That's what you get from most hippies. Pretty words, no useful substance. Some of them are brilliant, educated, rational, but those are in the minority.
> No security holes required - unless you count badly configured SMTP servers, and the security holes in sendmail for instance. In this case, its much more like security holes in *nux, not Windows - its not like Windows servers are the predominant OS used for mail gateways.
You are missing a HUUUUGE point here. Those windows boxes ARE acting as mail gateways! You know the "million zombies" on the internet? They all run Windows. They don't just get infected for the hell of it... They are used to send spam! Basically, you are 100% wrong. It is the Windows boxes that do the spamming, not the UNIX mail servers.
> f you can convince an idiot to run a virus when they're using Windows, you can put that same idiot in front of a Linux box, trick them into running the attachment, their Linux box will get hit too.
Blah blah, same bullshit, same answer: Sure, it can infect that user's space, but it won't spread out unless the box is configured horribly (i.e., he runs as root).
The fact that the commercial contains people hanging a HUGE FUCKING BANNER THAT READS "NO LATE FEES" and nothing else would be a pretty strong implication. That and a crowd of a hundred people chanting "no more late fees," not "no more late fees for at least a week."
> When I initially saw the ad I thought there was going to be some grievous catch.
I didn't. I know that Blockbuster charged a fucking arm & a leg just to rent a movie, so I thought they might be doing something to benefit the customer. Silly me, nothing is ever done to benefit the public.
> still wondering how your audible praying was forcing religion on other people?
The point is that if they were so pissed off about it, they could have moved themselves. If I hear you talking about Linux (could be considered preaching, considering some linux advocates), do I have the right to say "stop forcing your OS on me?" Why is it just religion?
I'm a god-hating atheist, but I try to be reasonable once in a while.
I cannot speak to the specifics here, since I was not there... HOWEVER, I have witnessed some occasions where some religious jerks, usually "reborn" teenagers thinking they are cool, will pray as loudly and obnoxiously (to me, at least) as possible to try to gain attention or to make others nearby uncomfortable. Makes me want to slap god's cock outta' their mouths.
Uh oh, starting to get offensive. Time to hit "submit."
> If you refuse to believe or acknowledge God, aren't you following a belief system?
Umm, no. A religion is a belief in something supernatural that usually cannot be described or comprehended. Atheism is the default point of view, where WYSIWYG. You have to be taught about religion Otherwise, it just wouldn't occur to you that there's an incomprehendable being watching over us.
> I'm sick of being slammed for this
It's WAAAAY far from fair and certainly not nice, but you know the kind of people that post here. Unfortunately, many of them attack based on principal (really, a desire to feel better than others) instead of points. I will freely admit that I am one of those who would occasionally start spouting off stuff I hardly understand in an effort to look smart. You just caught me on a good day.:)
> I would argue that war does not always equate to evil.
It may not be explicitly called "evil," but it seems that it is 100% "against God's wishes." Regardless which version of the 10 commandments you like to use, "thou shalt not kill" is worded exactly the same every time. It does not say "murder," it does not say "except when your life is threatened." OK, so Bush himself did not kill anyone (I assume). Is it as bad for someone to incite, or in the case of war, force others to commit forbidden actions? I don't know, and it's not my place to say, but it's a hard argument to win.
> all we religious can do is defend ourselves from peanut gallery onslaughts like this one.
That may be all you do, but please do not pretend that the religious "side" does not use the same dumb, fallacious tactics the heathens do. (That was a subtle one on my part:)
> my guess [...] is that you don't have the full understanding of what [Taking the Lord's name in vain] means
I was under the belief that "taking his name in vain" does not mean just saying it, but saying that you are doing something in his name, when you are really doing it for personal gain or some other nonreligious reason.
Like if I went on TV and said "God wants me to tell you to send me money and elect me dictator of the world." That would be using his name in vain, but just saying "oh, God" in disbelief is not. Personally, I try not to do either one.:) I am no scholar, but this is my understanding.
