> Why is this in the "your rights online" section? It has nothing to do with rights.
Of course it does. If you will scroll back, you will see all kinds of posts discussing why, and why not, the modem hacker had or had no right to do as he did.
I saw those vids. And they are informative, and every American should watch them.
The "NEVER say anything to the cops" thing is a little oversimplified, though. E.g.: If someone shoots my mom, you can be DAMNED sure I'm going to talk to them.
I don't understand what is the damned rush to get the votes tallied up and a winner announced the night of the election. I say, take your time, get a bunch of little old ladies to count them up, and so what if the results come in the next day, or even the next week?
> Dude I live in a developing country, and contrary to popular (Western) belief, we have decent security, health care, food, shelter, clean drinking water and quite good infrastructure in general.
OK, so why is your country still "developing" then. Sounds like you've got it made. Security, health care, food, shelter, etc. etc. Not sure what you are lacking, in other words.
> Hell, until a couple of years ago Dell would even use non-standard pseudo-ATX PSUs... had the standard motherboard connector, but with the pins rearranged so that it might actually fry a non-Dell mobo. Evil.
Yep. I got burned by that issue. Power supply went out on my Dell, I went and got an off-the-shelf power supply. Same connector, but when I powered it up... nothing but the smell of ozone, and it fried something, because it never did work again.
I needed a new machine fast, so I found a happy medium. Got a Velocity Micro box from Best Buy. Velocity specializes in high-end rigs, but sells mid-range machines to Best Buy. They use nothing but "off the shelf" quality parts, and the end result is a very nice machine with easily upgradable/replacable parts that has most of the benefits of a custom built rig without having to do it yourself. Beautiful aluminum case with a window on the side, blue illumination inside, and although the cabling is not fine art, it approaches origami for just slightly more than the Dells and such.
I agree, it's a great printer. Mines printed 11,429 pages, with 2 jams and 2 mispicks. Not saying that's a high number of pages or anything, but it's great to have a reliable printer. And with a "first page out" time of under 9 seconds, it has me spoiled and annoyed when I have to wait minutes for one of the laserjets at work to warm up.
That's an interesting idea. But I still think that would be illegal.
In the United States, cell-phone jamming is covered under the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits people from "willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized" to operate.
Your idea would interfere with the attempt by a "station" (the cell phone users) to do something they are authorized to do (e.g. send a text message).
Except you don't get to decide if it's murder or not. That's the lawmakers' job
Not for abortion. The Supreme Court took abortion out of lawmakers hands by saying it's a constitutional right based on privacy. I don't have a right to privately smoke pot, but I have the right to privatly get an abortion. Go figure. Anyway...
Maybe if "the lawmakers" got to decide abortion, some of those whack jobs on the pro-life side will calm down. As it stands, they have a valid complaint. They and their lawmakers have no voice on the issue of abortion.
Don't waste mod-points on this, I don't need the karma,
Umm... i thought the reason there were mod points is to make other people's reading experience more satisfying. I did not realize they were actually intended to be some kind of reward or something. Silly me.
All they are proving is that it can recognize and parse human speech.
Oh, I thought they were trying to do something difficult for a second. Thanks for the clarification..
Hmm... that's a good point. I didn't know you could do that. Although that option looks like it's limited to your address book (i.e. no wildcards).
AlertMatrix can also continually remind you that you have missed a call and other stuff which still makes it worth it to me, though. And did you know the LED is really R/G/B, and you can make your own colors? Might not be worth $40, but pretty cool!
Get AlertMatrix. Not cheap, but a must-have for me. You can set up filters to only notify you based on customizable criteria (who it is from, what is the subject, etc).
No mature adult should be judging people based on beliefs about their sexuality, so being accused of being gay should be no different from being accused of being vegetarian, or Christian, or any other characteristic that is not immediately obvious to the observer and is largely irrelevant to anyone other than the person in question and his/her close acquaintances.
OMG, you are SO ADORABLE! I just want to pinch your cheeks.
Well, if we're going by chemical, biological and nuclear weapons use the Christian west is far, far more bloodthirsty than the most fanatical Muslim has ever been
That's only because the culture of the "most fanatical Muslim" is just barely out of the stone age. If their culture was as advanced as European cultures, you can bet they would be just as, if not more, bloodthirsty.
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> Why is this in the "your rights online" section? It has nothing to do with rights.
Of course it does. If you will scroll back, you will see all kinds of posts discussing why, and why not, the modem hacker had or had no right to do as he did.
That was a joke. A line from "Office Space". You should check it out. It's hilarious.
I saw those vids. And they are informative, and every American should watch them.
The "NEVER say anything to the cops" thing is a little oversimplified, though. E.g.: If someone shoots my mom, you can be DAMNED sure I'm going to talk to them.
