I use NoScript all the time. Just recently...the last few week actually...I started noticing that a number of things on yahoo finance just plain stopped working because they required javascript from yimg.com...as if I'm going to allow that...ffs.
More importantly, why is a member of Congress more important that I am?
While I tend to agree with that sentiment in principal, illegal spying on people of power is in fact a huge problem for all of us...having "dirt" on everyone was a big part of what kept an insane fucking megalomaniac like J. Edgar Hoover in a position of unspeakable power for so long. We sure don't need more of that.
Not as dangerous as lecturers at public universities. I think I will write an app that allows you to geotag your local professors, track their license plates, and give you hints and tips on how to heckle them and ruin their lives for doing things that you may or may not agree with.
Exactly...and who's deciding who these "suspected" unsafe gun owners are? Sounds like nothing better than a malicious rumor mill app to me. Let's just start something similar for everyone we think is a closet alcoholic or the like...I mean FFS...
Because its not like you couldn't call the police if people are doing unsafe things with guns. In a lot of places there are laws about the safe handling of weapons.
Exactly!...instead we have people with a clear anti-gun agenda taking a total vigilante approach to this...oh the irony.
Sorry if this hijacks the posters question a little...but it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the topic. I'm not sure if others have found the same, but in cases where I've needed a KVM, including my current setup at home, I've spent what seems like man years of my life screwing with KVMs. A KVM that does NOT totally suck is an animal that does NOT exist.
My current setup works with many quirks that constantly screw with me, and it took forever to get to this point. I went through two KVMs that were totally unusable for various reasons...stuck keys in Linux only(??)...you name it. When I finally got one that seemed to play nicely I discovered that it didn't work with my T43 Thinkpad docking station. I found other users that had encountered the same issue with this switch ONLY on the T43 docking station...unbelievable. Believe it or not, just for the hell of it, I tried putting one of the bad KVMs (that I'd kept too long to return) in between my working one and the T43 and it worked...only because the two switches used different hot keys. That's the kludgy setup I have to this day.
However that setup is all PS2, so now that I'm overdue to replace my Linux workstation, I get to do it all over again, or figure out how to live without the KVM. Seriously...has anyone else found this things to suck this bad???
The AC post above was mine. Didn't want to post it anonymously. I can't figure out why I seem to unexpectedly get logged out of skashdot without knowing it...happens way too often.
Indeed. I don't understand why this is public information to begin with. It's no ones business what products I buy or own.
Absolutely. Why don't they just start WhoHasTheBestShitToSteal.gov for Christ's sake. With guns there's an even bigger concern given the attractiveness of guns to criminals. I don't think you need to be any sort of anti-gun-control fanatic to see the insanity in this one.
I have a Linksys E1200 router and can verify first hand that it's a POS. Every few weeks it flakes out and some, but not all machines connected to it loose access to the network. It's on the newest firmware, and I even factory reset it and reconfigured everything as a last ditch attempt to address it. I had a bad feeling when when I went to upgrade the firmware and it prompted for which "hardware version" I had...1 or 2. Mine didn't indicate which, and it took a little doing to find it was "version 1". My take on that is that version 1 was the "defective hardware we should have replaced for free". Compete and utter junk. I made the mistake of confusing them with the Linksys of yesteryear...never again.
I was going to ask the same thing. How can it possibly be legal for an ISP tamper with the content like this? I'll bet this would even trick NoScript into assuming the javascript came from the same site as the page. If this is legel, I'm a bit stunned. It certainly shouldn't be.
The whole premise of the article seems to assume that unions are exclusively about 1950s-like factory jobs. How about all those low paying service jobs out there? I don't see too many robots stocking shelves at Walmart. In decades gone by, in a large part due to unions, a guy who was willing to get up every day and go sweep floors at a factory could actually survive. Today's equivalent, those low paying service jobs, pay so little you're almost better off not working at all.
