The boxen thing is actually not typically someone trying to sounds really important or complex. In my experience, most people use boxen exclusivly to refer to computer boxes. Never as boxen of doughnuts or similar. The reason seems to be that a computer box is an animal. And the plural of box (as an animal) is boxen, in order to denote some difference from boxes (non animal/computer).
Get yourself in a room with 10 Sun Enterprise 250's and 10 Sun Enterprise 250's shipping boxes and tell someone to throw the sun boxen out. See which `asset' you lose first.;)
This is not a dumb question. I answer this all the time where I work. I encourage everyone who considers themselves to be a Linux Advocate to bone up on your distribution skills. Learn about each distro and what sets it apart and what makes it the same.
Essentially, where I work, we are being told to test software on 4 different distros. We think it would be easier to just test on one distro and have them tell us what minimum kernel, etc we need to make the app work. But marketing wants to be sure it'll work on RedHat and Suse. They don't know that under the hood, they use the same code (essentially). They also don't want to put technical minimum rquirements on the box (it seems) because it's easier to just say "For use with RedHat 5.2" or similar. It's very hard to get people to understand why a distro isn't a flavor (like normal UNIX), especially if they are not technical at all.
You do make a valid point. I also agree that unsolicted commercial snail mail is a problem I would like to see addressed. Especially AOL CD-ROMs and other similar non paper things. But...
"There are many ways to deal with spam on your own rather than getting the gov. and courts involved."
This is the loophole spammers are looking for. People who are willing to let tons of e-mail pass over the net because they only associate a line of text in their e-mail client program with spam. In fact, spam causes Gig after Gig of hard disk space to be taken up on servers around the world. Essentially using up someone elses resources against their will for something they more than likely do not want. This doesn't even take into consideration the wasted bandwidth that accumulates as more and more spam is sent off around the world each minute. This is not unlike someone advertising to you via FAX machine and using YOUR ink and paper to advertise to YOU.
Time Warner now sells bandwidth with it's Cable Modem services and it's consolidaiton with AOL. Bandwidth is not unlike Gasoline. You sell enough SUVs (aka Napster) and you'll have lots more gas sales.
I caught the end of Contact last night. I really felt this movie had so much going for it, and then in the end, it fell apart. Jodie Foster's character had so much physical evidence, I found it hard to beleive that she just wilted in fron of James Woods. I understand the point they were trying to make about science and religion, but they overlooked something I felt was obvious. Science is based on physical evidence. Religion doesn't need physical evidence.
Not only did she (unknowingly) have 16 hours of recorded static, everyone else working on the project (I guess) just backed out and didn't want to help present a strong argument in her favor. I guess they must have all been payed government contractors or something.
I think the point they were striving for, was that even the Martians had been seeded. That the whole sequence of seeding other planets when your planet dies is repeated over and over, helping this DNA structure spread throughout the universe.
BUT, it could just be the M&M's and DrPepper talking. Mmmm, DrPepper.
You can take your hint and shove it up your ass, KID.
Maybe you think that trolling is freedom of speech. Maybe you think shouting fire in a theater or killing a cop is free speech. If so, you make an excellent point. But it's obvious that you confuse free speech with `doing what I want'. At SlashDot, the user can censor what he wants of the SPEECH here. If I want to read what others have to say, it's easy enough to view every single comment that wasn't some lame attempt at destroying the forum itself.
Until people start to realize that free speech takes work and effort, no one is going to get it. And here you are, taking it for granted. Saying you don't even have it. Wait till it's gone I say. Then enjoy what you get.
The issue has NOTHING to do with parents protecting their children. It has to do with companies using their own product to keep people from seeing web sites that show the truth. It's about revealing that these companies lie about what their software does. You may not live in the US, but if you start to let companies tell you one thing, and do another, you might as well give up ever getting a decent product.
And as for Free Speech, I find your post SO very ironic. You treat it like dirt yet you take FULL advantage of it just to post to SlashDot here. Maybe next time you think about posting, you won't have `free speech' and I won't have to listen to your pathetic whining anymore.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you get on a shuttle and beat me to orbit, them there satellites is MINE.
