> need an hour to "wade through" a highly intelligible and well written legal document?
Well written, yes. They have to be very exact, but if you seriously think most legal documents are easy to wade through, you are either a lawyer or a member of Mensa (the latter, of course, assumes that some member of Mensa can stop stroking his ego long enough to actually read one, which is unlikely).
Moron... Funny... You don't realize that it is individuals who have the right to free speech, not corporations. And although Corps are run by individuals, they don't have the right to force us to listen or even to waste our resources in their pursuit of free speech.
> Is there some sort of feedback to tell you this trick worked
Not really. It only takes a few seconds, though. You can tell it has worked when the CD light stops flashing or sometimes your cursor will switch (very quickly) to an hourglass and back. Depending on the speed of your CD-ROM, you might hear it spin up, wait a second or two & spin down again. If you're unsure, just hold it for 15 seconds after inserting the CD -- that should be long enough.
I must be lucky, a ban on the place I used to work for was lifted less than 48 hours after I fixed the open relay. It had been on the blacklist for at least a month before I started working there.
> vigiliante assholes who think it's their right to block whole subnets at once.
Hey, Einstein. It is their right to block whoever they damn well want to. I'll point out that SPEWS, AFAIK, doesn't block anyone. The people who choose to use their service are the ones blocking mail from reaching their servers, it's their choice. And speaking of reaching, reach around & pull your head from your ass.
> Too bad limewire works on MAC's and links up to the whole P2P network.
Wow, the WHOLE P2P network??? That must be one of those fancy IntraWeb Programs. You DO realize that P2P is not a protocol and just a type of program, no?
> The most effective security feature on our domain controller
... Is swapped keys? If that's the most effective security you've got, you're in trouble. What if someone connects to it from a different computer & not on the server itself? Then the keymapping doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
> Maybe I should keep a hippo or an elephant around if my kid is born. Maybe it could help
I'd be the last to kill a joke (okay, I'm first this time), but you don't know if the gravitational pull of an elephant would be good or bad. Heck the outcome could change dramatically depending on if it was in the delivery room, or just in the waiting room smoking a cigar & chewing its nails with all the tension (does an efelant have nails?).
> (Warning: That's my personal opinion. I don't mean to offend anyone.)
Come one, have some balls (I don't mean to offend you if you have none;).
Never apologize for offending someone, and certainly not before you find out if they are offended or not. Besides, that is how fortune cookies are written.
> -Arrex, an advanced scripting language that could do gui as well as command line apps
I have to nitpick because the Amiga is one of the few places I can actually do that. It's ARexx, and it kicked ass. It was the first language I ever learned, and I used to write BBS games in it.
> Can't remember if there was a way to change actual device names though.
Sure you could.. there was a file called... eh... device-(something) that had all the devices (DF0:, DH0:, CD0:, etc) defined, named, and what their "driver" was. All you had to do was rename it in there, IIRC. Maybe it was in mountlist... It's been about 5 years since I've seen an Amiga.
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> need an hour to "wade through" a highly intelligible and well written legal document?
Well written, yes. They have to be very exact, but if you seriously think most legal documents are easy to wade through, you are either a lawyer or a member of Mensa (the latter, of course, assumes that some member of Mensa can stop stroking his ego long enough to actually read one, which is unlikely).
> people let the issue of not being annoyed by telemarketers trumps less important ones[...]
Unfortunately, there are some who do...
> it only consists of a few sentences
I never thought any U.S. government could be so short. It's a beautiful day when I can read the entire text without falling asleep or rolling my eyes.
> Because of the First Amendment you moron.
Moron... Funny... You don't realize that it is individuals who have the right to free speech, not corporations. And although Corps are run by individuals, they don't have the right to force us to listen or even to waste our resources in their pursuit of free speech.
> The jury decided that your mother was a filthy fucking whore
I bet it was unanimous as well.
