I don't even have a home phone anymore. I have a cell phone, and cable internet access. It works perfectly fine, and we have not had any problems.
I get free domestic long distance, 800 minutes for $40/mo and $5/mo extra for data. This is why I don't understand the push for VoIP unless it's international. At which point I go to nobelcom and buy dirt cheap calling cards that work great.
Then I can call international while driving down the road, drinking my double latte screaming at my kids in the backseat of my Lexus SUV.
Oh, for heavens sake. It would be worth 10 trillion dollars of government money to you so that no one has to download a free MS Word document viewer? How can I argue when you make an argument this ridiculous? At some level of expense, almost nothing is justified. Your example is clearly not one of the exceptions.
You are playing a deliberate slippery slope argument. What if the price of freedom outweighs the lack thereof? What if an open standard is cheaper than the closed standard? You can play these theoretical games to infinity and beyond.
The facts are very simple, in which Microsoft excludes itself from the open-standards ballpark (with the notable exception of C#) and several open source providors are included.
What he is saying is that requiring a closed product to communicate with the government should be an expense carried by the government. Not carried by the tax-payers. By allowing the Microsoft-exclusive market in the Government, you disallow several other competitors and force those who wish to effectively communicate with the government to purchase Windows(tm).
Freedom to communicate outweighs the freedom of the Government to force you to speak to them in a certain format.
Point conceded... perhaps they should remove their French offices then?
Very unlikely, as business works much differently than local idealists wish. If it costs $200K/year to build a system for managing "protected dWords" and they gain $1M in revenue from the French offices, it's a silly move to remove the French offices. Google is a company, regardless of what people like to think about it. They are there for profit, and if you don't believe it go talk to some of the people who work at companies they've purchased. Google wouldn't buy them if they couldn't make money with them.
The French offices aren't serving advertisements, however, the Californian servers are.
Irrelevant. If you were serving kidding porn, and were producing a revenue stream, you would be busted. Regardless of where your servers were at, if you have a local presence you have to have your presence abide by local laws. Period.
Just because the servers are there, doesn't mean they don't have offices in France. The French offices are subject to France laws, regardless where the servers are located.
Why does this come up time and again? Why should the RIAA member companies have to adopt a new business model to combat theft? The problem isn't their business model, it's people stealing their music because they're too cheap.
First, they should adopt a new business model because price fixing is getting them in trouble. People like me (And there are several of us, at least 4) stopped buying CDs (music, really) because of this and their treatment of their customers. I still listen to music, but I do it legit without "stealing" anything. It's all about netradio and used CDs.
The thing is, they are going to have to adopt a new business model to survive and it isn't centered around copyright infringement. People always shared music they wanted, I remember I did when I couldn't afford it. The good ol' teenage pre-job days, staying up till the radio censors gave up just waiting for them to play the latest Run DMC.
It's just easier now, that's all. Nothing has really changed, it's just easier. But don't assume people "steal" music because their cheap. I don't buy music because I think they're being assholes.
Did you have a car or a truck? Where did you get the gasoline? Did you need that gasoline to sustain life? Did you ever eat a banana? Where did you get that? Did you wear a coat or shoes? Where did you get them?
We didn't need those to sustain life, dipshit. You do know the difference between creating and maintaining?
Was your elbow grease enough to fuel your car and heat your house? Did your elbow grease provide for every single morsel of food you ate and every drop of water you drank?
Heating the house... log fireplace.. you know, you go and cut trees down. Wells provide water, and it's really easy to have a lot of food when there is a plethora of chickens and cows around you.
It really isn't that hard to maintain life.
LOL. A twelve year old looking girl with braces. If that's not a pedophiles wet dream I don't know what is.
For adult braces... and... wow, you are dumb.
I am glad you finally admit that slashdot means a lot to you. You have to admit these things to yourself before you can make any progress.
When did I deny it? You are the one who tries to point out I say things I don't. You really try so hard to put words in my mouth, and fail miserable. Yet you try so hard again. Perhaps you need to admit these things.
Really? Even though I know math and you dont? even though I never lived in a one kilometer square section of a half a kilometer square ranch? Even though I don't think a 10 KM square plot of land can support 17 million people? Even though I don't claim to have lived in a rach which only imported electricity?
So I may have made a mistake on the sizes, big deal. It's not as you make it out to be.
Most people wouldn't think a machine could do a million math operations a second 50 years ago. Now see what they look like today?
Even though I don't claim that tractors run on elbow grease?
I don't claim that, you try to make things up. I'm talking about sustaining life. We didn't need tractors to sustain life, only make money.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. When I started with sprint, ATT didn't have coverage in most of the metro (Omaha), some sort of leftover cruft from the monoply breakup where they legally couldn't do it. It changed in 2000, but I have no idea how good the service is. Qwest is a major player here (our new arena is even named after them), but their prices suck. I hear verizon is pretty good.
The issue with AT&T is their customer service people are the happiest bunch of fucking idiots around. It's laughable most of the time, but annoying when a serious problem comes up. My girlfriend used to have Verizon, and we just switched. For the same amount of money we got nation-wide long distance, and twice the minutes. I gave her my old T68 (I'm such an asshole, she likes it because it's small.)
