Is this slashdot 'story' the most useless one yet? I can't quite figure out what 'news' has been presented, or even if an idea was presented. The synopsis looks like a string of random consciousness that was filtered by LSD and laudinum.
If I'm not prepared to deliver a baby, should I not have kids?
I wouldn't feel sorry for you, your wife, or your child if you impregnated your wife, went about your business 'Doop-dee doo!', and she went into labor and died on a stuck subway car because you were too busy to read about birthing a child so you could help her out.
If I'm not prepared to clean out a septic system should I not take a shit?
A properly maintained septic system doesn't really go bad. It's your fault for flushing shit that doesn't go down the toilet, and if all the septic repair guys within 100 miles were having christmas dinner, you should at least know where the shutoff valve is or you'll be having shit for your turkey stuffing.
If there are other people who are willing to do the dirty work, why shouldn't I reap the benefits?
I'm all for letting other people do my dirty work, but am also a realist. If you are totally ignorant of how to do anything but swipe your credit card, you get what you deserve.
Spam isn't expression. It costs the recipient money. I have no problem with this guy shouting about penis enlargement, showing large penis-enlargement signs, or doing anything.
Besides, your freedom of expression ends where my property starts. Come to my house and start trying to tell me about my penis, and i'll give you about 10 seconds to get the fudge off my property, and after that you'd better hope i'm a bad shot.
When Target sends me spam in the mail, I mark it return to sender and put it in a USPS mailbox. When folks come door-to-door, I send 'em away. With spam, it's different. There really was no way to stem it at its source. Now, that's changed. If I do find out the identities of spammers, I'll tell everyone I know who they are. Fuck 'em. Just because it's not illegal to spam doesn't make it a legitimate and respectable business. Spammers are a cancer on the internet and should be dealt with harshly.
Rest assured, if the person or group who wrote SoBig are spammers, the FBI will be sending formal letters of apology and helping them resume operations. The Federal Government has a charter to help out companies that are headed by sacks of shit fleece the public out of as much money as they can.
I have a feeling that the large-time spammers don't really sit around r00+ing boxes to spam with. These guys are transfering gigabytes per day of spam. They are doing so with the blessings and services of hosting companies. The only reason a hosting company has for shutting down a spammer is that they've been blackholed. This is the only thing that works. I have NO pity for folks who also have hosting from these scumbags who are collateral damage. Find a new hosting or colo company or feel the wrath.
The different governments ESPECIALLY the US federal government feels that spam isn't their problem. The only recourse are semi-vigalante operations such as blacklists. God bless 'em.
(P.S. Don't say 'well, how did we know?' You learn when your clients can't get their mail or whatever. You then switch hosting co's to a less scummy operation. Vote with dollars people.)
The biggest problem these days is not the actual MS Windows OS, but what gets bundled with it...
Hear, hear. My buddy's windows got fucked up, and he had to reinstall. He did, and the next day I went over to his house. 24 hours after the reinstall (a Compaq), and not having touched the net or anything, I ran Ad-aware. He had 199 malware objects installed. BY THE FUCKING MANUFACTURER!!!!!! I was livid.
I was talking about a viewing angle that doesn't kill the contrast or color balance. Samsung's DLP unit is head and shoulders above most other rear-projector units, however.
Bullshit. You are using the flawed premise that because the majority of people use Windows machines, the virus writers target them because of sheer numbers. This is absolutely incorrect. The reasons that virus writers target Windows are...
1. The Win32 API is fundamentally flawed and insecure.
2. Windows users tend to be the most naive of computer users. They'll click on anything with tits or a smiley face.
3. Microsoft builds-in security holes, and labels them as features.
Tell them that because Windows is so prone to viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and other problems that they get 1 free support incident, and after that they have to take their computer to the shop and pay 50 bucks per hour to get their shit straightened out. Then tell them that they'll never need you to 'clean all the junk out' of a Mac, never catch a virus, trojan, or any spyware, and you'd be happy to teach them how to use it.
They'll come around after they spend $500 bucks cleaning viruses off their $750 dollar machine.
Currently, there are 2 OS X 'viruses'. One requires you to be so stupid as to have Internet Exploder still installed and running, the other only affects pre-10.1 systems.
I really don't think that you could eat meat and not consider yourself a killer. If you aren't prepared to kill, butcher, and then prepare your meat you shouldn't be eating it.
I think the vegan diet is alright. If strict attention is paid towards acquiring all the amino acids daily, it can be healthy. If not, hormone imbalance, malnutrition, and many other maladies can be the result.
