Comment Re: Dammit (Score 1) 464
Why do you hate Depressed Mood so much?
Comment Self-promotion? (Score 1) 285
Anyone else notice that this is submitted by its creator?
Umm...Slashdot is now open to the highest bidder?
Maybe the editors need to vet the submissions better.
Comment Re:OF course...you are simple-minded (Score 1) 290
You think that only the Asians take anyone's ideas and sell them illegally???
Might want to research intermittent wipers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
Comment Not this one...it's successor (Score 1) 32
I'm waiting for the newer model.
It'z da Reggae Telescope, mon!
Comment Re:Won't work in LA (Score 1) 210
Only a nobody walks in L.A.
Comment Re:goes against basic ad psychology (Score 1) 450
So you're saying that this is more like rape than like seduction?
Now, now, now...You said you liked it last time...
Comment Re:Wouldn't it be against the rules anyways? (Score 1) 390
I don't even necessarily think Wikileaks did the right thing, but when I read this:
Even if it is made public, it has to be declassified under proper authority to legally be declassified. And if it still has valid security implications, it can remain classified. Which means certain people can't legally discuss it, much less process it on their non-classified machinery, while others will openly discuss it.
Leaving in the names of people who are still in danger is a clear violation of law even when properly declassifying information.
If I get you right, you are quoting LEGAL language, not MORAL language
At any rate, none of this information has been declassified by the proper authority, so all of it is still legally considered classified, and anyone accessing it is liable to be charged with a crime.
Which brings up the simple question of moral relativism.
I agree. but not for Wikileaks, because...
Well, we all do, in the end, but for some of us the blood comes with moral authority and a lack of criminal guilt.
You, my friend have just equated morality with legality, and that is why, for the most part, our government has lost all standing to criticize or prosecute Wikileaks. The fact that you have been indoctrinated this much is why Jefferson is probably turning over in his grave.
Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 236
Umm...why you picking on conservatives?
Comment Re:it's all relative (Score 1) 427
Thank you for confirming what I always thought about Linux users as well-nothing but a bunch of freeloaders. You bitch and bitch but you do *NOTHING*. Bug reports are one thing, but instead of giving useful info the parent just says "How wonderful OSX is!!! We should all complain about Windoze!!! And Linux!!!" ALSA and OSS get better by *contributions* to the code base. Get on the mailing list. Talk to the maintainers. I'm hearing all kinds of useful information about problems from many in this discussion, but the parent goes on a rant about how he'd like to claim that his audio project was created on Linux. He has all this *expertise* about what he finds wanting. My view is that he's comparing apples and oranges. Using Apple's operating system is just like using Windows. You get drivers you *pay* for because there are people willing to pay for it. Many here forget that 4Front Technologies also offers driver development for payment. "But audio drivers ought to be FREEEE!!!" Well, you get what you pay for. I helped get my laptop supported by reading the tech specs from Intel and IDT and read the ALSA source to get mine to work, not to mention I'm on the mailing list-they are *very* helpful there. The parent (and YOU) contribute nothing! Yet you complain. I *am* reading the complaints here about mixing problems and sound quality and pulseaudio issues. Yet you cuss me out. And the parent says "How wonderful OSX is!!!" Then *stay* there. We'll get to the top with or without the likes of either of you. But if we fail, it won't be because we didn't try. Stay away, we don't need either of you. Oh, and by the way, these issues are discussed on the mailing list almost every day.
Comment Re:it's all relative (Score 1) 427
I'm sorry you have to boot into your monochromatic machine's native operating system...After all, ALSA only tries to work with a bajillion different sound cards instead of just the one or two that OSX has to deal with natively. Even if you have a third party sound card, and I'll bet it's one of the better supported ones since you do audio work, the fact is that since a software company will make money off of you for ProTools you won't have to cobble together a sound driver yourself. Let's see you program a sound driver for ALSA *OR* OSS and then I'll listen to you complain. I've worked with the ALSA source code myself and it works well enough for a VOLUNTEER EFFORT!!! Convince a major music software publisher to create a Linux version (and promote it, and at least attempt to sell it) and we'll get professional sound drivers written by the card manufacturers instead of the (often miraculous, since we don't always have specs) amateur ones we get for free.
Comment Re:3 years? Pfffft. (Score 2, Informative) 294
Easy, just download the SP2 file and the SP3 iso from Microsoft and burn them to CDs. Disconnect the computer from the net and after XP SP1 install, just run the SP2 and SP3 updates. I recently did it. Anyone else can.
Comment Re:Why is this news? (Score 1) 205
Sony Executive No. 1: "Let's send out *millions* of Blu-Ray DVDs to all the Wal-Marts in America even though we haven't made our first Blu-Ray player! We'll be rich!!!"
Sony Executive No. 2: "Brilliant!!!"
Comment Re:wrong name (Score 1) 241
Then we would have the enterprise-level feature (H)igh (A)vailability and (R)esource (D)istributed (S)cheduler *HARDS*.
That acronym makes no sense *whatsoever*, not like the original summary...
Submission + - Google Execs Spared Extradition To Thailand
DonZorro writes: Apparently Google execs know the fear of extradition, Thailand has an extradition treaty with the US for criminal offences. TechTree reports the near closure of a month long battle between Thai authorities trying to enforce lese majeste laws via the criminal justice system. The Register reports another lawsuit by the English Football Association to enforce copyright laws.
There is great contrast in laws that value copyright (the right of the publisher to copy an artist's work) and laws that value respect (Thai people hold their King in high regard). Also, laws that value privacy would presumably prevent Thai police from obtaining the ip address of the insulting videos Bangkok Post
There is great contrast in laws that value copyright (the right of the publisher to copy an artist's work) and laws that value respect (Thai people hold their King in high regard). Also, laws that value privacy would presumably prevent Thai police from obtaining the ip address of the insulting videos Bangkok Post
Disney - Blu-ray's Fair Weather Friend 138
An anonymous reader writes "One day they're out, the next day they're in. Back in March, Disney CEO Bob Iger seemed to indicate that his company (which has exclusively backed Blu-ray since the start of the high-def format war) was on the verge of supporting *both* high-def formats. What a difference a couple of months of good press for Blu-ray makes: this week, the CEO reversed his earlier position, saying 'the single greatest thing we can do right now is to not waffle, but to be very, very blunt about it, (and) to continue our support of Blu-ray because we sense a real advantage.'"
