>That's an understatement. My wife's bank doesn't even have wastebaskets at teller stations >for fear that an account number could end up
And yet in my small-town bank people walk in, recite their savings account # out loud to the teller and how much they'd like to withdraw. The bank does not discourage this. I've seen it happen time and again. The acct#, by the way, is 5 or 6 digits long.
Brillant. And then wait for the next random enemy-of-the-great-satan to hatch out? Do that and 10, 20, 30 years from now, you still can't take shampoo on an airplane.
In my lifetime I can't remember a time when there wasn't some kind of turmoil in the middle east. Going in there, destabilizing a country and hauling ass will not help.
Like it or not, we're there. We need to get out, I agree. How we get out is a much thornier question than your simple one step plan.
"$50,000 in pro bono lawyer time". WTF is wrong with government when it takes this kind of leverage to get anything done? How would the average person ever hope to get any consideration at all?
And let's not forget - this "exemption" is courtesy of the very same people who created the need for an exemption - congress.
Stop voting for incumbent politicians and DMCA-type garbage will stop happening in the first place.
Sadly, the antics of the **AA make this one just a bit too close for comfort. Who wants to bet that we'll see something along these lines sooner rather than later? Maybe a tax on home theater equipment similar to Canada's tax on recordable media? Or maybe a tax on comfy seating for 2 or more people?
Honestly - what are the critics of the $100 laptop program doing for third world nations themselves? So what if they don't think it's a good idea? - nobody asked them to help.
How about the kibitzers put their energy into something besides screwing with people already working?
But they ought to care. I'm using OpenSuSE on my laptop at the moment and damn near anything I get a hankering for (recently a CAD program to draw floorplans) is *right there in the repository*. I don't even have to get up out of my easy chair.
That said, I can see the point about there being a larger pool of worker-bees who can just sit down at a WinXX machine and go straight to work.
Linux has arrived, and in a big way. It'll just take time to spread and that spread will be aided by the coming glut of windows-obsolete machines that will run Linux perfectly well and the increasing availability if braodband connections to quickly grab ISO's.
>Enterprise failed because its just not that interesting to watch the "old" again. I don't want >to see young Kirk.
Enteprise failed due to the arrogance of the producers. They gave not a rat's ass what the fans wanted - they wanted to do what they wanted to do and the fans be damned. Right down to that freaking *awful* theme song. Enterprise died a merciful, unspectacular and much deserved death.
>Did I miss something in there, by not having been absorbed in BBS culture?
Yes and no. I think us former BBS-ers have more appreciation of the current internet experience having lived with 2400bps modems, single line BBSes, all text based games and so on. We used FIDOnet to send mail around the world without internet or long distance phone calls - sometimes it'd take a day or two for your message to propagate to the other side of the world. ANSI art...
Along the way, BBSes, games, etc gave us the motivation to get under the hoods of our computers, learn to write batch files or even programs, set up modem init strings, resolve IRQ conflicts.
Just a lot of old technology. I had a single line PCBoard BBS with 14 CDROMS online!!! (it was pretty awesome at the time....) I still have the changers upstairs.
>I'm not sure about these long distance claims, you would probably need a huge capacitor, but it >doesn't matter because really we don't need to go such long distances on a single charge.
"huge capacitor" is a little sobering. I've seen small capacitors that popped and did damage to the area around them. Hope we get a fail safe or a large sheet of steel...
>like I said, I know I'm preaching to the Slashdot choir, and you won't do it. >:-( But >realistically, just know that until you do, we can look forward to many, many more articles >about this kind of thing.
How about we just stop sending incumbents back at all?
>My solution? Well, if I was self-employed, I'd go with a catastrophic health insurance plan- one >were the yearly deductable is a hard $3000-5000. Until I reach that limit, I would pay >everything. Over it, insurance pays. I'd just have to be sure to have enough saved money on hand >to cover the deductable. Such a plan (if widely participated in) is likely to be much cheaper >than the standard ones you see around.
A straight indemnity policy, in other words. We used to have them. Phased out, mostly, in favor of the socialist HMO/PPO model.
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> get their heads out of their asses
Please don't belittle those suffering from CRIS - Cranial-Rectal Inversion Syndrome
>That's an understatement. My wife's bank doesn't even have wastebaskets at teller stations
>for fear that an account number could end up
And yet in my small-town bank people walk in, recite their savings account # out loud to the teller and how much they'd like to withdraw. The bank does not discourage this. I've seen it happen time and again. The acct#, by the way, is 5 or 6 digits long.
>Mod parent Up. He has a point
Under his hat, maybe.
>Step one: Leave Iraq.
Brillant. And then wait for the next random enemy-of-the-great-satan to hatch out? Do that and 10, 20, 30 years from now, you still can't take shampoo on an airplane.
In my lifetime I can't remember a time when there wasn't some kind of turmoil in the middle east. Going in there, destabilizing a country and hauling ass will not help.
Like it or not, we're there. We need to get out, I agree. How we get out is a much thornier question than your simple one step plan.
> I'll don my tinfoil hat when they attach it to passengers, but this looks like one place where RFID can be put to good use.
- 6125799.html
At your service:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2100-1009_11
I suggest a fur-lined hat for winter use.
"$50,000 in pro bono lawyer time". WTF is wrong with government when it takes this kind of leverage to get anything done? How would the average person ever hope to get any consideration at all?
