It is true and is the most idiotic, numbskulled, moronic decision ever made by any distro anywhere, anytime. Until I came to realize this idiocy was global, I kept thinking that there was something wrong with my installs.
This default behavior is indefensible so don't anyone even TRY to defend it.
They are NEVER the bad guys. Simply because you don't like the form of speech or the civil right that they are defending at any given moment doesn't make them good or bad. They are, de facto, good. Please keep in mind a quote by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan: "If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."
This applies to flag burning (as a veteran, I'm for it as valid political speech). It also goes beyond the First Amendment to ALL the other Amendments. Separation of Church and State is and must remain a solid wall. Offensive speech must remain protected regardless of your (or anyone else's) sensibilities. The ACLU is there to ensure this for the most offensive to the most inoffensive. There is no such thing as an OK and minor violation of Constitutional principle or of ANY Constitutional Right.
I want their media to last as long as my books do, and be as useable in 15 years as my oldest books. I still have the very first book I ever bought as a kid in grade school - 6th or 7th Grade, I don't recall which. It is still in decent shape, just a little browned with age, and pefectly readable.
How many CDs or DVDs or any other modern electronic media format is going to still be usable in 15 years? When they make a media format at least as long-lived as books, then I will consider eschewing the need to backup as a protection against media damage or technology change.
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Wrong. If the earth's albedo is increasing, and it is high-altitude, then a decrease in sunlight reaching the earth's surface would likely follow along with a decrease in temperature (as sunlight would be reflecting away from earth). I have read nothing about an ever-increasing albedo, and the articles on the subject indicate ABSORPTION of visable light is the cause of dimming at the surface. Absorption WILL produce heat. The energy of the sunlight doesn't disappear upon absorption, it gets converted into heat (and molecular kinetic energy). Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely converted into a different form. VISABLE sunlight energy is down-convertedinto infrared energy (heat). It leads to an increase in temperature with increasing dimming.
I've used all three (gnumeric, kspread, and OOcalc). I do find that gnumeric is quite good, but not really any better at those data analysis tools than kspread is. Both gnumeric and kspread suffer (TREMENDOUSLY) in the charting arena. Gnumeric doesn't even have a broken rudimentary graphing capability while kspread ties into kchart which is a horrible charting app. OOcalc kicks both their butts on charting, but it doesn't match up to the charting possible from excel.
Of course, excel cannot hold a candle to the charting capabilites of DeltaGraph or CricketGraph (both Mac apps...do they have PC versions?). I have begged the koffice developers to fix the atrocious kcharting app so that it is actually of use (mostly hard-of-hearing ears if not outright deaf ears). I hope against hope that OO will improve its charting capabilities (C'mon! You CANNOT do proper charting if you don't do error bars). Gnumeric doesn't even enter the picture here. Nothing at all in the charting arena so all the nice data analysis done in gnumeric is for naught. There's no way to plot it out, no way to graphically represent it.
Well, what I didn't mention was the other part of my critique. In the USA what I mention will come to pass, provided such things as nanofactories come to be. Europe may follow along as well, much the way they are wrt intellectual properly law, software patents, etc. OTHER countries, the current bit players and troublemakers...THEY will do as you mention. They will spit on the corporate way and form a grey or black market for "rogue" factory devices. They will be largely unregulated. Terrorists WILL gain access, just as it was/is inevitable that they will obtain nukes and other nasties. The terrorists will use them and the untamed countries will chew up the underbelly of the USA corporate attempt to control the technology.
I don't believe the timeline or the rosey scenarios in any case. I am not certain that they can be built in the way described either. If they are, corporations will try to manage it all for their benefit with minimal changes to the way things are. Corporate execs will bleed the user dry of money so they can have much wealth while everyone else lacks. "Rogue" states will say "screw that" and end-run it all and ultimately torpedo the American Corporate Way.
No, it is successive approximation but applied in a "novel" way. Successive approximation is normally used as a form of treatment for a phobia, say. A person is terrified of spiders. You could try implosive therapy and just put them on Fear Factor and have them lie in a plexiglass coffin-like box and pour a few hundred tarantulas on them or...you could try successive approximation. Start by talking about spiders. Visualizing spiders. Then perhaps move onto looking at a few pictures of spiders. Then work up to having the person in the same room as a small spider, etc, etc. Eventually, you have them handling a tarantula.
