TFA is a cynical jest, or worse. Heinlein's definition of a committee comes to mind: a beast with no brains and a hundred bellies. Congress has got all the stomach it would take, and then some.
Crap in a wrap.
Seriously, who buys shit like this? It'll all be in the garbage within a few days, unless it breaks even sooner. It's a set of stupid slashvertisements for complete imbeciles.
Expect this dispute to drag out for a while. Steve is dead, and the market for mega-yachts is never brisk. If the contract had a high content of handshakes and winks instead of numbers with signatures, the dispute could get uglier than the yacht, and that's saying something.
Hmm, no paywall issues for me... I got to read the whole article at WSJ, and I'm not a subscriber or registered with them in any way. Perhaps you should check your cookies or javascript settings.
Actually, the Juggler 3D screensaver is fairly popular at home (it's an X screensaver, maybe there's a Windows equivalent). I'm not sure if it uses the same numbering system, but it always indicates a string of numbers in the upper left to describe the particular juggling pattern being shown.
My Dell M6400 (work laptop) even has a Firewire port, and so did the Dell M4400 which it recently replaced. In both laptops it's a 6-pole IEEE1394 port, not the 4-pole DV port that my home laptop has (8½ year old Sony VAIO A117S).
Current Xubuntu user here (2 desktops, 2 laptops). I don't particularly care how Unity is distorted, other than remarking that this sort of thing ensures I stay away from it. We had Gnome 2 on all the PCs, but switched every one of them to xfce when both Unity and Gnome 3 showed their differing ugliness while testing them in a VM.
The "killer" feature on gmail for many of us is the privacy suicide.
We have several email accounts, all consolidated onto our home mail server. It's secure enough but far from "private", as the emails all pass through multiple domains en route, but at least we've probably reduced the butt-hurt of being profiled for ads based on our email content. Anyway, a lot of our email is in Finnish, so good luck to non-Finns on trying to ascertain useful details from that (do we like product X or hate it - Google translate even gets this wrong often enough). Actually, Google translate on Finnish-English sucks, and I mean sucks really badly - it's little more than a garbage generator.
I suppose the answer would depend on the country, with the need basically vanished from much of Europe. We abandoned them years ago, except for the switchboard/receptionists and a handful of fixed lines for FAX machines (still needed for transactions with some countries). Everyone has a company-issued mobile phone; several hundred employees. They're not the top-end Android or iPhone models, but far above the dinky-toy model level. Everybody can be reached, almost anywhere, unless they switch off the phone. Of course, it's standard practice to switch them off when work is over for the day.
my last laptop got 1 hour. my current laptop gets 2.
Care to name and shame those laptops?
I have an 8½ year old laptop that gets better than 2 hours (with 17" WUXGA display), and it's still on its original battery pack, and runs the not-particularly-battery-optimized Xubuntu.
The mistake the Gnome developers made was calling the new desktop "Gnome 3". Had they presented it as an experimental new environment and named it "Project Harmony" or "Desktop Zen", or something like that, they would have stepped on less toes and met less resistance to the radical changes, and people would have seen it in better light.
Then again, calling Gnome 3 something more honest like "Project Puke" or "Desktop Dunny" would have been too obvious to their intended victims^W audience. We moved all our home systems (2 desktops, 2 laptops) to xfce4, and are quite happy with it. We're not likely to evaluate Gnome 3 again for quite a while.
I still suspect that Microsoft or Apple might have planted some rotters in a few of the Linux desktop projects. Ubuntu's Unity and Red Hat's Gnome 3 are just too awful to have erupted without assistance from the nether world.
Just put exit 0
at the end of your/etc/rc.local and the rootkit becomes unloadable. Just like in Debian Squeeze.
I did not get that. Would you kindly explain that?
Well, it's even in TFA, and described in more detail here. According to the guy who analyzed it (Georg Wicherski): "the command is appended to the end of rc.local" and "On a default Debian squeeze install,/etc/rc.local ends in an exit 0 command, so that the rootkit is effectively never loaded". This is what happens when you try to install the rootkit on Debian Squeeze.
Jif is a brand of lemon juice. Jif is also a brand of Peanut butter. I've always pronounced GIF with a hard G, as in giggling gizmo girth girls give gilded gizzards girdle girder gimmick gifts.
What you mean is that all families should be forced to be atheist, because you're an atheist. That would, after all, be the effect of banning exposure of religion to children, and your goal is clearly to make more atheists.
My children have been told that they can join any religion they want, when they reach the age of about fifteen. Before then, they simply would not relize what they were doing. Does a five-year-old understand the differences between Shia and Sunni branches of Islam? Or know enough to choose between being a Baptist and being a Mormon? Such decisions will have a profound effect on their later lives. It is unfair to the children to expect religion to be transmitted from parent to child like a genetic flaw.
