don't take this the wrong way please but are you freaking insane. You've just proven something that I have serious issue with on a majority of slashdot users.
To quote:
"Makes you wanna Ralph, more than ever!"
You list a paragraph about how much you don't trust government authorities and yet you say that this should make us want someone who wants the government to have MORE power, almost to the point of socialism. How can you reconsile this in any rational thought process?
This bothers me more and more is that people wanted Ralph Nader for his consumer support background (which I am ALL in favor) and yet never bothered to read the Socialist manifesto that was the Green Party platform.
We don't need a bigger government we need a constitutional government that doesn't step over it's bounds. The government should protect us from the things that we cannot do ourselves (fight big business, foreign powers) and set laws that are within thier power as defined by the constituion. Everything else should pass to the states. And yet you people still call for the Green party and Nader under a platform that would pass EVERYTHING to the government to decide.
It just blows my mind!
btw, is there a way to only get the browser for mozilla? I don't need, or want anything else.
This is going to come across as rude but everyone is griping about how big the mozilla downloads are.
Are you people just stupid or do you only want to bitch? I've been downloading the nightly installers for weeks now and installing ONLY the browser portion. No talkback, no mail and no news. I'll stick with Pan and mutt for the other stuff I need.
In the directory where you downloaded mozilla there is an installer that actually says mozilla-buildFOO-installer.BARplatform.compression extension.
go to the start menu and run profile manager from the seamonkey menu option. It'll start fine after that. I was having the same problem on my work machine until I tried that.
I don't mind it being public at all. I know to "file 13" all spam and snailmail that comes to Mr. DNS Admins that way;)
On a serious note, it DOES bother me how many people don't have a valid postmaster@domain.com or even a REAL email registered under the contacts for thier domains though.
The buglet that bothers me about netscape 6 and mozilla is using a proxy auto config script. It just doesn't work. I'm looking around at the bug lists now and see if anyone ever bothered to report it.
Actually after checking out the various links, I think you may have either intentionally misled or unintentionally misunderstood in regards to what an IDE is. Syntax highlighting does not an IDE make. What needs to exist (in ZD's mind) is something like Cold Fusion Studio or VC++ where you have some of the nifty auto complete and context tools. Personally I find syntax highlighting to be enough for me in vi.
On a side note, if someone were so inclined (maybe me when i have time) we could use mozilla to create a PHP Studio similar to what people are working on for zope.
I've just started messing about with Interbase a bit and I find it to be extremely nice. I'm not a database geek by any means but Interbase provided somethings that I'm used to from my previous Oracle experience. Basically this boils down to what different people THINK a database should or should not have. MySQL leaves most things (like FK's, triggers, etc) to allow for greater speed.
Well I hadn't ever worked out a shell account pricing scheme yet. I really don't host anything more than a few opensource projects and a few local (Atlanta) band sites. Email me offline and we can talk.
Well I can't provide internet access but I would be willing to provide you with a ssh shell account with gnupg installed. I also have a webmail interface setup with ssl. I also wrapped IMAP and POP traffic with SSL for those who want to use it that way.
As far as the outages, I recently had a few but the issue turned out to be a fried DSL router which has since been resolved.
r, I suppose, throw a whole bunch more laws on the books and move us all the closer to being a 100% government run, socialist police state (I'd say now we're only about 90%) there...
I don't believe it. Another Libertarian on slashdot. I figured everyone here was a member of Nader's party (not that I completely disagree with all of Nader's policies).
We are a capitalist society. Deal with it. Government should only do what we as the citizen can't do for ourselves. We should simply vote with our dollars and leave the government out of it.
It's just funny how much people distrust the government all around and yet expect them to do the right thing and in fact trust them to when it comes to something like this. Vote with your wallet and do something for yourself people!
