Host medium to high powered and have pulseaudio installed using a decent distro like Debian (Ewebuntu is broken). Enable network sound. Client old laptop with minimal install that includes pulseaudio. For Debian you need to enable ForwardX11Trusted. Login to the Host box using "ssh -XC vlc". Now enjoy movies without stuttering sound or dropped frames on a box that would struggle to run W95. 32MB of RAM will work fine.
So just forget we sold a large, critical chunk of the Telstra to China, and pretend that any company that does tender won't have Chinese ownership.
Not to worry - the ONA is monitoring what China monitors, with the additional benefit that JIO doesn't have to do it because then JIO would be monitoring rather than, um, who was it JIO does the go-for-ing for again? (sigh)
Personally, I prefer to confront reality head-on. Hiding the bullshit just inoculates you to what's really happening.
Where's the incentive to support sites that don't engage in shitty practices, if you can make the shitty sites seem better by hiding what they actually do?
And yet, here you are, making the pay per view pay.
Your logic makes no sense. How do you become "inoculated" to what you don't experience? (or even "desensitised") How would not participating in, or supporting a practise you don't agree with on Slashdot - have any bearing on whether you visit another site?
The "Like" buttons are there so you'll click on them and raise the search ranking, the ads are pay per view - not pay per conversion. The rates paid by the ads are renegotiated according to traffic and search ranking - if you don't follow them, their value decreases - whether you download them (view) or not has no bearing on whether Slashdot puts them on their.
Buggered if I know what your hair shirt attitude actually achieves - certainly not the results you propose. It just doesn't add up.
fuck Slashdot for putting goddamned Facebook and Twitter links under every fucking post.
There's links under posts?
I also don't understand
"As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising. " Huh? There's advertising?
Must be one of my extensions blocking the ability to turn on advertising so I can turn it off. Lets see - NoScript, FlashBlock, AdBlock Plus, GreaseMonkey (with my custom block APK Slashdot posts), FireBug. Bloody FireBug!
Facebook is designed to spread SHIT as a core feature; it's a spam machine.
Are you really saying there is a distinction between good and evil "likes"?
How the hell does one of the most hated companies become so popular?
You noticed I wasn't disagreeing with what you said about MS? (a product I don't use except when required)
I always preferred " elitist assholes having a giant circle jerk" but i'm told that is a little on the crude side and one should always try to improve one's vocabulary.
Should one also wear a tiara, and, leave a trail of Oxford commas after ones self?
And I wasn't trying to disparage Linux,
I didn't think you were.
i personally like it for embedded and webservers, i was simply trying to beat to the punch the obvious "Freetard" posts we get on any windows subject. you know the ones, bullshit like "Linux never gets viruses!" or the completely pointless "Use Linux' when the entire TFA has nothing whatever to do with Linux or FOSS.
Butt, butt, butt their opinion is important. Need. To. Show. I. Am. Cutting. Edge.
Remember, they've made an enormous emotional investment in their ability to pick the Superior Magic®. If they were wrong... then their whole ability to intuitively understand complex subjects is called into question. Never going to happen. Plus my football team is better than your football team, and I'm better than you. (It's not about sex, it's about the perception of loss).
hell i had one just yesterday when i pointed out i couldn't sell Linux boxes to consumers because the upgrades ALWAYS seem to break drivers
Same thing again - that particular problem is a PEBKAC. I need to have [insert distro based on unstable or testing here] because, because, because (Superior Magic®). Not because they need to have fucking BumbleBee (or the hardware), or a 3.2 kernel. But because Stable is not Superior Magic®. Besides if you don't sit on the cutting edge, you're not cutting edge - you're a loser, and losers don't get laid. (loser is a woody word) It's pure logic don't you see? And if you don't agree I'll find some small debatable syntactic or grammatical error you've made. (so there!)
Somewhere in all this styling and magical thinking should be some substance, I dunno maybe I expect to much, but maybe it should be about producing something.
"Well just disable upgrades, its not like you need them!"
