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2003/9/13 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:10179 Activity:low |
9/12 California to give free college to illegals http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981662/posts \_ This is nothing next to the mass voter fraud that's going to occur with the driver's license bill. Remember the Motor Voter law? That means every illegal will get voter registration papers BY LAW when they get their driver's license from the DMV. Once you've got those papers, there's no further check stopping an illegal alien from voting in both CA and Federal elections. When the pendulum swings back, the backlash to destroying the value and meaning of citizenship is going to knock your socks off. \_ Until the early/mid 90's, illegals *had* drivers licenses, and your cataclysmic apocalyptic destruction of all that is good and conservative didn't happen. \_ not that I necessarily agree with PP, but the motor-voter law didn't exist when illegals had drivers licenses. \_ Hope you are right... somehow I'm not so sure. |
2003/9/13 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:10180 Activity:nil |
9/12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1041212,00.html This is pretty messed up. Do you think the US soldiers were duped into firing at the police? \_ What we need to do is require that every Iraqi citizen carry a loaded firearm. That's the magic way to end all violence! \_ Pretty much, yes, it is. \_ Yes, because everyone who has a gun would act responsibly, and people with issues would never escalate them to "hey, I'll just shoot the ho, just to let her know" since they'd be required to always carry a gun. |
2003/9/13 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:10181 Activity:nil |
9/12 Really cute case mods. http://csua.org/u/4av |
2003/9/13 [Finance/Investment] UID:10182 Activity:nil 50%like:29537 |
9/12 http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/gallery/content2.html $200 GWBush currency |
2003/9/13-15 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:10183 Activity:nil |
9/13 Which online photo sharing websites do you guys prefer? \_ shutterfly. -tom \_ http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~login \_ snapfish. \_ Decide what you need. Here's the service summary on the 3 major sites: snapfish: uses Kodak paper and machines, lowest prices, but ships from east coast so it takes a little longer to get prints sent here, maybe an extra 2-3 days. ofoto: owned by kodak but uses fuji equipment, etc. slightly more expensive but you'll get your pics a day or two sooner because they're printing locally, shutterfly: same idea as ofoto except they're still a dotcom and dont have large company backing them so they have to charge more and they could go under and take your pictures with them at any time. i believe they use a variety of smaller development firms, thus the higher prices since they don't get the same kind of bulk rates snapfish and ofoto can. If you're not printing and only want the free online storage and the ability to share, it doesn't really matter. Bits are bits, yes? \_ ofoto requires your visitors to log on to view your pictures, so it does really matter. -tom \_ if they didn't then deep linking directly to photos would allow rampant abuse of storage and bandwidth for non-customer uses. It isn't 1998 anymore. They need to control costs and make profit or die. \_ that is easy enough to prevent without making someone need to have an account. Just check the referal. \_ See my comment about 1998. If they can get you to sign up, you're more likely to continue using the service. If you won't signup, what do they need you for anyway? \_ I'm just pointing out that your first argument was flawed. As to the second, well, there are two options I can go with that don't require a visitor to sign in. All other things being equal guess which choice is better? \_ We have a different idea of what constitutes abuse. To me if you're not a paying customer or bringing in other paying customers yet you're sucking bandwidth and storage, you're useless to the company. True, it's only really abuse if they allow it to happen and in this case they're not. Additionally, they're taking steps to try to get more paying customers which is a good thing for any business. We're splitting hairs at this point. Since the accounts are free, it's all pretty much the same in that regard. There's probably a csuamotd/csuamotd account on all three already. :-) \_ no, because if I'm using the service I'm also probably paying for prints and the like. The point is by making people need to log in to see my pictures I'm going to go with one of the other two and when I want to get prints I'll get them from the company where I've put my photos. Bandwidth and storage is still pretty damn cheap compared to other costs and it is pretty easy to catch the serious abuses. (Say just give every use a dl/day limit). |
2003/9/13 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:10184 Activity:nil 71%like:10188 |
9/13 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3106488.stm I love this. There is no incentive for Iran to cooperate. As even if nothing was found, it would get invaded anyway. |
2003/9/13-15 [Consumer/TV] UID:10185 Activity:nil |
9/13 Anybody here have hacked dish networks? The motd archives suggest there are people who have hacked directv. I've been searching around and it does seem like there's more info on hacking directv than dish network. Any info you have would be nice. thanks. \_ most of the information out there have a blind guy feeling up an elephant feel. http://www.m24c.net/Information/Howto.htm seems somewhat up to date and not too misleading as a place to start. if you're lazy about building your own hw (as i was), http://www.dishtesting.com is trustworthy. start. |
2003/9/13-15 [Uncategorized] UID:10186 Activity:nil |
9/13 Are CS courses at Cal still overcrowded? I would like to take a couple of courses that I didn't take during my stay at Cal (e.g., cs186, cs169). |
2003/9/13 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Pets] UID:29537 Activity:nil 50%like:10182 |
9/12 http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/gallery/content2.html |