I didn't know that the day would come, when I would feel more unfamiliar (didn't say uncomfortable - but I guess that's coming, too, with Vista (oh yeah, I don't intend to move to Vista - ever)) in Windows than in Linux. But, alas, that day has come and now I have no clue how to troubleshoot Windows anymore. It's just way too arcane and complicated. In Linux and Solaris I know how to at least start troubleshooting, and then I can search the 'net for specific keywords (error messages, log entries, etc.). Some of this could probably be done with Windows as well, but I just find the "whole experience" of troubleshooting it, more hairy and unsettling.
You didn't give any specific reason why she isn't a psychopath. I'm not saying she is (though I'd wager more than 50% that she is), just that you have not supported that thesis with any arguments at all.
Psychopaths are, unfortunately for the rest of us, extremely convincing liars. That's how they manage to charm their victims (not necessarily murder victims - see the case of Christophe Rocancourt). Psychopaths have no problems saying even the most incredible, outlandish lie while looking you straight in the eyes, with the most relaxed tone of voice and body language.
While I guess I can feel some fellowship with other geeks, the Reiser story put a big hunking dent into those ideals. And not because of Reiser's actions, but because of the mindless dolts that defended him in light of all the evidence.
But to the point: I think I'll be installing TrueCrypt on my Eee PC. If I want to just surf the net or play some games with it, or watch a movie, I can alwas boot from an unencrypted USB drive which will run a bit faster. The little laptop has been traveling with me everywhere lately, and I'd hate to have it stolen, but if it is, it's at least a consolation that my files will be safe from indiscrete views.
hat's what makes serial killers scary, they are so emotionless and seem to not think that they did anything wrong that they can just lie to a group of people and most people find it believable. Many of them are smart enough to not get caught in lies.
Just a tiny correction: you're talking about psychopaths. Not all psychopaths are serial killers, and not all serial killers are psychopaths (but the great majority of serial killers definitely are psychopaths, and all psychopaths leave a trail of destruction, one way or the other, after them, be it in their families, their friends or at work).
I think the world needs to be better educated about psychopaths, because they are extremely charismatic and charming, and every now and then they end up as presidents of a country (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic etc.) and cause great destruction and misery. If we learned that psychopathy 1) exists and 2) how to detect it, we would be much MUCH better off. Sadly, in some countries the fact is either ignored by the political elite, or considered highly politically incorrect. Sorry, but there are people without conscience and incurable, and some of them are very motivated == dangerous.
(by the way, I am a divorcee. Just for the record.)
I have never understood, and as time goes by, I become aware of how alien the mind of a murderer is to me. I am almost 40 and have seen and experienced many things in my life. I still don't get how can someone cross that red line - and take someone's life.
But apparently, I am a minority. You, for instance, seem to be able to cross that line? Or maybe you were just very cavalier in your wording?
Anyhow, the mind of a murderer is something I can not understand. I can get angry, sure, but to resort to violence, or worse, to have someone's life on my conscience, that's just unfathomable for me.
I was on a course in Oulu, a smallish city slightly up north here in Finland, and was delighted that across the whole city there is unrestricted free WLAN access to their PanOulu network. It was a grand week - I was cycling around a lot (excellent city for cyclists, BTW) and once a bit tired, sit down and whip out my Eee PC and check my e-mails. When I returned to Helsinki, I felt like I was in a stupid backwater, and can't wait for the day Helsinki, too, introduces such a wonderful, free service. As for the telcos, well, they "don't have a God-given right" to profits. If I were one of the telcos, I'd try to actually be the one supporting such an initiative, and try to get what I can from the municipality, in terms of revenue.
By the way, before the Helsinkiläinen lynch me: I love the city, but dudes, Oulu beats Helsinki in this particular instance, sorry.
Actually, Yahoo did innovate still: they introduced Yahoo Groups - preceeding Google. Then there's Yahoo Finance, which is one of the most comprehensive and popular resources on corporate investments. More Yahoo services inroduced after Mail:
Yahoo Answers. Flicker Babelfish - ok, not their innovation at all, and not really all that of an innovation anyway, but it's still the best translator on the WWW.
Microsoft can't be excised from the IT world. If they, for the sake of argument, collapsed next week, there would be a worldwide IT company crash of epic proportions. We would all suffer.
