the politicians were going to select our President. Unfortunatly, simpletons such as yourself think we use the American system of government. We DONT. The Australian President would NOT be running the country, the PRIME MINISTER still would.
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Face it people, we're playing God. We always have.
we are god. always have been.
unfortunatly, we (as a society) don't begin to scare ourselves until we're older, so God had to be exaggerated into a being that would frighten little children into compliance.
Oh yes. I forgot. They disarmed UK citizens. So now they have no recourse against the government at all. Notice that they seem to be taking advantage of this?
really? and when was the last time the US citizens took up arms against the government in a direct confrontation?
how many politicians/lawyers did you personally kill to have DMCA overturned?
Surely there has to be more to power management than simply off or on?
forget for a moment that if a server is going to be idle long enough to need to save power (ie. at night) it would save double as much by simply shutting down completely..
Most devices remain at full power waiting to respond to requests at maximum speed. For power saving, this readiness can be reduced, but without shutting the device down completely.
Some devices do this already - CDROMs stop spinning after a few seconds, laser printers turn off the heater, etc.
It can't be hard to make HDDs and fans whos RPMs can be software controlled, or devices with electronics modularised so that parts can be turned off, but still keep parts that take a long time to start up (or most often fail on startup) powered.
1) everything is going to have to be compiled twice. eg. how often do/did you see NT/Alpha binaries for anything non-trivial? never.
2) people avoid Macs not because of the hardware, but because in the past the MacOS has been totally gay. Take away the hardware edge Macs have and you're not left with much.
OS X is going to have to be "Insanely Great" to do any good on x86. Those outside Blow Jobs' RDF realise good != "Insanely Great"
- stores mail in users' own/home/directories (the default). no lusers whining about tiny little mailbox quotas, and no more admins whining about users emailing files to themselves to bypass said quotas.
- much fun can be had with Maildir and symlinks. eg. the CEO occasionally has a yodle to the entire company in.DOC format. Rather than giving each user a separate copy each, the mail can placed in a global location and symlinks created in each user's Maildir (automated by scripts of course).
No, but they don't care.
Although technically banned, they often overlook stuff that is mainly used as a client like ICQ, FTP, Napster, etc. since they usually aren't running 24/7 and are used to download more than serve. The 15k/s upload cap reinforces the policy too.
FWIW, running Gnutella 24/7, even if no files are offered, the search requests alone are enough to put me over the maximum download limit for the month.
Fuckers. Optus, you suck. Telescum, you suck too.
Perhaps the broadband situation in the USA is different, but in Oz, AUPs prohibit servers. Unless of course you want to go for a "business plan" and pay 19c per meg, which is not fsckin' likely.
he should either have to get investment capital himself to develop the idea, or sell it to a larger company
or he can patent it and donate it to the public domain, thereby fucking over The Man using his own system.
Of course, it should also go the other way - any company not willing/able to use their patents should either sell it to someone who wants it, or they lose it. That way there's no more quietly sitting on patents until everyone is using it/something similar without knowing, then trying to claim royalties.
Um, you are misled about the purpose and destiny of the human race. It's not a coincidence that there are no other habitable planets within practical reach. We are supposed to work out our problems here, not run away from them.
There is a God and there is a purpose to life, especially human life. And we're not going anywhere... permanently.
a) there is no god
b) therefore when our Sun dies, we need to be able to save our own arses, or we're extinct.
c) we're not going anywhere because the (arguably only) country which has the tech and money to lead the way into space, also has the highest number of fundie crackpots such as yourself holding everyone back.
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By example the third or fourth leading cause of death in America is apparently, if you believe the news in the last 6 months, medical malpractice and incompetance. And these are the people ostensibly trained to perform these jobs
i'd believe that... but take into consideration most perfectly healthy people don't book themselves in for major surgery for no reason. so the reality is most of these would have been on the edge anyhow, and an "error" on the part of the doctor pushed the patient over. Also consider the human body isn't a machine made of steel, it is organic - there is simply no way to accurately predict the effects of any given action in every case, so unless the doctor in question screwed up something obvious, it's not his/her fault, it's simply the unpredictability of organic things.