The converance/internet access is the real killer app for me. Being able to look stuff up when I'm cross town away from the office/house would be totally great
AT&Ts GPRS service (mMode) is pretty decent, and has good support on a lot of phones. My mMode account is messed up, and the unhelpful customer service people aren't any help with it. The T68 is fine, and it's really handy to find directions and what not.
Its also worth noting that they ship first class mail so it usually takes 1-2 days for your cd(s) to arrive. If i place my order monday morning or early afternoon, i get my package on wednesday. Note I live in Pennsylvania and they ship from Oregon
Hah! They're about 3 miles away from my work, and I can take the light rail most of the way there.
I feel so privledged. Between CDBaby and Live Journal, we're like a tiny silicon valley.
I'm torn on if I should get one now or wait for bluetooth. I'm also a bit angered about sprint's lack of good discounts for people that have been with them for a while, I'm going on 5 years with them, and this would be my 3rd phone with them. Do I get a discount for the $4000+ I've given them over the years? Nope. I'm glad the number portability law comes into affect in november, maybe I'll switch to a GSM provider.
If you are looking for that, check out AT&T. I haven't paid retail on a phone since 1998. As long as you don't upgrade more than once a year, they'll cut you a deal. Also, if you find any price on the internet for a phone, they'll match it. I got my GU87 for $200, which is much less than they were trying to sell it.
But then again, I've never owned a pda and I really want one. I just got a huge raise, so it would be nice to treat myself to a cool gadget... choices choices...
If you are just going for a PDA, I would recommend a CLIE. They're my favorite PDAs, but I'm just one geek in a sea of many. The Zaurus is nice as well, but I've never actually owned one so I can't really recommend it.
I had a T68, and while Bluetooth is cool that phone sucked ass. It gets the worst signal out of all the GSM phones in the area. I just upgraded to the Panasonic GU87 (No bluetooth, which sucks) and have no issues. If you want a phone with mid-range PDA effects and USB-sync, it's a great phone to get.
I'm not going to look at this till maybe a rev 2 when they add bluetooth*
I agree with you on that. I think they really pulled a Halo with the phone.
(Fast release date, and missing major features like Bluetooth, except with Halo it was levels.)
Hypothetical does not mean you can live in a 1KM square section of an 1/2KM square ranch. Theoretical does not mean tractors grow on trees or that you can drill on your farm and hit oil to feed that tractor.
We're talking about sustaining life, not creating new structures and devices. Purely supporting. For life support, we didn't need any oil for tractors, nor did we need anything for our daily needs. All of that was taken care of with a little thing called "elbow grease." You are arguing two different things.
First, you say that you can't support life in a hypothetical situation. Then, you argue that you can't create things. Make up your mind.
There are lots of 12 year old models. There are lots of older models who pass for 12. There are also lots of 12 years actors. Most people don't look at them as sexual objects though. If you show an average person a picture of a 12 year old they will think that the person is adorable or cute but only a small fraction will feel a sexual attraction to them.
Oh, then I guess it's ironic that she was a model for adult braces. What's funny is that people will realize that you are an idiot, because they can look at the picture and realize that you are just saying this to try to get to me, deny reality, and act like you are superior. You are disagreeing that the sky is blue.
I know that slashdot means a lot to you, but you should not presume that everyone has the same obsession. For example I don't know who HanzoSan is nor do I care. Most people don't fixate on slashdot people and stalk them like you do.
Yes, Slashdot means a lot while I'm at work. It's a fun way to start the day. There you go back to that stalking thing though, didn't I already prove you wrong. You really like to argue with reality and facts. You shouldn't do that, it's not healthy. But you should know HanzoSan, you guys could be great friends.
maybe one of your 300 slashdot friends can give me a prize or something. Maybe they will wait until you devestate me by putting an article about me on your journal. Surely once you have smitten me with your mighty journal entry weapon your horde of slashdot friends will come to lift you high on their shoulders and praise your name to the heavens!.
They'll just chuckle at you. It's entertainment, just to see how stupid you prove yourself to be. I think I already covered that it's just funny, at your expense. But you try to overglamourize it.
I will respons until friday. Then I have to leave the country for a couple of weeks but I'll pick it up again after I come back. I am sure you will fixate on somebody else to stalk while I am gone. Don't worry though I promise I'll be back.
Enjoy leaving your moms basement! I probably wont find anybody else to call an idiot and have them sit and listen because most people aren't that stupid. Only a very small percentage of people on here are actually as retarded as you. Keep up the good work.
I agree with you, and it just has to be brute force. If you compiled a game library of every possibility of every perfect game, the game of chess would be ruined. I think, for the sake of sportsmanship, chess computers should be isolated outside of books and into algorithmic strategies. That will yield a computer that can beat humans most of the time, but not all.
I still have trouble beating gnuchess, so I'm not that worried.
Well, that could apply to anything. I could bind/bin/sh to a port running as root via inetd, and that would be a big problem.
But you have to look at Apache allowing access, through ExecCGI outside of a chroot, etc. If a webserver were to be more secure, it would only run scripts from a unix socket (or some more modern approach) to a chroot jail. I've not seen anything like that in common practice though.
