For good reason. In the 80s Microsoft was producing boring crap, while the real innovators were Apple (GUI/mouse interface), Atari (128 colors in 1979), and Commodore/Amiga (premptive tasking and the first multimedia computer in 1985).
In the 90s Microsoft produced more crap (Windows 3), or blatantly copied the Mac OS (Win95 with traschcan, shutdown procedure desktop, etc), or driving companies into oblivion through Embrace, Extend, Exterminate.
Then the 2000s arrived with the shitty Win M.e., followed by the decent Windows NT 5.1 (XP), and the pile of crap named Vista. My brother bought a brand-new PC with Vista, but because it came installed with Microsoft's recommend 1/2 gig of RAM, it randomly froze-up for 2-3 minutes.
Microsoft is the worst platform I have ever used in the last 30 years of experience. It isn't "fanboyism". It's a shitty company producing shit. Like Yugo. Or Hyundai.
Calling cards are what people used before unlimited calls on cellphones became popular in the 2000s. MY cell costs 18 cents/minute so I use the 4cent/minute card instead.
It's a surprise for me because I would have expected MS to use a Windows Server box, especially given their philosophy of their employees using own product for real-world test.
And when I said "no warrant" I was referring to the SECOND entrance to the building. Yes the FBI had permission to go grab the server for the 1st time. They had NO permission to break-and-enter the building three weeks later. They would have needed to go get another 2nd warrant for the 2nd entrance. They broke the law.
The FBI and the TSA are part of the same department You tried to insinuate they are unconnected, but they both fall under the Department of Homeland Security with the same overall boss (Big Brother Janet Napolitano).
>>>>>example: forcing a breast-feeding mom to stand in a glass jail for an hour... >> >>What the hell? Citation?
Well Mr. Doubting Thomas who fails to keep himself informed about the world (probably too busy watching Faux News or DNC-NBC), here is your citation. And before you say something stupid... moms ARE allowed to carry breastmilk and pumping equipment on planes. She showed the papers to the SS goons but the rotten fuckers still threw her in that glass jail for an hour, making her lose her flight, and equipment, and forcing her to dump the food for her newbown baby. So Mr. Collaborator, take your stupid defense of the DHS and shove it up your cunt. Defending the tyrannical state means you AGREE with the tyrannical state. You are an ememy of the Bill of Rights and the People.
0.1% is not what I call "many". Most high school footballers never play the game again, and yet that 99.9% have to deal with the long term injuries. (If you read the article, it describes an autopsied 18 year old who already had brain damage from middle school and high school football.) I don't it's worth it.... 1000-to-1 odds is a bad gamble.
>>> home subscriber... to be accountable for the activities of other people who use the services in his home
Agreed. And while we're at it, if a visitor knifes another visitor while in your home, YOU should be held responsible for assault because it's your house and kitchen knife. You get the 10 years in jail while the killer walks free. (No wait... I think I find a flaw in your "I am responsible for all activies in my house" logic.)
>>>Who else amongst you has a huge surplus of huge hard drives going unused
No.
>>>My storage requirements went to about 30 gigabytes
WOW. I still download a ton of stuff via Utorrent, and I need the space since I acquire movies/shows faster then I watch them. I also need to space to "seed" back the stuff I've taken. My 1 TB drive is quite full.
I don't subscribe to Comcast or Netflix or anything else. It's just entertainment... not really worth paying for it, when I can acquire it for free (hulu, AntennaTV, etc) or dirt cheap ($1/month for F&SF magazine).
Can these programs mirror the contents of one USB: drive to the other USB: drive? It's a pain trying to copy-and-paste files in drive 1 to the backup drive 2. THX.:-)
I can't put "I played 4 years football" on my resume; it doesn't offer any long term value (but it does cause long-term brain damage from repeated hits).
Yeah except they know the cause of long-term brain damage. The brain receives a sudden shock, and connections between neurons "stretch". Like a spring the neurons will gradually return to their normal lengths, but not without consequences.
The stretching leaves behind intracellular damage, and eventually that damage causes the neuron's dendrite to stop producing transmitter chemicals. The neuron then commits suicide (apoptosis). After you lose enough neurons you end-up like these football players and boxers.