I simply took the idea of successive approximation and applied its very simple and applicable methods to a way to whittle away civil rights and get past pesky things like the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It is a psychological description of the "slippery slope".
Bull poopy. Any device made will be provided by a rather expensive subscription service and include DRM and be protected by DMCA provisions. You will pay corporations for acquisition of the original unit, which you will LICENSE rather than own, and you will need to renew your subscription on a yearly basis. There will be licensing fees tacked on depending on what you wish to make, and how many. You will not be able to make a full-function copy factory using the original factory unit because DRM will prevent it.
This isn't post-industrial except in THEORY. In FACT, corporations will control it via their paid-for reps in government. Laws will be passed with corporate interest in mind, ensuring that inspite of what COULD happen with these things (assuming they come to fruition at all), it will merely be more of the same.
The site in question has a "Devil's Advocate" link so you can post your critique. I did and it addresses what you mention in your post here. Scarcity.
Nanotech cheerleaders ALL invariably present a rosey scenario in which everyone can make things for themselves at no cost with nanotech factories. Scarcity wont exist, poverty will disappear, cats and dogs will sleep together in sexual languer, etc. Bullcrap. Corporations will never permit this. Digital technology has eliminated certain types of "scarcity" and corporate interests have nevertheless managed to get laws passed all over the place to create artificial scarcity, or failing that, to squeeze out the same profits from the same old 19th Century capitalistic nonsense that they always have. They create structures in law and regulation so as to promote and continue the same old process of the general populace paying paying paying so a few corporate dreks can swim in superwealth based on a dead model. Nanofactories will not change this as corporations will do with them what they are doing with CDs, DVDs, and other digital forms of information. Though scarcity will, in large part, be no more, corporate interests will ensure that the scarcity system is enshrined in law regardless and it will quash all the doe-eyed dreaming about nanotech factories for everyone.
Leading to a police state in what used to be the USA. The "Patriot" Act and similar nonsense merely nibbles away at a few rights. Just a minor annoyance or inconvenience, right? Then there are "minor" annoyances like the Prez being able to willy-nilly label someone an "enemy combatant" whether you were actually picked up on some field of battle somewhere and tossed in a cell indefinitely with no recourse. No contact with family, lawyers, judges, newspapers, nothing. Oh yeah, and it is only during "wartime". A "war" defined such that it NEVER ends (the "War on Terror"). Then there are minor plantings of surveillance cameras here and there as in the story. Nothing big. Just watching for "evil doers" with warrants out on them...then it is for minor traffic/parking infractions...then it is for odd or "suspicious" behavior. In any case, just a minor adjustment in each case. Just baby steps. Problem is, eventually we get backed into a deep, deep hole and think, "How the HELL did we get here?"
In psychology, it is termed "successive approximation". You can't get someone to outright do some thing or agree to something so you merely walk them towards the desired end by having them take innocuous, minor "baby steps" toward the desired goal. The person has no real problem taking these "minor" steps. On their own they are nothing. In the end, you have them doing something or going along with something that they NEVER would have agreed to if you'd put it to them outright.
Baby steps. Thousands of baby steps can carry us a long distance in a direction we do NOT want to go.
No, downloading movies is frickin' annoying as it sucks up huge bandwidth for long periods of time. Multiply this by 1000s on a campus and you screw up legitimate research-based use of the network so a subgroup of idiots can get some loser movie that isn't worth spending money on, let alone the time to download it. I couldn't give a runny crap for the poor babies in hollywood, etc, but I do give a crap for slow network connections due to some retard downloading some huge list of retarded songs or movies. At least wait for off-hours so legitimate school/research work can be done properly.
I think you are somewhat wrongheaded in your slant. I do not think WineX, such as it is, will EVER be good enough to play most games. It will almost never be good enough to play brandnew games. If developers were to use winelibs to build their games for windoze, you could take advantage of the strictly windoze-using game market while at the same time gaining linux users without the need of windoze. The problem here is that you would lose the ability to use nifty additions to Direct3D. WineX/Wine can only ever play catchup in a weak way. SOME games work right away, but most do not work, period. Of these many will never work in wine/winex.
