As soon as the hubbub blows over, they'll start modifying their "regulations" to suit themselves. Some sort of government regulation is needed... at least if Congress or the FCC can be trusted to do the Right Thing.
Whatever happened to the Ask Slashdot section? I've seen several stories this week that should have been posted there but were stuck someplace stupid like News, and it's not just one editor doing it.
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Unix syscalls in Ada: like ripping your cock off to give yourself head. -- anonymous
standard XP was lightweight when it first came out No it wasn't. People complained about how slow XP was versus 98SE, because it was. You could use XP Gold + antivirus on 128MB of RAM, but it wasn't especially pleasant.
Lighter than it is now, I could see, but not lightweight for back then.
I'm told by a Navy man that the fault wasn't with the bulkhead design -- a cruise ship had been built in the mid-late 1800s with warship-style complete compartmentalization, but it wasn't profitable to run because the customers thought it too inconvenient to get around in, and only stayed in service for two years. So cruise ships went back to less-complete compartments because that was the only way to please the customers.
WELCOME TO THE BABBAGE ANALYTICAL TIMESHARING SERVICE
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INTEGRATOR IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
DUE TO THE WEEKLY GREASING SCHEDULE. WOULD ALL USERS KINDLY
RETURN ANY UNUSED PLUGBOARDS, AS THE PROGRAMMING TEAM ARE
RUNNING LOW. DIVISION UNIT 3 WILL BE OUT OF ACTION UNTIL
THURSDAY DUE TO EMERGENCY COG REPLACEMENT - PLEASE ENSURE
THAT YOUR PROGRAM DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY ZERO AS
THIS CAN CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE (INCLUDING SHAFT BREAKAGES). . . SYSTEM READY. ?
I don't have that problem, but I've got NoScript and Adblock+ running. 'Course, I didn't stick around for long once I saw all the "Stolen from Softpedia" pics.
My experience is almost always the same -- occasionally I'll get a reply that looks like the rep actually took the time to write back personally, but only if I took a position that the rep shared. To be fair, they probably get a goodly number of letters & it's hard to do all of them justice.
For the most part, since my area is thoroughly Republican, writing to my reps seems to be a waste of time. My HoR rep, in particular, is a powerful Republican (Roy Blunt) who doesn't give a tinker's damn about what his constituents think except inasmuch as it gets him reelected[1]. His counterpart in the Senate (Kit Bond) is the same, and being powerful Congressional Republicans, they are among Bush's chief enablers.
[1] One particular incident sticks: a few years ago in the regional town I lived in, a protest in favor of gay rights was held while Blunt was in town. They invited him to speak with them, but he refused, saying that he doesn't represent "those people". I was under the impression that a representative was supposed to do just that, represent the people of his district or state. Silly me.
95 would "work" with 4MB of RAM--the official system requirements were, IIRC, a 386DX with 4MB of RAM--but it'd be terribly slow & spend much of its time swapping.
TweakUAC. That lets you have more fine-grained control. When I feel like inflicting Vista on myself, I kill the UAC prompts but keep IE running in protected mode (killing UAC outright also kills protected mode).
We're deploying that here to stop Autorun viruses that can start via just opening the drive (or right-clicking on Explore, etc.). Nasty things enabled by a Windows design flaw reminiscent of Outlook Express 4 opening attachments automatically.
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What about delicious cake?
As soon as the hubbub blows over, they'll start modifying their "regulations" to suit themselves. Some sort of government regulation is needed... at least if Congress or the FCC can be trusted to do the Right Thing.
Whatever happened to the Ask Slashdot section? I've seen several stories this week that should have been posted there but were stuck someplace stupid like News, and it's not just one editor doing it.