See that's where you're wrong. They don't need the updates - it's the constant updating they need. Otherwise they'd have nothing to do and nothing to tweet about.
Disclaimer: for the purposes of this discussion - "want" == "need" and that ocean North of Sydney is the "Specific Ocean".
and it was like i could just FEEL the stupid and his perception bubble pouring through the cable, sad that in this day and age when we had JUST had a posting on distros scrambling to issue patches for a zero day privilege escalation in Linux I would get a posting like that. just as i've sat he literally gobsmacked when i get a iKoolaid drinker that will argue up and down that "Macs don't have viruses" because apparently if the user has to do anything at all then it "don't count'. talk about splitting hairs with a laser!
In the end its that kind of dumbshit we PC shops have to deal with 6 days a damned week,
I can't help but wonder what would happen to your job if all the PC users became smarter overnight. In fact I can't help but wonder what would happen to a hell of a lot of jobs - and the US's plan "going forward" for their economy (import workers to produce copyrighted and patented code). It's not just the future that's built on a lack of substance, and dependant on people furiously clicking on the purchase button so they can furiously click/tap/wave at other "things". All of which requires that what ever is popular becomes as dumb as possible, and that people are made dumber lest they question the whole process.
Please excuse me from dealing with your other comments - I need to go make a large number of desperate, angry people happy - they're demanding something they don't understand (and don't need) and claim it "should be simpler". Apparently I should care that Linux/BSD isn't everyone's desktop.
As for TFA before any of the lame "Use Linux" karma whores show up as someone who actually fixes the thing when they get pwned 6 days a week I'd just like to point out that since XP SP2 a lot of the machines getting pwned were PEBKAC and after Vista the vast majority were PEBKAC and with 7 its almost 100% PEBKAC and sadly no OS can magically protect you from stupid people.
Hey I use Linux you insensitive sod!
It's not about OS choice - it's about market share. The morons have a monopoly (it's a mainstay of evolution). So what ever product (food, technology, whatever) is the most popular will inevitably suck because the users influence the product - if it didn't suck to begin with - it will pretty soon.
What some call fanbois/nerds/geeks are just morons who focus their limited abilities on a small range of subjects. The my phone is smaller/my phone OS is better is less a sign of intelligence and more a sign of primitive fetishism.
It's a mostly PEBKAC world where "sophisticated" means "sophists".
Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.
Slashdot is a business whose sole income is advertising revenue. People visit because people visit. The Slashdot business model (Soulskill is an employee) is to promote controversy - The Rupert Murdock Model®. It ceased to be anything./ related a long time ago.
Actually the problem is that you have missed the context of this discussion.
You could hurt your back lugging those goalposts around all the time. See if you can find a company in that list that doesn't distribute the code. Do you even have a fucking clue what the GPL is? HInt: it's useless unless distribution is involved.
Just because you can argue the toss (or how many angels can party on the head of a pin) doesn't mean you should.
And there is no business model so your point is not on topic.;-)
You might want to ask the woman next to you for her signature.... I think you're way out on a limb there and Shirley Maclaine's signature might be the only benefit.
Google, IBM, eBay, BBC, etc, etc - a very long list of small enterprises who make money on the back of GPL (greater and lesser version) that you've probably never heard of, and can be excused for not being able to research.
Here's another obscure one that some taco cowboy rode into retirement.. You were probably a big authority in primary school - but we've all got this internet thing now, you can check stuff with it.
Admittedly I've never used the product because I have multiple, free 8GB email accounts and I just right-click and choose "encrypt and email" from the drop-down list. But I*1 can't see how they can make real money - seems like they'd need a much larger percentage of paying users, and even then the margins look small.
Mostly I'd be thinking the business would die overnight if a certain large platform agnostic company offered a free version. Or do they have some strategy stronger than public relations (like patents) to ensure long term viability?/p>
*1 But then, I wouldn't invest in Facebook on long-term basis either.
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Congratulations, you're the most worthless retarded faggot on the planet for publicly making such a apathetic comment.
