OK. So what if the child walked into a record store, picked up a CD, opened it, stuck it in his/her laptop and ripped it. Then carefully put the CD back in the case, back on the shelf and walked out. Is that OK? Is it more or less OK for a child to do that than an adult? Personally I'd say it's not OK for anyone to do it, regardless of whether they can afford the CD or not.
. The same goes for London, though I did encounter many people on the fringes of London who have never taken the London Underground because they live in the suburbs that most tourists without cars never see.
The vast majority of people who travel in the suburbs of London take the bus, it's a pretty decent network and very heavily used. The underground runs many miles out of the center of town, and is usually the best way of travelling long distances. Driving in London, whilst no worse than NYC (for example) is slow and annoying. When I lived there I did have a car but I used it maybe once a week - I was lucky enough to be able to afford that luxury. The majority of people I know who live there (all in their 20s-30s and middle class) don't own cars, because they're expensive and not very useful. In particular, I don't know anyone who lives there who drives to work.
Now I live in NJ and work in NYC I do own a car, but again I don't use it during the week. For my commute I take a bus to the Hudson and then a ferry to my office. I can't imagine wanting to drive in - the tunnel traffic in the morning is insane. The bus service here in NJ isn't bad near the major cities, but is pretty awful once you get a few miles away.
Not at all. Please enlighten me. I'm seriously confused as to whether you think urine is somehow dangerous (it's basically water, a little sugar and some salts, and completely inert & non-toxic) or whether you believe that something you don't happen to find appealing indicates great psychological damage, in which case I'd love to see your evidence for that.
If he's a British citizen (which I believe he is) then the only "papers" that would usually need to be in order are his passport. If that's not valid then he wouldn't have been allowed on the plane out of the UK. So the chances are the US decided not to allow him in on the visa waver program, thus requiring a visa, which he may not have had seeing as UK citizens don't normally need them. Thus, the decision to refuse him entry on the VWP, whilst perfectly legal, does seem a little suspect.
I was discussing a particular fetish which is obviously unhealthy. (a) It's not a fetish (well, not in most cases) - go look the word up. (b) Why is it "obviously unhealthy"? Do you mean physically (it's not) or mentally (according to what study?).
It's neat, for sure, but hardly "unique". Try typing the name of a text file in XP - oooh look it opens notepad. Or a PDF file, there's Acrobat! Magic. And no "open" command required.
Only in the US as far as I can tell. I was born in 75 and never heard of it until recently. For one thing, most schools in the UK (where I grew up) had BBC computers not Apples. The most memorable "educational" games I remember on the BBC were Yellow River Kingdom (which I LOVED) and some thing about selling newspapers - I don't remember the name.
Look at all the "musicians" who have embraced "mash-up" crap as an alternative to learning a real instrument. Are they all "retarded monkeys"? OK, they are,
I agreed with the rest of your post, but this deserves a hearty "FUCK YOU". I don't judge the music you create (written any good concertos lately?) so don't judge what I do.
If you want to use copper, use gigabit ethernet. Already faster that USB2 or Firewire800, and much longer range. This is for people who don't want the copper.
Oh and good luck with that brute force attack on WPA...
It doesn't use HD DVD, but standard DVD True. But that's mainly because HD DVD doesn't really exist yet (in saleable quantities).
costs 400 with hard drive With a hard drive, and a wireless controller, and a headset, and a remote control and component video cables. If you add up the price of those extras for the current Xbox, it's probably around $100. Add that to the Xbox original launch price ($299) and, well, whaddya know.
Wireless is extra Yup, and the wireless adapter is overpriced. However, there's nothing stopping you picking up a much cheaper generic bridge. I am annoyed that they couldn't do something better in that respect.
extra controllers are a lot extra First party Xbox 1 controllers are $30. Decent wireless ones (i.e. Logitech) are $50. Xbox360 controllers are $40, wireless ones are $50. Basically no difference there.
