Don't they know that GAP just like Nike uses slave labor?
who cares? Seriously, I may not be politically correct for saying this, but if some unemployed guy in some_random_country will be happy for 1/1000th of what Joe Sixpack wants for some_random_mindless_fucking_job, why do we feel the need to insist that "our way is right"?
I'm not "corporation fan" by any stretch, but frankly a lot of the "they get paid pennies over there I tell ya!" whining I hear sounds like sour grapes from folks whose union priced themselves out of a job HERE, and are mad because someone at said corporation realized "running a sewing machine is a mindless fucking job that requires no education and very little expensive training, and you don't need to pay some union snot $25.40 per hour to do it, and then have to pay him more and more each year just because he's been there longer doing the same mindless chore longer than the guy next to him".
It's a standard dnsbl blacklist that only contains Yahoo's netblocks. So it doesn't matter what domain they come from (yahoo.com, geocities.com, etc.).
Just add "ybl.megacity.org" to your standard DNSBL configurations in your MTA of choice and away you go.
... would be an Exchange SERVER replacement. I don't care WHAT desktop environment someone is using (and there are good arguments for why the average executive should NOT be using Linux), I don't want to have to manage an NT server to get the very nice functionality that Exchange offers in terms of calendaring, etc. None of the various open-source alternatives integrates nearly as well into the users workflow as Exchange/Outlook do.
Zealots - grouse all you want about that criticism, but it's true.
The suits aren't going to lose Outlook on their desktops, but if I could avoid having to manage an NT server to GIVE them that functionality that they need, that'd make my life a helluva lot more happy than knowing that some Linux box can connect to an NT Excange server...
As it stands, we're already considering (eew) Lotus Bloats, because it can offer basically the same functionality, but do it from a Linux box as the server, which is important to us.
what about email? so you create a word doc, encrypt it and attach it to your dang email. hard? not.
Oh that's JUST how I want to get "average joes" using encyrption on e-mail. By building up big freaking attachments and slinging the attachments around, forcing the recipient to download the attachment, save it, decrypt it, and load it in $APPLICATION.
Yahoo DOESN'T filter anything from "The outside" on its way into China.
Yahoo has servers located in Beijing, and those servers provide the content that is "regulated" (for lack of a better term) by the CN government. Anything "outside" the Beijing data-center is the same that you or I would see from anywhere else in the world, and it's up to the Great Firewall of China to restrict access to it.
Now, since the Beijing servers geographically, and net-geographically separated from the rest of the net, the standard French argument fails, because the "distinction" (inside vs. outside) is much more easily made.
If France wants to wall off its country, and have finite known IP space and say "this is the only IP space that French citizens could possibly be in", then I suspect Yahoo would be just as helpful in letting them shut their closed-minded selves off from the world.
It works to the Chinese government's advantage to have China be a spamhaus. The more people who block the chinese network FOR them, the less work they have to do.
The Chinese GOVERNMENT will still be able to communicate with those it needs/wants to on the outside world because they'll arrange with the outside folks to make sure they're not blacklisted, but its people will find that bunches of the rest of the world have just blackholed Chinese IP space.
Do you call CNN every time they run a story you don't care about, or do you just change the channel?
If CNN had this cool engine built that allowed me to customize the news articles I saw, and then didn't actually USE that engine to the proper granularity, I think I'd call CNN and bitch, yes.
But since they don't, I'd change the channel.
However, since Slashdot DOES have the capability to customize the news so you see the things you WANT to see, doesn't it make sense for Slashdot to actually USE that capability?
Wow... "moron"... your intelligent debating skills amaze me.
I'm pro-linux as well, but I don't need to be bothered every time the development tree has a patchlevel release, and, since the Slash engine could easily accomodate both the folks who want to know every time a new version comes out AND those who don't want to see every version, wouldn't it make sense to set things up so that EVERYONE gets what they want?
Or is the concept that both factions can be easily made happy just beyond your comprehension?
And if there was a separate "LinuxKernelReleases" topic, both of us would be happy. you could get your "news" (which I don't consider news, but that's here nor there), and myself (and others) could simply check that box to say "Don't show me these stories".
And life would be happy all around. See how nice that'd work if TPTB @/. would just use the Slash engine the way it's designed to work?:-)
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I don't think I was trolling at all, I'm actually really sick of having to wade through kernel announcements.
