Exactly, I wonder if Apple realizes that there are problems with its software/hardware as well, so far my guess would be no. All i ever hear from apple people is how everything "Just Works".

yea well it don't. "Just Work" and if they don't start fixing their problems soon they are gonna be in the same boat as Microsoft is now

As I suspected, another feeble attempt to divert everyones attention from the real fact that SLASHDOT is the biggest threat to our privacy!

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slashdot: it haunts your dreams...

Wow if you hadn't mentioned Wisconsin in your post I would have assumed you were talking about California because we have exactly the same thing happening here (yeah I know Schwarzenegger is technically a republican but he acts like a democrat)

I too am glad that we got rid of that moron in the white house, but it's unfortunate that he screwed it up so bad that most of his fellow party members can't even win at the local level

This is exactly why I think political parties are worthless.

this is really cool, don't get me wrong, but is size the most important thing now? so what if we can get 250 DVD's into a square inch, what if there are only 10 DVD's worth watching in the first place?

All kidding aside though, i wonder more about how fast i can get my data than about how small it is physically. Think about it, do you really want to carry around your entire cd/movie collection everywhere you go? what if you loose it or it gets stolen? I'd rather have a gigantic drive attached to my server at home where i can have it backed up consistently and have it secured, then just access the info via the net. what i need is bandwidth, thats the problem.

Ok i am probably going to show my ignorance here, almost certainly, but it seems to me that this is a good thing, isn't it? Don't we want to have a secure DNS system? Or is it the case that securing the system will somehow limit our freedom or something like that?

Yes i know this is a very generic question but i would like to know

All i can say to that is, i grew up extremely dirt poor living most of the time in an industrial space and sleeping on shelf in my dads workshop, and coincidentally we didn't have a TV for most of my life. amazingly enough i grew up to be very smart and figured out how to be successfull. I don't think its a coincidence that i had no TV, rather i think its the CAUSE of my success. Yes i have the luxury of being lazy now because i didn't have the luxury of TV when i was young.

And to answer your first question, No you don't have a real job if all you are doing is flipping burgers, if you are fool enough to think that you can survive your whole life with that kind of mentality then i feel sorry for you. And yes i have taken a job away from another "lazy" person, but every 40 year old, career burger flipper has also taken away a job from the young enterprising teen who should be doing that job to pay his way through college.

TV is a distraction from reality and NOT a necessity.

Seriously, we've got more important things to worry about in this country that weather people can watch their soaps on channel 4. Why are we wasting money on this.

Here's a wake up call to all those who are watching regular TV and can't afford to get a box. Perhaps they should stop watching so much TV and get a real job

Having been involved in the music industry for many years, and watching first hand from the inside as major retailers like Tower Records have fallen almost directly as a result of pirates. I will say one thing that has happened as a side affect that is a good thing. It's forced musicians to actually write good music.

Five years ago I had all but given up on new music, every single band that came out seemed to be just another corporate generated cookie cutter band. But now that the major source of income for new bands has switched from selling CD's to actually playing shows and selling merchandise, they have been forced to actually write good music, and be better musicians. (in my opinion at least)

Does anyone else notice this?

and they do:

Click here to read an article about the software used for air traffic

you may see this as proof of your point, but ask yourself this question, why aren't they using macs?

So what you're saying is that microsoft should be all knowing and be able to predict every possible permutation of security hole before ever releasing software, and if they don't do this then they should be held liable?

Imagine if we had that same standard for cars. now everyone who has ever died because they bought a car 60 years ago without airbags can sue because the company should have thought of that before selling the cars. This is obviously rediculus. The fact is no one ever said Windows was perfect and infallable and it NEVER will be.

Now, imagine also that microsoft actually finds a defect in their software (which i'm sure happens all the time) I guess you think they should just take out a big add in the paper saying "Heres how to get past our gaping security hole!" or more to the point "Hey hackers, have fun with this one while we twiddle our thumbs not fixing it", Not.

WTF? how did Jews get into this conversation?

and when did Jews become Vampires?

- uh oh, is that blood I smell? I must suck ze blood from ze internets now. I am zo thirzty. BLOOOD

- Jew for net neutrality

regarding everything you said, i agree. and i am not just posting this to hear the sound of my own voice (or keyboard as it were)

It just occurred to me though that there should be a way to only view the positive modded posts, this way you wouldn't have to wade through all the stupid comments that people make and you would only see the posts that someone else actaully thought were good.

or even better, what if you could chose to read all the +1 Funny or all the +1 interesting (or whatever other types of mods there are) as separate threads

um yeah, thats about as much of this thought as i can get out right now in my hungover state of mind

Oh and one last though regarding the anonymous crapflood post, For all the time you wasted writing that post had you ever stopped to think "Hey what can i do to fix these problems" My guess would be no, all you wanted to do is whine and complain about the system. You sir are worthless.

Everything you say here does make sense, however i can think of alternate explanations as well, and you are correct I don't really know. i say however that it takes just as much "belief" and "faith" to believe in a god like being as it does to be an athiest. It's just another choice that we must make because we could spend the rest of our lives pondering the question.

perhaps it is the case that for whatever reason evolution has favored those who do believe in a god. maybe it's becuase they can more successfully get on with their lives and the more important task of reproduction

Getting back to the subject of this story though, i do believe that this is in fact life. i think the only logical next step is to have various teams of scientists come up with their own self-replicating RNA and have them fight , then we can all start placing bets on which strands will win!

The answer to your first question is yes

the second question is obvious, your communication device (you're brain/body) is broken therefore the message is screwed up

And the buck cannot stop with the brain because every action has to have a reaction (and vice versa). I'm surprised however that no-one told me this in answer to my question "Who told my brain to tell my thumbs to move? You did!" This is a valid answer but then you trace it back to what told me to tell you to tell your brain etc... you see that this eventually has to trace back to something that just happened spontaneously, however spontaneous action is not something that jives well with the laws of the physical universe, this is why i say that somewhere along the line something (if you want to call it metaphysical) but something like a god perhaps had to either make the first move (outside the laws of our universe) or is perhaps still making moves. i'm guessing the latter