My linux laptop should be arriving today. Not that I'm a new convert, though. I've been using both windows and linux for 11 years. Purchase Vista? Let's just say it's not likely. Frankly, of all the software I still like to use on windows, none of it works as well in Vista as it does in XP. So of course I won't pay for that crapware, ever.
After playing around with ruby on rails, I just didn't find that it was all that useful. Mostly I found it was just a painful exercise in learning exotic ways of doing things that I already knew how to do correctly. SQL, for example. Don't get me wrong, I see some merit in the rails way of doing things, but overall rails just seems like two steps back for anyone savvy enough to comprehend ruby in the first place. Ruby, on the other hand, rocks out loud.
"Technically legal maybe but undermining of the trust a.edu engenders."
What? *.edu: websites written by people who are still fresh nugs, or by those who can't, and therefore teach. That's the best case scenario. You trust that? I don't.
"I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)? Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?"
Let me disect your list.
Flash: There is no alternative. Teach it. Be sure and focus on Actionscripting, that's about the most useful aspect of the whole package.
Dreamweaver: Stop right there. Point your students toward w3schools and give them Aptana on all those systems. Then they get the great editor and the IDE, without the program doing the important work for them. Learning to use an IDE is way more important than anything you could possibly glean from Dreamweaver, which ain't much. I would also point out Adobe AIR, which is available for Aptana, which integrates the knowledge they gleaned from Flash (Actionscripting, I told you it was important!)
Photoshop: Nope. Gimp. If you were teaching college level multimedia, then Photoshop would be the right choice. If not, they don't need anything the Gimp can't give them, in my humble professional graphic artist opinion.
MovieMaker: Are you kidding me? Just say No. Any alternative is better. Having said that, while there are linux alternatives, there are not very good windows alternatives. Jahshaka is very capable, if arcane. One option here would be 3D Blender. Yes, it's 3D software, but it also does video editing. I'm not familiar enough with editing video using Blender to actually recommend it, though. My personal favored video editing solution is Sony Vegas. Last time I weighed options, it was the champ. Anything it cannot accomplish is best left to pros, plus it's very quick to render output compared to the alternatives.
Speaking of 3D Blender, it's not as scary as it seems. It's probably the only other open source application I'd recommend over the commercial alternatives(see below). It's extremely powerful, versatile, amazing. The learning curve is steeper than Max or Maya, but just barely. Honestly, that's only true initially. Once you get the interface down, the rest is more intuitive than either Max or Maya. Learning 3D is like learning a spoken language, though, in terms of time commitment.
Do not forget to completely ignore that piece of dung named Illustrator, and go on to what anyone with half a brain will be using: either Inkscape or Xara Extreme. Take that to the bank. Illustrator doesn't even get an "also ran." You will be doing them a favor picking one of the two and teaching vector.
I gotta say, as a professional, Gimp is not there yet. It's not photoshop, and it's not close. I'm a big supporter of Gimp. I use it all the time. I use it because it's Free. But Photoshop is simply better, from a usability standpoint. It's not that I cannot do in the Gimp what I can do in Photoshop, because for the most part I can. It's that the Gimp is not as intuitive as Photoshop. As a consequence, getting things done is much slower in the Gimp, generally speaking. On top of that, there's always something wrong with the Gimp. I've never had it Just Work(TM), not under windows, not under linux. Now, I've been using them almost equally (I've actually used the Gimp more, honestly) for at least 7 years, and Gimp for longer than that. So I'm not just coming out of left field. The main two issues with the Gimp are that the various windows not in a single container (Yeah, GimpShop. It sucks, too) and the lack of a good layer system. Nested layers and layer folders are a must, no room for debate. Acting on multiple layers is inconsistent, and that most definitely is unacceptable. For any aspect of the Gimp, as soon as you find yourself fighting the interface, the interface is broken and needs to be fixed. I find myself constantly fighting the window sizes, and constantly find myself looking for pieces of the interface that dropped behind another window. That sucks, and is bad design. I know it's a Unix-ism. But it's still bad design. Having said all that, let me just say I love the Gimp, and kudos to all who have worked to make it what it is. Which is pretty awesome, but not good enough for professional design, considering the competition.