Games are 60 dollars Well that's still up for debate as far as I can tell (and I'm following this pretty closely). Yes some games are up on online stores at $60, but some are $50 and I've heard rumors that price points will be generally the same as they are now (i.e. $40 to $50).
and it doesn't play XBox games Yes, it does. Just probably not all Xbox games.
I keep wireless controllers on the coffee table. That way I can just pick up and play. The WAF of a bunch of cables running across the living room floor is remarkably low.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd love to dump the Cable Co's box and got for MythTV. I'm just not willing to forgo HD and the WAF of a firewire solution seems fairly low (heaven help me if it messes up an episode of CSI!).
One option I have been looking at is HD component video capture, but the cards are very expensive.
Well, it does OTA HDTV. My HDTV comes from cable, and there isn't any way (that I know of) to capture that for MythTV or any other third party PVR (including Tivo). That's why I'm using a PVR from my cable company. It's pretty sucky interface wise, and not 100% reliable, but it has two tuners, a large disk, and records SD and HD streams directly, preserving full picture quality and digital audio. I like it, and it's cheap ($10 a month, no up fron cost).
Perhaps the definition is "if it's found on Blog Search, it's a blog. Otherwise it isn't." Under this definition, slashdot is not a blog.
But Blog Search will include anything with an RSS or Atom feed. That includes an awful lot of sites, many of which I struggle to see as being "Blogs" under any definition. For example, The BBC, The New York Times & CNN. Even Slashdot. So I think a better definition is needed.
That is VERY hard to do. Even among peaceful muslims, there is this duty and form of honor to never turn against another muslim regardless of thier evil deads.
If you don't value that, that's fine, but many people are willing to pay for quality. I was with you until the last word. "Quality" is another attribute, like size, capacity and usability. Price is another. Features, another. I quite agree that it's all about finding the best match to your personal requirements. Personally I value Capacity (that's anything flash based gone, as well as Mini etc), Features (that's all the iPods gone, they don't have a couple of key features I need), Quality - in that order. Size is not so important, Price is totally unimportant. I'm willing to pay for anything which matches my requirements better than what I have now, so far, nothing does.
These Windows 'distributions' are the same ideology, but just w/ features added or removed, to force users to choose and pay for the features they think are important to them. Or to allow them to not pay for features which are not important to them. Depends which way you look at it really.
if my girlfriend and our families were killed in the Northern Virginia area by an Al Qaeda nuclear weapon, I wouldn't care about freedom of speech or conscience in Saudi Arabia. Like many, I'd support anyone who would drive a nuclear bomb right into the middle of those fuckers dancing in the streets celebrating "The Great Satan(tm)" getting nuked. So imagine you're a peaceful Iraqi guy minding his own business, who's family was just wiped out by a US cruise missile. Now do you understand? Violence begats violence. The only way to survive is to break the cycle. Be the better person.
Fact is, we cannot make peace with these Islamic radicals Why not? Because you don't want to?
Either they drop their weapons and live a peacefull life, Frankly unlikely given the provocation you're dishing out.
or we hunt them down in their neighborhood Great. When does that start? Oh wait...
Given that plan seems to be a miserable failure I guess you should start thinking "outside the box". Maybe slowing down on the provocation and speeding up on the reconciliation might be helpful. Sure I don't expect Bin Laden to just shake hands and walk away, but he's only one man, and Al Quaeda is just a few. If you get the rest of the Islamic world on your side, they'll be trivially easy to defeat. But your current course of action is doing the exact opposite. It's a war that can never be won.
It would seem the UK is just now starting to realise this at a personal level What? The UK has been living with terrorism for years (strangely enough, mainly funded out of the US). We know what it is, we know how to continue living our lives without running around like scared kids with machine guns.
And if I say so myself, they executed a response much more quickly and efficiently then our government in the US. Indeed we did. The police found and arrested those responsible (well, those who didn't blow themselves up), and those who assisted them. They will be subject to criminal trial through the justice system. They will not be sent to a torture camp, the evidence will not be fabricated and we will not invade anywhere. We'll deal with them like we deal with all criminals.
the Pentagon should be taking notes from the UK Finally we agree on something.