The hell we would. The Eee PC has shown that a non-Windows alternative is quite viable. On the high-end, Apple has been showing for a long time that a non-Windows alternative is quite viable.
The world does not need Microsoft. That's bollocks that MS would love all to believe, but the truth really is, if MS collapsed today, we would NOT suffer - at all! Proof? People try to keep clear of Vista, they try to hold on to Windows XP IN SPITE of Microsoft's attempts! MS is fighting their own customers now, and you know how people like *that*. Many have switched to Linux (or just kept the Linux on the Eee PC) because they are fed up of Microsoft's quite frankly violent tactics in forcing their hand. And now, Linux is just about good enough for almost all tasks and many games will run in Wine (though I admit there's some way to go still in the gaming space, for Linux).
Your wife lost her password, and Google won't allow for social engineering to be used to retrieve it (closing a loophole), and you blame Google?
If it was a for-pay service, you could just call them and be identified by the credit card you used to pay for it. Since it's free, you don't have that option, but this is hardly Google's fault. Your anger is misplaced.
It's that time of the year? I mean, the Spectrum vs. Commodore flamewar;o) Just kidding, but those do happen rather regularly on comp.sys....something-or-the-other. I used to have much fun reading those threads. Mostly because they were really in good spirit, in spite of all the flaming that was going on.
I had a C-16, too. The sound sucked on that one, but programming in general was really easy, and they looked kinda cool, with the dark gray case and light gray keys.
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
As for the C-64: I have several of 'em, and as soon as it becomes crystal clear which Ethernet card is the dominant (we're close) I'll be picking up one. I have networked weird stuff into my network already (Sony NEWS, Netwinder, old DOS PC/packet driver etc.) why not add one of my C-64s.
My main gripe is that these events did little to promote cycling as an everyday, and very enjoyable activity - and now they (the events) are doing exactly 0 in that respect.
I have respect for the overall idea of your post, but sadly, I have to say: bollocks to that, my friend. Le Tour and Il Giro have done more HARM to cyclism, than good. Those that I know follow these events, are just sit-at-home coach-sportsmen. I hope you are an exception. And the athletes taking part in it, with all their expenses paid including their doping and transfusions (and their regularly-replaced carbon bikes), can go eff themselves for all I care. There's more honour in my friends and me going out for a bikeride with our crappy bikes, than in the whole Giro.
It's emblematic that a nation that does NOT follow the Giro or Tour (Finland), has much more cyclists per capita than either Italy or France. I'd say hundreds of times more cyclists per capita.
Let me explain: I am an avid cyclist. Furthermore, I like everything bicycle: I built all my bikes, and I fix and adjust mine and my friends bikes.
And I can't stand Le Tour de France or Il Giro d'Italia. I hate the doping (and everything they do to hide it) and how massively it is happening. The commercializaition of these cycling events is disturbing for sure, but I am willing to accept it as a necessary evil. After all, these events have been commercialized long before even the heroic days of Binda, Coppi and Bartali. But what's going on is just bullshitting.
I don't follow these cycling events animore. I may check some of the track cycling GP competitions (less bulshitting, and it lasts a few days instead of weeks and weeks).
Any fellow slashdotter who actually follows the tour/giro?
was smart really only within his very narrow discipline of mathematical theoretical physics
Still, "narrow" is the wrong word to describe Einstein's work: Brownian motion, diffusion, relativity, photoeffect - I am certainly missing a few very important ones but I am in a hurry... but anyhow, he was anything BUT a narrow-fielded scientist.
Yes I have. PayPal has been great in each case - 4 cases, so far (my average has been 1 case every 2 years, which is good-ish, I think). Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I'm just very pissed when someone tries to pull a fast one on me.
There was one time that I could not recover my money - that's when I payed by wire transfer.
I am a European eBay buyer. From the posts in this thread, this seems to put me in a firm minority on Slahsdot. Anyway; I much prefer PayPal to bank transfer because in case of fraudolent, forged or non working product (or simply if the item was never sent), I have an avenue for recourse. With wire transfers I have no way to recover my money.
Also, in case of overseas payments, PayPal is _way_ cheaper than wire transfer.
Just my 2 cents (or a Euro). Resume your cheering.