I learned on Max, too. I choked somewhat on Blender's interface at first, too. But then, Maya was no less difficult to learn. I can't argue about aging codebase. But I'll tell you it took me less time to learn Blender to a reasonable point than it did Max OR Maya. Though it does feel strange at first.
My main three complaints, as a new user, were that:
Mouse gestures suck and should be disabled by default.
Mouse gestures suck and there should be a WAY to disable them at all.
The widgets are crude to the point of crying, and it's hard to manipulate things using them or get a bearing from them.
As far as 3d goes, it's very very powerful. As powerful as the commercial apps in most respects. Certainly, unless you're working for Pixar or Blizzard, it has everything you need, and then some. You tend to specialize in 3d work anyway, learning to model machines or humans, or monsters, or being an excellent animator, or kicking butt at textures and/or lighting. You tend to learn one method of modeling as your main method. And you most definitely get picky about which suite you're using. The point is, few people actually use more than the smallest subset of the suite to do their jobs. You don't really need 98% of what a 3D suite is capable of. And so, even though there are a few things you might not have in Blender that you have in Max or Maya, by the time you get to that point where you actually would feel the lack of them, you'll likely already have them. Blender is, after all, actively developed.
Honestly, the primary reason Blender doesn't have a larger following in the industry is momentum. Learning a 3D suite is a task comparable to learning another language. Most people don't have the time or will to do that.
For anyone wanting to learn 3D, brace your shoulders and push past the month or two it will take to feel comfortable with Blender. If you don't have what it takes to learn Blender, you're going nowhere in 3D anyway. And you'll find that, whiz-banginess aside, Blender can do what Max can do. And in my opinion, it's faster.
The word processor you're looking for is OpenOffice and the key you'll be wanting to press is F11. Once upon a time the styles window was displayed by default, but the concept of styles confused the clueless, and so in more recent versions, you have to go looking for it.
Just let me know when you get to number 666. I just thought of a jingle for Verichip:
If you're evil and you know it get a chip. If you're evil and you know it get a chip. If you're evil and you know it, Get the Mark so you can show it: If you're evil and you know it get a chip.
1. E-machine. Enough said!
2. Allow me to introduce you to another option: Ubuntu. It's easy. If you are capable of submitting a story to slashdot, you are capable of setting up Linux on your (crappy E-machine) computer. You may or may not be able to use that fancy camera/printer thing you got for Christmas last year, but the vast majority of your stuff should work. Next time you'll know to ask the sales clerk if it's linux compatible (and not take his word for it, but to look it up yourself.)
3. Is Slashdot really this hard up for news? Microsoft is a P.O.S. company--that's news? Please find an article on some neat new gadget. Or about paint drying. Something that doesn't include the words "Microsoft" or "Vista." Or even "Linux," if it's the announcement of some incremental release of Distro "x."
"Giant rodents for sale! Get your giant rodents here! Tastes like chicken!"
Seriously, though, why not simply sell lots of normal sized rabbits? It's not like you'll run out--they breed like, well, rabbits. Is there really a market demanding giant ones?
Ok, it very clearly reads, "the rights of the people," not, "the rights of the militia."
But lets pretend, just for a second.
If what they claim is true, then by definition:
militia 1. a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b : a body of citizens organized for military service
2 : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service
See the problem? Every male above the age of 18 is registered with Selective Service and is therefore a member of the militia of the U.S., by whichever definition you wish to use for the word.
So in effect, even if what they were claiming were true, which it's clearly not, then they are simply arguing that women cannot own guns! That's the only people who their claim would effect.
Actually, that's not true. If their claim were true, then it would be unconstitutional to prohibit convicts from owning a firearm, because they are still part of the Selective Service regardless of their legal status, and "the right...shall not be infringed." Honestly, that means it's unconstitutional for the courts to restrict their right to bear arms, even with the correct interpretation of the amendment. Strictly reading the letter of the Constitution, you can take away their right to breathe, before you can forbid them from carrying a firearm, even while they are encarcerated. But even bending it a little, as soon as they are released, they, by Constitutional right, should be permitted^H^H^Hhave the unrevokable right to purchase a gun from the closest pawnshop, should they wish. And, in fact, for just that reason, they are able to "restore" their right after any parole time they might still be serving.