Yes, but not because of Apache. It's because of people who don't properly handle data coming in from the user, etc. It's a tool that is used most dangerously, most often.
That's just crazy. OpenSSL and OpenSSH are having lots more problems right now. And Bind? When was the last remotely exploitable problem with that?
I know there was one in Bind8 last year. I'm not sure of any more recent with 8 or 9, though.
I am glad to see that you finally admit that your whole point was some sort of a make believe fantasy.
What type of retard are you? Hypothetical situation == Make believe fantasy? Just because I said that the population of the world could fit in a land area the size of Texas and be less densely packed than Tokyo, you seem to try to combat this. These are facts. If you do the math, it works out that way.
Deal with it.
No she looks like a 12 year old boy. If it's not your uncle then whoever is in that picture is a closeted pedophile. He pretends that she is a 12 year old boy when having sex with her.
Uhm, this is just dumb. In so many different ways. It's sad that is the best you can do.
I didn't. I don't think she is hot. I think she looks like a 12 year old boy and I don't think 12 year old boys are hot. You keep saying she is hot so maybe you think 12 year old boys are hot.
Funny that she's been a model, then?
No adult would ever claim that 10KM square could support 17 million people or that a farm could exist importing only electricity.
A ranch. Ranch is different than a farm. I also said, "Maximum efficiency." It is perfectly feasible, but not with todays technology (as I've already pointed out.)
There are two types of people who say things are impossible: Those who understand the problem and fucking idiots. You are a fucking idiot.
But... It's amusing watching you make shit up though. You are trying so desperately hard to win this whole thing when you don't realize that you already are a loser. Or... a winner. Of my "Find the biggest dumbass who will respond the longest" contest. I mean... you beat HanzoSan. Do you realize what that says about you? A lot. A whole lot.
Even though you are now in first, someone may beat you in the future. You are still retarded. I'll still respond and insult you, because you don't have to end it now. In fact, I don't think you will because you like to argue hypothetical situations as literal arguments.
I think you're trying to say there's a lot of software included in the distribution. That's true, but irrelevant to the point I was making. How much choice do you have among programs that do a certain thing? How good are those choices? How appealing are they to the average person compared to the Windows equivalent? Address that.
Lets take my girlfriend. She is a perfect example for the "Average Person." She doesn't understand a damned thing about computers. She wants to be able to write papers for school, send and receive email and IM, and visit webpages. She is also bilingual, being a native of Japan, so she needs to have Japanese and English language packs installed. In case you haven't used Japanese input, it's very different than latin input. You have to have a process that runs that turns what you type into a selection of possible kanjis. Linux performs better than Windows, and this is the assessment of several native Japanese people (including postdoc researchers.) It is also easier to setup.
My girlfriend has no issues with Linux, and it performs exceptionally well. She didn't like the margin layout in KDEs Office Program, so I switched to Open Office and she was happy. She liked the spell check there, too. I do everything, except play games, just as easily as a Windows user. I like to type, so I use consoles, but you don't need to anymore. It's perfectly easy to just point and click, like my girlfriend does. It just takes a bit longer to setup.
But, this isn't the point. The point is that Linux isn't designed to be a replacement for Windows. Linux is a free operating system, no more and no less. It's designed and functions as such. The desktop coders do a great job, and take a lot of innovative techniques by both Microsoft and Apple to catch-up. That's why people think Linux is trying to be a "Microsoft Killer." It simply isn't so.
The 911 hijackers used American-made planes. Did that make them American? I merely pointed out ideology could sometimes be a factor in what these folks do.
This could only be a valid analogy if the 9/11 hijackers flew the American-made planes into Boeings headquarters.
But, like any ideology, once it got into the whole world, it mutated and degraded. Were there some good offspring as a result? Sure. But it also had a lot of bad ones. The Kazaa Kiddies (whom you cite approvingly a little later, even though you said you opposed what they do about 98% of time) what are the intellectual descendants of those who felt information should be free. Unintentional consequences? Sure, but consequences nonetheless.
You do realize that Kazaa has about 50 million more users than Linux does, right? That kind of blows your mentality out of the water. Also, Napster didn't run under Linux. It was ported by a guy to Linux, and Shawn Fanning flipped out on him. He didn't want his work "given away." So, what's your point on tieing this to the Linux ideology? There is a big difference between this, and people have copied music long before Stallman dreamed up the GPL.
What else would you call P2Ping if not "If you will not share, we will make you share?"
I call it a communication protocol for distributing large files. I would love to see a P2P system that only allows DRM-enabled/activated media on it, just to validate the existence of P2P. I stand with Linus Torvalds on DRM, people have a right to protect their creative work under the licenses they choose. You can't compare Linux users to P2P users because not only do they overlap, but the biggest P2P client doesn't even work under Linux.
Of course, there's a way out of that. Disown them. That's all my article suggest. They are your descendants, but although Linux, et. al, is a sliding slope, it's by no means an irreversible or inevitable one. Just like capitalism doesn't automatically turn into monopoly.
I wouldn't categorize this place as a geek Comedy Central. How would you know what people whom you don't even know could or couldn't do? In any event, even presuming you're right, at the least, they're looking for somebody else to do it.
