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Comment Re:I'm Confused... (Score 4, Informative) 415

  • "Apple Claims Jailbreaking will Destroy Cell Towers" - ZDNet
  • "Apple: Jailbreaking encourages cell tower terrorism, 'catastrophic results'" - Engadget
  • "Apple also claimed that jailbreaking would pave the way for hackers to alter the Exclusive Chip Identification number that identified the phone to the cell tower, which could enable calls to be made anonymously. Apple said “this would be desirable to drug dealers.”"Wired - Threat Level

Do I need to continue? Or is the reality distortion field still in effect?

Comment Re:Best use of the Kindle (Score 1) 715

ummm...

The legality of a specific action is determined prior to you doing the act. You are only LEGALLY GUILTY of doing something illegal if you are convicted but not being convicted doesn't make you innocent. Actual guilt or innocence is determined by your actions not a jury of your peers.

The legality of any action is determined by the elected officials

With all of that said, I wouldn't find any problem with downloading the e-book after purchasing a legitimate copy of the work. To me that constitutes fair use.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Atheism vs. Christianity

The battle for the public schools continues. In the blue corner holding origin of species we have the Atheists; and in the red corner holding the Bible we have the Christians. The current title holders within the public schools are the Atheists. They have skillfully kicked God out of public schools and are working on kicking Him out of all public areas in the United States. Apparently judges have not noticed the phrase between the prohibition against the establishment of an official relig

User Journal

Journal Journal: Abuse of moderation

Take a look at these posts:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275722
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275536
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275425

User Journal

Journal Journal: What is the Profanity Blacklist?

The Profanity Blacklist is a way to avoid, at least partially, profanity and vulgarity on Slashdot. To use it, mark Profanity Blacklist as a friend and in your profile set "Foe of Friend" to a negative number. This will lower the score of posts of users that have posted with profanity or vulgarity.

Republicans

Journal Journal: How to balance the budget and pay off the debt

This is a very easy plan on how to pay off the national debt and balance the budget. It is quite easy to grasp.

Let's say you borrow $100 from a friend. He asks you to pay back $15 over the next 10 years. At the end of the ten years, your debt will be paid off. If you only make enough money to handle all of your expenses, plus sum to pay off the money your owe on your debt, then after ten years, the debt will be paid. Simple, huh?

Republicans

Journal Journal: Prediction: Bush win

Bush has been climbing in the polls, despite the intense pressure the democrats have been exerting since last year. What is the secret of his success? Why is he doing so well despite such a coordinated effort to tarnish his record?

Quite simply, the democrats do more to drive the republicans than the republicans do. More than one republican has told me that they are voting for Bush not only because he is a good guy, but because the democrats have to be stopped.

Democrats

Journal Journal: Fun with the Left

The latest article about the Rather scandal have all but ferretted out the last of the loony left. My favorite conspiracy theory: that Karl Rove masterminded the entire event. I have this picture burned into my mind of Karl Rove typing furiously on his computer. He calls out to Dick Cheney, "Hey, does this look fake enough? Or should I use the Times New Roman font?" Cheney responds, "Times New Roman. And here, let me sign the thing. My handwriting is terrible."

Republicans

Journal Journal: Using the Moderating System

If you want to get your posts modded higher, and as a group of conservatives, get your rational viewpoint out there, try these tips.

(1) Go fishing. Post several different ideas in a single post that are all good. Each idea will appeal to different moderators. Your post will be carried upward.

Databases

Journal Journal: Relational Database - What does that Mean?

I posted a comment that said that humans think more like a relational database than a hierchical one. (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120762&cid=10169159). I think enough people don't understand what a database is, nonetheless a hierchical or relational one.

A database is a store of information. Everything you put some data in and then retrieve later on is a database. Your filesystem is a database. The internet is a database. Even memory can be considered database.

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