that website owners pay for bandwidth since this would kill adsense, pretty much?
The alternative to tracking via cookies is micropayments where you have to pay a fraction of a cent for each web page you view.
It's not even you that's being tracked. It's your browser. Unless you constantly use your real name online, there is no way to link a name to the observed browsing habits of a person unless ISPs get involved and connect IPs to names.
What's it going to take to get people to see that technological ignorance is NOT OKAY? Any technology can cause damage if it's used by people who don't know how it works. I'm not saying people should know how to code, but you don't know the difference between a client and server, stay the fuck off the net until you're read your first "for dummies" book.
Here's how to get rid of botnets: license computer users. If you don't know enough about the technology to keep from harming the rest of society, you don't get to use it. If you can't keep your computer secure, you get to use snailmail, POTS and get your videos at Blockbuster.
Quit making excuses for people who don't want to learn how their computers work. They are the cause of may of the problems that people who want to use appropriately
When I got my first net access in 1988, the ISP owner interviewed me personally to make sure I'd use the resources responsibly. We should go back to that.
Don't make excuses for idiots. If Joe Sixpack doesn't want to learn how his computer works, take away his keyboard.
If you've got a sub $100 printer that doesn't work with linux there is a good chance it's a windows printer where a bucks are saved by having the OS do the work rather than the printer. Wanting a win printer to work with anything other than linux is silly.
Meanwhile, you can get an HP inject for $40 that's fully supported.
If it's a $1200 pro quality printer with advanced features that are unsupported, there's a good chance that the applications you want to use aren't supported either. Linux sorta sucks for print layout work. If I were going to spend that kind of cash I'd just make sure to get a postscript printer. Any printer that supports postscript will be fully supported.
Tips were submitted from a web form with no email verification. Some joker likely thought it would be funny to use the public address for the VP's office when submitting a tip. When the mass mailing was sent it out, it got sent to that address as well.
It looks like a vote is only required when a P member objects. The net result of this is that there must be full agreement on all motions for them to pass since an objection automatically triggers a vote for which quorum will be unobtainable.
According to Directives 9.1.6 "If any P-member objects to the question during this period, the question will be decided by a vote, either at a meeting or by letter ballot", this single negative response triggers the requirement now for a formal letter ballot from all SC34 P-members soliciting an explicit approve/disapprove response.
In the case of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, something to do with establishing a liaison with the XML guild, The Netherlands filed an objection triggering a full vote to which the following countries did not respond:
Bulgaria Brazil Switzerland Côte-d'Ivoire (wtf?) China Colombia Czech Republic France India Japan Kenya Korea, Republic of Kazakhstan (insert Borat reference here) Lebanon Malta Norway Pakistan Poland Romania Sweden Thailand Trinidad and Tobago
Who is saying you can't have a car? If it's a '78 Plymouth Fury you might have a bit of a problem. I expect all new cars will be required to be hybreds within 20 years or so.
The #1 source of emissions that needs to be controlled is coal fired power plants. The hardcore environmental left is going to have to swallow nuclear power and fast. We've got to get over our paranoia about countries we don't like having nuclear power as well. It's better to risk making small parts of the planet uninhabitable than it is to risk making the whole thing uninhabitable. More so than petroleum, It's coal that has got to go.
Chaotic conditions provide perfect opportunities for extremists of both the left and right to seize power. The biggest danger we face is not from the direct effects of global warming but the political upheaval that will follow.
It's hardly a mansion. I've seen it. It's a house. It's also the headquarters for his entire organization. He uses it for entertaining and fundraising. He has $1000 a plate dinners to support democratic congressional candidates and that kind of thing.
Seriously, what is he supposed to do when he has private dinners for visiting world leaders? Rent the banquet room at the Holiday Inn?
He is what he is: a leader on the world stage. There is a degree of pageantry that comes with that job that can't be ignored.
This thread is from the ubuntu developers discussion list. The topic is the pros and cons of disabling fdisk checks on ext3 partitions at boot because they take too long.
One frequently repeated argument is "people don't have to wait on windows, why should they on linux?"
Millions of XP machines are running just fine without this check. Do you think any desktop user will try to understand why this check is needed? Would you accept your car needing a 20min self-check before you can drive, especially if you're late? Would you even care why this check is needed if you see that some other car doesn't do this check or has a more efficient checking method?
Seriously, the solution that Ubuntu has chosen is just an ugly hack because nobody wanted to implement automatic checks in the background, but there are quite a few people (as you can also see in the bug reports) who don't like this situation. In any serious company that cares about its users and the user experience the solution would be very simple: Either it's implemented correctly or not at all.
I still am convinced that fsck is _not_ the right tool for the purpose. Ext3 already has a journal that should (hopefully) avoid file system corruption due power failures. What is the point in running fsck periodically? If it's to check for disk errors, then badblocks is the right tool and it can run read-only on a mounted filesystem. Moreover, if the point is to check periodically, then we could check a small amount of blocks at a time,using low disk priority like search daemons (should) do, or even check random blocks.
Finally, I want to point out to those that say fsck defends your data: I have a desktop machine which hosts an internal service, so it's continuously up. I once rebooted, disk was damaged, and I couldn't no longer boot or recover data (I had a backup, in any case, but it's not so typical with desktop users). However, it had an uptime of months. If I had an online check (e.g. read-only fsck, or smart, or badblocks) I would have discovered the problem before, and would have been able to recover some data. I know this by long experience, so don't tell me it's not likely.
The degree of ignorance shown about basic things is staggering.