.0's are newsworthy
.FINAL_VERSION's are newsworthy
.PATCH_OF_THE_WEEK's are not "Stuff that matters" for the majority of folks out there. If you ARE one of the folks that it matters for, chances are you're monitoring the kernel.org site already.
Can we have a topic "Linux-Kernel-Release", so that those of us who care about "Linux news" (and so don't want to check-to-exclude the "Linux" topic) can still send these Freshmeat-intended stories to/dev/null where they belong?
Please submit your evidence of an embargo violation. Be detailed and cite your sources.
Everyone's so quick to point out "how evil Time was" in reporting this, but nobody's yet offered a shred of evidence that this wasn't part of the "exclusive" arrangement. Remember that "Exclusive" only applies until other folks get their eyes on it tomorrow morning, and Time got an exclusive. Now, it's not quantum physics to make the leap that Apple expected Time to go with it right before MWSF. One might even suspect that - given that Time's street date is Monday, and that Jobs pushed the keynote ahead a day to Monday from Tuesday - that this was planned all along.
Note the language: "An exclusive"... after 9am tomorrow, it's not an exclusive, the entire fucking planet will know it. The only way Time could know it was an exclusive is if Apple told them so.
So what do we have? An article coming out exactly when it was supposed to (while it was still exclusive), and with apple's full knowledge and consent (because that's the only way Time would know it was exclusive).
Other than the conjecture of a bunch of Apple fanboys, I don't see any evidence of any embargo that Time would have agreed to.
Show me a journalist who signs an NDA, and I'll show you a journalist whose on food stamps the following week, and without an NDA there's no "lawsuit".
How is it "Screwing up" when they're reporting news, and doing it before other sites and news sources do it?
Maybe it's not when Apple would have wanted it, but Time did "the right thing" from a journalist's perspective. They "broke the story", which is what journalists are paid to do.
MS has done a great job of fixing most of those problems, unless you have older hardware.
I'm sorry, I thought we were discussing porting MACOSX to intel hardware, not contracting Microsoft to make yet-another-Mac-OSX lookalike.
Microsoft may well have dealt with it, but the bottom line is that for MacOSX to get ported to intel, then APPLE has to deal with it too, and that's just a hideous black hole for resources.
I can't think of ONE person who would rather pay $3000 for a G4 with a pretty case instead of $1000 for a PC in a grey box that's easily twice as fast (except in Apple's famous "Photoshop bakeoffs").
I'll raise my hand here and say I'm that guy. "Why?" you ask? Simple. Apple can do such a damn good job with the OS because they don't have to deal with metric assloads of third party drivers, IRQ conflicts, blah blah blah rest-of-x86-nightmare.
I'm actually very comfortable with Apple having extremely tight control over the hardware - and the integration and compatibility that comes from that, and if that means coughing up a few bucks on the hardware so they can concentrate on improving the OS instead of dealing with "this week's third party hardware shipment from China", I'm cool with that.
I figure the biggest issue would be that you wouldn't have the heads or the clips before/after the commercials (some of the funniest stuff is the movement of the heads in front of the screen, etc). Can you do a digital overlay?
Yes, you can, the Ghostbusters DVD did this for its directors' commentary and it is TOO funny....
Let's see: Radio - doesn't just spontaneously make noise after being silent. The driver of a car generally knows his radio is on and isn't distracted by it. The "guy selling flowers" is, of course, one of the various pedestrians and road objects the driver is "being aware of", and I hate to break it to you, but people HAVE gotten into legal entanglements because of cell phones going off, and there's various levels of anal-retentiveness surrounding cel-phones and driving....
Think first, then post, it'll make you seem a lot smarter.
Picture the scenario, you're concentrating on where you're going, because you've never been there before, its hectic traffic, somewhere in the city, where the ordeal of keeping track of pedestrians and cars is enough to deal with. Suddenly, your attention is jolted elsewhere by a voice in your car (you're alone), you take your eyes off the road to find the source of voice which says "Up ahead on the right is Foobar's. Foobar's is having a sale on diapers right now!"... by the time you realize its a crummy OnStar ad, and return your attention to the road, it's too late to notice the bicyclist chewing on your grill.