Isn't that completely CD-based? Granted, it's more disk space for video storage, but I don't like it... for... um... well, no good reason, but I just like to have my OS installed:) Otherwise, yes, I believe that's what I'm looking for. Although for upgradeability (assuming data file compatibility between versions), you can't beat just downloading a new image, burning it to CD, swapping it out of the PC & rebooting.
It may be unreasonable, but I want to be able to just download a couple files, "emerge MythTV" or whatever, and have it all **poof** just be there and work. Granted, it may be an hour-long "poof," but that's acceptable.
I've never used Gentoo, it may be above me. Is portage easy to figure out? Will it go out and search for dependencies? Maybe I'll try installing Gentoo this weekend... can't hurt.
> If the networks would air less ads in an hour, they would become more valuable and they could charge more for each ad.
But then, only huge companies we all hate would be the only ones who could afford the advertising.
I'm not too unhappy with the current method, although there seem to be longer commercial breaks every year, in the "Quest for More Money." What I am unhappy about is seeing the same goddamned commercials twice an hour. If those assholes at Enzyte don't stop showing three identical pairs of commercials every hour, I'm gonna kill someone.
The song was catchy the first million times. Now it's enough to make me want to put a hot icepick in my ears.
> Alright Slashdotters, somebody throw up a link to a build-it-yourself Linux PVR unit.
Screw that. What I want is a Linux PVR DISTRIBUTION!!! I will be convinced of Linux's superiority once someone can make a MythTV box without needing to first research for a week. Well, I'm convinced now, but I'll be happy about it. It's a huge pain in the butt to even find all the packages you need to install MythTV, then all the dependencies those packages have, and their dependencies, etc... I've installed a couple Linux distros numerous times and have never gotten software to install easily, unless it was mostly self-contained, amazingly simple (pico, etc) or ubiquitous (ie, Apache).
It's painful to say, but the only packager I've been able to get working consistently is RPM... from like, RedHat 5. I have never had APT work properly (Please, someone tell me how to get it to find and download all dependencies automatically!), CPAN is impossible to use... YUM? Can't find it anywhere, not even sure I know what it is.
Really, why is it so damned hard to write an installer that can install all the prerequisites as well? The package should contain links to other required packages (FTP xxxx-current-version symlinks or something) so that I don't have to search for the exact right files for my distro.
And another thing. Even if that doesn't happen, when you are making a package to install software and you are missing randomfile.4.so... Please tell me WHERE THE HECK I CAN FIND THAT FILE! Usually it is in some RPM with a name not even remotely similar to the lib name.
Maybe he was being anti-sexist, by not assuming you only have male siblings...
And stereotype or not, because of the PREVIOUS sexism that is still being dealt with, it is a fact that women are less inclined towards trying to understand technology. Of course, if your sister is under 30, that gap is probably pretty small.
He talks about sending your car to a professional garage, your washer to the "Maytag man" or whatever, but then when it comes to computers, he gets mad that it's not something your average idiot can fix? What a double standard.
This article is worthless, and the writer has no skill in logic.
> it means that all the time when you're awake, you're exhausted and almost falling asleep all day
I think his suggestion was a little excessive, but he's generally right. If you are that tired it means you probably aren't getting enough sleep or are not eating properly. If you are that tired every single day, my first guess is that your caffiene intake is considerably more than 1 cup of coffee a day (I mean a cup like a mug/paper cup, not a 500oz pool of caffiene). Two other possibilities are that you have a potassium deficiency or eat too much sugar. Since you think eating only makes you fat, the first seems more likely (if you don't eat at all, you probably never touch sugar).
> As for 'eating a good meal', that will just make you fat.
Do you never eat anything? "Good" does not mean "big." You sound like you have one of the following problems: 1) You know nothing about nutrition 2) Your metabolism is horribly, horribly fucked 3) I misunderstood you completely (I guess that technically wouldn't be your problem)
If the "edge" looks 14 billion light years away from the "center," wouldn't the whole kit n' kaboodle be 56 ly across?
If it looks 14b ly away on one side, that light left that point (14b L-Y away) 14b years ago and has had another 14b years to continue expanding out. Assuming constant speed (not a safe assumption at all), it would be twice as far as it looks. 28b ly that way, 28b the other.
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Probably.
