Slashdot astroturfed from prison? Time to take the computers out of jails. Really, who thinks this kind of shit deserves mod points?
Your rights end on conviction. Harm others and go to jail. Prove yourself untrustworthy and find that others track your activities. It was so much easier when you could just hang em high.
No, I have not read the over hyped Potter books. It's hard enough to find time for decent fiction, let alone inverted fantasy like that. Since the first NYT articles three years ago, these books have given me the creeps like "Tickle me Elmo". There may be something there, but it looks like marketing machine unparalleled since JR Tolkien. I'm not going to pay to look into an empty box.
As someone who works with high school kids, I am glad for Harry Potter for one reason - they are getting kids to read.
Are you happy that Barney is promoting dead tree consumption as well? I'm not. It's better to promote quality reading, rather than publishing interests. You say, "Not the best ever (I have a difficult time comparing Ender's Game with Harry Potter), but a good read." I hope you send people to Ender's Game first.
The point here seems to be that old school is trying to flatten new school. It kind of sucks for me in Louisiana if I can't hear radio stations in the "pilot markets" like New York, L.A., SanFransisco, what not, where there is a modicrum of experimentation. By the same token, it will suck for folks in those places if they can't hear the great music broadcast from Lafayete. The DCMA and new laws regulating internet rebroadcast have had their effect and purchasing from the local record store will be the only way some people can hear interesting or different music. That's the goal, until they can rig some kind of pay for play internet jukebox.
It's self defeating and stupid and I expect record sales to fall much faster than the much hyped recession we are in. Those old school farts, if anything as new as 1960 can be called old, won't think of the internet as a real medium until they can make money off it. They really might Belive all that BS about Napster ruining their sales. Ha! Napster is dead, where's the sales, you fools? Their altenative to complete dominance of internet distribution is extiction, but who'd have thunk up the current market in 1950?
Unless Microsoft has implemented some type of FX!32 (DECs 32 -> 64 bit layer which "learns" and accellerates), this release of Windows may potentially be quite useless.
Windows on it's own useless? You don't say? I'm not sure how useful any MS stuff has ever been, but don't worry YOUR SOFTWARE INVESTMENT WILL BE PROTECTED WITH THE USUAL MS CARE AND CONCERN. No one would inflict needless waste for the sake of their bottom line, would they? Why does this Word 6 document look like poop?
no bobo, you are looking for a picture of Sandra not a banner add. If you have a browser that lets you display pictures selectivly, or you block ads.doubleclick.net etc, you will see more of what you want and less of what you don't care for. That way, both of us will be happy.
I agree! Who on earth is going to scann their mustard jar everytime they put it in the fridge? And who, besides me, should be interested in such useless information? Barf! I can imagine the MS fridge reporting food use as well as clippy figures out what I'm writing, then singsonging at me everytime I open the door, "You must be making a burrito, it's time to buy some more MS toilet paper".
The settings got reset everytime I started the stupid browser. Might be the way things are set up here at work, but it sucked enough that I just use Netscape instead. The autoreverse of settings is pure evil.
I like old 486's. No fan and quit power supply makes a nice quit box. With a sound board, it's a stereo. With a SCSI, it's whatever. With a nicer machine serving in another room, a 486 can be a practical satilite apliance.
The future, however, belongs to devices like the agenda. Why bother with a big old box?
surf with images off, you will save yourself and me the bandwith to load that stupid banner:>
If 50% of web time is to these sites, 49.9% of web traffic is adverts. That's bad. Getting those adverts from just a few overloaded sites is worse. My wife was wondering why certian suck sites took forever to load. It took me a while to figure out that the advert loading was the problem. She now surfs with images turned off. MSIE is an evil thing that will not let the user do that.
When you consider that AOL is the world's largest ISP, and that many of their users surf excluxivly through AOL's software, this is a little easier to see. When you take into account how long it takes to do anything while your computer downloads all those adverts, the numbers make even more sense. Also, remember that AOL owns Netscape and others, so visits to those sites may also count.
The adverts do bother me. It's up to us to make sites that suck less, and put those stupid bloated carcase sites like doubleclick out of business. If 50% of web traffic is going to those stupid sites, 49.9% of web traffic must be adverts.
"Search engine optimization is the number one strategy for generating qualified traffic to your site," said a recent sales pitch offering prominence in search-engine listings."Eighty-five percent of all traffic is generated via search queries and over 90 percent of that traffic is driven to the top 30 results. If you're not in the top 30, you're not in a position to compete!"
The dot-com flameouts have sped up the Net's commercialization -- as quests for cash-flow, market share and multimedia synergy become more voracious.