This leaves the unlikely event that game companies would totally ignore linux in the future (once it gains a more significant foothold on the desktop market) and ONLY write for windoze and expect that everyone will have windoze on their systems simply to play games. That is the way it usually is NOW simply because it is necessity but it doesn't HAVE to be that way by any stretch.
My mail provider is Yahoo. Boo all you want but I do have to say that Yahoo does a superb job in spam filtering. It is a very rare spam that gets past their filtering. I have quit looking at my bulk mail folder when on the webmail interface anymore because I have seen virtually no false positives there either.
On my home systems I NEVER see the spam at all. I have postfix, procmail, and spamassassin setup to handle it and handle it they do. First off, procmail directs ANY email that has the Yahoo X-filtered-bulk header in it to/dev/null. Anything that gets past this is handled by one of several handy procmail recipes and gets/dev/nulled. Anything that gets past that is handled by spamassassin and gets/dev/nulled. I might see 1 or 2 spams a month, TOPS, that manage to run the entire gauntlet...but then doing "sa-learn" on it brings those particular guys to the/dev/null world.
My wife gets dozens of spams a day at her job, where the network nazis require her to use outlook and wont allow her to install any personal filtering software ala spamassassin. They tell her "Sorry, we feel your pain but we are doing our 'best' to handle spam..." I encourage her to get a laptop to take to work upon which I would install linux for her AND set it up so that she rarely ever gets any spams ever again. When she gets tired of penis enlargement or breast enlargement messages to delete she may take me up on the offer.
On spam filtering, does Snotmail not do something similar to Yahoo with its bulkmail/spam filtering?
Eh? Rats (dogs, cats, cows, horses, skunks,...) do NOT have a different respiratory system than humans. They work exactly the same, by the same mechanisms, and for the exact same purpose. Birds are mechanically a little different but their lungs work the same way too.
It is real stuff and it works. It did not kill the rodent. It could be a temporary hazard for developing pneumonia after the fact if the lungs don't clear the liquid soon enough and a bacteria can get started in it.
Basically, expell the liquid and then cough, cough, cough to clear most of it, then slowly eliminate the rest the same way your lungs clear mucus contaminated with dirt, bacteria, viruses, etc.
increase the vulnerability. Look at Lindows. Its behavior was to essentially make it easy and have all users run as root. That makes it little better than windoze as anyone could totally dork the system or help a virus or trojan come right on in. I understand that there has been SOME improvement but still the option is left there for user-as-root.
I think that this should be absolutely proscribed in any and all linux distros. Make it as easy to use as you wish but NEVER EVER permit the option of user-as-root. FORCE people to enter a username and password that they will use and do not provide a root login icon in kdm/gdm/xdm. Make users login as user and then go superuser if they must, the way Mithras intended it to be.
If you make it too easy, as in reducing the steps needed to setup all the various system settings, then you automatically make it more vulnerable to both stupidity, error, and leveraged attack by malware.
It CAN be made much easier without needing to open the system to some sort of user-as-root nonsense.
Add to that there is NO scientific app that uses graphic visualization that uses anything but OpenGL. OpenGL cannot die. It may not be used heavily in games, unfortunately, at least yet, but OpenGL rules the scientific world hands-down.
If/when linux makes more significant inroads into the desktop market, then games will follow. These games will require OpenGL, or someone is going to have to come up with another gaming-specific rendering lib that, if properly designed, would be fully cross-platform, supported on the mac, linux, and doze boxes. I don't see this happening, however, until and unless M$ puts a knife in OpenGL with their IP claims on part of the very heart of OpenGL. We need a truly OSS rendering system with the capabilities of Direct3D and that is free of IP claims.
Pa-leeze! There is one thing and only one thing to like in that abomonation of a movie: the shower scene. The rest isn't fit to be flushed down my toilet.
