In May, a black employee of the Probation Department filed a discrimination complaint..."This individual felt that it was offensive and inappropriate... given the experiences that this country has gone through in respect to slavery,"
Oh, that "master" and "slave".
I guess it all depends on where your mind is. That's not the "master" and "slave" I think of when I hear "master" and "slave"...I was thinking more along the lines of, say, "dom" and "sub" which hardly offends anybody.
There is no question about the affiliation of the attacker - Open Source leader Eric Raymond was quoted as saying that he was contacted by the perpetrator and that "he's one of us
I thought ERS was contacted by an "associate" of the alleged perpetrator?
However, he has yet to disclose the identity of the perpetrator so that justice can be done.
ERS did not (and presumably)still doesn't know the identity of the alleged hack.
The second development was an admission by Open Source leader Bruce Perens that UNIX System V code (owned by SCO) is, in fact, in Linux
Did Perens, in fact, say that? I don't remember reading it. SCOX can say all day that it owns System V and it doesn't mean anything, of course, but I don't remember reading that "quote" by Perens.
Cool, but waaaay overpriced (once they actually reach production).
...Pricing for the tzero will be set once production begins. We expect a price somewhere between a Porsche and a Ferrari. Our choice of pricing benchmarks is deliberate...
The premise is that since this vehicle nearly performs like a high-priced sports car, it should be priced like a high-priced sports car.
The slower it is (and the more they see), the more people remember that war is dumb.
Also unfortunate is that a lot of suffering has to happen - years, usually - before people get to that point. That lesson seems to get lost on the following generation, too.
the inventor of the Gatling gun had similar ideas. He thought that if he could create a weapon that was so devastating to use, nobody would want to go to war anymore
The Wright Brothers had similar ideas about the airplane, e.g., they thought that armies would be observable from the air and, thus, could not hide their movements.
> - USPS has very strict government regulations regarding privacy. Less distribution of your email address.
Well, let's stop at "strict regulations regarding privacy". Just read your AT&T/AOL/WhateverISP user agreement. Things that boil down to "thou shall not trade MP3s or movies", "thou shall not send anything offensive to anybody", etc, etc, etc. Plus, they retain the "right" to check.
The Postal Service has very strict regulations on who, when, and where your mail may be opened and inspected...maybe watered down a little since 11 Sep, but still very strong.
Fedex, UPS, and the other commercial carriers have no such restrictions on limiting and checking the contents of packages and are not consistent in how they apply rules, anyway. Some time ago there was the story of a package of Playboy magazines that got intercepted during transit by one of the commercial carriers and was destroyed (or maybe returned) for being "obscene" material.
> - USPS is non-profit. Less *motivation* to sell your email address...
Well, they DO sell your home address to commercial interests, but they do so because of the results of competition with electronic services: email and online ordering and bill-paying. Once they came along, there was very little incentive to send a letter to someone...just email 'em. You can even send 'em an electronic greeting card. Why buy a stamp to mail a bill when you can do it online conveniently?
The Post Office's revenue sank, so they had to make up for some of it by selling your address to marketers. They're bastards for doing it, but had sound business reasons to do so.
Most online marketers sell your personal info merely to inflate profits....and because they can...
An email system run by the Post Office with competition from the private sector as well would have made everybody better off.
> And this is the same company that fights against raising CAFE standards by a couple miles per gallon
I'm sure they do this as a delaying action 'til they can figure out how to make more fuel-efficient vehicles profitably.
Much like the music industry fights mp3s and Napster and all those others 'til they can figure out how to profit. MP3s aren't ever going away. Peer-to-peer isn't ever going away. Neither did VCRs.
CAFE standards will eventually rise and they realize this. They also realize that the fossil fuels are going to dry up someday, too. They just want to make as much money as they can meeting the market demands for gas-guzzlers right now.
Colorado has a No Call List that seems pretty good in concept, but which an unscrupulous telemarketer (or simple prankster) can easily defeat.
The list's web-interface asks for the phone number, zip code, and an email address (for later verification), but in addition to signing-up for the list, also allows you do be removed from the list. What's to stop someone from removing you?
I asked that question of the site's administrator's, and this was the reply:
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Nothing -- although they would have to know your name and your Zip.
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren [mailto:XXXXX@guano.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:39 AM
To: info@coloradonocall.com
Subject: ColoradoNoCall.com
I added my numbers to the list. What's to prevent an unscrupulous
telemarketer from removing it?
--
-W
They already know my name and zip code. I even had one recite my credit card number back to me. UnFreakinBelievable.
> IE eradicator does not work under NT 2K SP2 or XP
Do you know this from personal experience? Not being snotty, but the 98Lite website claims that it works under "Windows 95/98/Me/2000 in 8 different languages".