Okay this is not a flame or a troll but here we go:
Why do you feel the need to upgrade. You can update the packages on each person's machine by yourself with a bit of perl scripting. This is what confuses me the most. Our workstations at the office JUST upgraded to 2000 after it's been out going on a year. Want to know why? I wanted to research and see how many bug reports came out before we moved over. (We have to run ms products because for outlook here.) Just because it's out there doesn't mean you have to upgrade. I still have a nameserver running 5.2 and I don't feel ANY need to upgrade IT. I keep the kernel up and patch what few packages have bug reports released but thats it. ANYBODY who puts something untested on a production machine is an idiot and asking for trouble. I learned early on in my corporate career...you DO NOT fuck with production boxen. It's that simple.
While I don't agree with someone basing something on appearances as a "scab" worker, how in the fuck would you feel if you were not chosen for a job because they would have to pay you more than an H1 worker? While this has never happened to me directly, I can understand the level of disdain someone would feel by having companies pass them over for a job because they can pay an immigrant worker 10 to 20k less.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit. Christ I am so pissed today. It's cheap labor and nothing more. I am so tired of America taking care of the world like this. There are plenty of people here that could do the work but companies are too fucking cheap to pay. It doesn't matter how goddamn skilled someone is. It doesn't matter how goddamn motivated someone is.
Don't tell me America is supposed to take care of the world and "that's not what the country is supposed to be about". The rest of the world is LAUGHING at us because we cave in to every little thing to preserve our precious place in the world. We try to please everyone and you all know that doesn't work. I'm tired of the US making concessions for everyone in the world but its own citizens. If I go to work in another country I am expected to learn the language. No one makes any concessions for me. I'm tired of having to CHOOSE english as an option at an ATM. I live in the US for chrissakes what fucking language do you THINK I speak? I'm tired of alot of things.
If the internet access were cheaper overseas I would move there. And I would learn the language first.
And don't try and pull a race card or a xenophobe card either because it doesn't fly with me. Being nationalistic does not a racist make.
New Delhi becomes Silicon Valley, 2004.
Won't happen. They tried this with Bangalore and the public works system couldn't keep up. In the two weeks I was in the city our hotel (Le Meridien) had no less than 3 power outages a day.
I spent a month in India recruiting programmers to come to the states on the H1 program. I didn't really feel it was right to do this but it was a once in a lifetime experience.
The problem is not that we have a shortage of workers. The problem is that companies can pay people who come from overseas LESS than they can pay a citizen. As opposed to paying a US programmer 80k or so a year (at least in Georgia I would gather) they can bring someone over from another country and pay them 45 or 50k. They won't bitch about salary because if they go unemployed, they have a hsort time period in which they can get rehired or they have to leave the country. Besides that, as one poster said, any other company doesn't want to bother with the visa paperwork.
Actually they released on mp3 themselves as well. Our local radio station is hosting the mp3s as well. Lots of redone versions of songs from Machina and some new stuff:
<a href="http://99x.com/mp3/">here's</a> the link.
I really like the "new" IBM alot but I agree with you. The only thing IBM did right was Lexmark. Make it it's own company with IBM as parent and let it run.
Sure. All they would need to do is block IP traffic type 47 - GRE traffic. They could block pptp traffic as well but once the pptp initial connection is made, it switches over to GRE anyway so it would fail.
Someone else may have pointed this out but during the whole thing I'm wondering how this ended up with anything more than a PG rating. Skip to near the end with this bit of witty banter:
Wolverine: Hold up it's me! Cyclops: Prove it! Wolverine: You're a dick. Cyclops: Good enough.
That had me crying I was laughing so hard.
And as to the Stan Lee cameo, Check out the extended cast list for the movie on IMDB. I'm actually going back to see if I can figure out where the hell Collosus was in the movie. I did catch Pyro and Iceman though.
I actually read a similar article about this initially at news.com talking about companies doing ths all the time when they go bankrupt. Of all the hardware and everything they have (as much as an internet company CAN have) customer databases sell for the most and oft times get them out of debt the most. It's good to see a government organization standing up for the people for once.
For the attentive (like me) check news.com from Saturday, I believe, and see which OTHER companies are currently auctioning off customer databases. You may have done business with them at some point.
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don't take this the wrong way please but are you freaking insane. You've just proven something that I have serious issue with on a majority of slashdot users.
To quote: "Makes you wanna Ralph, more than ever!"
