I also think it's important to have front ends to this information. Sites such as daypop.com keep track of what's big in the blog-o-sphere. Their Top 40 list shows the most linked-to articles on the net that day. There's also an archive so you can watch how news stories have spread across the blog-o-sphere over time.
Sorry, that just doesn't fly. Don't you think the military would be insured their right to vote? How could we expect to keep soldiers fighting for us if they couldn't vote? The Pentagon would never let that happen. Besides, name a *major* ISP in Iraq.
The *only* group that would be affected by this (besides the hackers, of course) would be the U.S. citizens outside the country for personal rather than national reasons. Survey says... mostly Democrat.
Even if the block did affect the military, and assume the military is Republican while all other overseas citizens are Democrat, it's still a big win for the Republicans... ~(military overseas:citizens overseas::1:20)
They're overtly worried about defacement or hijacking of the website. It's not like they're running something assuredly insecure for the server (they're not using IIS). Why would they be so worried?
Furthermore, if this were the way to stop overseas votes this would be it. If there were a website that overseas citizens actually voted on and it was blocked... well, no one would get away with that. Instead they institute a block that merely prevents finding information on casting an overseas vote. This is much safer.
As scared as I am of John Kerry, this really just pisses me off. Those people have a right to vote, and they should probably know how. If this gets picked up by the big media I hope to see a few third parties get propped up (go Badnarik!).
Traditionally, parents bequeath their homes, money, etc.. to their children, and this was a big part of the economy.
Traditionally, as in before the estate tax. The estate tax kicks in at $1,000,000 which isn't as much money as it used to be. If the family business isn't transferred in name before the parent dies it's likely that business will be taxed to pieces.
A little googling found me this text: Under President George W. Bush's 2001 tax cut law, the federal estate tax will gradually decrease until it ends completely in 2010. But this will not be permanent. In 2011, the estate tax will return at its 2001 rates.
Ignore the name on the law so you can properly think about it. I like the idea since it's been over 100 years since the tax has been reviewed for its effectiveness. If that plan goes through we're going to have a chance to see if more big money actually does land in the children's hands, and we'll see what exactly happens.
"Vivendi responded by making a number of claims in an attempt to invalidate our agreement and be awarded the ownership of the Half-Life intellectual property. We expect to prevail in this lawsuit."
Maybe that's just a high bid and they expect to be talked down between legal proceedings, but that's seriously scary.
It sounds like Valve intended to use Steam as its own little online marketplace. It didn't tell Sierra about this until a year after an agreement was filed because that would like scare them out of that agreement. Sierra is pissed because Valve wants to cut out the middlemen (them).
"True that the *nix server could be affected, but it's really due to a compromise on the MS Win32 system."
Yup. But infected is infected.
The *nix box won't be affected by any of those viruses, but the machines it shares them with can be infected. And that infection can put a load on the network (particularly the viruses that do scanning).
Imagine you are Milla Jovovich, the Unix server. You find yourself strangely modified by the Umbrella Corporation, the internet at large, to be stronger than all the other and strangely resistant to infections. Everything about that is hunky dory, true, but when 5,000 zombies come chasing after you for no good reason other than that they are hungry (for bandwidth, mind) then you find yourself suddenly bothered.
It's not that you can be infected, it's that there are lots of them, and they're attacking you regardless of vulnerability.
I was going to point out all the errors I have gotten that an IE user would most definitely notice (cursor in text box doesn't move left and right with arrow keys, all left and middle clicks open in new tabs) but then I unmerged mozilla-firefox and merged mozilla-firefox-bin. Just like Openoffice, Firefox seems to work better when you just go ahead and use the binary. My problems are solved now.
A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters
If I recall correctly, the children's father was a bit of an intellect. The boy hero certainly was. This probably isn't suitable just yet since it has no pictures but I thought you needed to keep this in mind. Amazing stories requiring a great deal of imagination and a respect for intelligence. They're probably what have kept my feet so firmly planted in the air all these years.
Also, to put her to bed I suggect the ISO/IEC C standard. The 1999 committee draft is a doozie.
I so totally thought of all that two years ago. It was going to be my senior research project for my major and I'd get all sorts of kickass attention for it. Evil bastard that I am I planned to patent it and make enough money from that that I'd never have to actually get a real job and just stay in school for another decade.
