Many of the world's poor live under the thumb of a small group of elitists who think they can help the poor through force.
You misunderstand capitalism. Most of the world's poor is now and has always been under the thumb of a small group of elitists who want to crush the poor and get richer by breaking their backs. Poverty to them isn't something that they want to rid the world of, it's something they want to exploit and exacerbate, if anything.
See also: Coal mines America in 1900, gold and diamond mines in Africa in the present, the ivory trade in the 19th century, the fur trade in the 18th century, the oil trade in the present, and so many more examples that I can't even begin to count them.
First they go to the tracker site itself. Then they go to their provider. Then they go to the provider upstream. And up, and up the chain until they reach someone who WILL yank the plug.
I'm afraid that they'll likely have to find someone who will yank the plug on Sweden before that happens. As TPB has pointed out, what they're doing isn't illegal in Sweden.
And a multi-homed provider indeed! That'll be a tough nut to crack...
That's not security. Even the most fascist, anal-retentive, destroy-before-reading organizations in the world wouldn't need security this tight (and it wouldn't be effective if it were). This is just insane. He was clearly making a point of being absurd.
We have guns too. Anyone can get one (assuming you have no criminal record, or schizophrenia), you just have to go through an expensive and aggravating process to have the right to own one.
But here's why having a gun in the house to protect yourself is a bad idea:
1) Most people notice that there's a criminal on the other side of the door only after said criminal has attacked them, meaning that it's a little late now, isn't it?
2) Assuming you're asleep and someone breaks in, you're likely to wake up with your gun in your face. And uh, it's a little late now, isn't it?
3) Guns do not kill. Bullets do not kill. It is a hard heart that kills. Giving a machine gun to a mouse does not make the mouse dangerous, while a sharp pencil is dangerous in the hands of a trained killer. If you have a weapon in a fight with some desperate crackhead, you're more likely to have that weapon used against you than you do of winning.
4) If you don't have the time to dial 911, what makes you think that you'll have the time to get your gun, load your gun, and use it to defend yourself? That's even assuming that you can manage it under extreme stress. You have a much better chance of surviving and recovering your stuff if you call for help instead of playing John McLean.
Moral of the story: buy a good lock, a steel doorframe, plastic film on your windows, and talk to strangers through the door. It works way better.
And apparently, you just don't care about actually telling the truth in your articles and serving the people who pay to subscribe to your magazine
Congratulations. You have just independently rediscovered the principle that you are not the customer. You are the *product*. *You* are sold to the advertiser. The advertiser is the customer who pays to make the magazine cheap.
And guess who the advertiser is in this case? That's right, the game publishers.
Of course, you could just stop reading the magazine if you don't like what the writers have to say and how they say it...
I don't know about the states, but around here when we say "home invasion", we mean "Kick in the door and beat the crap out of the residents so we can take their stuff."
It's a term they use in the criminal code too; it's not slang.
If Cisco plans to "invade" homes, they'll have to drop their IOS crap. Or at least develop a graphical management system.
If you'd remove your head from your ass for just a moment and google for "Cisco SOHO", you would find a myriad of devices like the Cisco SOHO 71, Cisco SOHO 90, Cisco 300, and many more that provide a web-based user interface.
Shaw also has a tendency towards blocking port 5051 on their network... *especially* if you buy their QoS service. They're trying to stamp out other people's VOIP on their network so that their shitty (and proprietary) offering can actually compete.
It is, of course, entirely possible that the cost will be worth it, due to the incresed productivity, reduced stress, and general worker well being. It's just not as straight forward as it may appear.
This implies of course, that employers give a rat's ass about their employees. If you had read the article, you would know that the widespread adoption of the cubicle is in fact a sign that they do not. Companies don't care about people, they care about money. Sometimes, the two coincide and as a result, employees are treated better, but mostly the only things that keep us from getting daily beatings are the law and organized labour.
I tried using OOo to make a graph of our pop server's drive usage, with a mathematical prediction of when it would be zero.
Well, OpenOffice's spreadsheet program doesn't even let you make a graph in a different window. You have to embed it in the spreadsheet itself. And moreover, no, it doesn't do extrapolations. This not only makes it useless for my particular application, but don't bother trying to use it for physics class either. I found Excel 2.0 (that's right) to be infinitely useful in that capacity however. I don't know where the OOo guys' heads are, but it doesn't seem to be in practicality.
