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  1. Re:I don't think so. on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    I honestly try to avoid the whole arguing with people on the internet thing, because as a general rule, even if you win, your still retarded... but I will assume you are actually asking this question to get an answer as opposed to asking the question hoping I would not bother to read the reply and someone on here might think you are smart.

    OK, here goes.

    The liberal elite as you put it, in my opinion, are those who think that they are the only smart ones on the planet, no one other than their small group of pseudo intelectuals can do anything, (spend their own money, choose their career, decide whom to marry and for how long, decide if they should have children or not) so they take it upon themselves to take all of our money, and all of our freedom, and all of our choices in life, and make them for us.. spend our money on big healthcare, food stamps, etc, and give us back a small portion that we can use to get drunk and stoned and live our lives quietly kind of like the matrix.

    The other group of liberal elitists are even stupider than the pseudo intelectuals in that they only want everyone to think they are nice and part of the "in" crowd, so they act as the intelectuals would have them. They have money, usually inhereted, or gotten in some other way through very limited power of their own, (hollywood folks, heinz katsup fortune inheritors, those who marry said inheritors, etc.)

    There is also the group of those who actually have earned their money, are smart, business savy people who now want absolutely NO moral yardstick to measure their actions now that they can afford to do anything they want. They wan the assumption that they can do pretty much whatever they want to whomever they want, live a life of total decadance, with absolutely no reprocussions.

    The public educational institutions in this country are, without question, a complete and utter joke. NOTHING is learned in schools any longer. No wrong answers, no grades, well, nothing beyond this is how to use a condom kindergardeners, and now that you have them go have sex with each other, and jane has two mommies, and we can't talk bad about anyone, unless of course they do not belive as we do. Then we can think badly about them and should attack them with all our might, because well they are bad people so its OK.

    Republicans by and large have made something out of themselves, perhaps have a little money, perhaps have a LOT of money, but as a general rule, they don't want to give things to people.. they would rather teach them how to fish as opposed to giving them a fish.

    I by no means think that republicans are all good, and I by a long shot don't agree with everything bush says, I am much more of a libertarian than a republican. I want everyone completely out of my business.

    Acadamia is a joke, those who can do, those who can't teach, and get tenure, and can't be fired.

  2. Re:I don't think so. on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Civics 100. we DO NOT have a constitutional democracy.

    we have a REPRESENTITIVE REPUBLIC.

    It ticks me off people who think they know what they are talking about when they clearly do not.

    Please.. if you don't know what you are talking about, shut up damn. Liberals by and large are stupid, hence why they are liberals. They will believe any crap you spew, if you want a smarter america, then lets at least try to teach them something.

  3. Re:Attack! on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    And you don't think that 200 customers on the same network segment yelling at them to get rid of the spammer or they move to a new ISP because their bandwidth is gone won't make them get rid of the spammer quicker?

    Money talks, everything else walks. Take an ISP's money away, and they fix the problem.

    Its partly the fault of the hosted site anyway, they are supporting an ISP who sells bandwidth to spammers. Do you not check up on your hosting company to see if they have a good reputation before hosting a server there? Shouldn't checking to see if they host spammers be part of that?

  4. Whats funny is on Gartner Says Linux PCs Just Used To Pirate Windows · · Score: 1

    that there are still people who bother to listen to what Gartner has to say. I use to work for a very large company who subscribed to gartner, and we "had access" to all their super secret predictions. After a year we talked them out of renewing the subscription because it was a complete waste of money. We could tell you exactly what the reports would say well before they were released. Gartner is well in microsloths back pocket, and do exactly what microsloth wants them to do.

  5. Yea lets pick on a sight that is less than liberal on Optimizing News Sites For Google News · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and completely leave Yahoo news alone. They will not even run a convervative piece on the front page unless the story clearly slams something else conservatives did in the exact same story.

    Yahoo news is some completely liberal but no one complains about that.. do they?

  6. Re:Related maybe interesting link on Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers · · Score: 2, Informative

    You roll right into the whole dumber than a bag of hammers thing, trying to scaremonger people into letting the government own everything. Your so wrong its not even funny.

