I think the point of the poster you so quickly flamed was that if the carnivore system was in place, then mr. McVeigh's email may have been flagged, causing the FBI to take notice of him.
And how on earth does the carnivore system have anything to do with your weight-loss attempt graphs?
I think this is the point where you are supposed to have an Open Mind(tm), and consider the other side of the argument. We all know why the FBI is the super devil incarnate, stealing the privacy of the american citizen for evil ends. But, instead of getting hung up on the Popular View(tm), why not pause and consider the other side, which is how this system would benifit the american public? How else can you come to a critcal analysis on the situation?
Personally, when i hear of people like Timothy McVeigh getting arrested, it makes me sleep easier at night. Some people on Slashdot seems to be as inflexable as those on the Christian Chat Network, which is quite frightening. -legolas
Although this isn't with IBM, AIX, Websphere, etc. al, i had a simular enounter with the tech support at Rogers/AT&T, my cellphone provider. I initially signed a contract with one of their indepentant dealers, but when they were unable to bring in the phone i wanted (Nokia 6160, sweeeet), we voided the contract, and i went to another dealership which could get me the phone i wanted.
Fast forward a month, when it comes time to pay the bill, i get not one, but two. The first dealership just dripped with incompetance, and forgot to cancel the initial account. Ok, so i call Roger's tech support to get this corrected... only to find out that want me, personally, to go back into the incompetent dealership to make them fix the problem, despite the fact i had no contract with Rogers on that number, and that it was an internal screwup.
The point of the story... yes, while they kept putting the onus on me to fix the problem their incompetence created, I kept insisting that it was their fault, I had no contract for that number, and therefore was under no obligation to fix it. I kept increasing the asshole factor (asking to talk to the supervisor, etc.), until eventually they caved in, and the supervisor personally called the incompetent dealer that messed up, getting the problem fixed.
The lesson to be learned is that... well, put enough pressure on them when it is obviously their responcibility, and wonderful things will happen. =^) -legolas
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Actually, as it turned out, that was a hoax. The trashy news magazine (hardcopy or something... i cannot recall) did it to cause a scare or something. If you watched the footage in ultra slow mo, you would see the truck started to blow up BEFORE it was impacted.
This is, of course, why i don't watch TV (except for The Simpsons, which taught me everything i need to know about life;^) The fact that a show did this to get ratings, and that people went along with it is horrifying. -legolas
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XTC doesn't taste too bad - sorta like Mountain Dew, but thicker. Whoopass cola tastes kinda like Dr. Pepper. Both are somewhat uncommon (more uncommon then, say, regular Jones. I think there are only 2-3 convenience stores that stock it here. You can order both off of their website) and pretty pricey (expect to pay $2.50 CDN per 250ml can of each). -legolas
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I don't know what they're talking about...
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I'm still running a 486/50, and I'm not complaining. -legolas
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No, I actually checked the ingredient list... it has the crazy Guarana, Ginseng, and other natural stimulants... but they pulled the caffeine (which is just lower then Jolt in the non-Canadian version). Probably the best you can do on the Canadian market is Jones' Whoopass Cola, which has the natural stimulants AND the high-caffeine cola. Although, good 'ol Jolt is a better deal just because of the price. =^) -legolas
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Heh... Reboot was one of the coolest cartoons i've ever seen. It really played on the computer metephors quite nicely... i was *quite* disappointed when they didn't make a season four.
For people unfamiliar to the show, Joe Smith's Reboot page is probably the best internet resource on the show. I think i have my Megabyte action figure around somewhere...:^) -legolas
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Are they allowed to sell Red Bull in the US? They sure aren't here in Canada... we can't even get caffinated Mountain Dew here. (My sister smuggled some Red Bull from the UK, tho... i think it's the only "energy drink" that has ever had an affect on me.)
BTW, for those who wonder whats up with the Mountain Dew, Canadian law looks at it like this: In dark drinks, coffee, cola, etc., Caffeine is considered a flavour enhancer. However, in light drinks, it's considered a drug, and has to be controlled as such. Thus, no Red Bull, and no caffeinated Mountain Dew.
However, for those who need a kick, Jones Soda's Whoopass is pretty powerful stuff... think Jolt meets XTC. =^) -legolas
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Last time i checked, COPA stood for The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association - the civilian group in Canada responsible for ensuring the rights of pilots and aircraft owners. Too bad such a good organization has to share an acronym with evil censorware.
And Run Lola Run is an awesome movie!! See it!! Send me a copy of the DVD! -legolas
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The output would, i think, be the compiled form. It would definately be copyrighted to the designer (intellectual property et. all, since there would be no output without the designer). If you have the source of the PHP scripts for the backend avaliable, I can't see the problem... -legolas
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A major difference that must be kept in mind is the fundemental differences between MacOS/Windows and *nix (Linux in peticular, but it works for most). Linux was originally designed as a bazzar-type project. As such, it is designed for the people who want inner access to the system. To those who want to add, and inovate. Most *nix software comes in source form for me to compile on any system, weither an iBook running Linux or an intel running OpenBSD. This is the market it is designed for - control freaks and people who like to take stuff apart.