"Aussie Bob", huh? Go the fuck back to Australia, why don't you? We don't need people like you here in the U.S.
Dear Bonch/SharkLaser/Overly Critical Guy, this is not the US, it's the internet.
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels who believe that the location their parents fucked in makes them superior.
And that's be "an apathetic" if it was such. Even the timing between your Anonymous Coward shit flinging posts are distinctive. Who ever hired you is an idiot in need of a refund.
Not too worry - you can just work through that old password and username list you pulled off pastebin and grab another Slashdot ID.
Attempting to label his comment offtopic and subtly ridiculing him with the phrase
...because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets...
as well as the term "random rant" doesn't change the fact that corporations and even the government are, in fact, attempting to influence forum participants with astroturfing and sockpuppetry. Just ask HBGary.
We understand why you may feel strongly about this, given that you are a obvious known shill of some sort.
No-ooo. Tell me it ain't so. If that were the case then the first thing he'd do would be to.... oh ri-ght. I get it now. But wouldn't that mean SharkLaser was a shill too?
Do not attempt to mess with us or we will crap all over your face.
I've noticed a pattern of late that seems to separate the fanbois and trolls from the shills. Look for those who post dozens of times a day, have low Slashdot ids, but have only been posting for the last 3 months - they'll make the occasional post that isn't related to their agenda in a poor attempt at camouflage. Their use of sock puppet armies are distinctive by their down-mods of the "opponents" and up-mods of their own posts just confirms it.
From the linked article:-
Cecelia Prewett, an FTC spokeswoman, declined to comment on the widening of the agency’s investigation.
I interpret that to read "declined to comment on *claimed* widening of the agency's investigation.
I don't equate every investigation launched by the FTC as evidence of any wrongdoing - anymore than I equate a Department of Transport investigation into cars taking off from the lights all by themselves. They respond, by nature, to complaints. The complaints don't have to be valid.
Hint: automotive industry in trouble - find Fiat guilty (of not catering to fat feet). Rinse and repeat the next time the native automotive industry loses sales to a foreign competitor.
It's a big deal because Google is promoting her Google+ page, while not Facebook's. That's the whole issue.
Didn't you say she *doesn't* have a Google+ page?
Your argument is unclear - are you proposing that search engines are a public utility? Will the gubment take ownership? Who'll be footing the tax bill? Will this result in new legislation that gets applied to every search engine or index?
I'm guessing you live in a country that considers itself the boss of the world.
While you're lobbying for truth and justice - please prosecute Bing for not indexing my sites as fast as it indexes others - oh, and how about that Facebook search index? Twitter put up those nofollow tags... Can you whinge for me because I'm forced to use Google and it's not fair!
Doesn't matter what side of the fence you're on with regards to the climate debate.
I made that reference with regard to government control of what scientists were/are allowed to say.
I'm of the belief that you can't try and invalidate data that shows elevated temperatures by claiming the temperature measurements are artificially elevated by having recording stations near roads, power stations, and airport *and* simultaneously claim that producing heat doesn't have an effect on the immediate environment.
Slashdot Mirror
Bill Hicks had a joke
He had lots of jokes, and points. That wasn't one of the jokes.
Host medium to high powered and have pulseaudio installed using a decent distro like Debian (Ewebuntu is broken). Enable network sound.
Client old laptop with minimal install that includes pulseaudio. For Debian you need to enable ForwardX11Trusted. Login to the Host box using "ssh -XC vlc". Now enjoy movies without stuttering sound or dropped frames on a box that would struggle to run W95. 32MB of RAM will work fine.
So just forget we sold a large, critical chunk of the Telstra to China, and pretend that any company that does tender won't have Chinese ownership.
Not to worry - the ONA is monitoring what China monitors, with the additional benefit that JIO doesn't have to do it because then JIO would be monitoring rather than, um, who was it JIO does the go-for-ing for again? (sigh)
Personally, I prefer to confront reality head-on. Hiding the bullshit just inoculates you to what's really happening.