Unix syscalls in Ada: like ripping your cock off to give yourself head. -- anonymous
DO ,1 <- #13 ,1 SUB #1 <- #234 ,1 SUB #2 <- #112 ,1 SUB #3 <- #112 ,1 SUB #4 <- #0 ,1 SUB #5 <- #64 ,1 SUB #6 <- #194 ,1 SUB #7 <- #48 ,1 SUB #8 <- #22 ,1 SUB #9 <- #248 ,1 SUB #10 <- #168 ,1 SUB #11 <- #24 ,1 SUB #12 <- #16 ,1 SUB #13 <- #214 ,1
PLEASE DO
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PLEASE DO
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PLEASE READ OUT
PLEASE GIVE UP
Lighter than it is now, I could see, but not lightweight for back then.
I'm told by a Navy man that the fault wasn't with the bulkhead design -- a cruise ship had been built in the mid-late 1800s with warship-style complete compartmentalization, but it wasn't profitable to run because the customers thought it too inconvenient to get around in, and only stayed in service for two years. So cruise ships went back to less-complete compartments because that was the only way to please the customers.
WELCOME TO THE BABBAGE ANALYTICAL TIMESHARING SERVICE
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INTEGRATOR IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
DUE TO THE WEEKLY GREASING SCHEDULE. WOULD ALL USERS KINDLY
RETURN ANY UNUSED PLUGBOARDS, AS THE PROGRAMMING TEAM ARE
RUNNING LOW. DIVISION UNIT 3 WILL BE OUT OF ACTION UNTIL
THURSDAY DUE TO EMERGENCY COG REPLACEMENT - PLEASE ENSURE
THAT YOUR PROGRAM DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY ZERO AS
THIS CAN CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE (INCLUDING SHAFT BREAKAGES).
.
.
SYSTEM READY.
?
Rifles and book depository buildings, then?
I don't have that problem, but I've got NoScript and Adblock+ running. 'Course, I didn't stick around for long once I saw all the "Stolen from Softpedia" pics.
My experience is almost always the same -- occasionally I'll get a reply that looks like the rep actually took the time to write back personally, but only if I took a position that the rep shared. To be fair, they probably get a goodly number of letters & it's hard to do all of them justice.
For the most part, since my area is thoroughly Republican, writing to my reps seems to be a waste of time. My HoR rep, in particular, is a powerful Republican (Roy Blunt) who doesn't give a tinker's damn about what his constituents think except inasmuch as it gets him reelected[1]. His counterpart in the Senate (Kit Bond) is the same, and being powerful Congressional Republicans, they are among Bush's chief enablers.
[1] One particular incident sticks: a few years ago in the regional town I lived in, a protest in favor of gay rights was held while Blunt was in town. They invited him to speak with them, but he refused, saying that he doesn't represent "those people". I was under the impression that a representative was supposed to do just that, represent the people of his district or state. Silly me.
Eat shit and die in a fire, friend-of-a-friend.
Why don't you follow me home and find out?
When I had My First Linux PC, the few times I'd run X on it it was in Window Maker, which worked relatively decently on
Pentium-83 Overdrive
12MB FPM DRAM
Cirrus 5424 video w/512K
no secondary cache
Debian 2.1
but my monitor was shit & wouldn't do above 60 Hz, so I stayed in console almost the whole time I had that computer.
95 would "work" with 4MB of RAM--the official system requirements were, IIRC, a 386DX with 4MB of RAM--but it'd be terribly slow & spend much of its time swapping.
TweakUAC. That lets you have more fine-grained control. When I feel like inflicting Vista on myself, I kill the UAC prompts but keep IE running in protected mode (killing UAC outright also kills protected mode).
Your spelling, evidently: that's a funny way of spelling "Union".
That's what my parents paid for their house.
In 1983.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
We're deploying that here to stop Autorun viruses that can start via just opening the drive (or right-clicking on Explore, etc.). Nasty things enabled by a Windows design flaw reminiscent of Outlook Express 4 opening attachments automatically.
What's your browser's charset?
Did you remember to wipe this time?
Makes sense in a way: the meteors are sperm, the Earth the egg, the orbital bombardment the BDSM.