Someone in hollywood actually thought Starshit Poopers was good enough to spawn a sequel? Hardware shmardware. The thing to consider isn't the nifty hardware/software being used to make the movie, the nugget for consideration is that someone is actually using ANY equipment to make another iteration of a movie only slightly less suckorama than Show Girls or Gigli.
packages I build from source. Those that do not come prepackaged and kernels. I like to build my own kernel because I like to add a few of the grsecurity features into my kernels, but only some of them, and distros don't seem to incorporate some of the most logical ones (network protections).
Other than that, it is really a waste of time. KDE and Gnome are just too freakin' big these days to build from source. Anything else is like trying to squeeze one last drop of performance water from a turnip. Little gain for lots of pain.
And thus, I favor Dennis Kucinich's plan to pull out of the WTO. Though his presidential run didn't succeed, I hope his positions do. They have to and will, actually, as it is seen more and more that such crap as the WTO, NAFTA, and the like, take political and social control away from citizens of a nation and give it, lock, stock, and barrel, to wealthy corporations.
A sovereign nation, peopled with sovereign citizens, has total, ultimate control over what comes in, what goes out, and under what circumstances. The WTO doesn't permit niceties like requiring worker rights or environmental stewardship as a condition of trade. It doesn't care. All it cares about is capital moving into the pockets of the few at the expense of the many. It doesn't care what supreme harm is done to a given country's people by draconian monetary and trade policies. That's just too bad, the WTO wants the money - and damn the health and welfare of the citizenry.
I don't recall ever giving up my country and my control over my government (as a voting member of society) and its policies so a bunch of nasty, heartless, money-grubbing bastards can rack in more money, and damn the torpedos.
This crap, the WTO TELLING us we have to allow online gambling (or anything else that VOTERS don't go for) for the sake of the flow of money into the pockets of a few is unacceptable and, hopefully, is just the very beginning of the end of our participation in that evil organization.
It's for suckers and idiots, in this case one and the same. Only a sucker AND idiot would believe that it is reasonable to assume a company, any company, will last 100 years. It is good for the registrar of the domain, who makes money off the sucker-idiots regardless of how long or short the company actually lasts. It is a sucker play by the sucker-idiot who gives money on the assumption that they will be around in 100 years. Sheesh. Pay for 10 years at a stretch seems much more reasonable for the long end. Simply renew in 10 years if you haven't gone down the terlit.
Well...my future laptops, as far as I can see, will remain squarely in the PC catagory - running linux. I build my own desktop systems (for myself and my wife). That said, when the day comes that I cannot find a non-DRM bios mobo/system geared towards removing my rights and control of my system in favor of software companies and media companies then I will most assuredly become an Apple desktop user. I will jump ship to OS X and linux on the Mac.
So long as Apple stays out of the DRM/take away user rights game, they have a happy future. They will be the refuge of those intelligent enough to NOT go quietly into corporate control of their hardware, media, and, indirectly, their lives.
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It is true and is the most idiotic, numbskulled, moronic decision ever made by any distro anywhere, anytime. Until I came to realize this idiocy was global, I kept thinking that there was something wrong with my installs.
This default behavior is indefensible so don't anyone even TRY to defend it.
They are NEVER the bad guys. Simply because you don't like the form of speech or the civil right that they are defending at any given moment doesn't make them good or bad. They are, de facto, good. Please keep in mind a quote by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan: "If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."
This applies to flag burning (as a veteran, I'm for it as valid political speech). It also goes beyond the First Amendment to ALL the other Amendments. Separation of Church and State is and must remain a solid wall. Offensive speech must remain protected regardless of your (or anyone else's) sensibilities. The ACLU is there to ensure this for the most offensive to the most inoffensive. There is no such thing as an OK and minor violation of Constitutional principle or of ANY Constitutional Right.
That anyone managed to snag a copy before it was removed? Perhaps a link to a cache image? Preferably something that isn't a link to Goatsx.
Oops. That should be 25 years, not 15 years.
I want their media to last as long as my books do, and be as useable in 15 years as my oldest books. I still have the very first book I ever bought as a kid in grade school - 6th or 7th Grade, I don't recall which. It is still in decent shape, just a little browned with age, and pefectly readable.
