> Why is this in the "your rights online" section? It has nothing to do with rights.
Of course it does. If you will scroll back, you will see all kinds of posts discussing why, and why not, the modem hacker had or had no right to do as he did.
That was a joke. A line from "Office Space". You should check it out. It's hilarious.
I saw those vids. And they are informative, and every American should watch them.
The "NEVER say anything to the cops" thing is a little oversimplified, though. E.g.: If someone shoots my mom, you can be DAMNED sure I'm going to talk to them.
> She'll have trouble getting a job due to the conviction for the rest of her life.
With good reason. I, for one, certainly would not want to hire anyone dumb enough to calls the cops on themselves.
Agreed.
I don't understand what is the damned rush to get the votes tallied up and a winner announced the night of the election. I say, take your time, get a bunch of little old ladies to count them up, and so what if the results come in the next day, or even the next week?
> Dude I live in a developing country, and contrary to popular (Western) belief, we have decent security, health care, food, shelter, clean drinking water and quite good infrastructure in general.
OK, so why is your country still "developing" then. Sounds like you've got it made. Security, health care, food, shelter, etc. etc. Not sure what you are lacking, in other words.
Two words: "Google calculator"
Entering "36 * 28 millimeters in light years" in Google returns "36 * 28 millimeters = 1.0654796 × 10-16 light years"
Fascinating.
> Card counting is illegal?
From the, second sentence of the summary: "Card counting is perfectly legal."
This place is getting more and more like the comment boards on the newspapers. Noise to signal ratio rising by the minute.
The article in question is not saying email is dying. In fact, it says email usage is growing:
> Little wonder that while email continues to grow, other types of communication services are growing far faster.
No, not "dying". Just perhaps not peoples first choice for today's on-line communications.
> Hell, until a couple of years ago Dell would even use non-standard pseudo-ATX PSUs... had the standard motherboard connector, but with the pins rearranged so that it might actually fry a non-Dell mobo. Evil.
Yep. I got burned by that issue. Power supply went out on my Dell, I went and got an off-the-shelf power supply. Same connector, but when I powered it up... nothing but the smell of ozone, and it fried something, because it never did work again.
I needed a new machine fast, so I found a happy medium. Got a Velocity Micro box from Best Buy. Velocity specializes in high-end rigs, but sells mid-range machines to Best Buy. They use nothing but "off the shelf" quality parts, and the end result is a very nice machine with easily upgradable/replacable parts that has most of the benefits of a custom built rig without having to do it yourself. Beautiful aluminum case with a window on the side, blue illumination inside, and although the cabling is not fine art, it approaches origami for just slightly more than the Dells and such.
And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