That's why unions are under attach these days...because a large chunk of corporate America is still dependent on a few jobs that they can't automate or outsource and, if unionized, might actually pay a fair wage...and we can't have that now can we??
If only it were just a 50 element array. Using Illinois as an example, each county and sometimes city have their own tax rates.
Amen to that.
A software company I used to work for had a customer in the aviation business...mostly airplane repair. When they did repairs for someone they had to charge all applicable taxes based on where the owner lived. They had a dedicated system to handle it which required regular updates. All in, it apparently handled thousands of special cases.
...and lets not forget...collecting the taxes is the easy part. Properly submitting them to the states etc for which you're collecting them with all the proper documentation makes that look easy.
Let's be clear: forcing businesses to collect all applicable taxes would effectively end Internet commerce for the little guy...at least for any who want to operate within the law.
Oh to have mod points!...If people keep working around this crap rather than voting with their wallets they're saying it's OK. Everyone who gives a shit about this MUST refuse to buy any computer with secure boot...period.
OMFG!!...Some of the quotes etc in the essay from the GNOME folks are utterly beyond belief. I'm serious...I had no idea their attitudes had reached that state...and all the talk about "our brand"...WFT?? They've essentially become Microsoft FFS. After reading that I don't see how anyone who cares about Linux or open source would want anything other than to totally abandon, even boycott those folks...simply amazing.
I didn't notice this when you originally replied. I'd say there's very little chance of that. You're probably not aware of the history of all that, but originally zap2it.com (owned by Tribune Media Services) had a free interface for their listings, but eventually announced that they could not continue to support it. As a result, Schedules Direct came about via a collaboration of MythTV and similar open source projects who worked out a deal with TMS. They pay Tribune Media Services for listing data, which is why they charge a small amount ($20 a year) for subscriptions. All in all, this is probably a decent revenue source for TMS. I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be a problem with it some day, but I think it's very unlikely.
I had one of those HDD500 DVRs for recording HD OTA for quite some time and finally sold it (for almost as much as I paid for it) about 4-5 years ago after building my MythTV system.
While it generally was a pretty good recorder, and pretty much the only retail unit of it's kind, I grew to HATE that TV Guide OnScreen. That TV Guide system had essentially it's own firmware within the recorders firmware that was self updating...that is it would automatically update itself totally beyond your control from the OTA signal...and this didn't always go well. When the guide didn't work, the unit was essentially a paper weight for the very reason described in TFA...the assholes decided to give you NO way at all to manually set the fucking clock....a feature available in every fucking VCR made since the 80s, in a unit that retailed for over $1000...seriously??
Good riddance...gotta love MythTV and Schedules Direct!!
I'll probably get some troll points for this, but after watching the recent Frontline titled Climate of Doubt, I wonder if there aren't some pretty powerful forces out there that just plain don't want weather/climate data all that much. The interviews in that show seem to indicate that the big money behind that effort (which over the last four years has somehow convinced half of the U.S. population that man made climate change is a myth, while science has gone in the opposite direction), is way more about Ayn Randian ideology than science.
All pretty scary if you ask me...like we're getting closer and closer to witch burning every day...
These so-called "HDTV" antennas were sold for years with the incorrect assumption that digital TV would stay on UHF and it most assuredly did not!
In the New York area for example, several of the UHF digital networks moved their digital signal to their original VHF frequency when the switch over occurred.
Don't buy one of those unless you're sure that all the digital networks in your area are on UHF. If any are, you'll need a combination UHF/VHF antenna.
I know it's not an option for some, but I live where I can get New York OTA channels, and even Philly stations if I want, with my roof antenna and rotor. I record everything we watch on a MythTV system with a TB of disk space. I haven't had pay TV in 25 years.
I have cable for internet only. Every time the cable company calls me trying to sell me a TV package, I tell them exactly what I'm currently using, and exactly why I want no part of their any-consumer bull shit. I wish more people would do the same thing.
