Frankly, folks, Scientology is a a product you you guys contuinue unleashing onto the world. It is your legal system that protects them and gives them power and shielding. It is your tax exemption (obtained by blackmaling the IRS into submission) that guarantees their funding, and its your bycantine and imperialist court system that helps them to harass people into submission even abroad.
In most civilized countries Scientology leaders sit in or barely stay out of jail, but in America, he Government even has the audacity to complain to other countries about them prosecuting Scientology crimes, actually claiming human rights violations.
Frankly, face it: Scientology will be there, oppressing and destroying everyone who disagrees with them, as long as you allow your judges and your policemen to act as their willing servants.
Yadda Yadda. Folks, the whole fucking thread consists endless repetitons of 3 variants of this same lame old troll. So... - who let these idiot ACs out of the asylum ? - what happendend to the lameness filter ? - and why and since when can fucking AC Trolls post at +1 ???
Essentially, the IP faction has already bought out KaZaa, under one condition: that they first kill off Morpheus. Witness the obscure and unexplained sellout of Kazaa to a mysterious foreign company nobody really knows. Witness the sequence of events. Witness the actions of Kazaa completely damaging Kazaas own legal standing, while only beeing of limited use to them.
The Kazaa founders probably got enough money and a promise not to get sued personally for pulling of this stunt.
This just has waaay too much "random" events to be normal.
The wois database once was a worthy resource for internet administration.
Yet another good thing is destroyed by spammers. Folks, frankly, I wonder when will we start really doing something against these subhuman vermin ? The poison every well they touch, the steal other people's resources and they don't bother detroying whatever they use to advance their cause.
Therefore, giving your excess grain to the needy and poor helps them continue their survival. I hardly consider Blizzard video games to be necessary for the survival of anything.
It is obvious from your incoherent rambling that you have not the faintest clue what you are talking about
The development of the Internet (yes, the Internet is more than the HTTP protocol) was funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Non U.S. users can damned well speak English when addressing us.
Do we have to keep the eyes on the floor while talking to you, Master, or are we allowed to look up ?
*sigh* jerks like you are the ones poisoning this debate. There are so many good reasons for a universal command of English for basic understanding. Whose money paid some reasearch is certainly not among them (and you stole it anyway).
All systems-related communication on the internet should be in English? I must have missed that RFC.
No. You just missed your education, and shelved rational thinking somewhere in your cellar.
Working knowledge of English, both reading and writing, should be mandatory for anybody administrating an internet connected system. The key word is communication - people have to understand each other. There is no "equal right for every fucking language" in such a setting. Our only chance at universal mutual understanding (which is required here) is a universal mutually understood language.
BTW - have you noted that the RFCs are written in English ? Are you aware that all major programming languages are modeled after English ? Did it occur to you that up-to-date security information is dealt in English only ?
FWIW, I'm not a native English speaker (as you should know by now:-), don't live in an anglophone country, and didn't even learn it as first foreign language in school. Go figure.
So they have transparent web caches. The company I work for does this as well. And it sucks big time, for a number of reasons:
we have all kinds of quality problems. There's a shitload of web apps out there that break with transparent caches, one way or the other, and often in subtile ways. There's even an RFC about some of them.
when metering traffic independently of the cache statistics we found that we actually did not save any bandwidth worth mentioning. The statistics for the caches of course say different, but interface counters don't lie:-)
customer satisfaction goes down the drain. The reason is, even if there is no problem with the caches, people blame any problem with internet and web site availability on the caches - and thus on us.
But, no, we have nothing in place to collect and evaluate logs. It's just much too much data right now to handle or even store it professionally. OTOH, given technological advances, this kind of storage and evalutaion probably will be trivial a few years from now. So the tendency is definitely dangerous.
This post alone is ample evidence that you are a free software or Linux zealot q.e.d.
It isn't.
My favourite MUA is Pegasus Mail, which is neither free software (as defined by the FSF) nor Linux/Unix.
I am, though, on technical matters, an elitist. If you don't understand certain basic concepts, your opinion or input on certain matters is not worth listening to.
The original poster's opinion on Outlook shows he lacks basic knowledge about the inner workings of internet mail. And therefore his opinion on a technical matter of internet mail can be safely ignored.
a phrase that goes something like, "Hate the sin, not the sinner." Think about it this way, "Hate MS and their damned software, not the user of that software." Whatever, inclusion is where it's at, NOT exclusion.
Nonsense. The software would'nt be a problem if nobody used it. Or, to say it with another mindless slogan: "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."
If there were no OE users, there would be no OE problem.
If you are not technically competent enough to figure out how to play, you don't get to.
Nope, wrong. As an example, I use XP. I also use plenty of free software. However, since OE does an adequate job of email, I use that.
This sentence alone is ample evidence that you are not technically competent. q.e.d.
In the old days there was a moderated newsgroup the moderation address of which directly went to/dev/null. It had ample traffic, though, and everyone felt it was sufficiently moderated. Go figure.
He sends out perfectly legitimate mail. We've had this debate on Usenet a few times.