It was all born out of an idea of mine to take all of my pictures and put them on my website. Then I'd draw up a map of my home, town, and university with little camera icons pointing in various directions which when clicked upon brought up that exact picture. I picked up a copy of Flash for specifically that reason figuring the returns from the gps camera with direction and focal logging would earn the money back.
Yeah, I read that and thought it was saying Mozilla Badger. Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Badger... it made sense. I figured it was a program that ran on Firefox Future (an OS maybe?).
I think I fall into the same category as you, but I'd like to add something...
I think the problem is that people expect a capitalist marketplace with socialist penalties. The looseness provided by a libertarian ideal with regards to business regulations would have to come hand in hand with far stiffer penalties for hurting people.
We realize that corporations can do evil things. We are much more capable of punishing big business without destroying our economy than we used to be. Why are we so afraid of punishing then? We're like parents who keep their children out of trouble by not letting them out of eyesight rather than parents who let their play how they will because the child knows how mean the punishments can be if they do something wrong.
I'm sorry, I just realized that that's probably a personality type thing. I guess it makes sense to see the government regulating the heck out of business. The SEC's sole purpose was to make the comman people feel sure that they wouldn't be cheated on the stock market. But doesn't that just move the abuse from the business end to the government end? Who punishes the government?
I like to think that we can do better with less government oversight and more strict penalties, for all things. Unfortunately, that requires more jailers and headsmen though-- more people willing to punish the faulty.
I think that the kind of people who sue despite warning labels aren't going to be gunning for their OS Vendor (what's an OS? It's the computer's fault!). The average layman uses Occam's Razor to place blame on a computer. If something goes wrong it's most likely that their child did it or the computer is just broken and IBM or Dell is to blame.
EULA's are the reason smarter people don't sue. They exempt the software vendor from an unimaginable amount of liability without the user ever knowing unless they read it.
There appears to be nobody in the third group: the group that understands where the problem is but doesn't understand what EULA's do. They'd be the type to sue.
The 4th group, which understands what an EULA does but doesn't understand how computers work, is likely the group that writes EULA's.
I think they were referring to Gentoo's "title" of being the fastest running distribution. Gentoo is a pure and simple pain in the ass to install and requires you to become very well versed in the ways and workings of linux. If Yoper can compare in running speed to Gentoo and also include a quick and easy setup then it would indeed be competition, but I'm sure neither of us are too fuzzy of the rules of this "competition."
If Yoper can run as fast as Gentoo, with a fraction of the setup time, and be just as stable, Yoper will be indeed be the Windows-replacer I suggest for our future Installfests on campus. We've been installing Mandrake or Fedora Core 2 and were toying with the idea of getting a few dozen lab computers setup with distcc to make Gentoo installs feasible. Yoper would definitely save us the effort.
I'll still want to see benchmarks for game performance though. This could be my Doom 3 Linux distro of choice as well.
On a different track of thought, perhaps someone in the Gentoo camp will work on making some of Yoper's features available in one of the install stages. It's won't be blatant rip-off, it'll be the bazaar in action.
Here in South Carolina DeMint and Tenenbaum are fighting for Fritz Holling's (D-Disney) old seat. I think I'll send a letter to each one promising to vote their way if they can tell me they won't be "dictated by Disney like the previous guy." I'll see who responds the best to that.
If we replaced Altnet with Microsoft I'd say thank God. If we replaced Altnet with Apple or Real or anyone else who's legitimately selling files over the internet and has a big name that'd definitely be good.
Someone needs to tell the RIAA, "look, you're ruining the music business."
--Matthew
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The debates are controlled by both the Republicans and Democrats. The bar is 15%. The debates already run three days. The bar has been raised over the last 20 years *specifically* to keep THEIR favorite out.
The debates used to be very long. Candidates would get exhausted during them and start to speak bluntly (honestly, if you will). The questions used to be hard-balled to keep the debaters on their toes. The debaters used to be allowed to debate each other. We used to know exactly what the candidates believed by watching the debates.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, I can pay attention now...
Yay!
I also think it's important to have front ends to this information. Sites such as daypop.com keep track of what's big in the blog-o-sphere. Their Top 40 list shows the most linked-to articles on the net that day. There's also an archive so you can watch how news stories have spread across the blog-o-sphere over time.
Sorry, that just doesn't fly. Don't you think the military would be insured their right to vote? How could we expect to keep soldiers fighting for us if they couldn't vote? The Pentagon would never let that happen. Besides, name a *major* ISP in Iraq.