    My family owns a LOT of land, around 1100 acres, various members of the family own plots here and there... but it all pretty much connects. This land is in outstanding condition, we have created ponds, planted trees where needed to prevent erosion, and the like. mostly because we enjoy the woods, for hunting, fishing, riding 4 wheelers, etc. we protect the land, defend it from the bad people, you know, liberals, and are generally good stewards. We get enjoyment from it, the land prospers from our owning it. If the government owned it do you think it would be anywhere near the condition it is in now? NOPE!

  7. One heck of a way to drive interest on Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats · · Score: 1

    Makes the business worth more... "Hmm.. must be a darn good idea if the guy is getting death threats!"

    Smart move if you want to make money. :)

  8. Re:Dave Lettermans Top 10 on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    Your forgetting some of the biggies.

    find - a sysadmins BEST friend
    less - much better than more as pointed out alredy
    man - so you know what do put after all the above commands to make them do something
    visudo (sudoers) so your users can get off your back with normal everyday stuff
    that should get you started. :)

  9. Re:they should get a clue on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just love people who have no idea what they are talking about trying real hard.

    Everything these days is done with DNS. anyone sutpid enough to go to a site via IP address is brainless and should get a nice web page telling them connection refused. Heck, I even have auto updating DDNS to my home cable modem line, I don't even type in an IP address to hit my home machine. In addition to that, would you buy something from a company that says Cheap cd's.. come to our website at https://10.11.12.13/sendusyourcreditcardinfo.html ? Nope, you wouldn't.

    These ISP's are contractually assigned these addresses by ARIN, they do not have any ownership of the addresses. Depending on the size of the block of addresses, and their colo setup they could have to disrupt the address range much longer than a simple changing of IP addresses and a TTL expiration on a DNS server.

    There are a ton of technical reasons this is a very bad idea(tm) if it gets as bad as people taking individual addresses with them you will never be able to get anywhere becuase BGP tables will become so huge current routers won't hold them.

  10. Not really possible with X86 hardware on Element Computer: ION Linux on Linux Hardware · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yea, so they sell linux to work with hardware they choose. Might work if KDE was the bells and whistles pretty desktop that OSX is, but its not.

    Linux folks for the most part want to upgrade their hardware, with what they want. No cheapo onboard soundcards and vid cards, etc.

    It MIGHT nitch in web/email only systems, but how many of those can you sell to grandma when wally world sells HP's for $499 or less.

    I love any idea that promotes linux, but I just don't see this working anywhere.

  11. Giving out obsolete operating systems on Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and of course they take the full retail version fees on their taxes as a charity contribution. They won't support Win98, or probably the 2k because of some stipulation in the "special eula", but uncle sam will get charged the full brunt for a full OS purchase with support.

  12. And as with everything... on Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The security is only good if the user turns it on.. or doesn't turn it off as the case may be.

  13. Re:What gets me... on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 1

    bullshit to the bullshit. If you scored that high on your SAT's, and did reletively well in school, (tool college prep courses) if you didn't get a full boat academic scholarship you should kick the crap out of 3 people.

    1. Your parents for not making you fill out apps

    2. your guidance councelor, any tardo GC can get you all the scholarships with that kind of score, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, scholoarships are based (primarily, not counting race based ones) scholastic accievement.

    3. pay someone a lot of money to beat your ass for being too stupid to find out for yourself what apps to fill out for what schools.

    Free ride, its how I went, and I was only in the 98th percentile on the SAT's. and I had schools begging me to take a full boat to their school.

    I have no stupdent loans and a BS in compsci from IU. Free.

    Of course now I get hit up all the time for donations to the alumni scholarship fund, but I don't have a problem giving.

  14. Re:What gets me... on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 1

    This idea, while it sounds fair on the outside, just as communism looks good on paper, would NEVER work in the real world. You are leaving the best and the brightest out of the loop in so many ways. What if the next einstein or Bill Joy is kid #2 or 3 to said woman. Kid 1 goes off to school, and being a slacker does not even bother to use the time and courses to learn anything worthwile. while the smarter more motivated kid sits in a factory and waits for said first child to make a mint and send him off to school. But this never happens. said kid becomes a lawyer, and because he isn't that good becomes an ambulance chaser, and not a very good one, who makes no money.

    Socialist ideas sound good, but they never are. If you take human desire and drive out of the equasion, you get france, or Russia.