As the election of GW Bush has already demonstrated, emotional and/or religious grounds work way better to get the masses to do anything than logical arguments do. Just like environmentalists cultivate the "awww, don't hurt the cute fuzzy animals!" line to get support from the public, these loonies are much more likely to garner support for their cause than we are by saying that it erodes our privacy. Privacy is already eroded to the point that we have CCTV cameras on every street corner, and cell phones that report our position on every hip, and we like it that way.
No, really. This is the way the world works. If you're not some kind of living-in-the-basement schizophrenic crackpot demanding that the world change to fit your screwed up worldview, and your revolution actually *works*, then of *course* you become the establishment. It happened to the Communists in Russia even in spite of themselves, it happened to the environmentalists, and it happened to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
There's a saying: "You can go from being a liberal to a conservative in 30 years without changing a single idea." It's so very true.
Oh no, you see, the question "Compiling, what's that?" comes after the answer to the first question, which is "How do I install this new program?"
Of course, if you want to pretend that RPM is the answer, then the questions "what is a dependency?" and "I have to install *how* many?" get asked real quick like.
If FreeBSD or Debian is your answer, then questions like "Why is taking so long? It didn't take windows this long to install software" get asked.
Unless, of course, you're the sysadmin whose sole responsibility is to say "let me do that."
No, really. To say that your bit of software won't suck, or doesn't suck, is outrageously arrogant at best, and an outright lie as per usual. If you admit that your software sucks, then maybe you're on the first step to the path towards less suckage. But if you only grudgingly admit that your software sucks, and only as a marketing platform for shilling the next version, then you are not on that path, and you will never be on that path.
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Many of the world's poor live under the thumb of a small group of elitists who think they can help the poor through force.
You misunderstand capitalism. Most of the world's poor is now and has always been under the thumb of a small group of elitists who want to crush the poor and get richer by breaking their backs. Poverty to them isn't something that they want to rid the world of, it's something they want to exploit and exacerbate, if anything.
See also: Coal mines America in 1900, gold and diamond mines in Africa in the present, the ivory trade in the 19th century, the fur trade in the 18th century, the oil trade in the present, and so many more examples that I can't even begin to count them.
Useless findings after useless findings are boring people to death.
No, this is just an indicator that you're a moron.
I mean, how can you resist? The cover art is so much larger, the sound is so much more authentic, and the smell of freshly-cut vinyl...
First they go to the tracker site itself.
Then they go to their provider.
Then they go to the provider upstream.
And up, and up the chain until they reach someone who WILL yank the plug.
I'm afraid that they'll likely have to find someone who will yank the plug on Sweden before that happens. As TPB has pointed out, what they're doing isn't illegal in Sweden.
And a multi-homed provider indeed! That'll be a tough nut to crack...
You have just missed the fact that I paid for that magazine
Did you? How much did you pay? How many ads are in that magazine?
Now, go buy a copy of Adbusters. How much did you pay? How many ads are in that magazine?
See the difference? That difference is exactly the amount of money that you keep for the privilege of being the product.
That's not security. Even the most fascist, anal-retentive, destroy-before-reading organizations in the world wouldn't need security this tight (and it wouldn't be effective if it were). This is just insane. He was clearly making a point of being absurd.
Here in the States, we have guns
We have guns too. Anyone can get one (assuming you have no criminal record, or schizophrenia), you just have to go through an expensive and aggravating process to have the right to own one.
But here's why having a gun in the house to protect yourself is a bad idea:
1) Most people notice that there's a criminal on the other side of the door only after said criminal has attacked them, meaning that it's a little late now, isn't it?
2) Assuming you're asleep and someone breaks in, you're likely to wake up with your gun in your face. And uh, it's a little late now, isn't it?
3) Guns do not kill. Bullets do not kill. It is a hard heart that kills. Giving a machine gun to a mouse does not make the mouse dangerous, while a sharp pencil is dangerous in the hands of a trained killer. If you have a weapon in a fight with some desperate crackhead, you're more likely to have that weapon used against you than you do of winning.
4) If you don't have the time to dial 911, what makes you think that you'll have the time to get your gun, load your gun, and use it to defend yourself? That's even assuming that you can manage it under extreme stress. You have a much better chance of surviving and recovering your stuff if you call for help instead of playing John McLean.
Moral of the story: buy a good lock, a steel doorframe, plastic film on your windows, and talk to strangers through the door. It works way better.
And apparently, you just don't care about actually telling the truth in your articles and serving the people who pay to subscribe to your magazine
Congratulations. You have just independently rediscovered the principle that you are not the customer. You are the *product*. *You* are sold to the advertiser. The advertiser is the customer who pays to make the magazine cheap.