... and "encrypted" is subject to interpretation. Aparently XOR/Base64 = encryption. So maybe the algorithm used to encode the info to tape can also be an excuse for encryption.
I haven't read the GPL myself, so I'll just comment based on what I've been told..
the source must accompany the binary (if requested) - the Intel engineers only supplied Tom with the binary, so only Tom can ask for the source. I suspect nobody can force them to release the binary and/or code to anyone else.
<socialist type=partial>the first three should be deemed 'essential' services, and as a result, not permitted to raise a profit (or at least, not any that isn't returned to the consumer, via either lower prices, or by funding the govt. and therefore lowering tax).
think about it, there are only so many gas/water pipes, electric/data cables that can be laid into any one area, so it's not like you are able to get true competition. moving to another city because you have a pet peeve with the power company isn't really an acceptable solution.
IMO, only when dealing with non-essential items should companies be allowed to charge 'a price the market can stand' (read: rip you off for as much as they can get away with). eg. RIAA/MPAA.
other things, like the Post Office, can be easily competed with (red tape not counted) as it doesn't rely on limited multi billion dollar infrastructure.
I install and uninstall software everyday. No way in hell I'm dealing with all these symlinks
When you rm -rf/appl/foo-v123 then any and all symlinks pointing to it will become invalid. It isn't hard to find and remove invalid symlinks (provided you don't have any that point to removable media which may or may not be online when the cron job runs, otherwise they're toast too).
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people like you are what fucked it all up
the politicians were going to select our President. Unfortunatly, simpletons such as yourself think we use the American system of government. We DONT. The Australian President would NOT be running the country, the PRIME MINISTER still would.
What's the best thing that happened to you since Slashdot started?
Slashdot.
Conversly, what's the worst?
Slashdot.
Face it people, we're playing God. We always have.
we are god. always have been.
unfortunatly, we (as a society) don't begin to scare ourselves until we're older, so God had to be exaggerated into a being that would frighten little children into compliance.
Oh yes. I forgot. They disarmed UK citizens. So now they have no recourse against the government at all. Notice that they seem to be taking advantage of this?
really? and when was the last time the US citizens took up arms against the government in a direct confrontation?
how many politicians/lawyers did you personally kill to have DMCA overturned?
oh yeah, none. you didn't, and it wasn't.
loser.
heh, you complain about inexperienced drivers and people who do not think, then advocate the use of cruise control as standard practise.
pfft.
Surely there has to be more to power management than simply off or on?
forget for a moment that if a server is going to be idle long enough to need to save power (ie. at night) it would save double as much by simply shutting down completely..
Most devices remain at full power waiting to respond to requests at maximum speed. For power saving, this readiness can be reduced, but without shutting the device down completely.
Some devices do this already - CDROMs stop spinning after a few seconds, laser printers turn off the heater, etc.
It can't be hard to make HDDs and fans whos RPMs can be software controlled, or devices with electronics modularised so that parts can be turned off, but still keep parts that take a long time to start up (or most often fail on startup) powered.
what exactly is the point?
1) everything is going to have to be compiled twice. eg. how often do/did you see NT/Alpha binaries for anything non-trivial? never.
2) people avoid Macs not because of the hardware, but because in the past the MacOS has been totally gay. Take away the hardware edge Macs have and you're not left with much.
OS X is going to have to be "Insanely Great" to do any good on x86. Those outside Blow Jobs' RDF realise good != "Insanely Great"
- stores mail in users' own /home/directories (the default). no lusers whining about tiny little mailbox quotas, and no more admins whining about users emailing files to themselves to bypass said quotas.
.DOC format. Rather than giving each user a separate copy each, the mail can placed in a global location and symlinks created in each user's Maildir (automated by scripts of course).
- much fun can be had with Maildir and symlinks. eg. the CEO occasionally has a yodle to the entire company in
wouldn't this be pretty much irrelevant with Maildir, regardless of the server type used?
New messages go in Maildir/new
Once the client lists said messages (retrieves the headers), they get put in Maildir/cur by the server.
ok, stupid little asteroids aside, what are we going to do when our stupid little star goes *poof* and swallows Earth?
