I do not care that Dmitry Sklyarov at one time made software to support the heinous practice of spamming. Mind you, I don't like it any more than you do. But his spam software-writing is not the issue here.
I do not care that Dmitry is a Russian citizen. Really, it doesn't matter WHO is in jail right now. What does matter is that our freedom of speech is being held hostage right now by a copyright act that infringes on our Constitutional rights.
Focus on the cause, and not the person.
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...but you have my OFFICIAL permission to correct spelling errors (Sklyarov) for the sake of accuracy in reporting. Spelling the guys name right shows that you care enough about the issue to at least spell his name correctly.
I don't know why this doesn't happen, since some of the editors have no problem with introducing their own spelling and grammatical errors as commentary.
Back in high school the guy in charge of the A/V department had an intense interest in 15-year old boys, too. A few years after I graduated he was accused and plead guilty to molestation and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Jon, maybe you need to find some different, more healthy, obsessions. Try stalking some celebrities or something. At least they have security guards.
Because Windows XP is the Next Greatest Thing from Microsoft, and it has received a lot of press about it's asthetics and usability. Mandrake is widely considered *the* desktop Linux environment to use to switch people from Windows. Makes sense to me.
#2. Who cares if they are similar/different?
The manager who you are trying to convince to move the department to Linux, that's who. Not to mention the users themselves. Helps reduce the fear factor.
#3. It doesn't really say much.
If it doesn't say much to you, then you aren't a network administrator looking to rid your system from as many BSA...er...Microsoft problems as possible.
FYI, the quote in your signature has widely been credited to the writers of the Conan O'Brien Show and not to Gov. Jesse Ventura. If he did in fact say it then he was quoting Conan.
Gov. Ventura is a crazy mofo, but he's not THAT crazy
I don't like spam any more than you do, but the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is not a tool to be used only when we agree with the cause. It is a tool to be used when ANYONE'S free speech rights have been suppressed.
Someone has a.sig line around here somewhere that says something like "I may not agree with your opinion, but I will fight to the death to protect your right to express it". Nowhere does it speak more truth than now.
The greatest success that NASA has had with Hubble goes beyond the valuable scientific data that is collected. Instead, the breathtaking images that are released to the public in the form of downloadable images that are perfect for desktop work, or in the form of posters for public consumption, get the average Joe excited about outer space again.
Once the populous gets excited about NASA then the funding starts pouring in again.
You need to enter the special code that you received when you purchased the particular ebook to be able to "unlock" it and make it so that you can move it to another computer or transfer ownership to someone else.
Now that I've purchased this ebook, I should have the ability to do with it what I can do with the rest of my books. Take it with me to work so that I can read it on my breaks, loan it to my dad so he can read it, whatever.
And since it is in digital format I want to take advantage of this feature and back it up onto CD media so that if my hard drive dies I won't be out of luck.
I am not a criminal for wanting to copy my ebooks, just as much as I'm not a criminal for owning a gun. If I engage in illegal activity in either case then I must face the consequences for my actions. But labelling a criminal solely based upon what I could potentially do with a legal item is charging me with guilt without cause.
Copy protection like this is what we ALL need to get this resolved once and for all.
Once the American press latches onto the story about how Joe User fried his $300 CD player when he played a copy of his personal CD, and he created that copy because he wanted to keep the original in new condition and not because he was "pirating music", then maybe we'll get rid of this stupid copy protection bullshit once and for all.
You're looking at it from the wrong direction. Suppose nobody payed for DirectTV?
Then consider this far out idea. What if no one paid for their operating system? This would put all commercial OS'es out of business.
This of course would never happen. There will always be a large and lucrative market out there who doesn't want to deal with the "hassle" of putting together a free operating system/satellite descrambler. And at the current overly-inflated prices that broadband television is being billed at there is no way that I would pay for it. So if I did hypothetically decide to make use of those signals beaming into my property then whichever company "owns" the signal wouldn't be losing any money.
It's all in the contracts that DirecTV signs to carry the channels on their system. In order to carry popular channel X they are generally required by the owner of said-channel to carry startup lameass channels G, O, A, T, S, E, C, and X, plus the usual chunk of the profit. This is what Disney and one of the New England cable companies tussled over last year when there was that blackout of ABC in the area.
So, in order to get "The Discovery Channel" you'll also have to get a dozen other crap channels.
I present to you final proof that debunks evolution. My Palm III clearly states on back that it was Made in USA. That's right non-believers, my PDA was created by a higher power.
One of the first mentions of the Sklyarov arrest came from trusted news source National Public Radio which broadcasts on hundreds of public radio stations across the country. You know the ones. They're the ones that beg for donations once a month to keep the station afloat, as they aren't getting near the funding that they used to from the federal government.
A search on their website finds five different mentions of the situation, starting on July 18. Considering most of the folks that listen to NPR on a regular basis tend to be in the upper range of IQ scores, it's a good audience to have but far from the saturation that the cause needs.