Ok, now this is where I take issue with your "reporting." You are aware that there was only a third of the source that was leaked. From that third, it was linked heavily and would only assist in cheating and only cheating. Providing client-side Linux binaries would require much more than what was released. There is no room for debate here. I could give the best coder in the world a third of the Windows GUI, and they couldn't make any of it run under Windows. The best one could do is find further ways to exploit Windows.
Actually, I think they loathe their record companies. On the one hand, there's no doubt that many, especially in the past, got a raw deal, but just how does stealing their works fix that problem or help the artist?
Yes, they do loathe their record companies. How is that different than loathing the RIAA? The RIAA is just the collective spokesman for the record companies. And please, we aren't dealing with stealing. The only thing that is being stolen is the exclusive right to distribute music at a profit. It's copyright infringement, so lets call it what it is. We don't need to resort to sensationalism in this debate. Yes, there is unauthorized taking of property, but in no way is anybody being deprived of that property. They still maintain copyright, they still maintain CD sales.
The record industry just isn't that profitable overall, simply because the failure rate is so high. It certainly is nowhere near the same league as MS or Intel.
I wonder where you get these facts. One of the shows I really enjoy is Flex, on SpikeTV. I'm a car guy. Don't tell me it isn't profitable to be in the music industry, because the execs make the artists on Flex look like they work at McDonalds. What type of life does Rosen live? Go check it out, and then wonder why the music industry isn't profitable. You could go talk to CDBaby. I'll even relay your messages, their offices are a quick light rail ride away from me. The reason why music flops is because it sucks, not because it isn't a profitable industry.
But let's assume he did get a pretty raw deal at the time. What he's doing now is piggybacking off all the promotion that was done for him back in the sixties. If you look at the usual indy leaders, that's whom you'll usually find on top: bands that got famous with the established record companies first
He's piggybacking off of his songs that he wrote that are hits, because he's a talented song writer and had a great band. It's hard pressed to find any promotions that are done by him. He was a black guy, and he started when Black people didn't have front-line bands.
Good for them, I suppose, but what about the new bands? Slavery and promotion may not be too good, but freedom and no promotion is likely to be worse.
Funny, I can get my music played to thousands of people over netradio. It's even pretty cheap. You are defending an archaic business model that is proven not to work. Again, go check out CDBaby. They are well worth the time to investigate.
I think there should be some serious study of this issue. If record companies are really abusing their economic power (as opposed to playing venture capitalists in a risky game), you solve the problem by putting in some legal safeguards. That's far better for artists than just stealing their stuff.
There are serious studies in the issue. Record companies are abusing their economics power, as well. They have even been busted in court for it. You need to investigate your claims a whole lot more, it's called "Price Fixing" and they are very guilty of it. Legal
To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in: debug a spacecraft before launch; debug a computer program.
Dumbass. Nothing was malfunctioning. It was functioning exactly as it should have been given the current configuration. However, the configuration needed to be updated to reflect a different setting.
At least you are posting AC so nobody can see how stupid you really are.
My apologies for not noting the HTML requirements in the first post.
I posted another comment detailing the typical "howto" on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to make it legible. Now for the refute.
1) Gee, when I boot up Windows, that buffer overrun in the RPC interface keeps smacking me in the face. Sometimes it takes up the whole screen. When my little niece comes around, she keeps offering to hack the object code for me. Even fetuses stir in the womb when pregnant women come in range.
Trying to say that the Windows code has no problems is just absurd. Every software has problems (apologies Dr. Knuth), it's the degree of the mistakes that makes the difference. A very severe programming error will cause a computer to crash, as is demonstrated very often using older versions of Windows. You should talk with the sysadmins about the attacks from Windows boxes infected. I can post a week of server logs just showing the attacks for my site (which gets a few hundred hits) but Slashdot doesn't allow posts that long.
2) Even if the WTC had painted a target and provided planes a guiding light, that makes hitting it OK?
No, it makes it easy. This is exactly what Microsoft does. In Windows 98 you could by pass a "screensaver lock" by putting a CD with autorun enabled on it. If you make it easy for someone else to break into a product someone pays for, they have a right to be pissed off.
The Army still goes after the shooter.
Yes, but that soldier is dead because he was dumb. It's not ok to shoot people. It's just plain stupid to go into combat where you are going to be shot out without protection. If you catch an STD from a whorehouse, people are going to wonder why you didn't use a condom. Same type of thing.
No, it isn't because we're not talking about something broken. We're talking about someone breaking it. To some point and degree, MS could be rightly accused of being overly lax, and I said that in the article (why'd you leave that part out, hmm?). However, at some point, the majority of blame needs to shift to the attacker. If you leave your doors wide open, that's one thing. If somebody uses a torch to slice through the iron gates on your window, that's another.
This is where you are wrong. Something is broken. Microsoft Windows is broken if it allows unauthorized entry that is not the fault of the user. If I leave my car unlocked, it's my fault. If I don't, and someone breaks a window to get in, it's their fault. With Windows, you don't need to break a window (that's a horrible sentence), you just need to jiggle the handle a certain way. It really is easy to break into a Windows box. You can bypass any security in a relatively trivial manner, even without physical access to the box. There is something wrong with that. Windows is more than lax. Windows doesn't have Iron Curtains. Windows has a welcome mat and a front door that doesn't lock properly and a rear entrance with an unlocking screendoor.