Sorry, but the only practical effect of this is to boost Microsoft's stock. People will use what they will use. In shops where.sla is used, it will still be used. OpenOffice is still going to continue to refine itself and spread into all sorts of nooks and crannies just like Firefox. With Vista being so disenchanting, and OpenOffice being part of the standard install on Ubuntu, I expect this will end up looking like what it is: Microsoft trying to plug it's finger in the hole in the dam.
Linus, not being a native born U.S. citizen, is not eligible. However, Eric Raymond would be. I agree, though, RMS for VP.
But Bill Gates!? There's a good idea--not! Gee, let's take the guy who very nearly took all freedom away from computing and see if he can take what's left of freedom away from the country, too!
But-- if he did run, then that would make a great case for all the nuts who said Bill Gates is the Antichrist, now, wouldn't it? Heh, I think that even might be enough to convince me.
I saw a pic on that site showing a twist in a nail with "patent pending" on it. Come on. I mean, really? You're really going to try and patent a twist in a nail? Hell, ANY and I mean ANY blacksmith could show you where he did the same thing just for fun. I so very much call prior art and loser company.
OpenOffice and its cousins missed the bus; the minimum they needed to do was atleast match MS Office's UI performance. Sadly, even MSO2K3 spanks OO. When the competition figures out how to make a snappy, feature-rich, stable product, they'll trouble MS.
Obviously, you don't live on the same planet as the rest of us. OpenOffice surpassed MSOffice with OpenOffice 1.0 as far as UI, and keeps on widening the gap with each release. For the most part, functions work as advertised, which is something MS Office has never done. No, the problem is that you're so used to compensating for MSOffice's brokenness, you don't even realize that it's broken anymore.
As far as stability goes, I've never lost an Openoffice file. Well, not since well before version 1.0, anyway. MS Office seems to destroy my work on a regular basis. There's really no greater meter for stability, is there?
However, OO still lacks as far as grammar checking goes. That's one area MS still leads. You can keep that small victory.
...at which point PCs were well and truly entrenched in the family home.
Er. I'll say nay on that one. A personal computer, then, was something you went to the local library to use, for the overwhelming majority of us. Heck, in my neighborhood, in one of the most technically savvy cities in the U.S. outside of Silicon Valley, I'm the only computer owner on the block, today.
I agree, though, that Bill had zero to do with PCs being in "every" home. AOL did that. And AOL likely would still have done that, no matter what operating system came out on top, Amiga, OS2, Windows--it wouldn't have mattered.
What I hate is that Linus (who deserves a lot of credit, don't get me wrong) always gets kudos for "pioneering" FOSS, when the real heroes of this tale are people like Richard Stallman. RMS is the one who really changed the world. Linus simply latched onto the wagon for the ride. Linus is a hero, but let me point out the elephants in the room: RMS and ESR had way more to do with making linux linux than linus did. They, and many others (Bob Young, Patrick Volkerding, etc.) are the Heroes, Linus is just the figurehead. Linus just happens to be the one who controls the kernel source.
I don't mean to belittle anything Linus has done, at all, I just object to Time pointing to him and saying, "...and here's the man responsible for it all!" B.S. FOSS is full of heroes, and while Linus is an important one, he's certainly not the greatest of them.
Heh, When I read it, my brain said "Lets hope the "high priests" are in the "tabernacle" when it gets ransacked." 3rd party antivirus programs have been the only thing preventing total internet meltdown for years. Because A/V is what they do, they have incentive to do a good job. It's their business. Microsoft hasn't been in that business, really, until now. The first time some cracker says, "I love you, Melissa!" I'll be laughing my ass off, happily using Linux.
I wonder if the telecom provider and those involved would be prosecuted.
Just procecuted? More likely, tried for treason. Which is exactly what needs to happen in this case. What should happen to a company, such as a telecom, that's convicted of treason? Liquidation. After it's debts are paid, the rest of the proceeds should go into the gov't coffers. The entire board of directors should face imprisonment. As well as any gov't officials who had knowledge of it. Wait a minute... How high did you say this conspiracy goes again? Hmmm.
The biggest problem with the article, both on Wired and on/., is that it's not about immigrants coming across the border. It's about boarders getting on airplanes. (More specifically, the screening of those boarders.) I know I'm being the spell-check police, but that little "a" in there makes a whole lot of difference. You can really tell who RTFA and who didn't by what comments they make.