Outcrap^H^H^H^Hlook tries to decode a message as an uuencoded attachment as soon as a message body line starts with "begin ". Feel free to think of the ramifications of that. (And yes, that's not "Header". That's "body", i.e. text supposed to be read by the recipient.)
This bug has been known for ages. M$ just doesn't fix it. It used to be worse, though. There was a time when out look even tried to interpret or execute said attachement. People had signatures that sent every Windows machine into lock or reboot.
Apparently the only way to get M$ to fix the most obvious crappy bugs is to massively exploit them.
Pissing contest, part 17. Darren vs Theo again. Folks, that's the stuff legends are made from.
Expect flamewars of mythic proportions, and formation of the DarrenBSD Project within 6 months.
Rumour has it that the DarrenBSD Mascot will be some fish eating animal.
SO expecting to be able to perform illegal acts such as stealing copyrighted material and...
To steal copyrighted material you have to go somewhere and take it away from it owner. Nobody advocates that here.
Get your propaganda right. The only illegal act discussed here is copyright violation. Theft is not an issue.
And, as Richard Stallmann correctly notes, copyright violation means sharing with your neighbour, which is a deeply human and positive act.
And as far as the VM mess, it wasn't really an issue of communication. It was an issue of Linus arbitrarily accepting some patches from Rik, and ignoring others.
I've read the kerneltraffic site every now and then. I think - from what I see - that the Linus T. source control system just has reached the point where it doesn't scale any more.
Maybe the Linux community is in need of a better management.
I think that there will be a dedicated, but small user base
File sharing stands and falls with a critical mass of sharing people. This will not be enough. Add to that that Napster will probbably filter most of the stuff (because they will never have licenses for all the interesting and hard-to-find stuff that once was there).
Add to that that the songs are in a propriatary format - you can't put them on cd, into your car or on your MP3 player.
I'm a British Euro enthusiast but, with the best will in the world, the Euro has hardly been a roaring success so far has it?
Yes, it has.
EU economy currently is sustantially weaker than US economy. EU financial indicators like public debt are worse than those in then US.
And so the Euro "sank" in relation to the US$. The thing is working exactly the way it is supposed to work. Exchange rates are not a matter of national pride, they reflect national - or regional - economics. Those in turn are largeley the result of national - or regional - economic policy. Now this one actually could be a source of national pride, but in Europe is mostly a source of national shame. Or Outrage.
I have yet to see a single politician here that does not talk about reducing the increase of public debt, but actually talks about reducing debt itself.
Brits are also distrustful of anything which is forced upon them by those who are not elected. The European Union is an example of such an instituion.
Huh ? The deciding institutions of the EU are
The council of ministers - which consists of the very much elected national government ministers (typically those in charge of the topic at hand)
to a lesser extend, the European Parliament, which is very much elected.
The real issue is that the brits don't like any bloody foreigners influence their domestic policies. A notion that is - as they will find out rather sooner than later - mostly unrelated to the Euro - EU policies will affect them with pounds as well.
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Heelooo, Americaaaaans, anybody at home ?
Frankly, folks, Scientology is a a product you you guys contuinue unleashing onto the world. It is your legal system that protects them and gives them power and shielding. It is your tax exemption (obtained by blackmaling the IRS into submission) that guarantees their funding, and its your bycantine and imperialist court system that helps them to harass people into submission even abroad.
In most civilized countries Scientology leaders sit in or barely stay out of jail, but in America, he Government even has the audacity to complain to other countries about them prosecuting Scientology crimes, actually claiming human rights violations.
Frankly, face it: Scientology will be there, oppressing and destroying everyone who disagrees with them, as long as you allow your judges and your policemen to act as their willing servants.
Go clean up your act, Americans.
If you read Karl's account closely, it's more the law firm running ICANN for it's own profits than the other way round.
- who let these idiot ACs out of the asylum ?
- what happendend to the lameness filter ?
- and why and since when can fucking AC Trolls post at +1 ???
Inquiring minds want to know...
It is still there. Just checked.
I think we all are watching a grandiose play.
Essentially, the IP faction has already bought out KaZaa, under one condition: that they first kill off Morpheus. Witness the obscure and unexplained sellout of Kazaa to a mysterious foreign company nobody really knows. Witness the sequence of events. Witness the actions of Kazaa completely damaging Kazaas own legal standing, while only beeing of limited use to them.
The Kazaa founders probably got enough money and a promise not to get sued personally for pulling of this stunt.
This just has waaay too much "random" events to be normal.
The wois database once was a worthy resource for internet administration.
Yet another good thing is destroyed by spammers. Folks, frankly, I wonder when will we start really doing something against these subhuman vermin ? The poison every well they touch, the steal other people's resources and they don't bother detroying whatever they use to advance their cause.
Put Spammers to jail !
It is obvious from your incoherent rambling that you have not the faintest clue what you are talking about
:-)
Do we have to keep the eyes on the floor while talking to you, Master, or are we allowed to look up ?
