hiring papparazi == harrassment
taking a picture of a property with no people in it != harassment
As I said down thread, Google is not harassing people, they are taking a limited number of pictures and leaving. What you are describing is more than taking pictures, it's harassment. If you were to say, drive your car by google's office, or go into their parking lot and take pictures of their office building, that would be a more apt analogy to what google is doing.
If it were me, I would say that this behavior could reasonably be construed as harassment, whereas I doubt that reasonable judge would consider taking a single picture that doesn't include any people in it as harassment. I wouldn't want to interrupt your black and white world with some shades of gray though so just don't mind me.
I've experienced this. I make no secret of my contempt for Microsoft operating systems, because my experience is that I find them more irritating to use than BSD, linux, or any of their derivations (e.g., OS X). Yes, I use OS X, linux and windows each on a daily basis as a user and I do the majority of administration on these as well. Nearly every time I make some comment about my opinion, I get at least one troll mod., usually two. Yes, I put it strongly but I wouldn't say I was trolling, just stating a strong opinion. So I'd say it's pretty likely that slashdot has some MS astroturfers out there. There's also a lot of Apple haters too, who by very mentioning the name of Steve Jobs causes them to foam at the mouth, but they seem to be held in check by the (sometimes unfounded) enthusiasm of fanbois.
I'm glad that Vista is working out for you then and I hope your happy with it. I on the other hand have had head-aches aplenty with windows, just as the submitter and oh... I'd say about 7.5-8.5% of the market right now. Also, I did not deserve the troll moderation above as I said the exactly the same sentiments as others in this thread here and here that are marked insightful and informative.
I agree that there is certainly the perception that microsoft is losing ground. Although, the climb for apple started before Vista came out. For me it started with OS 10.0 beta when I realized that you could have all the power of a unix command line and tunneling over the internet with only a grape or cherry flavored iMac. My thought then was that this was the future and that windows was just for people who needed an office software machine or games box. Now the marketing campaign and flashy graphics seems to have taken over for further increases, but I don't care, I still have my unix box that just works and doesn't cost as much as an sgi. Here's a link to estimated market share. You can see Apple has been climbing for some time.
First, anyone who can't get Windows to run decently should be turning in their geek card already.
I argue that it's actually impossible to get Windows to run decently no matter how much of a geek you are because the software is written poorly and is designed to annoy the user. Even if we take you at your word about getting windows to "run well", meaning installed as the code is written, it's not that I can't do it, I don't want to. This is because it's a POS operating system. So, from my point of view, these aren't "cheap shots" in the introduction but a statement that largely agrees with my experience.
There are also arguments that say that the radar evading capabilities of these planes hasn't actually been vetted all that much because the U.S. controls the air-space in most of its engagements so having stealth isn't actually very helpful. In any case, the stealth planes fly such a small fraction of the bombing runs that any statistics on how few they have lost to enemy fire are meaningless.
The hardware on your router might be failing, power supply or whatever. I had the same problem with a DSL modem once, it eventually just outright died. The new one I bought (netgear DG834G) hasn't had to be reset once.
Are you honestly trying to claim that protection for corporations who conspire with portions of the government to illegally spy on the populace isn't a step towards fascism? What are you, nuts? Granted, it's not a large step, we don't have pogroms or anything but we didn't just get handed a big bouquet of democracy and freedom here guy... (And if you thing that hatred of the president by honest citizens is "plain old" then you need to think a little harder about what's going on in this country.)
At the risk of Godwin-ing the thread any further, I don't think it's 1938. Its more like it's November 1933 and Von Hindenburg just let a new coalition into the cabinet that included the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei into the government because the rich were worried about the leftists (link). Only now instead of trying to keep the communists at bay, the war on terror seems to be the passphrase to fascism and about half the democrats and all the republicans are taking it hook, line and sinker. What will happen in the future, will this go away or get worse? Only time will tell unfortunately but I'm pretty worried things might get worse before they get better.
Neither did Mr. Kerry. So if both Clinton and Kerry who supposedly represent the big money establishment had the guts to vote against this and Barack Obama voted for this and is suppose to represent change we can believe in, what does that tell you?
Nah! What this means is that they are fixing bugs faster than they're making new ones. If they weren't, they'd spend all their time chasing the newest ones.:)
Yeah, that's right, it's "protection money" to ASCAP. Protection from being sued by them that is. I play at a celtic session once a month at a local tavern and the ASCAP assholes even showed up there trying to make the manager pay royalties for us playing there. The songs we play are traditional songs that sometimes date back to the middle ages, there's no copyright on them, they're in the public domain. Secondly, we don't even perform for the bar, we're off in a side room, we don't make any money and neither does the bar owner. The manager told them that and I think and they haven't been back but it's still a concern that we might get booted out of our favorite tavern just because of some corporate thugs have more lawyers than the bar owner.