Posession is 10/10ths of the law in space. Muhahaha!
Next time NASA crashes a probe, or blows up a rocket on a launch pad, remember Galileo. When NASA gets bad press because it keeps throwing money away, remember Galileo. When someone wonders why the government spends money on NASA, remember Galileo. And while we may not get Tang from Galileo, I know there's a kick ass group of guys who built an unstopable, juggernaught of a probe. I think they called her Galileo.
What can I say, I have a soft spot for space exploration. Hehehe.
"Hmm... looks like adios to Nintendo,Sega and even, eventually, Sony. Shame if that did happen."
Hahahaha! You're a very funny person. While Nintendo and Sega might have to fear a software company in the US, Sony probably doesn't. Sony has reached a plataeu even Microsoft has not yet in sheer size and market domination. Sony has even outdone IBM. Sony has redefined the unstopable, immovable, unchangeable blob of a corporation and I really don't see Microsoft releasing some puny market killer affecting Sony.
Now, if Microsoft bought the Pepsi chain and Disney, then I might start to worry. But who are they gonna get to drink Pepsi v5.3 Second Edition?
A nice touch would be to label the chainsaw. Maybe something nice like `e-chainsaw'. Then you can bust down the door to their offices and hack off their e-heads with the e-chainsaw. Might make an e-mess.
"They didn't create the Net, but without them we wouldn't want the Net."
Not true. I wanted the net back when companies didn't make it possible. As a matter of fact, lots of people wanted it back then. After Oct 31st, 1994 (I think), I wasn't so sure I wanted it.
"So should they now get special consideration? Should we pause just for a moment and question our compulsion to bite the hand that feeds us? All those who work for a living, raise your hands. Thank you."
You are right. Since I pay to access the net everyday, I should get special consideration. *I* gave my money to those companies for MY sake, not for their ability to get what they want. I gave them money, they supported OUR network. The transaction is complete, they are not owed a damn thing. If we didn't want the net, those companies would have ever spent a nickle to run a damn thing.
I can vouch for Grefox here, and he will not ever `sit in the back and not bother anyone.' He's a trouble-maker. A rocker of boats. If you give him a job, you have to take me too!
"Call up the ISP and say that person was hacking your computer or something.. they'll give you the name (and maybe even phone # and home address)."
Whoever gives this information out should be KILLED! I know that if someone at the ISP where I am an admin gave any of this information out, I would personally break my leg off in their ass. *THIS* is a weak link and people who call an ISP have no rights to that information, even if they say they ARE that person. It's very easy to have a secret word and callback system in place to make sure private information is not handed out blindly over the phone.
Once again, if I find out someone at an ISP is handing out this information to some social engineer, I will find them, rip their head off, and pee pee down their windpipe.
"What's to prevent Bob's Auto Dealership from turning around and doing the exact same thing that Trans Union just did?"
IANAL, but it seems this ruling could count towards other similar decisions in smaller courts if this ever becomes an issue. Bob's Auto may find it hard to convince a judge that it's ok to do this if the FTC told credit card companies to NOT do it. OR so we can hope.
I don't know what laws exist right now that concern selling customer information without asking you if you can.
"I have no objection to the college banning me from using Napster (Or wouldn't have if I was still there). It is after all THEIR network. What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading."
Um, let's take two parts of your post here.
1) It is after all THEIR network. 2) What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading.
Well, I know this is about as bad as censorship, but students need to be worn down. They need an oppressive network dictator lording over their every packet and destroying their fun. Otherwise how will they feel when they get into a job at a large company? They might be devistated. But that's how I would do it. Sure, take the easy way out. See if I care.;)
If the trade of pirated/illegal MP3's is so rampant on a college campus, why not monitor the traffic, collect data, and then bust the offenders? You do this enough times, and people will start to realize they are being watched and will be caught.
