I'd thought about running a Tor entry/exit node, but I really don't want to get dinged for someone else looking at kiddie porn and using me as an exit point. The authorities won't know the difference, and might not even care.
lynx + zgv was how I used to view images on the Web about ten years ago. It worked surprisingly well, back before AJAX or Flash were used for navigation.
It might have come with the default desktop task. I thought it was pretty stupid to have a public-facing daemon installed without even asking, but since I was just on a 14.4kbps modem at the time, I didn't care so much.
I kind of regret updating to 11.04, but I'd just built a new computer that day (Sandy Bridge/P67) and was (perhaps needlessly) worried about a slightly old distro seeing and being able to use my new hardware.
Yes, this. I switched to Ubuntu from Debian in '05 because Ubuntu just made things work sensibly - I was especially taken with the graphical sudo prompt - and I could easily see my grandmother using it if she didn't need to run store-bought software.
That's not so true anymore. Even the LTS releases make some gratuitous and not-ready changes between them, such as 6.06->8.04 and Pulse not being ready, or 8.04->10.04 and the buttons suddenly being on the other side.
If the program breaks because it's not in C:\Program Files, it's because the programmer was too stupid to use environment variables, and instead hard-coded the path.
Put it this way - it'd be broken if you installed your programs to D:\Program Files as well.
Wrong. You're a liar, woefully misinformed, or conveniently forgetting that the short-form (which has legal standing) has been released a/long/ time ago.
I wound up doing this in early '07 before my last upgrade, with leftover parts from when I upgraded my personal PC. Socket-A Athlon 2600+ and a gig of DDR was a heck of a lot better than the 1.5 GHz P4 with 512MB of Rambus work had issued me.
OP is probably young enough to not have a stock of computer parts, though.
Wrong. They flew C-47s and C-46s over the Hump to support (among other things) the B-29 bases in China, and I would expect that the cargo planes/would/ need to refuel - people forget how short-ranged planes were back then.
That's the same logic that leads Congress to keep raising the debt ceiling while doing nothing substantial about fixing the deficit problem. Just kick the can down the road, future generations will figure it out.
Because in aggregate people are selfish. They'd rather have their gas-guzzling toy than worry about everyone's air quality and the remaining supply of fossil fuels because THEY WANT IT, and anyone gainsaying them is obviously a socialist commie out to take their liberties away.
The problem with CAFE was not that it exists, but that it was poorly implemented to ignore trucks (probably at the time trucks were strictly working vehicles) and the manufacturers gamed the system. CAFE should have been amended sooner to take SUV-driving trendoids into account, but it's hard to do that when half of the political duopoly has an instinctual case of the NOs towards any regulation.
As much as it sucks for poor people, IMO gas prices here in the States will continue being too low until I don't see any mommy SUVs going over the speed limit on the highway.
We should raise gasoline taxes (but not yet for diesel - here diesel is tens of cents higher already, and it's used for goods delivery) and use the proceeds to fund mass transit.
I've got a Wii which provides Netflix and gaming, and also an attic antenna which gets ~8 channels. We don't watch TV enough to justify cable or satellite.
We've got a DVD library as well, but that won't be used much until my toddler grows out of the "let's play with the SHINY BLUE BUTTON" stage.
IL-2: 1946 for World War II, but mainly the Eastern Front; an oldie but a true classic. The same company's coming out with a Battle of Britain sim very soon, called Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover.
The right way to do this, of course, is setting up a public-key cryptography infrastructure and users using their individual keys to sign documents. MS Word, for example, natively supports this if you have a PKI it groks.
This. There was near-constant warfare during the Republic and the Empire, both between Rome and other states, and civil wars which were mainly to decide who'd be Emperor until he got assassinated. It was only a peace compared to what'd happen if there/hadn't/ been a Roman Empire.
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I'd thought about running a Tor entry/exit node, but I really don't want to get dinged for someone else looking at kiddie porn and using me as an exit point. The authorities won't know the difference, and might not even care.
lynx + zgv was how I used to view images on the Web about ten years ago. It worked surprisingly well, back before AJAX or Flash were used for navigation.