I've used 98Lite to give life to older Pentium machines and stripped out a lot of the garbage from Win98. They were subsequently faster and more reliable and ran Oracle apps without complaint.
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csbruce wrote:
>> http://www.cybikoxtreme.com/
> The site won't let me in without a cookie.
> Buh-bye!
Just delete 'em when you're done looking.
They must not have marketing department to speak of, because, even after setting up an account with cybiko.com and giving some contact information, I have yet to receive a single unsolicited email message or snailmail.
I've run my home network behind Coyote Linux as well as a 30+ node office (with servers behind it) fir years and it's done a fantastic job. *and* all that off a floppy.
It takes minutes to download, install, and get running.
>...if your skills are fairly mainstream
> (Java/C++/VB, Oracle/MSSQL, Sun/NT seem to
> be your best bets).
I have 6 year's experience with Linux/Windoze sysadmin, an equal amount network admin, and 3 years' Oracle admin. I don't consider myself a developer, but I've done that along the way, too. My biggest impediment has been a relative lack of Sun admin experience (less than 1 yr).
I've played a numbers game and have sent out nearly 500 resumes. It has gotten me a few interviews.
> The company I'm at now just went through a
> hiring phase...
The telecom slump (crash) hit Denver pretty hard. I've been out of work for over 9 months without a good lead in sight. Right now, I'm working a $12/hr temp job that could get canned at any moment, but I'm glad to have it.
Colorado seems to have this tendency to put all of its eggs into one economic basket. Before the telecom crash, there was the petroleum industry crash, and other economic downturns before that.
I'd have to side with the pessimists. Many of the jobs during the golden years are gone forever. And forget the crazy salaries! $110K for an NT admin?! Sheesh.
My motorbike has an oil light on it.
It comes on when the bike is running out of oil so I know when to put more in...
There are those who continue to drive their cars even after the oil light comes on. They simply are unable to understand that you have to put more than gas in a car to make it go. That's why auto manufacturers produce cars for the unwashed masses that "go 100,000 miles between tune-ups" or use whatever other gimmicks are necessary to reduce the maintenance load.
A user does have to have a basic level of understanding about computers or no GUI will be able to help
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The dosage varies depending on the manufacturer. I've seen doses as low as 100mcg per tablet up to 3mg per tablet.
The usual warning is not to exceed 3mg per day.
Are you sure it's not 1 to 3 mcg that you mean?
I love the stuff.
Start out with the 100mg dose and see what that does for you. You may need to progress to the 300mg dose.
The "W Hall" address seems to be the correct one.
A Google newsgroup search ("flo fox" slidell) turns up a few references to this address dating back a few years.
The Holy Bitch has been at it a long time.
Not true. I have an old 300k midtower in which I've upgraded:
I guess it all depends on where your mind is. That's not the "master" and "slave" I think of when I hear "master" and "slave"...I was thinking more along the lines of, say, "dom" and "sub" which hardly offends anybody.
A democracy or republic or whatever you want to call it. Lots of nations are representative democracies.
Few , though, have a document equivalent to the Bill of Rights. Or, at least one that can be and is invoked as often.
Yeah, saw what I done did after I hit "submit"...
ERS did not (and presumably)still doesn't know the identity of the alleged hack.
Did Perens, in fact, say that? I don't remember reading it. SCOX can say all day that it owns System V and it doesn't mean anything, of course, but I don't remember reading that "quote" by Perens.
The premise is that since this vehicle nearly performs like a high-priced sports car, it should be priced like a high-priced sports car.
Irving Janis identified this type of thing long ago as "groupthink"
Also unfortunate is that a lot of suffering has to happen - years, usually - before people get to that point. That lesson seems to get lost on the following generation, too.
The Wright Brothers had similar ideas about the airplane, e.g., they thought that armies would be observable from the air and, thus, could not hide their movements.
It's an evolution of HP's OpenMail, sounds very capable, but is horrendously expensive.
You wrote:
...and because they can...
> - USPS has very strict government regulations regarding privacy. Less distribution of your email address.
Well, let's stop at "strict regulations regarding privacy". Just read your AT&T/AOL/WhateverISP user agreement. Things that boil down to "thou shall not trade MP3s or movies", "thou shall not send anything offensive to anybody", etc, etc, etc. Plus, they retain the "right" to check.
The Postal Service has very strict regulations on who, when, and where your mail may be opened and inspected...maybe watered down a little since 11 Sep, but still very strong.
Fedex, UPS, and the other commercial carriers have no such restrictions on limiting and checking the contents of packages and are not consistent in how they apply rules, anyway. Some time ago there was the story of a package of Playboy magazines that got intercepted during transit by one of the commercial carriers and was destroyed (or maybe returned) for being "obscene" material.
> - USPS is non-profit. Less *motivation* to sell your email address...