What sucks of course is that, because all the available internet providers are TV providers, you pay a premium for internet when it's not part of some fucking package. The whole situation just blows to put it mildly...and the fucking FCC, whose supposed to be working for us, can go straight to fucking hell too.
You're fucking kidding right?? Like code being pulled from packages I chose to install on MY computer is the same as a website I'm visiting choosing to make ME run code from sites I never even heard of?? What exactly is your point, aside from proving your astonishing ignorance??
The thing that pisses me off the most about most (even supposedly reputable) web sites these days, is the eye opener you get if you run NoScript. The fact that the home pages of supposedly reputable sites are trying to pull in javascript from like a dozen or more unrelated sites is just fucking inexcusable, and it seems to get worse every day.
Worse yet is that some of those simply don't work at all unless you resort to "Temporarily allow all from this page", in which case I tend to just bail and never go back. I mean seriously...WTF??? I can't tell you how that burns my ass.
Frankly, anyone working (or able to work) should be working AND...have to pay SOME federal tax..I don't care if it is $10 or so....just as long as everyone has some skin in the game, eh?
I couldn't disagree more. First of all these people ARE paying taxes...just not income tax. They pay payroll taxes, often sales taxes, often property taxes etc.
I've had others including a close friend make this "everyone should be paying some income tax" argument, but I'm sorry. A working family that has to choose between buying their kids shoes or food should most certainly not pay income tax.
This whole thing about people who aren't paying income tax always seems to imply that this is something new. These people under similar circumstances wouldn't have paid income tax at any time in our history, because making them do so is just plain wrong. If anything, the big difference is that decades ago the same people would have been much more likely to be making enough money to exceed the tax threshold, which if you ask me has much more to do with this new Gilded Age the so-called "free markets" have given us than anything else.
Sure, parents don't necessarily need to let their kids eat this stuff (assuming they actually can control that all the time), and of course nobody needs to eat it at all....but here's my problem with the knee-jerk personal responsibility argument:
If we choose to believe the obesity epidemic is all about personal responsibility (or lack thereof), are we saying that in the last few decades, Americans have somehow lost all will power and sense of responsibility?
If so, how do you explain that in that exact same time period, all three of drug use, alcohol use, and smoking have declined radically...with per-capita smoking being the lowest it's been since the 30s? Where's all that lack of will power with those? It wouldn't have to do with the fact that we're discouraging those, rather than marketing them to kids, let alone subsidizing they're production as we are with corn and the fast food industry.
Sure, in theory, nobody has to eat any of this stuff, but in practice that do...and like it or not policy does play a big part of it
From where I'm standing, I see all of that coming from Christian fundamentalists too.
There are plenty of perfectly reasonable people of all races and religions, and a minority of extremists.
You've got to stop feeding the trolls...
You hit the nail on the head when you say "a minority of extremists".
That's what blow my mind with this "all Muslims are terrorists" mentality. Let's do a little math: There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world. If, hypothetically, even one tenth of one percent of that number were terrorists, a large portion of the rest of the world would likely be dead already, because their numbers would equal the entire active U.S. military.
A while back, out of curiosity, I checked the numbers and discovered that the percentage of Islam represented by al-Qaeda was the same (down to several decimal places) as the percentage of Protestants represented by the Klan...it was 0.0013 %
When you have a group that huge, the fringe is going to be very visible, and neither religion should be held accountable for the actions of a tiny minority.
Speaking of the primary buffer, I can't live without my parcellite copy history app. There are others like it of course, like Klipper etc....but I use parsellite because it's nice and lightweight and works well with fluxbox. On the increasingly rare occasions that I use windows, I have a hard time getting used to NOT having my highlighted text copied automatically.
One thing I love about X has always been the ability to run gui apps remotely via ssh using your local X via X11 forwarding. For those who haven't tried (or haven't tried lately) it's even pretty easy to get a shell running within X in Cygwin and run remote gui 'nix applications under Windows...too cool.
