the only effective way to combat this is to pollute/crapflood their databases, in a massive sustained effort. A DDos they they are just begging for.
Just how that's done is another matter; but how long will it be before some enterprising young soul comes up with a daemon that generates false information and does nothing but pollute spyware databases? If it can be done with SETI, it can be done here... the caveat is that the machine would have to be "infected" to do this...
Louisiana is not redneck. There are no rednecks here. However, they have sold us out as the nations landfill.
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You know what? You're a fucking jackass.
Boy, aren't you smart! You said "McLuhan" and even better, you said "per se." What a fuckin genius you are, twit boy. I'm completely fucking sick of fucking self important twit assed nerds. You know what? You are all insipid, hopeless pieces of shit and your disgusting, hopelessly vapid blogging habits prove it for all to see. Everyone always knew you geeks were boring ass twits and now your google-fucking(TM) MT blogs prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
"Oh, I don't think McLuhan was right, the message is the message" oh, gee, brilliant. Hold on while I fucking piss on you, you ignorant fucking twit. Nevermind that the point of his statement was about the very nature of imagery vs typography or anything like that you blogging, boring fuck.
Why don't you FUCKING BLOGGING MORONS stick to posting your interminable, vomitous, execrable dribble about how someone at the grocery store today got in the express line with - gasp - sixteen items, or that you cut your toenails, or got your cat neutered, or some other equally insipid drivel on your fucking crap ass BLOGS (protected by Creative Commons licences no less!) where we can all safely avoid it?
In the meantime, please, for god's sake, refrain from having an opinion on anything, because you will only prove yourself even more annoying.
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Gee, you just out-argued a brilliant argument with a bunch of half thought out crap.
Not.
Read McLuhan a little more honestly next time, if you even bothered.
Duh, I realize that Sun has been around longer than than the.bomb days - but let's face it, that's when they became a powerhouse and a national brand name.
Solaris on x86 is a complete failure. Who on earth wants to run Solaris on Intel? Ridiculous. It's for developers only, pretty much. Solaris x86 is an utter waste of time for Sun as a comany.
Solaris does NOT run "faster" on sparc than linux. Have you tried it? I didn't think so. the issue between linux/solaris on sparc is purely FEATURES (albeit kernel level features), and nothing else.
All SunAll Sun is trying to do is to make life easier on their customers who want to run Solaris x86.
Well, it's worse than I thought then.
Sun needs to stop being a publically traded company. They aren't going to make it that way anymore; they rode the.bomb wave and made some money; but the party's over.
Apple, for example, can do this because they have a zealotous fan base with plenty of disposable income. Sun's base is scientists and engineers who have no control over purchasing, and moreover don't give a hoot about what OS they use.
The best thing in my mind that Sun can do now is legitimize linux on (low-end) sparc. 98% of the work is already done. Take Debian and make a meta Sun distro out of it. Sun's biggest problem right now is their pride.
Of course, Sun is not talking about free software here... it's easy enough to get any of that running on solaris.
They're talking about the software - proprietary - from vendors of theirs that are switching to linux because it's a cheaper (and better) platform for most apps. So, I really must ask, what is the point?
Solaris will - for the forseeable future - still be king on the mid to high end server end. They're talking here about workstation apps in the scientific and engineering realms which are moving wholesale to linux. So in essence Sun is saying here "you can run your linux apps on your legacy Sun workstations", and not much else. It's a nice gesture, but it is no earth shaker.
iTunes is not "free like juk". Not even in the least.
Secondly, juk does one thing, manage and play music files. You use something else to rip if you like. Why do we need one program to do everything? Who cares?
what does iTunes have over juk, as far as managing your music collection goes?
I personally have no interest in paying apple $1/song for a proprietary format; reencoding in ogg is not an option. Really, $1 per song is very, very expensive - considering a cd is about the same and you get a nice semi-permanent media, far higher quality audio, with artwork lyrics, etc.
Come to think of it, $1 per song is a complete rip off. If they were ogg encoded, I might give it some consideration at.50/song.
ACL's a only useful to me on shared network filesystems; on local filesystems they are just wasteful, not to mention they can conflict with the network share ACL's.
Can you imagine a samba share with ACL's on the unix filesystem and on the share? Yikes.
I agree, this is poorly written article and displays a rather juvenile understanding of the issues... if anything though, it could be used as an argument for why computer science majors and engineers should take more humanities classes.
