That would be nice. I hate to say it since FF is a fork of a fork of a fork, but maybe that's what the community needs to keep one of the only open source browsers from becoming extinct, forcing people to look to proprietary browsers as their only choice for something stable.
/Linux... About 12 years ago I was at my local LUG and there started a semi-heated debate between a Linux guy and a non-Linux guy. The non-Linux guy said, in believing that the Linux CLI tools weren't "unified" enough (still not sure what he meant, he was comparing them to DOS commands), "If anyone ever wants Linux to succeed as a product, then they have to make things streamlined."
Some people lightly chuckled, and a couple erupted into laughter.
"A product?" I asked him.
This is the separation point. People don't understand that the goals of Linux is not to dominate, unlike their (quote, unquote) "competitors". IMHO, the goals of GNU/Linux and the greater open source community is to build awesome software in the eyes of those creating it.
I can't believe this rubbish. All this is doing is confusing users, causing more work for admins and developers - and for what? To keep up with the Jones' release schedule?
Software is made better by working hard, testing, bugfixing, testing, bugfixing, testing... not by artificially increasing version numbers because time has passed.
Debian, please, please, please, don't *ever* adopt this type of release schedule. I feel like you're the last honest software development team out there I can depend on to *know* that software is stable when you actually release it.
So I have this theory that Mark Shuttleworth is actually an undercover Micro$oft operative that is being funded to create a huge community around Ubuntu and it's "sponsor", Canonical. Over time, when so many people are using it, loving it, promoting it....things start to break. Things break in Ubuntu that don't break in other distributions.
But it's not only the things that break, but Ubuntu starts changing things - not too much change all at once, but little things here and there. Not too much to move distros (at first), but things to slowly start to eat at your sanity.
More and more, Ubuntu breaks things, changes things...just enough for people to get very annoyed at "Linux". After all, Ubuntu is Linux for human beings (AKA n00bs?). People slowly start to complain to anyone who will listen that "Linux sucks".
This story smells of the 'covert' marketing techniques of Apple. Lose an iPhone prototype, have a pep rally for the iPad2... ugh. I mean, am I the only one who sees this as sort of obvious?
I mean, it's genius really.
I think, though, that federal money could have been used for much suitable technology tools (like a full laptop/computer). Very limited things you can do with an iPad in an educational context. Ciriculums don't change, there is still a lot of writing requirements - things that would be much better suited for a normal computer. And they're FRAGILE. I mean, I bet a quarter of them won't last the first 2 weeks.
I just started a small online radio station using Icecast. I'm broadcasting all local, unsigned rock bands in my area. This way, I don't have to pay any protection^W royalty fees to the RIAA and friends. It also helps nurture my local music scene. =)
I, for one, am going to call 611 and let them know that I'm going to disconnect service the day the change-over occurs. I encourage you all to do the same.
A few months ago I was walking with my wife/son back to our home from the library. In the seam of a manhole of an asphault jungle (I.E. downtown) ~175k population city, I saw thriving sprouts. Life will always find a way.
If we were seeded by intelligent life, that is awesome and I can't wait to find out more. If it were completely random that in our universe, which we have no idea even the size of, meteors with just the right contents to start life in the Earth's environment came to us, then awesome as well.
Just don't give me any "I *know* where we came from" cuz you just don't.
7 years ago I was residential and didn't have a static IP block, so I used EasyDNS for that - though they technically knew I was running a server because I had to register a MAC address with their modem and called to do that (which they did, knowing from me that it was a web/e-mail/dns server of my own). But yeah, when I got "business class" with a/29, I did the PTR record with them.
Would be nice if they simply treated those types of "rules" the same whether or not you're a "business" or paying more.. You know, provide Internet access and related services (DNS, for example)..
I have Comcast business class, but I used to have Comcast at my home and both setups just required a call to customer service to ask to unblock port 25 because you're hosting your mailserver there. They're usually pretty helpful about doing what you need done - I even had them put in a reverse DNS (ptr) record for my mailserver's IP addy because some mailservers do reverse lookups to see if the IP points to a/the hostname (try "nslookup -> set q=ptr -> ip.add.re.ss" to check it) for spam control.