Until they have gathered enough facts and a comparable level of maturity to make a reasoned decision, they have no business choosing a religion. Our kids are not exposed to religions at school and only peripherally exposed to them socially (some of their friends had religious indoctrination from an early age, others did not). Their grandparents are religious - one is very religious - but we are largely silent on the issue. We answer their questions in quite neutral ways, often including "that's not known, and might never be knowable with any confidence" for some queries.
You are probably correct, however, in fearing that unindoctrinated kids will turn into atheists. My eldest has passed fifteen, and considers every religion she has encountered to be a collection of superstitions which are manipulated by fruitcakes for purposes which are often nasty. The few useful guidelines or truths they contain - buried in steaming piles of fantasy - are largely derived from decidedly non-religious social antecedents. She decided to become an atheist, and aspires to being an astronaut.
I seriously doubt that Aristotle could have comprehended calculus or designed a Mars rover.
I seriously doubt Democritus or Archimedes would agree with you.
Especially Archimedes, who established a direct precursor of the calculus which was eventually invented a millenium and a half later by Newton and Leibniz.
Perceptual Image Diff and Find Image Dupes might be helpful. If she runs finddupes with a threshhold of.99 or so, then it is likely just trigger on nearly exact copies. At least, it should narrow down the ones she has to inspect in more detail. On the other hand, pdiff will detect exact or nearly exact copies by specifying how many pixels are allowed to differ (so it can be fooled by addition of random noise). While pdiff is available for Windows as well as Linux, it seems that finddupes is Linux only.
Look up a fellow named Maltov, you might remember him for a certain drink in his name.
Perhaps you should have looked him up yourself. You're probably referring to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, and to the Molotov cocktail, a weapon named to dishonor the same Molotov.
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iOS's "walled garden"
In Soviet Union they called it gulag.
Steve would probably insist on "iGulag".
It's a catchy, memorable, and descriptive term. Who could possibly object to it?
TFA is a cynical jest, or worse. Heinlein's definition of a committee comes to mind: a beast with no brains and a hundred bellies. Congress has got all the stomach it would take, and then some.
Crap in a wrap.
Seriously, who buys shit like this? It'll all be in the garbage within a few days, unless it breaks even sooner. It's a set of stupid slashvertisements for complete imbeciles.
"My balls are as smooth as pearls, and you know how much women love pearls"
Not to mention their love for the necklace you can make with them.
And they'll want rather more than two of them to make a decent necklace...
Expect this dispute to drag out for a while. Steve is dead, and the market for mega-yachts is never brisk. If the contract had a high content of handshakes and winks instead of numbers with signatures, the dispute could get uglier than the yacht, and that's saying something.
irrational
That word does not mean what you apparently think it means...
RMS is OK (not perfect, but OK).
For Paolo Bonzini, the grapes, they are sour...
ugh.
Hmm, no paywall issues for me... I got to read the whole article at WSJ, and I'm not a subscriber or registered with them in any way. Perhaps you should check your cookies or javascript settings.
Actually, the Juggler 3D screensaver is fairly popular at home (it's an X screensaver, maybe there's a Windows equivalent). I'm not sure if it uses the same numbering system, but it always indicates a string of numbers in the upper left to describe the particular juggling pattern being shown.
I keep asking if this is so true then why does every nationality and US state that has stricter gun laws have a lower rate of gun death?
Hmm, have you looked up what "every" means? At least, you appear to be mis-using the word in your assertion.
My Dell M6400 (work laptop) even has a Firewire port, and so did the Dell M4400 which it recently replaced. In both laptops it's a 6-pole IEEE1394 port, not the 4-pole DV port that my home laptop has (8½ year old Sony VAIO A117S).
So... just reduce the price. Zero sounds about right, and then it does not really matter who gets what percentage of it.
Uh, current Ubuntu user here. I'm all for this.
Current Xubuntu user here (2 desktops, 2 laptops). I don't particularly care how Unity is distorted, other than remarking that this sort of thing ensures I stay away from it. We had Gnome 2 on all the PCs, but switched every one of them to xfce when both Unity and Gnome 3 showed their differing ugliness while testing them in a VM.
The "killer feature" for me on Gmail is
The "killer" feature on gmail for many of us is the privacy suicide.
We have several email accounts, all consolidated onto our home mail server. It's secure enough but far from "private", as the emails all pass through multiple domains en route, but at least we've probably reduced the butt-hurt of being profiled for ads based on our email content. Anyway, a lot of our email is in Finnish, so good luck to non-Finns on trying to ascertain useful details from that (do we like product X or hate it - Google translate even gets this wrong often enough). Actually, Google translate on Finnish-English sucks, and I mean sucks really badly - it's little more than a garbage generator.
Do you still need a desk phone?