Correct, however, it would cut down on Spam traffic which is a tremendous drain on the internet backbone. Spam blocking tools do nothing to alleviate that.
That said, I don't like this ABM thing at all. Spammers will always find a way around restrictions.
I've never heard a user say "My email doesn't work" (as in the article)... it's always "the internet's down" or something equally catastrophic.
To which of course i will respond with something terribly smart assed.
Whatever. Most people are fucking annoying and stupid. Some IT people are incredibly annoying, especially the ignorant ones who think they know everything, usually they are the corporate trained ones.
"hardware they didn't think would even run doom 3"???
the cards are all the latest round of crap that's come out, at maximum resolutions at that.
How about something useful for those of us who have no intention of paying $400 for a video card? This is one of the most useless, product driven wankfests I've seen, they should be ashamed.
Please, next time someone says "KDE and GNOME" are copies of windows", be sure to note exactly what the fuck way either one of them is any-fucking-goddamn-way like motherfucking windows, 'cause I just don't see it. Not at all. Maybe it's because you're using some godforsaken linux distro (Red Hat, Sun JD, ad nauseam) that goes out of it's way to make them look like windows - now that is possible. Please look beyond that or make an attempt to see KDE or GNOME at their true defaults. Absolutely NOTHING, NOTHING like windows.
Does windows have a panel? Nope. Does windows have multiple desktops? Nope. Does KDE or GNOME have stupid crap like drive letters, or "my computer"? Nope.
I could go on forever, but I'm getting bored with this. Just stop repeating this lie and educate yourself. Just because the more popular distros are trying their damndest to make their desktops look like windows, doesn't mean they are. If they all tried to make KDE look like CDE (very easy to do), would you morons be complaining that KDE was a CDE knockoff?
well for one, the government does not tax individuals or income, it seems more that they tax transactions. As many as they can find. For e.g., many items are taxed multiple times as they change hands.
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the only effective way to combat this is to pollute/crapflood their databases, in a massive sustained effort. A DDos they they are just begging for.
... the caveat is that the machine would have to be "infected" to do this ...
Just how that's done is another matter; but how long will it be before some enterprising young soul comes up with a daemon that generates false information and does nothing but pollute spyware databases? If it can be done with SETI, it can be done here
government isn't evil, it's an inescapable part of politics.
the state is evil.
Louisiana is not redneck. There are no rednecks here. However, they have sold us out as the nations landfill.
You know what? You're a fucking jackass.
Boy, aren't you smart! You said "McLuhan" and even better, you said "per se." What a fuckin genius you are, twit boy. I'm completely fucking sick of fucking self important twit assed nerds. You know what? You are all insipid, hopeless pieces of shit and your disgusting, hopelessly vapid blogging habits prove it for all to see. Everyone always knew you geeks were boring ass twits and now your google-fucking(TM) MT blogs prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
"Oh, I don't think McLuhan was right, the message is the message" oh, gee, brilliant. Hold on while I fucking piss on you, you ignorant fucking twit. Nevermind that the point of his statement was about the very nature of imagery vs typography or anything like that you blogging, boring fuck.
Why don't you FUCKING BLOGGING MORONS stick to posting your interminable, vomitous, execrable dribble about how someone at the grocery store today got in the express line with - gasp - sixteen items, or that you cut your toenails, or got your cat neutered, or some other equally insipid drivel on your fucking crap ass BLOGS (protected by Creative Commons licences no less!) where we can all safely avoid it?
In the meantime, please, for god's sake, refrain from having an opinion on anything, because you will only prove yourself even more annoying.
Gee, you just out-argued a brilliant argument with a bunch of half thought out crap.
Not.
Read McLuhan a little more honestly next time, if you even bothered.
Duh, I realize that Sun has been around longer than than the .bomb days - but let's face it, that's when they became a powerhouse and a national brand name.
Solaris on x86 is a complete failure. Who on earth wants to run Solaris on Intel? Ridiculous. It's for developers only, pretty much. Solaris x86 is an utter waste of time for Sun as a comany.
Solaris does NOT run "faster" on sparc than linux. Have you tried it? I didn't think so. the issue between linux/solaris on sparc is purely FEATURES (albeit kernel level features), and nothing else.
Well, it's worse than I thought then.
Sun needs to stop being a publically traded company. They aren't going to make it that way anymore; they rode the .bomb wave and made some money; but the party's over.
