I just love how the three UK terror attacks (well, two were *attempted* attacks) have received ABSOLUTELY ZERO coverage on Slashdot, but this small story is front-page news here. God forbid all your theories about the War on Terrorism being a bumpersticker would be *debunked*. Oh NOEZ!
Way to set your political priorities straight,/.. You're right on par with the New York Times putting the JFK plot on page 30.
Hint: If you're going to destroy America like this, please, destroy yourselves first. We'll be right behind you... we promise... *cough*
Your point is valid - bundling is unnecessary and attempts to eliminate competition. However, your logic is flawed. How will the user download a web browser if there is no web browser to download it with?
Slashdot Politics At Work: 1) Post *half* of the story. Only half. Don't let readers see what you don't want them to see. 2) Deny the existence of partisan spin from obviously partisan sources. 3) Exercise Godwin's Law. 4) GOTO 3
Quote of the Day: "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." -Winston Churchill
What I'd like to know is, why is a nuclear power plant's internal network infrastructure not isolated from the outside world? If they're thinking that this "data storm" came from outside the plant, then that means they have connections to the internet that also connect to their control systems...
Have these designers never heard of DMZ? Proxy servers? *Firewalls*?
If they get in so much trouble just for hosting copyrighted files and pirated software, let's see how far they can get when all the pedophiles begin to peddle their ungodly and just-fucking-sick smut through this new site.
With titles like "Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban" and "Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law", the only FUD being spread seems to emanate from/..
As one reader kindly said before (And was modded a troll for his comment which was nothing of the sort), it's more like the "Anything-we-can-get-our-hands-on" department.
Colin Powell's speech, the "freedom fries" sillyness, the "or else" threats agains France, the threat to bomb Pakistan back into the stone age and several other things for which we can be glad Rumsfeld, Powell and Wolfowitz can no longer do as much damage. In hindsight it really looks like it was a war for an election stunt and was really for the benefit of domestic politics - so it really was "Mission Accomplished". Now how do we clean it up? I never caught on to the whole "Freedom Fries" movement, but what's funny is that during World War I, Sauerkraut was renamed to "Victory Cabbage". But what's sillier is relating this to the government - it's much more of a societal movement than one would think.
In hindsight it really looks like it was a war for an election stunt and was really for the benefit of domestic politics Regardless of Rumsfeld's, Powell's and Wolfowitz's performance, the Administration's actions in the last few years are something that most of the clowns on the other side of the political spectrum can shake a stick at. Clinton (Hillary) has been trying to cover up her authorization votes for the war in preparation for the 2008 elections, and has even gone so far as to introduce legislation that clearly states that its purpose is to nullify that vote. And we all know that Kerry voted for the war before he voted against it.
Remember the whole "100-hour" Congress thing? The purpose of that Democratic plan was to introduce enough legislation within 100 hours to make it look like they were accomplishing something. In perfect hindsight, that may have looked like a good cover-up while the democrats pulled their heads out of their asses, but it did alot more harm than it did good. This was the same for Daylight Savings Time, although it wasn't passed by the "100 Hours" Congress. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the original DST Extension bill with the radical and ignorance-laden claims that extending DST by eight weeks would "shorten the winter, lengthen the summer, and save energy." The bullshit doesn't stop there - Markey also publicly claimed that such a shift would save 100,000 barrels of oil a day, reduce crime, lower traffic fatalities, and increase economic activity (say that with a straight face).
So remember - Republicans may have their share of embarrassments, but Democrats also have plenty of the proverbial blood on their hands.
Actually, anyone who's taken a basic high school history class will realize that the U.N. DOES have military power. The reason why the League of Nations failed post-WWI was due to the fact that there were no fighting forces who could enforce resolutions - that and the US was not a part of it.
However, the UN, contrary to popular belief, does have a coalition of military forces under its command for exactly those reasons. The United States joined what is referred to as the "Coalition of the Willing", a multinational fighting force that invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein and enforced the UN Resolution 1441.
Moral of the story: Gunfire is the universal language of diplomacy.
This would ruin the computing industry. Why? Two simple reasons.
1) AMD is an excellent company with a stellar performance record. There are many OEMs who contract with AMD for processors and ATI graphics. An Apple buyout of AMD would mean that Dell, who has just phased in AMD to their product lines, would no longer want to buy from AMD, because by proxy they'd be purchasing from Apple.
2) Apple is not the type of company to sell individual components such as processors, hard disks and the like for individual use. Whenever you purchase an upgrade from Apple, THEIR "geniuses" have to install and configure it. What does this have to do with AMD? We would essentially see the end of Off-the-Shelf processors from AMD, meaning Intel would take the market in both the PC OEM sector and the Off-the-Shelf white-box market.
Somebody *please* tag this "slownewsday". Worst. Idea. Ever.
1) Lock server room door(s). 2) Jiggle loose a power cord or two on a noncritical server(s). 3) Tinker with some of the installations. 4) Secretly time your staff and watch their methods.
