Rogue admins abusing their power? An "in" club?
If you have a problem with an admin, provide evidence (a diff of the admin abusing his power) here. Follow the case, argue it out, and the admin will be dealt with.
Every admin is elected in, guys. If you think Wikipedia is important enough that all the scary "rogue admins" are actually doing harm, go become a part of the election process. Anyone can vote, and your opinion matters regardless of how many edits you have, or how many articles you've worked on.
This isn't like America where your vote only matters symbolically. You can stop these evil boogiemen from getting elected, if you want to.
Admins aren't "above" the user. They're just the people who hold onto the brooms. It's the users who make the messes, and the users who point the messes out to the janitors. That's how it was back when I was involved in the community, anyway.
Oh, cept SlimVirgin. She's a fucking fascist.
I remember something similar happening in the US (and probably worldwide) when TPB was about to go down. Leeching increased by substantial amounts across the board for the last couple days.
What? Building your own rig gets you the same power and components at around 75% the cost. While this may not be a qualification of nerdiness, it is certainly a qualification of intelligence (especially when building a computer is as easy as building legos).
Idle computer resources that are not getting used for anything else are worthless. Might as well fill them up with something, although I'd go with folding@home over SETI@home.
"global warming", don't you mean "Climate Change", which the earth has been doing for how many millions of years. It was such a nice place 65 million years ago until the rock hit the planet.
No, I mean global warming. There is no media sensationalism surrounding climate change; the sensationalism surrounds specifically the phrase "global warming". I understand that we have been undergoing climate change for millions of years and that such a phenomenon is as "natural" as anything can be (that is, would have happened without humans) which is why I didn't say "climate change".
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I have long felt that there's too much sensationalism surrounding global warming for the crisis to be exactly what it is represented as in the media. I think a healthy dose of scepticism is always a good thing.
Equally so with this. I am sceptical that this is a "random sampling", but rather probably closer to being a carefully selected panorama of all of the nastiest bits. I will read through it, as I am sure a couple people will, but I encourage scepticism.
A package manager is nice for finding apps however,
Huh? How do you use a package manager for finding new apps?
Also, my experience has been that in Mac OSX (admittedly, tiger), applications do not automatically clean up their files in Application\ Support. In any case, it's inefficient to have every program written for mac osx expected to do that on its own; much better to include that code in one binary (aptitude? apt-get? pacman? etc) which is guaranteed to get every trace of the program with purge.
Whenever I want new software to do a particular task, or just software that's better than my current, google is not my first stop. My first stop is #archlinux on freenode, explaining what I want to do with detailed specifications. Someone there without fail has already done all the research about that particular topic for me and can either tell me that no program exists or the name of the perfect program, which I then install via aptitude. If no one on archlinux has delt with that problem, I go out to other irc channels and ask the same question.
I have found that this method works far better than google. Google will land you software developers' websites where flaws and limitations are not easily admitted, even in a free/libre open source software community. Sometimes it will get threads in various gnu/linux forums where someone asked a question that might be the same question as yours (or maybe not), and you can look at the replies they got and make a judgement, which is almost the exact same thing as asking people in irc except it's some linuxquestions.com archive from 2004 and has been locked for years and the people are long gone.
The actual act of downloading and installing software, once you have determined what you want, is MUCH easier on a package manager than via the world wide web. If I get a list of applications that might work for what I want, I can just "sudo apt-get install rhythmbox exaile amarok quodlibet" and then those applications in their latest versions are downloading, with all of the libraries necessary automagically downloading too. When I determine which application I want to use, I can just "sudo apt-get purge rhythmbox exaile amarok" and every trace of those programs is removed from my disk.
Compare this to the mac osx method. You want a new audio player which can play flac (something there is a hilarious lack of on mac, I might add.) You do some googling and find one called "Cog" which is abandonware in alpha stages, but it might work well enough to play that new album you got off of demonoid. You try to download it from the developer's website, but he's over his bandwidth limit or something so it 404s. You google some more to try to find a binary and eventually find one on macupdate; it downloads as a.dmg which gets automatically mounted to its own volume in/Volumes. That dmg opens up in the finder with the binary and usually a softlink to the Applications folder for easy drag-and-drop. You install it, then unmount and delete the dmg file, then run the application. You find out just what a piece of shit Cog is, so you delete it out of your applications folder. However, it still has some files in ~/Library/Application\ Support which didn't get deleted. Also the binary didn't actually get deleted anyway; there's just a.trash file which contains a list of files that the finder isn't suppose to show, and which are queued for deletion next time the trash gets emptied.
