I am sorry, but your solution is way too rational. It presupposes that the proprietor is objective and has common sense. It assumes that they are not self-centred and vindictive.
And there is no fun avenue for hacking, sabotaging, or improving one's BOFH skills.
Nup. Sorry. Fail.
(Look, the guy came to Slashdot for advice and you gave him common sense. What's wrong with you?)
Why not use a Windows live CD like Bart PE rather than Linux. It's easier for the people who've only ever used Windows and the NTFS drivers come from Microsoft.
Given that Microsoft were the ones to issue the problematic update in the first place, I don't think saying the NTFS drivers in a Windows live CD come from Microsoft is really any sort of recommendation.
I'll take it a step further. We can manipulate people's ability to see better or worse by messing with their eyes, optical nerves, and occipital lobes. Certainly no one would contend that the "real" world therefore doesn't exist.
Strictly speaking a solipsist would. And anyone else who considers the "real" world to be an illusion. Some kinds of metaphysical idealists would, for instance.
Although, you could argue that there is a difference between calling something an illusion and saying it doesn't exist. Mirages are illusions, but mirages (as opposed to the things we imagine mirages to be) do exist.
Ah, you're that person companies have to write stupid shit like: "Don't get in the bath with this laptop", for indemnity, and because you're retarded.
So this cute little laptop was taking a bath, and I wandered by and thought "Damn! I'd like to get into the bath with that laptop". So I undressed and hopped in and.... KAPOW! Electric shock!
Doesn't anyone else think that when they see "Don't get in the bath with this laptop"? Someone? Anyone at all?
Shouldn't Berlin University be the one using the Germanium?
MIT should have made their laser out of Americium.
And it sucks to be Cambridge. There is no such thing as Englandium.
What? No, I don't have anything sensible to say about this story. And anyway, at first I thought it said geranium, and my comment was going to be even stupider than this one.
[rant] Instead of passively witnessing multimillionaire drug addicts chase a ball to sell ad space... do something. Take the people who were going to show up for "da big game" outside to play tag football. Have a foosball championship. Play card games. Have a LAN party. Play DnD. Do something.
Just don't run a Windows 7 party. Some things are worse than watching professional football.
The outcome of the game will be the same whether you watch it or not.
Well, the quarterback had better watch the game when he is on the field.
Monopoly is a dreadful board game, and I don't understand why anyone ever plays it.
Monopoly isn't dreadful just because you don't understand its appeal to other people. Some games provide tense competition through skilled play, some provide social interaction through leisurely random or skill-less play. People who like the first may find the latter pointless and frustrating. So what? The reverse is probably true too.
I cannot stand most games, but will play card or mah jongg solitaire games every day. They relax me. Hunt and shoot games bore me to tears. I have tried to play them, but they don't do anything for me. The only game I liked beside card and mah jongg solitaires and some tetris derivatives was Space Quest 2, and that was because it was funny. But after playing that, I found the rest of the genre boring - just more of the same.
Different people, different games. I would probably throw all yours into the nearest compost heap.
I find it hard to believe that people criticize this. What have you done for those people there is what I would like to know?
What he (the grandparent poster) has done is - like millions of other people around the world - contribute to the massive wealth of Microsoft and specifically Bill Gates, which enables the latter to do good works with "his money".
When the government spends money raised by taxing us, we say they are spending "our money". When Bill Gates spends money raised by taxing us, he says it is "his money". It would look better if he acknowledged that he was spending this money on behalf of all the Microsoft-taxed contributers to "his" wealth.
Wealth is wonderful. It enables you to buy anything you want, including a virtuous reputation. I could be giving proportionately more of my wealth to charity, and living in much more reduced circumstances than Bill Gates's, but I would go completely unnoticed.
Does Bill Gates experience any hardship as a result of his charity? It really seems more like his new hobby than a sacrifice. That doesn't make the results of this foundation wrong. I have no expertise on the relative merits of this project as opposed to other aid priorities, although Rennt made some pertinent observations about this.
Anyway, I can differentiate between the practical effects of a charitable act and its moral worth. Can't you?
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Not only that, it is doing it in our general direction!
I'm glad I live in the Southern Hemisphere.
Taliban vs Amish
FIGHT!
Taliban (waving scimitar or AK-47): Infidel! Die!
Amish (holding 18th century musket): Brother, I would not hurt thee. But thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
"That's a nice open source project you have there.
Pity if anything were to happen to it."
I am sorry, but your solution is way too rational. It presupposes that the proprietor is objective and has common sense. It assumes that they are not self-centred and vindictive.
And there is no fun avenue for hacking, sabotaging, or improving one's BOFH skills.
Nup. Sorry. Fail.
(Look, the guy came to Slashdot for advice and you gave him common sense. What's wrong with you?)
Wasn't us. We don't read the articles before posting.
Clearly Slashdotters don't read the articles.
But clearly websites get Slashdotted.
The solution must be: those who post don't read, and those who read don't post.
By dividing our forces, we can bring down websites AND write uninformed posts at the same time. Division of labour!
The DMCA ... doesn't require that the web hosting provider ...shoot the user's dog, or nuke the city from orbit.
No, but I understand that will be required under ACTA.
There are socially better places to buy books online than Amazon.
I switched over to BetterWorld books because they devote money to literacy campaigns and have other socially worthwhile goals that I support.
http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
So far they have raised over $7.5 million towards global literacy.
