They haven't said anything about why they're blocking port 22 - I'm with Telus in Alberta, and they're pretty uncomunicative - but they blocked port 22 just about an hour or two ago.
I was actually in an ssh session to my home computer, and all of a sudden it dropped. Nmap confirmed the port is now filtered, not that the server died on my machine.
Needless to say, I won't consider use of an advertising-supported product.
Would you consider buying the CDs straight from Mandrake (or from your local enlightened software shop), or does the taint of advertising still cling to all Mandrake products? Cause that would be a pretty extreme situation.
Incidentally, I agree with you about avoiding TV, commercial radio, commercial-heavy magazines, etc. I see television maybe once every month or two if I'm in a bar or something, and every time I'm re-surprised by how crass the consumerism is - both the overt ads and the embedded ones in programs (plus the pervasive 'owning expensive new stuff will make you happy' attitude that acts like a sort of generic ad for stuff). It's especially mindblowing when I see American TV - I'm in Canada, where ads for stuff like prescription medications is illegal.
I routinely turn off grammar checking in every program I've ever used it in. Aside from the occasional misplaced modifier or dangling participle, its worthless.
Those two sentences are wonderful! I half suspect you of doing that on purpose, but I'll bite anyway...
The first sentence has a dangling preposition - it ends with 'in'. '...every program in which I've ever used it' is grammatical, and sounds more elegant IMO. In the second sentence, you use a possessive where you mean a subject and verb - it should be 'it's worthless' not 'its worthless'
Either way, we'll have to see what the results of use are, and hope that they don't claim fraud upon people who are exhonerated later.
Well, from the point of view of the insurance companies, it probably doesn't matter whether the test allows them to detect and refuse payments to scammers, or just hit random innocents and refuse their payments. As long as they can reduce the total dollar amount in insurance settlements paid, and have plausible deniability that they were not acting maliciously toward claimants, it's all good to them.
I tried it in Mail - went into prefs, add new account, and in one of the field, say server name, put about 3000 characters. Hit return, and watch Mail crash.
just regarding the obscure protocol bit - I think they're actually publishing the specs for it so that other people (like those without Macs) can eventually get their own compatible programs
In iTunes 4.0, you couldn't listen to other people's shared music if you used a web proxy (whether located on your own computer or another). Anyone know if this is fixed?
I had installed LinuxPPC 1999, then 1999 Q3 on my Mac.
Never mind that the interface in Gnome is a disaster in terms of consistency (if anyone wants an environment to bash for being eye-candy first, usability second, Gnome is it). Never mind that getting X11 to support the video card worth a damn, hardly a bleeding-edge just released board, was nothing but headache. Never mind any of that, I needed a Posix OS.
As soon as Mac OS X beta came out, I installed it and never looked back. Some of the best stuff about this is not so much the GUI (though it is nice) is the fact that Darwin is a really nice Unix. Configuring programs from the commandline is sweet - one utility, all files in consistent XML. The way apps, kernel extensions, installers and such are packaged is great too - it effectively hides the complexity of modern programs from people who don't care about it, but makes it super easy to find out for the curious. The organization of startup scripts is really clear too, none of this jumble of/etc/rc.whatever files all piled together.
It's only necessary if you're being fired for something that has just been discovered, and where keeping you on for the rest of the day would now be impossible. Punching out a co-worker, something like that.
As you say, access to guns is easy. Access to telephones is easier. You can actually talk to your employees when they aren't on the premises to begin with, so you don't need to escort them out like they're plague criminals. Firing someone over the phone may be cold and spineless, but it is better than sending some poor security guy to do it, and making everyone feel like dirt.
That's great! Thanks for the link. Surprise, surprise, I came out left-liberal. I think I had one answer in the whole thing that was not the typical pinko answer.
Regarding customs, perhaps you get a different lot in airports (I don't think I've ever done customs in a car).
Yes, I am aware of these points, and I agree that they have some validity. I also know, as I am sure you do as well, what the reasons for these measures are. I consider that the measures do not fully counterbalance these reasons. You apparently consider that they do.
