What will be the next step after we detect a signal?
The world descends into madness because the majority of the people out there realize that their world view of man being the only intelligent life in the universe just got crushed. Glad I got my guns!
It is simply too early to tell. Most of us are locked into contracts and are simply waiting for them to expire. I say, give it about 6 months and check back, not days. I know as soon as my Verizon account contract dies, I am going to look real hard and see what is out there.
Americans limit Sex in the media while the Europeans limit violence.
After World War II, the Europeans sought to limit imagery of violence for their own reasons (War, genocide and all that.) while the Americans, being based on a Puritanical roots wanted to limit imagery of Sex. So if you can't have one, you have the other. The Europeans see Sex, and the Americans see Violence and neither see the other. Kind of lame, I would rather see sex on TV than violence.
Depends. I worked at a place that used 6 Proc with 4 Gigs of memory systems that had 20 to 30 heavy users at any one time. We were using the 2.4.9 Redhat kernel and the machines would crash after 3 or 4 days. Considering we had 300 or 400 machines, you can take a guess what oncall was like. Well, I took a couple of the mid-level problem ones and replace the kernels with 2.4.18 release canidates (I played with the patches) and they did not crash for several weeks afterwards. Some servers never went down unless we rebooted them. Sometimes using beta stuff will save your ass, but as a general rule of thumb, your right, it can be bad.
Alright, I always thought Schumer was stupid weak minded liberal who thinks government can solve all of life's woes, but this proves it: "It's not going to solve all the problems, but it's the first real step," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "The public is demanding something. It's going to happen. We're going to get it done." Okay, spam is not a government problem, it is a technical problem and no amount of praying or laws (Smart or dumb) are going to solve the problems of spam. Now here is the list why: 1) Most spam that ends up in U.S. mailboxes comes from overseas, so no US law is going to stop that. 2) Spam actually works on an economic level, if it did not, then no one would spam. Spammers spam, because spam works. Destroy the profitiblity of spamming and spam will go away. 3) Spamming is easy. Make it so addresses can not be spoofed, email headers can't be forged and MX records have to match up with A records (All those modem pool modems would not be able to send because no will accept mail from a machine that does not have an correct MX record). I think if you fixed this, then a lot of the spam would just go away.
"If this was a rich country, it wouldn't matter and we could buy Microsoft products, but we're a developing country and Linux is just a lot more accessible, so we're heading toward a Linux generation."
It is this attitude that probably got them in to the problems they are in now and it is the attitude that got California in the problems it has now. When the State is flush with cash, you still have to find ways to save money. Just because the State has money, it does not mean it should spend it. It should return it to the people who gave it really belongs to, the Tax Payers. Run Linux, save money, lower taxes. Sounds like a good combination to me.
With hundreds of channels of entertainment, from the Disney Channel to HBO, to keep them occupied, they're silent. "It's like you don't even have them. You can baby-sit and drive at the same time,'' Montag said.
Am I the only America left that thinks this is gross? I pulled up next to a Lincoln Navigator, the other day, that had TWO flat panel screens in it and they were both on watching TV. Now, this seems like a great idea to keep the kids nice and quite, but how does a kid see the world while on a road trip? If I am going to haul the kids and wife off to a National or State Park, they are to be looking out the windows and not watching DVD movie or some Cartoon. I can't imagine how this is good for America's kids. Should we just surrender to the terrorists now since the future generations will have a attention span to short to track Al-Qaeda down?
I'm 32 and you know what, my TV watching habit has been limited for one reason; it sucks. I have limited time that fails between work, personal projects, and family/friends. Online Games gets it since that is what I enjoy the most between the two.
What this guy is failing to note is that in people's free time, they will gravitate to what is the most entertaining for their limited time/dollar. Right now, that is video games. When TV gets better, people will return, until then they will stick to Games.
This is a pure stupid politics pandering to the dumb. Stopping spam is a pure technical issue. Redesigning the SMTP protocol is the only way to fix this issue. Making it so that the From: addresses has to match to the MX record that sends the mail is going to fix a lot. Passing a bill in any country to ban spam without technical improvements will do nothing.