Where's the incentive to support sites that don't engage in shitty practices, if you can make the shitty sites seem better by hiding what they actually do?
And yet, here you are, making the pay per view pay.
Your logic makes no sense. How do you become "inoculated" to what you don't experience? (or even "desensitised") How would not participating in, or supporting a practise you don't agree with on Slashdot - have any bearing on whether you visit another site?
The "Like" buttons are there so you'll click on them and raise the search ranking, the ads are pay per view - not pay per conversion. The rates paid by the ads are renegotiated according to traffic and search ranking - if you don't follow them, their value decreases - whether you download them (view) or not has no bearing on whether Slashdot puts them on their.
Buggered if I know what your hair shirt attitude actually achieves - certainly not the results you propose. It just doesn't add up.
I find it sad to read this, knowing many actually think this way :'(
Think? They changed the meaning of think?
A belief just popped into my head (like a squeezed pimple) that I've missed another NewSpeak meeting. (sigh)
fuck Slashdot for putting goddamned Facebook and Twitter links under every fucking post.
There's links under posts?
I also don't understand
"As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising. "
Huh? There's advertising?
Must be one of my extensions blocking the ability to turn on advertising so I can turn it off. Lets see - NoScript, FlashBlock, AdBlock Plus, GreaseMonkey (with my custom block APK Slashdot posts), FireBug. Bloody FireBug!
Facebook is designed to spread SHIT as a core feature; it's a spam machine. Are you really saying there is a distinction between good and evil "likes"?
How the hell does one of the most hated companies become so popular?
PEBKAC
And, if you have to ask...
Slashdot also generates money through paid subscriptions.
Oh right - how could I overlook that? It makes a huge difference.
Do they sell t-shirts too?
You noticed I wasn't disagreeing with what you said about MS? (a product I don't use except when required)
I always preferred " elitist assholes having a giant circle jerk" but i'm told that is a little on the crude side and one should always try to improve one's vocabulary.
Should one also wear a tiara, and, leave a trail of Oxford commas after ones self?
And I wasn't trying to disparage Linux,
I didn't think you were.
i personally like it for embedded and webservers, i was simply trying to beat to the punch the obvious "Freetard" posts we get on any windows subject. you know the ones, bullshit like "Linux never gets viruses!" or the completely pointless "Use Linux' when the entire TFA has nothing whatever to do with Linux or FOSS.
Butt, butt, butt their opinion is important. Need. To. Show. I. Am. Cutting. Edge.
Remember, they've made an enormous emotional investment in their ability to pick the Superior Magic®. If they were wrong... then their whole ability to intuitively understand complex subjects is called into question. Never going to happen.
Plus my football team is better than your football team, and I'm better than you. (It's not about sex, it's about the perception of loss).
hell i had one just yesterday when i pointed out i couldn't sell Linux boxes to consumers because the upgrades ALWAYS seem to break drivers
Same thing again - that particular problem is a PEBKAC. I need to have [insert distro based on unstable or testing here] because, because, because (Superior Magic®). Not because they need to have fucking BumbleBee (or the hardware), or a 3.2 kernel. But because Stable is not Superior Magic®. Besides if you don't sit on the cutting edge, you're not cutting edge - you're a loser, and losers don't get laid. (loser is a woody word) It's pure logic don't you see? And if you don't agree I'll find some small debatable syntactic or grammatical error you've made. (so there!)
Somewhere in all this styling and magical thinking should be some substance, I dunno maybe I expect to much, but maybe it should be about producing something.
"Well just disable upgrades, its not like you need them!"
See that's where you're wrong. They don't need the updates - it's the constant updating they need. Otherwise they'd have nothing to do and nothing to tweet about.
Disclaimer: for the purposes of this discussion - "want" == "need" and that ocean North of Sydney is the "Specific Ocean".
and it was like i could just FEEL the stupid and his perception bubble pouring through the cable, sad that in this day and age when we had JUST had a posting on distros scrambling to issue patches for a zero day privilege escalation in Linux I would get a posting like that. just as i've sat he literally gobsmacked when i get a iKoolaid drinker that will argue up and down that "Macs don't have viruses" because apparently if the user has to do anything at all then it "don't count'. talk about splitting hairs with a laser!