> Do christians believe they'll convert people by it? Are non-christians just wanting to be assholes?
You have that backward. The Xtians who say that kind of stupid stuff just want to feel superior to others, so they basically lay claim to their own divinity. They are the assholes. After all, there is no other good explanation I can find why they think they should get into heaven -- despite their verbal attacks, warmongering, and generally unchristian living -- yet a pacifistic Buddhist will fry in Hell for eternity.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: [...] The third layer is the need for love and belonging, followed by the need for esteem.
Interesting that esteem is listed after love/belonging, since many of us have no chance of love, supposedly because we lack the self-esteem it brings. I don't like that level very much...
> it is for the doubters to prove their position for they are the ones deviating from the standard.
Hate to burst your bubble, but you ARE the minority/deviation. Since you think that is a valid point, please explain why you are not a Muslim. There are more Muslims in the world than Christians.
> Swearing always adds to one's credibility.
Did I say it did? It does not take away from my credibility either, unless you choose to ignore what I say due to the words I use in a paraphrased quote.
Claiming to be a scientist and then saying that matter can change from one thing to another completely, without any chemical reaction to do that, certainly does hurt YOUR credibility.
> Yes. They taught you nothing about the catholic church.
Obviously you don't really know what a Jesuit school means then. It is not a place to spread Catholic dogma, it is a place to learn. In fact, they taught me more about the mistakes of the catholic church than their traditions, which they barely touched on (except in classes specifically about Catholicism).
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That's what you get from most hippies. Pretty words, no useful substance. Some of them are brilliant, educated, rational, but those are in the minority.
I don't think it's meant to be funny, it's meant to be insightful.
> No security holes required - unless you count badly configured SMTP servers, and the security holes in sendmail for instance. In this case, its much more like security holes in *nux, not Windows - its not like Windows servers are the predominant OS used for mail gateways.
You are missing a HUUUUGE point here. Those windows boxes ARE acting as mail gateways! You know the "million zombies" on the internet? They all run Windows. They don't just get infected for the hell of it... They are used to send spam! Basically, you are 100% wrong. It is the Windows boxes that do the spamming, not the UNIX mail servers.
> f you can convince an idiot to run a virus when they're using Windows, you can put that same idiot in front of a Linux box, trick them into running the attachment, their Linux box will get hit too.
Blah blah, same bullshit, same answer: Sure, it can infect that user's space, but it won't spread out unless the box is configured horribly (i.e., he runs as root).
> > I'll bite....
> Ok enough with that meme, and get rid of the stupid "to boot" as well. These two new memes make absolutely no sense.
Guess you've never heard of a "sport" called fishing. If you had, "I'll bite" would make perfect sense. "To boot," however, is simply dumb.
> Exactly how did the ads "strongly imply" that?
The fact that the commercial contains people hanging a HUGE FUCKING BANNER THAT READS "NO LATE FEES" and nothing else would be a pretty strong implication. That and a crowd of a hundred people chanting "no more late fees," not "no more late fees for at least a week."
> When I initially saw the ad I thought there was going to be some grievous catch.
I didn't. I know that Blockbuster charged a fucking arm & a leg just to rent a movie, so I thought they might be doing something to benefit the customer. Silly me, nothing is ever done to benefit the public.
> still wondering how your audible praying was forcing religion on other people?
The point is that if they were so pissed off about it, they could have moved themselves. If I hear you talking about Linux (could be considered preaching, considering some linux advocates), do I have the right to say "stop forcing your OS on me?" Why is it just religion?
I'm a god-hating atheist, but I try to be reasonable once in a while.
I cannot speak to the specifics here, since I was not there... HOWEVER, I have witnessed some occasions where some religious jerks, usually "reborn" teenagers thinking they are cool, will pray as loudly and obnoxiously (to me, at least) as possible to try to gain attention or to make others nearby uncomfortable. Makes me want to slap god's cock outta' their mouths.
Uh oh, starting to get offensive. Time to hit "submit."
> If you refuse to believe or acknowledge God, aren't you following a belief system?