Until, "It's a sad day for America. The President of the United States died last night. Sources are still sketchy, but the cause of death appears to be related to a Denial of Service attack aimed at the President's artificial heart. More news as it comes in..."
But "radiation" can't be stored in a container. Radioactive material, however, can be. Add to that the fact that the submitter was anonymous, and this story should not have been picked up. Hmm. I wonder whats on digg right now.
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My linux laptop should be arriving today. Not that I'm a new convert, though. I've been using both windows and linux for 11 years. Purchase Vista? Let's just say it's not likely. Frankly, of all the software I still like to use on windows, none of it works as well in Vista as it does in XP. So of course I won't pay for that crapware, ever.
After playing around with ruby on rails, I just didn't find that it was all that useful. Mostly I found it was just a painful exercise in learning exotic ways of doing things that I already knew how to do correctly. SQL, for example. Don't get me wrong, I see some merit in the rails way of doing things, but overall rails just seems like two steps back for anyone savvy enough to comprehend ruby in the first place.
Ruby, on the other hand, rocks out loud.
Er? Now I'm curious. Your clients couldn't stand the interface?
"Technically legal maybe but undermining of the trust a .edu engenders."
What? *.edu: websites written by people who are still fresh nugs, or by those who can't, and therefore teach. That's the best case scenario. You trust that?
I don't.
"I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)? Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?" Let me disect your list. Flash: There is no alternative. Teach it. Be sure and focus on Actionscripting, that's about the most useful aspect of the whole package. Dreamweaver: Stop right there. Point your students toward w3schools and give them Aptana on all those systems. Then they get the great editor and the IDE, without the program doing the important work for them. Learning to use an IDE is way more important than anything you could possibly glean from Dreamweaver, which ain't much. I would also point out Adobe AIR, which is available for Aptana, which integrates the knowledge they gleaned from Flash (Actionscripting, I told you it was important!) Photoshop: Nope. Gimp. If you were teaching college level multimedia, then Photoshop would be the right choice. If not, they don't need anything the Gimp can't give them, in my humble professional graphic artist opinion. MovieMaker: Are you kidding me? Just say No. Any alternative is better. Having said that, while there are linux alternatives, there are not very good windows alternatives. Jahshaka is very capable, if arcane. One option here would be 3D Blender. Yes, it's 3D software, but it also does video editing. I'm not familiar enough with editing video using Blender to actually recommend it, though. My personal favored video editing solution is Sony Vegas. Last time I weighed options, it was the champ. Anything it cannot accomplish is best left to pros, plus it's very quick to render output compared to the alternatives. Speaking of 3D Blender, it's not as scary as it seems. It's probably the only other open source application I'd recommend over the commercial alternatives(see below). It's extremely powerful, versatile, amazing. The learning curve is steeper than Max or Maya, but just barely. Honestly, that's only true initially. Once you get the interface down, the rest is more intuitive than either Max or Maya. Learning 3D is like learning a spoken language, though, in terms of time commitment. Do not forget to completely ignore that piece of dung named Illustrator, and go on to what anyone with half a brain will be using: either Inkscape or Xara Extreme. Take that to the bank. Illustrator doesn't even get an "also ran." You will be doing them a favor picking one of the two and teaching vector.
I gotta say, as a professional, Gimp is not there yet. It's not photoshop, and it's not close. I'm a big supporter of Gimp. I use it all the time. I use it because it's Free. But Photoshop is simply better, from a usability standpoint. It's not that I cannot do in the Gimp what I can do in Photoshop, because for the most part I can. It's that the Gimp is not as intuitive as Photoshop. As a consequence, getting things done is much slower in the Gimp, generally speaking. On top of that, there's always something wrong with the Gimp. I've never had it Just Work(TM), not under windows, not under linux. Now, I've been using them almost equally (I've actually used the Gimp more, honestly) for at least 7 years, and Gimp for longer than that. So I'm not just coming out of left field.
The main two issues with the Gimp are that the various windows not in a single container (Yeah, GimpShop. It sucks, too) and the lack of a good layer system. Nested layers and layer folders are a must, no room for debate. Acting on multiple layers is inconsistent, and that most definitely is unacceptable. For any aspect of the Gimp, as soon as you find yourself fighting the interface, the interface is broken and needs to be fixed. I find myself constantly fighting the window sizes, and constantly find myself looking for pieces of the interface that dropped behind another window. That sucks, and is bad design. I know it's a Unix-ism. But it's still bad design.