While you are reaching for your wallet to support the EFF, also consider making a donation to your local Public Broadcasting Station. They are as close to objective news reporting as you are likely going to get here in the US of A.
YES! There was a military game where the person was to drive a jeep around buldings and shoot tanks and such, with the occasional helicopter flying in to make things interesting. The buildings were overlays on the glass.
I had located this game ROM for MAME awhile back (I..er..own the machine and it's stored in my closet) and loaded it into the trusty emulator only to find that...well...all you could see was a black screen, your vector-drawn jeep, the approaching tanks, and NO buildings. Talk about a challenge!
Watching the BSA in action reminds me of gangsters looking for "protection money" from local businesses to make sure that "unfortunate circumstances" do not befall the company.
Microsoft...er...the BSA will only get away with it as long as The Majority lets them.
I've got to believe that if there was a big chunk of space crud that was going to hit Mother Earth that The Powers That Be wouldn't tell us about it until it hit us.
It'd be pretty easy to argue that if we didn't see it coming then it wouldn't be nearly as bad as if we had a week of hysteria and apocalyptic reactions to the event
Why is it that the people who do not speak English as their primary language, and who apologize for their poor written grammar and typos, do a much better job of putting their thoughts to words IN ENGLISH better than many of those who call English their native tongue?
I don't think that the right people are apologizing here.
1) You think that the sullen-looking netadmin at work would really appreciate it if you forward to them all those cute little jokes or thoughts for the day that you get from your other friends.
2) The pizzas that you ordered for the company meeting are called "Mushroom Medley", "Tofu Trio", or "Leafy Shit with Goat Cheese".
3) You expect that your friend's relative will spend 3 hours weeding out the problems in your AOL browser for $5 and warm soda.
...for registering for something somewhere get a free temporary email address at Spamh0le.
You can set up your account to forward email to your real address for as long as you want, and from then on it gets forwarded to their/dev/null. Handy, to say the least.
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I do not care that Dmitry Sklyarov at one time made software to support the heinous practice of spamming. Mind you, I don't like it any more than you do. But his spam software-writing is not the issue here.
I do not care that Dmitry is a Russian citizen. Really, it doesn't matter WHO is in jail right now. What does matter is that our freedom of speech is being held hostage right now by a copyright act that infringes on our Constitutional rights.
Focus on the cause, and not the person.
...but you have my OFFICIAL permission to correct spelling errors (Sklyarov) for the sake of accuracy in reporting. Spelling the guys name right shows that you care enough about the issue to at least spell his name correctly.
I don't know why this doesn't happen, since some of the editors have no problem with introducing their own spelling and grammatical errors as commentary.
Back in high school the guy in charge of the A/V department had an intense interest in 15-year old boys, too. A few years after I graduated he was accused and plead guilty to molestation and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Jon, maybe you need to find some different, more healthy, obsessions. Try stalking some celebrities or something. At least they have security guards.
I sincerely apologize to those of you who were offended by my actions.
Mom: Now Kevin, apologize to Suzie for what you did!
Kevin: I'm sorry that you don't like your pigtails dipped in permanent ink, Suzie.
He's apologizing that we were offended by his actions, not for his actions themselves. Big difference there.
To answer your other point, why market the 1.4 to everyone if only a small market needs it?
Because those penile-enlargement products aren't working as well as advertised, so they must look for other ways to over-compensate.
#1. Why Mandrake vs. XP?
Because Windows XP is the Next Greatest Thing from Microsoft, and it has received a lot of press about it's asthetics and usability. Mandrake is widely considered *the* desktop Linux environment to use to switch people from Windows. Makes sense to me.
#2. Who cares if they are similar/different?
The manager who you are trying to convince to move the department to Linux, that's who. Not to mention the users themselves. Helps reduce the fear factor.
#3. It doesn't really say much.
If it doesn't say much to you, then you aren't a network administrator looking to rid your system from as many BSA...er...Microsoft problems as possible.
FYI, the quote in your signature has widely been credited to the writers of the Conan O'Brien Show and not to Gov. Jesse Ventura. If he did in fact say it then he was quoting Conan.
Gov. Ventura is a crazy mofo, but he's not THAT crazy
I don't like spam any more than you do, but the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is not a tool to be used only when we agree with the cause. It is a tool to be used when ANYONE'S free speech rights have been suppressed.
Someone has a .sig line around here somewhere that says something like "I may not agree with your opinion, but I will fight to the death to protect your right to express it". Nowhere does it speak more truth than now.
The greatest success that NASA has had with Hubble goes beyond the valuable scientific data that is collected. Instead, the breathtaking images that are released to the public in the form of downloadable images that are perfect for desktop work, or in the form of posters for public consumption, get the average Joe excited about outer space again.
Once the populous gets excited about NASA then the funding starts pouring in again.
You need to enter the special code that you received when you purchased the particular ebook to be able to "unlock" it and make it so that you can move it to another computer or transfer ownership to someone else.