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I use NoScript all the time. Just recently...the last few week actually...I started noticing that a number of things on yahoo finance just plain stopped working because they required javascript from yimg.com...as if I'm going to allow that...ffs.
More importantly, why is a member of Congress more important that I am?
While I tend to agree with that sentiment in principal, illegal spying on people of power is in fact a huge problem for all of us...having "dirt" on everyone was a big part of what kept an insane fucking megalomaniac like J. Edgar Hoover in a position of unspeakable power for so long. We sure don't need more of that.
Not as dangerous as lecturers at public universities. I think I will write an app that allows you to geotag your local professors, track their license plates, and give you hints and tips on how to heckle them and ruin their lives for doing things that you may or may not agree with.
Exactly...and who's deciding who these "suspected" unsafe gun owners are? Sounds like nothing better than a malicious rumor mill app to me. Let's just start something similar for everyone we think is a closet alcoholic or the like...I mean FFS...
Because its not like you couldn't call the police if people are doing unsafe things with guns. In a lot of places there are laws about the safe handling of weapons.
Exactly!...instead we have people with a clear anti-gun agenda taking a total vigilante approach to this...oh the irony.
Sorry if this hijacks the posters question a little...but it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the topic. I'm not sure if others have found the same, but in cases where I've needed a KVM, including my current setup at home, I've spent what seems like man years of my life screwing with KVMs. A KVM that does NOT totally suck is an animal that does NOT exist.
My current setup works with many quirks that constantly screw with me, and it took forever to get to this point. I went through two KVMs that were totally unusable for various reasons...stuck keys in Linux only(??)...you name it. When I finally got one that seemed to play nicely I discovered that it didn't work with my T43 Thinkpad docking station. I found other users that had encountered the same issue with this switch ONLY on the T43 docking station...unbelievable. Believe it or not, just for the hell of it, I tried putting one of the bad KVMs (that I'd kept too long to return) in between my working one and the T43 and it worked...only because the two switches used different hot keys. That's the kludgy setup I have to this day.
However that setup is all PS2, so now that I'm overdue to replace my Linux workstation, I get to do it all over again, or figure out how to live without the KVM. Seriously...has anyone else found this things to suck this bad???
The AC post above was mine. Didn't want to post it anonymously. I can't figure out why I seem to unexpectedly get logged out of skashdot without knowing it...happens way too often.
Indeed. I don't understand why this is public information to begin with. It's no ones business what products I buy or own.
Absolutely. Why don't they just start WhoHasTheBestShitToSteal.gov for Christ's sake. With guns there's an even bigger concern given the attractiveness of guns to criminals. I don't think you need to be any sort of anti-gun-control fanatic to see the insanity in this one.
I have a Linksys E1200 router and can verify first hand that it's a POS. Every few weeks it flakes out and some, but not all machines connected to it loose access to the network. It's on the newest firmware, and I even factory reset it and reconfigured everything as a last ditch attempt to address it. I had a bad feeling when when I went to upgrade the firmware and it prompted for which "hardware version" I had...1 or 2. Mine didn't indicate which, and it took a little doing to find it was "version 1". My take on that is that version 1 was the "defective hardware we should have replaced for free". Compete and utter junk. I made the mistake of confusing them with the Linksys of yesteryear...never again.
I was going to ask the same thing. How can it possibly be legal for an ISP tamper with the content like this? I'll bet this would even trick NoScript into assuming the javascript came from the same site as the page. If this is legel, I'm a bit stunned. It certainly shouldn't be.
The whole premise of the article seems to assume that unions are exclusively about 1950s-like factory jobs. How about all those low paying service jobs out there? I don't see too many robots stocking shelves at Walmart. In decades gone by, in a large part due to unions, a guy who was willing to get up every day and go sweep floors at a factory could actually survive. Today's equivalent, those low paying service jobs, pay so little you're almost better off not working at all.
That's why unions are under attach these days...because a large chunk of corporate America is still dependent on a few jobs that they can't automate or outsource and, if unionized, might actually pay a fair wage...and we can't have that now can we??