I personally love meat (had a dry-aged ribeye wrapped in uncured bacon last night) but my bride-to-be eats only fish and other seafood. It's a healthy choice. As far as the manliness factor, who gives a fuck? If you are so concerned about looking manly then grow a handlebar mustache and drive a monster truck, and call everyone else who doesn't a 'faggit'.
Even if you don't think you need the increased feature set of 5.x, you could probably find a use for it. Who doesn't like a faster filesystem? I am not attacking you as an individual, but just curious why you might eschew a better mousetrap just because yours catches mice already?
800 Lumens has almost no contrast in 60w light. If you indeed are happy with the 800 lumens unit, even in daytime (which still is quite dark at the bottom of a system of lightless caves), I would challenge your ability to see, think, or put rational ideas together.
No personal offense, but I just think you are so full of shit that I smell it over the cable modem.
I have used 4.x happily for years. If you misintrepret me that's hardly my problem. At the same time, 5.1 is beautiful, stable (if not STABLE) and UFS2+S absolutely blows away UFS or UFS+S.
My point is that, as much as Dragonfly BSD sounds fun, and I'm sure that it'll actually run someday, I'll use official FreeBSD. At least that way I'll have a working ports. And, a bugs forum that actually exists. And, a system that runs now.
Why even use FBSD 4.x if you have no need for new features? 4.4 BSD Lite is just fine!
ATI hardware is far from crap. Software *WAS* crap but has come about 180 degrees.
When I shit on a plate and rotate it 1/2 turn, it still stinks pretty bad. ATI are arrogant, provide half-assed support, and don't acknowledge that their drivers need serious work. NVIDIA are prompt, polite, and will actually take user suggestions.
Did I claim that 5.x is more stable? In any event, I have never had FreeBSD crash. 4.x or 5.x. In terms of feature sets, though, 5.x kills 4.x with ease. I for one look towards the future instead of wollowing in the past.
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Is this slashdot 'story' the most useless one yet? I can't quite figure out what 'news' has been presented, or even if an idea was presented. The synopsis looks like a string of random consciousness that was filtered by LSD and laudinum.
If I'm not prepared to deliver a baby, should I not have kids?
I wouldn't feel sorry for you, your wife, or your child if you impregnated your wife, went about your business 'Doop-dee doo!', and she went into labor and died on a stuck subway car because you were too busy to read about birthing a child so you could help her out.
If I'm not prepared to clean out a septic system should I not take a shit?
A properly maintained septic system doesn't really go bad. It's your fault for flushing shit that doesn't go down the toilet, and if all the septic repair guys within 100 miles were having christmas dinner, you should at least know where the shutoff valve is or you'll be having shit for your turkey stuffing.
If there are other people who are willing to do the dirty work, why shouldn't I reap the benefits?
I'm all for letting other people do my dirty work, but am also a realist. If you are totally ignorant of how to do anything but swipe your credit card, you get what you deserve.
BE PREPARED
Spam isn't expression. It costs the recipient money. I have no problem with this guy shouting about penis enlargement, showing large penis-enlargement signs, or doing anything.
Besides, your freedom of expression ends where my property starts. Come to my house and start trying to tell me about my penis, and i'll give you about 10 seconds to get the fudge off my property, and after that you'd better hope i'm a bad shot.
Sounds like somebody's a spammer.
When Target sends me spam in the mail, I mark it return to sender and put it in a USPS mailbox. When folks come door-to-door, I send 'em away. With spam, it's different. There really was no way to stem it at its source. Now, that's changed. If I do find out the identities of spammers, I'll tell everyone I know who they are. Fuck 'em. Just because it's not illegal to spam doesn't make it a legitimate and respectable business. Spammers are a cancer on the internet and should be dealt with harshly.
Rest assured, if the person or group who wrote SoBig are spammers, the FBI will be sending formal letters of apology and helping them resume operations. The Federal Government has a charter to help out companies that are headed by sacks of shit fleece the public out of as much money as they can.
Wiggy wiggy scratch yo yo bang bang!
I have a feeling that the large-time spammers don't really sit around r00+ing boxes to spam with. These guys are transfering gigabytes per day of spam. They are doing so with the blessings and services of hosting companies. The only reason a hosting company has for shutting down a spammer is that they've been blackholed. This is the only thing that works. I have NO pity for folks who also have hosting from these scumbags who are collateral damage. Find a new hosting or colo company or feel the wrath.
The different governments ESPECIALLY the US federal government feels that spam isn't their problem. The only recourse are semi-vigalante operations such as blacklists. God bless 'em.
(P.S. Don't say 'well, how did we know?' You learn when your clients can't get their mail or whatever. You then switch hosting co's to a less scummy operation. Vote with dollars people.)