How many CDs or DVDs or any other modern electronic media format is going to still be usable in 15 years? When they make a media format at least as long-lived as books, then I will consider eschewing the need to backup as a protection against media damage or technology change.
Wrong. If the earth's albedo is increasing, and it is high-altitude, then a decrease in sunlight reaching the earth's surface would likely follow along with a decrease in temperature (as sunlight would be reflecting away from earth). I have read nothing about an ever-increasing albedo, and the articles on the subject indicate ABSORPTION of visable light is the cause of dimming at the surface. Absorption WILL produce heat. The energy of the sunlight doesn't disappear upon absorption, it gets converted into heat (and molecular kinetic energy). Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely converted into a different form. VISABLE sunlight energy is down-convertedinto infrared energy (heat). It leads to an increase in temperature with increasing dimming.
I've used all three (gnumeric, kspread, and OOcalc). I do find that gnumeric is quite good, but not really any better at those data analysis tools than kspread is. Both gnumeric and kspread suffer (TREMENDOUSLY) in the charting arena. Gnumeric doesn't even have a broken rudimentary graphing capability while kspread ties into kchart which is a horrible charting app. OOcalc kicks both their butts on charting, but it doesn't match up to the charting possible from excel.
Of course, excel cannot hold a candle to the charting capabilites of DeltaGraph or CricketGraph (both Mac apps...do they have PC versions?). I have begged the koffice developers to fix the atrocious kcharting app so that it is actually of use (mostly hard-of-hearing ears if not outright deaf ears). I hope against hope that OO will improve its charting capabilities (C'mon! You CANNOT do proper charting if you don't do error bars). Gnumeric doesn't even enter the picture here. Nothing at all in the charting arena so all the nice data analysis done in gnumeric is for naught. There's no way to plot it out, no way to graphically represent it.
Well, what I didn't mention was the other part of my critique. In the USA what I mention will come to pass, provided such things as nanofactories come to be. Europe may follow along as well, much the way they are wrt intellectual properly law, software patents, etc. OTHER countries, the current bit players and troublemakers...THEY will do as you mention. They will spit on the corporate way and form a grey or black market for "rogue" factory devices. They will be largely unregulated. Terrorists WILL gain access, just as it was/is inevitable that they will obtain nukes and other nasties. The terrorists will use them and the untamed countries will chew up the underbelly of the USA corporate attempt to control the technology.
I don't believe the timeline or the rosey scenarios in any case. I am not certain that they can be built in the way described either. If they are, corporations will try to manage it all for their benefit with minimal changes to the way things are. Corporate execs will bleed the user dry of money so they can have much wealth while everyone else lacks. "Rogue" states will say "screw that" and end-run it all and ultimately torpedo the American Corporate Way.
No, it is successive approximation but applied in a "novel" way. Successive approximation is normally used as a form of treatment for a phobia, say. A person is terrified of spiders. You could try implosive therapy and just put them on Fear Factor and have them lie in a plexiglass coffin-like box and pour a few hundred tarantulas on them or...you could try successive approximation. Start by talking about spiders. Visualizing spiders. Then perhaps move onto looking at a few pictures of spiders. Then work up to having the person in the same room as a small spider, etc, etc. Eventually, you have them handling a tarantula.
I simply took the idea of successive approximation and applied its very simple and applicable methods to a way to whittle away civil rights and get past pesky things like the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It is a psychological description of the "slippery slope".
Bull poopy. Any device made will be provided by a rather expensive subscription service and include DRM and be protected by DMCA provisions. You will pay corporations for acquisition of the original unit, which you will LICENSE rather than own, and you will need to renew your subscription on a yearly basis. There will be licensing fees tacked on depending on what you wish to make, and how many. You will not be able to make a full-function copy factory using the original factory unit because DRM will prevent it.
This isn't post-industrial except in THEORY. In FACT, corporations will control it via their paid-for reps in government. Laws will be passed with corporate interest in mind, ensuring that inspite of what COULD happen with these things (assuming they come to fruition at all), it will merely be more of the same.
The site in question has a "Devil's Advocate" link so you can post your critique. I did and it addresses what you mention in your post here. Scarcity.