As far I can tell, the AP hasn't removed their takedown notices, but according to the guy who runs the blog, one of their VPs is putting on a damage control PR campaign. link
Legally, it doesn't seem they have much of a foot to stand on and they seem to know it:
It doesn't appear, however, that AP is continuing to pursue its "hot news" claim against Drudge Retort, and for good reason.... in National Basketball Ass'n v. Motorola, 105 F.3d 841, 844 (1997), one of the few cases to address a "hot news" claim, the Second Circuit set an exceptionally high standard for such claims to be viable, requiring, among other things, that the information be time-sensitive; the defendant be in direct competition with the plaintiff; and the continued publishing of the "hot news" would so reduce the plaintiff's incentive to produce the product or service that its existence or quality would be substantially threatened.
The three largest "Cities" are:
Cheyenne -- 56k,
Casper -- 50k,
Laramie -- 26k.
Total population of the state is 522k, yet it's the 5th largest state by size.
Somewhere between 200 and several thousand deaths in the Tiananmen square massacre. (link)
Not to mention, Chinese involvement in the Korean War. (link)
I mean, I'm not trying to claim that the U.S. is angelic, no one could, but China is more than an economic rival. Also, the U.S. populace has never particularly liked repressive governments our own included. Look at the U.S. Civil War, there is still a tremendous amount of sympathy for the southern states, even though most people agree they had the less worthy part of the argument.
Well, since I wrote the China question, I'll give an answer to this.
Firstly, as someone else pointed out in this thread, just that week there was a news article about a congressman claiming China hacked some congressional computers. (link.) This is familiar territory of techs I guess, I'm not even a system admin and in the logs of some of my own computers that were exposed, I've seen an inordinate amount of chinese IPs port scanning them.
Secondly, it's not just that we're being "groomed" for examining China as an enemy, there really is tension. Just off the top of my head: China has been doing missile tests to intimidate the Taiwanese (link.) There was a confrontation between a U.S. spy plane and chinese fighter planes. (link) A U.S. carrier was refused entry to Hong Kong. (link).
If you ask me, it's a little like the kinds of things that happened during the cold war.
The power savings are dramatic [for the macbook air]; idle power is reduced by nearly a factor of 10, standby power is cut in half and read/write power is at worst a third of the mechanical drive. The 10x idle power reduction is important since that's where your drive should be spending most of its time, and if the average power savings is somewhere in the 0.25 - 0.5W range you're looking at improving battery life on the order of tens of minutes.
Following that, I've noticed a lot of the higher rated comments in this talk about how criminals using guns get them illegally on black markets. The problem is that where do the black markets get their guns? As far as I know, they get them through house robberies principally. Firearms have the number one resale value on the street, for obvious reasons. Having a well armed populace means some will not lock up their guns well, or try to use them against a thief and fail (yes this happens because you tend to be sleepy when you're woken up by someone breaking into your house at night and they are not). It isn't something you can easily stop, you have to get people to lock up their guns in a better way which then means they aren't accessible when you need them to "fight crime". But whatever, this is slashdot, which has a large number of libertarians so I expect to get modded down.
Yes, this works okay presently, but long-term outlook isn't so good. Bush is now beating Nixon for worst approval ratings during his term. A recent LATimes/Bloomberg poll put him at 23%, which edges out Nixon's worst at 24%. Will the publics dislike of Bush transfer to other Republicans? We'll find out this November.
My older brother had a newspaper route so he had piles of those big red rubber bands they used to wrap the newspaper in. So, with my castle legos, invariably someone would have to come beseige the castle and the rubber bands were used to simulate archer, ballista and catapult shot (for catapults I'd take the shot from standing up to simulate the parabolic trajectory). You'd be surprised how far a lego man wen flying after getting hit with one of those big rubber bands. The walls were much more difficult to take down, requiring a lot of shots before they were breached. Corners or walls two segments thick were basically impenetrable. Fortunately for the besiegers, the owners of the castle couldn't develop walls that were made out of 2x4 bricks -- only because I didn't have enough gray pieces for an entire section of wall. Loads of fun.
Dishonest. She was talking about something someone else said.
Funny how often Fox finds these people that said something slanderous. Let me explain it to you, they do that to protect themselves from a libel suit. Jon Stewart had a funny piece on it (link).