---Yes, this is why we demonize Microsoft. Not because they violate HTTP, SSL, CSS, and countless other standards.
Wow. Truly one of the great atrocities of our time.:)
Spoken like someone who doesn't rely on interoperability for their job. I had a project bomb last week because IE has issues with SSL under certain circumstances. We have hundreds of customers who are no longer able to use our service because they upgraded to IE6. We use standards, that are approved internationally. This is why I dislike Microsoft. I think Mr. Gates is a shrewd business man, and while not always ethical, understands a lot more than anybody here will give him credit for. It doesn't excuse Microsoft for what he, and they, have done. They have been found guilty for antitrust practices. These are
In the possibility that you aren't actually sure how this whole posting thing works, I'm going to put together a little HowTo so you sound much more literate.
Use the Preview. Use Plain Old Text, it's the easiest method for formatting. Break quotes out using the <blockquote> tags or using <i> or some other method so it's easier to read what you are responding to.
Assuming this is in fact Ed Stroligo, and you wish to debate me, you can also email me and I will post each email nicely formatted in my journal so it's "public."
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I don't even have a home phone anymore. I have a cell phone, and cable internet access. It works perfectly fine, and we have not had any problems.
I get free domestic long distance, 800 minutes for $40/mo and $5/mo extra for data. This is why I don't understand the push for VoIP unless it's international. At which point I go to nobelcom and buy dirt cheap calling cards that work great.
Then I can call international while driving down the road, drinking my double latte screaming at my kids in the backseat of my Lexus SUV.
Er wait, I don't have kids or a Lexus SUV.
Oh, for heavens sake. It would be worth 10 trillion dollars of government money to you so that no one has to download a free MS Word document viewer? How can I argue when you make an argument this ridiculous? At some level of expense, almost nothing is justified. Your example is clearly not one of the exceptions.
You are playing a deliberate slippery slope argument. What if the price of freedom outweighs the lack thereof? What if an open standard is cheaper than the closed standard? You can play these theoretical games to infinity and beyond.
The facts are very simple, in which Microsoft excludes itself from the open-standards ballpark (with the notable exception of C#) and several open source providors are included.
What he is saying is that requiring a closed product to communicate with the government should be an expense carried by the government. Not carried by the tax-payers. By allowing the Microsoft-exclusive market in the Government, you disallow several other competitors and force those who wish to effectively communicate with the government to purchase Windows(tm).
Freedom to communicate outweighs the freedom of the Government to force you to speak to them in a certain format.
Point conceded... perhaps they should remove their French offices then?
Very unlikely, as business works much differently than local idealists wish. If it costs $200K/year to build a system for managing "protected
dWords" and they gain $1M in revenue from the French offices, it's a silly move to remove the French offices. Google is a company, regardless of what people like to think about it. They are there for profit, and if you don't believe it go talk to some of the people who work at companies they've purchased. Google wouldn't buy them if they couldn't make money with them.
The French offices aren't serving advertisements, however, the Californian servers are.
Irrelevant. If you were serving kidding porn, and were producing a revenue stream, you would be busted. Regardless of where your servers were at, if you have a local presence you have to have your presence abide by local laws. Period.
Just because the servers are there, doesn't mean they don't have offices in France. The French offices are subject to France laws, regardless where the servers are located.
NXDOMAIN is not 404. Learn what a 404 is. If you visit a lot of companies websites and get a 404, you will get a list of possible alternatives.
A 404 is on a webserver that already exists, that is running an http server and has the DNS properly configured.
Here is a better survey:
Why does this come up time and again? Why should the RIAA member companies have to adopt a new business model to combat theft? The problem isn't their business model, it's people stealing their music because they're too cheap.
First, they should adopt a new business model because price fixing is getting them in trouble. People like me (And there are several of us, at least 4) stopped buying CDs (music, really) because of this and their treatment of their customers. I still listen to music, but I do it legit without "stealing" anything. It's all about netradio and used CDs.
The thing is, they are going to have to adopt a new business model to survive and it isn't centered around copyright infringement. People always shared music they wanted, I remember I did when I couldn't afford it. The good ol' teenage pre-job days, staying up till the radio censors gave up just waiting for them to play the latest Run DMC.
It's just easier now, that's all. Nothing has really changed, it's just easier. But don't assume people "steal" music because their cheap. I don't buy music because I think they're being assholes.
Seems ridiculous to integrate ECMAScript
in there, when we could instead use
python.
Feel free to do it yourself, with Python. I'm sure you know whats better.
Did you have a car or a truck? Where did you get the gasoline? Did you need that gasoline to sustain life? Did you ever eat a banana? Where did you get that? Did you wear a coat or shoes? Where did you get them?
We didn't need those to sustain life, dipshit. You do know the difference between creating and maintaining?
Was your elbow grease enough to fuel your car and heat your house? Did your elbow grease provide for every single morsel of food you ate and every drop of water you drank?
Heating the house... log fireplace.. you know, you go and cut trees down. Wells provide water, and it's really easy to have a lot of food when there is a plethora of chickens and cows around you.
It really isn't that hard to maintain life.
