>>>I sat next to someone who had a pornographic picture
Was it really pornographic, or just a naked person? Many people don't consider the human body something to be ashamed of, and therefore no reason to hide it, or not include it on their personal desktop.
The more of these stories I hear about people losing jobs because of browsing history, the more convinced I am that workers should simply delete the web browser off their computers. It can be reinstalled later if you need it for work (which most people don't).
I'm betting Governor Schwarzenegger wouldn't care enough to issue that extradition order. In fact he might even side with Childs (hypothetically hiding in the northeast) and slap-down the SF Mayor for being a dick.
There's also the possibility that the Northeast State would protect the citizen from extradition. That is what happened during the slavery days when states refused to return escaped blacks and instead gave them asylum (i.e. they used nullification of the US Fugitive Slave Act).
That's true, but it's for the voters to decide if the boss is being an idiot (and fire him), not the cogs in the machine (i.e. the bureaucrats and admins). Their job is to obey and hand-over the keys to the leadership.
How well do you think it would go-over if my FAA boss said, "I need a copy of your audits so I can submit a report to Congress," and I said, "No." That's simply not my job to act in such a manner. My job is to obey the chain of command. Or quit. Those are my options.
(1) Childs was wrong. You don't withhold passwords from your employer. It's his property, and he's allowed to be an idiot with his own property.
(2) Having been convicted, I would have run away. There are a lot of decent IT jobs in the Northeast..... almost 3000 miles away from the SF Government's reach. No different than running from Spain to Poland to start a new life.
Does it have a built-in dictionary to redline my mis-spelled typos? Does it allow addons like WOT or NoScript? Does it have anything like Opera Turbo for slow dialup/wireless connections, or Opera Link to store bookmarks online and unify all your favorites across the Desktop, Laptop, and Cellphone? Does it have a built-in newsgroup and email client like seaMonkey has? Does IE have any compelling reason for my going back to it?
No.
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993) 17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993) 16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994) 16 years - IBMwebExplorer for OS/2 PC (October 1994) 16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
Maybe his acting skill in seaQuest..... no he wasn't any good in the either. Hmmmm. No I'm sorry but I agree with the Grandparent Poster. Hamill never was a good actor. He did a good job portraying himself in the first three Wars movies, but never expanded beyond that. None of them did except Harrison Ford.
>>>If you want a compelling story line that tugs your heartstrings, sci-fi isn't where to look
Obviously you've never seen Babylon 5, which has literally had me in tears, or vice-versa on the edge of my seat wondering if the station would blow up. Some of the better episodes of Deep Space Nine also pulled on your heartstrings, like the episode where Captain Sisko died and his son had to grow-up without a father. A couple Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes also fit the bill.
Your sentence demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the genre.
>>>the big centrally-planned grim tech-socialist future imagined by the downbeat SF of the 1970s - Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes
Those things were offset by daily reruns of the optimistic Star Trek. Yeah I know you're thinking, 'But that's a 60s show' which is true but most of Trek's fans didn't discover it until the 1970s (including me). It was one of those shows that nobody watched originally, but then fell in love with during the 6 or 7 o'clock reruns.
I am judging it based upon the present (2010), ignoring the special effects (which are dated but not Lucas' fault), and focusing on its story, dialogue, and themes and how they compare to other science fiction universes like Foundation or Man Who Sold the Moon or Babylon 5 or Star Trek or Stargate. It's on the bottom of the pile. It's pulp.
And that's why I rate it as slightly better than the early 2000s prequel trilogy, but not really any different. Both share the same lack of depth. Both are ultimately unsatisfying for the intellect.
>>>Do they do knowingly do it habitually with forethought and malice?
Yes. When the MSNBC producer tells the video editor to cut-off the head of the black guy, and then overlaps that video with "white racist" in the voiceover, it's obviously down forethought and malice.
It's propaganda. There's no other word that applies.
>>>Using the same password on social sites and email
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon..... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, if I had known I would not have done that. .
My main fear is that my credentials are hanging-around on some ancient 90s website that I've long forgot about, it gets hacked, and my password gets out there for scammers to use. That would suck.