So to simplify: Neurons are like springs and when they experience head trauma, they stretch beyond their ability to reheal properly. Then they die.
I've told this to people but they always say not to worry. I think any sport where you get beat-up is bad, and for what purpose? I can't put "I played 4 years football" on my resume; it doesn't offer any long term value.
Try reading the Bill of Rights sometime. The FBI broke the 6th law in that document (also known as the 4th amendment) which requires obtaining a search warrant from a judge prior to entrance.
And yes sometimes the bad guy gets away. That is preferable to harassing innocent people & treating them like criminals (example: patting down their breasts and crotches) (example: randomly searching through cars) (example: arresting people who publish anti-war pamphlets) (example: rounding-up asian-Americans & tossing them in jail cause it's world war 2) (example: assassinating Americans because you SUSPECT they might be terrorists) (example: strip-searching old people before they can fly) (example: forcing a breast-feeding mom to stand in a glass jail for an hour, rather than let her take her pumping equipment home to her newborn kid) (example:......
I just realized: Under CISPA the ISP could turn-on your webcam in your bedroom (or wherever your PC is located), share the data with the U.S. DHS, and be immune from prosecution by yourself.
Yeah I see no reason for concern. Obtaining warrants from a judge prior to entrance of a private building is so 1999. Ditto the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Having the FBI enter your private property is doubleplusgood.
Now please watch the screen and remember: Under CISPA we know *everything* about your online habits. So behave.
>>>GP has provided a citation for their stance. Where's yours? (waits) Doesn't exist does it? Your claim is false.
RTFA (read the fucking article) Mr. Anonymous Coward. The citation you seek is near the bottom of the page. I stated that twice on this page: "It's in the article."
Also stop posting anonymously. I know you are a regular/. poster because you keep cyberstalking my posts. I'm guessing you're trying to use AC so you don't get modded "troll" on your actual ID.
P.S. And I don't recall Bush ordering the assasination of American citizens (including a 16 year old boy). That alone tips the balance of making Obama "worse". All citizens have a right to being captured, and then placed on trial.
Obama has also expanded the power of the TSA not just as airports, but as to search/patdown people in train terminals, along interstates, at post offices/unemployment centers, and just recently: Bus-riders in Texas. (So-called VIPR teams; what a great orwellian name.)
>>>then Paul wouldn't have had such tiny numbers at the polls
Paul is racking up states left-and-right. In just the last few weeks, he's won Iowa, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, and Louisiana. Plus a majority of the delegates in Romney's home state of Massachusetts. (And I expect Paul will win Maine, Nevada, Alaska, and the ~10 former Santorum states.)
Furthermore according to CBS polling, in a Paul v. Obama runoff the congressman would do just as well as Romney. His support is not "small"..... you need to turn-off the TV media and start doing your own online news-gathering.
They called themselves "crackers" or "cracker groups". The evidence is RIGHT THERE is any old 80s demo which you can see when you emulate an old Atari800 or Comodore64 pirated game.
AP Styleguide? One set of idiot reporters telling another set of reporters how to speak about technology the 1st set does not understand. Talk about the blind leading the blind.
Well. You're wrong. Watch some old C64 Demos from pirate groups, or opening crawls from pirated games. "Cracker" and "cracking" is a term that has been around for a long, long time. Pre-1985. Example: "(c) This game cracked by Phreakers. L8mers go home."
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>>>us-versus-them platform fanboyism
For good reason. In the 80s Microsoft was producing boring crap, while the real innovators were Apple (GUI/mouse interface), Atari (128 colors in 1979), and Commodore/Amiga (premptive tasking and the first multimedia computer in 1985).
In the 90s Microsoft produced more crap (Windows 3), or blatantly copied the Mac OS (Win95 with traschcan, shutdown procedure desktop, etc), or driving companies into oblivion through Embrace, Extend, Exterminate.
Then the 2000s arrived with the shitty Win M.e., followed by the decent Windows NT 5.1 (XP), and the pile of crap named Vista. My brother bought a brand-new PC with Vista, but because it came installed with Microsoft's recommend 1/2 gig of RAM, it randomly froze-up for 2-3 minutes.