The *only* group that would be affected by this (besides the hackers, of course) would be the U.S. citizens outside the country for personal rather than national reasons. Survey says... mostly Democrat.
Even if the block did affect the military, and assume the military is Republican while all other overseas citizens are Democrat, it's still a big win for the Republicans...
~(military overseas:citizens overseas::1:20)
They're overtly worried about defacement or hijacking of the website. It's not like they're running something assuredly insecure for the server (they're not using IIS). Why would they be so worried?
Furthermore, if this were the way to stop overseas votes this would be it. If there were a website that overseas citizens actually voted on and it was blocked... well, no one would get away with that. Instead they institute a block that merely prevents finding information on casting an overseas vote. This is much safer.
As scared as I am of John Kerry, this really just pisses me off. Those people have a right to vote, and they should probably know how. If this gets picked up by the big media I hope to see a few third parties get propped up (go Badnarik!).
Traditionally, parents bequeath their homes, money, etc.. to their children, and this was a big part of the economy.
Traditionally, as in before the estate tax. The estate tax kicks in at $1,000,000 which isn't as much money as it used to be. If the family business isn't transferred in name before the parent dies it's likely that business will be taxed to pieces.
A little googling found me this text:
Under President George W. Bush's 2001 tax cut law, the federal estate tax will gradually decrease until it ends completely in 2010. But this will not be permanent. In 2011, the estate tax will return at its 2001 rates.
Ignore the name on the law so you can properly think about it. I like the idea since it's been over 100 years since the tax has been reviewed for its effectiveness. If that plan goes through we're going to have a chance to see if more big money actually does land in the children's hands, and we'll see what exactly happens.
The other "portal" Google owned but no one knew why...
Goatse.cx
"Vivendi responded by making a number of claims in an attempt to invalidate our agreement and be awarded the ownership of the Half-Life intellectual property. We expect to prevail in this lawsuit."
Maybe that's just a high bid and they expect to be talked down between legal proceedings, but that's seriously scary.
It sounds like Valve intended to use Steam as its own little online marketplace. It didn't tell Sierra about this until a year after an agreement was filed because that would like scare them out of that agreement. Sierra is pissed because Valve wants to cut out the middlemen (them).
"True that the *nix server could be affected, but it's really due to a compromise on the MS Win32 system."
Yup. But infected is infected.
The *nix box won't be affected by any of those viruses, but the machines it shares them with can be infected. And that infection can put a load on the network (particularly the viruses that do scanning).
Imagine you are Milla Jovovich, the Unix server. You find yourself strangely modified by the Umbrella Corporation, the internet at large, to be stronger than all the other and strangely resistant to infections. Everything about that is hunky dory, true, but when 5,000 zombies come chasing after you for no good reason other than that they are hungry (for bandwidth, mind) then you find yourself suddenly bothered.
It's not that you can be infected, it's that there are lots of them, and they're attacking you regardless of vulnerability.
I use linux.
Wake me when it's out in a form I can use.
I was going to point out all the errors I have gotten that an IE user would most definitely notice (cursor in text box doesn't move left and right with arrow keys, all left and middle clicks open in new tabs) but then I unmerged mozilla-firefox and merged mozilla-firefox-bin. Just like Openoffice, Firefox seems to work better when you just go ahead and use the binary. My problems are solved now.
It'll be interesting to see the windfall when all those people who downloaded it realize the "pr" means it's not going to work perfectly.
That said, I'm not very happy that I upgraded.
Who's counting all the people who just emerged Firefox with Gentoo? I'll bet there's a good sized handful of downloads there too.
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
If I recall correctly, the children's father was a bit of an intellect. The boy hero certainly was. This probably isn't suitable just yet since it has no pictures but I thought you needed to keep this in mind. Amazing stories requiring a great deal of imagination and a respect for intelligence. They're probably what have kept my feet so firmly planted in the air all these years.
Also, to put her to bed I suggect the ISO/IEC C standard. The 1999 committee draft is a doozie.
Damned it all!!
I so totally thought of all that two years ago. It was going to be my senior research project for my major and I'd get all sorts of kickass attention for it. Evil bastard that I am I planned to patent it and make enough money from that that I'd never have to actually get a real job and just stay in school for another decade.
It was all born out of an idea of mine to take all of my pictures and put them on my website. Then I'd draw up a map of my home, town, and university with little camera icons pointing in various directions which when clicked upon brought up that exact picture. I picked up a copy of Flash for specifically that reason figuring the returns from the gps camera with direction and focal logging would earn the money back.