Yes, I am aware of the greater difficulty of getting a scholarship, I am a white man too, and I have applied for scholarships too. Yes, I am aware that, at least in certain places and circumstances, entrance standards vary according to race. (At my school they are just far too low across the board, so that the university can collect tuition from hopelessly ill-prepared first years who are guaranteed to fail at least half their classes. That is the school's fraud though, and a topic for another rant)
Point by point then
It is harder to get into college (much higher chance that you went to grade school at a substandard institution, and were not prepared for the SATs)
It is harder to afford college (much higher chance that you come from a poor family)
It is often harder to graduate (see first point; also, depending on your cultural and linguistic background, there is a very good possibility that courses are being taught in your second language, and assuming as a basic background a familiarity with a culture and tradition that is not your own)
Did I say that the measures being used to compenate are perfect? Of course not. I have, as you say, "a passing acquaintance with reality". I do however think that they are a damn sight better than nothing.
I agree, this nonsense with chips that don't crank out enough heat to cook on is getting a little long in the tooth.
I had to get a second monitor just to get the blasted computer to give off enough heat to keep me warm this Winter. For heaven's sake, there's only two fans in the case, and not a single one of them is on the processor...
South America more free than the USA? At least in the US, you can be fairly sure that when you exercise your right to vote, you will not be machine-gunned in the streets.
Russia? Of course everyone ignores the government! It's the mafia that run the place.
As for Switerland, just remember, that isn't your gun in your house. It's the government's gun. And if the gov't finds out you've been using it in a criminally irresponsible manner (ie. carrying it in public, taking it out of the triple-locked gun case without filling out forms in triplicate), they will come to your house, break down the door if you don't open it, take your gun away, and very possibly prosecute you.
And, one final point:
If the framework of a nation had no mechanism for corporations to lobby for favors, protection, etc, "corporate power" would be a non-issue.
You're right, corporate power would have become a non-issue long ago, when it became absolute. If there were no mechanism limiting the way in which corporations lobby governments, the Marlboro man would have bought you, me, and your sainted aunt Emma from the government years ago, and put us all to work in the tobacco fields on bread and water.
heroin-junkie stuff that's so hateful I don't want to repeat it
By and large, heroin addicts are suffering less from the effect of heroin than from the effect of prohibition. It has been shown that when heroin is legal, and a reliable source of heroin of known purity is available, addicts are able to resume a fairly normal life. They get jobs, and become taxpayers (and hence, by reading into your posting only a little, humans). They get enough to eat, they live in warm sanitary homes. The heroin part comes from being addicted. The junkie part comes from being forced into a life of homelessness and petty crime by governments too cowardly to care for their citizens.
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I don't remember ever hearing the words Big Brother applied to the Canadian government.
You obviously don't hang around environmentalists, or human rights (homelessness, etc.) activists. They are the ones that get arrested without warrant, on no charges, and detained because the police suspect that they are going to exercise their protected right to protest against some action of the government.
I never asked the government for one damn handout. I never wanted a handout... sans governmental help (excepting college loans, that is)
You got them though, didn't you? Also, do you pay the full cost of your tuition in the US? I know that in Canada, the actual cost of running the universities is about four or five times what is collected in tuition. A small amount of the balance is from private/corporate sponsorship, the vast majority comes from taxes. (see note) Also, what about housing subsidies, residences, that sort of thing?
I'm a middle class white male who has worked hard to get to where I am.
I suspect you hate to hear this, but then you obviously acknowledge that race plays at least some role in your success, otherwise you wouldn't likely have mentioned the colour of your skin. Part of the role of government (at least as the US government apparently sees it) is to create a level playing field, so that black women can have a reasonable chance of seeing their hard work rewarded by success, just as white men do. You don't get that without spending some money...
Either a person will control her own destiny, or she will rely on the government. I choose self.