"Clearly, they cannot condone the flagrant ripping of MP3's on campus."
Last I checked, ripping a CD (you owned) wasn't illegal. I assume you would like to see campuses also cut down on people copying LPs to cassette tapes?
And another point. Banning Napster doesn't prevent people from pirating MP3's. Banning illegal MP3's will ban illegal MP3's. Funny how that works. It takes vigilance to stop crime, not another line in the old port filter.
Constitutional or not, I know that in MY state, mail order and net purchases are the same. In the past, NC had not been enforcing the mail order taxation aspect of their state taxes. Now that they feel many more people are placing online orders, they are starting to try and enforce that tax.
Personally, I feel that if you don't enforce something for a few years like this, you shouldn't be able to just prop it back up and revel in the number of people you catch violating a law. It smells of entrapment.
This is something you have to decide for yourself. When it comes to books, T-Shirts, etc, I will purchase them online. I am not concerned that the item will be defective or bad. Computer parts, on the other hand, I will only buy from local shops. I don't want to deal with the hassle of returning bad parts via mail. I am lucky in that I have a local parts store that sells computer parts in competition with the online dealers, so I end up getting a good deal because of where I live.
Even if you don't count tax, right now most online prices + shipping is about equal to the price of the same item in a store. Online stores don't spend money shipping stock to stores before it has been sold. They don't have to contribute any cash to paying some guy to vacuum a showroom floor everynight. I really don't think this is going to make too much of a difference.
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The boxen thing is actually not typically someone trying to sounds really important or complex. In my experience, most people use boxen exclusivly to refer to computer boxes. Never as boxen of doughnuts or similar. The reason seems to be that a computer box is an animal. And the plural of box (as an animal) is boxen, in order to denote some difference from boxes (non animal/computer).
;)
Get yourself in a room with 10 Sun Enterprise 250's and 10 Sun Enterprise 250's shipping boxes and tell someone to throw the sun boxen out. See which `asset' you lose first.
Bad Mojo
The path to wizardry is frought with "almost as"'s and "practically as"'s.
P.S.: I'm not a Karma Whore. I'm an undercover enforcement agent POSING as a Karma Whore.
P.P.S.: Crap, I think I blew my cover.
P.P.P.S: Damn, did I just use whore and blow in a post on SlashDot?
Bad Mojo
1) Congrats for being first post and posting something useful.
;)
2) The only thing I can say is wait for Online University v3.0. Hopefully by then the bugs will be worked out.
Bad Mojo
This is not a dumb question. I answer this all the time where I work. I encourage everyone who considers themselves to be a Linux Advocate to bone up on your distribution skills. Learn about each distro and what sets it apart and what makes it the same.
Essentially, where I work, we are being told to test software on 4 different distros. We think it would be easier to just test on one distro and have them tell us what minimum kernel, etc we need to make the app work. But marketing wants to be sure it'll work on RedHat and Suse. They don't know that under the hood, they use the same code (essentially). They also don't want to put technical minimum rquirements on the box (it seems) because it's easier to just say "For use with RedHat 5.2" or similar. It's very hard to get people to understand why a distro isn't a flavor (like normal UNIX), especially if they are not technical at all.
Bad Mojo
You do make a valid point. I also agree that unsolicted commercial snail mail is a problem I would like to see addressed. Especially AOL CD-ROMs and other similar non paper things. But ...
"There are many ways to deal with spam on your own rather than getting the gov. and courts involved."
This is the loophole spammers are looking for. People who are willing to let tons of e-mail pass over the net because they only associate a line of text in their e-mail client program with spam. In fact, spam causes Gig after Gig of hard disk space to be taken up on servers around the world. Essentially using up someone elses resources against their will for something they more than likely do not want. This doesn't even take into consideration the wasted bandwidth that accumulates as more and more spam is sent off around the world each minute. This is not unlike someone advertising to you via FAX machine and using YOUR ink and paper to advertise to YOU.