If only it were just a 50 element array. Using Illinois as an example, each county and sometimes city have their own tax rates.
Amen to that.
A software company I used to work for had a customer in the aviation business...mostly airplane repair. When they did repairs for someone they had to charge all applicable taxes based on where the owner lived. They had a dedicated system to handle it which required regular updates. All in, it apparently handled thousands of special cases.
...and lets not forget...collecting the taxes is the easy part. Properly submitting them to the states etc for which you're collecting them with all the proper documentation makes that look easy.
Let's be clear: forcing businesses to collect all applicable taxes would effectively end Internet commerce for the little guy...at least for any who want to operate within the law.
Oh to have mod points!...If people keep working around this crap rather than voting with their wallets they're saying it's OK. Everyone who gives a shit about this MUST refuse to buy any computer with secure boot...period.
OMFG!!...Some of the quotes etc in the essay from the GNOME folks are utterly beyond belief. I'm serious...I had no idea their attitudes had reached that state...and all the talk about "our brand"...WFT?? They've essentially become Microsoft FFS. After reading that I don't see how anyone who cares about Linux or open source would want anything other than to totally abandon, even boycott those folks...simply amazing.
I didn't notice this when you originally replied. I'd say there's very little chance of that. You're probably not aware of the history of all that, but originally zap2it.com (owned by Tribune Media Services) had a free interface for their listings, but eventually announced that they could not continue to support it. As a result, Schedules Direct came about via a collaboration of MythTV and similar open source projects who worked out a deal with TMS. They pay Tribune Media Services for listing data, which is why they charge a small amount ($20 a year) for subscriptions. All in all, this is probably a decent revenue source for TMS. I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be a problem with it some day, but I think it's very unlikely.
I had one of those HDD500 DVRs for recording HD OTA for quite some time and finally sold it (for almost as much as I paid for it) about 4-5 years ago after building my MythTV system.
While it generally was a pretty good recorder, and pretty much the only retail unit of it's kind, I grew to HATE that TV Guide OnScreen. That TV Guide system had essentially it's own firmware within the recorders firmware that was self updating...that is it would automatically update itself totally beyond your control from the OTA signal...and this didn't always go well. When the guide didn't work, the unit was essentially a paper weight for the very reason described in TFA...the assholes decided to give you NO way at all to manually set the fucking clock....a feature available in every fucking VCR made since the 80s, in a unit that retailed for over $1000...seriously??
Good riddance...gotta love MythTV and Schedules Direct!!
I'll probably get some troll points for this, but after watching the recent Frontline titled Climate of Doubt, I wonder if there aren't some pretty powerful forces out there that just plain don't want weather/climate data all that much. The interviews in that show seem to indicate that the big money behind that effort (which over the last four years has somehow convinced half of the U.S. population that man made climate change is a myth, while science has gone in the opposite direction), is way more about Ayn Randian ideology than science.
All pretty scary if you ask me...like we're getting closer and closer to witch burning every day...
These so-called "HDTV" antennas were sold for years with the incorrect assumption that digital TV would stay on UHF and it most assuredly did not!
In the New York area for example, several of the UHF digital networks moved their digital signal to their original VHF frequency when the switch over occurred.
Don't buy one of those unless you're sure that all the digital networks in your area are on UHF. If any are, you'll need a combination UHF/VHF antenna.
I know it's not an option for some, but I live where I can get New York OTA channels, and even Philly stations if I want, with my roof antenna and rotor. I record everything we watch on a MythTV system with a TB of disk space. I haven't had pay TV in 25 years.
I have cable for internet only. Every time the cable company calls me trying to sell me a TV package, I tell them exactly what I'm currently using, and exactly why I want no part of their any-consumer bull shit. I wish more people would do the same thing.
What sucks of course is that, because all the available internet providers are TV providers, you pay a premium for internet when it's not part of some fucking package. The whole situation just blows to put it mildly...and the fucking FCC, whose supposed to be working for us, can go straight to fucking hell too.