I suppose the answer would depend on the country, with the need basically vanished from much of Europe. We abandoned them years ago, except for the switchboard/receptionists and a handful of fixed lines for FAX machines (still needed for transactions with some countries). Everyone has a company-issued mobile phone; several hundred employees. They're not the top-end Android or iPhone models, but far above the dinky-toy model level. Everybody can be reached, almost anywhere, unless they switch off the phone. Of course, it's standard practice to switch them off when work is over for the day.
my last laptop got 1 hour. my current laptop gets 2.
Care to name and shame those laptops?
I have an 8½ year old laptop that gets better than 2 hours (with 17" WUXGA display), and it's still on its original battery pack, and runs the not-particularly-battery-optimized Xubuntu.
The mistake the Gnome developers made was calling the new desktop "Gnome 3". Had they presented it as an experimental new environment and named it "Project Harmony" or "Desktop Zen", or something like that, they would have stepped on less toes and met less resistance to the radical changes, and people would have seen it in better light.
Then again, calling Gnome 3 something more honest like "Project Puke" or "Desktop Dunny" would have been too obvious to their intended victims^W audience. We moved all our home systems (2 desktops, 2 laptops) to xfce4, and are quite happy with it. We're not likely to evaluate Gnome 3 again for quite a while.
I still suspect that Microsoft or Apple might have planted some rotters in a few of the Linux desktop projects. Ubuntu's Unity and Red Hat's Gnome 3 are just too awful to have erupted without assistance from the nether world.
The best short term defense against this?
Just put /etc/rc.local and the rootkit becomes unloadable. Just like in Debian Squeeze.
exit 0
at the end of your
I did not get that. Would you kindly explain that?
Well, it's even in TFA, and described in more detail here. According to the guy who analyzed it (Georg Wicherski): "the command is appended to the end of rc.local" and "On a default Debian squeeze install, /etc/rc.local ends in an exit 0 command, so that the rootkit is effectively never loaded". This is what happens when you try to install the rootkit on Debian Squeeze.
The best short term defense against this?
Just put /etc/rc.local and the rootkit becomes unloadable. Just like in Debian Squeeze.
exit 0
at the end of your
Jif is a brand of lemon juice. Jif is also a brand of Peanut butter. I've always pronounced GIF with a hard G, as in giggling gizmo girth girls give gilded gizzards girdle girder gimmick gifts.
What you mean is that all families should be forced to be atheist, because you're an atheist. That would, after all, be the effect of banning exposure of religion to children, and your goal is clearly to make more atheists.
My children have been told that they can join any religion they want, when they reach the age of about fifteen. Before then, they simply would not relize what they were doing. Does a five-year-old understand the differences between Shia and Sunni branches of Islam? Or know enough to choose between being a Baptist and being a Mormon? Such decisions will have a profound effect on their later lives. It is unfair to the children to expect religion to be transmitted from parent to child like a genetic flaw.
Until they have gathered enough facts and a comparable level of maturity to make a reasoned decision, they have no business choosing a religion. Our kids are not exposed to religions at school and only peripherally exposed to them socially (some of their friends had religious indoctrination from an early age, others did not). Their grandparents are religious - one is very religious - but we are largely silent on the issue. We answer their questions in quite neutral ways, often including "that's not known, and might never be knowable with any confidence" for some queries.
You are probably correct, however, in fearing that unindoctrinated kids will turn into atheists. My eldest has passed fifteen, and considers every religion she has encountered to be a collection of superstitions which are manipulated by fruitcakes for purposes which are often nasty. The few useful guidelines or truths they contain - buried in steaming piles of fantasy - are largely derived from decidedly non-religious social antecedents. She decided to become an atheist, and aspires to being an astronaut.
Jesus anticipated that religious bodies themselves would be corrupt.
And you claim he then started yet another one of them. What an asshole!
Or was your point something less clear?
I seriously doubt that Aristotle could have comprehended calculus or designed a Mars rover.
I seriously doubt Democritus or Archimedes would agree with you.
Especially Archimedes, who established a direct precursor of the calculus which was eventually invented a millenium and a half later by Newton and Leibniz.
Perceptual Image Diff and Find Image Dupes might be helpful. If she runs finddupes with a threshhold of .99 or so, then it is likely just trigger on nearly exact copies. At least, it should narrow down the ones she has to inspect in more detail. On the other hand, pdiff will detect exact or nearly exact copies by specifying how many pixels are allowed to differ (so it can be fooled by addition of random noise). While pdiff is available for Windows as well as Linux, it seems that finddupes is Linux only.
Look up a fellow named Maltov, you might remember him for a certain drink in his name.
Perhaps you should have looked him up yourself. You're probably referring to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, and to the Molotov cocktail, a weapon named to dishonor the same Molotov.