  15. Re:That's nothing on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    Here is the link to the explanation. :)

    http://www.progress.demon.co.uk/Fun/Login-Name.h tm l

  16. Nobody wants to watch gayTV on You're Watching Less TV · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are so many shows out now with flaming gay characters. I don't find them funny, nor do I have anything at all in common with them. Neither does the rest of middle america.

    No wonder no one watches TV anymore, I sure don't. I got rid of my sat a year ago and don't miss it. I love the extra $80 a month I have to spend though.

  17. Re:still need ... on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Your absolutely right about the f15 and mach 2, I was just letting the original poster know that just because an 1950's high altitude spy plane is refueled in the air right after takeoff, (actually at 40k', when its skin seals up real good) doesn't mean we are incapable of building one. He was insinuating that because the SR-71 leaks we can't build a bird that can do the job.

    I also find it hard to believe we (the US.. greatest country in the universe) would retire the SR-71 without a replacement.

  18. Re:still need ... on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Informative

    The SR71 needed that stuff because it flew over mach 3 at almost 100k feet. the friction and heat buildup from going that fast that high was beyond the metals used back in the days the SR-71 were designed. New spy planes (aurora) can do the same without the loosly put together skin. (which is why the SR-71 leaked like a siv on the ground.

    A more useful comparison would be with an F15-e or F16, more than capable of traveling at mach 2ish, no refueling right after takeoff, regular old jet fuel.

  19. Re:I see why MS did it on MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are running Courier IMAP as well with our setup. watch out if you have mozilla email clients connecting to it, several bugs out there that require special configuration. here is a link for ya that may help.

    http://karmak.org/2003/courier-imap/

    sqwebmail is a nice addition as well. :)

  20. Re:I see why MS did it on MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution · · Score: 2, Troll

    qmail does suck, I just switched our mail system to postfix. works MUCH better, and works with ssl/tls much easier.

  21. Re:ESR is primiadonna on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 1

    I must respectfully disagree. RMS is 100% into promoting GNU. A few years back I had a web hosting company which offered free web hosting and FTP access for open source projects. I wrote him to see if he wanted to post it on FSF.org if anyone wanted free hosting. he wrote back a month or so later saying that he would only post it if I canged every reference to linux on the entire sight to GNU/Linux. Thats all well and good if thats his belief, but I could have helped a lot of projects get off the ground (before sourceforge) but he was too into himself to let me.

  22. Truth vs myth on Cable TV Versus Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Sat is MUCH cheaper compared to cable, especially digital cable. you can get everything for about $75/month from either company where it would cost me around $120 to get everything on comcast, and its not as many channels.

    YES you WILL lose signal when it rains hard, but I keep a signal strength in the 93 range in clear weather, and it has to be coming down pretty hard to take it out. a light rain won't mess with your signal at all, nor will wind as long as you have a solid mount point for the dish.

    I'd get the dvr that comes from the comapny, you can get them free if you sign up for a year of service, so why not. If you just want to get one to geek out then set up a linux box and run mythtv. :)

    Hope this helps.

  23. Its happening on most servers. on Verisign Certificate Expiration Causes Multiple Problems · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very nice of them to.. I don't know.. let someone know before today. We spent a ton of staff time this morning trying to figure out why we could connect to our servers but not the payment engines via ssl. 4 hours later we figured it out.

    Couple of nice links.

    http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc= fs alert%2F57436
    http://www.verisign.com/support/ven dors/exp-gsid-s sl.html

  24. Re:Actually this is a good idea! on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Nicotine is something your body needs, and actually produces itself. Nicotine, while addictive is NOT what is bad in cigs, its the tar and chemicals and poisons and all that other nasty crap that causes cancer and every other problem related to smoking. So that study is incomplete. You can chew nicorette or wear a patch if you just want the nicotene without the bad stuff and be perfectly fine. Well, perfectly fine except for the fact that your addicted to the patch. :)

    I know this because I smoked for 24 years until I quit, and because I'm a geek and did the research. :)

  25. Re:transfer protocols comma that suck on Kermit Alive and Well on the Space Station · · Score: 1

    Actually a LOT of protocols bounced around between old kermit and zmodem. xmodem and y modem to name a couple off the top of my head.

    zmodem was the coolest, and it was pretty easy to patch into procomm. :)