won't be again exposed to strange strains of viruses that their immune system can't handle.
Hold on here.
In Nevada, the licensed, legal hookers are, by law, tested regularly and use a love glove.
You're LESS likely to be exposed to strange viruses going to Comdex and taking a cab to the Bunny Ranch that you are going for a local "woman of negotiable virtue"
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod [freeipods.com], which I'll fill entierly with CC licensed podcasts and rips of CDS I own.
Yes, because you know for a fact that the same people who defend downloading the latest Madonna MP3 are the same ones up in arms over this.
The slashdot community is so small and uniform that there couldn't possibly be any people who the GPL should be upheld, yet admit MP3 trading is illegal if the song wasn't released under a P2P friendly license by the artists.
Everyone knows that the opinion that gets the most posts in a given story is the option of all slashdot readers. It's not like the people who feel strongly about the GPL issue are reading and posting in the GPL related stories and the P2P zealots are reading and posting in the P2P related stories.
Everyone reads and posts in all the stories, so everyone on slashdot must be and advocate of P2P yet want the GLP enforced by capital punishment.
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod, which I'll fill entierly with CC licensed podcasts and rips of CDS I own.
You're quite right. If someone has targeted you, and they're diligent, sooner or later they'll get what they need.
The idea, is to avoid being hit by the average scammer, who's just looking for whatever info they can grab.
It's the same idea behind using "The Club" and a security system to protect your car. Both can be easily defeated, but why bother, when the thief can just go a couple cars over and steal one that won't take the extra 30 to 45 second to cut the steering wheel and remove The Club?
Try reading "The art of the Steal" and "Catch me if you Can" for a number of examples. While he was only stealing bank account information, it would be trivial for him to have also engaged in Identity theft.
It's not about escaping the claws of someone whose targeted you personally, but about escaping the thief trolling the waters for whomever is easily victimized.
The "P2P" traffic you refer to consisted of me downloading updates to legal software. I will also use P2P technology to download Linux ISO's and other legal products.
I am not using P2P to download Movies, music or any other content unless the copyright owners have, as is the case with GPL software, explictly authorized unrestricted digital transfer.
You might as well ban FTP and HTTP traffic, as the materials I download can be legally acquired through those protocols as well.
You have not banned any illegal or debated downloads, only the download of software and content that all parties involved agree is legal to transfer.
Sincerely,
The student seeking a transfer to a more competently run University.
Why am I filled with a nameless dread as I open this discussion? Why do I fear what I shall find?
I fear I shall see a plethora of posts, all alike in their incoherent use of obscure, incomprehensible acronyms and abbreviations, intelligible only to residents of the deepest rings of the Internet's darkest places.
I fear that, upon reading the content contained herein, I hall be inundated with the text chat of the Deep Old Ones.
I fear such things, and what they portend for the future of language.
We all know that spending 4 million a year on old junk floating around in space is a waste of money. We need those resources to protect the homeland, defend our country from the ravages of terrorists, seeking to destroy everything we hold dear.
That 4 million is much better spent on armor for assault vehicles in Iraq or the next Republican Inaugural Ball.
Science. Bah. Next thing you know people will be squawking about education, as if educating people was good for anything. Listen up people, education turns people liberal! We can't have that! Keep the masses uneducated and Republican, the way God meant them to be!
Don't bother. I tried. All you get are stories about Jacko and guys with similar interests.
I added categories for "Heidi Fleiss", "Anna Nicole Smith" and "Tonya Harding" which accomplishes the same thing I'd LIKE a "Porn" category to accomplish, but avoids nasty topics that are very bad for my libido.
When did public political discourse devolve into outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol?
All kidding aside, it happened around the time the Greeks developed the first democracy.
The kind of political discourse you say you remember from the past never actually existed outside the high school and college debate clubs. Perhaps you didn't notice it then, or perhaps you're looking a the past through proverbial rose colored glasses.
Just because I phrase my point in humor and parody doesn't mean I'm not expressing a point. The fact that I'm highlighting the most extreme aspects of a political movement doesn't make my point any less valid.
I'm somewhat mystified at your claim that you "can rememebr (sic) a time when that was the exception in public discourse, not the norm" when a quick read through the morgue of just about ANY newspaper will reveal otherwise. If anything, the politicians, at least in public debates and on TV, have tended to be far kinder and gentler than their supporters, leaving most of the down and dirty "outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol" to third party organizations and campaign workers.
American politics have always been vile and prone to use every dirty trick possible to tear down the opposition. Claiming it was once different is ignoring most of the actual political debate that's gone on in the country.
Just because the "outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol" isn't what's quoted in the history books doesn't mean it played any less of a role in politics than it does today.