I don't see this as bad practice... If you don't want a computer with Windows on it, then don't buy it - there are plenty of places you can go and get a computer WITHOUT Microsoft software. Most of them are probably local shops.
It's nice to know that ScienceExpress is 'express' enough to not bother including any real data along with their story.
Yeah, I read most of the article...of course, if I were the typical slashbot, most=whatever the slashdot summary included (along with the sassy editorial at the end, making it ever so painfully obvious the submitter wants to steer the reader's opinion of the article..I mean, Fox News anchors are better at doing that, and they're horrible!)
In ways I agree with your concept of self-delusion. In other ways I find it inappropriate that you would think for a second that everyone in the world could ever come to the same conclusion as to what is "pain" or "conflict" or "resentment" actually is. You see, we are all individuals with our own ideas as to what is right and wrong. You can't just say that we can purge these things from our history, because someone has to decide what to purge and what not to purge - and there in itself lies a wealth of conflict.
How about writing a browser extention that, in the background, visits all known sites that have the 'like' button (intelligently upgraded? That way, they won't know which sites you visited legitimately, thus the data they collect on you is worthless?
"On November 23, 2010, TSA officials said that some U.S. government officials were being allowed to skip the scanner/invasive patdown if they were traveling with government bodyguards. Among the officials are executive-branch leaders such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller and congressional leaders such as Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner. Law-enforcement officials are also allowed to skip the invasive screening after filling out some paperwork."
was awesome. I used it to run multiple nodes on my Renegade BBS. Of course, back then nothing was truly multitasking, but this was pretty darn stable for its time. We moved to Windows '95 when we were told that it would provide better multitasking abilities.
It was at that point I started truly despising Windows/Microsoft. "What are all of these files in my root directory?" I remember exclaiming. I always kept a very organized filesystem, and now my operating system was telling me I couldn't do that anymore.
This is the same old debate...when are you all going to see that this is a morals issue and nothing else?
Gun Laws) People will shoot people if they intend to, whether with guns they get legally or illegally. It's probably safe to say the vast majority of legal gun owners would never say anything like, "Eh...well I have this gun I bought legally, and I think I'm going to go shoot someone..but if I didn't have it right here, I'd probably just stay home on the couch."
Prop 19) People will smoke pot if they want to, whether it's legal or not. If it becomes legal, the people who don't smoke pot should continue to not smoke pot - unless, of course, the only reason they didn't was because it was illegal and they didn't want to get in trouble. Others should continue to value their own reasons and not masquerade as some governmental-moral-machine. "I don't do it because the government says it's bad!" How pathetic is that.
Firesheep) People will h4x0r uR 4cc0untz0rz & uR b0x0rz if they want. Firesheep doesn't actively or automatically attack peoples' accounts - it's YOUR decision to use the information you've gathered for whitehat or blackhat reasons. Like many others have stated, nmap, ping, traceroute, and all of their friends in/usr/bin have been around for a long time. It's just as easy to use other tools. The problem is, website admins that are suspect to these vulnerabilities don't give a sh*t about, or plain just don't understand, basic website security. I would love to assume that with how profitable Facebook is, they'd have the brain power to fix this vuln. when they realized it was a very easy thing to exploit.
By the way, I'm really baked right now so if any of this is incoherent my apologies.;)
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That would be nice. I hate to say it since FF is a fork of a fork of a fork, but maybe that's what the community needs to keep one of the only open source browsers from becoming extinct, forcing people to look to proprietary browsers as their only choice for something stable.
/Linux... About 12 years ago I was at my local LUG and there started a semi-heated debate between a Linux guy and a non-Linux guy. The non-Linux guy said, in believing that the Linux CLI tools weren't "unified" enough (still not sure what he meant, he was comparing them to DOS commands), "If anyone ever wants Linux to succeed as a product, then they have to make things streamlined."