:)
Umm, no. A religion is a belief in something supernatural that usually cannot be described or comprehended. Atheism is the default point of view, where WYSIWYG. You have to be taught about religion Otherwise, it just wouldn't occur to you that there's an incomprehendable being watching over us.
> I'm sick of being slammed for this
It's WAAAAY far from fair and certainly not nice, but you know the kind of people that post here. Unfortunately, many of them attack based on principal (really, a desire to feel better than others) instead of points. I will freely admit that I am one of those who would occasionally start spouting off stuff I hardly understand in an effort to look smart. You just caught me on a good day.
> I would argue that war does not always equate to evil.
:)
:) I am no scholar, but this is my understanding.
It may not be explicitly called "evil," but it seems that it is 100% "against God's wishes." Regardless which version of the 10 commandments you like to use, "thou shalt not kill" is worded exactly the same every time. It does not say "murder," it does not say "except when your life is threatened." OK, so Bush himself did not kill anyone (I assume). Is it as bad for someone to incite, or in the case of war, force others to commit forbidden actions? I don't know, and it's not my place to say, but it's a hard argument to win.
> all we religious can do is defend ourselves from peanut gallery onslaughts like this one.
That may be all you do, but please do not pretend that the religious "side" does not use the same dumb, fallacious tactics the heathens do. (That was a subtle one on my part
> my guess [...] is that you don't have the full understanding of what [Taking the Lord's name in vain] means
I was under the belief that "taking his name in vain" does not mean just saying it, but saying that you are doing something in his name, when you are really doing it for personal gain or some other nonreligious reason.
Like if I went on TV and said "God wants me to tell you to send me money and elect me dictator of the world." That would be using his name in vain, but just saying "oh, God" in disbelief is not. Personally, I try not to do either one.
> Um.. You mean like KnoppMYTH?
:) Otherwise, yes, I believe that's what I'm looking for. Although for upgradeability (assuming data file compatibility between versions), you can't beat just downloading a new image, burning it to CD, swapping it out of the PC & rebooting.
Isn't that completely CD-based? Granted, it's more disk space for video storage, but I don't like it... for... um... well, no good reason, but I just like to have my OS installed
It may be unreasonable, but I want to be able to just download a couple files, "emerge MythTV" or whatever, and have it all **poof** just be there and work. Granted, it may be an hour-long "poof," but that's acceptable.
I've never used Gentoo, it may be above me. Is portage easy to figure out? Will it go out and search for dependencies? Maybe I'll try installing Gentoo this weekend... can't hurt.
> If the networks would air less ads in an hour, they would become more valuable and they could charge more for each ad.
But then, only huge companies we all hate would be the only ones who could afford the advertising.
I'm not too unhappy with the current method, although there seem to be longer commercial breaks every year, in the "Quest for More Money." What I am unhappy about is seeing the same goddamned commercials twice an hour. If those assholes at Enzyte don't stop showing three identical pairs of commercials every hour, I'm gonna kill someone.
The song was catchy the first million times. Now it's enough to make me want to put a hot icepick in my ears.
> Alright Slashdotters, somebody throw up a link to a build-it-yourself Linux PVR unit.
Screw that. What I want is a Linux PVR DISTRIBUTION!!! I will be convinced of Linux's superiority once someone can make a MythTV box without needing to first research for a week. Well, I'm convinced now, but I'll be happy about it. It's a huge pain in the butt to even find all the packages you need to install MythTV, then all the dependencies those packages have, and their dependencies, etc... I've installed a couple Linux distros numerous times and have never gotten software to install easily, unless it was mostly self-contained, amazingly simple (pico, etc) or ubiquitous (ie, Apache).
It's painful to say, but the only packager I've been able to get working consistently is RPM... from like, RedHat 5. I have never had APT work properly (Please, someone tell me how to get it to find and download all dependencies automatically!), CPAN is impossible to use... YUM? Can't find it anywhere, not even sure I know what it is.
Really, why is it so damned hard to write an installer that can install all the prerequisites as well? The package should contain links to other required packages (FTP xxxx-current-version symlinks or something) so that I don't have to search for the exact right files for my distro.