In the end its that kind of dumbshit we PC shops have to deal with 6 days a damned week,
I can't help but wonder what would happen to your job if all the PC users became smarter overnight. In fact I can't help but wonder what would happen to a hell of a lot of jobs - and the US's plan "going forward" for their economy (import workers to produce copyrighted and patented code). It's not just the future that's built on a lack of substance, and dependant on people furiously clicking on the purchase button so they can furiously click/tap/wave at other "things". All of which requires that what ever is popular becomes as dumb as possible, and that people are made dumber lest they question the whole process.
Please excuse me from dealing with your other comments - I need to go make a large number of desperate, angry people happy - they're demanding something they don't understand (and don't need) and claim it "should be simpler". Apparently I should care that Linux/BSD isn't everyone's desktop.
As for TFA before any of the lame "Use Linux" karma whores show up as someone who actually fixes the thing when they get pwned 6 days a week I'd just like to point out that since XP SP2 a lot of the machines getting pwned were PEBKAC and after Vista the vast majority were PEBKAC and with 7 its almost 100% PEBKAC and sadly no OS can magically protect you from stupid people.
Hey I use Linux you insensitive sod!
It's not about OS choice - it's about market share. The morons have a monopoly (it's a mainstay of evolution). So what ever product (food, technology, whatever) is the most popular will inevitably suck because the users influence the product - if it didn't suck to begin with - it will pretty soon.
What some call fanbois/nerds/geeks are just morons who focus their limited abilities on a small range of subjects. The my phone is smaller/my phone OS is better is less a sign of intelligence and more a sign of primitive fetishism.
It's a mostly PEBKAC world where "sophisticated" means "sophists".
Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.
Slashdot is a business whose sole income is advertising revenue. People visit because people visit. The Slashdot business model (Soulskill is an employee) is to promote controversy - The Rupert Murdock Model®. It ceased to be anything ./ related a long time ago.
Most *BSD fanboy's don't consider Linux production stable, we tend to have higher standards.
Fanbois, unicorns, Santa Claus... different authority dogs, same leg action.
No one said your beloved distro is inferior. You can go back to polishing your fetishes now.
Actually the problem is that you have missed the context of this discussion.
You could hurt your back lugging those goalposts around all the time. See if you can find a company in that list that doesn't distribute the code. Do you even have a fucking clue what the GPL is? HInt: it's useless unless distribution is involved.
Just because you can argue the toss (or how many angels can party on the head of a pin) doesn't mean you should.
And there is no business model so your point is not on topic. ;-)
You might want to ask the woman next to you for her signature.... I think you're way out on a limb there and Shirley Maclaine's signature might be the only benefit.
Google, IBM, eBay, BBC, etc, etc - a very long list of small enterprises who make money on the back of GPL (greater and lesser version) that you've probably never heard of, and can be excused for not being able to research.
Here's another obscure one that some taco cowboy rode into retirement.. You were probably a big authority in primary school - but we've all got this internet thing now, you can check stuff with it.
no, I'm from the present. you know that is based on FreeBSD 8.1
No - you really are from the past.
that Debian frankenstein is not production stable, just a trial balloon.
Wrong again. And you don't get to determine what's "production stable" as you clearly don't have a clue what you're talking about.
We're talking about Debian GNU/LInux compared to FreeBSD here
You're talking pure bullshit. Do you even use BSD? (not that anything you say has a shred of credibility).
Come in handy for what?
Being able to download files that are hard to get elsewhere.
Piracy?
Are you saying everything linked on PirateBay is "pirated"? Is everything you write bullshit?
Admittedly I've never used the product because I have multiple, free 8GB email accounts and I just right-click and choose "encrypt and email" from the drop-down list. But I*1 can't see how they can make real money - seems like they'd need a much larger percentage of paying users, and even then the margins look small.
