The RIAA claims you parrot are completely unsubstiantiated. An RIAA complaint simply means a law-bot thinks something with a filename that resembles something that might be a track from a record label may have been downloaded to a specific IP address.
The people who modded you up should delete their slashdot accounts to ensure they won't be moderating braindead posts like yours upwards ever again.
As for you, the best thing you can do for the slashdot community is leave.
BTW, anybody noticed that NOTHING has hit the press about Novell with respect to the rather nice, if overhyped SLED10 "Vista-killer" since the announcement that Novell got pwn3d by MS?
You can try explaining this to the Republican House and Senate losers in Tuesday's election, but they're likely to respond by cramming a tinfoil hat on your head, the political effort that got rid of them was largely organized online. Don't try explaining this to Karl Rove, he's likely to try to rip your head off.
As for Bev Harris, I'll just say that there were tens of thousands of lawyers organized to take legal action when attempts at cheating were discovered, connected both online and via toll-free number. If there weren't a great deal of nervousness about Diebold and general GOP voter suppression practices, there would have been no such effort. And, of course, the fact that we ever heard of Bev Harris's discovery of serious voting machine problems is 100% Internet based, many of the original stories that broke the news about Diebold came from the New Zealand site scoop.co.nz when the MSM wouldn't run them. How often did Americans read stories from the NZ press before the Web made them easily available?
While what you say about what happened to Howard Dean is correct, the MSM basically unknowing set up the conditions for the regime change we just got by screwing Dean, the "50 state strategy" where we tried to get Democrats to run in every single partisan election was Dean's idea as DNC Chairman, and is why there were Democrats on tickets where no Democrat had won in a decade or more. As a reward, I hope the Democrats write legislation to restore the old limits on broadcast network ownership and the Fairness Doctrine.
The purpose of the antitrust laws is not to prevent a major software vendor from shooting itself in the head.
While I think DOJ should try enforcing the original antitrust judgement against MS and at least pretend that MS's campaign bucks to Bush didn't buy them off, if computer vendors find that they can't create computers at an affordable price with a Windoze OS, they should look into buying Linspire licenses at $22 a pop. (though I suspect that Acer can get licenses in 100K quantities cheaper than I can get them wholesale in onesies) Or keep buying XP if MS will keep selling it to them. As for Vista pricing, I can't think of a reason why our tax dollars should be wasted in protecting MS from itself or vendors who do business with MS from MS beyond the original judgement.
Given the dramatically increased component cost required for a box capable of running Vista (my Vista-ready upgrade cost about $375, though I'm going to run Linux instead), I was wondering how anyone was going to create $300 boxes for the home market. Come to think of it, even my upgrade (Athlon 3500, 24 pin 450W PSU, 1G DDR2, Biostar GEforce6100 AM2) is a trifle undersized for Vista.
I guess the answer is... the vendors can't do it, either. All I can say is. . . that's what happens when a company "partners" with Microsloth. Bloated, buggy, unsafe, and unaffordable... a great combination for everybody.
Your imaginative utopian vision aside, have you heard ANYTHING from Novell about SLED (the Novell SuSE-based enterprise desktop distro) since the MS announcement?
In which I say that "Vista-killer" as applied to SLED10 is hype, but SLED11 might actually be a "Vista-killer". I define this as a Linux distro which can be run by an average home user if the OS is preinstalled and will handle what the average computer user needs done and on which that user can install things without the help of a Linux guru.
Of course, this isn't merely true of SuSE distros, Lin/freespire (which I just tested, don't know when that review comes out) is at about that point, and I'd say the same for Fedora Core 6 (which I'm testing right now)... one more rev and we're likely to see "people-ready" Linux distros all over the place.
It's too late to put Linux servers back in the bottle, perhaps the preventive action MS has in mind is to interfere with desktop development.
As for "in at the door of Fortune 500 companies", perhaps you've heard of IBM or HP?
Disclaimer: what's in the above does not represent the opinion of techbuilder.org or its parent company, CMP.