That, and the fact that their USB and IPv6 implementations just appeared out of thin air with many of the same quirks (esp. USB) that Linux has.
Aye. If you aren't prepared to take the responsibility of killing at some point or another, meat consumption seems hypocritical to me.
Advisor: "Darl, the people are revolting!"
Darl: "They sure are (wiggles mustache)!"
The biggest problem these days is not the actual MS Windows OS, but what gets bundled with it...
Hear, hear. My buddy's windows got fucked up, and he had to reinstall. He did, and the next day I went over to his house. 24 hours after the reinstall (a Compaq), and not having touched the net or anything, I ran Ad-aware. He had 199 malware objects installed. BY THE FUCKING MANUFACTURER!!!!!! I was livid.
I was talking about a viewing angle that doesn't kill the contrast or color balance. Samsung's DLP unit is head and shoulders above most other rear-projector units, however.
Bullshit. You are using the flawed premise that because the majority of people use Windows machines, the virus writers target them because of sheer numbers. This is absolutely incorrect. The reasons that virus writers target Windows are...
1. The Win32 API is fundamentally flawed and insecure.
2. Windows users tend to be the most naive of computer users. They'll click on anything with tits or a smiley face.
3. Microsoft builds-in security holes, and labels them as features.
Here's an easy solution that works:
Tell them that because Windows is so prone to viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and other problems that they get 1 free support incident, and after that they have to take their computer to the shop and pay 50 bucks per hour to get their shit straightened out. Then tell them that they'll never need you to 'clean all the junk out' of a Mac, never catch a virus, trojan, or any spyware, and you'd be happy to teach them how to use it.
They'll come around after they spend $500 bucks cleaning viruses off their $750 dollar machine.
Currently, there are 2 OS X 'viruses'. One requires you to be so stupid as to have Internet Exploder still installed and running, the other only affects pre-10.1 systems.
I really don't think that you could eat meat and not consider yourself a killer. If you aren't prepared to kill, butcher, and then prepare your meat you shouldn't be eating it.
I think the vegan diet is alright. If strict attention is paid towards acquiring all the amino acids daily, it can be healthy. If not, hormone imbalance, malnutrition, and many other maladies can be the result.
I personally love meat (had a dry-aged ribeye wrapped in uncured bacon last night) but my bride-to-be eats only fish and other seafood. It's a healthy choice. As far as the manliness factor, who gives a fuck? If you are so concerned about looking manly then grow a handlebar mustache and drive a monster truck, and call everyone else who doesn't a 'faggit'.
Even if you don't think you need the increased feature set of 5.x, you could probably find a use for it. Who doesn't like a faster filesystem? I am not attacking you as an individual, but just curious why you might eschew a better mousetrap just because yours catches mice already?
Bullshit.
800 Lumens has almost no contrast in 60w light. If you indeed are happy with the 800 lumens unit, even in daytime (which still is quite dark at the bottom of a system of lightless caves), I would challenge your ability to see, think, or put rational ideas together.
No personal offense, but I just think you are so full of shit that I smell it over the cable modem.
I have used 4.x happily for years. If you misintrepret me that's hardly my problem. At the same time, 5.1 is beautiful, stable (if not STABLE) and UFS2+S absolutely blows away UFS or UFS+S.
My point is that, as much as Dragonfly BSD sounds fun, and I'm sure that it'll actually run someday, I'll use official FreeBSD. At least that way I'll have a working ports. And, a bugs forum that actually exists. And, a system that runs now.
Why even use FBSD 4.x if you have no need for new features? 4.4 BSD Lite is just fine!
ATI hardware is far from crap. Software *WAS* crap but has come about 180 degrees.
When I shit on a plate and rotate it 1/2 turn, it still stinks pretty bad. ATI are arrogant, provide half-assed support, and don't acknowledge that their drivers need serious work. NVIDIA are prompt, polite, and will actually take user suggestions.
Did I claim that 5.x is more stable? In any event, I have never had FreeBSD crash. 4.x or 5.x. In terms of feature sets, though, 5.x kills 4.x with ease. I for one look towards the future instead of wollowing in the past.
The major downside is the 15 degree viewing angle.
I use an NEC LT-150 projector with 800 lumens.
Do you live at the bottom of a lightless system of caves, or what? Even under 60w incandescents, 800 lumens can hardly be seen.
Again, this proves nothing. Read my post that you replied to, AC goathole, and try again.
Only if by Newbie you mean 'has only been using FreeBSD for about 5 years...'
Sorry, but on my BSD machine (a modest P3-450) 5.x kills 4.x in speed, features, and usability.