This is a massive fallacy if ever I've heard one. On my Gentoo system, a 1.3 GHz Duron (which far from even mid-end these days), I'm running Gnome 2.4 (bloated as it is), chatting with friends in Gaim, compiling kde-libs/k3b and The Gimp in my F1/F2 terminals, browsing the Web in Firebird, reading email in Evolution, while another xnested Gnome session sits in the background burning a CD image from an NFS mount (too lazy to add my user to the cd-recording group, sue me) in gcombust and a Windows server at work defragments in tsclient. Thanks to the preemptive kernel scheduler patch which Gentoo distributes in their genkernel, this system is still entirely responsive.
The sad thing about FreeBSD is that the only way it could promote itself, in the past, was to make false claims about the Linux Memory manager or Scheduler. I would rarely here FreeBSD people talk about FreeBSD without saying first, "Linux sucks" or "Linux is not stable" or "Linux MM is no good". Its users' were promoting their OS by tearing down another, which is a bad move, IMHO.
Now, I am seeing FreeBSD users jumping on the SCO bandwagon and claiming the GPL is bad, and the BSD License is the only way to go.
It is really sad to a good OS like FreeBSD try to build itself on false Linux claims.
I'm at my second company that uses Remedy and it's value is only as useful as the people who use it.
The first company that used it was a 5000 employee company and Rememdy was pretty good. Most people knew not to screw around with assigning tickets to someone else knowing they would assign it to the correct people. They knew not "ping pong" their tickets. The company had a Remedy management/programmer team that knew what they were doing and actually had one guy that maintained tight control of the groups, their requests, request types and subreqests. In other words, it was pretty brainless to assign a ticket to the correct person. I think it worked pretty well and it was easy to fix problems with Remedy.
The second company I'm at is a 100,000 person company and completely different story. The problem is, that it is excepted that people can just assign tickets to someone they think might know where to assign the ticket. Yep, that's right, "ping ponging" tickets like you would not believe. I have had a number of cases where someone in, say, London will assign a ticket to someone in San Jose, Calfornia, just because they might know who the correct person is on that site for their problem.
So my whole point is, your tracking problem system is only as good as the people who use it and code it.
I know a number of people who own and run Small Businesses and being a technical type, I have helped a number of them with their software and hardware problems. Well, I'll bust the bubble on MS and Small Business, hardly anyone in small business pays for their software. About 95% of the software I see in Small Business is pirated. Open Source may not be making huge inroads to small business, but MS is not making money off them either. If MS had a sure fire way to stop people from pirating their software, Open Source would be 75% of the Small Business software within two or three years (The Life of MS software life cycle).
This is our stadium and we run the communcations for it.
Tell it to the FCC. They control the airwaves in your little stadium, not you.
And on top of that, the people own that stadium since it was built with tax dollars. This guy at the stadium is a typical arogant clueless idoit who is employed to benefit the people not themselves.
I'll sum up why the music biz is taking such a hit: "you can't put shine on shit."
There is no good new music out there. Period. It's all a rip-off of something else, which sucked.
CD's are over priced. I wanted to buy a older CD (Metalica's, Ride the Lighting) and it was $14. Come on, that album came out 20 years ago, why so much?
Amazon.com and other like online sellers are killing these companies. Why? I can sit at home and order new, used and hard to find CD's, DVD, books and more. Why drag my ass out to Tower Records (Which always plays the worse music on the store's stereo system) and pay too much for music and DVD's.
The music biz business model is not working in todays market, so they'll blame pirates. Make a good product and sell it at a fair price.
No, King Philp Came Over For Good Sex is my personal favorite.
I had the worst time remembering KPCOFGS in the 10th grade. Then this nice girl (One of those nice never does anything wrong girls) leaned over and said in my ear "King Philip Came Over For Good Sex". After I stopped giggling and blushing I never forgot it. Some things you never forget because of who tells you it.
Now that I think about it, maybe she was telling me more than KPCOFGS.
When you're at work you're acting as an agent of your employer. You should always go through your proper chain of command until the situation is resolved. The last step in the chain being law enforcement.
Bullshit. You have a responsibility to society that goes beyond any contract you have with your employer. If you find out that someone is doing that is extremely harmful to society, you must turn them in. If you do not drawn a line on what is permissible and what is not, then anyone can do anything, including acts that are very harmful to children. You are simply just hiding behind a contract to neglect your duty as person in society.
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What will be the next step after we detect a signal?