That's something I've seen NOTHING about from Novell since the Microsoft merger, I mean deal.
I've been wondering if the deal is intended to basically, persuade Novell that it doesn't need to be in the desktop space and to slow down the R&D in the desktop area. Perhaps MS actually got nervous when all the articles came out calling SLED10 the "Vista-killer"?
Having reviewed two desktop distros (Lin/freespire and SLED10) for publication lately and I'm working on getting FC6 running (for review? Don't know yet, I'm getting VMware running on it at this point), I'd say that if the driver issue can be dealt with (preferably in a way that doesn't benefit Novell), the next rev of almost any Linux desktop distro will be ready for the unsupported home user assuming the OS is pre-installed by the computer builder. Linux desktops are generally ready for any company that can provide in-house support, but that was true last year.
While Fedora Core has the reputation of being more difficult, one can run one script (Fedora Frog) and install practically all the hard stuff in a couple of hours, starting with multimedia. Note that of the two hours or so, you need to spend about 5 minutes around the computer. Similar scripts are available for other distros. (note: yes, Frog works in FC6, with minor glitches)
I run it via Win4Lin 9.x over Fedora Core 3. I've never seen ZoneAlarm go off since I put it behind a Linux firewall. To do Windows AV protection, just run F-Prot for Linux, it's got the Windows virus signatures and updates automatically via daily cron job.
Oddly enough, the only legacy Windows apps I run regularly are Eudora and occasionally, Word and Excel. (I have OpenOffice, at what I do, "minor" compatibility problems aren't) I use the Linux host for everything else.
are almost ready for unsupported SOHO users. This is based on my recent reviews of SLED10, freespire, and my installing FC6 on the test HD last night. In fact, I'm planning to put freespire on the next desktop I set up for my non-tech roommates, though I'm setting up multimedia first.
If the major desktop distros solve their most obvious problems (multimedia and peripherals and in Linspire's case, making sure that nobody can install a command-line program via CNR by mistake) and given what's bundled into a regular Linux install (OpenOffice, Firefox, e-mail)... given that I've seen two distros with rpm installers that handle dependencies from randomly chosen rpms not on repositories... and that it is no longer a novelty to have distros come up with Internet access enabled on first boot because the distro found and installed the network correctly... Linspire 6 or FC7 or V11 of OpenSUSE / SLED (if they last long enough to create a V11) or the next Mandriva or Ubuntu might actually be the Vista-killer SLED10 didn't turn out to be. On freespire, I even found that the Lphoto camera application (SOMEBODY PORT THIS TO FC6!!!) recognizes my generic USB mass storage camera, no hassles. I'm seeing wireless automatically picked up in the install process. (freespire)
This may be the real reason Microsoft is crawling into bed with Novell (and why Novell seems to have suddenly lost interest in desktops). The Linux desktop is at long last almost ready to be a threat to the MS desktop monopoly. If somebody were to drop a megabuck into peripheral driver development or find a way to force peripheral manufacturers to step up to the plate, the word "almost" would no longer apply. If any major Linux player wants to give MS a kick in the balls, that's where to do it.
Google is as hated as Microsoft, "do no evil" as a slogan already works better to get laughs than as a description of anything having to do with current corporate policies.
The problem with a slogan like that is that if a company won't live up to it, it's of negative value.
What ever happened to leaving flaming sacks of crap on a porch??
Hey, putting a small bomb outside PayPal is one thing. Don't you think that putting the C-level suits on somebody's porch and setting them afire is overdoing it a little bit? (I might not have thought so a few months ago, but since after close to 2 years of trying, I finally managed to close my account and get my money back, I'm not as annoyed with them as I was.)
While there are probably a great many people whose days would be made by opening the daily fishwrap and discovering that somebody had set fire to the sacks of crap that they call C-level executives, how would you like to find those guys on fire on your porch?
that there is no point by a fan community in trying to add value to a Hollywood content cartel corporate creation, no matter how good it is. The best that one can do with it is to use it to make connections with other people, but that's as far as it can go. All creating promotional materlals to help keep a show on the air accomplishes is. . . the chance to get sued.