Space travel is our destiny - without it, we're extinct.
"we need a bigger buoy"
Why can't we dig up Turing and put him on display
if you want to see something disgusting, just wait a little longer - the goatse.cx guy will be along shortly.
No, but they don't care. Although technically banned, they often overlook stuff that is mainly used as a client like ICQ, FTP, Napster, etc. since they usually aren't running 24/7 and are used to download more than serve. The 15k/s upload cap reinforces the policy too. FWIW, running Gnutella 24/7, even if no files are offered, the search requests alone are enough to put me over the maximum download limit for the month. Fuckers. Optus, you suck. Telescum, you suck too.
Perhaps the broadband situation in the USA is different, but in Oz, AUPs prohibit servers. Unless of course you want to go for a "business plan" and pay 19c per meg, which is not fsckin' likely.
you will of course note that the 'censorship' is voluntary. self-regulation seems to be a fetish with our Govt.. presumably because its cheap.
he should either have to get investment capital himself to develop the idea, or sell it to a larger company
or he can patent it and donate it to the public domain, thereby fucking over The Man using his own system.
Of course, it should also go the other way - any company not willing/able to use their patents should either sell it to someone who wants it, or they lose it. That way there's no more quietly sitting on patents until everyone is using it/something similar without knowing, then trying to claim royalties.
cool. maybe they'll kill an american doco camera crew, trying to be authentic with a dorky hat and a stupid "G'day mate" accent.
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Um, you are misled about the purpose and destiny of the human race. It's not a coincidence that there are no other habitable planets within practical reach. We are supposed to work out our problems here, not run away from them.
There is a God and there is a purpose to life, especially human life. And we're not going anywhere... permanently.
a) there is no god
b) therefore when our Sun dies, we need to be able to save our own arses, or we're extinct.
c) we're not going anywhere because the (arguably only) country which has the tech and money to lead the way into space, also has the highest number of fundie crackpots such as yourself holding everyone back.
By example the third or fourth leading cause of death in America is apparently, if you believe the news in the last 6 months, medical malpractice and incompetance. And these are the people ostensibly trained to perform these jobs
i'd believe that... but take into consideration most perfectly healthy people don't book themselves in for major surgery for no reason. so the reality is most of these would have been on the edge anyhow, and an "error" on the part of the doctor pushed the patient over. Also consider the human body isn't a machine made of steel, it is organic - there is simply no way to accurately predict the effects of any given action in every case, so unless the doctor in question screwed up something obvious, it's not his/her fault, it's simply the unpredictability of organic things.
only after I rail gun you
... and "encrypted" is subject to interpretation. Aparently XOR/Base64 = encryption. So maybe the algorithm used to encode the info to tape can also be an excuse for encryption.
256 trillion colors
please.. everyone knows quake only has two colors: brown and browner.
I haven't read the GPL myself, so I'll just comment based on what I've been told..
the source must accompany the binary (if requested) - the Intel engineers only supplied Tom with the binary, so only Tom can ask for the source. I suspect nobody can force them to release the binary and/or code to anyone else.
<socialist type=partial>the first three should be deemed 'essential' services, and as a result, not permitted to raise a profit (or at least, not any that isn't returned to the consumer, via either lower prices, or by funding the govt. and therefore lowering tax).
think about it, there are only so many gas/water pipes, electric/data cables that can be laid into any one area, so it's not like you are able to get true competition. moving to another city because you have a pet peeve with the power company isn't really an acceptable solution.
IMO, only when dealing with non-essential items should companies be allowed to charge 'a price the market can stand' (read: rip you off for as much as they can get away with). eg. RIAA/MPAA.
other things, like the Post Office, can be easily competed with (red tape not counted) as it doesn't rely on limited multi billion dollar infrastructure.
I install and uninstall software everyday. No way in hell I'm dealing with all these symlinks
/appl/foo-v123 then any and all symlinks pointing to it will become invalid. It isn't hard to find and remove invalid symlinks (provided you don't have any that point to removable media which may or may not be online when the cron job runs, otherwise they're toast too).
When you rm -rf