You list a paragraph about how much you don't trust government authorities and yet you say that this should make us want someone who wants the government to have MORE power, almost to the point of socialism. How can you reconsile this in any rational thought process?
This bothers me more and more is that people wanted Ralph Nader for his consumer support background (which I am ALL in favor) and yet never bothered to read the Socialist manifesto that was the Green Party platform.
We don't need a bigger government we need a constitutional government that doesn't step over it's bounds. The government should protect us from the things that we cannot do ourselves (fight big business, foreign powers) and set laws that are within thier power as defined by the constituion. Everything else should pass to the states. And yet you people still call for the Green party and Nader under a platform that would pass EVERYTHING to the government to decide.
It just blows my mind!
btw, is there a way to only get the browser for mozilla? I don't need, or want anything else.
n extension.
This is going to come across as rude but everyone is griping about how big the mozilla downloads are.
Are you people just stupid or do you only want to bitch? I've been downloading the nightly installers for weeks now and installing ONLY the browser portion. No talkback, no mail and no news. I'll stick with Pan and mutt for the other stuff I need.
In the directory where you downloaded mozilla there is an installer that actually says mozilla-buildFOO-installer.BARplatform.compressio
Install mozilla to your home directory and then run the install for PSM. It's a permissions issue.
go to the start menu and run profile manager from the seamonkey menu option. It'll start fine after that. I was having the same problem on my work machine until I tried that.
I don't mind it being public at all. I know to "file 13" all spam and snailmail that comes to Mr. DNS Admins that way ;)
On a serious note, it DOES bother me how many people don't have a valid postmaster@domain.com or even a REAL email registered under the contacts for thier domains though.
The buglet that bothers me about netscape 6 and mozilla is using a proxy auto config script. It just doesn't work. I'm looking around at the bug lists now and see if anyone ever bothered to report it.
Actually after checking out the various links, I think you may have either intentionally misled or unintentionally misunderstood in regards to what an IDE is. Syntax highlighting does not an IDE make. What needs to exist (in ZD's mind) is something like Cold Fusion Studio or VC++ where you have some of the nifty auto complete and context tools. Personally I find syntax highlighting to be enough for me in vi.
On a side note, if someone were so inclined (maybe me when i have time) we could use mozilla to create a PHP Studio similar to what people are working on for zope.
I've just started messing about with Interbase a bit and I find it to be extremely nice. I'm not a database geek by any means but Interbase provided somethings that I'm used to from my previous Oracle experience. Basically this boils down to what different people THINK a database should or should not have. MySQL leaves most things (like FK's, triggers, etc) to allow for greater speed.
Heheh. I was always told I should think before I speak. too late now ;)
Well I hadn't ever worked out a shell account pricing scheme yet. I really don't host anything more than a few opensource projects and a few local (Atlanta) band sites. Email me offline and we can talk.
Well I can't provide internet access but I would be willing to provide you with a ssh shell account with gnupg installed. I also have a webmail interface setup with ssl. I also wrapped IMAP and POP traffic with SSL for those who want to use it that way.
As far as the outages, I recently had a few but the issue turned out to be a fried DSL router which has since been resolved.
Actually my assumption is that the ISP's will mirror all traffic to one port of the switch that the carnivore box is plugged into.
r, I suppose, throw a whole bunch more laws on the books and move us all the closer to being a 100% government run, socialist police state (I'd say now we're only about 90%) there...
I don't believe it. Another Libertarian on slashdot. I figured everyone here was a member of Nader's party (not that I completely disagree with all of Nader's policies).
We are a capitalist society. Deal with it. Government should only do what we as the citizen can't do for ourselves. We should simply vote with our dollars and leave the government out of it.
It's just funny how much people distrust the government all around and yet expect them to do the right thing and in fact trust them to when it comes to something like this. Vote with your wallet and do something for yourself people!
