Journal TechnoLust's Journal: Putting blinder's money to good use. 10
Hide Laws in other laws much? (Score:1)
by TechnoLust (528463) on 09:00 AM -- Monday October 15 2001 (#2430471)
The article implies that the gambling part was embedded in a different law. According to Wired, Rep. Michael Castle (R-Delaware) "unsuccessfully tried to remove the language through an amendment."
There are two things that I see wrong with this.
1) If they take away all our freedom in order to "protect" us from terrorism, then the terrorists have already won, there will be nothing left to protect.
2) Every law should have to be voted on seperatly. No more of this "bundling" of special interest laws with legit stuff. I.E. Setting off nuclear weapons on the steps of the Capitol is a felony, and, oh yeah, you can't use your credit cards to play roulette in your underwear. If you don't vote for this bill, you are pro-terrorism, and No, we can't take the gambling part out.
There you go!
do ME! do ME! (Score:2)
GNU-free Linux? (Score:1)
by ryanr (30917) on 13:35 25th March, 1999 (#1962805)
(Last Journal: 16:07 30th November, 2004)
I'm no one in particular, just another Linux user. I take offense to RMS's insistence that it be called GNU Linux. I don't think this has to do with whether he's asking fair credit for his team or not, but rather the way he handled it.
How rude, to stop to correct someone in the middle of a Q&A session in front of everyone to
Dang it (Score:2)
My first post (lame, mal-formatted)
How about guidlines for starting/contributing? (Score:1)
by nizo (81281) on Tuesday June 20, @11:21AM (#990445)
( http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday December 14, @05:36PM )
Any faqs or guidlines of starting your own project
or contributing to ongoing ones?
Dang, all the way back in June of 2000. I read slashdot way be
Sometimes it sucks being 'old school' (Score:2)
The oldest comment slashdot has me on record for (apparently the first couple years of 'login' posts are also gone into ether) is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15762&cid=204
Some stupid crap about Shadowrun.
I warned ya'll I was a geek.
Re:Sometimes it sucks being 'old school' (Score:2)
Me too. I held off getting a login for ages, hence my comparatively high ID. Should have just gone for it when they were first announced, to get that 1 or 2 digit ID for extra geek credibility :-)
apparently the first couple years of 'login' posts are also gone into ether
Yep. My earliest archived post [slashdot.org] is from Jan 1999, about the relative sizes of UK ISPs, and AOL's claims to be the largest...
Posts (Score:2)
This is your... (Score:1)
My first (Score:1)
Re:Whole world a village? (Score:1)
by johndiii (229824) on 04:45 AM -- Friday September 15 2000 (#777526)
(Last Journal: 11:31 AM -- Tuesday December 14 2004)
But is this a good thing?
The net has enabled communication to an unprecedented degree. The same effect that allows you to look up directions to any address also allows pedophiles and hate groups to gather in virtual communities. These "negative" groups are tightly knit, due to strongly held beliefs and social pressure. In his BuSab fut
Hmmm... I distinctly remember... (Score:1)
Start page... (Score:1)
by N473 (183700) on 9:59 22nd August, 2000 (#837922)
(Last Journal: 0:26 15th December, 2004)
save the following as kmeleon.reg:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\K-Meleon\K-Meleon\S e tt ings]
"BackgroundImage"=dword:00000001
"StartPag e"="http://n473.com"
of course you c
Frist P0st! (Score:2)
As my first post using this account was really nothing of interest, i'll post my first -1 post instead:
Re:It would be MUCH better... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by daniil (775990) > on Fri May 14, '04 12:33 PM (#9149298)
( Last Journal: Thu Dec 30, '04 01:39 AM )
rubbish. no matter how educated the people forming it may be, a mass is a mass. take, let's say, a thousand liberal arts graduates to a football match and see whether they will act differently than the rest of the crowd
Late in the game (Score:1)
by jawtheshark (198669) on 18:47 1st January, 2000 ( #1421678 [slashdot.org])
Yes, the only streaming-video I saw sonline was news, and that makes sense since the video quality of news is more or less irrelevant: sound is much more important.
Now, think a moment about it, why would you want to watch a full movie on a computer screen. I don't know but I prefer a 37" 16:9 TV screen over a 19" (21" if you're lucky) to watch anything...Call me old-fashioned, but I think a lot of people think like m