It might have come with the default desktop task. I thought it was pretty stupid to have a public-facing daemon installed without even asking, but since I was just on a 14.4kbps modem at the time, I didn't care so much.
I kind of regret updating to 11.04, but I'd just built a new computer that day (Sandy Bridge/P67) and was (perhaps needlessly) worried about a slightly old distro seeing and being able to use my new hardware.
Yes, this. I switched to Ubuntu from Debian in '05 because Ubuntu just made things work sensibly - I was especially taken with the graphical sudo prompt - and I could easily see my grandmother using it if she didn't need to run store-bought software.
That's not so true anymore. Even the LTS releases make some gratuitous and not-ready changes between them, such as 6.06->8.04 and Pulse not being ready, or 8.04->10.04 and the buttons suddenly being on the other side.
Those are called packages and meta-packages, and have been invented since forever.
If the program breaks because it's not in C:\Program Files, it's because the programmer was too stupid to use environment variables, and instead hard-coded the path.
Put it this way - it'd be broken if you installed your programs to D:\Program Files as well.
Wrong. You're a liar, woefully misinformed, or conveniently forgetting that the short-form (which has legal standing) has been released a /long/ time ago.
I wound up doing this in early '07 before my last upgrade, with leftover parts from when I upgraded my personal PC. Socket-A Athlon 2600+ and a gig of DDR was a heck of a lot better than the 1.5 GHz P4 with 512MB of Rambus work had issued me.
OP is probably young enough to not have a stock of computer parts, though.
Don't know if this is still true, but as recently as v9 some websites would have problems with Opera's Javascript implementation.
Wrong. They flew C-47s and C-46s over the Hump to support (among other things) the B-29 bases in China, and I would expect that the cargo planes /would/ need to refuel - people forget how short-ranged planes were back then.
That's the same logic that leads Congress to keep raising the debt ceiling while doing nothing substantial about fixing the deficit problem. Just kick the can down the road, future generations will figure it out.
Because killing brown people and enriching the military-industrial complex is more important. Because it would threaten our existing energy industry.
Because Republicans just don't give a shit.
How many days of our Short Victorious Wars would that pay for? I'm guessing one, maybe two.
Because in aggregate people are selfish. They'd rather have their gas-guzzling toy than worry about everyone's air quality and the remaining supply of fossil fuels because THEY WANT IT, and anyone gainsaying them is obviously a socialist commie out to take their liberties away.
Rupert Fucking Murdoch, man.
The problem with CAFE was not that it exists, but that it was poorly implemented to ignore trucks (probably at the time trucks were strictly working vehicles) and the manufacturers gamed the system. CAFE should have been amended sooner to take SUV-driving trendoids into account, but it's hard to do that when half of the political duopoly has an instinctual case of the NOs towards any regulation.
Our Caligula.
As much as it sucks for poor people, IMO gas prices here in the States will continue being too low until I don't see any mommy SUVs going over the speed limit on the highway.
We should raise gasoline taxes (but not yet for diesel - here diesel is tens of cents higher already, and it's used for goods delivery) and use the proceeds to fund mass transit.
I've got a Wii which provides Netflix and gaming, and also an attic antenna which gets ~8 channels. We don't watch TV enough to justify cable or satellite.
We've got a DVD library as well, but that won't be used much until my toddler grows out of the "let's play with the SHINY BLUE BUTTON" stage.
X-Plane for civilian stuff.
IL-2: 1946 for World War II, but mainly the Eastern Front; an oldie but a true classic. The same company's coming out with a Battle of Britain sim very soon, called Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover.
I expect it'll want to show its private parts to its friends.
Seems like in the past few days I've seen fewer and fewer posts modded up or down.
I think you'll find that we would do spectacularly poorly as an autarky.
The right way to do this, of course, is setting up a public-key cryptography infrastructure and users using their individual keys to sign documents. MS Word, for example, natively supports this if you have a PKI it groks.
This. There was near-constant warfare during the Republic and the Empire, both between Rome and other states, and civil wars which were mainly to decide who'd be Emperor until he got assassinated. It was only a peace compared to what'd happen if there /hadn't/ been a Roman Empire.