Sure, if they reliably and accurately provided caller ID, which in my experience, they do not. I can't just block all non-caller ID calls as a lot of my legitimate incoming calls don't have ID for a variety of reasons.
I don't mind calls from people I don't know. I DO mind calls from people trying to sell me stuff.
Oh please. Any company that cold calls me automatically gets added to a blacklist. I'll never do business with them. Therefore, I'm doing them a favour by putting myself on the DNCL. Likewise charities, and particularly politicians. I don't even have a vote, why should I put up with being disturbed at night? I'm perfectly capable of going out and finding the companies who can supply my needs and the charities who work with the causes I wish to support. I don't need, or want, their propaganda.
However, I think any individual should have the ability to deny a specific organiztion the right to contact them
I believe that any individual should have the ability to deny any organization the right to contact them. It's my phone, it's my money, it's my life and it's my time. I decide.
One of the points basically comes down to "write perfect code". Well, duh, why didn't I think of that before? Jeez. Patching is bad because your code should have been perfect in the first place? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
His argument that an OS should ask you before running something is also stupid. How many users do you know who would actually read & understand such a question? Never mind actually giving a sensible answer. Lets say I just downloaded some spyware infested screensaver and am installing it. How is asking me "do you want to install this screensaver" going to help anyone? Of course I fricking want to install it, I just went to the trouble of downloading it. What we need is a way to detect that the screensaver is a trojan and warn me that this is a bad thing. And that basically boils down to blacklists and heuristics scanning (or "enumerating badness"). Both of which most decent AntiVirus apps do a pretty good job of.
I'm not a spambot you moron. Go read up on SMTP and some back when you know what you're talking about. The FROM and REPLY-TO headers are spoofed (trivially easy) and the spamees aren't checking my domain's SPF records. Nothing to do with me whatsoever, other than getting me flooded with bounce messages.
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OK. So what if the child walked into a record store, picked up a CD, opened it, stuck it in his/her laptop and ripped it. Then carefully put the CD back in the case, back on the shelf and walked out. Is that OK? Is it more or less OK for a child to do that than an adult? Personally I'd say it's not OK for anyone to do it, regardless of whether they can afford the CD or not.
. The same goes for London, though I did encounter many people on the fringes of London who have never taken the London Underground because they live in the suburbs that most tourists without cars never see.
The vast majority of people who travel in the suburbs of London take the bus, it's a pretty decent network and very heavily used. The underground runs many miles out of the center of town, and is usually the best way of travelling long distances. Driving in London, whilst no worse than NYC (for example) is slow and annoying. When I lived there I did have a car but I used it maybe once a week - I was lucky enough to be able to afford that luxury. The majority of people I know who live there (all in their 20s-30s and middle class) don't own cars, because they're expensive and not very useful. In particular, I don't know anyone who lives there who drives to work.
Now I live in NJ and work in NYC I do own a car, but again I don't use it during the week. For my commute I take a bus to the Hudson and then a ferry to my office. I can't imagine wanting to drive in - the tunnel traffic in the morning is insane. The bus service here in NJ isn't bad near the major cities, but is pretty awful once you get a few miles away.
Not at all. Please enlighten me. I'm seriously confused as to whether you think urine is somehow dangerous (it's basically water, a little sugar and some salts, and completely inert & non-toxic) or whether you believe that something you don't happen to find appealing indicates great psychological damage, in which case I'd love to see your evidence for that.
If he's a British citizen (which I believe he is) then the only "papers" that would usually need to be in order are his passport. If that's not valid then he wouldn't have been allowed on the plane out of the UK. So the chances are the US decided not to allow him in on the visa waver program, thus requiring a visa, which he may not have had seeing as UK citizens don't normally need them. Thus, the decision to refuse him entry on the VWP, whilst perfectly legal, does seem a little suspect.
I was discussing a particular fetish which is obviously unhealthy.
(a) It's not a fetish (well, not in most cases) - go look the word up. (b) Why is it "obviously unhealthy"? Do you mean physically (it's not) or mentally (according to what study?).