Mostly I'd be thinking the business would die overnight if a certain large platform agnostic company offered a free version. Or do they have some strategy stronger than public relations (like patents) to ensure long term viability?/p>
*1 But then, I wouldn't invest in Facebook on long-term basis either.
Debian will get there someday
Are you from the past?
Replace FreeBSD with Debian,
*cough*.
Replace Ubuntu.
TFTFY
Congratulations, you're the most worthless retarded faggot on the planet for publicly making such a apathetic comment. "Aussie Bob", huh? Go the fuck back to Australia, why don't you? We don't need people like you here in the U.S.
Dear Bonch/SharkLaser/Overly Critical Guy, this is not the US, it's the internet.
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels who believe that the location their parents fucked in makes them superior.
And that's be "an apathetic" if it was such. Even the timing between your Anonymous Coward shit flinging posts are distinctive. Who ever hired you is an idiot in need of a refund.
Not too worry - you can just work through that old password and username list you pulled off pastebin and grab another Slashdot ID.
Do you actually have any proof of this?
Well, I read it in a post by a well known shill. So it must be true.
Google FTC antitrust investigation
That's exactly the sort of proof by anecdote slander the shills use. It's like you have an inside line into how they work. Fucking amazing.
Interesting post history yourself - my hasn't your style changed since that account was first opened. Just like Bonch. Weird huh?
Attempting to label his comment offtopic and subtly ridiculing him with the phrase
...because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets...
as well as the term "random rant" doesn't change the fact that corporations and even the government are, in fact, attempting to influence forum participants with astroturfing and sockpuppetry. Just ask HBGary. We understand why you may feel strongly about this, given that you are a obvious known shill of some sort.
No-ooo. Tell me it ain't so. If that were the case then the first thing he'd do would be to.... oh ri-ght. I get it now.
But wouldn't that mean SharkLaser was a shill too?
Do not attempt to mess with us or we will crap all over your face.
A truly cunning plan - feeding the shills until obesity kills them.
I've noticed a pattern of late that seems to separate the fanbois and trolls from the shills. Look for those who post dozens of times a day, have low Slashdot ids, but have only been posting for the last 3 months - they'll make the occasional post that isn't related to their agenda in a poor attempt at camouflage. Their use of sock puppet armies are distinctive by their down-mods of the "opponents" and up-mods of their own posts just confirms it.
From the linked article:- Cecelia Prewett, an FTC spokeswoman, declined to comment on the widening of the agency’s investigation.
I interpret that to read "declined to comment on *claimed* widening of the agency's investigation.
I don't equate every investigation launched by the FTC as evidence of any wrongdoing - anymore than I equate a Department of Transport investigation into cars taking off from the lights all by themselves. They respond, by nature, to complaints. The complaints don't have to be valid.
Hint: automotive industry in trouble - find Fiat guilty (of not catering to fat feet). Rinse and repeat the next time the native automotive industry loses sales to a foreign competitor.
It's a big deal because Google is promoting her Google+ page, while not Facebook's. That's the whole issue.
Didn't you say she *doesn't* have a Google+ page?
Your argument is unclear - are you proposing that search engines are a public utility? Will the gubment take ownership? Who'll be footing the tax bill? Will this result in new legislation that gets applied to every search engine or index?
I'm guessing you live in a country that considers itself the boss of the world.
While you're lobbying for truth and justice - please prosecute Bing for not indexing my sites as fast as it indexes others - oh, and how about that Facebook search index? Twitter put up those nofollow tags... Can you whinge for me because I'm forced to use Google and it's not fair!
Doesn't matter what side of the fence you're on with regards to the climate debate.
I made that reference with regard to government control of what scientists were/are allowed to say.
I'm of the belief that you can't try and invalidate data that shows elevated temperatures by claiming the temperature measurements are artificially elevated by having recording stations near roads, power stations, and airport *and* simultaneously claim that producing heat doesn't have an effect on the immediate environment.