I do NOT expect to be reimbursed. Check my answer to the same reaction as yours (one of you guys should be, however, modded redundant - probably the other one as it was posted almost a quarter of an hour later).
I don't expect eBay to reimburse me. I expect eBay to do the right thing and sanction the sellers of counterfeit items.
eBay becomes liable once it is notified that a seller is listing counterfeit items. If at that point they do nothing and let the scumbags scot-free, then eBay is liable.
I was sold a fake Kingston elite pro SD card. Those are one of the few SD cards with SLC Flash memory, 100.000 write/erase cycles. So, I was pretty adamant I wanted the real "elite pro", but got a forgery, which was visible from the very poor quality of print on the label as well as the packaging. Also, I had a few originals I could compare against. Finally, the cards failed to pass a few tests I threw at them, so I was adamant I wanted my money back. I notified eBay, but they never did a damned thing about this case.
I hope $60+ million will make eBay listen to their buying customers (not only their bigger sellers), when they report a forged item.
And forged memory cards and flash drives are massively present on eBay. If it's from China, Hong Kong or Australia, it's almost certainly a fake.
Though I am a Slackware user and have been for years, Xandros does appear to be the best distro for the OOB experience FOR A DESKTOP. Not the best solution if you want to set up a server, router, firewall or such, but for a destkop Xandros really does make a lot of things easy.
I have the Eee PC and have tried almost all the available distros (Debian, Eeedora, Puppeee, Breezy, Slaxeee (my favourite "other" Eee distro), Eeexubuntu...), with some of them I spent several days of serious work, but in the end, Xandros works the best. WLAN? Best choser, most mature and bug-free setup of all. 3G modem? Among the only distros to support devices like the Huawei and similar. Webcam, application add/remove for beginners, automount that works, good file browser (well integrated with the system!) etc. etc. Xandros ticks so many boxes, even the most rabid Slahsdotter SHOULD give it some credit.
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I didn't know that the day would come, when I would feel more unfamiliar (didn't say uncomfortable - but I guess that's coming, too, with Vista (oh yeah, I don't intend to move to Vista - ever)) in Windows than in Linux. But, alas, that day has come and now I have no clue how to troubleshoot Windows anymore. It's just way too arcane and complicated. In Linux and Solaris I know how to at least start troubleshooting, and then I can search the 'net for specific keywords (error messages, log entries, etc.). Some of this could probably be done with Windows as well, but I just find the "whole experience" of troubleshooting it, more hairy and unsettling.
You didn't give any specific reason why she isn't a psychopath. I'm not saying she is (though I'd wager more than 50% that she is), just that you have not supported that thesis with any arguments at all.
He's an totally unconvincing psychopathic liar
Psychopaths are, unfortunately for the rest of us, extremely convincing liars. That's how they manage to charm their victims (not necessarily murder victims - see the case of Christophe Rocancourt). Psychopaths have no problems saying even the most incredible, outlandish lie while looking you straight in the eyes, with the most relaxed tone of voice and body language.
Heh.
While I guess I can feel some fellowship with other geeks, the Reiser story put a big hunking dent into those ideals. And not because of Reiser's actions, but because of the mindless dolts that defended him in light of all the evidence.
But to the point: I think I'll be installing TrueCrypt on my Eee PC. If I want to just surf the net or play some games with it, or watch a movie, I can alwas boot from an unencrypted USB drive which will run a bit faster. The little laptop has been traveling with me everywhere lately, and I'd hate to have it stolen, but if it is, it's at least a consolation that my files will be safe from indiscrete views.
hat's what makes serial killers scary, they are so emotionless and seem to not think that they did anything wrong that they can just lie to a group of people and most people find it believable. Many of them are smart enough to not get caught in lies.
Just a tiny correction: you're talking about psychopaths. Not all psychopaths are serial killers, and not all serial killers are psychopaths (but the great majority of serial killers definitely are psychopaths, and all psychopaths leave a trail of destruction, one way or the other, after them, be it in their families, their friends or at work).
I think the world needs to be better educated about psychopaths, because they are extremely charismatic and charming, and every now and then they end up as presidents of a country (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic etc.) and cause great destruction and misery. If we learned that psychopathy 1) exists and 2) how to detect it, we would be much MUCH better off. Sadly, in some countries the fact is either ignored by the political elite, or considered highly politically incorrect. Sorry, but there are people without conscience and incurable, and some of them are very motivated == dangerous.