It's neat, for sure, but hardly "unique". Try typing the name of a text file in XP - oooh look it opens notepad. Or a PDF file, there's Acrobat! Magic. And no "open" command required.
Only in the US as far as I can tell. I was born in 75 and never heard of it until recently. For one thing, most schools in the UK (where I grew up) had BBC computers not Apples. The most memorable "educational" games I remember on the BBC were Yellow River Kingdom (which I LOVED) and some thing about selling newspapers - I don't remember the name.
Look at all the "musicians" who have embraced "mash-up" crap as an alternative to learning a real instrument. Are they all "retarded monkeys"? OK, they are,
I agreed with the rest of your post, but this deserves a hearty "FUCK YOU". I don't judge the music you create (written any good concertos lately?) so don't judge what I do.
If you want to use copper, use gigabit ethernet. Already faster that USB2 or Firewire800, and much longer range. This is for people who don't want the copper.
Oh and good luck with that brute force attack on WPA...
It doesn't use HD DVD, but standard DVD
True. But that's mainly because HD DVD doesn't really exist yet (in saleable quantities).
costs 400 with hard drive
With a hard drive, and a wireless controller, and a headset, and a remote control and component video cables. If you add up the price of those extras for the current Xbox, it's probably around $100. Add that to the Xbox original launch price ($299) and, well, whaddya know.
Wireless is extra
Yup, and the wireless adapter is overpriced. However, there's nothing stopping you picking up a much cheaper generic bridge. I am annoyed that they couldn't do something better in that respect.
extra controllers are a lot extra
First party Xbox 1 controllers are $30. Decent wireless ones (i.e. Logitech) are $50. Xbox360 controllers are $40, wireless ones are $50. Basically no difference there.
Games are 60 dollars
Well that's still up for debate as far as I can tell (and I'm following this pretty closely). Yes some games are up on online stores at $60, but some are $50 and I've heard rumors that price points will be generally the same as they are now (i.e. $40 to $50).
and it doesn't play XBox games
Yes, it does. Just probably not all Xbox games.
I keep wireless controllers on the coffee table. That way I can just pick up and play. The WAF of a bunch of cables running across the living room floor is remarkably low.
You can have mine on the 23rd...
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd love to dump the Cable Co's box and got for MythTV. I'm just not willing to forgo HD and the WAF of a firewire solution seems fairly low (heaven help me if it messes up an episode of CSI!).
One option I have been looking at is HD component video capture, but the cards are very expensive.
Well, it does OTA HDTV. My HDTV comes from cable, and there isn't any way (that I know of) to capture that for MythTV or any other third party PVR (including Tivo). That's why I'm using a PVR from my cable company. It's pretty sucky interface wise, and not 100% reliable, but it has two tuners, a large disk, and records SD and HD streams directly, preserving full picture quality and digital audio. I like it, and it's cheap ($10 a month, no up fron cost).
Perhaps the definition is "if it's found on Blog Search, it's a blog. Otherwise it isn't." Under this definition, slashdot is not a blog.
But Blog Search will include anything with an RSS or Atom feed. That includes an awful lot of sites, many of which I struggle to see as being "Blogs" under any definition. For example, The BBC, The New York Times & CNN. Even Slashdot. So I think a better definition is needed.
That is VERY hard to do. Even among peaceful muslims, there is this duty and form of honor to never turn against another muslim regardless of thier evil deads.
Bullshit
If you don't value that, that's fine, but many people are willing to pay for quality.
I was with you until the last word. "Quality" is another attribute, like size, capacity and usability. Price is another. Features, another. I quite agree that it's all about finding the best match to your personal requirements. Personally I value Capacity (that's anything flash based gone, as well as Mini etc), Features (that's all the iPods gone, they don't have a couple of key features I need), Quality - in that order. Size is not so important, Price is totally unimportant. I'm willing to pay for anything which matches my requirements better than what I have now, so far, nothing does.