Having said all that, let me just say I love the Gimp, and kudos to all who have worked to make it what it is. Which is pretty awesome, but not good enough for professional design, considering the competition.
My main three complaints, as a new user, were that:
- Mouse gestures suck and should be disabled by default.
- Mouse gestures suck and there should be a WAY to disable them at all.
- The widgets are crude to the point of crying, and it's hard to manipulate things using them or get a bearing from them.
As far as 3d goes, it's very very powerful. As powerful as the commercial apps in most respects. Certainly, unless you're working for Pixar or Blizzard, it has everything you need, and then some. You tend to specialize in 3d work anyway, learning to model machines or humans, or monsters, or being an excellent animator, or kicking butt at textures and/or lighting. You tend to learn one method of modeling as your main method. And you most definitely get picky about which suite you're using. The point is, few people actually use more than the smallest subset of the suite to do their jobs. You don't really need 98% of what a 3D suite is capable of. And so, even though there are a few things you might not have in Blender that you have in Max or Maya, by the time you get to that point where you actually would feel the lack of them, you'll likely already have them. Blender is, after all, actively developed.Honestly, the primary reason Blender doesn't have a larger following in the industry is momentum. Learning a 3D suite is a task comparable to learning another language. Most people don't have the time or will to do that.
For anyone wanting to learn 3D, brace your shoulders and push past the month or two it will take to feel comfortable with Blender. If you don't have what it takes to learn Blender, you're going nowhere in 3D anyway. And you'll find that, whiz-banginess aside, Blender can do what Max can do. And in my opinion, it's faster.
The word processor you're looking for is OpenOffice and the key you'll be wanting to press is F11. Once upon a time the styles window was displayed by default, but the concept of styles confused the clueless, and so in more recent versions, you have to go looking for it.
Just let me know when you get to number 666.
I just thought of a jingle for Verichip:
If you're evil and you know it get a chip.
If you're evil and you know it get a chip.
If you're evil and you know it,
Get the Mark so you can show it:
If you're evil and you know it get a chip.
1. E-machine. Enough said! 2. Allow me to introduce you to another option: Ubuntu. It's easy. If you are capable of submitting a story to slashdot, you are capable of setting up Linux on your (crappy E-machine) computer. You may or may not be able to use that fancy camera/printer thing you got for Christmas last year, but the vast majority of your stuff should work. Next time you'll know to ask the sales clerk if it's linux compatible (and not take his word for it, but to look it up yourself.) 3. Is Slashdot really this hard up for news? Microsoft is a P.O.S. company--that's news? Please find an article on some neat new gadget. Or about paint drying. Something that doesn't include the words "Microsoft" or "Vista." Or even "Linux," if it's the announcement of some incremental release of Distro "x."
"Giant rodents for sale! Get your giant rodents here! Tastes like chicken!"
Seriously, though, why not simply sell lots of normal sized rabbits? It's not like you'll run out--they breed like, well, rabbits. Is there really a market demanding giant ones?
Generation M is a five issue (Marvel X-men spinoff) mini-series written by Paul Jenkins and pencilled by Ramon Bachs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_M/
But lets pretend, just for a second.
If what they claim is true, then by definition:
See the problem? Every male above the age of 18 is registered with Selective Service and is therefore a member of the militia of the U.S., by whichever definition you wish to use for the word.
So in effect, even if what they were claiming were true, which it's clearly not, then they are simply arguing that women cannot own guns! That's the only people who their claim would effect.
Actually, that's not true. If their claim were true, then it would be unconstitutional to prohibit convicts from owning a firearm, because they are still part of the Selective Service regardless of their legal status, and "the right...shall not be infringed." Honestly, that means it's unconstitutional for the courts to restrict their right to bear arms, even with the correct interpretation of the amendment. Strictly reading the letter of the Constitution, you can take away their right to breathe, before you can forbid them from carrying a firearm, even while they are encarcerated. But even bending it a little, as soon as they are released, they, by Constitutional right, should be permitted^H^H^Hhave the unrevokable right to purchase a gun from the closest pawnshop, should they wish. And, in fact, for just that reason, they are able to "restore" their right after any parole time they might still be serving.
