I'm sure the court can strike that down, but they can certainly arrest the guy for whatever they want. IMO the police went way over the line arresting the guy for taking too long, but it's true that he was acting pretty crazy and violent once they started to take him away and at that point it was certainly causing a disturbance.. it seemed like he was just waiting for the police to do something to totally flip out and overreact. It's a QA session, you can't just keep talking, he must have expected the police to do something and then act like it's police brutality. It's horrifying though to see everyone sit there cooly watching the guy get tasered over and over. If they had all rushed the police the crowd could have helped him.. regardless of whether the police were doing the right thing, the crowd should have tried to save the guy.. this is frighteningly close to people being too afraid to do anything when their neighbors are dragged away by the gestapo, and the threat is clear in the video "stay in your seats or you'll be tasered and arrested too."
The network is made for downloading. If you want 500GB of warez and movies (which is none of the ISP's business) then that's use of the network you paid for, not abuse. It would be sick enough if comcast decided they can make more money by capping usage to 50MB and only allowing things that "any reasonable person would be satisfied with" like email and 2MB songs and locking out the (admittedly) small number of users using 95% of their network. But the worst thing is, they have to update their network anyway.. it'll make them MORE MONEY and make their users HAPPIER but they're not doing it!
It reminds adults that kids aren't as stupid as they seem. I read it when I was 10-11 and I identified very much with the children in the book, so you can't say that it's total fiction and that kids don't really think like that. Did you read the introduction to the second edition? It has letters of praise from kids who identify exactly with the brilliant children in the story, and hate mail from teachers who are sure that kids "just don't think like that." Now who do you think knows better?...
I (speaking for a lot of the libertarian single geek males on slashdot I'm sure) will stick up for what I believe in.. namely that censorship is wrong. This includes censorship "for their own good" even when dealing with child development. ESPECIALLY when dealing with child development. Are you seriously going to raise your kids with the philosophy of total lack of privacy and "someone's always watching?" That's a totally dystopian idea, and it's horrifying to hear that you'll force your kids to accept it! Privacy is a right, and while a healthy amount of parental discretion is available in enforcing household rules by looking at logs and things, you shouldn't be telling them "from the day you're born to the day you die someone's watching, so get used to it." Rather teach your kids that privacy is the ideal, the right thing, and that evil men have taken it away, and take that perspective to telling your kids someone's watching. The reality is that you have no privacy, but that's not how it should be, and that's not how it needs to be. Nothing will change if parents like you bring up the next generation accepting no privacy, taking DRM for granted, and thinking it funny that their parents owned their own computers not controlled by trusted computing vendors. et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, I don't know what you're worrying about. The internet is just information, and I think you underestimate your childrens ability to accept it as such, and not instantly open the windows of their souls and suck in 4chan and suddenly become real life/b/tards. Evaluate whether you're being controlled by offspring protection instincts, and also re-read Ender's Game. They were only 9. And I'm sure no kid is going to turn into a twitchy pulp of catatonia at seeing rose de nose's desk screen.
An online newspaper publishes articles which include copyrighted images (company logos for example) under fair use. So they chalk up the entire revenue of the newspaper at "profiting from fair use". Seems just as shady to me as the RIAA's outrageous claims of piracy damages (which are modest compared with the staggering $trillions figure here).
Opera has an ugly history- it used to suck, and it used to be ad supported. I don't care if it's cleaned up its act, I have too many problems with opera to embrace it.
I meant that you at least picked your components out when you placed your order on the OEM's website: such and such size memory, exactly what processor model, what speed/brand hard drive, that sort of thing instead of the traditional consumer approach of going to the store and "buying a computer" by just looking for the box with the lowest price tag, maybe be persuaded by the smooth talking salesman into a "multimedia" upgrade or something. I consider that far below the Slashdot crowd. So it was a compliment, not a troll.
four or five different lines with different price levels, rebate options, compatibility, capabilites, form factors, etc If you're someone who buys a prepackaged system with a fixed price, what are you doing on slashdot?
Why don't they just use an IDE? Visual Studio autocompletes variable and function names, and of course in most cases a misspelling in a string literal wouldn't cause an error.
In high school when my friend would bring me some game CD I always sat in class staring at it, wishing I could read the CD with my eyes and play the game:) I can't wait for laser vision..
Flying close to the ground is pretty crappy anyway. Apparently there are 1500 foot rolling hills in central Arkansas. But flying from the whole-earth view in space down to little houses is awesome.
My left hand is on my lap most of the time, I only put my left hand on the keyboard when I'm typing. How is holding down a key combination easier than pressing a single button that your fingers have to be right on top of anyway?
The context menu is the only reason I stick with a GUI at all, and I'm going to have my context menu at a single click. I'm not holding down a weird key combination or going off to some other area of the screen.
Thinkpads are simply the most solid laptops money can buy. Undeniably number-one support. Also they're a lot more durable than macs. And the included IBM software is really very useful (like Active Protection System for your hard drives) unlike usual OEM crap.
but backing up the whole of your non-log-storage RAM every memory write will fill up any log-storage RAM rather fast... like every nanosecond... It would be no faster than just hard drive storage, it would just take one memory write longer to get to the hard drive.
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I'm sure the court can strike that down, but they can certainly arrest the guy for whatever they want. IMO the police went way over the line arresting the guy for taking too long, but it's true that he was acting pretty crazy and violent once they started to take him away and at that point it was certainly causing a disturbance.. it seemed like he was just waiting for the police to do something to totally flip out and overreact. It's a QA session, you can't just keep talking, he must have expected the police to do something and then act like it's police brutality.