Really the only use for this that I can see is changing tunings on the fly. It would be fun to see what somebody like Sonic Youth whose sound is based around weird harmonics would do with it, switching oddball tunings in mid song. It's a technology that's begging to be abused.
I've always figured that as long as I can't hear myself being out of tune and the audience has had more to drink than me they can't tell either.
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Or use pico
have figured out that bypassing Windows means not having to buy a new PC every three years.
It's either missing the point or is 100% targeted at the "how to exploit open source for personal gain" crowd.
In the ear. With a rake. Sideways.
so what the hell does he know?
Really? It seems like linux users would have more cash on hand to spend since they haven't just blown a month's salary on a computer.
yup
http://www.draftgore.com/
that website owners pay for bandwidth since this would kill adsense, pretty much?
The alternative to tracking via cookies is micropayments where you have to pay a fraction of a cent for each web page you view.
It's not even you that's being tracked. It's your browser. Unless you constantly use your real name online, there is no way to link a name to the observed browsing habits of a person unless ISPs get involved and connect IPs to names.
Streaming flash video of detonation:
http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90
by thicker skin do you mean bulletproof?
Something about Christo and a psychiatrist?
There should be licensing for parents. Put birth control of some kind in the water supply and make people pass a test to get the antidote.
What's it going to take to get people to see that technological ignorance is NOT OKAY? Any technology can cause damage if it's used by people who don't know how it works. I'm not saying people should know how to code, but you don't know the difference between a client and server, stay the fuck off the net until you're read your first "for dummies" book.
Here's how to get rid of botnets: license computer users. If you don't know enough about the technology to keep from harming the rest of society, you don't get to use it. If you can't keep your computer secure, you get to use snailmail, POTS and get your videos at Blockbuster.
Quit making excuses for people who don't want to learn how their computers work. They are the cause of may of the problems that people who want to use appropriately
When I got my first net access in 1988, the ISP owner interviewed me personally to make sure I'd use the resources responsibly. We should go back to that.
Don't make excuses for idiots. If Joe Sixpack doesn't want to learn how his computer works, take away his keyboard.
If you've got a sub $100 printer that doesn't work with linux there is a good chance it's a windows printer where a bucks are saved by having the OS do the work rather than the printer. Wanting a win printer to work with anything other than linux is silly.
Meanwhile, you can get an HP inject for $40 that's fully supported.
If it's a $1200 pro quality printer with advanced features that are unsupported, there's a good chance that the applications you want to use aren't supported either. Linux sorta sucks for print layout work. If I were going to spend that kind of cash I'd just make sure to get a postscript printer. Any printer that supports postscript will be fully supported.
they aren't immune until after they are all pardoned.
That said, the hauge is still likely the best place to handle this.
Tips were submitted from a web form with no email verification. Some joker likely thought it would be funny to use the public address for the VP's office when submitting a tip. When the mass mailing was sent it out, it got sent to that address as well.
Am I going to have to switch to SBC small business to keep my current level of connectivity?
motions for them to pass since an objection automatically triggers a vote for which quorum will be unobtainable.
In the case of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, something to do with establishing a liaison with the XML guild, The Netherlands filed an objection triggering a full vote to which the following countries did not respond:
Bulgaria
Brazil
Switzerland
Côte-d'Ivoire (wtf?)
China
Colombia
Czech Republic
France
India
Japan
Kenya
Korea, Republic of
Kazakhstan (insert Borat reference here)
Lebanon
Malta
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Romania
Sweden
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
He's ripped tons of youtube clips of himself off the site and put them up on his site. He can't own the copyright to a lot of them.
Who is saying you can't have a car? If it's a '78 Plymouth Fury you might have a bit of a problem. I expect all new cars will be required to be hybreds within 20 years or so.
The #1 source of emissions that needs to be controlled is coal fired power plants. The hardcore environmental left is going to have to swallow nuclear power and fast. We've got to get over our paranoia about countries we don't like having nuclear power as well. It's better to risk making small parts of the planet uninhabitable than it is to risk making the whole thing uninhabitable. More so than petroleum, It's coal that has got to go.
You really don't get what's coming next do you?
Wars over water, for one thing.
Chaotic conditions provide perfect opportunities for extremists of both the left and right to seize power. The biggest danger we face is not from the direct effects of global warming but the political upheaval that will follow.
It's hardly a mansion. I've seen it. It's a house. It's also the headquarters for his entire organization. He uses it for entertaining and fundraising. He has $1000 a plate dinners to support democratic congressional candidates and that kind of thing.
Seriously, what is he supposed to do when he has private dinners for visiting world leaders? Rent the banquet room at the Holiday Inn?
He is what he is: a leader on the world stage. There is a degree of pageantry that comes with that job that can't be ignored.
One frequently repeated argument is "people don't have to wait on windows, why should they on linux?"
The degree of ignorance shown about basic things is staggering.
Compare that to a full OO.org install which drags in Java.
http://www.lastgasp.com/d/21573/
Uncle Festor's Silent Death looks fun:
http://www.unclefesterbooks.com/book_sd.html
Any book on pyrotechnics manufacture likely has multiple uses as well.
rec.pyrotechnics FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pyrotechnics-faq/
All kinds of fun:
http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/
Is that the headless body-through ones?
Really the only use for this that I can see is changing tunings on the fly. It would be fun to see what somebody like Sonic Youth whose sound is based around weird harmonics would do with it, switching oddball tunings in mid song. It's a technology that's begging to be abused.
I've always figured that as long as I can't hear myself being out of tune and the audience has had more to drink than me they can't tell either.