I'd say 5-15 minutes, depending on the severity of your tinkering, is average. If it takes any longer, I advise liberal usage of a tile puller on a few skulls.
Counter-Strike, IMO, is known for rampant hacking and cheating... if they can't keep up security for their own games, why would we expect otherwise of their business practices?
As if that wasn't disheartening enough for the future of tech at war, the real Land Warrior system doesn't even match up to its copycat gear in Ghost Recon 2."
That's completely disappointing, because everyone knows that video games provide an accurate benchmark against which we should develop our technology. *eyeroll*
Any soldier who hates a weapon because it's "not like the video games" shouldn't have traded his PS3 for an M16.
Also, it's premature to blame the law for the lack of guns in the possession of the students. Not only would the law have to be different, we would also need to know if there were any students present who would have been carrying a firearm themselves if it was legal to do so.
Actually, last year there was an incident on the VA Tech campus in which a student, who in this case DID have his concealed carry permit, was disciplined for carrying his sidearm on the VA Tech campus.
And actually, it is perfectly reasonable to blame the law for this - Looking back two years ago, both the Virginia legislature AND the VT governing board voted to keep legal, registered firearms off of their campus. The first occurrence of this was in June of 2005 when the VT governing board passed a "Violence Prevention Policy" that reiterated the ban on students and faculty carrying firearms on campus. Secondly, in 2006, a Virginia legislature subcommittee let HB1572 die before it even hit the floor. HB1572 was a bill that would have allowed students and faculty to carry their legally registered and CWP-permitted sidearms on-campus.
This is without a doubt a sad and tragic moment in American history. I just pray that people will come to realize that guns laws do nothing other than preventing qualified, legal citizens from purchasing weapons in self-defense. All it does is create massive Defenseless Victim Zones for criminals to use for their heinous crimes.
Microsoft: "Want to use Windows? Here, buy this $300 operating system."
Apple: "Want to use Macintosh? Here, buy this $2000 computer that's identical to yours."
I'm sorry, but you really, *really* can't bash Microsoft this time when Apple's been playing a similar game for... well, forever.
On a slightly off-topic note, did anybody catch that latest CrApple advertisement? PC's sitting on a computer cart and mentions that he's off to the IT department because he has errors, to which Mac so truthfully replies (cough...):
"Macs don't get those cryptic error messages." Well, at least he's telling the truth. Macs get error messages more generic than Wal-Mart mac-and-cheese. The last error I got on a Mac literally said "Attempting to copy to the disk "iPod" failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)".
And you think Microsoft sucks?
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I just love how the three UK terror attacks (well, two were *attempted* attacks) have received ABSOLUTELY ZERO coverage on Slashdot, but this small story is front-page news here. God forbid all your theories about the War on Terrorism being a bumpersticker would be *debunked*. Oh NOEZ!
/.. You're right on par with the New York Times putting the JFK plot on page 30.
Way to set your political priorities straight,
Hint: If you're going to destroy America like this, please, destroy yourselves first. We'll be right behind you... we promise... *cough*
Your point is valid - bundling is unnecessary and attempts to eliminate competition. However, your logic is flawed. How will the user download a web browser if there is no web browser to download it with?
Slashdot Politics At Work:
1) Post *half* of the story. Only half. Don't let readers see what you don't want them to see.
2) Deny the existence of partisan spin from obviously partisan sources.
3) Exercise Godwin's Law.
4) GOTO 3
Quote of the Day:
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
-Winston Churchill
Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth": Full of lies and fear-mongering. IFPI's "Inconvenient Truth": Full of lies and fear-mongering.
Only 6 comments in and the page has already been /.ed. Go team!
Does that mean that they're going to stop airing those annoying Fanta commercials?
"WANNA FANTA, DO YOU WANNA, WANNA FANTA?"
"No thanks, I like my genetic identity the way it is."
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15th."
...Because we all know that one small and stupid webcaster speaks for the entire community of independent internet radio/webcaster stations.
Never in my life have I seen somebody say "No thanks, we'll take the bigger fees." They must be new here.
What I'd like to know is, why is a nuclear power plant's internal network infrastructure not isolated from the outside world? If they're thinking that this "data storm" came from outside the plant, then that means they have connections to the internet that also connect to their control systems... Have these designers never heard of DMZ? Proxy servers? *Firewalls*?
If they get in so much trouble just for hosting copyrighted files and pirated software, let's see how far they can get when all the pedophiles begin to peddle their ungodly and just-fucking-sick smut through this new site.
With titles like "Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban" and "Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law", the only FUD being spread seems to emanate from /..
As one reader kindly said before (And was modded a troll for his comment which was nothing of the sort), it's more like the "Anything-we-can-get-our-hands-on" department.
Remember the whole "100-hour" Congress thing? The purpose of that Democratic plan was to introduce enough legislation within 100 hours to make it look like they were accomplishing something. In perfect hindsight, that may have looked like a good cover-up while the democrats pulled their heads out of their asses, but it did alot more harm than it did good. This was the same for Daylight Savings Time, although it wasn't passed by the "100 Hours" Congress. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the original DST Extension bill with the radical and ignorance-laden claims that extending DST by eight weeks would "shorten the winter, lengthen the summer, and save energy." The bullshit doesn't stop there - Markey also publicly claimed that such a shift would save 100,000 barrels of oil a day, reduce crime, lower traffic fatalities, and increase economic activity (say that with a straight face).
