For those not in the know or those needing a refresher...
The suicides referred to are those of Val Noorda Kreidel (daughter of technology entrepreneur and Canopy founder Ray Noorda) and Robert Penrose (Canopy Employee). See this blog entry for details and links.
Re:Clarifying the numbers (Score:4, Interesting)
by Monkelectric (546685) Friend of a Friend on 04-17-05 22:05 (#12265660)
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Posting anonymous for obvious reasons.
I think at some point in this country we are going to have an honest debate about age of consent. In most european countries it varies from 14-17.
We like to maintain this fantasy that our kids are NOT having sex -- but, Ive been in the back rooms, and the level of detachment young people have from sex took me until my late 20's to develop.
Culture IS essential. You appear to have bought into the hack and slash fix the budget mentality that says if it aint readin', writin, 'rithmatic then it aint worth having. I call bullshit.
A society devoid of culture isn't a place I would want to visit. Even out of curiosity.
Nope. You're just dead inside. Like so many others you have been anihalated by the constant barage of daily 'life changing' events. You now find it almost impossible to get excited about something whose relative excitement level (by your standards) ranks up there with finding out the current terrorist threat level has been upped once again.
As a result (and to protect your mental faculties) your capacity for true joy has been severely curtailed. Don't worry. There are many like you out there. Jaded, bored and drowning in ennui. The rest of us allow ourselves the opportunatity to be hurt and perhaps even overloaded. As a result we feel real joy when others accomplish great things.
I don't really know if your type is more prevalant than my type and frankly I think the answer would probably depress the fuck out of me.
Try to find your wonderment. In your capacity for humanity. For our ability to push boundries and reach for the unknown. For the very real way that despite all of the dangers we pose to ourselves we have so far avoided utter distruction.
Unless you are willing to risk disappointment you will never know true joy.
Perhaps your comment should have been modded funny instead of Insightful. Seems the L-herd is out in force today.
Either of those systems are likely to be unsecure out of the box.
Safe browsing is possible from almost any platform given a small investment in time to properly patch and configure said system. Including Windows.
I seriousness we need to revoke the capability of businesses to be assigned the rights of an individual. Then we may be able to get people to look at corporations as something outside of the good/evil realm and more towards the positive/negative aspects each may or may not contribute to society. The people who work at these so called evil empires are likely no better or worse than the average. Unfortunately their money and the combined momentum of multiple simultaneous decisions are easily misinterpreted as evil by those of us living under their thumb.
(PS Excuse the grammar, syntax and speeling. Written quickly on the fly at work with little time for editing.)
When are consumers going to stand up and say that they've had enough of this?
When they stop thinking of themselves as consumers and start thinking of themselves as citizens. A true citizen works towards producing positive change in their community. How many people do you know who are corporate consumers and how many are citizen producers? Which one are you (directed to the/.)?
The client graphics for the seti 3.08 client are D3D based. Is your DX install current? What about your vid drivers? Something to check while you wait for a proper response from the devs anyways.
Not going to accept or send email to/from Gmail?
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Gmail in the News
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Directed to no one in particular because I am seeing more and more people take this stance.
If you don't accept/reply to messages from Gmail your gesture is worth less than the click you didn't take.
Want secure email? Get a cert and encrypt your messages. Only send messages to people on your same server. Make sure no one else has access to the server. Only you. Because as soon as that message leaves your client it is vulnerable to attack.
Now is this likely to occur? Unless you are some sort of leet cracker duude or on some govy watch list or undersurvelllience guess what... Your rantings and "insights" have less value to the BigBrother complex than they do to the poor sap to which they were sent.
Your messages are only valuable as part of a larger statistical model. If you have had an expectation of privacy when dealing with email you have been sadly mistaken.
Re:My experiences with Gmail invitations
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That gmail-is-creepy site is run by the dude who also runs the equally paranoid and whacked-out http://www.google-watch.org site.
See Google-Watch Watch for details on the creepy paranoid dude and then go back and read his rantings with a large-ass grain of salt.
For those who still think email is secure I got news for you: Your email is already exposed in plain text on just about any server it is sent to. If your email is ever relayed through a third party server (and a lot of mail is) then chances are an unscrupulous admin has already read your messages or at least stored a copy.
What GMail does by comparison is relatively tame. The adds are inserted at display time. All email is parsed to more effectively block spam. No human will ever read your email.
Don't take my word or the word of some kook with issues.
Email contents and usage. The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Google's computers process the information in your email for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information to you, delivering targeted related information (such as advertisements and related links), preventing unsolicited bulk email (spam), backing up your email, and other purposes relating to offering you Gmail. Because we keep back-up copies of data for the purposes of recovery from errors or system failure, residual copies of email may remain on our systems for some time, even after you have deleted messages from your mailbox or after the termination of your account. Google employees do not access the content of any mailboxes unless you specifically request them to do so (for example, if you are having technical difficulties accessing your account) or if required by law, to maintain our system, or to protect Google or the public.