So when the bicyclist sues you, and you in turn pin it on OnStar, that's when this shit will be nipped in the bud.
I was thinking 30's Germany myself, actually... lots of pomp and arrogant nationalism, Bush getting up on stage last night in front of an intentionally favorable audience with that semi-subliminal "UNITED WE STAND" wallpaper behind him, keeping the war-drums beating.
Don't get me wrong, I think the fuckers who did this should pay. Dearly. In blood. Them, their families, their friends, and anyone else who they sullied by their existence.:)
But what is being stirred up in this country reminds me of what I've read of pre-WW2 Germany... and its not just me, because two out of three surviving grandparents both said the same thing without even my mentioning it.
What do you need to lead a rise to power of a totalitarian state?... an enemy to unite the people against, be they Jews or Al-Qaeda... an economic recession, that you can, at least in part, attempt to blame on the enemy... an expert group of media mongers who can feed the public just the nuggets they want to get... a public who is blissfully ignorant of the facts... and a leader who is "charismatic in his own way", and who the public doesn't believe is actually capable of being malicious, someone they trust to be "that guy who's stuck in office when this happens, and who we need to get behind and give him 110% support..."
You tell me... how are we NOT like pre-WW2 Germany.
and what do you do when they use that ill-gotten knowledge to go after OTHER people? You might SAY "oh, it's no big deal, they're only going after "bad people", but it makes no difference. It doesn't mean that they won't use it to investigate other hitherto unknown persons and events, and then, come court-time, plead "inevitable discovery" (e.g., "we would have found that out anyway, even without raping the detainee's rights").
Sorry, as Al Powell would say "Why don't wake up and smell what you shovelin'?"
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who cares? Seriously, I may not be politically correct for saying this, but if some unemployed guy in some_random_country will be happy for 1/1000th of what Joe Sixpack wants for some_random_mindless_fucking_job, why do we feel the need to insist that "our way is right"?
I'm not "corporation fan" by any stretch, but frankly a lot of the "they get paid pennies over there I tell ya!" whining I hear sounds like sour grapes from folks whose union priced themselves out of a job HERE, and are mad because someone at said corporation realized "running a sewing machine is a mindless fucking job that requires no education and very little expensive training, and you don't need to pay some union snot $25.40 per hour to do it, and then have to pay him more and more each year just because he's been there longer doing the same mindless chore longer than the guy next to him".
And you should address the mail to Srinija Srinivasan, since she's the one quoted in the article as being all behind this new move.
A better number would be 349-3300 (the main number, press zero for an operator).
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Just add "ybl.megacity.org" to your standard DNSBL configurations in your MTA of choice and away you go.
This public service brought to you by...me.
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Zealots - grouse all you want about that criticism, but it's true.
The suits aren't going to lose Outlook on their desktops, but if I could avoid having to manage an NT server to GIVE them that functionality that they need, that'd make my life a helluva lot more happy than knowing that some Linux box can connect to an NT Excange server...
As it stands, we're already considering (eew) Lotus Bloats, because it can offer basically the same functionality, but do it from a Linux box as the server, which is important to us.
Where? I just got a TiBook and don't seem to see it anywhere...
Oh that's JUST how I want to get "average joes" using encyrption on e-mail. By building up big freaking attachments and slinging the attachments around, forcing the recipient to download the attachment, save it, decrypt it, and load it in $APPLICATION.
Are you stoned?
Yahoo has servers located in Beijing, and those servers provide the content that is "regulated" (for lack of a better term) by the CN government. Anything "outside" the Beijing data-center is the same that you or I would see from anywhere else in the world, and it's up to the Great Firewall of China to restrict access to it.
Now, since the Beijing servers geographically, and net-geographically separated from the rest of the net, the standard French argument fails, because the "distinction" (inside vs. outside) is much more easily made.
If France wants to wall off its country, and have finite known IP space and say "this is the only IP space that French citizens could possibly be in", then I suspect Yahoo would be just as helpful in letting them shut their closed-minded selves off from the world.
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The Chinese GOVERNMENT will still be able to communicate with those it needs/wants to on the outside world because they'll arrange with the outside folks to make sure they're not blacklisted, but its people will find that bunches of the rest of the world have just blackholed Chinese IP space.