You're fucking kidding right?? Like code being pulled from packages I chose to install on MY computer is the same as a website I'm visiting choosing to make ME run code from sites I never even heard of?? What exactly is your point, aside from proving your astonishing ignorance??
Don't those folks have anything better to do?
Yea, like maybe coming up with a Linux version that at least sucks balls a little less...
The thing that pisses me off the most about most (even supposedly reputable) web sites these days, is the eye opener you get if you run NoScript. The fact that the home pages of supposedly reputable sites are trying to pull in javascript from like a dozen or more unrelated sites is just fucking inexcusable, and it seems to get worse every day.
Worse yet is that some of those simply don't work at all unless you resort to "Temporarily allow all from this page", in which case I tend to just bail and never go back. I mean seriously...WTF??? I can't tell you how that burns my ass.
Frankly, anyone working (or able to work) should be working AND...have to pay SOME federal tax..I don't care if it is $10 or so....just as long as everyone has some skin in the game, eh?
I couldn't disagree more. First of all these people ARE paying taxes...just not income tax. They pay payroll taxes, often sales taxes, often property taxes etc.
I've had others including a close friend make this "everyone should be paying some income tax" argument, but I'm sorry. A working family that has to choose between buying their kids shoes or food should most certainly not pay income tax.
This whole thing about people who aren't paying income tax always seems to imply that this is something new. These people under similar circumstances wouldn't have paid income tax at any time in our history, because making them do so is just plain wrong. If anything, the big difference is that decades ago the same people would have been much more likely to be making enough money to exceed the tax threshold, which if you ask me has much more to do with this new Gilded Age the so-called "free markets" have given us than anything else.
Sure, parents don't necessarily need to let their kids eat this stuff (assuming they actually can control that all the time), and of course nobody needs to eat it at all....but here's my problem with the knee-jerk personal responsibility argument:
If we choose to believe the obesity epidemic is all about personal responsibility (or lack thereof), are we saying that in the last few decades, Americans have somehow lost all will power and sense of responsibility?
If so, how do you explain that in that exact same time period, all three of drug use, alcohol use, and smoking have declined radically...with per-capita smoking being the lowest it's been since the 30s? Where's all that lack of will power with those? It wouldn't have to do with the fact that we're discouraging those, rather than marketing them to kids, let alone subsidizing they're production as we are with corn and the fast food industry.
Sure, in theory, nobody has to eat any of this stuff, but in practice that do...and like it or not policy does play a big part of it
From where I'm standing, I see all of that coming from Christian fundamentalists too.
There are plenty of perfectly reasonable people of all races and religions, and a minority of extremists.
You've got to stop feeding the trolls...
You hit the nail on the head when you say "a minority of extremists".
That's what blow my mind with this "all Muslims are terrorists" mentality. Let's do a little math: There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world. If, hypothetically, even one tenth of one percent of that number were terrorists, a large portion of the rest of the world would likely be dead already, because their numbers would equal the entire active U.S. military.
A while back, out of curiosity, I checked the numbers and discovered that the percentage of Islam represented by al-Qaeda was the same (down to several decimal places) as the percentage of Protestants represented by the Klan...it was 0.0013 %
When you have a group that huge, the fringe is going to be very visible, and neither religion should be held accountable for the actions of a tiny minority.
Speaking of the primary buffer, I can't live without my parcellite copy history app. There are others like it of course, like Klipper etc....but I use parsellite because it's nice and lightweight and works well with fluxbox. On the increasingly rare occasions that I use windows, I have a hard time getting used to NOT having my highlighted text copied automatically.
One thing I love about X has always been the ability to run gui apps remotely via ssh using your local X via X11 forwarding. For those who haven't tried (or haven't tried lately) it's even pretty easy to get a shell running within X in Cygwin and run remote gui 'nix applications under Windows...too cool.