LOL. A twelve year old looking girl with braces. If that's not a pedophiles wet dream I don't know what is.
For adult braces... and... wow, you are dumb.
I am glad you finally admit that slashdot means a lot to you. You have to admit these things to yourself before you can make any progress.
When did I deny it? You are the one who tries to point out I say things I don't. You really try so hard to put words in my mouth, and fail miserable. Yet you try so hard again. Perhaps you need to admit these things.
Really? Even though I know math and you dont? even though I never lived in a one kilometer square section of a half a kilometer square ranch? Even though I don't think a 10 KM square plot of land can support 17 million people? Even though I don't claim to have lived in a rach which only imported electricity?
So I may have made a mistake on the sizes, big deal. It's not as you make it out to be.
Most people wouldn't think a machine could do a million math operations a second 50 years ago. Now see what they look like today?
Even though I don't claim that tractors run on elbow grease?
I don't claim that, you try to make things up. I'm talking about sustaining life. We didn't need tractors to sustain life, only make money.
Actually, the next war will probably be fought against Syria. The corporations are a bit farther down the list.
My money is on Iran. $5, anyone?
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. When I started with sprint, ATT didn't have coverage in most of the metro (Omaha), some sort of leftover cruft from the monoply breakup where they legally couldn't do it. It changed in 2000, but I have no idea how good the service is. Qwest is a major player here (our new arena is even named after them), but their prices suck. I hear verizon is pretty good.
The issue with AT&T is their customer service people are the happiest bunch of fucking idiots around. It's laughable most of the time, but annoying when a serious problem comes up. My girlfriend used to have Verizon, and we just switched. For the same amount of money we got nation-wide long distance, and twice the minutes. I gave her my old T68 (I'm such an asshole, she likes it because it's small.)
The converance/internet access is the real killer app for me. Being able to look stuff up when I'm cross town away from the office/house would be totally great
AT&Ts GPRS service (mMode) is pretty decent, and has good support on a lot of phones. My mMode account is messed up, and the unhelpful customer service people aren't any help with it. The T68 is fine, and it's really handy to find directions and what not.
Its also worth noting that they ship first class mail so it usually takes 1-2 days for your cd(s) to arrive. If i place my order monday morning or early afternoon, i get my package on wednesday. Note I live in Pennsylvania and they ship from Oregon
Hah! They're about 3 miles away from my work, and I can take the light rail most of the way there.
I feel so privledged. Between CDBaby and Live Journal, we're like a tiny silicon valley.
The original poster was stating it is weird that it doesn't work on 9x. Since there is still a big market share there.
Either way, it's bigger than Apple so maybe they have a chance. Snicker...
I'm torn on if I should get one now or wait for bluetooth. I'm also a bit angered about sprint's lack of good discounts for people that have been with them for a while, I'm going on 5 years with them, and this would be my 3rd phone with them. Do I get a discount for the $4000+ I've given them over the years? Nope. I'm glad the number portability law comes into affect in november, maybe I'll switch to a GSM provider.
If you are looking for that, check out AT&T. I haven't paid retail on a phone since 1998. As long as you don't upgrade more than once a year, they'll cut you a deal. Also, if you find any price on the internet for a phone, they'll match it. I got my GU87 for $200, which is much less than they were trying to sell it.
But then again, I've never owned a pda and I really want one. I just got a huge raise, so it would be nice to treat myself to a cool gadget... choices choices...
If you are just going for a PDA, I would recommend a CLIE. They're my favorite PDAs, but I'm just one geek in a sea of many. The Zaurus is nice as well, but I've never actually owned one so I can't really recommend it.
I had a T68, and while Bluetooth is cool that phone sucked ass. It gets the worst signal out of all the GSM phones in the area. I just upgraded to the Panasonic GU87 (No bluetooth, which sucks) and have no issues. If you want a phone with mid-range PDA effects and USB-sync, it's a great phone to get.
I'm not going to look at this till maybe a rev 2 when they add bluetooth*
I agree with you on that. I think they really pulled a Halo with the phone.
(Fast release date, and missing major features like Bluetooth, except with Halo it was levels.)
Hypothetical does not mean you can live in a 1KM square section of an 1/2KM square ranch. Theoretical does not mean tractors grow on trees or that you can drill on your farm and hit oil to feed that tractor.
We're talking about sustaining life, not creating new structures and devices. Purely supporting. For life support, we didn't need any oil for tractors, nor did we need anything for our daily needs. All of that was taken care of with a little thing called "elbow grease." You are arguing two different things.
First, you say that you can't support life in a hypothetical situation. Then, you argue that you can't create things. Make up your mind.
There are lots of 12 year old models. There are lots of older models who pass for 12. There are also lots of 12 years actors. Most people don't look at them as sexual objects though. If you show an average person a picture of a 12 year old they will think that the person is adorable or cute but only a small fraction will feel a sexual attraction to them.
Oh, then I guess it's ironic that she was a model for adult braces. What's funny is that people will realize that you are an idiot, because they can look at the picture and realize that you are just saying this to try to get to me, deny reality, and act like you are superior. You are disagreeing that the sky is blue.
I know that slashdot means a lot to you, but you should not presume that everyone has the same obsession. For example I don't know who HanzoSan is nor do I care. Most people don't fixate on slashdot people and stalk them like you do.