I need to go break something.
Is the linux crowd so small that this would roll?
Are Open Source enthusiasts so quiet and sedate that they wouldn't have a field day with this?
Buck up buddy, there's certainly enough Yang for their Yin.
Goodger Goodger Goodger Goodger
Goodger Goodger..
Yeah, I read that and thought it was saying Mozilla Badger. Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Badger... it made sense. I figured it was a program that ran on Firefox Future (an OS maybe?).
I read "nouse" and heard "noose" in my head. Then I saw mention that this would solve the problem with those disabled people...
I feel dirty.
Obligatory quote:
"Studies have also shown that herioine has no carbohydrates whatsoever. But it *does* contain lots of... heroine."
--John Stewart, The Daily Show
Keep drinking...
Do we really want radical police helping to free harmful beer?
I think I fall into the same category as you, but I'd like to add something...
I think the problem is that people expect a capitalist marketplace with socialist penalties. The looseness provided by a libertarian ideal with regards to business regulations would have to come hand in hand with far stiffer penalties for hurting people.
We realize that corporations can do evil things. We are much more capable of punishing big business without destroying our economy than we used to be. Why are we so afraid of punishing then? We're like parents who keep their children out of trouble by not letting them out of eyesight rather than parents who let their play how they will because the child knows how mean the punishments can be if they do something wrong.
I'm sorry, I just realized that that's probably a personality type thing. I guess it makes sense to see the government regulating the heck out of business. The SEC's sole purpose was to make the comman people feel sure that they wouldn't be cheated on the stock market. But doesn't that just move the abuse from the business end to the government end? Who punishes the government?
I like to think that we can do better with less government oversight and more strict penalties, for all things. Unfortunately, that requires more jailers and headsmen though-- more people willing to punish the faulty.
This is offtopic, but how's that Coral link thingy work? As it open participation?
I think that the kind of people who sue despite warning labels aren't going to be gunning for their OS Vendor (what's an OS? It's the computer's fault!). The average layman uses Occam's Razor to place blame on a computer. If something goes wrong it's most likely that their child did it or the computer is just broken and IBM or Dell is to blame.
EULA's are the reason smarter people don't sue. They exempt the software vendor from an unimaginable amount of liability without the user ever knowing unless they read it.
There appears to be nobody in the third group: the group that understands where the problem is but doesn't understand what EULA's do. They'd be the type to sue.
The 4th group, which understands what an EULA does but doesn't understand how computers work, is likely the group that writes EULA's.
I think they were referring to Gentoo's "title" of being the fastest running distribution. Gentoo is a pure and simple pain in the ass to install and requires you to become very well versed in the ways and workings of linux. If Yoper can compare in running speed to Gentoo and also include a quick and easy setup then it would indeed be competition, but I'm sure neither of us are too fuzzy of the rules of this "competition."
If Yoper can run as fast as Gentoo, with a fraction of the setup time, and be just as stable, Yoper will be indeed be the Windows-replacer I suggest for our future Installfests on campus. We've been installing Mandrake or Fedora Core 2 and were toying with the idea of getting a few dozen lab computers setup with distcc to make Gentoo installs feasible. Yoper would definitely save us the effort.
I'll still want to see benchmarks for game performance though. This could be my Doom 3 Linux distro of choice as well.
On a different track of thought, perhaps someone in the Gentoo camp will work on making some of Yoper's features available in one of the install stages. It's won't be blatant rip-off, it'll be the bazaar in action.
Here in South Carolina DeMint and Tenenbaum are fighting for Fritz Holling's (D-Disney) old seat. I think I'll send a letter to each one promising to vote their way if they can tell me they won't be "dictated by Disney like the previous guy." I'll see who responds the best to that.
If we replaced Altnet with Microsoft I'd say thank God. If we replaced Altnet with Apple or Real or anyone else who's legitimately selling files over the internet and has a big name that'd definitely be good.
Someone needs to tell the RIAA, "look, you're ruining the music business."
--Matthew
The debates are controlled by both the Republicans and Democrats.
The bar is 15%.
The debates already run three days.
The bar has been raised over the last 20 years *specifically* to keep THEIR favorite out.
The debates used to be very long. Candidates would get exhausted during them and start to speak bluntly (honestly, if you will). The questions used to be hard-balled to keep the debaters on their toes. The debaters used to be allowed to debate each other. We used to know exactly what the candidates believed by watching the debates.