A Hollywood corporate interest isn't the friend of any consumer. Just an effort to create and package ideas as cheaply as possible and strip-mine all the value out of them ASAP, and at the strip-mining phase, fans with ideas interfere with the process more than anything else and are dispensible.
If a fan base wants to buy a series that's dead due to inept marketing. . . try to keep organization of a fundraising quiet from Hollywood, create a dummy organization to buy the series for profit, and then do it before announcing anything to anybody. Or reverse engineer the basic series plot enough to build a new series with similar values and self-launch.
I'd just add that if they intend to stay in business, they're going to have to step up to the plate and start buying politicians in job lots just like any other major industry does.
Much of the bad technology-related legislation that's getting passed appears to me to mainly intended by politicians to make the point "Ignore us and we will destroy you, because we can."
When consumer technology companies start spending the same percentage of their gross that Hollywood does on politicians, they will Pwn the government... because their gross is MUCH higher than Hollywood, and the content providers can either put up with this or go bankrupt trying to compete. Personally, I don't care which they do.
One would think that entertainment sector companies like companies in the game business would NOT have to have the need to buy politicians explained to them, given that the success of the Hollywood entertainment cartel in buying anti-technology and anti-consumer legislation from Congress. Where Hollywood buys anti-consumer legislation, maybe they can buy some pro-consumer legislation to replace it.
Do they want Hillary Clinton telling America about how the American game industry promotes "good moral values" among young people? They can try a $50K campaign contribution for her Presidential campaign and see how quickly she changes her mind about EVILLL!!! video games. The biggest secret about American politicians is that for a major corporation or large organized group, they are amazingly cheap.
Jack Thompson should serve out any contempt of court sentence as a prisoner at a CIA detention facility in Uzbekistan with a "return not required" sign around his neck.
Forbes Magazine subscriptions are great Xmas gifts. For the competitors' CEOs and CIOs. Getting technology right is the difference between corporate profit and corporate disaster, and Forbes usually gets it wrong
They've made a $1.6B bet that they can make youtube work. Their net cap is probably quite a bit bigger than every major record company and movie studio combined, and they appear to have plenty of cash in the bank.
It's an election year. Why the hell aren't they trying to buy off Congress and the Senate? 435 Congresscritters and 100 Senators, a $100K campaign contribution to each (or in the case of R/MPAA leadership, to their opponent) would only cost $53.5 million dollars. This would dwarf campaign contributions from Hollywood in this campaign cycle. (those who would like to come up with something closer than a guessestimate are invited to take a look at OpenSecrets... Congresscritters, even high ranking ones, come amazingly cheap) While in theory, this buys access, in practice... politicians listen to people who come in bearing large checks.
After that, they could for practical purposes, rewrite copyright law to suit themselves. While their interest don't exactly parallel ours, they'd be in a position to create more technology-friendly laws than anything Hollywood is likely to pay Congress to do to us. Just what could Hollywood do about this? Outbid them? They very probably can't, though some of the studios in weaker financial positions might go bankrupt trying. Or alternately, google can give them offers they can't refuse: "You want your sites to disappear from the Web? Keep pushing."
Note: Net Neutrality would cost a lot more, they'd have to outbid the incumbent RBOCs and cable companies.
This shows Foley as a Scoutmaster. This isn't available on the current "Fact Sheet" because unaccountably, it was purged of Foley's name right after Foley became notorious for his interest in children. Surely a coincidence.
Throw in the RIAA Merit Badge and. . . we have an organization that deserves no public support of any sort. They served a useful purpose in the past, too bad they seem as an organization to have forgotten what it was.
I've enjoyed the cutting edge technology that somehow seems to work despite its being cutting edge for years. I've taken it along with me when I went from Windows to Linux. I've encouraged people to try it out both as a user and a technology writer for the last several years.