Oh there you go ruining a perfectly good troll bait rant with logic. I'd hoped to get a few more zealots foaming at the mouth before someone introduced LOGIC.
It really would have been something of an FU if Netscape's user base was still larger, because then it might actually discourage Firefox and Mozilla migrations. At my company, we recommend Firefox or Mozilla as alternative browsers, not Netscape, and a lot of our customers aren't upgrading to the next Netscape. They're either using Safari or Firefox.
At this stage, Netscape is basically around as a brand name for AOL use, and a bargaining chip in any discussions between AOL and Microsoft. It's also around to serve as an upgrade path for all the Netscape users who don't know about Mozilla, and believe me, they're out there, and they're probably a sizeable percentage of the current Netscape users.
In the end, this is actually a good thing for Mozilla / Firefox adoption. You see, Netscape just added all the IE vulnerabilities to it's product. Everyone switching away from IE because of bugs and security can now be told to avoid Netscape, as at this point it really is nothing more than an IE add on.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, like that's a hard thing to do.
The average fan could eat alphabet soup and excrete a better movie script.
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod [freeipods.com], which I'll fill entierly with CC licensed podcasts and rips of CDS I own.
won't be again exposed to strange strains of viruses that their immune system can't handle.
Hold on here.
In Nevada, the licensed, legal hookers are, by law, tested regularly and use a love glove.
You're LESS likely to be exposed to strange viruses going to Comdex and taking a cab to the Bunny Ranch that you are going for a local "woman of negotiable virtue"
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod [freeipods.com], which I'll fill entierly with CC licensed podcasts and rips of CDS I own.
Yes, because you know for a fact that the same people who defend downloading the latest Madonna MP3 are the same ones up in arms over this.
The slashdot community is so small and uniform that there couldn't possibly be any people who the GPL should be upheld, yet admit MP3 trading is illegal if the song wasn't released under a P2P friendly license by the artists.
Everyone knows that the opinion that gets the most posts in a given story is the option of all slashdot readers. It's not like the people who feel strongly about the GPL issue are reading and posting in the GPL related stories and the P2P zealots are reading and posting in the P2P related stories.
Everyone reads and posts in all the stories, so everyone on slashdot must be and advocate of P2P yet want the GLP enforced by capital punishment.
I'm so damn close to getting a free ipod, which I'll fill entierly with CC licensed podcasts and rips of CDS I own.
Dude, nice job on the Troll post. You got a lot of people eating out of your hand with just a couple of lines.
Sweet.
Asking a politician to actually accomplish anything personally. What a hoot!
Next you'll claim The Shrub should do more to protect our right to due process, and enforce the separation of Church and state.
Dude, did you ever get a refund for LJ suspending your account?
Republican eh?
So sorry. Did it happen after the lobotomy, or were you raised that way?
Quite right. Kerry was a putz.
Don;t know if he faked his way to those purple hearts, but it was depressing that the Democratic party chose that joker to go against The Shrub.
Remember, all politicians want to screw the public, the only different is if they want you to bend over or open wide.
Well, when a sitting president uses the bill of rights as bog paper, he's apt to be brought up in discussions about American rights in general.
I have fond memories of when we still had "Due process." Those were good times. Civil liberties were fun while we had them.
Remember, it's too late to complain about your rights being taken away if you wait to start grousing when they toss you in the gulag.
As long as they continue to lose like in the last election, it's not too bad.
The problem is, even though they lost, the people they voted for are still in office.
Depressing how that whole "vote" thing isn't used to pick the president anymore.
You're quite right. If someone has targeted you, and they're diligent, sooner or later they'll get what they need.
The idea, is to avoid being hit by the average scammer, who's just looking for whatever info they can grab.
It's the same idea behind using "The Club" and a security system to protect your car. Both can be easily defeated, but why bother, when the thief can just go a couple cars over and steal one that won't take the extra 30 to 45 second to cut the steering wheel and remove The Club?
Try reading "The art of the Steal" and "Catch me if you Can" for a number of examples. While he was only stealing bank account information, it would be trivial for him to have also engaged in Identity theft.
It's not about escaping the claws of someone whose targeted you personally, but about escaping the thief trolling the waters for whomever is easily victimized.
I included the line "the student seeking a transfer to a more competently run University" as a hint as to one thing the poster might do.
Consider it the same thing as "your name here"
I don't think my crack about HTTP is out of line though. I think it's a reasonable comparison to make, if worded a bit harshly.
Dear IT Department,
The "P2P" traffic you refer to consisted of me downloading updates to legal software. I will also use P2P technology to download Linux ISO's and other legal products.
I am not using P2P to download Movies, music or any other content unless the copyright owners have, as is the case with GPL software, explictly authorized unrestricted digital transfer.
You might as well ban FTP and HTTP traffic, as the materials I download can be legally acquired through those protocols as well.