MacOS (and Windows), however, has been a consumer-oriented system from the start. I know I complain about how closed MacOS is all the time. However, by hiding the insides, it is much easier for the non-computer people to use. And, the software is designed for this market.
So, in the end, I would believe that's why open source is such a bigger hit on *nix based systems - unlike the MacOS users, it is full of people who would love to innovate the software. I hardly believe the mIRC users on the christian chat would be as likely to innovate the SMB protocol, when they can barely get ICQ and Hotmail working. (and don't care at all.) =^) -legolas
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Pinging is more like knocking on the door and waiting for a responce. I would argue that a portscan is more like checking the doors. There is nothing illegal about little Girl Guides knocking on your door, selling cookies. (At least in Canada - i contacted the RCMP about portscans). Again, if you have a good firewall up, people won't even get to the doors because they are blocked at the bardwire electrified fence around the perimeter of your property.
Gack! The comparisons to real life are killing me. -legolas
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I'm using Enlightenment on my 486/50 (i will admit, it does have 16 megs of ram) quite happily. Even with a decent theme (and the SFX turned off), it seems to be the more efficent window manager i've run on it, and it runs quite acceptably. I can even get WordPerfect running under it at a decent speed. =^)
Oh, and rxvt is by far the fastest way i've found to run a bash prompt.
Please ignore my complete irrelevance. -legolas
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If youre running it off of a 50 mhz computer, chances are you won't be installing X, or anything that has to do with X, so you can kiss about 9/10 of the extra software good bye.
No, dude. This was my point - i had a full install, with X and programs, in the small installation. (X runs ok on a 486/50 if you're careful to optimize). And it's easy to install slackware bit by bit. Just my experience. -legolas
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In February, i *finally* obtained a box to play with Linux on - an old 486/50 with a 1.2GB hdd. The big thing that finally make me go with Slackware is the the size of the installation. The default Red Hat installation would have completely crammed my hdd. With slackware, though, they put together a package of really good, useful software, and fit it into a ~600mb installation. For running on low-end hardware, it was awefully nice to get such a powerful yet efficently assembled distro.
Plus, i mean, "Slackware"... that just sounds cool. =^) -legolas
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Who is impressed with Oscars anyway? Personally, i found better uses of my time then to watch some self-important people pat themselves on the back. People, who's (in most, not all cases) contribution to society is the heartwarming story about a fictional man who helped a fictional boy who could see dead people, etc.
I don't know... i find the people who are in peacekeeping missions or finding the cure to aids or even developing software to help the masses a bit more important. But, of course, your milage may vary.
Maybe if we ignore the movie industry, it will go away. -legolas
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I have a iBook with both a LinuxPPC and a MacOS partition (personally, i love Linux way more, but that's my taste)
Anyways, while booted up in Linux, i run a program called Mac-On-Linux, which will load the MacOS partition, full screen, under X. Then, once you are there, you load up a Mac program called Virtual PC, and *boom*, Windows 98 loads up, under MacOS, under Linux.
The fun just never ends. =^) -legolas
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Hmph... i think this works for both genders, actually.
(All the SUVs - the ultimate overpackaging model - being driven [poorly] around here by both men and women who do it just to make their penises feel bigger makes me physically ill.) -legolas
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I recently decided to get a cd burner for my computer, so we wondered down to a local computer store (that custom built our system a year ago... that's the only way to get it done if you don't do it yourself;^). Anyways, they had the best price in town, and when we picked it up, they handed us a drive, a cd, and four screws in an antistatic bag... OEM equipment. Way better then the huge box most come in, imho. =^)
(ps yes, i am aware that a part of packaging is to prevent damage in shipping.) -legolas
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I'm not sure about that grim future... if you recall all the way back to Friday, Microsoft did announce that it was working on Office for MacOS X. They already did *nix versions of Internet Explorer. If there is a Linux market for games (which is getting bigger and bigger), it would make good business sense to go after it, since it will not be disappearing anytime soon.
Your milage may vary. -legolas
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I'm running a computer in my bedroom as, among other things, a gateway to my DSL connection for the rest of my house. (Linux is just fine on a 486 =^)
Anyways, I leave it on all night, and after i turn off the monitor, from my various components and network equipment there are still usually 9 Solid green LEDs, a blinking green LED, three blinking orange LEDs (four, if you include the power bar light), and two red LEDs on. Lets just say that a night-light is not required. =^) Really, that and the two cooling fans aren't that much of a disruption, after one gets use to them. The fans are clean, which really keeps them quiet. -legolas
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While i'd personally rather get paid to go there as an astro-man, a trip like this would be amazing. I'm going to be quite impressed when there is relatively inexpensive vacation colonies on the moon (as there was supposed to be by 1964).
Playing the "what it's worth" game, not only is it fairly expensive for a 200 mile trip (at $100000/mi), but you could also get one of these SUVs for the same price. Kinda makes you wonder... (and, as a pilot, i'd have to go for #2). -legolas
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And how on earth does the carnivore system have anything to do with your weight-loss attempt graphs?