If I can't turn these features off, I'll stay in v9.0 until something better than Opera comes along or it can't be used with whichever Linux distro I'm going to be using.
I make the decisions about what my web browser downloads and who it phones home to.
If I wanted a browser to play "Big Brother", I would have stayed in Windows, be using IE, and be planning a hardware upgrade to Vista.
It's sort of obvious that his intent is satirical. After all, nobody in an online community could be stupid enough to sit there with his bare face hanging out and actually mean the idiotic things this guy just said, right?
We tried having the government try to protect young people in the manner he describes. We got Mark Foley, R-NAMBLA.
It's getting increasingly clear that we need to protect young people from government, not have government protecting young people.
Dual boot on a desktop is a pain in the ass no matter how implemented. The fundamental problem is that Murphy's Law dictates that the next operation you want to make on a file is going to require use of whatever OS you are NOT booted to. That cut short my initial experiments with RedHat9 way back when... when I used RH9, I couldn't get to my e-mail or other Windows apps, and with Windows booted, I couldn't work with Linux.
So I run Windows in Win4Lin 9.x virtualization software using FC3 as a host OS (yes, I'm planning to upgrade to Xen or VMware), and cut and paste freely between Linux and Windows apps, and can even work on the same file in Linux and Windows apps at the same time if I absolutely have to. Why would I want to go from this to dual boot?
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The RIAA claims you parrot are completely unsubstiantiated. An RIAA complaint simply means a law-bot thinks something with a filename that resembles something that might be a track from a record label may have been downloaded to a specific IP address.
The people who modded you up should delete their slashdot accounts to ensure they won't be moderating braindead posts like yours upwards ever again.
As for you, the best thing you can do for the slashdot community is leave.
I recommend that you Darwinize yourself.
If you buy a used CD, no more money gets paid to RIAA labels. BTW, the RIAA has said that this is 'a problem that needs to be fixed'.
MS apparently threw so much DRM crap into it to make it incompatible with other MS music products to make Hollywood happy that sales are tanking.
to ensure that his political future is forfeit.
Rumor has it that the Newt is thinking about getting back into politics again. He's proved yet again that he is unfit for public office.
SLES is the server.
BTW, anybody noticed that NOTHING has hit the press about Novell with respect to the rather nice, if overhyped SLED10 "Vista-killer" since the announcement that Novell got pwn3d by MS?
You can try explaining this to the Republican House and Senate losers in Tuesday's election, but they're likely to respond by cramming a tinfoil hat on your head, the political effort that got rid of them was largely organized online. Don't try explaining this to Karl Rove, he's likely to try to rip your head off.
As for Bev Harris, I'll just say that there were tens of thousands of lawyers organized to take legal action when attempts at cheating were discovered, connected both online and via toll-free number. If there weren't a great deal of nervousness about Diebold and general GOP voter suppression practices, there would have been no such effort. And, of course, the fact that we ever heard of Bev Harris's discovery of serious voting machine problems is 100% Internet based, many of the original stories that broke the news about Diebold came from the New Zealand site scoop.co.nz when the MSM wouldn't run them. How often did Americans read stories from the NZ press before the Web made them easily available?
While what you say about what happened to Howard Dean is correct, the MSM basically unknowing set up the conditions for the regime change we just got by screwing Dean, the "50 state strategy" where we tried to get Democrats to run in every single partisan election was Dean's idea as DNC Chairman, and is why there were Democrats on tickets where no Democrat had won in a decade or more. As a reward, I hope the Democrats write legislation to restore the old limits on broadcast network ownership and the Fairness Doctrine.
The antitrust case against MS did NOT collapse. MS was found guilty.
DOJ antitrust enforcement collapsed after a $1M+ contribution to the Bush 2000 campaign by MS.
The purpose of the antitrust laws is not to prevent a major software vendor from shooting itself in the head.