And guess who the advertiser is in this case? That's right, the game publishers.
Of course, you could just stop reading the magazine if you don't like what the writers have to say and how they say it...
I don't know about the states, but around here when we say "home invasion", we mean "Kick in the door and beat the crap out of the residents so we can take their stuff."
It's a term they use in the criminal code too; it's not slang.
If Cisco plans to "invade" homes, they'll have to drop their IOS crap. Or at least develop a graphical management system.
If you'd remove your head from your ass for just a moment and google for "Cisco SOHO", you would find a myriad of devices like the Cisco SOHO 71, Cisco SOHO 90, Cisco 300, and many more that provide a web-based user interface.
They've been doing this for years too.
Shaw also has a tendency towards blocking port 5051 on their network... *especially* if you buy their QoS service. They're trying to stamp out other people's VOIP on their network so that their shitty (and proprietary) offering can actually compete.
I don't know how my cubemates could stand it.
You should talk to them more. They probably can't.
It is, of course, entirely possible that the cost will be worth it, due to the incresed productivity, reduced stress, and general worker well being. It's just not as straight forward as it may appear.
This implies of course, that employers give a rat's ass about their employees. If you had read the article, you would know that the widespread adoption of the cubicle is in fact a sign that they do not. Companies don't care about people, they care about money. Sometimes, the two coincide and as a result, employees are treated better, but mostly the only things that keep us from getting daily beatings are the law and organized labour.
I wasn't aware of her Trekkie tendencies for several months. Finding out about them changed nothing.
Yes, but you're a geek. If you were a Republican, it would have ended the relationship.
"Some of the chart features in OOo are convoluted and hidden. Some may find it annoying, and others may find it surprisingly enriching."
s/some/most/g
I dunno, but I'm pretty sure it's been slashdotted:
Mon 7 March 2006 8:45 AM CST
Welcome, slashdot.
Can anyone verify if they've changed the webpage to support the load?
I tried using OOo to make a graph of our pop server's drive usage, with a mathematical prediction of when it would be zero.
Well, OpenOffice's spreadsheet program doesn't even let you make a graph in a different window. You have to embed it in the spreadsheet itself. And moreover, no, it doesn't do extrapolations. This not only makes it useless for my particular application, but don't bother trying to use it for physics class either. I found Excel 2.0 (that's right) to be infinitely useful in that capacity however. I don't know where the OOo guys' heads are, but it doesn't seem to be in practicality.
As the election of GW Bush has already demonstrated, emotional and/or religious grounds work way better to get the masses to do anything than logical arguments do. Just like environmentalists cultivate the "awww, don't hurt the cute fuzzy animals!" line to get support from the public, these loonies are much more likely to garner support for their cause than we are by saying that it erodes our privacy. Privacy is already eroded to the point that we have CCTV cameras on every street corner, and cell phones that report our position on every hip, and we like it that way.
You mean they they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand?!?!
Aaaaaah!
Only a week? We'll probably have it a week before the release date...
No, really. This is the way the world works. If you're not some kind of living-in-the-basement schizophrenic crackpot demanding that the world change to fit your screwed up worldview, and your revolution actually *works*, then of *course* you become the establishment. It happened to the Communists in Russia even in spite of themselves, it happened to the environmentalists, and it happened to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
There's a saying: "You can go from being a liberal to a conservative in 30 years without changing a single idea." It's so very true.
I was going to say that, but you said it so much better. Thanks!
I think that nothing has really changed, since spammers don't actually target anyone. They just carpet-nuke everyone on the planet with impunity.
And 90% spam isn't unusual. Only if it's getting *past* your filters, although the article seems to suggest that there aren't any.
Oh no, you see, the question "Compiling, what's that?" comes after the answer to the first question, which is "How do I install this new program?"
Of course, if you want to pretend that RPM is the answer, then the questions "what is a dependency?" and "I have to install *how* many?" get asked real quick like.
If FreeBSD or Debian is your answer, then questions like "Why is taking so long? It didn't take windows this long to install software" get asked.
Unless, of course, you're the sysadmin whose sole responsibility is to say "let me do that."
Thus, the point of my post.
No, really. To say that your bit of software won't suck, or doesn't suck, is outrageously arrogant at best, and an outright lie as per usual. If you admit that your software sucks, then maybe you're on the first step to the path towards less suckage. But if you only grudgingly admit that your software sucks, and only as a marketing platform for shilling the next version, then you are not on that path, and you will never be on that path.