Okay this is not a flame or a troll but here we go: Why do you feel the need to upgrade. You can update the packages on each person's machine by yourself with a bit of perl scripting. This is what confuses me the most. Our workstations at the office JUST upgraded to 2000 after it's been out going on a year. Want to know why? I wanted to research and see how many bug reports came out before we moved over. (We have to run ms products because for outlook here.) Just because it's out there doesn't mean you have to upgrade. I still have a nameserver running 5.2 and I don't feel ANY need to upgrade IT. I keep the kernel up and patch what few packages have bug reports released but thats it. ANYBODY who puts something untested on a production machine is an idiot and asking for trouble. I learned early on in my corporate career...you DO NOT fuck with production boxen. It's that simple.
Obelix was cooler. Kind of goofy but cooler none the less. And they were Gauls ;)
While I don't agree with someone basing something on appearances as a "scab" worker, how in the fuck would you feel if you were not chosen for a job because they would have to pay you more than an H1 worker? While this has never happened to me directly, I can understand the level of disdain someone would feel by having companies pass them over for a job because they can pay an immigrant worker 10 to 20k less.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit. Christ I am so pissed today. It's cheap labor and nothing more. I am so tired of America taking care of the world like this. There are plenty of people here that could do the work but companies are too fucking cheap to pay. It doesn't matter how goddamn skilled someone is. It doesn't matter how goddamn motivated someone is.
Don't tell me America is supposed to take care of the world and "that's not what the country is supposed to be about". The rest of the world is LAUGHING at us because we cave in to every little thing to preserve our precious place in the world. We try to please everyone and you all know that doesn't work. I'm tired of the US making concessions for everyone in the world but its own citizens. If I go to work in another country I am expected to learn the language. No one makes any concessions for me. I'm tired of having to CHOOSE english as an option at an ATM. I live in the US for chrissakes what fucking language do you THINK I speak? I'm tired of alot of things.
If the internet access were cheaper overseas I would move there. And I would learn the language first.
And don't try and pull a race card or a xenophobe card either because it doesn't fly with me. Being nationalistic does not a racist make.
New Delhi becomes Silicon Valley, 2004. Won't happen. They tried this with Bangalore and the public works system couldn't keep up. In the two weeks I was in the city our hotel (Le Meridien) had no less than 3 power outages a day.
I spent a month in India recruiting programmers to come to the states on the H1 program. I didn't really feel it was right to do this but it was a once in a lifetime experience.
The problem is not that we have a shortage of workers. The problem is that companies can pay people who come from overseas LESS than they can pay a citizen. As opposed to paying a US programmer 80k or so a year (at least in Georgia I would gather) they can bring someone over from another country and pay them 45 or 50k. They won't bitch about salary because if they go unemployed, they have a hsort time period in which they can get rehired or they have to leave the country. Besides that, as one poster said, any other company doesn't want to bother with the visa paperwork.
Actually they released on mp3 themselves as well. Our local radio station is hosting the mp3s as well. Lots of redone versions of songs from Machina and some new stuff:
<a href="http://99x.com/mp3/">here's</a> the link.
I really like the "new" IBM alot but I agree with you. The only thing IBM did right was Lexmark. Make it it's own company with IBM as parent and let it run.
Sure. All they would need to do is block IP traffic type 47 - GRE traffic. They could block pptp traffic as well but once the pptp initial connection is made, it switches over to GRE anyway so it would fail.
Someone else may have pointed this out but during the whole thing I'm wondering how this ended up with anything more than a PG rating. Skip to near the end with this bit of witty banter:
Wolverine: Hold up it's me!
Cyclops: Prove it!
Wolverine: You're a dick.
Cyclops: Good enough.
That had me crying I was laughing so hard.
And as to the Stan Lee cameo, Check out the extended cast list for the movie on IMDB. I'm actually going back to see if I can figure out where the hell Collosus was in the movie. I did catch Pyro and Iceman though.
I was actually trying to be clever but i guess it didn't work out. =)
I actually read a similar article about this initially at news.com talking about companies doing ths all the time when they go bankrupt. Of all the hardware and everything they have (as much as an internet company CAN have) customer databases sell for the most and oft times get them out of debt the most. It's good to see a government organization standing up for the people for once.
For the attentive (like me) check news.com from Saturday, I believe, and see which OTHER companies are currently auctioning off customer databases. You may have done business with them at some point.
Excercise your rights or loose them.