Some people lightly chuckled, and a couple erupted into laughter.
"A product?" I asked him.
This is the separation point. People don't understand that the goals of Linux is not to dominate, unlike their (quote, unquote) "competitors". IMHO, the goals of GNU/Linux and the greater open source community is to build awesome software in the eyes of those creating it.
Shit. Nevermind, I guess I blocked their new 2-year release cycle out of my head. =(
I can't believe this rubbish. All this is doing is confusing users, causing more work for admins and developers - and for what? To keep up with the Jones' release schedule?
Software is made better by working hard, testing, bugfixing, testing, bugfixing, testing... not by artificially increasing version numbers because time has passed.
Debian, please, please, please, don't *ever* adopt this type of release schedule. I feel like you're the last honest software development team out there I can depend on to *know* that software is stable when you actually release it.
So I have this theory that Mark Shuttleworth is actually an undercover Micro$oft operative that is being funded to create a huge community around Ubuntu and it's "sponsor", Canonical. Over time, when so many people are using it, loving it, promoting it....things start to break. Things break in Ubuntu that don't break in other distributions.
But it's not only the things that break, but Ubuntu starts changing things - not too much change all at once, but little things here and there. Not too much to move distros (at first), but things to slowly start to eat at your sanity.
More and more, Ubuntu breaks things, changes things...just enough for people to get very annoyed at "Linux". After all, Ubuntu is Linux for human beings (AKA n00bs?). People slowly start to complain to anyone who will listen that "Linux sucks".
And Ballmer does the penguin dance yet again.
This story smells of the 'covert' marketing techniques of Apple. Lose an iPhone prototype, have a pep rally for the iPad2... ugh. I mean, am I the only one who sees this as sort of obvious?
I mean, it's genius really.
I think, though, that federal money could have been used for much suitable technology tools (like a full laptop/computer). Very limited things you can do with an iPad in an educational context. Ciriculums don't change, there is still a lot of writing requirements - things that would be much better suited for a normal computer. And they're FRAGILE. I mean, I bet a quarter of them won't last the first 2 weeks.
I just started a small online radio station using Icecast. I'm broadcasting all local, unsigned rock bands in my area. This way, I don't have to pay any protection^W royalty fees to the RIAA and friends. It also helps nurture my local music scene. =)
I, for one, am going to call 611 and let them know that I'm going to disconnect service the day the change-over occurs. I encourage you all to do the same.
A few months ago I was walking with my wife/son back to our home from the library. In the seam of a manhole of an asphault jungle (I.E. downtown) ~175k population city, I saw thriving sprouts. Life will always find a way.
If we were seeded by intelligent life, that is awesome and I can't wait to find out more. If it were completely random that in our universe, which we have no idea even the size of, meteors with just the right contents to start life in the Earth's environment came to us, then awesome as well.
Just don't give me any "I *know* where we came from" cuz you just don't.
7 years ago I was residential and didn't have a static IP block, so I used EasyDNS for that - though they technically knew I was running a server because I had to register a MAC address with their modem and called to do that (which they did, knowing from me that it was a web/e-mail/dns server of my own). But yeah, when I got "business class" with a /29, I did the PTR record with them.
Would be nice if they simply treated those types of "rules" the same whether or not you're a "business" or paying more.. You know, provide Internet access and related services (DNS, for example)..
I have Comcast business class, but I used to have Comcast at my home and both setups just required a call to customer service to ask to unblock port 25 because you're hosting your mailserver there. They're usually pretty helpful about doing what you need done - I even had them put in a reverse DNS (ptr) record for my mailserver's IP addy because some mailservers do reverse lookups to see if the IP points to a/the hostname (try "nslookup -> set q=ptr -> ip.add.re.ss" to check it) for spam control.
Today, history has been made. A social networking site actually listened to its users and implemented a bit of security. *astonished*
I don't see this as bad practice... If you don't want a computer with Windows on it, then don't buy it - there are plenty of places you can go and get a computer WITHOUT Microsoft software. Most of them are probably local shops.
