspended and it detects the change just fine. Toshiba must have made a deal with the devil to make S4 work so well on this machine. Maybe now that Novell made a deal with the devil, OpenSUSE will suspend just as well.
I may try OpenSUSE 10.2 today.
>Hibernation doesn't save any time when it comes back up to rebooting
This must be a YMMV thing. My P4 laptop pops back from hibernation in under 10 seconds even with several open programs. It's flawless (almost). This is the one thing XP beats OpenSuSE at.
>Do you mean suspend? Hibernate is only very slightly better than shutting down and restarting again.
> Suspend on the other hand, is overwhelmingly fantastic.
Nope - hibernate (linux equiv - "suspend to disk"). Close the lid, it writes to hiberfil.sys and powers off until I open the lid. In XP this works flawlessly on my laptop and it comes back in under 10 seconds. This is my only gripe with OpenSuSE 10.1 on this beast - "suspend" of any kind (disk or ram) crashes, as with every other distro I tried. I'm anxious to upgrade to 10.2 - I really hate shutting down and restarting, just not enough to go back to XP.
Once I went laptop-only, hibernating became the truth, the light and the way. Before that I never hibernated because I never shut the desktop off.
Interesting that TFA says Vista hibernated fine in beta but not in the release version. Oddly, Xp hibernated flawlessly on my laptop but openSuSE 10.1 hangs every time. No Linux distro hibernates this particular laptop (toshiba). We'll see if 10.2 will as soon as ATI gets done developing Vista drivers and gives us a driver for Xorg 7.2
Sorry - I forgot. Have the driveway plowed, too. Keeps it looking occupied.
Oh, and you can get a Realtor-type key box at Home Depot and hide a key somewhere in case someone needs to get in for an emergency (combination lock).
I guess I have to get on the common sense band wagon. I live in new england and we left the house over-winter. Shut off the utilities, drain the pipes. If you have a well you might need to shut off a valve at the well head.
The best thing I had was a guy I sent $100/month to drive by the house on his way to work. He also kept a spare car in the driveway and moved it around every couple days. Nobody knew the house was empty.
>The resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan has access to automatic weaponry and rocketry.
A friend of mine did 2 tours in Viet Nam. He has a great many stories about the havoc "charlie" raised with low-tech cast off crap. Also remember that a lot of the problem in Iraq (politics aside) is from "IED"s - "I" being "improvised".
In the end, there are too many guns in America to "disarm" the populace in any of our lifetimes anyway. I'd bet there are a hell of a lot more "unregistered" firearms in America than registered. And I bet a lot of those "registered" weapons would go mysteriously missing if some kind of total ban were enacted.
Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/etree has a nice live music archive.
>A responsible researcher could have created a proof-of-concept, and raised awareness
> through media channels, research paper, blog
I agree with what you're saying. The problem is that had he used the channels you describe, in 10 years we'd have 6 million reams of paper generated by the government to cover it's ass but no solution to the problem.
Remember - these are the same incompetent nitwits who can't fix potholes unless someone complains.
>Stop buying CDs? And what? Buy only downloaded compressed formats? Whatever.
... because frankly, not enough people care. [insert big *sigh*]
> Obviously you don't own a Squeezebox or nice hifi system.
I'm not sure why you think that's "obvious", but you miss the point. I know it's a Pollyanna kind of world, but if no CD's were sold in the next 30 days, don't you think the music industry would "change it's tune"? Same with downloading crippled-crap music - it it just stopped cold, the industry would react pretty quickly. In fact, if iTunes revenue went to *zero* for even one day, their world would rock.
But, it'll never happen
Honestly, if the sheep would stop buying crippled music, the crippled-music industry would die in less than 10 days. baa baa
Stop buying CDs altogether and the **AA suing everyone's grandmother would die in less than 30 days. baa baa
From the summary:
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>after a stern talking-to, his children have suffered the full consequences of their actions.
Really? Did they each send 10G's to the RIAA? Plus pay some sleaze-bag attorney to negotiate?
hmph... didn't think so
>He's alrerady admitted that he created Bittorrent in order to trade files illegally.
> In my opinion,s it was all heade downhill from there.
I don't see why. Floppies, DAT tapes, CDs and DVDs have all been used to share illicit content and those media haven't died, except through obsolescence.
Al
> sometimes the police install a second, hidden battery in the phone
You guys must have some awfully big c-phones there in Estonia.