You mean the picture that the Clinton campaign released?
Bullshit. The Clinton campaign didn't release that, the Drudge report only claimed Clinton staffers released it, but they could easily have lied to discredit Clinton because they hate her more than they hate Obama.
So what? Rove might not be McCain's campaign director, but he has influenced the modern Republican party and its tactics to a large degree. I think a lot of people would agree that McCain has changed himself and his political opinions to appeal to the modern Republican party. When I think of the modern Republican party, I think of Rove like people who do anything or say anything about their opponent to win, and once in office, they remain in constant campaign mode, slandering their opponents, hiring only those loyal to the president and firing those who do not do their bidding.
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hiring papparazi == harrassment
taking a picture of a property with no people in it != harassment
As I said down thread, Google is not harassing people, they are taking a limited number of pictures and leaving. What you are describing is more than taking pictures, it's harassment. If you were to say, drive your car by google's office, or go into their parking lot and take pictures of their office building, that would be a more apt analogy to what google is doing.
If it were me, I would say that this behavior could reasonably be construed as harassment, whereas I doubt that reasonable judge would consider taking a single picture that doesn't include any people in it as harassment. I wouldn't want to interrupt your black and white world with some shades of gray though so just don't mind me.
I've experienced this. I make no secret of my contempt for Microsoft operating systems, because my experience is that I find them more irritating to use than BSD, linux, or any of their derivations (e.g., OS X). Yes, I use OS X, linux and windows each on a daily basis as a user and I do the majority of administration on these as well. Nearly every time I make some comment about my opinion, I get at least one troll mod., usually two. Yes, I put it strongly but I wouldn't say I was trolling, just stating a strong opinion. So I'd say it's pretty likely that slashdot has some MS astroturfers out there. There's also a lot of Apple haters too, who by very mentioning the name of Steve Jobs causes them to foam at the mouth, but they seem to be held in check by the (sometimes unfounded) enthusiasm of fanbois.
I'm glad that Vista is working out for you then and I hope your happy with it. I on the other hand have had head-aches aplenty with windows, just as the submitter and oh... I'd say about 7.5-8.5% of the market right now. Also, I did not deserve the troll moderation above as I said the exactly the same sentiments as others in this thread here and here that are marked insightful and informative.
I agree that there is certainly the perception that microsoft is losing ground. Although, the climb for apple started before Vista came out. For me it started with OS 10.0 beta when I realized that you could have all the power of a unix command line and tunneling over the internet with only a grape or cherry flavored iMac. My thought then was that this was the future and that windows was just for people who needed an office software machine or games box. Now the marketing campaign and flashy graphics seems to have taken over for further increases, but I don't care, I still have my unix box that just works and doesn't cost as much as an sgi. Here's a link to estimated market share. You can see Apple has been climbing for some time.
I argue that it's actually impossible to get Windows to run decently no matter how much of a geek you are because the software is written poorly and is designed to annoy the user. Even if we take you at your word about getting windows to "run well", meaning installed as the code is written, it's not that I can't do it, I don't want to. This is because it's a POS operating system. So, from my point of view, these aren't "cheap shots" in the introduction but a statement that largely agrees with my experience.
There are also arguments that say that the radar evading capabilities of these planes hasn't actually been vetted all that much because the U.S. controls the air-space in most of its engagements so having stealth isn't actually very helpful. In any case, the stealth planes fly such a small fraction of the bombing runs that any statistics on how few they have lost to enemy fire are meaningless.
So wait, you're telling me this is accurate?
The hardware on your router might be failing, power supply or whatever. I had the same problem with a DSL modem once, it eventually just outright died. The new one I bought (netgear DG834G) hasn't had to be reset once.
Are you honestly trying to claim that protection for corporations who conspire with portions of the government to illegally spy on the populace isn't a step towards fascism? What are you, nuts? Granted, it's not a large step, we don't have pogroms or anything but we didn't just get handed a big bouquet of democracy and freedom here guy... (And if you thing that hatred of the president by honest citizens is "plain old" then you need to think a little harder about what's going on in this country.)
At the risk of Godwin-ing the thread any further, I don't think it's 1938. Its more like it's November 1933 and Von Hindenburg just let a new coalition into the cabinet that included the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei into the government because the rich were worried about the leftists (link). Only now instead of trying to keep the communists at bay, the war on terror seems to be the passphrase to fascism and about half the democrats and all the republicans are taking it hook, line and sinker. What will happen in the future, will this go away or get worse? Only time will tell unfortunately but I'm pretty worried things might get worse before they get better.