Yes, Slashdot means a lot while I'm at work. It's a fun way to start the day. There you go back to that stalking thing though, didn't I already prove you wrong. You really like to argue with reality and facts. You shouldn't do that, it's not healthy. But you should know HanzoSan, you guys could be great friends.
maybe one of your 300 slashdot friends can give me a prize or something. Maybe they will wait until you devestate me by putting an article about me on your journal. Surely once you have smitten me with your mighty journal entry weapon your horde of slashdot friends will come to lift you high on their shoulders and praise your name to the heavens!.
They'll just chuckle at you. It's entertainment, just to see how stupid you prove yourself to be. I think I already covered that it's just funny, at your expense. But you try to overglamourize it.
I will respons until friday. Then I have to leave the country for a couple of weeks but I'll pick it up again after I come back. I am sure you will fixate on somebody else to stalk while I am gone. Don't worry though I promise I'll be back.
Enjoy leaving your moms basement! I probably wont find anybody else to call an idiot and have them sit and listen because most people aren't that stupid. Only a very small percentage of people on here are actually as retarded as you. Keep up the good work.
I agree with you, and it just has to be brute force. If you compiled a game library of every possibility of every perfect game, the game of chess would be ruined. I think, for the sake of sportsmanship, chess computers should be isolated outside of books and into algorithmic strategies. That will yield a computer that can beat humans most of the time, but not all.
I still have trouble beating gnuchess, so I'm not that worried.
Well, that could apply to anything. I could bind /bin/sh to a port running as root via inetd, and that would be a big problem.
But you have to look at Apache allowing access, through ExecCGI outside of a chroot, etc. If a webserver were to be more secure, it would only run scripts from a unix socket (or some more modern approach) to a chroot jail. I've not seen anything like that in common practice though.
The 3rd highest vulnerability to Unix is Apache?
Yes, but not because of Apache. It's because of people who don't properly handle data coming in from the user, etc. It's a tool that is used most dangerously, most often.
That's just crazy. OpenSSL and OpenSSH are having lots more problems right now. And Bind? When was the last remotely exploitable problem with that?
I know there was one in Bind8 last year. I'm not sure of any more recent with 8 or 9, though.
I am glad to see that you finally admit that your whole point was some sort of a make believe fantasy.
What type of retard are you? Hypothetical situation == Make believe fantasy? Just because I said that the population of the world could fit in a land area the size of Texas and be less densely packed than Tokyo, you seem to try to combat this. These are facts. If you do the math, it works out that way.
Deal with it.
No she looks like a 12 year old boy. If it's not your uncle then whoever is in that picture is a closeted pedophile. He pretends that she is a 12 year old boy when having sex with her.
Uhm, this is just dumb. In so many different ways. It's sad that is the best you can do.
I didn't. I don't think she is hot. I think she looks like a 12 year old boy and I don't think 12 year old boys are hot. You keep saying she is hot so maybe you think 12 year old boys are hot.
Funny that she's been a model, then?
No adult would ever claim that 10KM square could support 17 million people or that a farm could exist importing only electricity.
A ranch. Ranch is different than a farm. I also said, "Maximum efficiency." It is perfectly feasible, but not with todays technology (as I've already pointed out.)
There are two types of people who say things are impossible: Those who understand the problem and fucking idiots. You are a fucking idiot.
But...
It's amusing watching you make shit up though. You are trying so desperately hard to win this whole thing when you don't realize that you already are a loser. Or... a winner. Of my "Find the biggest dumbass who will respond the longest" contest. I mean... you beat HanzoSan. Do you realize what that says about you? A lot. A whole lot.
Even though you are now in first, someone may beat you in the future. You are still retarded. I'll still respond and insult you, because you don't have to end it now. In fact, I don't think you will because you like to argue hypothetical situations as literal arguments.
Coming up: Ways to prove you are an idiot.
Lets take my girlfriend. She is a perfect example for the "Average Person." She doesn't understand a damned thing about computers. She wants to be able to write papers for school, send and receive email and IM, and visit webpages. She is also bilingual, being a native of Japan, so she needs to have Japanese and English language packs installed. In case you haven't used Japanese input, it's very different than latin input. You have to have a process that runs that turns what you type into a selection of possible kanjis. Linux performs better than Windows, and this is the assessment of several native Japanese people (including postdoc researchers.) It is also easier to setup.
My girlfriend has no issues with Linux, and it performs exceptionally well. She didn't like the margin layout in KDEs Office Program, so I switched to Open Office and she was happy. She liked the spell check there, too. I do everything, except play games, just as easily as a Windows user. I like to type, so I use consoles, but you don't need to anymore. It's perfectly easy to just point and click, like my girlfriend does. It just takes a bit longer to setup.
But, this isn't the point. The point is that Linux isn't designed to be a replacement for Windows. Linux is a free operating system, no more and no less. It's designed and functions as such. The desktop coders do a great job, and take a lot of innovative techniques by both Microsoft and Apple to catch-up. That's why people think Linux is trying to be a "Microsoft Killer." It simply isn't so.
This could only be a valid analogy if the 9/11 hijackers flew the American-made planes into Boeings headquarters.