Bad Mojo
Time Warner now sells bandwidth with it's Cable Modem services and it's consolidaiton with AOL. Bandwidth is not unlike Gasoline. You sell enough SUVs (aka Napster) and you'll have lots more gas sales.
Bad Mojo
I caught the end of Contact last night. I really felt this movie had so much going for it, and then in the end, it fell apart. Jodie Foster's character had so much physical evidence, I found it hard to beleive that she just wilted in fron of James Woods. I understand the point they were trying to make about science and religion, but they overlooked something I felt was obvious. Science is based on physical evidence. Religion doesn't need physical evidence.
Not only did she (unknowingly) have 16 hours of recorded static, everyone else working on the project (I guess) just backed out and didn't want to help present a strong argument in her favor. I guess they must have all been payed government contractors or something.
Bad Mojo
I think the point they were striving for, was that even the Martians had been seeded. That the whole sequence of seeding other planets when your planet dies is repeated over and over, helping this DNA structure spread throughout the universe.
BUT, it could just be the M&M's and DrPepper talking. Mmmm, DrPepper.
Bad Mojo
You can take your hint and shove it up your ass, KID.
Maybe you think that trolling is freedom of speech. Maybe you think shouting fire in a theater or killing a cop is free speech. If so, you make an excellent point. But it's obvious that you confuse free speech with `doing what I want'. At SlashDot, the user can censor what he wants of the SPEECH here. If I want to read what others have to say, it's easy enough to view every single comment that wasn't some lame attempt at destroying the forum itself.
Until people start to realize that free speech takes work and effort, no one is going to get it. And here you are, taking it for granted. Saying you don't even have it. Wait till it's gone I say. Then enjoy what you get.
Bad Mojo
The issue has NOTHING to do with parents protecting their children. It has to do with companies using their own product to keep people from seeing web sites that show the truth. It's about revealing that these companies lie about what their software does. You may not live in the US, but if you start to let companies tell you one thing, and do another, you might as well give up ever getting a decent product.
And as for Free Speech, I find your post SO very ironic. You treat it like dirt yet you take FULL advantage of it just to post to SlashDot here. Maybe next time you think about posting, you won't have `free speech' and I won't have to listen to your pathetic whining anymore.
Bad Mojo
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you get on a shuttle and beat me to orbit, them there satellites is MINE.
Posession is 10/10ths of the law in space. Muhahaha!
Bad Mojo
Next time NASA crashes a probe, or blows up a rocket on a launch pad, remember Galileo. When NASA gets bad press because it keeps throwing money away, remember Galileo. When someone wonders why the government spends money on NASA, remember Galileo. And while we may not get Tang from Galileo, I know there's a kick ass group of guys who built an unstopable, juggernaught of a probe. I think they called her Galileo.
What can I say, I have a soft spot for space exploration. Hehehe.
Bad Mojo
"Hmm ... looks like adios to Nintendo,Sega and even, eventually, Sony. Shame if that did happen."
Hahahaha! You're a very funny person. While Nintendo and Sega might have to fear a software company in the US, Sony probably doesn't. Sony has reached a plataeu even Microsoft has not yet in sheer size and market domination. Sony has even outdone IBM. Sony has redefined the unstopable, immovable, unchangeable blob of a corporation and I really don't see Microsoft releasing some puny market killer affecting Sony.
Now, if Microsoft bought the Pepsi chain and Disney, then I might start to worry. But who are they gonna get to drink Pepsi v5.3 Second Edition?
Bad Mojo
A nice touch would be to label the chainsaw. Maybe something nice like `e-chainsaw'. Then you can bust down the door to their offices and hack off their e-heads with the e-chainsaw. Might make an e-mess.
Bad Mojo
"They didn't create the Net, but without them we wouldn't want the Net."
Not true. I wanted the net back when companies didn't make it possible. As a matter of fact, lots of people wanted it back then. After Oct 31st, 1994 (I think), I wasn't so sure I wanted it.
"So should they now get special consideration? Should we pause just for a moment and question our compulsion to bite the hand that feeds us? All those who work for a living, raise your hands. Thank you."