The underlying assumption shared above is that traffic is important. The market moron is looking for profit. Sollomon seems to agree with WSJ analyist who state that "severe market dominance" is possible. Who cares?
Traffic is not important, access and control are. As long as you and I can serve freely, the old internet will continue to grow. People who bother to look will find it. New search engines will be made when old ones suck. The only thing that can kill the web as we know it are the companies who would own the physical media itself, and change it's standards to resemble broadcast toll roads.
It's very nice of sun to provide a port of their OS to comodity hardware. There's plenty of work that's been put into software that runs under solaris, and it would be very nice to have it on a box that you and I can afford. I've got a program with a solaris makefile. I imagine it would be much easier for me to port it to solaris X86 than to Debian, but a combination of time, community spirit and FUD have me going the Debian route. There's demand and people with less time and more software than me must like this.
... the more people I have "taking advantage of me" the more money I'll make? That's cool. I've got six people who act like my direct supervisors now. If I stay home and only listen to five bosses, I would earn a sweet $5,000 a month. Sign me up! Sign up my other address too!
Your opinion is much less important than the law or allocation of resources, but I think you are either ignornant or a troll. The substitution of groups was designed to make you think, if you were simply ignorant. Either that failed and you need some more help, or you are a troll. Let me try to help some more so that you might see religious groups are generally humiliated against prevailing American tollerance.
The fact is that Christian groups are not treated as well as homosexual organizations. School administrators frown on religious groups while promoting homosexual group activities. Just look at Chicago sometime where public money is spent on a seperate prom for homosexuals. Yet church groups are looked on as strange and subversive. This kind of treatment is not confined to Chicago. So much the better for homosexuals, as long as these events and clubs are not being used for the exploitation of children by their supposed gaurdians.
It is perverse that the "establishment clause" which aims to protect religious expresion is used to opress religion. It seeks to protect religious expression in part by preventing the formation of a single state sponsored religion, but mosly by telling the state that no laws should be made against any religious activity or speach. People who prevent church groups from using public property by creating rules or laws against such use have clearly violated the constitution's spirit and letter.
It's hard to model yourself as moderate and side with those who violate the rights of others. The framers of the constitution considered homosexuality such a perversion as to continue to keep it unlawful. America has become a more tollerant place than that. Why would you side with anyone less tollerant than the constitution's framers? To "see the both sides" there is to give legitimacy to oppresors.
Sun's gotta love it in the long run. I never had trouble talking to Sun boxes with Linux. Using MS junk was a nightmare. Credibility there brings the Linux desktop that much closer to me here.
First, consider your compiler. It can be trojaned in such a way that it would always put the trojan back in, regardless or the source to the compiler itself. Now, that might be a sloppy and undependable means of backdooring a system, but a well maintained backdoor remains open to the person or organization that installed it.
Second, unless you compile the code yourself your audits are useless.
I'm not going to trust NSA, thank you. There are plenty of distributions that have resisted their attempts to weaken security in the past that I'll trust first.
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Your rights end on conviction. Harm others and go to jail. Prove yourself untrustworthy and find that others track your activities. It was so much easier when you could just hang em high.
As someone who works with high school kids, I am glad for Harry Potter for one reason - they are getting kids to read.
Are you happy that Barney is promoting dead tree consumption as well? I'm not. It's better to promote quality reading, rather than publishing interests. You say, "Not the best ever (I have a difficult time comparing Ender's Game with Harry Potter), but a good read." I hope you send people to Ender's Game first.
It's self defeating and stupid and I expect record sales to fall much faster than the much hyped recession we are in. Those old school farts, if anything as new as 1960 can be called old, won't think of the internet as a real medium until they can make money off it. They really might Belive all that BS about Napster ruining their sales. Ha! Napster is dead, where's the sales, you fools? Their altenative to complete dominance of internet distribution is extiction, but who'd have thunk up the current market in 1950?
Bad Humor Alert, Abort, Abort!
Any of you billionairs out there listening?
Windows on it's own useless? You don't say? I'm not sure how useful any MS stuff has ever been, but don't worry YOUR SOFTWARE INVESTMENT WILL BE PROTECTED WITH THE USUAL MS CARE AND CONCERN. No one would inflict needless waste for the sake of their bottom line, would they? Why does this Word 6 document look like poop?
Linux has been on alpha and sparc for years. MS is playing megga retard catch up. Their OS is kind of like the Brady House Design.
no bobo, you are looking for a picture of Sandra not a banner add. If you have a browser that lets you display pictures selectivly, or you block ads.doubleclick.net etc, you will see more of what you want and less of what you don't care for. That way, both of us will be happy.