The world descends into madness because the majority of the people out there realize that their world view of man being the only intelligent life in the universe just got crushed. Glad I got my guns!
It is simply too early to tell. Most of us are locked into contracts and are simply waiting for them to expire. I say, give it about 6 months and check back, not days.
I know as soon as my Verizon account contract dies, I am going to look real hard and see what is out there.
Americans limit Sex in the media while the Europeans limit violence.
After World War II, the Europeans sought to limit imagery of violence for their own reasons (War, genocide and all that.) while the Americans, being based on a Puritanical roots wanted to limit imagery of Sex. So if you can't have one, you have the other. The Europeans see Sex, and the Americans see Violence and neither see the other. Kind of lame, I would rather see sex on TV than violence.
Depends. I worked at a place that used 6 Proc with 4 Gigs of memory systems that had 20 to 30 heavy users at any one time. We were using the 2.4.9 Redhat kernel and the machines would crash after 3 or 4 days. Considering we had 300 or 400 machines, you can take a guess what oncall was like. Well, I took a couple of the mid-level problem ones and replace the kernels with 2.4.18 release canidates (I played with the patches) and they did not crash for several weeks afterwards. Some servers never went down unless we rebooted them. Sometimes using beta stuff will save your ass, but as a general rule of thumb, your right, it can be bad.
Alright, I always thought Schumer was stupid weak minded liberal who thinks government can solve all of life's woes, but this proves it:
"It's not going to solve all the problems, but it's the first real step," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "The public is demanding something. It's going to happen. We're going to get it done."
Okay, spam is not a government problem, it is a technical problem and no amount of praying or laws (Smart or dumb) are going to solve the problems of spam. Now here is the list why:
1) Most spam that ends up in U.S. mailboxes comes from overseas, so no US law is going to stop that.
2) Spam actually works on an economic level, if it did not, then no one would spam. Spammers spam, because spam works. Destroy the profitiblity of spamming and spam will go away.
3) Spamming is easy. Make it so addresses can not be spoofed, email headers can't be forged and MX records have to match up with A records (All those modem pool modems would not be able to send because no will accept mail from a machine that does not have an correct MX record). I think if you fixed this, then a lot of the spam would just go away.
They should call this release "TheKrash"
20 replies and the server is off to la la land.
"If this was a rich country, it wouldn't matter and we could buy Microsoft products, but we're a developing country and Linux is just a lot more accessible, so we're heading toward a Linux generation."
It is this attitude that probably got them in to the problems they are in now and it is the attitude that got California in the problems it has now. When the State is flush with cash, you still have to find ways to save money. Just because the State has money, it does not mean it should spend it. It should return it to the people who gave it really belongs to, the Tax Payers.
Run Linux, save money, lower taxes. Sounds like a good combination to me.
With hundreds of channels of entertainment, from the Disney Channel to HBO, to keep them occupied, they're silent. "It's like you don't even have them. You can baby-sit and drive at the same time,'' Montag said.
Am I the only America left that thinks this is gross? I pulled up next to a Lincoln Navigator, the other day, that had TWO flat panel screens in it and they were both on watching TV. Now, this seems like a great idea to keep the kids nice and quite, but how does a kid see the world while on a road trip? If I am going to haul the kids and wife off to a National or State Park, they are to be looking out the windows and not watching DVD movie or some Cartoon. I can't imagine how this is good for America's kids. Should we just surrender to the terrorists now since the future generations will have a attention span to short to track Al-Qaeda down?
They're just like me, they burn them onto CDROM instead and then delete the files...TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE PIRATED MUSIC! [Evil laugh...]
I'm 32 and you know what, my TV watching habit has been limited for one reason; it sucks. I have limited time that fails between work, personal projects, and family/friends. Online Games gets it since that is what I enjoy the most between the two.
What this guy is failing to note is that in people's free time, they will gravitate to what is the most entertaining for their limited time/dollar. Right now, that is video games. When TV gets better, people will return, until then they will stick to Games.
This is a pure stupid politics pandering to the dumb. Stopping spam is a pure technical issue. Redesigning the SMTP protocol is the only way to fix this issue. Making it so that the From: addresses has to match to the MX record that sends the mail is going to fix a lot.
Passing a bill in any country to ban spam without technical improvements will do nothing.