Nanotech cheerleaders ALL invariably present a rosey scenario in which everyone can make things for themselves at no cost with nanotech factories. Scarcity wont exist, poverty will disappear, cats and dogs will sleep together in sexual languer, etc. Bullcrap. Corporations will never permit this. Digital technology has eliminated certain types of "scarcity" and corporate interests have nevertheless managed to get laws passed all over the place to create artificial scarcity, or failing that, to squeeze out the same profits from the same old 19th Century capitalistic nonsense that they always have. They create structures in law and regulation so as to promote and continue the same old process of the general populace paying paying paying so a few corporate dreks can swim in superwealth based on a dead model. Nanofactories will not change this as corporations will do with them what they are doing with CDs, DVDs, and other digital forms of information. Though scarcity will, in large part, be no more, corporate interests will ensure that the scarcity system is enshrined in law regardless and it will quash all the doe-eyed dreaming about nanotech factories for everyone.
Nothing will change.
Leading to a police state in what used to be the USA. The "Patriot" Act and similar nonsense merely nibbles away at a few rights. Just a minor annoyance or inconvenience, right? Then there are "minor" annoyances like the Prez being able to willy-nilly label someone an "enemy combatant" whether you were actually picked up on some field of battle somewhere and tossed in a cell indefinitely with no recourse. No contact with family, lawyers, judges, newspapers, nothing. Oh yeah, and it is only during "wartime". A "war" defined such that it NEVER ends (the "War on Terror"). Then there are minor plantings of surveillance cameras here and there as in the story. Nothing big. Just watching for "evil doers" with warrants out on them...then it is for minor traffic/parking infractions...then it is for odd or "suspicious" behavior. In any case, just a minor adjustment in each case. Just baby steps. Problem is, eventually we get backed into a deep, deep hole and think, "How the HELL did we get here?"
In psychology, it is termed "successive approximation". You can't get someone to outright do some thing or agree to something so you merely walk them towards the desired end by having them take innocuous, minor "baby steps" toward the desired goal. The person has no real problem taking these "minor" steps. On their own they are nothing. In the end, you have them doing something or going along with something that they NEVER would have agreed to if you'd put it to them outright.
Baby steps. Thousands of baby steps can carry us a long distance in a direction we do NOT want to go.
Where did the 18 character number come from, instead of, say, 16, or 12? I haven't heard of this oblique method of spam avoidance before.
No, downloading movies is frickin' annoying as it sucks up huge bandwidth for long periods of time. Multiply this by 1000s on a campus and you screw up legitimate research-based use of the network so a subgroup of idiots can get some loser movie that isn't worth spending money on, let alone the time to download it. I couldn't give a runny crap for the poor babies in hollywood, etc, but I do give a crap for slow network connections due to some retard downloading some huge list of retarded songs or movies. At least wait for off-hours so legitimate school/research work can be done properly.
I think you are somewhat wrongheaded in your slant. I do not think WineX, such as it is, will EVER be good enough to play most games. It will almost never be good enough to play brandnew games. If developers were to use winelibs to build their games for windoze, you could take advantage of the strictly windoze-using game market while at the same time gaining linux users without the need of windoze. The problem here is that you would lose the ability to use nifty additions to Direct3D. WineX/Wine can only ever play catchup in a weak way. SOME games work right away, but most do not work, period. Of these many will never work in wine/winex.
This leaves the unlikely event that game companies would totally ignore linux in the future (once it gains a more significant foothold on the desktop market) and ONLY write for windoze and expect that everyone will have windoze on their systems simply to play games. That is the way it usually is NOW simply because it is necessity but it doesn't HAVE to be that way by any stretch.
My mail provider is Yahoo. Boo all you want but I do have to say that Yahoo does a superb job in spam filtering. It is a very rare spam that gets past their filtering. I have quit looking at my bulk mail folder when on the webmail interface anymore because I have seen virtually no false positives there either.
