Lets ban children from watching, listening to, or reading the news. There are all kinds of accounts of anti-social behaviors contained in the news. Shouldn't we be "protecting the children" from that too? Or from reading the bible.
Violence:
"And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel." (Judges 19:29)
"Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David's hand. Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it." (1 Samuel 17:50-51)
"And I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire." (Ezekiel 23:25)
"And when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its environs, from two years old and under...." (Matthew 2:16) Suicide:
"Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
"And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him." (I Samuel 31:4-5) Sex:
"Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, as a long hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times." (Proverbs 5:18-19)
"Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I said, 'I will climb the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit stalks.' Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine and the fragrance of your breath like apples." (Song of Solomon 7:7-8)
"Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, 'Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' And David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, and said, 'I am pregnant.'" (2 Samuel 11:1-5) Incest:
"And Lot went up to Zo'ar, and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zo'ar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
"And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
"And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
"And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Still, I think Mono will become a more popular platform for web development. And the minute it starts to hurt the monopoly, Microsoft will pull out some patents and start with lawsuits.
Shareholders should sue. How did this company IPO before anyone noticed or said anything about the patents? Vonage had to know about this stuff and chose to ignore it. The patent system is a total mess. It's near impossible to do anything without infringing on patents, and it's very difficult to even find out which patents you're infringing on.
Okay, so reform is needed. But what's the solution, though? Is it legislation-based? Is it market-based? We have to make sure the solution doesn't fuck us over more than the problem it's trying to solve. It's legislation-based: software should be made unpatentable. As long as software patents exist there will be patent trolls and other abuse. Any other legislation will simply fuck things up even more.
I despise unskipable ads on DVDs. There is a workaround, though. While the ads are playing hit the menu button. It should take you straight to the dvd menu, this is what I've been doing with rentals since that scummy tactic started.
You could have just installed VMWare Server and then run XP in a virtual machine. It's free. Unless you're trying to run games or other intensive apps it works great. I use it under Linux to run XP for a few programs I need for work.
When I originally saw it being advertised as a show I didn't watch it. Mainly for one reason: It was on FOX, so I assumed it'd get canceled.
When SciFi started playing the rereuns before Serenity was in theaters, though, I gave it chance. After seeing one episode I was hooked. The show is great, so is Serenity. Watch or buy the series and movie. They're very good. It's a real shame the show was on FOX, if it was on any other network I'm sure it'd still be putting out good episodes.
For my money and they get it. eMusic is doing a fine job of widening the range of available artists, and in the new business model, the costs of doing so are marginal and the potential profits high. eMusic is very good. I have an account with them and get all kinds of good music every month. However, I do have one issue with their pricing model: It's based around songs. I don't buy songs, I buy albums. Often I end up having to wait until the next month to download the rest of an album. It would rock if they would offer something like "5 albums a month" as an option instead of "50 songs a month".
MySpace really needs to provide image hosting for their (l)users. I've had people hotlink images from my site to their MySpace pages. Before I blocked that ability, I would change those images to goatse.
I use Eclipse heavily under both Linux and OS X. Does Textmate do anything that Eclipse can't? I do tons of Java, PHP, and Perl development and Eclipse simply rocks for that.
Take it from a Vista user -- it's pretty... Every other change I can think of: pretty. This is obviously subjective, but then again, you're full of shit, and subjective trumps full of shit. Vista is pretty by comparison to XP. But it's rather ugly compared to OS X Tiger or Ubuntu's Gnome.
Yet I grew up on broadcast popular music, and much of that comes from the big labels. I do not pirate music, so what choice do you really have to get it and be legal ? Buy used. There are probably used cd stores near you, and they're always Amazon and Ebay.
From the description it seems like an alternative Mozilla's XUL except that it ties in Flash and probably opens up a way for a BSA audit (see my other post).
13. Compliance with Licenses. If you are a business or organization, you agree that upon request from Adobe or Adobe's authorized representative*, you will within thirty (30) days fully document and certify that use of any and all Software at the time of the request is in conformity with your valid licenses from Adobe.
Thunderbird Outlook and in some cases, *nothing* I agree that Thunderbird+Lightning doesn't even come near Outlook. The people who keep claiming it have obviously never used Outlook.
Outlook for calendaring, contact management, etc. Evolution. Though, they really need to fix it's pathetic IMAP support (crashes fairly regularly while using IMAP, POP3 support is solid). It's been my client for over three years now. Mainly I connect to a few POP3 servers and the Scalix server at work.
When Linux has a drop-in replacement for Outlook that connects to Exchange Servers and can handle PSTs, they'll have the killer app needed to crush Office. Sure. That will happen the same day that OpenOffice supports MS Office formats 100%. That is, never. Exchange and the MS Office files are proprietary. The best you can hope for is for it to mostly work, and expect a "security" patch to break any new compatibility.
What everyone should do is dump Exchange. Scalix does an good job, has an excellent web client, is affordable, and integrates perfectly with Outlook and Evolution (with a plugin for both).
Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process went smoothly. You've used Windows too much. ext2/ext3 do not need defragging. If you insist of defragging, then use XFS and run xfs_fsr to defrag.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. You need to get a lawyer that has decent reading comprehension. You only have to distribute the source if you distribute the binaries outside of the organization.
It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. GNU General Public License.
Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. The GPL is only a distribution license, not an EULA. If you don't distribute it outside of the organization it doesn't apply.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable. You seriously need lawyers that can read. Take a look at OS X. It's compiled with GCC and it's not GPL.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. Read the full text of the GPL. Read the full text of the Windows XP EULA and the EULAs on all of the updates you have to apply to not get 0wn3d. Which is draconian? Hint, it's not the GPL.
Check Peacefire. Every week or so on the mailing list they announce a new web-based proxy. The current one is StupidCensorship.com. The code is available so you can run your own "proxy."
Still, your employer probably keeps logs. If you really must visit sites that you don't want your employer to know about (ie, jobsearch), do it sparingly or just wait until you get home. You could also set up OpenVPN and run that over a proxy server and browse from your home network.
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Violence: "And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel." (Judges 19:29)
"Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David's hand. Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it." (1 Samuel 17:50-51)
"And I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire." (Ezekiel 23:25)
"And when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its environs, from two years old and under...." (Matthew 2:16) Suicide: "Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
"And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him." (I Samuel 31:4-5) Sex: "Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, as a long hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times." (Proverbs 5:18-19)
"Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I said, 'I will climb the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit stalks.' Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine and the fragrance of your breath like apples." (Song of Solomon 7:7-8)
"Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, 'Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' And David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, and said, 'I am pregnant.'" (2 Samuel 11:1-5) Incest: "And Lot went up to Zo'ar, and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zo'ar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
"And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
"And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
"And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
"Thus were both daughters of Lot with child by their father." (Genesis 19:30-36) Sources:
Ban the Bible?
Saving our children from the bible
Please keep in mind I'm not actually suggesting that the bible should be baned or anything like that.
And unless IE supports it out of the box (like Flash and soon Silverlight), most developers won't use it.
In that video go 25 minutes into it. RMS explains how it's near impossible to avoid infringing patents.
Watch this speech by Richard Stallman: The Dangers of Software Patents
All anger must be directed towards the patent office and the patent trolls/abusers (Verizon in this case).
I despise unskipable ads on DVDs. There is a workaround, though. While the ads are playing hit the menu button. It should take you straight to the dvd menu, this is what I've been doing with rentals since that scummy tactic started.
Hopefully by the time this starts happening Gnash will be at a usable point.
You could have just installed VMWare Server and then run XP in a virtual machine. It's free. Unless you're trying to run games or other intensive apps it works great. I use it under Linux to run XP for a few programs I need for work.
When I originally saw it being advertised as a show I didn't watch it. Mainly for one reason: It was on FOX, so I assumed it'd get canceled.
When SciFi started playing the rereuns before Serenity was in theaters, though, I gave it chance. After seeing one episode I was hooked. The show is great, so is Serenity. Watch or buy the series and movie. They're very good. It's a real shame the show was on FOX, if it was on any other network I'm sure it'd still be putting out good episodes.
MySpace really needs to provide image hosting for their (l)users. I've had people hotlink images from my site to their MySpace pages. Before I blocked that ability, I would change those images to goatse.
I use Eclipse heavily under both Linux and OS X. Does Textmate do anything that Eclipse can't? I do tons of Java, PHP, and Perl development and Eclipse simply rocks for that.
Better solution:
1) Boycott the scummers that use these tactics
If at first you don't succeed at breaking a cipher, you're not Bruce Schneier.
Bruce Schneier can decypher line-noise.
Anybody can invent a cryptosystem he cannot break himself. Except Bruce Schneier.
When God needs a new secure certificate, he uses Bruce Schneier as the signing authority.
(Bruce Schneier Facts).
A good amount doesn't have it. I run a small business and have the following rules for software:
1. Company must not be a member of the BSA.
2. License must not have an audit clause.
3. Software must not phone home.
Other than that, anything's fine as long as it's properly licensed.
From the description it seems like an alternative Mozilla's XUL except that it ties in Flash and probably opens up a way for a BSA audit (see my other post).
* Ie, the BSA which Adobe is a member of.
This is one of the reasons I despise Flash. Hopefully someday Gnash will be a good replacement for it.
What everyone should do is dump Exchange. Scalix does an good job, has an excellent web client, is affordable, and integrates perfectly with Outlook and Evolution (with a plugin for both).
Check Peacefire. Every week or so on the mailing list they announce a new web-based proxy. The current one is StupidCensorship.com. The code is available so you can run your own "proxy."
Still, your employer probably keeps logs. If you really must visit sites that you don't want your employer to know about (ie, jobsearch), do it sparingly or just wait until you get home. You could also set up OpenVPN and run that over a proxy server and browse from your home network.