> She'll have trouble getting a job due to the conviction for the rest of her life.
With good reason. I, for one, certainly would not want to hire anyone dumb enough to calls the cops on themselves.
Agreed.
I don't understand what is the damned rush to get the votes tallied up and a winner announced the night of the election. I say, take your time, get a bunch of little old ladies to count them up, and so what if the results come in the next day, or even the next week?
> Dude I live in a developing country, and contrary to popular (Western) belief, we have decent security, health care, food, shelter, clean drinking water and quite good infrastructure in general.
OK, so why is your country still "developing" then. Sounds like you've got it made. Security, health care, food, shelter, etc. etc. Not sure what you are lacking, in other words.
> Card counting is illegal?
From the, second sentence of the summary: "Card counting is perfectly legal."
This place is getting more and more like the comment boards on the newspapers. Noise to signal ratio rising by the minute.
The article in question is not saying email is dying. In fact, it says email usage is growing:
> Little wonder that while email continues to grow, other types of communication services are growing far faster.
No, not "dying". Just perhaps not peoples first choice for today's on-line communications.
> Hell, until a couple of years ago Dell would even use non-standard pseudo-ATX PSUs... had the standard motherboard connector, but with the pins rearranged so that it might actually fry a non-Dell mobo. Evil.
Yep. I got burned by that issue. Power supply went out on my Dell, I went and got an off-the-shelf power supply. Same connector, but when I powered it up... nothing but the smell of ozone, and it fried something, because it never did work again.
I needed a new machine fast, so I found a happy medium. Got a Velocity Micro box from Best Buy. Velocity specializes in high-end rigs, but sells mid-range machines to Best Buy. They use nothing but "off the shelf" quality parts, and the end result is a very nice machine with easily upgradable/replacable parts that has most of the benefits of a custom built rig without having to do it yourself. Beautiful aluminum case with a window on the side, blue illumination inside, and although the cabling is not fine art, it approaches origami for just slightly more than the Dells and such.
I agree, it's a great printer. Mines printed 11,429 pages, with 2 jams and 2 mispicks. Not saying that's a high number of pages or anything, but it's great to have a reliable printer. And with a "first page out" time of under 9 seconds, it has me spoiled and annoyed when I have to wait minutes for one of the laserjets at work to warm up.
... or a CB, which can be up to four watts
I would bet anything Itzhak Perlman could play "Devil Went Down to Georgia" Without a doubt.
Zackly. Or had the ad solicited homicide... if a murder had occurred, you can be damn sure charges would have been brought.
That's an interesting idea. But I still think that would be illegal.
In the United States, cell-phone jamming is covered under the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits people from "willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized" to operate.
Your idea would interfere with the attempt by a "station" (the cell phone users) to do something they are authorized to do (e.g. send a text message).
But it was a novel idea.
Except you don't get to decide if it's murder or not. That's the lawmakers' job
Not for abortion. The Supreme Court took abortion out of lawmakers hands by saying it's a constitutional right based on privacy. I don't have a right to privately smoke pot, but I have the right to privatly get an abortion. Go figure. Anyway...
Maybe if "the lawmakers" got to decide abortion, some of those whack jobs on the pro-life side will calm down. As it stands, they have a valid complaint. They and their lawmakers have no voice on the issue of abortion.
Don't waste mod-points on this, I don't need the karma,
Umm... i thought the reason there were mod points is to make other people's reading experience more satisfying. I did not realize they were actually intended to be some kind of reward or something. Silly me.
All they are proving is that it can recognize and parse human speech. Oh, I thought they were trying to do something difficult for a second. Thanks for the clarification..
Hmm... that's a good point. I didn't know you could do that. Although that option looks like it's limited to your address book (i.e. no wildcards). AlertMatrix can also continually remind you that you have missed a call and other stuff which still makes it worth it to me, though. And did you know the LED is really R/G/B, and you can make your own colors? Might not be worth $40, but pretty cool!
Get AlertMatrix. Not cheap, but a must-have for me. You can set up filters to only notify you based on customizable criteria (who it is from, what is the subject, etc).
No mature adult should be judging people based on beliefs about their sexuality, so being accused of being gay should be no different from being accused of being vegetarian, or Christian, or any other characteristic that is not immediately obvious to the observer and is largely irrelevant to anyone other than the person in question and his/her close acquaintances. OMG, you are SO ADORABLE! I just want to pinch your cheeks.
Well, if we're going by chemical, biological and nuclear weapons use the Christian west is far, far more bloodthirsty than the most fanatical Muslim has ever been
That's only because the culture of the "most fanatical Muslim" is just barely out of the stone age. If their culture was as advanced as European cultures, you can bet they would be just as, if not more, bloodthirsty.