And let's not forget - this "exemption" is courtesy of the very same people who created the need for an exemption - congress.
Stop voting for incumbent politicians and DMCA-type garbage will stop happening in the first place.
Sadly, the antics of the **AA make this one just a bit too close for comfort. Who wants to bet that we'll see something along these lines sooner rather than later? Maybe a tax on home theater equipment similar to Canada's tax on recordable media? Or maybe a tax on comfy seating for 2 or more people?
>(now if only I could get my hands on some liquid Oxygen for the barbeque)
Yes, there was some very cool video floating around the net with a guy and some LOX a while back.
20 lbs of charcoal, a little LOX in a container on a loooong stick and *POOF* instant barbecue!
Anyone have a link to it?
http://www.chicagoist.com/archives/2006/11/16/crai gslist_lawsuit_dissed_dismissed.php
Anyone have a link that dorsn't require registration to view?
I sure would like to have seen the court rule on their assertion that their community-based flagging system provided protection.
But could we get chickens with 6 or 8 wings each and barbecue sauce? THEN I'd be impressed!
Honestly - what are the critics of the $100 laptop program doing for third world nations themselves? So what if they don't think it's a good idea? - nobody asked them to help.
How about the kibitzers put their energy into something besides screwing with people already working?
But they ought to care. I'm using OpenSuSE on my laptop at the moment and damn near anything I get a hankering for (recently a CAD program to draw floorplans) is *right there in the repository*. I don't even have to get up out of my easy chair.
That said, I can see the point about there being a larger pool of worker-bees who can just sit down at a WinXX machine and go straight to work.
Linux has arrived, and in a big way. It'll just take time to spread and that spread will be aided by the coming glut of windows-obsolete machines that will run Linux perfectly well and the increasing availability if braodband connections to quickly grab ISO's.
>The phrase "more better" is acceptable English.
>Says who?
Jeff Foxworthy and Earl Pitts http://www.earlpitts.us/, to name a couple of noted scholars.
>Do other blogger blogs crash Konqueror too?
>Which exact URL causes the crash?
I can't think of anything else that crashes me repeatedly.
The URL you posted is what crashes for me - Konqueror 3.5.1 and KDE 3.5.1 on OpenSuSE 10.1
It could be something here. I see the rare crash, like most people. I just thought it was funny. FF 1.5 works fine for me on that same link, btw.
>It also has a beginner's privacy bug: (full disclosure: my blog) http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/2006/10/firefox-p rivacy-bug.html
Interestingly, your blog crashes Konqueror on my machine. Repeatedly.
I still hear "The Saga Begins" whenever "American Pie" is playing.
...
Damn Weird Al
>Enterprise failed because its just not that interesting to watch the "old" again. I don't want >to see young Kirk.
Enteprise failed due to the arrogance of the producers. They gave not a rat's ass what the fans wanted - they wanted to do what they wanted to do and the fans be damned. Right down to that freaking *awful* theme song. Enterprise died a merciful, unspectacular and much deserved death.
>I'm sorry, but when has the US Government *ever* had a hand in something that turned into a >stable, transparent and accountable organization?
Mod that post up to 5+
Al
>What do you feel is missing and sufficiently important to make it "nearly useless"?
Why does everything in the world have to play MP3s?
This looks like a nifty little device, but it'd be cheaper and probably smaller without noise making capabilities.
Al
>Did I miss something in there, by not having been absorbed in BBS culture?
...
....) I still have the changers upstairs.
Yes and no. I think us former BBS-ers have more appreciation of the current internet experience having lived with 2400bps modems, single line BBSes, all text based games and so on. We used FIDOnet to send mail around the world without internet or long distance phone calls - sometimes it'd take a day or two for your message to propagate to the other side of the world. ANSI art
Along the way, BBSes, games, etc gave us the motivation to get under the hoods of our computers, learn to write batch files or even programs, set up modem init strings, resolve IRQ conflicts.
Just a lot of old technology. I had a single line PCBoard BBS with 14 CDROMS online!!! (it was pretty awesome at the time
>I'll say the same thing here that I said on tribe.net when this came up.... How much electricity >is "$9 worth"?
It's 100,000,000 jigawatts, but you need the upgraded blender to handle it all.
Al
>I'm not sure about these long distance claims, you would probably need a huge capacitor, but it >doesn't matter because really we don't need to go such long distances on a single charge.
...
"huge capacitor" is a little sobering. I've seen small capacitors that popped and did damage to the area around them. Hope we get a fail safe or a large sheet of steel
Al
>like I said, I know I'm preaching to the Slashdot choir, and you won't do it. >:-( But >realistically, just know that until you do, we can look forward to many, many more articles >about this kind of thing.
How about we just stop sending incumbents back at all?
Just Say No
Al
>My solution? Well, if I was self-employed, I'd go with a catastrophic health insurance plan- one >were the yearly deductable is a hard $3000-5000. Until I reach that limit, I would pay >everything. Over it, insurance pays. I'd just have to be sure to have enough saved money on hand >to cover the deductable. Such a plan (if widely participated in) is likely to be much cheaper >than the standard ones you see around.
A straight indemnity policy, in other words. We used to have them. Phased out, mostly, in favor of the socialist HMO/PPO model.