Apple, for example, can do this because they have a zealotous fan base with plenty of disposable income. Sun's base is scientists and engineers who have no control over purchasing, and moreover don't give a hoot about what OS they use.
The best thing in my mind that Sun can do now is legitimize linux on (low-end) sparc. 98% of the work is already done. Take Debian and make a meta Sun distro out of it. Sun's biggest problem right now is their pride.
Of course, Sun is not talking about free software here ... it's easy enough to get any of that running on solaris.
They're talking about the software - proprietary - from vendors of theirs that are switching to linux because it's a cheaper (and better) platform for most apps. So, I really must ask, what is the point?
Solaris will - for the forseeable future - still be king on the mid to high end server end. They're talking here about workstation apps in the scientific and engineering realms which are moving wholesale to linux. So in essence Sun is saying here "you can run your linux apps on your legacy Sun workstations", and not much else. It's a nice gesture, but it is no earth shaker.
iTunes is not "free like juk". Not even in the least.
Secondly, juk does one thing, manage and play music files. You use something else to rip if you like. Why do we need one program to do everything? Who cares?
what does iTunes have over juk, as far as managing your music collection goes?
.50/song.
I personally have no interest in paying apple $1/song for a proprietary format; reencoding in ogg is not an option. Really, $1 per song is very, very expensive - considering a cd is about the same and you get a nice semi-permanent media, far higher quality audio, with artwork lyrics, etc.
Come to think of it, $1 per song is a complete rip off. If they were ogg encoded, I might give it some consideration at
unfortunately no nerds have root access and can't turn promiscuous mode off
for your amusement:
replace "Google" with "Spam"
replace "semantic" with "concious"
replace "marketplace" with "brain"
uh, no. Asus, Abit and others have been making high quality motherboards for many years now, of generally better quality than intel.
duh, open source
best testing there is
Shouldn't that be "mshell"? :-)
ACL's a only useful to me on shared network filesystems; on local filesystems they are just wasteful, not to mention they can conflict with the network share ACL's.
Can you imagine a samba share with ACL's on the unix filesystem and on the share? Yikes.
Yep. Reiser3 is fast.
I deleted my entire home directory once in KDE with a careless flick of the thumb - it took an instant. Over a thousand files of work.
Most of it was backed up, though.
Because generally if they are out of the model you originally bought, they'll give you something somewhat better anyway.
I agree, this is poorly written article and displays a rather juvenile understanding of the issues ... if anything though, it could be used as an argument for why computer science majors and engineers should take more humanities classes.
Correct, however, it would cut down on Spam traffic which is a tremendous drain on the internet backbone. Spam blocking tools do nothing to alleviate that.
That said, I don't like this ABM thing at all. Spammers will always find a way around restrictions.
Users are annoying too.
... it's always "the internet's down" or something equally catastrophic.
I've never heard a user say "My email doesn't work" (as in the article)
To which of course i will respond with something terribly smart assed.
Whatever. Most people are fucking annoying and stupid. Some IT people are incredibly annoying, especially the ignorant ones who think they know everything, usually they are the corporate trained ones.
There are many such thing s for linux, cryptfs comes to mind for one
"hardware they didn't think would even run doom 3"???
the cards are all the latest round of crap that's come out, at maximum resolutions at that.
How about something useful for those of us who have no intention of paying $400 for a video card? This is one of the most useless, product driven wankfests I've seen, they should be ashamed.
Please, next time someone says "KDE and GNOME" are copies of windows", be sure to note exactly what the fuck way either one of them is any-fucking-goddamn-way like motherfucking windows, 'cause I just don't see it. Not at all. Maybe it's because you're using some godforsaken linux distro (Red Hat, Sun JD, ad nauseam) that goes out of it's way to make them look like windows - now that is possible. Please look beyond that or make an attempt to see KDE or GNOME at their true defaults. Absolutely NOTHING, NOTHING like windows.
Does windows have a panel? Nope.
Does windows have multiple desktops? Nope.
Does KDE or GNOME have stupid crap like drive letters, or "my computer"? Nope.
I could go on forever, but I'm getting bored with this. Just stop repeating this lie and educate yourself. Just because the more popular distros are trying their damndest to make their desktops look like windows, doesn't mean they are. If they all tried to make KDE look like CDE (very easy to do), would you morons be complaining that KDE was a CDE knockoff?
well for one, the government does not tax individuals or income, it seems more that they tax transactions. As many as they can find. For e.g., many items are taxed multiple times as they change hands.