You are right. Since I pay to access the net everyday, I should get special consideration. *I* gave my money to those companies for MY sake, not for their ability to get what they want. I gave them money, they supported OUR network. The transaction is complete, they are not owed a damn thing. If we didn't want the net, those companies would have ever spent a nickle to run a damn thing.
Without US, they wouldn't want the Net.
Bad Mojo
I can vouch for Grefox here, and he will not ever `sit in the back and not bother anyone.' He's a trouble-maker. A rocker of boats. If you give him a job, you have to take me too!
Bad Mojo
"Call up the ISP and say that person was hacking your computer or something.. they'll give you the name (and maybe even phone # and home address)."
Whoever gives this information out should be KILLED! I know that if someone at the ISP where I am an admin gave any of this information out, I would personally break my leg off in their ass. *THIS* is a weak link and people who call an ISP have no rights to that information, even if they say they ARE that person. It's very easy to have a secret word and callback system in place to make sure private information is not handed out blindly over the phone.
Once again, if I find out someone at an ISP is handing out this information to some social engineer, I will find them, rip their head off, and pee pee down their windpipe.
Bad Mojo
"What's to prevent Bob's Auto Dealership from turning around and doing the exact same thing that Trans Union just did?"
IANAL, but it seems this ruling could count towards other similar decisions in smaller courts if this ever becomes an issue. Bob's Auto may find it hard to convince a judge that it's ok to do this if the FTC told credit card companies to NOT do it. OR so we can hope.
I don't know what laws exist right now that concern selling customer information without asking you if you can.
Bad Mojo
Unless those are faster than light capable life forms?
(You mean Star Trek isn't real?)
Bad Mojo
"I have no objection to the college banning me from using Napster (Or wouldn't have if I was still there). It is after all THEIR network. What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading."
Um, let's take two parts of your post here.
1) It is after all THEIR network.
2) What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading.
In response to number 2, see number 1.
Bad Mojo
Well, I know this is about as bad as censorship, but students need to be worn down. They need an oppressive network dictator lording over their every packet and destroying their fun. Otherwise how will they feel when they get into a job at a large company? They might be devistated. But that's how I would do it. Sure, take the easy way out. See if I care. ;)
Bad Mojo
If the trade of pirated/illegal MP3's is so rampant on a college campus, why not monitor the traffic, collect data, and then bust the offenders? You do this enough times, and people will start to realize they are being watched and will be caught.
Bad Mojo
"Clearly, they cannot condone the flagrant ripping of MP3's on campus."
Last I checked, ripping a CD (you owned) wasn't illegal. I assume you would like to see campuses also cut down on people copying LPs to cassette tapes?
And another point. Banning Napster doesn't prevent people from pirating MP3's. Banning illegal MP3's will ban illegal MP3's. Funny how that works. It takes vigilance to stop crime, not another line in the old port filter.
Bad Mojo
Constitutional or not, I know that in MY state, mail order and net purchases are the same. In the past, NC had not been enforcing the mail order taxation aspect of their state taxes. Now that they feel many more people are placing online orders, they are starting to try and enforce that tax.
Personally, I feel that if you don't enforce something for a few years like this, you shouldn't be able to just prop it back up and revel in the number of people you catch violating a law. It smells of entrapment.
Bad Mojo
This is something you have to decide for yourself. When it comes to books, T-Shirts, etc, I will purchase them online. I am not concerned that the item will be defective or bad. Computer parts, on the other hand, I will only buy from local shops. I don't want to deal with the hassle of returning bad parts via mail. I am lucky in that I have a local parts store that sells computer parts in competition with the online dealers, so I end up getting a good deal because of where I live.
Even if you don't count tax, right now most online prices + shipping is about equal to the price of the same item in a store. Online stores don't spend money shipping stock to stores before it has been sold. They don't have to contribute any cash to paying some guy to vacuum a showroom floor everynight. I really don't think this is going to make too much of a difference.
Bad Mojo