Microsoft is the worst platform I have ever used in the last 30 years of experience. It isn't "fanboyism". It's a shitty company producing shit. Like Yugo. Or Hyundai.
Calling cards are what people used before unlimited calls on cellphones became popular in the 2000s. MY cell costs 18 cents/minute so I use the 4cent/minute card instead.
It's a surprise for me because I would have expected MS to use a Windows Server box, especially given their philosophy of their employees using own product for real-world test.
My calling card is only 4 cents per minute. I've been curious about skype but never saw any reason to switch?
P.S.
And when I said "no warrant" I was referring to the SECOND entrance to the building. Yes the FBI had permission to go grab the server for the 1st time. They had NO permission to break-and-enter the building three weeks later. They would have needed to go get another 2nd warrant for the 2nd entrance. They broke the law.
The FBI and the TSA are part of the same department You tried to insinuate they are unconnected, but they both fall under the Department of Homeland Security with the same overall boss (Big Brother Janet Napolitano).
>>>>>example: forcing a breast-feeding mom to stand in a glass jail for an hour...
>>
>>What the hell? Citation?
Well Mr. Doubting Thomas who fails to keep himself informed about the world (probably too busy watching Faux News or DNC-NBC), here is your citation. And before you say something stupid... moms ARE allowed to carry breastmilk and pumping equipment on planes. She showed the papers to the SS goons but the rotten fuckers still threw her in that glass jail for an hour, making her lose her flight, and equipment, and forcing her to dump the food for her newbown baby. So Mr. Collaborator, take your stupid defense of the DHS and shove it up your cunt. Defending the tyrannical state means you AGREE with the tyrannical state. You are an ememy of the Bill of Rights and the People.
VIDEO
- Mother Kept In Glass Cage For Almost An Hour By TSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWTzQhiX7M
Mom forced to breastfeed by the SA nazis
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v0g3TdJmKo
ARTICLE:
http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/03/tsa-forces-breastfeeding-mom-to-pump-in-airport-bathroom-do-you-know-the-rules/
ARTICLE
4-year-old accosted by the SA:
"She started to cry, saying `No I donâ(TM)t want to,â(TM) and when we tried talking to her she ran. They yelled, `We are going to shut down the airport if you donâ(TM)t grab her." Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/226208/crying-4-year-old-forced-to-go-through-pat-down-after-hugging-grandmother-by-tsa/#XWIWvjxG7GxWhYKu.99
0.1% is not what I call "many". Most high school footballers never play the game again, and yet that 99.9% have to deal with the long term injuries. (If you read the article, it describes an autopsied 18 year old who already had brain damage from middle school and high school football.) I don't it's worth it.... 1000-to-1 odds is a bad gamble.
>>> home subscriber... to be accountable for the activities of other people who use the services in his home
Agreed.
And while we're at it, if a visitor knifes another visitor while in your home, YOU should be held responsible for assault because it's your house and kitchen knife. You get the 10 years in jail while the killer walks free. (No wait... I think I find a flaw in your "I am responsible for all activies in my house" logic.)
No.
They just choose a different venue with a more-compliant judge. Just as MPAA found a Congressman willing to be their new CEO.
Agreed.
Just take the sub 1/2 TB drives and mail them to me. ;-) I need some small USB drives for work to hold my music.
>>>Who else amongst you has a huge surplus of huge hard drives going unused
No.
>>>My storage requirements went to about 30 gigabytes
WOW. I still download a ton of stuff via Utorrent, and I need the space since I acquire movies/shows faster then I watch them. I also need to space to "seed" back the stuff I've taken. My 1 TB drive is quite full.
I don't subscribe to Comcast or Netflix or anything else. It's just entertainment... not really worth paying for it, when I can acquire it for free (hulu, AntennaTV, etc) or dirt cheap ($1/month for F&SF magazine).
Can these programs mirror the contents of one USB: drive to the other USB: drive? It's a pain trying to copy-and-paste files in drive 1 to the backup drive 2. THX. :-)
correcting myself:
I can't put "I played 4 years football" on my resume; it doesn't offer any long term value (but it does cause long-term brain damage from repeated hits).