While I think DOJ should try enforcing the original antitrust judgement against MS and at least pretend that MS's campaign bucks to Bush didn't buy them off, if computer vendors find that they can't create computers at an affordable price with a Windoze OS, they should look into buying Linspire licenses at $22 a pop. (though I suspect that Acer can get licenses in 100K quantities cheaper than I can get them wholesale in onesies) Or keep buying XP if MS will keep selling it to them. As for Vista pricing, I can't think of a reason why our tax dollars should be wasted in protecting MS from itself or vendors who do business with MS from MS beyond the original judgement.
Given the dramatically increased component cost required for a box capable of running Vista (my Vista-ready upgrade cost about $375, though I'm going to run Linux instead), I was wondering how anyone was going to create $300 boxes for the home market. Come to think of it, even my upgrade (Athlon 3500, 24 pin 450W PSU, 1G DDR2, Biostar GEforce6100 AM2) is a trifle undersized for Vista.
I guess the answer is... the vendors can't do it, either. All I can say is. . . that's what happens when a company "partners" with Microsloth. Bloated, buggy, unsafe, and unaffordable... a great combination for everybody.
Your imaginative utopian vision aside, have you heard ANYTHING from Novell about SLED (the Novell SuSE-based enterprise desktop distro) since the MS announcement?
My hands-on review of SLED10 just got published.
In which I say that "Vista-killer" as applied to SLED10 is hype, but SLED11 might actually be a "Vista-killer". I define this as a Linux distro which can be run by an average home user if the OS is preinstalled and will handle what the average computer user needs done and on which that user can install things without the help of a Linux guru.
Of course, this isn't merely true of SuSE distros, Lin/freespire (which I just tested, don't know when that review comes out) is at about that point, and I'd say the same for Fedora Core 6 (which I'm testing right now)... one more rev and we're likely to see "people-ready" Linux distros all over the place.
It's too late to put Linux servers back in the bottle, perhaps the preventive action MS has in mind is to interfere with desktop development.
As for "in at the door of Fortune 500 companies", perhaps you've heard of IBM or HP?
Disclaimer: what's in the above does not represent the opinion of techbuilder.org or its parent company, CMP.
That's something I've seen NOTHING about from Novell since the Microsoft merger, I mean deal.
I've been wondering if the deal is intended to basically, persuade Novell that it doesn't need to be in the desktop space and to slow down the R&D in the desktop area. Perhaps MS actually got nervous when all the articles came out calling SLED10 the "Vista-killer"?
Having reviewed two desktop distros (Lin/freespire and SLED10) for publication lately and I'm working on getting FC6 running (for review? Don't know yet, I'm getting VMware running on it at this point), I'd say that if the driver issue can be dealt with (preferably in a way that doesn't benefit Novell), the next rev of almost any Linux desktop distro will be ready for the unsupported home user assuming the OS is pre-installed by the computer builder. Linux desktops are generally ready for any company that can provide in-house support, but that was true last year.
While Fedora Core has the reputation of being more difficult, one can run one script (Fedora Frog) and install practically all the hard stuff in a couple of hours, starting with multimedia. Note that of the two hours or so, you need to spend about 5 minutes around the computer. Similar scripts are available for other distros. (note: yes, Frog works in FC6, with minor glitches)
I run it via Win4Lin 9.x over Fedora Core 3. I've never seen ZoneAlarm go off since I put it behind a Linux firewall. To do Windows AV protection, just run F-Prot for Linux, it's got the Windows virus signatures and updates automatically via daily cron job.
Oddly enough, the only legacy Windows apps I run regularly are Eudora and occasionally, Word and Excel. (I have OpenOffice, at what I do, "minor" compatibility problems aren't) I use the Linux host for everything else.
I'd very much like to know what the developer community thinks, especially ones not on Novell payroll.
are almost ready for unsupported SOHO users. This is based on my recent reviews of SLED10, freespire, and my installing FC6 on the test HD last night. In fact, I'm planning to put freespire on the next desktop I set up for my non-tech roommates, though I'm setting up multimedia first.