The sad thing about FreeBSD is that the only way it could promote itself, in the past, was to make false claims about the Linux Memory manager or Scheduler. I would rarely here FreeBSD people talk about FreeBSD without saying first, "Linux sucks" or "Linux is not stable" or "Linux MM is no good". Its users' were promoting their OS by tearing down another, which is a bad move, IMHO.
Now, I am seeing FreeBSD users jumping on the SCO bandwagon and claiming the GPL is bad, and the BSD License is the only way to go.
It is really sad to a good OS like FreeBSD try to build itself on false Linux claims.
I'm at my second company that uses Remedy and it's value is only as useful as the people who use it.
The first company that used it was a 5000 employee company and Rememdy was pretty good. Most people knew not to screw around with assigning tickets to someone else knowing they would assign it to the correct people. They knew not "ping pong" their tickets. The company had a Remedy management/programmer team that knew what they were doing and actually had one guy that maintained tight control of the groups, their requests, request types and subreqests. In other words, it was pretty brainless to assign a ticket to the correct person. I think it worked pretty well and it was easy to fix problems with Remedy.
The second company I'm at is a 100,000 person company and completely different story. The problem is, that it is excepted that people can just assign tickets to someone they think might know where to assign the ticket. Yep, that's right, "ping ponging" tickets like you would not believe. I have had a number of cases where someone in, say, London will assign a ticket to someone in San Jose, Calfornia, just because they might know who the correct person is on that site for their problem.
So my whole point is, your tracking problem system is only as good as the people who use it and code it.
I know a number of people who own and run Small Businesses and being a technical type, I have helped a number of them with their software and hardware problems. Well, I'll bust the bubble on MS and Small Business, hardly anyone in small business pays for their software. About 95% of the software I see in Small Business is pirated. Open Source may not be making huge inroads to small business, but MS is not making money off them either. If MS had a sure fire way to stop people from pirating their software, Open Source would be 75% of the Small Business software within two or three years (The Life of MS software life cycle).
Well, they like Microsoft enough, from netcraft:
i cr osoft-antitrust.gov
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 12-Sep-2003 167.10.5.164 California Department of Justice
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.m
This is our stadium and we run the communcations for it.
Tell it to the FCC. They control the airwaves in your little stadium, not you.
And on top of that, the people own that stadium since it was built with tax dollars. This guy at the stadium is a typical arogant clueless idoit who is employed to benefit the people not themselves.
Instead of fixing their security, companies will just find it cheaper to just move their servers out of California.
There is no good new music out there. Period. It's all a rip-off of something else, which sucked.
CD's are over priced. I wanted to buy a older CD (Metalica's, Ride the Lighting) and it was $14. Come on, that album came out 20 years ago, why so much?
Amazon.com and other like online sellers are killing these companies. Why? I can sit at home and order new, used and hard to find CD's, DVD, books and more. Why drag my ass out to Tower Records (Which always plays the worse music on the store's stereo system) and pay too much for music and DVD's.
The music biz business model is not working in todays market, so they'll blame pirates. Make a good product and sell it at a fair price.
So that would explain the red bar instead of the usual Slashdot green?
No, King Philp Came Over For Good Sex is my personal favorite.
I had the worst time remembering KPCOFGS in the 10th grade. Then this nice girl (One of those nice never does anything wrong girls) leaned over and said in my ear "King Philip Came Over For Good Sex". After I stopped giggling and blushing I never forgot it. Some things you never forget because of who tells you it.
Now that I think about it, maybe she was telling me more than KPCOFGS.
Bullshit. You have a responsibility to society that goes beyond any contract you have with your employer. If you find out that someone is doing that is extremely harmful to society, you must turn them in. If you do not drawn a line on what is permissible and what is not, then anyone can do anything, including acts that are very harmful to children. You are simply just hiding behind a contract to neglect your duty as person in society.
You know the scary part about this, is that he probably got 20 extra people to show up and made a sale off of the first spam.
Spam is here because it works. Worked back then, works today. If it did not work, there would be no spam.
This must be a new record, /.'ed with only 3 +1 commments!
Linux Hardware not having enough hardware, how ironic.
The only reason MS is doing this is too raise the price of the music company.
Apple does not have the cash that MS has, and MS has tons of cash. MS can raise the price 30% and not blink, Apple would be hit hard.
Alright, I read the previous story and saw right through it and then fell for this. I am truly an April's Fool.