Every summer there is a week or two of over 30C. Google tells me that "30 degrees Celsius = 86 degrees Fahrenheit" so you're just full of shit.
So yeah, I had at it.
(by the way, I am a divorcee. Just for the record.)
I have never understood, and as time goes by, I become aware of how alien the mind of a murderer is to me. I am almost 40 and have seen and experienced many things in my life. I still don't get how can someone cross that red line - and take someone's life.
But apparently, I am a minority. You, for instance, seem to be able to cross that line? Or maybe you were just very cavalier in your wording?
Anyhow, the mind of a murderer is something I can not understand. I can get angry, sure, but to resort to violence, or worse, to have someone's life on my conscience, that's just unfathomable for me.
I was on a course in Oulu, a smallish city slightly up north here in Finland, and was delighted that across the whole city there is unrestricted free WLAN access to their PanOulu network. It was a grand week - I was cycling around a lot (excellent city for cyclists, BTW) and once a bit tired, sit down and whip out my Eee PC and check my e-mails. When I returned to Helsinki, I felt like I was in a stupid backwater, and can't wait for the day Helsinki, too, introduces such a wonderful, free service. As for the telcos, well, they "don't have a God-given right" to profits. If I were one of the telcos, I'd try to actually be the one supporting such an initiative, and try to get what I can from the municipality, in terms of revenue.
By the way, before the Helsinkiläinen lynch me: I love the city, but dudes, Oulu beats Helsinki in this particular instance, sorry.
Actually, Yahoo did innovate still: they introduced Yahoo Groups - preceeding Google. Then there's Yahoo Finance, which is one of the most comprehensive and popular resources on corporate investments. More Yahoo services inroduced after Mail:
Yahoo Answers.
Flicker
Babelfish - ok, not their innovation at all, and not really all that of an innovation anyway, but it's still the best translator on the WWW.
Microsoft can't be excised from the IT world. If they, for the sake of argument, collapsed next week, there would be a worldwide IT company crash of epic proportions. We would all suffer.
The hell we would. The Eee PC has shown that a non-Windows alternative is quite viable. On the high-end, Apple has been showing for a long time that a non-Windows alternative is quite viable.
The world does not need Microsoft. That's bollocks that MS would love all to believe, but the truth really is, if MS collapsed today, we would NOT suffer - at all! Proof? People try to keep clear of Vista, they try to hold on to Windows XP IN SPITE of Microsoft's attempts! MS is fighting their own customers now, and you know how people like *that*. Many have switched to Linux (or just kept the Linux on the Eee PC) because they are fed up of Microsoft's quite frankly violent tactics in forcing their hand. And now, Linux is just about good enough for almost all tasks and many games will run in Wine (though I admit there's some way to go still in the gaming space, for Linux).
Your wife lost her password, and Google won't allow for social engineering to be used to retrieve it (closing a loophole), and you blame Google?
If it was a for-pay service, you could just call them and be identified by the credit card you used to pay for it. Since it's free, you don't have that option, but this is hardly Google's fault. Your anger is misplaced.
It's that time of the year? I mean, the Spectrum vs. Commodore flamewar ;o) Just kidding, but those do happen rather regularly on comp.sys....something-or-the-other. I used to have much fun reading those threads. Mostly because they were really in good spirit, in spite of all the flaming that was going on.
I had a C-16, too. The sound sucked on that one, but programming in general was really easy, and they looked kinda cool, with the dark gray case and light gray keys.
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
As for the C-64: I have several of 'em, and as soon as it becomes crystal clear which Ethernet card is the dominant (we're close) I'll be picking up one. I have networked weird stuff into my network already (Sony NEWS, Netwinder, old DOS PC/packet driver etc.) why not add one of my C-64s.
My main gripe is that these events did little to promote cycling as an everyday, and very enjoyable activity - and now they (the events) are doing exactly 0 in that respect.