And there I was thinking was that the point of destiny was that it was inescapable. Just don't go getting struck down by cancer, or Parkinson's disease, or lightning for that matter. Personally, I see it as part of the price of having a solid income and good health, that I should do my part to see to it that those who have neither are not left to die of curable diseases. Of course, this is in Canada, where there is state medicare.
note: In most European countries, university education is entirely free. Ireland is so successful in the "new economy" in large part because it made university educations free, and subsidized the housing of those who couldn't otherwise afford to stay away from work. That's the bit that the right-wing press doesn't like to tell you.
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They haven't said anything about why they're blocking port 22 - I'm with Telus in Alberta, and they're pretty uncomunicative - but they blocked port 22 just about an hour or two ago. I was actually in an ssh session to my home computer, and all of a sudden it dropped. Nmap confirmed the port is now filtered, not that the server died on my machine.
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Would you consider buying the CDs straight from Mandrake (or from your local enlightened software shop), or does the taint of advertising still cling to all Mandrake products? Cause that would be a pretty extreme situation.
Incidentally, I agree with you about avoiding TV, commercial radio, commercial-heavy magazines, etc. I see television maybe once every month or two if I'm in a bar or something, and every time I'm re-surprised by how crass the consumerism is - both the overt ads and the embedded ones in programs (plus the pervasive 'owning expensive new stuff will make you happy' attitude that acts like a sort of generic ad for stuff). It's especially mindblowing when I see American TV - I'm in Canada, where ads for stuff like prescription medications is illegal.
Those two sentences are wonderful! I half suspect you of doing that on purpose, but I'll bite anyway...
The first sentence has a dangling preposition - it ends with 'in'. '...every program in which I've ever used it' is grammatical, and sounds more elegant IMO. In the second sentence, you use a possessive where you mean a subject and verb - it should be 'it's worthless' not 'its worthless'
It was perfectly happy to let me read the article as a 101-year old though...
You're off by a couple hundred years, I'm afraid. Unless you're talking about tech notes for 16th C oxcarts or something...
Well, from the point of view of the insurance companies, it probably doesn't matter whether the test allows them to detect and refuse payments to scammers, or just hit random innocents and refuse their payments. As long as they can reduce the total dollar amount in insurance settlements paid, and have plausible deniability that they were not acting maliciously toward claimants, it's all good to them.
They're bankers! How can you even suggest they're innocent?
I'd be pretty pissed off at you if you recommended I buy a machine with a nonfunctional modem and no sound.
My hair is blond (and really long) and my beard red. My wife likes it, at any rate. Of course, you could say she's likely biased...
It's fixed now.
just regarding the obscure protocol bit - I think they're actually publishing the specs for it so that other people (like those without Macs) can eventually get their own compatible programs
In iTunes 4.0, you couldn't listen to other people's shared music if you used a web proxy (whether located on your own computer or another). Anyone know if this is fixed?
if (document.referrer.toLowerCase().indexOf("slashdot .org")>-1)
location.href= "http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/";
That's one I've never heard. Pigs will fly, it will be a nice day in Hell, etc.
Shit will be going uphill. I like that.
Nice rant! I would say that "true reflection" is pushing it a bit though.
Never mind that the interface in Gnome is a disaster in terms of consistency (if anyone wants an environment to bash for being eye-candy first, usability second, Gnome is it). Never mind that getting X11 to support the video card worth a damn, hardly a bleeding-edge just released board, was nothing but headache. Never mind any of that, I needed a Posix OS.
As soon as Mac OS X beta came out, I installed it and never looked back. Some of the best stuff about this is not so much the GUI (though it is nice) is the fact that Darwin is a really nice Unix. Configuring programs from the commandline is sweet - one utility, all files in consistent XML. The way apps, kernel extensions, installers and such are packaged is great too - it effectively hides the complexity of modern programs from people who don't care about it, but makes it super easy to find out for the curious. The organization of startup scripts is really clear too, none of this jumble of /etc/rc.whatever files all piled together.
As you say, access to guns is easy. Access to telephones is easier. You can actually talk to your employees when they aren't on the premises to begin with, so you don't need to escort them out like they're plague criminals. Firing someone over the phone may be cold and spineless, but it is better than sending some poor security guy to do it, and making everyone feel like dirt.