*sigh* jerks like you are the ones poisoning this debate. There are so many good reasons for a universal command of English for basic understanding. Whose money paid some reasearch is certainly not among them (and you stole it anyway).
f.
Working knowledge of English, both reading and writing, should be mandatory for anybody administrating an internet connected system. The key word is communication - people have to understand each other. There is no "equal right for every fucking language" in such a setting. Our only chance at universal mutual understanding (which is required here) is a universal mutually understood language.
BTW - have you noted that the RFCs are written in English ? Are you aware that all major programming languages are modeled after English ? Did it occur to you that up-to-date security information is dealt in English only ?
FWIW, I'm not a native English speaker (as you should know by now
f.
Question to Taco: How do you think has OSDN been perceived by its users ?
Added Bonus for elaborating what this shift means for OSDN's corporate identity
- we have all kinds of quality problems. There's a shitload of web apps out there that break with transparent caches, one way or the other, and often in subtile ways. There's even an RFC about some of them.
- when metering traffic independently of the cache statistics we found that we actually did not save any bandwidth worth mentioning. The statistics for the caches of course say different, but interface counters don't lie
:-)
- customer satisfaction goes down the drain. The reason is, even if there is no problem with the caches, people blame any problem with internet and web site availability on the caches - and thus on us.
But, no, we have nothing in place to collect and evaluate logs. It's just much too much data right now to handle or even store it professionally. OTOH, given technological advances, this kind of storage and evalutaion probably will be trivial a few years from now. So the tendency is definitely dangerous.f.
My favourite MUA is Pegasus Mail, which is neither free software (as defined by the FSF) nor Linux/Unix.
I am, though, on technical matters, an elitist. If you don't understand certain basic concepts, your opinion or input on certain matters is not worth listening to.
The original poster's opinion on Outlook shows he lacks basic knowledge about the inner workings of internet mail. And therefore his opinion on a technical matter of internet mail can be safely ignored.
Live with it.
f.
If there were no OE users, there would be no OE problem.
f.
In the old days there was a moderated newsgroup the moderation address of which directly went to
f.
That's no personal vendetta.
He sends out perfectly legitimate mail. We've had this debate on Usenet a few times.
Outcrap^H^H^H^Hlook tries to decode a message as an uuencoded attachment as soon as a message body line starts with "begin ". Feel free to think of the ramifications of that. (And yes, that's not "Header". That's "body", i.e. text supposed to be read by the recipient.)
This bug has been known for ages. M$ just doesn't fix it. It used to be worse, though. There was a time when out look even tried to interpret or execute said attachement. People had signatures that sent every Windows machine into lock or reboot.
Apparently the only way to get M$ to fix the most obvious crappy bugs is to massively exploit them.
So be it.
f.
Whoaaaaaa ! ROTFL !
Pissing contest, part 17. Darren vs Theo again. Folks, that's the stuff legends are made from.
Expect flamewars of mythic proportions, and formation of the DarrenBSD Project within 6 months.
Rumour has it that the DarrenBSD Mascot will be some fish eating animal.
Someone bring popcorn !
To steal copyrighted material you have to go somewhere and take it away from it owner. Nobody advocates that here.
Get your propaganda right. The only illegal act discussed here is copyright violation. Theft is not an issue.
And, as Richard Stallmann correctly notes, copyright violation means sharing with your neighbour, which is a deeply human and positive act.
So, please, get lost and die.
f.
Maybe the Linux community is in need of a better management.
Reda the article. They will introduce (and enforce usage of) a new format.
File sharing stands and falls with a critical mass of sharing people. This will not be enough. Add to that that Napster will probbably filter most of the stuff (because they will never have licenses for all the interesting and hard-to-find stuff that once was there).
Add to that that the songs are in a propriatary format - you can't put them on cd, into your car or on your MP3 player.
Taco's right. Napster is dead.
You forget the dreaded (and actually rather expensive) international transfer fees, which are going to get eliminated within the Euro zone.
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EU economy currently is sustantially weaker than US economy. EU financial indicators like public debt are worse than those in then US.
And so the Euro "sank" in relation to the US$. The thing is working exactly the way it is supposed to work. Exchange rates are not a matter of national pride, they reflect national - or regional - economics. Those in turn are largeley the result of national - or regional - economic policy. Now this one actually could be a source of national pride, but in Europe is mostly a source of national shame. Or Outrage.
I have yet to see a single politician here that does not talk about reducing the increase of public debt, but actually talks about reducing debt itself.
f.
The council of ministers - which consists of the very much elected national government ministers (typically those in charge of the topic at hand)
to a lesser extend, the European Parliament, which is very much elected.
The real issue is that the brits don't like any bloody foreigners influence their domestic policies. A notion that is - as they will find out rather sooner than later - mostly unrelated to the Euro - EU policies will affect them with pounds as well.
f.
So you started working at full time at the age of 16. Which means you maybe finished some sort of highschool. And have worked ever since.
And now you call yourself an engineer ?
How, please, do you call a guy who went to college, and to university, and got a master's degree in electrical engineering ?