I am not affiliated in any way, I am just a customer. But I like their idea and buy everything there now, instead of Amazon.
the first time i have ever actually gotten 'first post'... it is when i try to make a joke about not having gotten first post.
ya see my first post was supposed to come up like second or third.. it would have been HILARIOUS . .. but oh no
in soviet russia, the fates mock you!!!!
No, what you failed to take into account was: in Soviet Russia, the first post got you.
Why not use a Windows live CD like Bart PE rather than Linux. It's easier for the people who've only ever used Windows and the NTFS drivers come from Microsoft.
Given that Microsoft were the ones to issue the problematic update in the first place, I don't think saying the NTFS drivers in a Windows live CD come from Microsoft is really any sort of recommendation.
Except maybe to scream.
I'll take it a step further. We can manipulate people's ability to see better or worse by messing with their eyes, optical nerves, and occipital lobes. Certainly no one would contend that the "real" world therefore doesn't exist.
Strictly speaking a solipsist would. And anyone else who considers the "real" world to be an illusion. Some kinds of metaphysical idealists would, for instance.
Although, you could argue that there is a difference between calling something an illusion and saying it doesn't exist. Mirages are illusions, but mirages (as opposed to the things we imagine mirages to be) do exist.
Sexual attraction, and other emotional desires, are what drive humans beings to make scientific advancements, build bridges, grow food.
Because we all know that scientists, civil engineers, and farmers are just doing it to get laid.
They are such chick magnets.
Ah, you're that person companies have to write stupid shit like: "Don't get in the bath with this laptop", for indemnity, and because you're retarded.
So this cute little laptop was taking a bath, and I wandered by and thought "Damn! I'd like to get into the bath with that laptop". So I undressed and hopped in and .... KAPOW! Electric shock!
Doesn't anyone else think that when they see "Don't get in the bath with this laptop"? Someone? Anyone at all?
Chloroform soaked rags always get me the ladies.
You're right! I tried that too, and the ladies were all smiling at me when I woke up.
Nothing says I love you better than "Here, sweetheart, I killed these for you!"
Previous boyfriends?
So you can instantly teleport energy to Alpha Centauri, but it would take over 4 years for your phone call to reach them, telling them about it?
And add another 8 years if they say "WHAT? Can't hear you."
Shouldn't Berlin University be the one using the Germanium?
MIT should have made their laser out of Americium.
And it sucks to be Cambridge. There is no such thing as Englandium.
What? No, I don't have anything sensible to say about this story. And anyway, at first I thought it said geranium, and my comment was going to be even stupider than this one.
[rant]
Instead of passively witnessing multimillionaire drug addicts chase a ball to sell ad space... do something. Take the people who were going to show up for "da big game" outside to play tag football. Have a foosball championship. Play card games. Have a LAN party. Play DnD. Do something.
Just don't run a Windows 7 party. Some things are worse than watching professional football.
The outcome of the game will be the same whether you watch it or not.
Well, the quarterback had better watch the game when he is on the field.
I don't know why it would "not please" Slashdot readers. I am very pleased. That is the funniest thing I've read all week.
Nothing like a good laugh to start your morning.
I am amused. But I am not pleased. There is a distinction.
Monopoly is a dreadful board game, and I don't understand why anyone ever plays it.
Monopoly isn't dreadful just because you don't understand its appeal to other people. Some games provide tense competition through skilled play, some provide social interaction through leisurely random or skill-less play. People who like the first may find the latter pointless and frustrating. So what? The reverse is probably true too.
I cannot stand most games, but will play card or mah jongg solitaire games every day. They relax me. Hunt and shoot games bore me to tears. I have tried to play them, but they don't do anything for me. The only game I liked beside card and mah jongg solitaires and some tetris derivatives was Space Quest 2, and that was because it was funny. But after playing that, I found the rest of the genre boring - just more of the same.
Different people, different games. I would probably throw all yours into the nearest compost heap.
I find it hard to believe that people criticize this. What have you done for those people there is what I would like to know?
What he (the grandparent poster) has done is - like millions of other people around the world - contribute to the massive wealth of Microsoft and specifically Bill Gates, which enables the latter to do good works with "his money".
When the government spends money raised by taxing us, we say they are spending "our money". When Bill Gates spends money raised by taxing us, he says it is "his money". It would look better if he acknowledged that he was spending this money on behalf of all the Microsoft-taxed contributers to "his" wealth.
Wealth is wonderful. It enables you to buy anything you want, including a virtuous reputation. I could be giving proportionately more of my wealth to charity, and living in much more reduced circumstances than Bill Gates's, but I would go completely unnoticed.
Does Bill Gates experience any hardship as a result of his charity? It really seems more like his new hobby than a sacrifice. That doesn't make the results of this foundation wrong. I have no expertise on the relative merits of this project as opposed to other aid priorities, although Rennt made some pertinent observations about this.
Anyway, I can differentiate between the practical effects of a charitable act and its moral worth. Can't you?
...some incredible marble-colour-guessing gene that evolution or possibly archeobacteria had slipped you...
Were archeobacteria good at guessing the colour of marbles?
I didn't think they even had marbles back in those archeo-days.
this means that we're really all brothers and sisters, right?
Cousins. Except for the ones that really are your brothers and sisters.
The US has nothing to lose from social unrest in China.
Except economic collapse, maybe. Who do you think owns the US foreign debt?
Vulnerability applies to 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems with Windows NT 3.5 heritage.
So it is still OK to use Windows 95? That's a relief.
Hey "genius" - You forgot to actually get first post. You also forgot to post Anon, so into Karma hell you go!
Which part of "first-ish" didn't you get?
How can I have forgotten something that was explicitly acknowledged in my post?