Yeah except they know the cause of long-term brain damage. The brain receives a sudden shock, and connections between neurons "stretch". Like a spring the neurons will gradually return to their normal lengths, but not without consequences.
The stretching leaves behind intracellular damage, and eventually that damage causes the neuron's dendrite to stop producing transmitter chemicals. The neuron then commits suicide (apoptosis). After you lose enough neurons you end-up like these football players and boxers.
So to simplify: Neurons are like springs and when they experience head trauma, they stretch beyond their ability to reheal properly. Then they die.
I've told this to people but they always say not to worry. I think any sport where you get beat-up is bad, and for what purpose? I can't put "I played 4 years football" on my resume; it doesn't offer any long term value.
No law was broken?!?!?
Try reading the Bill of Rights sometime. The FBI broke the 6th law in that document (also known as the 4th amendment) which requires obtaining a search warrant from a judge prior to entrance.
And yes sometimes the bad guy gets away. That is preferable to harassing innocent people & treating them like criminals (example: patting down their breasts and crotches) (example: randomly searching through cars) (example: arresting people who publish anti-war pamphlets) (example: rounding-up asian-Americans & tossing them in jail cause it's world war 2) (example: assassinating Americans because you SUSPECT they might be terrorists) (example: strip-searching old people before they can fly) (example: forcing a breast-feeding mom to stand in a glass jail for an hour, rather than let her take her pumping equipment home to her newborn kid) (example: ......
INFORM yourself of what's happening in the world.
I just realized:
Under CISPA the ISP could turn-on your webcam in your bedroom (or wherever your PC is located), share the data with the U.S. DHS, and be immune from prosecution by yourself.
Yeah I see no reason for concern. Obtaining warrants from a judge prior to entrance of a private building is so 1999. Ditto the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Having the FBI enter your private property is doubleplusgood.
Now please watch the screen and remember:
Under CISPA we know *everything* about your online habits.
So behave.
>>>GP has provided a citation for their stance. Where's yours? (waits) Doesn't exist does it? Your claim is false.
RTFA (read the fucking article) Mr. Anonymous Coward. The citation you seek is near the bottom of the page. I stated that twice on this page: "It's in the article."
Also stop posting anonymously. I know you are a regular /. poster because you keep cyberstalking my posts. I'm guessing you're trying to use AC so you don't get modded "troll" on your actual ID.
P.S. And I don't recall Bush ordering the assasination of American citizens (including a 16 year old boy). That alone tips the balance of making Obama "worse". All citizens have a right to being captured, and then placed on trial.
Obama has also expanded the power of the TSA not just as airports, but as to search/patdown people in train terminals, along interstates, at post offices/unemployment centers, and just recently: Bus-riders in Texas. (So-called VIPR teams; what a great orwellian name.)
>>>then Paul wouldn't have had such tiny numbers at the polls
Paul is racking up states left-and-right. In just the last few weeks, he's won Iowa, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, and Louisiana. Plus a majority of the delegates in Romney's home state of Massachusetts. (And I expect Paul will win Maine, Nevada, Alaska, and the ~10 former Santorum states.)
Furthermore according to CBS polling, in a Paul v. Obama runoff the congressman would do just as well as Romney. His support is not "small"..... you need to turn-off the TV media and start doing your own online news-gathering.
They called themselves "crackers" or "cracker groups". The evidence is RIGHT THERE is any old 80s demo which you can see when you emulate an old Atari800 or Comodore64 pirated game.
Stupid L8mer. LOL
AP Styleguide? One set of idiot reporters telling another set of reporters how to speak about technology the 1st set does not understand. Talk about the blind leading the blind.
Well.
You're wrong.
Watch some old C64 Demos from pirate groups, or opening crawls from pirated games. "Cracker" and "cracking" is a term that has been around for a long, long time. Pre-1985. Example: "(c) This game cracked by Phreakers. L8mers go home."
I just subscribed to Linux Format.
NOT through B&N.
Keep-up the good work and soon you'll be like Circuit Sity.