So remember - Republicans may have their share of embarrassments, but Democrats also have plenty of the proverbial blood on their hands.
Actually, anyone who's taken a basic high school history class will realize that the U.N. DOES have military power. The reason why the League of Nations failed post-WWI was due to the fact that there were no fighting forces who could enforce resolutions - that and the US was not a part of it.
However, the UN, contrary to popular belief, does have a coalition of military forces under its command for exactly those reasons. The United States joined what is referred to as the "Coalition of the Willing", a multinational fighting force that invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein and enforced the UN Resolution 1441.
Moral of the story: Gunfire is the universal language of diplomacy.
Nonchalantly injecting your political opinion into a totally unrelated discussion: "-1 (Flamebait)"
This would ruin the computing industry. Why? Two simple reasons.
1) AMD is an excellent company with a stellar performance record. There are many OEMs who contract with AMD for processors and ATI graphics. An Apple buyout of AMD would mean that Dell, who has just phased in AMD to their product lines, would no longer want to buy from AMD, because by proxy they'd be purchasing from Apple.
2) Apple is not the type of company to sell individual components such as processors, hard disks and the like for individual use. Whenever you purchase an upgrade from Apple, THEIR "geniuses" have to install and configure it. What does this have to do with AMD? We would essentially see the end of Off-the-Shelf processors from AMD, meaning Intel would take the market in both the PC OEM sector and the Off-the-Shelf white-box market.
Somebody *please* tag this "slownewsday". Worst. Idea. Ever.
1) Lock server room door(s).
2) Jiggle loose a power cord or two on a noncritical server(s).
3) Tinker with some of the installations.
4) Secretly time your staff and watch their methods.
I'd say 5-15 minutes, depending on the severity of your tinkering, is average. If it takes any longer, I advise liberal usage of a tile puller on a few skulls.
...to prove my theory that the "blogosphere" is indeed the asshole of humanity.
...Let me put this in a way you'll understand. sed -e 's/free Iraq/doomed Iraq/' sed -e 's/swift withdrawl/swift surrender/'
Oh, come on. TROLL? I've seen comments like "FUCK DA POLICE!" get modded higher than that one! Metamods, step it up.
Counter-Strike, IMO, is known for rampant hacking and cheating... if they can't keep up security for their own games, why would we expect otherwise of their business practices?
As if that wasn't disheartening enough for the future of tech at war, the real Land Warrior system doesn't even match up to its copycat gear in Ghost Recon 2." That's completely disappointing, because everyone knows that video games provide an accurate benchmark against which we should develop our technology. *eyeroll* Any soldier who hates a weapon because it's "not like the video games" shouldn't have traded his PS3 for an M16.
Also, it's premature to blame the law for the lack of guns in the possession of the students. Not only would the law have to be different, we would also need to know if there were any students present who would have been carrying a firearm themselves if it was legal to do so.
Actually, last year there was an incident on the VA Tech campus in which a student, who in this case DID have his concealed carry permit, was disciplined for carrying his sidearm on the VA Tech campus.
And actually, it is perfectly reasonable to blame the law for this - Looking back two years ago, both the Virginia legislature AND the VT governing board voted to keep legal, registered firearms off of their campus. The first occurrence of this was in June of 2005 when the VT governing board passed a "Violence Prevention Policy" that reiterated the ban on students and faculty carrying firearms on campus. Secondly, in 2006, a Virginia legislature subcommittee let HB1572 die before it even hit the floor. HB1572 was a bill that would have allowed students and faculty to carry their legally registered and CWP-permitted sidearms on-campus.
This is without a doubt a sad and tragic moment in American history. I just pray that people will come to realize that guns laws do nothing other than preventing qualified, legal citizens from purchasing weapons in self-defense. All it does is create massive Defenseless Victim Zones for criminals to use for their heinous crimes.
Microsoft: "Want to use Windows? Here, buy this $300 operating system." Apple: "Want to use Macintosh? Here, buy this $2000 computer that's identical to yours." I'm sorry, but you really, *really* can't bash Microsoft this time when Apple's been playing a similar game for... well, forever. On a slightly off-topic note, did anybody catch that latest CrApple advertisement? PC's sitting on a computer cart and mentions that he's off to the IT department because he has errors, to which Mac so truthfully replies (cough...): "Macs don't get those cryptic error messages." Well, at least he's telling the truth. Macs get error messages more generic than Wal-Mart mac-and-cheese. The last error I got on a Mac literally said "Attempting to copy to the disk "iPod" failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)". And you think Microsoft sucks?
Looks like Kasparov's in Deep Brown. [/corny]
How... the HELL... do you have a +2 score and I have a -1? Especially after ^^that^^.