> Is there some sort of feedback to tell you this trick worked
Not really. It only takes a few seconds, though. You can tell it has worked when the CD light stops flashing or sometimes your cursor will switch (very quickly) to an hourglass and back. Depending on the speed of your CD-ROM, you might hear it spin up, wait a second or two & spin down again. If you're unsure, just hold it for 15 seconds after inserting the CD -- that should be long enough.
I laughed, so it succeeded. No need to apologize for a joke.
> Good luck convincing the SPEWS folk.
I must be lucky, a ban on the place I used to work for was lifted less than 48 hours after I fixed the open relay. It had been on the blacklist for at least a month before I started working there.
> vigiliante assholes who think it's their right to block whole subnets at once.
Hey, Einstein. It is their right to block whoever they damn well want to. I'll point out that SPEWS, AFAIK, doesn't block anyone. The people who choose to use their service are the ones blocking mail from reaching their servers, it's their choice. And speaking of reaching, reach around & pull your head from your ass.
> We're talking about thousands of lawsuits
Actually, it's 261 of them, which simply reinforces your pointv
> Too bad limewire works on MAC's and links up to the whole P2P network.
Wow, the WHOLE P2P network??? That must be one of those fancy IntraWeb Programs. You DO realize that P2P is not a protocol and just a type of program, no?
> On every keyboard I've ripped apart (several) the keys slope differently between the different rows
I (just now) have switched to the dvorak style, and I didn't have that problem. I am using a Keytronic 3601 and all the keys are sloped the same way.
Unfortunately, Mozilla has not picked up on the change yet, and it still prints out QWERTY (',.py) characters.
> Did you go out of your way to not read the parent post?
I doubt it, but you seemed to have gone out of your way to ruin a good joke. Jerk... That's my job.
> The most effective security feature on our domain controller
... Is swapped keys? If that's the most effective security you've got, you're in trouble. What if someone connects to it from a different computer & not on the server itself? Then the keymapping doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
> With terms like that, who needs females?
:)
You failed to mention my favorite term from the article... When he started calling everyone "bitch."
> (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, come on, man! I'm a Karma masochist, that should be flamebait or troll!
> I had one long arguement with a woman who believed in the zodiac, but though birth order (e.g. being the middle child) was of no consequence.
I think you should change your handle; You seem to be handling things pretty well, while your "friend" seems to be the one prone to CrazyTalk.
> We have convincing evidence that life evolved on at least one planet
;)
Convincing evidence? What, all the people, mammals, insects, fish, reptiles (and not to mention fossils) aren't enough to PROVE it to you?
> Maybe I should keep a hippo or an elephant around if my kid is born. Maybe it could help
I'd be the last to kill a joke (okay, I'm first this time), but you don't know if the gravitational pull of an elephant would be good or bad. Heck the outcome could change dramatically depending on if it was in the delivery room, or just in the waiting room smoking a cigar & chewing its nails with all the tension (does an efelant have nails?).
> I think my preacher put it best...
Yeah, a practitioner of one flimsy idea explaining how flimsy another is. Funny. Yet it is still a good point.
> (Warning: That's my personal opinion. I don't mean to offend anyone.)
;).
Come one, have some balls (I don't mean to offend you if you have none
Never apologize for offending someone, and certainly not before you find out if they are offended or not. Besides, that is how fortune cookies are written.
> she said, "T-Bone, what's your sign?"
That song kicks ass.
Existential Blue, by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
> -Arrex, an advanced scripting language that could do gui as well as command line apps
I have to nitpick because the Amiga is one of the few places I can actually do that. It's ARexx, and it kicked ass. It was the first language I ever learned, and I used to write BBS games in it.
> Can't remember if there was a way to change actual device names though.
Sure you could.. there was a file called... eh... device-(something) that had all the devices (DF0:, DH0:, CD0:, etc) defined, named, and what their "driver" was. All you had to do was rename it in there, IIRC. Maybe it was in mountlist... It's been about 5 years since I've seen an Amiga.
> Sorry, couldn't resist.
Sure you could have. But try harder next time, m'kay? 'kay.