Admittedly I blew it a little out of proportion, but there are still a significantly larger number of steps involved than just "sudo apt-get install cog" and "sudo apt-get purge cog". I suppose this is counterbalanced by the difficulty in compiling non-trivial applications like chromium (10 gigabytes of source?!) but you have to remember that on linux, we still have the option of doing it roughly the same way you do it. Download a.deb from a website, double click i
I generally have found a much safer method of picking a password.
My current password, for instance, is:
arthurcclark'); DROP TABLE Users;--
After using that particular password, no one will ever gain unauthorised access to any account on that particular website. I highly recommend it.
Position does not exist, though. The way we interpret reality, where objects have positions in space, is not necessarily true and is probably not true. Position is simply a way of mapping the distance between objects, which again is simply a way of mapping the influence of gravity of two objects on each other.
Recommended reading: "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Green.
I have gotten to meet Jim Goodnight and John Sall on several occasions doing work on an application that SAS sells to schools to statistically help them track kids into different classes. They seem very happy doing what they do, particularly Sall.
Lori Drew may be a monster, but she did not kill anyone, or otherwise she would be charged with murder.
...Huh? That is not how our legal system works. If you are implying that something is true simply because it agreed upon in court, you are wrong and naive.
What if the computer is programmed to connect to an adhoc network, created by the hacker's computer as he walks through the building the compromised computer is in? THAT network wouldn't even have to have any port forwarding and could be concealed to restrict monitoring.
Verizon's buyout of the 700mhz range of radio and their development of the so-called "4G" network will solve that single-handedly if Verizon doesn't get the iPhone. The iPhone may be significantly better than, say, an HTC Touch, but if the Touch gets 20Mb/s download speed (the LOW end of peak speeds in Verizon's initial tests, before all the software is even stable) and the iPhone gets 500kbps on AT&T's 3G network, Apple simply isn't going to be alone in the market.
Are cell phones really that detrimental to classroom activities? I would imagine that if you took cell phones away from the "texters", they would simply find something else to distract them from the lesson. There is the argument that texting makes cheating easier; i'm sure they can figure out a way to stop cheaters without blocking all cell phone access at school.
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Rogue admins abusing their power? An "in" club? If you have a problem with an admin, provide evidence (a diff of the admin abusing his power) here. Follow the case, argue it out, and the admin will be dealt with. Every admin is elected in, guys. If you think Wikipedia is important enough that all the scary "rogue admins" are actually doing harm, go become a part of the election process. Anyone can vote, and your opinion matters regardless of how many edits you have, or how many articles you've worked on. This isn't like America where your vote only matters symbolically. You can stop these evil boogiemen from getting elected, if you want to. Admins aren't "above" the user. They're just the people who hold onto the brooms. It's the users who make the messes, and the users who point the messes out to the janitors. That's how it was back when I was involved in the community, anyway. Oh, cept SlimVirgin. She's a fucking fascist.
Just because someone has the capacity to drive a car well does not mean they will.
But he actually believes it? Why the hell does he write about it the way that he does? It seems like he's fackin' trollin.
The last couple of days before TPB went down (although my understanding is that it is back up, using DHT? I stopped using it, so I'm not sure).
I remember something similar happening in the US (and probably worldwide) when TPB was about to go down. Leeching increased by substantial amounts across the board for the last couple days.
Is timecube legitimate? I always thought it was a joke.
I often do as you do when I write "flamebait". First I type "flaimbait", then I erase that and type "flamebate". Of course, it is "flamebait".
What? Building your own rig gets you the same power and components at around 75% the cost. While this may not be a qualification of nerdiness, it is certainly a qualification of intelligence (especially when building a computer is as easy as building legos).
Idle computer resources that are not getting used for anything else are worthless. Might as well fill them up with something, although I'd go with folding@home over SETI@home.
"global warming", don't you mean "Climate Change", which the earth has been doing for how many millions of years. It was such a nice place 65 million years ago until the rock hit the planet.
No, I mean global warming. There is no media sensationalism surrounding climate change; the sensationalism surrounds specifically the phrase "global warming". I understand that we have been undergoing climate change for millions of years and that such a phenomenon is as "natural" as anything can be (that is, would have happened without humans) which is why I didn't say "climate change". Mod parent troll
I have long felt that there's too much sensationalism surrounding global warming for the crisis to be exactly what it is represented as in the media. I think a healthy dose of scepticism is always a good thing. Equally so with this. I am sceptical that this is a "random sampling", but rather probably closer to being a carefully selected panorama of all of the nastiest bits. I will read through it, as I am sure a couple people will, but I encourage scepticism.
While I admire your sig, Atheism is misspelled in it.
Your use of the two words "you" and "are" are equally brilliant. I can't tell if they were intended or not :/
A package manager is nice for finding apps however,
Huh? How do you use a package manager for finding new apps?