If the major desktop distros solve their most obvious problems (multimedia and peripherals and in Linspire's case, making sure that nobody can install a command-line program via CNR by mistake) and given what's bundled into a regular Linux install (OpenOffice, Firefox, e-mail)... given that I've seen two distros with rpm installers that handle dependencies from randomly chosen rpms not on repositories... and that it is no longer a novelty to have distros come up with Internet access enabled on first boot because the distro found and installed the network correctly... Linspire 6 or FC7 or V11 of OpenSUSE / SLED (if they last long enough to create a V11) or the next Mandriva or Ubuntu might actually be the Vista-killer SLED10 didn't turn out to be. On freespire, I even found that the Lphoto camera application (SOMEBODY PORT THIS TO FC6!!!) recognizes my generic USB mass storage camera, no hassles. I'm seeing wireless automatically picked up in the install process. (freespire)
This may be the real reason Microsoft is crawling into bed with Novell (and why Novell seems to have suddenly lost interest in desktops). The Linux desktop is at long last almost ready to be a threat to the MS desktop monopoly. If somebody were to drop a megabuck into peripheral driver development or find a way to force peripheral manufacturers to step up to the plate, the word "almost" would no longer apply. If any major Linux player wants to give MS a kick in the balls, that's where to do it.
Google is as hated as Microsoft, "do no evil" as a slogan already works better to get laughs than as a description of anything having to do with current corporate policies.
The problem with a slogan like that is that if a company won't live up to it, it's of negative value.
What ever happened to leaving flaming sacks of crap on a porch??
Hey, putting a small bomb outside PayPal is one thing. Don't you think that putting the C-level suits on somebody's porch and setting them afire is overdoing it a little bit? (I might not have thought so a few months ago, but since after close to 2 years of trying, I finally managed to close my account and get my money back, I'm not as annoyed with them as I was.)
While there are probably a great many people whose days would be made by opening the daily fishwrap and discovering that somebody had set fire to the sacks of crap that they call C-level executives, how would you like to find those guys on fire on your porch?
that there is no point by a fan community in trying to add value to a Hollywood content cartel corporate creation, no matter how good it is. The best that one can do with it is to use it to make connections with other people, but that's as far as it can go. All creating promotional materlals to help keep a show on the air accomplishes is. . . the chance to get sued.
A Hollywood corporate interest isn't the friend of any consumer. Just an effort to create and package ideas as cheaply as possible and strip-mine all the value out of them ASAP, and at the strip-mining phase, fans with ideas interfere with the process more than anything else and are dispensible.
If a fan base wants to buy a series that's dead due to inept marketing. . . try to keep organization of a fundraising quiet from Hollywood, create a dummy organization to buy the series for profit, and then do it before announcing anything to anybody. Or reverse engineer the basic series plot enough to build a new series with similar values and self-launch.
I'd just add that if they intend to stay in business, they're going to have to step up to the plate and start buying politicians in job lots just like any other major industry does.
Much of the bad technology-related legislation that's getting passed appears to me to mainly intended by politicians to make the point "Ignore us and we will destroy you, because we can."
When consumer technology companies start spending the same percentage of their gross that Hollywood does on politicians, they will Pwn the government... because their gross is MUCH higher than Hollywood, and the content providers can either put up with this or go bankrupt trying to compete. Personally, I don't care which they do.
One would think that entertainment sector companies like companies in the game business would NOT have to have the need to buy politicians explained to them, given that the success of the Hollywood entertainment cartel in buying anti-technology and anti-consumer legislation from Congress. Where Hollywood buys anti-consumer legislation, maybe they can buy some pro-consumer legislation to replace it.
Do they want Hillary Clinton telling America about how the American game industry promotes "good moral values" among young people? They can try a $50K campaign contribution for her Presidential campaign and see how quickly she changes her mind about EVILLL!!! video games. The biggest secret about American politicians is that for a major corporation or large organized group, they are amazingly cheap.
I've noticed the cool new GUI installer for it.
However, the big question for me about Xen is will it support a clipboard between guest and host OSs?