Well, they DO sell your home address to commercial interests, but they do so because of the results of competition with electronic services: email and online ordering and bill-paying. Once they came along, there was very little incentive to send a letter to someone...just email 'em. You can even send 'em an electronic greeting card. Why buy a stamp to mail a bill when you can do it online conveniently?
The Post Office's revenue sank, so they had to make up for some of it by selling your address to marketers. They're bastards for doing it, but had sound business reasons to do so.
Most online marketers sell your personal info merely to inflate profits.
An email system run by the Post Office with competition from the private sector as well would have made everybody better off.
You wrote:
...the free-piston engine...
>
You must mean the Stelzer motor. (Auf Deutsch)
The page in English.
Used to see stuff about it in PopSci and PopMechanics, but haven't heard much about it lately. Very few moving parts.
You wrote:
> And this is the same company that fights against raising CAFE standards by a couple miles per gallon
I'm sure they do this as a delaying action 'til they can figure out how to make more fuel-efficient vehicles profitably.
Much like the music industry fights mp3s and Napster and all those others 'til they can figure out how to profit. MP3s aren't ever going away. Peer-to-peer isn't ever going away. Neither did VCRs.
CAFE standards will eventually rise and they realize this. They also realize that the fossil fuels are going to dry up someday, too. They just want to make as much money as they can meeting the market demands for gas-guzzlers right now.
The list's web-interface asks for the phone number, zip code, and an email address (for later verification), but in addition to signing-up for the list, also allows you do be removed from the list. What's to stop someone from removing you?
I asked that question of the site's administrator's, and this was the reply:
Return-Path: XXXXX
Received: from [199.45.165.5] (HELO quicka2.QuickInfo)
by guano.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.6)
with ESMTP id 1331876 for XXXXX; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:22:05 -0600
Received: by QUICKA2 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:20:45 -0600
Message-ID: XXXXX
From: XXXXX
To: XXXXX
Subject: RE: ColoradoNoCall.com
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:20:38 -0600
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X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
Content-Type: text/plain;
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Nothing -- although they would have to know your name and your Zip.
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren [mailto:XXXXX@guano.org]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:39 AM
To: info@coloradonocall.com
Subject: ColoradoNoCall.com
I added my numbers to the list. What's to prevent an unscrupulous telemarketer from removing it?
--
-W
They already know my name and zip code. I even had one recite my credit card number back to me. UnFreakinBelievable.
os2fan wrote:
> IE eradicator does not work under NT 2K SP2 or XP
Do you know this from personal experience? Not being snotty, but the 98Lite website claims that it works under "Windows 95/98/Me/2000 in 8 different languages".
I've used 98Lite to give life to older Pentium machines and stripped out a lot of the garbage from Win98. They were subsequently faster and more reliable and ran Oracle apps without complaint.
csbruce wrote:
>> http://www.cybikoxtreme.com/
> The site won't let me in without a cookie.
> Buh-bye!
Just delete 'em when you're done looking.
They must not have marketing department to speak of, because, even after setting up an account with cybiko.com and giving some contact information, I have yet to receive a single unsolicited email message or snailmail.
But, the support guys are pretty responsive.
Makes you wish all companies were this way.
...it's only a movie...
I've run my home network behind Coyote Linux as well as a 30+ node office (with servers behind it) fir years and it's done a fantastic job. *and* all that off a floppy.
It takes minutes to download, install, and get running.
topher71 said:
...if your skills are fairly mainstream
...
>
> (Java/C++/VB, Oracle/MSSQL, Sun/NT seem to
> be your best bets).
I have 6 year's experience with Linux/Windoze sysadmin, an equal amount network admin, and 3 years' Oracle admin. I don't consider myself a developer, but I've done that along the way, too. My biggest impediment has been a relative lack of Sun admin experience (less than 1 yr).
I've played a numbers game and have sent out nearly 500 resumes. It has gotten me a few interviews.
> The company I'm at now just went through a
> hiring phase
Whoa! What company is THAT?
The telecom slump (crash) hit Denver pretty hard. I've been out of work for over 9 months without a good lead in sight. Right now, I'm working a $12/hr temp job that could get canned at any moment, but I'm glad to have it.
Colorado seems to have this tendency to put all of its eggs into one economic basket. Before the telecom crash, there was the petroleum industry crash, and other economic downturns before that.
I'd have to side with the pessimists. Many of the jobs during the golden years are gone forever. And forget the crazy salaries! $110K for an NT admin?! Sheesh.
There are those who continue to drive their cars even after the oil light comes on. They simply are unable to understand that you have to put more than gas in a car to make it go. That's why auto manufacturers produce cars for the unwashed masses that "go 100,000 miles between tune-ups" or use whatever other gimmicks are necessary to reduce the maintenance load.
A user does have to have a basic level of understanding about computers or no GUI will be able to help