Slashdot Mirror
She was the editor. And 'journalist'.
You're welcome. And thanks for the posted BONUS. The /. may not reflect it but you and I both know it's there.
Enjoy.
The suicides referred to are those of Val Noorda Kreidel (daughter of technology entrepreneur and Canopy founder Ray Noorda) and Robert Penrose (Canopy Employee). See this blog entry for details and links.
Also:s id=05/03/28/071212 d =12055828
http://sltrib.com/business/ci_2617160
http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/print.pl?
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143850&ci
For extremely high load webservers Apache is 'teh suck'. Zeus is where it's at! Baby.
He must love gold.
A society devoid of culture isn't a place I would want to visit. Even out of curiosity.
Someone is reading their Cringely. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/rss/redir/cringely/pul pit/pulpit20050303.html
As a result (and to protect your mental faculties) your capacity for true joy has been severely curtailed. Don't worry. There are many like you out there. Jaded, bored and drowning in ennui. The rest of us allow ourselves the opportunatity to be hurt and perhaps even overloaded. As a result we feel real joy when others accomplish great things.
I don't really know if your type is more prevalant than my type and frankly I think the answer would probably depress the fuck out of me.
Try to find your wonderment. In your capacity for humanity. For our ability to push boundries and reach for the unknown. For the very real way that despite all of the dangers we pose to ourselves we have so far avoided utter distruction.
Unless you are willing to risk disappointment you will never know true joy.
Don't forget the pile of cash.
http://slashdot.org/~rpiquepa is the real Roland. Although I am not really sure it matters. One is a troll. The other a spammer. Choose your poison.
Also posted to his journal before I realized I wasn't logged in yet.
The real mistake is to assume it can only be found outside of those mediums.
Culture is more than the entertainment we provide or are provided with.
Perhaps your comment should have been modded funny instead of Insightful. Seems the L-herd is out in force today.
Either of those systems are likely to be unsecure out of the box.
Safe browsing is possible from almost any platform given a small investment in time to properly patch and configure said system. Including Windows.
I seriousness we need to revoke the capability of businesses to be assigned the rights of an individual. Then we may be able to get people to look at corporations as something outside of the good/evil realm and more towards the positive/negative aspects each may or may not contribute to society. The people who work at these so called evil empires are likely no better or worse than the average. Unfortunately their money and the combined momentum of multiple simultaneous decisions are easily misinterpreted as evil by those of us living under their thumb. (PS Excuse the grammar, syntax and speeling. Written quickly on the fly at work with little time for editing.)
YES.
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PS Pleze mod me funnay.
The client graphics for the seti 3.08 client are D3D based. Is your DX install current? What about your vid drivers? Something to check while you wait for a proper response from the devs anyways.
If you don't accept/reply to messages from Gmail your gesture is worth less than the click you didn't take.
Want secure email? Get a cert and encrypt your messages. Only send messages to people on your same server. Make sure no one else has access to the server. Only you. Because as soon as that message leaves your client it is vulnerable to attack.
Now is this likely to occur? Unless you are some sort of leet cracker duude or on some govy watch list or undersurvelllience guess what... Your rantings and "insights" have less value to the BigBrother complex than they do to the poor sap to which they were sent.
Your messages are only valuable as part of a larger statistical model. If you have had an expectation of privacy when dealing with email you have been sadly mistaken.
See Google-Watch Watch for details on the creepy paranoid dude and then go back and read his rantings with a large-ass grain of salt.
For those who still think email is secure I got news for you: Your email is already exposed in plain text on just about any server it is sent to. If your email is ever relayed through a third party server (and a lot of mail is) then chances are an unscrupulous admin has already read your messages or at least stored a copy.
What GMail does by comparison is relatively tame. The adds are inserted at display time. All email is parsed to more effectively block spam. No human will ever read your email.
Don't take my word or the word of some kook with issues.
Read the Gmail privacy policy
EXCERPT BELOW:
Email contents and usage. The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Google's computers process the information in your email for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information to you, delivering targeted related information (such as advertisements and related links), preventing unsolicited bulk email (spam), backing up your email, and other purposes relating to offering you Gmail. Because we keep back-up copies of data for the purposes of recovery from errors or system failure, residual copies of email may remain on our systems for some time, even after you have deleted messages from your mailbox or after the termination of your account. Google employees do not access the content of any mailboxes unless you specifically request them to do so (for example, if you are having technical difficulties accessing your account) or if required by law, to maintain our system, or to protect Google or the public.
I was going to mod this funny but decided to reply...
I suppose these bills should be laced with SmileX?
My only question is where where where is the Batman!!!Lemme guess your *nix server uptime is stupendous.
I think you should be looking into a new ISP and/or some new hardware.
Use google and google at the prompt.
Can be found here at the BBC.