These Windows 'distributions' are the same ideology, but just w/ features added or removed, to force users to choose and pay for the features they think are important to them.
Or to allow them to not pay for features which are not important to them. Depends which way you look at it really.
No he wasn't. He knew they didn't have any such thing. He also knew everyone would believe his lies. He was right, well, right enough.
if my girlfriend and our families were killed in the Northern Virginia area by an Al Qaeda nuclear weapon, I wouldn't care about freedom of speech or conscience in Saudi Arabia. Like many, I'd support anyone who would drive a nuclear bomb right into the middle of those fuckers dancing in the streets celebrating "The Great Satan(tm)" getting nuked.
So imagine you're a peaceful Iraqi guy minding his own business, who's family was just wiped out by a US cruise missile. Now do you understand? Violence begats violence. The only way to survive is to break the cycle. Be the better person.
Fact is, we cannot make peace with these Islamic radicals
Why not? Because you don't want to?
Either they drop their weapons and live a peacefull life,
Frankly unlikely given the provocation you're dishing out.
or we hunt them down in their neighborhood
Great. When does that start? Oh wait...
Given that plan seems to be a miserable failure I guess you should start thinking "outside the box". Maybe slowing down on the provocation and speeding up on the reconciliation might be helpful. Sure I don't expect Bin Laden to just shake hands and walk away, but he's only one man, and Al Quaeda is just a few. If you get the rest of the Islamic world on your side, they'll be trivially easy to defeat. But your current course of action is doing the exact opposite. It's a war that can never be won.
It would seem the UK is just now starting to realise this at a personal level
What? The UK has been living with terrorism for years (strangely enough, mainly funded out of the US). We know what it is, we know how to continue living our lives without running around like scared kids with machine guns.
And if I say so myself, they executed a response much more quickly and efficiently then our government in the US.
Indeed we did. The police found and arrested those responsible (well, those who didn't blow themselves up), and those who assisted them. They will be subject to criminal trial through the justice system. They will not be sent to a torture camp, the evidence will not be fabricated and we will not invade anywhere. We'll deal with them like we deal with all criminals.
the Pentagon should be taking notes from the UK
Finally we agree on something.
Sure, if they reliably and accurately provided caller ID, which in my experience, they do not. I can't just block all non-caller ID calls as a lot of my legitimate incoming calls don't have ID for a variety of reasons.
I don't mind calls from people I don't know. I DO mind calls from people trying to sell me stuff.
Oh please. Any company that cold calls me automatically gets added to a blacklist. I'll never do business with them. Therefore, I'm doing them a favour by putting myself on the DNCL. Likewise charities, and particularly politicians. I don't even have a vote, why should I put up with being disturbed at night? I'm perfectly capable of going out and finding the companies who can supply my needs and the charities who work with the causes I wish to support. I don't need, or want, their propaganda.
However, I think any individual should have the ability to deny a specific organiztion the right to contact them
I believe that any individual should have the ability to deny any organization the right to contact them. It's my phone, it's my money, it's my life and it's my time. I decide.
Agreed - this guy has his head in the clouds.
One of the points basically comes down to "write perfect code". Well, duh, why didn't I think of that before? Jeez. Patching is bad because your code should have been perfect in the first place? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
His argument that an OS should ask you before running something is also stupid. How many users do you know who would actually read & understand such a question? Never mind actually giving a sensible answer. Lets say I just downloaded some spyware infested screensaver and am installing it. How is asking me "do you want to install this screensaver" going to help anyone? Of course I fricking want to install it, I just went to the trouble of downloading it. What we need is a way to detect that the screensaver is a trojan and warn me that this is a bad thing. And that basically boils down to blacklists and heuristics scanning (or "enumerating badness"). Both of which most decent AntiVirus apps do a pretty good job of.
I'm not a spambot you moron. Go read up on SMTP and some back when you know what you're talking about. The FROM and REPLY-TO headers are spoofed (trivially easy) and the spamees aren't checking my domain's SPF records. Nothing to do with me whatsoever, other than getting me flooded with bounce messages.