- It won't let me friend people that I know from the distant past (like the BBS days). It says "Do you know this user personally? To prevent misuse of Facebook, this request can't be sent." In many cases I can't even send a private message to the person.
I'll post it on facebook. Seriously. When does the big Two-Oh happen? 2012?
Meanwhile Commodore=64 GEOS, Amiga, Atari ST, and Windows OS are celebrating their 25th this year. MS-DOS is now over-the-hill at 30 (things not as firm... not as perky as they used to be).
Uh.... yes.... "God Squad" is this guy's parody of Geek Squad. It's tongue-in-cheek humor and just as protected as mickeysoft.com or PearPods or payenemy
>>>If they were "reputable" would they be burning people with "lifetime" warranties? >>>BFG can't have it both ways. You can't be "reputable" and "crooked" at the same time.
I have a feeling BFG is not being dishonest..... just not able to honor due to financial near-bankruptcy. It's similar to how I mailed a dollar to renew my Atari Age magazine in 1984, but Atari was unable to fulfill the order because Atari was billions in debt. Apple did the same thing in 1996 when they were in similar dire straits.
As for the customers, it sucks, but there are ways to FORCE corporations to do the right thing (i.e. honor warranty and replace your broken card). Here's what I would do. And don't give me crap about illegality - speeding, smoking dope, and not honoring warranties is illegal too:
- Buy a brand-new graphics card from BFG. - Return the old card with delivery confirmation. - Wait 1 month. - File a credit card dispute after the one month mark, explaining that they sold you defective product, you returned it, and you'd like a refund. Please and thank you. - - And yes two wrongs do make a right. It's why we commit the wrong of locking people in jail. I am sick and tired of corporations walking over the citizens as if they were just ants to be crushed.
Yeah the logo is similar but parodies have been ruled as protected speech by the Supreme Court. Best Buy's lawsuit would get thrown-out.
Normally I'd say "Fuck you Best Buy," but I think "Smite thee!" might be more appropriate. It is unwise to mess with the Creator of the universe. Even megacorps are not that powerful.
>>>Firefox came out with many very usable, relatively stable point releases that I was using as my regular web browser long before it was at 1.0
Well I was using Netscape 6 which was using the Mozilla 0.6 core, and it was faaar from stable. It rendered everything well, but was prone to random crashes. The core was then updated to Mozilla 0.9, and it improved but still not ready. I can't imagine that Firefox with the 0.6 or 0.9 cores would be any better.
That's been my experience. Opera X 10.0 was okay, but something went wrong with 10.5. When I'm running it, Opera uses more memory than Firefox 3.5 on my Windows PC. I've also noticed an annoying Opera habit where it loads 99% of the page and then never finished, especially on pages with lots of scripts.
>>>Cool... we can go to web pages! >>>Eh, I like Netscape better.
Funny but not entirely accurate. Mosaic was the #1 browser of the day (1993-94), followed by Netscape which maintained its #1 spot until 1999 when Microsoft finally surpassed them.
Here's my own personal history: - Mosaic for Amiga 500 (1993) - Awesome. It's like a BBS but worldwide. Or Usenet with pictures. Wish I had something faster than a 2 kbit/s modem. - - Netscape? No I'm sticking with Mosaic. - What's that? Netscape was written by the Mosaic guys? Okay I'll try it. - Microsoft has a web browser? Hahahahaha. - - Mozilla Netscape 6 - wow this is pretty bad, but IE 5 sucks worse. - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - yay! And of course IE6 is still the suck. - Whaddya mean I "have" to use IE at work? Why won't you let me install Firefox? Frak. (I have tried every IE ever released but the only one I ever used was IE6, and only because the boss forces me to.)
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993) 17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993) 16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994) 16 years - IBMwebExplorer for OS/2 PC (October 1994) 16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
I still use XP and have zero problems with it. I don't understand people who say it's "unusable" unless it's because they are looking for T&A..... ooops I mean special effects. I always turn that trash off, because it slows down the responsiveness of the computer and really serves no purpose. As for support: Microsoft has no choice - businesses demand long term support for their products. .
>>>>>IE's improved quite a bit recently...