It's horrifying though to see everyone sit there cooly watching the guy get tasered over and over. If they had all rushed the police the crowd could have helped him.. regardless of whether the police were doing the right thing, the crowd should have tried to save the guy.. this is frighteningly close to people being too afraid to do anything when their neighbors are dragged away by the gestapo, and the threat is clear in the video "stay in your seats or you'll be tasered and arrested too."
The network is made for downloading. If you want 500GB of warez and movies (which is none of the ISP's business) then that's use of the network you paid for, not abuse. It would be sick enough if comcast decided they can make more money by capping usage to 50MB and only allowing things that "any reasonable person would be satisfied with" like email and 2MB songs and locking out the (admittedly) small number of users using 95% of their network. But the worst thing is, they have to update their network anyway.. it'll make them MORE MONEY and make their users HAPPIER but they're not doing it!
It reminds adults that kids aren't as stupid as they seem. I read it when I was 10-11 and I identified very much with the children in the book, so you can't say that it's total fiction and that kids don't really think like that. Did you read the introduction to the second edition? It has letters of praise from kids who identify exactly with the brilliant children in the story, and hate mail from teachers who are sure that kids "just don't think like that." Now who do you think knows better?...
I (speaking for a lot of the libertarian single geek males on slashdot I'm sure) will stick up for what I believe in.. namely that censorship is wrong. This includes censorship "for their own good" even when dealing with child development. ESPECIALLY when dealing with child development. Are you seriously going to raise your kids with the philosophy of total lack of privacy and "someone's always watching?" That's a totally dystopian idea, and it's horrifying to hear that you'll force your kids to accept it! Privacy is a right, and while a healthy amount of parental discretion is available in enforcing household rules by looking at logs and things, you shouldn't be telling them "from the day you're born to the day you die someone's watching, so get used to it." Rather teach your kids that privacy is the ideal, the right thing, and that evil men have taken it away, and take that perspective to telling your kids someone's watching. The reality is that you have no privacy, but that's not how it should be, and that's not how it needs to be. Nothing will change if parents like you bring up the next generation accepting no privacy, taking DRM for granted, and thinking it funny that their parents owned their own computers not controlled by trusted computing vendors. et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, I don't know what you're worrying about. The internet is just information, and I think you underestimate your childrens ability to accept it as such, and not instantly open the windows of their souls and suck in 4chan and suddenly become real life /b/tards. Evaluate whether you're being controlled by offspring protection instincts, and also re-read Ender's Game. They were only 9. And I'm sure no kid is going to turn into a twitchy pulp of catatonia at seeing rose de nose's desk screen.
An online newspaper publishes articles which include copyrighted images (company logos for example) under fair use. So they chalk up the entire revenue of the newspaper at "profiting from fair use". Seems just as shady to me as the RIAA's outrageous claims of piracy damages (which are modest compared with the staggering $trillions figure here).
Opera has an ugly history- it used to suck, and it used to be ad supported. I don't care if it's cleaned up its act, I have too many problems with opera to embrace it.
OK... so some kind of distributed WoW server. A way for Blizzard to do even less for $15/month.
I meant that you at least picked your components out when you placed your order on the OEM's website: such and such size memory, exactly what processor model, what speed/brand hard drive, that sort of thing instead of the traditional consumer approach of going to the store and "buying a computer" by just looking for the box with the lowest price tag, maybe be persuaded by the smooth talking salesman into a "multimedia" upgrade or something. I consider that far below the Slashdot crowd. So it was a compliment, not a troll.
Yeah, I wouldn't quite say that freedom to choose whatever religion you want is a God-given right.
It's just as much his club as yours.
He's not. That's scientology. (saw it on YTMND :P)
Why don't they just use an IDE? Visual Studio autocompletes variable and function names, and of course in most cases a misspelling in a string literal wouldn't cause an error.
...get back to me when it's not a 15 gigabyte installation. Hot dang is that beautiful though.
In high school when my friend would bring me some game CD I always sat in class staring at it, wishing I could read the CD with my eyes and play the game :) I can't wait for laser vision..
Flying close to the ground is pretty crappy anyway. Apparently there are 1500 foot rolling hills in central Arkansas. But flying from the whole-earth view in space down to little houses is awesome.
My left hand is on my lap most of the time, I only put my left hand on the keyboard when I'm typing. How is holding down a key combination easier than pressing a single button that your fingers have to be right on top of anyway?
Well why pay like $500 more for the Mac name and OS X if you want unix?
The context menu is the only reason I stick with a GUI at all, and I'm going to have my context menu at a single click. I'm not holding down a weird key combination or going off to some other area of the screen.
It was unknown at the time of writing at Wired, apparently. Sensational news and all that, you know.
I hear they have sattelite-based laser microphones that can lock onto the string. Point-and-click interface too. About as believable as TFA...
I have absolutely no respect for a man that doesn't love the trackpoint. None whatsoever.
Thinkpads are simply the most solid laptops money can buy. Undeniably number-one support. Also they're a lot more durable than macs. And the included IBM software is really very useful (like Active Protection System for your hard drives) unlike usual OEM crap.
but backing up the whole of your non-log-storage RAM every memory write will fill up any log-storage RAM rather fast... like every nanosecond... It would be no faster than just hard drive storage, it would just take one memory write longer to get to the hard drive.