That's great! Thanks for the link. Surprise, surprise, I came out left-liberal. I think I had one answer in the whole thing that was not the typical pinko answer.
Regarding customs, perhaps you get a different lot in airports (I don't think I've ever done customs in a car).
Yes, I am aware of the greater difficulty of getting a scholarship, I am a white man too, and I have applied for scholarships too. Yes, I am aware that, at least in certain places and circumstances, entrance standards vary according to race. (At my school they are just far too low across the board, so that the university can collect tuition from hopelessly ill-prepared first years who are guaranteed to fail at least half their classes. That is the school's fraud though, and a topic for another rant)
Point by point then
Did I say that the measures being used to compenate are perfect? Of course not. I have, as you say, "a passing acquaintance with reality". I do however think that they are a damn sight better than nothing.
I had to get a second monitor just to get the blasted computer to give off enough heat to keep me warm this Winter. For heaven's sake, there's only two fans in the case, and not a single one of them is on the processor...
South America more free than the USA? At least in the US, you can be fairly sure that when you exercise your right to vote, you will not be machine-gunned in the streets.
Russia? Of course everyone ignores the government! It's the mafia that run the place.
As for Switerland, just remember, that isn't your gun in your house. It's the government's gun. And if the gov't finds out you've been using it in a criminally irresponsible manner (ie. carrying it in public, taking it out of the triple-locked gun case without filling out forms in triplicate), they will come to your house, break down the door if you don't open it, take your gun away, and very possibly prosecute you.
And, one final point:
If the framework of a nation had no mechanism for corporations to lobby for favors, protection, etc, "corporate power" would be a non-issue.
You're right, corporate power would have become a non-issue long ago, when it became absolute. If there were no mechanism limiting the way in which corporations lobby governments, the Marlboro man would have bought you, me, and your sainted aunt Emma from the government years ago, and put us all to work in the tobacco fields on bread and water.
By and large, heroin addicts are suffering less from the effect of heroin than from the effect of prohibition. It has been shown that when heroin is legal, and a reliable source of heroin of known purity is available, addicts are able to resume a fairly normal life. They get jobs, and become taxpayers (and hence, by reading into your posting only a little, humans). They get enough to eat, they live in warm sanitary homes. The heroin part comes from being addicted. The junkie part comes from being forced into a life of homelessness and petty crime by governments too cowardly to care for their citizens.
friendly, chipper, informative, helpful and welcoming American Customs staff
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You obviously don't hang around environmentalists, or human rights (homelessness, etc.) activists. They are the ones that get arrested without warrant, on no charges, and detained because the police suspect that they are going to exercise their protected right to protest against some action of the government.
I never asked the government for one damn handout. I never wanted a handout ... sans governmental help (excepting college loans, that is)
You got them though, didn't you? Also, do you pay the full cost of your tuition in the US? I know that in Canada, the actual cost of running the universities is about four or five times what is collected in tuition. A small amount of the balance is from private/corporate sponsorship, the vast majority comes from taxes. (see note) Also, what about housing subsidies, residences, that sort of thing?
I'm a middle class white male who has worked hard to get to where I am.
I suspect you hate to hear this, but then you obviously acknowledge that race plays at least some role in your success, otherwise you wouldn't likely have mentioned the colour of your skin. Part of the role of government (at least as the US government apparently sees it) is to create a level playing field, so that black women can have a reasonable chance of seeing their hard work rewarded by success, just as white men do. You don't get that without spending some money...
Either a person will control her own destiny, or she will rely on the government. I choose self.
And there I was thinking was that the point of destiny was that it was inescapable. Just don't go getting struck down by cancer, or Parkinson's disease, or lightning for that matter. Personally, I see it as part of the price of having a solid income and good health, that I should do my part to see to it that those who have neither are not left to die of curable diseases. Of course, this is in Canada, where there is state medicare.
note: In most European countries, university education is entirely free. Ireland is so successful in the "new economy" in large part because it made university educations free, and subsidized the housing of those who couldn't otherwise afford to stay away from work. That's the bit that the right-wing press doesn't like to tell you.