Does it have a built-in dictionary to redline my mis-spelled typos? Does it allow addons like WOT or NoScript? Does it have anything like Opera Turbo for slow dialup/wireless connections, or Opera Link to store bookmarks online and unify all your favorites across the Desktop, Laptop, and Cellphone? Does it have a built-in newsgroup and email client like seaMonkey has? Does IE have any compelling reason for my going back to it?
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993) 17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993) 16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994) 16 years - WebExplorer for OS/2 IBM PC (October 1994) 16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
>>>Why do you assume that he assumes only FOX News spews propaganda?
Because almost all of the people who are skewering FOX News, when I ask them, "Do you think FOX is the only channel on TV guilty of propaganda?" say yes. Which is naive' because (MS)NBC is just as guilty, as are all the other channels albeit to a lesser degree (yes even PBS).
But there you see the key difference between FNC & MSNBC... FNC clearly draws a line between it's reporters & commentators while MSNBC does not.
Don't believe me? Look back to the 2008 presidential debates. Did you ever see Beck, O'Reilly, or Hannity (ie commentators) acting as a moderator or questioner during any debate? I do seem to recall Olbermann & Mathews doing so though while nearly simultaneously rooting for specific candidates. Nothing of that kind was seen from FNC reporters.
Excellent point. I never noticed but will pay more attention in the future.
I was also rather surprised to see Web of Trust (WOT) flag foxnews.com with tons of red marks. I installed this add-on to protect me from spyware and vicious scripts, not to block sites that some people don't like.:-( Meanwhile MSNBC which spews just as much propaganda as FOX had no red marks.:-|
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>>>I sat next to someone who had a pornographic picture
Was it really pornographic, or just a naked person? Many people don't consider the human body something to be ashamed of, and therefore no reason to hide it, or not include it on their personal desktop.
The more of these stories I hear about people losing jobs because of browsing history, the more convinced I am that workers should simply delete the web browser off their computers. It can be reinstalled later if you need it for work (which most people don't).
I'm betting Governor Schwarzenegger wouldn't care enough to issue that extradition order. In fact he might even side with Childs (hypothetically hiding in the northeast) and slap-down the SF Mayor for being a dick.
There's also the possibility that the Northeast State would protect the citizen from extradition. That is what happened during the slavery days when states refused to return escaped blacks and instead gave them asylum (i.e. they used nullification of the US Fugitive Slave Act).
That's true, but it's for the voters to decide if the boss is being an idiot (and fire him), not the cogs in the machine (i.e. the bureaucrats and admins). Their job is to obey and hand-over the keys to the leadership.
How well do you think it would go-over if my FAA boss said, "I need a copy of your audits so I can submit a report to Congress," and I said, "No." That's simply not my job to act in such a manner. My job is to obey the chain of command. Or quit. Those are my options.
(1) Childs was wrong. You don't withhold passwords from your employer. It's his property, and he's allowed to be an idiot with his own property.
(2) Having been convicted, I would have run away. There are a lot of decent IT jobs in the Northeast..... almost 3000 miles away from the SF Government's reach. No different than running from Spain to Poland to start a new life.
>>>IE's improved quite a bit recently...
Does it have a built-in dictionary to redline my mis-spelled typos? Does it allow addons like WOT or NoScript? Does it have anything like Opera Turbo for slow dialup/wireless connections, or Opera Link to store bookmarks online and unify all your favorites across the Desktop, Laptop, and Cellphone? Does it have a built-in newsgroup and email client like seaMonkey has? Does IE have any compelling reason for my going back to it?
No.
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993)
17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993)
16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994)
16 years - IBMwebExplorer for OS/2 PC (October 1994)
16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
Or his stunning acting in Wing Commander.
No wait... bad example.
Maybe his acting skill in seaQuest..... no he wasn't any good in the either. Hmmmm. No I'm sorry but I agree with the Grandparent Poster. Hamill never was a good actor. He did a good job portraying himself in the first three Wars movies, but never expanded beyond that. None of them did except Harrison Ford.