I think this is the point where you are supposed to have an Open Mind(tm), and consider the other side of the argument. We all know why the FBI is the super devil incarnate, stealing the privacy of the american citizen for evil ends. But, instead of getting hung up on the Popular View(tm), why not pause and consider the other side, which is how this system would benifit the american public? How else can you come to a critcal analysis on the situation?
Personally, when i hear of people like Timothy McVeigh getting arrested, it makes me sleep easier at night. Some people on Slashdot seems to be as inflexable as those on the Christian Chat Network, which is quite frightening.
-legolas
(ps go Canada! Ra ra ra, etc.)
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Fast forward a month, when it comes time to pay the bill, i get not one, but two. The first dealership just dripped with incompetance, and forgot to cancel the initial account. Ok, so i call Roger's tech support to get this corrected... only to find out that want me, personally, to go back into the incompetent dealership to make them fix the problem, despite the fact i had no contract with Rogers on that number, and that it was an internal screwup.
The point of the story... yes, while they kept putting the onus on me to fix the problem their incompetence created, I kept insisting that it was their fault, I had no contract for that number, and therefore was under no obligation to fix it. I kept increasing the asshole factor (asking to talk to the supervisor, etc.), until eventually they caved in, and the supervisor personally called the incompetent dealer that messed up, getting the problem fixed.
The lesson to be learned is that... well, put enough pressure on them when it is obviously their responcibility, and wonderful things will happen. =^)
-legolas
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Nice try, sparky. Just keep slugging, champ. =^)
-legolas
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This is, of course, why i don't watch TV (except for The Simpsons, which taught me everything i need to know about life ;^) The fact that a show did this to get ratings, and that people went along with it is horrifying.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Of course, that does mean that i get no caffeine in my Mountain Dew, non-cola Jolt, and XTC. M'eh.
-legolas
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For people unfamiliar to the show, Joe Smith's Reboot page is probably the best internet resource on the show. I think i have my Megabyte action figure around somewhere... :^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
BTW, for those who wonder whats up with the Mountain Dew, Canadian law looks at it like this: In dark drinks, coffee, cola, etc., Caffeine is considered a flavour enhancer. However, in light drinks, it's considered a drug, and has to be controlled as such. Thus, no Red Bull, and no caffeinated Mountain Dew.
However, for those who need a kick, Jones Soda's Whoopass is pretty powerful stuff... think Jolt meets XTC. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
And Run Lola Run is an awesome movie!! See it!! Send me a copy of the DVD!
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
The output would, i think, be the compiled form. It would definately be copyrighted to the designer (intellectual property et. all, since there would be no output without the designer). If you have the source of the PHP scripts for the backend avaliable, I can't see the problem...
-legolas
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MacOS (and Windows), however, has been a consumer-oriented system from the start. I know I complain about how closed MacOS is all the time. However, by hiding the insides, it is much easier for the non-computer people to use. And, the software is designed for this market.
So, in the end, I would believe that's why open source is such a bigger hit on *nix based systems - unlike the MacOS users, it is full of people who would love to innovate the software. I hardly believe the mIRC users on the christian chat would be as likely to innovate the SMB protocol, when they can barely get ICQ and Hotmail working. (and don't care at all.) =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Gack! The comparisons to real life are killing me.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Oh, and rxvt is by far the fastest way i've found to run a bash prompt.
Please ignore my complete irrelevance.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
No, dude. This was my point - i had a full install, with X and programs, in the small installation. (X runs ok on a 486/50 if you're careful to optimize). And it's easy to install slackware bit by bit. Just my experience.
-legolas
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Plus, i mean, "Slackware"... that just sounds cool. =^)
-legolas
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I don't know... i find the people who are in peacekeeping missions or finding the cure to aids or even developing software to help the masses a bit more important. But, of course, your milage may vary.
Maybe if we ignore the movie industry, it will go away.
-legolas
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I have a iBook with both a LinuxPPC and a MacOS partition (personally, i love Linux way more, but that's my taste)
Anyways, while booted up in Linux, i run a program called Mac-On-Linux, which will load the MacOS partition, full screen, under X. Then, once you are there, you load up a Mac program called Virtual PC, and *boom*, Windows 98 loads up, under MacOS, under Linux.
The fun just never ends. =^)
-legolas
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(All the SUVs - the ultimate overpackaging model - being driven [poorly] around here by both men and women who do it just to make their penises feel bigger makes me physically ill.)
-legolas
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(ps yes, i am aware that a part of packaging is to prevent damage in shipping.)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Your milage may vary.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Anyways, I leave it on all night, and after i turn off the monitor, from my various components and network equipment there are still usually 9 Solid green LEDs, a blinking green LED, three blinking orange LEDs (four, if you include the power bar light), and two red LEDs on. Lets just say that a night-light is not required. =^) Really, that and the two cooling fans aren't that much of a disruption, after one gets use to them. The fans are clean, which really keeps them quiet.
-legolas
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Playing the "what it's worth" game, not only is it fairly expensive for a 200 mile trip (at $100000/mi), but you could also get one of these SUVs for the same price. Kinda makes you wonder... (and, as a pilot, i'd have to go for #2).
-legolas
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