I agree! Who on earth is going to scann their mustard jar everytime they put it in the fridge? And who, besides me, should be interested in such useless information? Barf! I can imagine the MS fridge reporting food use as well as clippy figures out what I'm writing, then singsonging at me everytime I open the door, "You must be making a burrito, it's time to buy some more MS toilet paper".
The settings got reset everytime I started the stupid browser. Might be the way things are set up here at work, but it sucked enough that I just use Netscape instead. The autoreverse of settings is pure evil.
The future, however, belongs to devices like the agenda. Why bother with a big old box?
If 50% of web time is to these sites, 49.9% of web traffic is adverts. That's bad. Getting those adverts from just a few overloaded sites is worse. My wife was wondering why certian suck sites took forever to load. It took me a while to figure out that the advert loading was the problem. She now surfs with images turned off. MSIE is an evil thing that will not let the user do that.
The adverts do bother me. It's up to us to make sites that suck less, and put those stupid bloated carcase sites like doubleclick out of business. If 50% of web traffic is going to those stupid sites, 49.9% of web traffic must be adverts.
"Search engine optimization is the number one strategy for generating qualified traffic to your site," said a recent sales pitch offering prominence in search-engine listings."Eighty-five percent of all traffic is generated via search queries and over 90 percent of that traffic is driven to the top 30 results. If you're not in the top 30, you're not in a position to compete!"
The dot-com flameouts have sped up the Net's commercialization -- as quests for cash-flow, market share and multimedia synergy become more voracious.
The underlying assumption shared above is that traffic is important. The market moron is looking for profit. Sollomon seems to agree with WSJ analyist who state that "severe market dominance" is possible. Who cares?
Traffic is not important, access and control are. As long as you and I can serve freely, the old internet will continue to grow. People who bother to look will find it. New search engines will be made when old ones suck. The only thing that can kill the web as we know it are the companies who would own the physical media itself, and change it's standards to resemble broadcast toll roads.
It's funny how people all around the world hate being screwed and desire freedom. Nothing is so helpless as an NT user or admin.
I'd prefer it to, but noise is the problem that pannels were made to solve.
It's very nice of sun to provide a port of their OS to comodity hardware. There's plenty of work that's been put into software that runs under solaris, and it would be very nice to have it on a box that you and I can afford. I've got a program with a solaris makefile. I imagine it would be much easier for me to port it to solaris X86 than to Debian, but a combination of time, community spirit and FUD have me going the Debian route. There's demand and people with less time and more software than me must like this.
That might be true, but it won't save the closed source companies. Soon MS won't be able to Give away it's OS.
-Happily working and giving away "product" all day long.
... the more people I have "taking advantage of me" the more money I'll make? That's cool. I've got six people who act like my direct supervisors now. If I stay home and only listen to five bosses, I would earn a sweet $5,000 a month. Sign me up! Sign up my other address too!
The fact is that Christian groups are not treated as well as homosexual organizations. School administrators frown on religious groups while promoting homosexual group activities. Just look at Chicago sometime where public money is spent on a seperate prom for homosexuals. Yet church groups are looked on as strange and subversive. This kind of treatment is not confined to Chicago. So much the better for homosexuals, as long as these events and clubs are not being used for the exploitation of children by their supposed gaurdians.
It is perverse that the "establishment clause" which aims to protect religious expresion is used to opress religion. It seeks to protect religious expression in part by preventing the formation of a single state sponsored religion, but mosly by telling the state that no laws should be made against any religious activity or speach. People who prevent church groups from using public property by creating rules or laws against such use have clearly violated the constitution's spirit and letter.
It's hard to model yourself as moderate and side with those who violate the rights of others. The framers of the constitution considered homosexuality such a perversion as to continue to keep it unlawful. America has become a more tollerant place than that. Why would you side with anyone less tollerant than the constitution's framers? To "see the both sides" there is to give legitimacy to oppresors.
They can try! Just look at Hotmail. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Sun's gotta love it in the long run. I never had trouble talking to Sun boxes with Linux. Using MS junk was a nightmare. Credibility there brings the Linux desktop that much closer to me here.
I hope you could out run old Bill Clinton! I'm told that was the only way to keep him off your back. Oh sorry, that's an Asstronaut.
First, consider your compiler. It can be trojaned in such a way that it would always put the trojan back in, regardless or the source to the compiler itself. Now, that might be a sloppy and undependable means of backdooring a system, but a well maintained backdoor remains open to the person or organization that installed it.
Second, unless you compile the code yourself your audits are useless.
I'm not going to trust NSA, thank you. There are plenty of distributions that have resisted their attempts to weaken security in the past that I'll trust first.