Now that I've purchased this ebook, I should have the ability to do with it what I can do with the rest of my books. Take it with me to work so that I can read it on my breaks, loan it to my dad so he can read it, whatever.
And since it is in digital format I want to take advantage of this feature and back it up onto CD media so that if my hard drive dies I won't be out of luck.
I am not a criminal for wanting to copy my ebooks, just as much as I'm not a criminal for owning a gun. If I engage in illegal activity in either case then I must face the consequences for my actions. But labelling a criminal solely based upon what I could potentially do with a legal item is charging me with guilt without cause.
Maybe they're going to go and put a red rubber glove on the penguin's head and call him a chicken, Wallace and Grommit style.
Copy protection like this is what we ALL need to get this resolved once and for all.
Once the American press latches onto the story about how Joe User fried his $300 CD player when he played a copy of his personal CD, and he created that copy because he wanted to keep the original in new condition and not because he was "pirating music", then maybe we'll get rid of this stupid copy protection bullshit once and for all.
You're looking at it from the wrong direction. Suppose nobody payed for DirectTV?
Then consider this far out idea. What if no one paid for their operating system? This would put all commercial OS'es out of business.
This of course would never happen. There will always be a large and lucrative market out there who doesn't want to deal with the "hassle" of putting together a free operating system/satellite descrambler. And at the current overly-inflated prices that broadband television is being billed at there is no way that I would pay for it. So if I did hypothetically decide to make use of those signals beaming into my property then whichever company "owns" the signal wouldn't be losing any money.
It's all in the contracts that DirecTV signs to carry the channels on their system. In order to carry popular channel X they are generally required by the owner of said-channel to carry startup lameass channels G, O, A, T, S, E, C, and X, plus the usual chunk of the profit. This is what Disney and one of the New England cable companies tussled over last year when there was that blackout of ABC in the area.
So, in order to get "The Discovery Channel" you'll also have to get a dozen other crap channels.
The Evolution Of PDAs
I present to you final proof that debunks evolution. My Palm III clearly states on back that it was Made in USA. That's right non-believers, my PDA was created by a higher power.
Sinners. Every last one of ya.
One of the first mentions of the Sklyarov arrest came from trusted news source National Public Radio which broadcasts on hundreds of public radio stations across the country. You know the ones. They're the ones that beg for donations once a month to keep the station afloat, as they aren't getting near the funding that they used to from the federal government.
A search on their website finds five different mentions of the situation, starting on July 18. Considering most of the folks that listen to NPR on a regular basis tend to be in the upper range of IQ scores, it's a good audience to have but far from the saturation that the cause needs.
While you are reaching for your wallet to support the EFF, also consider making a donation to your local Public Broadcasting Station. They are as close to objective news reporting as you are likely going to get here in the US of A.
I think that it is safe to say that X-Files has now officially Jumped the Shark, if they had not done that awhile back already.
YES! There was a military game where the person was to drive a jeep around buldings and shoot tanks and such, with the occasional helicopter flying in to make things interesting. The buildings were overlays on the glass.
I had located this game ROM for MAME awhile back (I..er..own the machine and it's stored in my closet) and loaded it into the trusty emulator only to find that...well...all you could see was a black screen, your vector-drawn jeep, the approaching tanks, and NO buildings. Talk about a challenge!
Watching the BSA in action reminds me of gangsters looking for "protection money" from local businesses to make sure that "unfortunate circumstances" do not befall the company.
Microsoft...er...the BSA will only get away with it as long as The Majority lets them.
From the NickLock website:
(the function of NickLock can easy be changed in the BIOS system setup to start one harddrive and still be able to reach the other)
Has this turned into Julia Child's kitchen? What is up with all these pots and kettles?
I've got to believe that if there was a big chunk of space crud that was going to hit Mother Earth that The Powers That Be wouldn't tell us about it until it hit us.
It'd be pretty easy to argue that if we didn't see it coming then it wouldn't be nearly as bad as if we had a week of hysteria and apocalyptic reactions to the event
Why is it that the people who do not speak English as their primary language, and who apologize for their poor written grammar and typos, do a much better job of putting their thoughts to words IN ENGLISH better than many of those who call English their native tongue?
I don't think that the right people are apologizing here.
1) You think that the sullen-looking netadmin at work would really appreciate it if you forward to them all those cute little jokes or thoughts for the day that you get from your other friends.
2) The pizzas that you ordered for the company meeting are called "Mushroom Medley", "Tofu Trio", or "Leafy Shit with Goat Cheese".
3) You expect that your friend's relative will spend 3 hours weeding out the problems in your AOL browser for $5 and warm soda.
There are others, but you get the drift.
...for registering for something somewhere get a free temporary email address at Spamh0le.
You can set up your account to forward email to your real address for as long as you want, and from then on it gets forwarded to their /dev/null. Handy, to say the least.
thousands of Netcom customers who sat with baited breath...
Unless Netcom supplies services to some of the aquatic talent at Sea World, I'm betting you meant to use the term "bated breath".