I have respect for the overall idea of your post, but sadly, I have to say: bollocks to that, my friend. Le Tour and Il Giro have done more HARM to cyclism, than good. Those that I know follow these events, are just sit-at-home coach-sportsmen. I hope you are an exception. And the athletes taking part in it, with all their expenses paid including their doping and transfusions (and their regularly-replaced carbon bikes), can go eff themselves for all I care. There's more honour in my friends and me going out for a bikeride with our crappy bikes, than in the whole Giro.
It's emblematic that a nation that does NOT follow the Giro or Tour (Finland), has much more cyclists per capita than either Italy or France. I'd say hundreds of times more cyclists per capita.
Let me explain: I am an avid cyclist. Furthermore, I like everything bicycle: I built all my bikes, and I fix and adjust mine and my friends bikes.
And I can't stand Le Tour de France or Il Giro d'Italia. I hate the doping (and everything they do to hide it) and how massively it is happening. The commercializaition of these cycling events is disturbing for sure, but I am willing to accept it as a necessary evil. After all, these events have been commercialized long before even the heroic days of Binda, Coppi and Bartali. But what's going on is just bullshitting.
I don't follow these cycling events animore. I may check some of the track cycling GP competitions (less bulshitting, and it lasts a few days instead of weeks and weeks).
Any fellow slashdotter who actually follows the tour/giro?
was smart really only within his very narrow discipline of mathematical theoretical physics
Still, "narrow" is the wrong word to describe Einstein's work: Brownian motion, diffusion, relativity, photoeffect - I am certainly missing a few very important ones but I am in a hurry... but anyhow, he was anything BUT a narrow-fielded scientist.
Yes I have. PayPal has been great in each case - 4 cases, so far (my average has been 1 case every 2 years, which is good-ish, I think). Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe I'm just very pissed when someone tries to pull a fast one on me.
There was one time that I could not recover my money - that's when I payed by wire transfer.
If a seller doesn't accept PayPal, he is MUCH LESS likely to accept credit cards! In Europe, at least.
Here the choices are:
PayPal
Bank transfer
.
I am a European eBay buyer. From the posts in this thread, this seems to put me in a firm minority on Slahsdot. Anyway; I much prefer PayPal to bank transfer because in case of fraudolent, forged or non working product (or simply if the item was never sent), I have an avenue for recourse. With wire transfers I have no way to recover my money.
Also, in case of overseas payments, PayPal is _way_ cheaper than wire transfer.
Just my 2 cents (or a Euro). Resume your cheering.
I do NOT expect to be reimbursed. Check my answer to the same reaction as yours (one of you guys should be, however, modded redundant - probably the other one as it was posted almost a quarter of an hour later).
I don't expect eBay to reimburse me. I expect eBay to do the right thing and sanction the sellers of counterfeit items.
eBay becomes liable once it is notified that a seller is listing counterfeit items. If at that point they do nothing and let the scumbags scot-free, then eBay is liable.
I was sold a fake Kingston elite pro SD card. Those are one of the few SD cards with SLC Flash memory, 100.000 write/erase cycles. So, I was pretty adamant I wanted the real "elite pro", but got a forgery, which was visible from the very poor quality of print on the label as well as the packaging. Also, I had a few originals I could compare against. Finally, the cards failed to pass a few tests I threw at them, so I was adamant I wanted my money back. I notified eBay, but they never did a damned thing about this case.
I hope $60+ million will make eBay listen to their buying customers (not only their bigger sellers), when they report a forged item.
And forged memory cards and flash drives are massively present on eBay. If it's from China, Hong Kong or Australia, it's almost certainly a fake.
Though I am a Slackware user and have been for years, Xandros does appear to be the best distro for the OOB experience FOR A DESKTOP. Not the best solution if you want to set up a server, router, firewall or such, but for a destkop Xandros really does make a lot of things easy.
I have the Eee PC and have tried almost all the available distros (Debian, Eeedora, Puppeee, Breezy, Slaxeee (my favourite "other" Eee distro), Eeexubuntu...), with some of them I spent several days of serious work, but in the end, Xandros works the best. WLAN? Best choser, most mature and bug-free setup of all. 3G modem? Among the only distros to support devices like the Huawei and similar. Webcam, application add/remove for beginners, automount that works, good file browser (well integrated with the system!) etc. etc. Xandros ticks so many boxes, even the most rabid Slahsdotter SHOULD give it some credit.