Not to mention, that with the exception of Al Franken, there was near total silence on that NBC/Comcast abomination.

I can't help wondering if this was related to the RSA SecureID breach(??): http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/07/129217/RSA-Admits-SecurID-Tokens-Have-Been-Compromised The timing is about right.

I just recently used Clonezilla to clone my work XP machine's drive and restored from the clone to verify that it worked. Awesome project if you ask me. That supports ext4 etc. It also makes it trivial to clone to a network share, something that seems to be absurdly difficult with Ghost.

To tell you the truth, I haven't a clue what you mean by that at all. My solution is for people to tell their representatives to go after those who are creating the problem by employing illegal aliens, rather than just just using the issue to fan racist flames while businesses go on benefiting from illegal labor.

This is the heart of the whole problem. I don't "support" illegal immigration...I support attacking the problem at the source...the jobs that create the motivation. The documentary Food Inc has an amazing segment on this. The meat packing industry (once I very good, safe, high paying factory job in the 50's) is sustained by illegal labor. Not only that, immigration conveniently deports the workers that have built up a little seniority.

This is why I HATE the illegal immigration issue so much...a bunch of politicians with no real intension of changing anything using it as a campaign issue because it stirs up all sorts of great racial hatred and gets people riled...all the while being basically on the payroll of companies that thrive on this modern day slave labor. What a crock of shit...yet voters keep falling for it election after election. Build the dang fence my fucking ass....

...exactly...it was MS doing something nobody wanted in order to make the case to regulators that their browser was an "integral" part of the OS. Seriously...are browser developers the only ones who haven't figured this out?? Given that they're also the only people with any interest in launching other applications within the browser, I'd say so.

Well written maybe, but the comparison is ridiculous. Of course it's expensive to keep people in prison. I mean they live there with access to nothing else. Is he suggesting, for example, that we don't provide health care for inmates? If he wants to gripe about prisons and money, complain about the fact that 2/3 of all that money is for people in prison on bullshit drug changes...there's your biggest waste of money.

I agree that anyone with much sense realized a long time ago that smoking is dangerous. My big gripe is the decades (up to very recently) the tobacco industry spent denying how incredibly additive nicotine is. While most everyone known the dangers of smoking, nobody starts that "occasional" grubbing of cigarettes at the bar with the intension of becoming a life long smoker.

I started having "occasional" cigarettes at age 18. After literally a few weeks I realized it was becoming a bit too regular of a thing and decided I should stop. I did...15 years later (25 years ago).

The fact is that cigarettes are as addictive as cocaine, and I'll bet there's still a large portion of the population that doesn't know that. As far as I'm concerned that bit of deception is something the whole fucking industry can rot in hell for.

OK, this is totally OT, but I don't know where else to post it. I posted this several months ago and a lot of people reported the same issue, and nothing has changed.

I get no score in any subject starting at (as far as I can tell) a level 3 post or greater. In addition, everything in any such posts has double line breaks between every post.

It sucks, plain and simple. I'm running Firefox 3.6.16 under Gentoo. So what's up?...is Firefox broken or slashdot???

Tom

Believe it or not, I'm still regularly using a Protools MixPlus studio built around a PowerMac 9600/350. It's been working flawlessly running the same OS 9.0.4 I installed when I built the studio 11 years ago. That computer is built like a tank, and yea, the case is like opening up luggage.

I can't seem to find any reference to it, but I was sure there was some sort of public vote/referendum regarding the funding for that project. Anyone else remember that?

Forgive the OT post, but I'm not sure where else to ask this. I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 under Linux (Gentoo) and for a few weeks now, a lot of comment posts (including this one of mine and it's parent), but not all, don't show the score after the subject and show all the comment text double spaced...it's been driving me nuts. Anyone else seeing this? I'm getting this on two different machines.

I still own a (very old) Protools Mix Plus system that has POW-R 24 bit to 16 bit dithering built in. I can tell you first hand that I'd flunk a blind test trying to differentiate the post dithering 16 bit version from the original 24 bit versions of anything I've recorded. I'm sure that, at least with certain material, some could tell, but as the parent post pointed out, with modern day squashed-to-death stuff nobody could.

Agreed...since when is this new? This was my understanding years ago when I first started looking into Bru-Ray via component (because my TV has only one DVI input, currently being used for my MythTV frontend)...that the producers could opt to output low-res to non-HDCP outputs. That's why I never bought one. In fact it pissed me off enough that I vowed that no Blu-Ray player will ever darken my doorstep even if I have 10 HDMI inputs...fuck them and the whole fucking standard.

Indeed..in fact the situation described in TFA barely warrants "tits on a bull" status...