>>>If you want a compelling story line that tugs your heartstrings, sci-fi isn't where to look
Obviously you've never seen Babylon 5, which has literally had me in tears, or vice-versa on the edge of my seat wondering if the station would blow up. Some of the better episodes of Deep Space Nine also pulled on your heartstrings, like the episode where Captain Sisko died and his son had to grow-up without a father. A couple Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes also fit the bill.
Your sentence demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the genre.
>>>the big centrally-planned grim tech-socialist future imagined by the downbeat SF of the 1970s - Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes
Those things were offset by daily reruns of the optimistic Star Trek. Yeah I know you're thinking, 'But that's a 60s show' which is true but most of Trek's fans didn't discover it until the 1970s (including me). It was one of those shows that nobody watched originally, but then fell in love with during the 6 or 7 o'clock reruns.
I see. You are judging Star Wars based upon 1977.
I am judging it based upon the present (2010), ignoring the special effects (which are dated but not Lucas' fault), and focusing on its story, dialogue, and themes and how they compare to other science fiction universes like Foundation or Man Who Sold the Moon or Babylon 5 or Star Trek or Stargate. It's on the bottom of the pile. It's pulp.
And that's why I rate it as slightly better than the early 2000s prequel trilogy, but not really any different. Both share the same lack of depth. Both are ultimately unsatisfying for the intellect.
>>>Do they do knowingly do it habitually with forethought and malice?
Yes. When the MSNBC producer tells the video editor to cut-off the head of the black guy, and then overlaps that video with "white racist" in the voiceover, it's obviously down forethought and malice.
It's propaganda. There's no other word that applies.
+1 informative.
I had no idea Opera has its own memory caching. Perhaps if I turned that off, it would run much better.
>>>Using the same password on social sites and email
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon..... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, if I had known I would not have done that.
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My main fear is that my credentials are hanging-around on some ancient 90s website that I've long forgot about, it gets hacked, and my password gets out there for scammers to use. That would suck.
I just discovered a new "feature" on Facebook
- It won't let me friend people that I know from the distant past (like the BBS days). It says "Do you know this user personally? To prevent misuse of Facebook, this request can't be sent." In many cases I can't even send a private message to the person.
This clip was in yesterday's Slashdot story about Star Wars Bluray.
Been there. Done that.
Seen the clip and saved it to dh0:
Oh and here's your rickroll - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCCU8kl864
I'll post it on facebook. Seriously. When does the big Two-Oh happen? 2012?
Meanwhile Commodore=64 GEOS, Amiga, Atari ST, and Windows OS are celebrating their 25th this year. MS-DOS is now over-the-hill at 30 (things not as firm... not as perky as they used to be).
Uh.... yes.... "God Squad" is this guy's parody of Geek Squad. It's tongue-in-cheek humor and just as protected as mickeysoft.com or PearPods or payenemy
>>>If they were "reputable" would they be burning people with "lifetime" warranties?
>>>BFG can't have it both ways. You can't be "reputable" and "crooked" at the same time.
I have a feeling BFG is not being dishonest..... just not able to honor due to financial near-bankruptcy. It's similar to how I mailed a dollar to renew my Atari Age magazine in 1984, but Atari was unable to fulfill the order because Atari was billions in debt. Apple did the same thing in 1996 when they were in similar dire straits.
As for the customers, it sucks, but there are ways to FORCE corporations to do the right thing (i.e. honor warranty and replace your broken card). Here's what I would do. And don't give me crap about illegality - speeding, smoking dope, and not honoring warranties is illegal too:
- Buy a brand-new graphics card from BFG.
- Return the old card with delivery confirmation.
- Wait 1 month.
- File a credit card dispute after the one month mark, explaining that they sold you defective product, you returned it, and you'd like a refund. Please and thank you.
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- And yes two wrongs do make a right. It's why we commit the wrong of locking people in jail. I am sick and tired of corporations walking over the citizens as if they were just ants to be crushed.
Yeah the logo is similar but parodies have been ruled as protected speech by the Supreme Court. Best Buy's lawsuit would get thrown-out.
Normally I'd say "Fuck you Best Buy," but I think "Smite thee!" might be more appropriate. It is unwise to mess with the Creator of the universe. Even megacorps are not that powerful.