.dmg which gets automatically mounted to its own volume in /Volumes. That dmg opens up in the finder with the binary and usually a softlink to the Applications folder for easy drag-and-drop. You install it, then unmount and delete the dmg file, then run the application. You find out just what a piece of shit Cog is, so you delete it out of your applications folder. However, it still has some files in ~/Library/Application\ Support which didn't get deleted. Also the binary didn't actually get deleted anyway; there's just a .trash file which contains a list of files that the finder isn't suppose to show, and which are queued for deletion next time the trash gets emptied.
.deb from a website, double click i
Also, my experience has been that in Mac OSX (admittedly, tiger), applications do not automatically clean up their files in Application\ Support. In any case, it's inefficient to have every program written for mac osx expected to do that on its own; much better to include that code in one binary (aptitude? apt-get? pacman? etc) which is guaranteed to get every trace of the program with purge.
Whenever I want new software to do a particular task, or just software that's better than my current, google is not my first stop. My first stop is #archlinux on freenode, explaining what I want to do with detailed specifications. Someone there without fail has already done all the research about that particular topic for me and can either tell me that no program exists or the name of the perfect program, which I then install via aptitude. If no one on archlinux has delt with that problem, I go out to other irc channels and ask the same question.
I have found that this method works far better than google. Google will land you software developers' websites where flaws and limitations are not easily admitted, even in a free/libre open source software community. Sometimes it will get threads in various gnu/linux forums where someone asked a question that might be the same question as yours (or maybe not), and you can look at the replies they got and make a judgement, which is almost the exact same thing as asking people in irc except it's some linuxquestions.com archive from 2004 and has been locked for years and the people are long gone.
The actual act of downloading and installing software, once you have determined what you want, is MUCH easier on a package manager than via the world wide web. If I get a list of applications that might work for what I want, I can just "sudo apt-get install rhythmbox exaile amarok quodlibet" and then those applications in their latest versions are downloading, with all of the libraries necessary automagically downloading too. When I determine which application I want to use, I can just "sudo apt-get purge rhythmbox exaile amarok" and every trace of those programs is removed from my disk.
Compare this to the mac osx method. You want a new audio player which can play flac (something there is a hilarious lack of on mac, I might add.) You do some googling and find one called "Cog" which is abandonware in alpha stages, but it might work well enough to play that new album you got off of demonoid. You try to download it from the developer's website, but he's over his bandwidth limit or something so it 404s. You google some more to try to find a binary and eventually find one on macupdate; it downloads as a
Admittedly I blew it a little out of proportion, but there are still a significantly larger number of steps involved than just "sudo apt-get install cog" and "sudo apt-get purge cog". I suppose this is counterbalanced by the difficulty in compiling non-trivial applications like chromium (10 gigabytes of source?!) but you have to remember that on linux, we still have the option of doing it roughly the same way you do it. Download a
I generally have found a much safer method of picking a password. My current password, for instance, is: arthurcclark'); DROP TABLE Users;-- After using that particular password, no one will ever gain unauthorised access to any account on that particular website. I highly recommend it.
Position does not exist, though. The way we interpret reality, where objects have positions in space, is not necessarily true and is probably not true. Position is simply a way of mapping the distance between objects, which again is simply a way of mapping the influence of gravity of two objects on each other. Recommended reading: "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Green.
I have gotten to meet Jim Goodnight and John Sall on several occasions doing work on an application that SAS sells to schools to statistically help them track kids into different classes. They seem very happy doing what they do, particularly Sall.
Have you been to Vegas recently? It is more theme park than casino or brothel.
Lori Drew may be a monster, but she did not kill anyone, or otherwise she would be charged with murder.
...Huh? That is not how our legal system works. If you are implying that something is true simply because it agreed upon in court, you are wrong and naive.
What if the computer is programmed to connect to an adhoc network, created by the hacker's computer as he walks through the building the compromised computer is in? THAT network wouldn't even have to have any port forwarding and could be concealed to restrict monitoring.
Will it keep the name "The Pirate Bay"? That name implies piracy.
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Verizon's buyout of the 700mhz range of radio and their development of the so-called "4G" network will solve that single-handedly if Verizon doesn't get the iPhone. The iPhone may be significantly better than, say, an HTC Touch, but if the Touch gets 20Mb/s download speed (the LOW end of peak speeds in Verizon's initial tests, before all the software is even stable) and the iPhone gets 500kbps on AT&T's 3G network, Apple simply isn't going to be alone in the market.
Strawberry! Only one person would dare give me strawberry!! The public school system!
Are cell phones really that detrimental to classroom activities? I would imagine that if you took cell phones away from the "texters", they would simply find something else to distract them from the lesson. There is the argument that texting makes cheating easier; i'm sure they can figure out a way to stop cheaters without blocking all cell phone access at school.