And another thing. Even if that doesn't happen, when you are making a package to install software and you are missing randomfile.4.so... Please tell me WHERE THE HECK I CAN FIND THAT FILE! Usually it is in some RPM with a name not even remotely similar to the lib name.
> I am still amazazed that so many would pay a subcription fee just to be able to record something.
...Without knowing the start time or the channel it's on? No VCR I know of can do that.
> a sexist, out-of-touch geek.
Maybe he was being anti-sexist, by not assuming you only have male siblings...
And stereotype or not, because of the PREVIOUS sexism that is still being dealt with, it is a fact that women are less inclined towards trying to understand technology. Of course, if your sister is under 30, that gap is probably pretty small.
He talks about sending your car to a professional garage, your washer to the "Maytag man" or whatever, but then when it comes to computers, he gets mad that it's not something your average idiot can fix? What a double standard.
This article is worthless, and the writer has no skill in logic.
Evidently not. It was just a guess anyway.
> What the hell is potassium deficiency
It means you don't eat enough potassium. It's in a lot of solid-ish plants like bananas & apples. Potatoes also have it.
> it means that all the time when you're awake, you're exhausted and almost falling asleep all day
I think his suggestion was a little excessive, but he's generally right. If you are that tired it means you probably aren't getting enough sleep or are not eating properly. If you are that tired every single day, my first guess is that your caffiene intake is considerably more than 1 cup of coffee a day (I mean a cup like a mug/paper cup, not a 500oz pool of caffiene). Two other possibilities are that you have a potassium deficiency or eat too much sugar. Since you think eating only makes you fat, the first seems more likely (if you don't eat at all, you probably never touch sugar).
> As for 'eating a good meal', that will just make you fat.
Do you never eat anything? "Good" does not mean "big." You sound like you have one of the following problems:
1) You know nothing about nutrition
2) Your metabolism is horribly, horribly fucked
3) I misunderstood you completely (I guess that technically wouldn't be your problem)
I'm going to assume #3 for now...
Never heard of the .coc TLD, and not sure I want to go to one ;)
Fixed & linkified: http://www.garageband.com/
> 5. The Duct Tape Force, which sticks things that are unstuck
> 6. The WD-40 Force, which unsticks things that are stuck
Which brings me to my next point. Never try to remove duct tape with WD-40, or the universe may disappear.
If the "edge" looks 14 billion light years away from the "center," wouldn't the whole kit n' kaboodle be 56 ly across?
If it looks 14b ly away on one side, that light left that point (14b L-Y away) 14b years ago and has had another 14b years to continue expanding out. Assuming constant speed (not a safe assumption at all), it would be twice as far as it looks. 28b ly that way, 28b the other.
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Probably.
> Do christians believe they'll convert people by it? Are non-christians just wanting to be assholes?
You have that backward. The Xtians who say that kind of stupid stuff just want to feel superior to others, so they basically lay claim to their own divinity. They are the assholes. After all, there is no other good explanation I can find why they think they should get into heaven -- despite their verbal attacks, warmongering, and generally unchristian living -- yet a pacifistic Buddhist will fry in Hell for eternity.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: [...] The third layer is the need for love and belonging, followed by the need for esteem.
Interesting that esteem is listed after love/belonging, since many of us have no chance of love, supposedly because we lack the self-esteem it brings. I don't like that level very much...
> it is for the doubters to prove their position for they are the ones deviating from the standard.
Hate to burst your bubble, but you ARE the minority/deviation. Since you think that is a valid point, please explain why you are not a Muslim. There are more Muslims in the world than Christians.
> Swearing always adds to one's credibility.
Did I say it did? It does not take away from my credibility either, unless you choose to ignore what I say due to the words I use in a paraphrased quote.
Claiming to be a scientist and then saying that matter can change from one thing to another completely, without any chemical reaction to do that, certainly does hurt YOUR credibility.
> Yes. They taught you nothing about the catholic church.
Obviously you don't really know what a Jesuit school means then. It is not a place to spread Catholic dogma, it is a place to learn. In fact, they taught me more about the mistakes of the catholic church than their traditions, which they barely touched on (except in classes specifically about Catholicism).