You have not banned any illegal or debated downloads, only the download of software and content that all parties involved agree is legal to transfer.
Sincerely,
The student seeking a transfer to a more competently run University.
Why am I filled with a nameless dread as I open this discussion? Why do I fear what I shall find?
I fear I shall see a plethora of posts, all alike in their incoherent use of obscure, incomprehensible acronyms and abbreviations, intelligible only to residents of the deepest rings of the Internet's darkest places.
I fear that, upon reading the content contained herein, I hall be inundated with the text chat of the Deep Old Ones.
I fear such things, and what they portend for the future of language.
These days it would seem that if you have enough money anything is enforcable.
What's with the "These Days" stuff?
IT's ALWAYS been that way.
curl is an optional component if you install Cygwin on Windows.
The mplayer port for Windows needs work, but there are plenty of resources for converting rm files to mp3 on Windows.
They will invent the BSOD
Don't be silly.
At the very least, it'll be aqua, with a pleasant sound scheme and some nice graphics.
This IS a MAC we're talking about.
The Apple version of a BSOD may not be any more helpful than the Microsoft version, but it'll look DAMN good!
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
/. editors to post a relevant article???
/. LAST MONTH!
/. for recent news. All you get from this place is the old and stale.
* 2005-02-28 15:58:21 Software ownership battle adds $10M to cost of 'Big Dig' (Politics,Programming) (rejected)
Who do you have to be sleeping with to get the
I sent this story into
Pathetic.
Don't look to
We all know that spending 4 million a year on old junk floating around in space is a waste of money. We need those resources to protect the homeland, defend our country from the ravages of terrorists, seeking to destroy everything we hold dear.
That 4 million is much better spent on armor for assault vehicles in Iraq or the next Republican Inaugural Ball.
Science. Bah. Next thing you know people will be squawking about education, as if educating people was good for anything. Listen up people, education turns people liberal! We can't have that! Keep the masses uneducated and Republican, the way God meant them to be!
Don't bother. I tried. All you get are stories about Jacko and guys with similar interests.
I added categories for "Heidi Fleiss", "Anna Nicole Smith" and "Tonya Harding" which accomplishes the same thing I'd LIKE a "Porn" category to accomplish, but avoids nasty topics that are very bad for my libido.
No, No, No.
I can now replace it with categories I find INTERESTING, like the "Heidi Hleiss", "Anna Nicole Smith" and "Tonya Harding" sections I just added!
WOOT!
YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!
WAHOOO!!!
When did public political discourse devolve into outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol?
All kidding aside, it happened around the time the Greeks developed the first democracy.
The kind of political discourse you say you remember from the past never actually existed outside the high school and college debate clubs. Perhaps you didn't notice it then, or perhaps you're looking a the past through proverbial rose colored glasses.
Just because I phrase my point in humor and parody doesn't mean I'm not expressing a point. The fact that I'm highlighting the most extreme aspects of a political movement doesn't make my point any less valid.
I'm somewhat mystified at your claim that you "can rememebr (sic) a time when that was the exception in public discourse, not the norm" when a quick read through the morgue of just about ANY newspaper will reveal otherwise. If anything, the politicians, at least in public debates and on TV, have tended to be far kinder and gentler than their supporters, leaving most of the down and dirty "outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol" to third party organizations and campaign workers.
American politics have always been vile and prone to use every dirty trick possible to tear down the opposition. Claiming it was once different is ignoring most of the actual political debate that's gone on in the country.
Just because the "outrageous exaggeration, name-calling, and vitriol" isn't what's quoted in the history books doesn't mean it played any less of a role in politics than it does today.
Bittorrent for the Windows Version
Bittoreent for Linux Version
Bittorent for MAC Version
Use the torrent, and make MY download faster! MWHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh there you go ruining a perfectly good troll bait rant with logic. I'd hoped to get a few more zealots foaming at the mouth before someone introduced LOGIC.
It really would have been something of an FU if Netscape's user base was still larger, because then it might actually discourage Firefox and Mozilla migrations. At my company, we recommend Firefox or Mozilla as alternative browsers, not Netscape, and a lot of our customers aren't upgrading to the next Netscape. They're either using Safari or Firefox.
At this stage, Netscape is basically around as a brand name for AOL use, and a bargaining chip in any discussions between AOL and Microsoft. It's also around to serve as an upgrade path for all the Netscape users who don't know about Mozilla, and believe me, they're out there, and they're probably a sizeable percentage of the current Netscape users.
In the end, this is actually a good thing for Mozilla / Firefox adoption. You see, Netscape just added all the IE vulnerabilities to it's product. Everyone switching away from IE because of bugs and security can now be told to avoid Netscape, as at this point it really is nothing more than an IE add on.