You do realize that Kazaa has about 50 million more users than Linux does, right? That kind of blows your mentality out of the water. Also, Napster didn't run under Linux. It was ported by a guy to Linux, and Shawn Fanning flipped out on him. He didn't want his work "given away." So, what's your point on tieing this to the Linux ideology? There is a big difference between this, and people have copied music long before Stallman dreamed up the GPL.
I call it a communication protocol for distributing large files. I would love to see a P2P system that only allows DRM-enabled/activated media on it, just to validate the existence of P2P. I stand with Linus Torvalds on DRM, people have a right to protect their creative work under the licenses they choose. You can't compare Linux users to P2P users because not only do they overlap, but the biggest P2P client doesn't even work under Linux.
Ok, now this is where I take issue with your "reporting." You are aware that there was only a third of the source that was leaked. From that third, it was linked heavily and would only assist in cheating and only cheating. Providing client-side Linux binaries would require much more than what was released. There is no room for debate here. I could give the best coder in the world a third of the Windows GUI, and they couldn't make any of it run under Windows. The best one could do is find further ways to exploit Windows.
Yes, they do loathe their record companies. How is that different than loathing the RIAA? The RIAA is just the collective spokesman for the record companies. And please, we aren't dealing with stealing. The only thing that is being stolen is the exclusive right to distribute music at a profit. It's copyright infringement, so lets call it what it is. We don't need to resort to sensationalism in this debate. Yes, there is unauthorized taking of property, but in no way is anybody being deprived of that property. They still maintain copyright, they still maintain CD sales.
I wonder where you get these facts. One of the shows I really enjoy is Flex, on SpikeTV. I'm a car guy. Don't tell me it isn't profitable to be in the music industry, because the execs make the artists on Flex look like they work at McDonalds. What type of life does Rosen live? Go check it out, and then wonder why the music industry isn't profitable. You could go talk to CDBaby. I'll even relay your messages, their offices are a quick light rail ride away from me. The reason why music flops is because it sucks, not because it isn't a profitable industry.
He's piggybacking off of his songs that he wrote that are hits, because he's a talented song writer and had a great band. It's hard pressed to find any promotions that are done by him. He was a black guy, and he started when Black people didn't have front-line bands.
Funny, I can get my music played to thousands of people over netradio. It's even pretty cheap. You are defending an archaic business model that is proven not to work. Again, go check out CDBaby. They are well worth the time to investigate.
There are serious studies in the issue. Record companies are abusing their economics power, as well. They have even been busted in court for it. You need to investigate your claims a whole lot more, it's called "Price Fixing" and they are very guilty of it. Legal
To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in: debug a spacecraft before launch; debug a computer program.
Dumbass. Nothing was malfunctioning. It was functioning exactly as it should have been given the current configuration. However, the configuration needed to be updated to reflect a different setting.
At least you are posting AC so nobody can see how stupid you really are.
I posted another comment detailing the typical "howto" on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to make it legible. Now for the refute.
Trying to say that the Windows code has no problems is just absurd. Every software has problems (apologies Dr. Knuth), it's the degree of the mistakes that makes the difference. A very severe programming error will cause a computer to crash, as is demonstrated very often using older versions of Windows. You should talk with the sysadmins about the attacks from Windows boxes infected. I can post a week of server logs just showing the attacks for my site (which gets a few hundred hits) but Slashdot doesn't allow posts that long.
No, it makes it easy. This is exactly what Microsoft does. In Windows 98 you could by pass a "screensaver lock" by putting a CD with autorun enabled on it. If you make it easy for someone else to break into a product someone pays for, they have a right to be pissed off.
Yes, but that soldier is dead because he was dumb. It's not ok to shoot people. It's just plain stupid to go into combat where you are going to be shot out without protection. If you catch an STD from a whorehouse, people are going to wonder why you didn't use a condom. Same type of thing.
This is where you are wrong. Something is broken. Microsoft Windows is broken if it allows unauthorized entry that is not the fault of the user. If I leave my car unlocked, it's my fault. If I don't, and someone breaks a window to get in, it's their fault. With Windows, you don't need to break a window (that's a horrible sentence), you just need to jiggle the handle a certain way. It really is easy to break into a Windows box. You can bypass any security in a relatively trivial manner, even without physical access to the box. There is something wrong with that. Windows is more than lax. Windows doesn't have Iron Curtains. Windows has a welcome mat and a front door that doesn't lock properly and a rear entrance with an unlocking screendoor.
Spoken like someone who doesn't rely on interoperability for their job. I had a project bomb last week because IE has issues with SSL under certain circumstances. We have hundreds of customers who are no longer able to use our service because they upgraded to IE6. We use standards, that are approved internationally. This is why I dislike Microsoft. I think Mr. Gates is a shrewd business man, and while not always ethical, understands a lot more than anybody here will give him credit for. It doesn't excuse Microsoft for what he, and they, have done. They have been found guilty for antitrust practices. These are
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Assuming this is in fact Ed Stroligo, and you wish to debate me, you can also email me and I will post each email nicely formatted in my journal so it's "public."
A link to my journal thread is here.
Assuming you are actually Ed, which I don't have exact faith that you are, I'll give you a fair debate on your opinions.