Neither did Mr. Kerry. So if both Clinton and Kerry who supposedly represent the big money establishment had the guts to vote against this and Barack Obama voted for this and is suppose to represent change we can believe in, what does that tell you?
Nah! What this means is that they are fixing bugs faster than they're making new ones. If they weren't, they'd spend all their time chasing the newest ones. :)
Yeah, that's right, it's "protection money" to ASCAP. Protection from being sued by them that is. I play at a celtic session once a month at a local tavern and the ASCAP assholes even showed up there trying to make the manager pay royalties for us playing there. The songs we play are traditional songs that sometimes date back to the middle ages, there's no copyright on them, they're in the public domain. Secondly, we don't even perform for the bar, we're off in a side room, we don't make any money and neither does the bar owner. The manager told them that and I think and they haven't been back but it's still a concern that we might get booted out of our favorite tavern just because of some corporate thugs have more lawyers than the bar owner.
Don't get confused, this isn't the Drudge Report. This is the Drudge Retort, a big difference. Have a look at the previous slashdot story.
source.
The three largest "Cities" are: Cheyenne -- 56k, Casper -- 50k, Laramie -- 26k. Total population of the state is 522k, yet it's the 5th largest state by size.
Oh yeah, and a few more:
A Chinese submarine popped up in the middle of U.S Naval exercises. (link)
Chinese police shoot protesters in Tibet. (link)
Somewhere between 200 and several thousand deaths in the Tiananmen square massacre. (link)
Not to mention, Chinese involvement in the Korean War. (link)
I mean, I'm not trying to claim that the U.S. is angelic, no one could, but China is more than an economic rival. Also, the U.S. populace has never particularly liked repressive governments our own included. Look at the U.S. Civil War, there is still a tremendous amount of sympathy for the southern states, even though most people agree they had the less worthy part of the argument.
Well, since I wrote the China question, I'll give an answer to this.
Firstly, as someone else pointed out in this thread, just that week there was a news article about a congressman claiming China hacked some congressional computers. (link.) This is familiar territory of techs I guess, I'm not even a system admin and in the logs of some of my own computers that were exposed, I've seen an inordinate amount of chinese IPs port scanning them.
Secondly, it's not just that we're being "groomed" for examining China as an enemy, there really is tension. Just off the top of my head: China has been doing missile tests to intimidate the Taiwanese (link.) There was a confrontation between a U.S. spy plane and chinese fighter planes. (link) A U.S. carrier was refused entry to Hong Kong. (link).
If you ask me, it's a little like the kinds of things that happened during the cold war.
Source.
You fail.
Following that, I've noticed a lot of the higher rated comments in this talk about how criminals using guns get them illegally on black markets. The problem is that where do the black markets get their guns? As far as I know, they get them through house robberies principally. Firearms have the number one resale value on the street, for obvious reasons. Having a well armed populace means some will not lock up their guns well, or try to use them against a thief and fail (yes this happens because you tend to be sleepy when you're woken up by someone breaking into your house at night and they are not). It isn't something you can easily stop, you have to get people to lock up their guns in a better way which then means they aren't accessible when you need them to "fight crime". But whatever, this is slashdot, which has a large number of libertarians so I expect to get modded down.
Yes, this works okay presently, but long-term outlook isn't so good. Bush is now beating Nixon for worst approval ratings during his term. A recent LATimes/Bloomberg poll put him at 23%, which edges out Nixon's worst at 24%. Will the publics dislike of Bush transfer to other Republicans? We'll find out this November.
My older brother had a newspaper route so he had piles of those big red rubber bands they used to wrap the newspaper in. So, with my castle legos, invariably someone would have to come beseige the castle and the rubber bands were used to simulate archer, ballista and catapult shot (for catapults I'd take the shot from standing up to simulate the parabolic trajectory). You'd be surprised how far a lego man wen flying after getting hit with one of those big rubber bands. The walls were much more difficult to take down, requiring a lot of shots before they were breached. Corners or walls two segments thick were basically impenetrable. Fortunately for the besiegers, the owners of the castle couldn't develop walls that were made out of 2x4 bricks -- only because I didn't have enough gray pieces for an entire section of wall. Loads of fun.
So what? Rove might not be McCain's campaign director, but he has influenced the modern Republican party and its tactics to a large degree. I think a lot of people would agree that McCain has changed himself and his political opinions to appeal to the modern Republican party. When I think of the modern Republican party, I think of Rove like people who do anything or say anything about their opponent to win, and once in office, they remain in constant campaign mode, slandering their opponents, hiring only those loyal to the president and firing those who do not do their bidding.