It's a win-win for the .CN government.
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If CNN had this cool engine built that allowed me to customize the news articles I saw, and then didn't actually USE that engine to the proper granularity, I think I'd call CNN and bitch, yes.
But since they don't, I'd change the channel.
However, since Slashdot DOES have the capability to customize the news so you see the things you WANT to see, doesn't it make sense for Slashdot to actually USE that capability?
I'm pro-linux as well, but I don't need to be bothered every time the development tree has a patchlevel release, and, since the Slash engine could easily accomodate both the folks who want to know every time a new version comes out AND those who don't want to see every version, wouldn't it make sense to set things up so that EVERYONE gets what they want?
Or is the concept that both factions can be easily made happy just beyond your comprehension?
And life would be happy all around. See how nice that'd work if TPTB @ /. would just use the Slash engine the way it's designed to work? :-)
D
Just my $0.02 worth anyhow....
Everyone's so quick to point out "how evil Time was" in reporting this, but nobody's yet offered a shred of evidence that this wasn't part of the "exclusive" arrangement. Remember that "Exclusive" only applies until other folks get their eyes on it tomorrow morning, and Time got an exclusive. Now, it's not quantum physics to make the leap that Apple expected Time to go with it right before MWSF. One might even suspect that - given that Time's street date is Monday, and that Jobs pushed the keynote ahead a day to Monday from Tuesday - that this was planned all along.
D
Note the language: "An exclusive"... after 9am tomorrow, it's not an exclusive, the entire fucking planet will know it. The only way Time could know it was an exclusive is if Apple told them so.
So what do we have? An article coming out exactly when it was supposed to (while it was still exclusive), and with apple's full knowledge and consent (because that's the only way Time would know it was exclusive).
Other than the conjecture of a bunch of Apple fanboys, I don't see any evidence of any embargo that Time would have agreed to.
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Show me a journalist who signs an NDA, and I'll show you a journalist whose on food stamps the following week, and without an NDA there's no "lawsuit".
Maybe it's not when Apple would have wanted it, but Time did "the right thing" from a journalist's perspective. They "broke the story", which is what journalists are paid to do.
You have to remember that, with x86 architecture, EVERYTHING is - to Apple - third party hardware.
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I'm sorry, I thought we were discussing porting MACOSX to intel hardware, not contracting Microsoft to make yet-another-Mac-OSX lookalike.
Microsoft may well have dealt with it, but the bottom line is that for MacOSX to get ported to intel, then APPLE has to deal with it too, and that's just a hideous black hole for resources.
D
I'll raise my hand here and say I'm that guy. "Why?" you ask? Simple. Apple can do such a damn good job with the OS because they don't have to deal with metric assloads of third party drivers, IRQ conflicts, blah blah blah rest-of-x86-nightmare.
I'm actually very comfortable with Apple having extremely tight control over the hardware - and the integration and compatibility that comes from that, and if that means coughing up a few bucks on the hardware so they can concentrate on improving the OS instead of dealing with "this week's third party hardware shipment from China", I'm cool with that.
Yes, you can, the Ghostbusters DVD did this for its directors' commentary and it is TOO funny....
Think first, then post, it'll make you seem a lot smarter.
So when the bicyclist sues you, and you in turn pin it on OnStar, that's when this shit will be nipped in the bud.
Don't get me wrong, I think the fuckers who did this should pay. Dearly. In blood. Them, their families, their friends, and anyone else who they sullied by their existence. :)
But what is being stirred up in this country reminds me of what I've read of pre-WW2 Germany... and its not just me, because two out of three surviving grandparents both said the same thing without even my mentioning it.
What do you need to lead a rise to power of a totalitarian state? ... an enemy to unite the people against, be they Jews or Al-Qaeda ... an economic recession, that you can, at least in part, attempt to blame on the enemy ... an expert group of media mongers who can feed the public just the nuggets they want to get ... a public who is blissfully ignorant of the facts ... and a leader who is "charismatic in his own way", and who the public doesn't believe is actually capable of being malicious, someone they trust to be "that guy who's stuck in office when this happens, and who we need to get behind and give him 110% support..."
You tell me ... how are we NOT like pre-WW2 Germany.
Sorry, as Al Powell would say "Why don't wake up and smell what you shovelin'?"
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