In other words can I copy info via the clipboard out of, say, XP running on a guest session and paste it into a Linux app running on FC6?
Jack Thompson should serve out any contempt of court sentence as a prisoner at a CIA detention facility in Uzbekistan with a "return not required" sign around his neck.
Forbes Magazine subscriptions are great Xmas gifts. For the competitors' CEOs and CIOs. Getting technology right is the difference between corporate profit and corporate disaster, and Forbes usually gets it wrong
They've made a $1.6B bet that they can make youtube work. Their net cap is probably quite a bit bigger than every major record company and movie studio combined, and they appear to have plenty of cash in the bank.
It's an election year. Why the hell aren't they trying to buy off Congress and the Senate? 435 Congresscritters and 100 Senators, a $100K campaign contribution to each (or in the case of R/MPAA leadership, to their opponent) would only cost $53.5 million dollars. This would dwarf campaign contributions from Hollywood in this campaign cycle. (those who would like to come up with something closer than a guessestimate are invited to take a look at OpenSecrets... Congresscritters, even high ranking ones, come amazingly cheap) While in theory, this buys access, in practice... politicians listen to people who come in bearing large checks.
After that, they could for practical purposes, rewrite copyright law to suit themselves. While their interest don't exactly parallel ours, they'd be in a position to create more technology-friendly laws than anything Hollywood is likely to pay Congress to do to us. Just what could Hollywood do about this? Outbid them? They very probably can't, though some of the studios in weaker financial positions might go bankrupt trying. Or alternately, google can give them offers they can't refuse: "You want your sites to disappear from the Web? Keep pushing."
Note: Net Neutrality would cost a lot more, they'd have to outbid the incumbent RBOCs and cable companies.
Boy Scouting?
This shows Foley as a Scoutmaster. This isn't available on the current "Fact Sheet" because unaccountably, it was purged of Foley's name right after Foley became notorious for his interest in children. Surely a coincidence.
I'm not sure that a youth organization that on a single campout, loses 4 dead to adult carelessness and 300 heat-related injuries in the course of having kids wait for President Bush to make a political appearance really is a place where any responsible adult would want to put a kid. The carelessness was setting up a giant tent with a metal pole right under high-tension power lines. You want to trust people like that with kids?
Throw in the RIAA Merit Badge and. . . we have an organization that deserves no public support of any sort. They served a useful purpose in the past, too bad they seem as an organization to have forgotten what it was.
I've enjoyed the cutting edge technology that somehow seems to work despite its being cutting edge for years. I've taken it along with me when I went from Windows to Linux. I've encouraged people to try it out both as a user and a technology writer for the last several years.
If I can't turn these features off, I'll stay in v9.0 until something better than Opera comes along or it can't be used with whichever Linux distro I'm going to be using.
I make the decisions about what my web browser downloads and who it phones home to.
If I wanted a browser to play "Big Brother", I would have stayed in Windows, be using IE, and be planning a hardware upgrade to Vista.
It's sort of obvious that his intent is satirical. After all, nobody in an online community could be stupid enough to sit there with his bare face hanging out and actually mean the idiotic things this guy just said, right?
We tried having the government try to protect young people in the manner he describes. We got Mark Foley, R-NAMBLA.
It's getting increasingly clear that we need to protect young people from government, not have government protecting young people.
Dual boot on a desktop is a pain in the ass no matter how implemented. The fundamental problem is that Murphy's Law dictates that the next operation you want to make on a file is going to require use of whatever OS you are NOT booted to. That cut short my initial experiments with RedHat9 way back when... when I used RH9, I couldn't get to my e-mail or other Windows apps, and with Windows booted, I couldn't work with Linux.
So I run Windows in Win4Lin 9.x virtualization software using FC3 as a host OS (yes, I'm planning to upgrade to Xen or VMware), and cut and paste freely between Linux and Windows apps, and can even work on the same file in Linux and Windows apps at the same time if I absolutely have to. Why would I want to go from this to dual boot?