It's nice to know that ScienceExpress is 'express' enough to not bother including any real data along with their story.
Yeah, I read most of the article...of course, if I were the typical slashbot, most=whatever the slashdot summary included (along with the sassy editorial at the end, making it ever so painfully obvious the submitter wants to steer the reader's opinion of the article..I mean, Fox News anchors are better at doing that, and they're horrible!)
In ways I agree with your concept of self-delusion. In other ways I find it inappropriate that you would think for a second that everyone in the world could ever come to the same conclusion as to what is "pain" or "conflict" or "resentment" actually is. You see, we are all individuals with our own ideas as to what is right and wrong. You can't just say that we can purge these things from our history, because someone has to decide what to purge and what not to purge - and there in itself lies a wealth of conflict.
....No.
How about writing a browser extention that, in the background, visits all known sites that have the 'like' button (intelligently upgraded? That way, they won't know which sites you visited legitimately, thus the data they collect on you is worthless?
Yet it seems that, at least in "popular" I.T. culture (Thinkgeek?) caffeine is sort of the staple drug. I guess everyone has their vices.
Now pot *and* caffeine together, that might just be what produces a black hole in spacetime.
"Arrowed!" --teen girl squad (not sure why I even just thought of that right now)
I've always thought Moss (from I.T. Crowd) smoked hella pot. At least irl maybe.
You just wit until interstate travel installs them.
You can always find a workaround to a problem, but the problem doesn't go away unless you solve it.
"On November 23, 2010, TSA officials said that some U.S. government officials were being allowed to skip the scanner/invasive patdown if they were traveling with government bodyguards. Among the officials are executive-branch leaders such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller and congressional leaders such as Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner. Law-enforcement officials are also allowed to skip the invasive screening after filling out some paperwork."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration
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"Government is just another way of saying 'better than you'" --Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
NT came out in 1993 and was true 32-bit with full pre-emptive multitasking
K, how about the first MS operating system with multitasking that could run Renegade BBS ;) Man I'm getting hammered by this one =p
Well, except for UNIX and a couple of others.
Sure - I should have clarified, no real multitasking in MS-based operating systems =)
was awesome. I used it to run multiple nodes on my Renegade BBS. Of course, back then nothing was truly multitasking, but this was pretty darn stable for its time. We moved to Windows '95 when we were told that it would provide better multitasking abilities.
It was at that point I started truly despising Windows/Microsoft. "What are all of these files in my root directory?" I remember exclaiming. I always kept a very organized filesystem, and now my operating system was telling me I couldn't do that anymore.
It was all pretty much downhill from there.
This is the same old debate...when are you all going to see that this is a morals issue and nothing else?
Gun Laws) People will shoot people if they intend to, whether with guns they get legally or illegally. It's probably safe to say the vast majority of legal gun owners would never say anything like, "Eh...well I have this gun I bought legally, and I think I'm going to go shoot someone..but if I didn't have it right here, I'd probably just stay home on the couch."
Prop 19) People will smoke pot if they want to, whether it's legal or not. If it becomes legal, the people who don't smoke pot should continue to not smoke pot - unless, of course, the only reason they didn't was because it was illegal and they didn't want to get in trouble. Others should continue to value their own reasons and not masquerade as some governmental-moral-machine. "I don't do it because the government says it's bad!" How pathetic is that.
Firesheep) People will h4x0r uR 4cc0untz0rz & uR b0x0rz if they want. Firesheep doesn't actively or automatically attack peoples' accounts - it's YOUR decision to use the information you've gathered for whitehat or blackhat reasons. Like many others have stated, nmap, ping, traceroute, and all of their friends in /usr/bin have been around for a long time. It's just as easy to use other tools. The problem is, website admins that are suspect to these vulnerabilities don't give a sh*t about, or plain just don't understand, basic website security. I would love to assume that with how profitable Facebook is, they'd have the brain power to fix this vuln. when they realized it was a very easy thing to exploit.
By the way, I'm really baked right now so if any of this is incoherent my apologies. ;)