Sorry, but the only practical effect of this is to boost Microsoft's stock. People will use what they will use. In shops where .sla is used, it will still be used. OpenOffice is still going to continue to refine itself and spread into all sorts of nooks and crannies just like Firefox. With Vista being so disenchanting, and OpenOffice being part of the standard install on Ubuntu, I expect this will end up looking like what it is: Microsoft trying to plug it's finger in the hole in the dam.
Linus, not being a native born U.S. citizen, is not eligible. However, Eric Raymond would be. I agree, though, RMS for VP.
But Bill Gates!? There's a good idea--not! Gee, let's take the guy who very nearly took all freedom away from computing and see if he can take what's left of freedom away from the country, too!
But-- if he did run, then that would make a great case for all the nuts who said Bill Gates is the Antichrist, now, wouldn't it? Heh, I think that even might be enough to convince me.
I saw a pic on that site showing a twist in a nail with "patent pending" on it. Come on. I mean, really? You're really going to try and patent a twist in a nail? Hell, ANY and I mean ANY blacksmith could show you where he did the same thing just for fun. I so very much call prior art and loser company.
Obviously, you don't live on the same planet as the rest of us. OpenOffice surpassed MSOffice with OpenOffice 1.0 as far as UI, and keeps on widening the gap with each release. For the most part, functions work as advertised, which is something MS Office has never done. No, the problem is that you're so used to compensating for MSOffice's brokenness, you don't even realize that it's broken anymore.
As far as stability goes, I've never lost an Openoffice file. Well, not since well before version 1.0, anyway. MS Office seems to destroy my work on a regular basis. There's really no greater meter for stability, is there?
However, OO still lacks as far as grammar checking goes. That's one area MS still leads. You can keep that small victory.
Er. I'll say nay on that one. A personal computer, then, was something you went to the local library to use, for the overwhelming majority of us. Heck, in my neighborhood, in one of the most technically savvy cities in the U.S. outside of Silicon Valley, I'm the only computer owner on the block, today.
I agree, though, that Bill had zero to do with PCs being in "every" home. AOL did that. And AOL likely would still have done that, no matter what operating system came out on top, Amiga, OS2, Windows--it wouldn't have mattered.
What I hate is that Linus (who deserves a lot of credit, don't get me wrong) always gets kudos for "pioneering" FOSS, when the real heroes of this tale are people like Richard Stallman. RMS is the one who really changed the world. Linus simply latched onto the wagon for the ride. Linus is a hero, but let me point out the elephants in the room: RMS and ESR had way more to do with making linux linux than linus did. They, and many others (Bob Young, Patrick Volkerding, etc.) are the Heroes, Linus is just the figurehead. Linus just happens to be the one who controls the kernel source.
I don't mean to belittle anything Linus has done, at all, I just object to Time pointing to him and saying, "...and here's the man responsible for it all!" B.S. FOSS is full of heroes, and while Linus is an important one, he's certainly not the greatest of them.
http://www.bretschneidernet.de/tips/secmua.html
Heh, When I read it, my brain said "Lets hope the "high priests" are in the "tabernacle" when it gets ransacked." 3rd party antivirus programs have been the only thing preventing total internet meltdown for years. Because A/V is what they do, they have incentive to do a good job. It's their business. Microsoft hasn't been in that business, really, until now. The first time some cracker says, "I love you, Melissa!" I'll be laughing my ass off, happily using Linux.
The biggest problem with the article, both on Wired and on /., is that it's not about immigrants coming across the border. It's about boarders getting on airplanes. (More specifically, the screening of those boarders.) I know I'm being the spell-check police, but that little "a" in there makes a whole lot of difference. You can really tell who RTFA and who didn't by what comments they make.
I guess all those boarders better make a run for the border.
border
1 : an outer part or edge.
boarder
one that boards.
Until, "It's a sad day for America. The President of the United States died last night. Sources are still sketchy, but the cause of death appears to be related to a Denial of Service attack aimed at the President's artificial heart. More news as it comes in..."
But "radiation" can't be stored in a container. Radioactive material, however, can be. Add to that the fact that the submitter was anonymous, and this story should not have been picked up. Hmm. I wonder whats on digg right now.