>>>Firefox came out with many very usable, relatively stable point releases that I was using as my regular web browser long before it was at 1.0
Well I was using Netscape 6 which was using the Mozilla 0.6 core, and it was faaar from stable. It rendered everything well, but was prone to random crashes. The core was then updated to Mozilla 0.9, and it improved but still not ready. I can't imagine that Firefox with the 0.6 or 0.9 cores would be any better.
>>Opera should NOT be used on low-end machines.
That's been my experience. Opera X 10.0 was okay, but something went wrong with 10.5. When I'm running it, Opera uses more memory than Firefox 3.5 on my Windows PC. I've also noticed an annoying Opera habit where it loads 99% of the page and then never finished, especially on pages with lots of scripts.
Still better than IE. Oh and here's the direct link to the memory usage of each browser: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opera-chrome-firefox,2689-10.html
>>>Cool... we can go to web pages!
>>>Eh, I like Netscape better.
Funny but not entirely accurate. Mosaic was the #1 browser of the day (1993-94), followed by Netscape which maintained its #1 spot until 1999 when Microsoft finally surpassed them.
Here's my own personal history:
- Mosaic for Amiga 500 (1993)
- Awesome. It's like a BBS but worldwide. Or Usenet with pictures. Wish I had something faster than a 2 kbit/s modem.
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- Netscape? No I'm sticking with Mosaic.
- What's that? Netscape was written by the Mosaic guys? Okay I'll try it.
- Microsoft has a web browser? Hahahahaha.
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- Mozilla Netscape 6 - wow this is pretty bad, but IE 5 sucks worse.
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - yay! And of course IE6 is still the suck.
- Whaddya mean I "have" to use IE at work? Why won't you let me install Firefox? Frak. (I have tried every IE ever released but the only one I ever used was IE6, and only because the boss forces me to.)
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993)
17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993)
16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994)
16 years - IBMwebExplorer for OS/2 PC (October 1994)
16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
I still use XP and have zero problems with it. I don't understand people who say it's "unusable" unless it's because they are looking for T&A..... ooops I mean special effects. I always turn that trash off, because it slows down the responsiveness of the computer and really serves no purpose. As for support: Microsoft has no choice - businesses demand long term support for their products.
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>>>>>IE's improved quite a bit recently...
Does it have a built-in dictionary to redline my mis-spelled typos? Does it allow addons like WOT or NoScript? Does it have anything like Opera Turbo for slow dialup/wireless connections, or Opera Link to store bookmarks online and unify all your favorites across the Desktop, Laptop, and Cellphone? Does it have a built-in newsgroup and email client like seaMonkey has? Does IE have any compelling reason for my going back to it?
TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:
17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993)
17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993)
16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)
16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994)
16 years - WebExplorer for OS/2 IBM PC (October 1994)
16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)
OH Noes!
(obligatory anim GIF) http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/greatcapp/oh-noes-everybody-panic.gif
I never listen to those "check out this new feature" ads.
Invariably you have to hop through hoops. It's never free.
>>>Why do you assume that he assumes only FOX News spews propaganda?
Because almost all of the people who are skewering FOX News, when I ask them, "Do you think FOX is the only channel on TV guilty of propaganda?" say yes. Which is naive' because (MS)NBC is just as guilty, as are all the other channels albeit to a lesser degree (yes even PBS).
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But there you see the key difference between FNC & MSNBC... FNC clearly draws a line between it's reporters & commentators while MSNBC does not.
Don't believe me? Look back to the 2008 presidential debates. Did you ever see Beck, O'Reilly, or Hannity (ie commentators) acting as a moderator or questioner during any debate? I do seem to recall Olbermann & Mathews doing so though while nearly simultaneously rooting for specific candidates. Nothing of that kind was seen from FNC reporters.
Excellent point. I never noticed but will pay more attention in the future.
I was also rather surprised to see Web of Trust (WOT) flag foxnews.com with tons of red marks. I installed this add-on to protect me from spyware and vicious scripts, not to block sites that some people don't like. :-( Meanwhile MSNBC which spews just as much propaganda as FOX had no red marks. :-|