On my home systems I NEVER see the spam at all. I have postfix, procmail, and spamassassin setup to handle it and handle it they do. First off, procmail directs ANY email that has the Yahoo X-filtered-bulk header in it to /dev/null. Anything that gets past this is handled by one of several handy procmail recipes and gets /dev/nulled. Anything that gets past that is handled by spamassassin and gets /dev/nulled. I might see 1 or 2 spams a month, TOPS, that manage to run the entire gauntlet...but then doing "sa-learn" on it brings those particular guys to the /dev/null world.
My wife gets dozens of spams a day at her job, where the network nazis require her to use outlook and wont allow her to install any personal filtering software ala spamassassin. They tell her "Sorry, we feel your pain but we are doing our 'best' to handle spam..." I encourage her to get a laptop to take to work upon which I would install linux for her AND set it up so that she rarely ever gets any spams ever again. When she gets tired of penis enlargement or breast enlargement messages to delete she may take me up on the offer.
On spam filtering, does Snotmail not do something similar to Yahoo with its bulkmail/spam filtering?
Eh? Rats (dogs, cats, cows, horses, skunks, ...) do NOT have a different respiratory system than humans. They work exactly the same, by the same mechanisms, and for the exact same purpose. Birds are mechanically a little different but their lungs work the same way too.
It is real stuff and it works. It did not kill the rodent. It could be a temporary hazard for developing pneumonia after the fact if the lungs don't clear the liquid soon enough and a bacteria can get started in it.
Basically, expell the liquid and then cough, cough, cough to clear most of it, then slowly eliminate the rest the same way your lungs clear mucus contaminated with dirt, bacteria, viruses, etc.
increase the vulnerability. Look at Lindows. Its behavior was to essentially make it easy and have all users run as root. That makes it little better than windoze as anyone could totally dork the system or help a virus or trojan come right on in. I understand that there has been SOME improvement but still the option is left there for user-as-root.
I think that this should be absolutely proscribed in any and all linux distros. Make it as easy to use as you wish but NEVER EVER permit the option of user-as-root. FORCE people to enter a username and password that they will use and do not provide a root login icon in kdm/gdm/xdm. Make users login as user and then go superuser if they must, the way Mithras intended it to be.
If you make it too easy, as in reducing the steps needed to setup all the various system settings, then you automatically make it more vulnerable to both stupidity, error, and leveraged attack by malware.
It CAN be made much easier without needing to open the system to some sort of user-as-root nonsense.
Add to that there is NO scientific app that uses graphic visualization that uses anything but OpenGL. OpenGL cannot die. It may not be used heavily in games, unfortunately, at least yet, but OpenGL rules the scientific world hands-down.
If/when linux makes more significant inroads into the desktop market, then games will follow. These games will require OpenGL, or someone is going to have to come up with another gaming-specific rendering lib that, if properly designed, would be fully cross-platform, supported on the mac, linux, and doze boxes. I don't see this happening, however, until and unless M$ puts a knife in OpenGL with their IP claims on part of the very heart of OpenGL. We need a truly OSS rendering system with the capabilities of Direct3D and that is free of IP claims.
Pa-leeze! There is one thing and only one thing to like in that abomonation of a movie: the shower scene. The rest isn't fit to be flushed down my toilet.
Someone in hollywood actually thought Starshit Poopers was good enough to spawn a sequel? Hardware shmardware. The thing to consider isn't the nifty hardware/software being used to make the movie, the nugget for consideration is that someone is actually using ANY equipment to make another iteration of a movie only slightly less suckorama than Show Girls or Gigli.
packages I build from source. Those that do not come prepackaged and kernels. I like to build my own kernel because I like to add a few of the grsecurity features into my kernels, but only some of them, and distros don't seem to incorporate some of the most logical ones (network protections).
Other than that, it is really a waste of time. KDE and Gnome are just too freakin' big these days to build from source. Anything else is like trying to squeeze one last drop of performance water from a turnip. Little gain for lots of pain.
And thus, I favor Dennis Kucinich's plan to pull out of the WTO. Though his presidential run didn't succeed, I hope his positions do. They have to and will, actually, as it is seen more and more that such crap as the WTO, NAFTA, and the like, take political and social control away from citizens of a nation and give it, lock, stock, and barrel, to wealthy corporations.
A sovereign nation, peopled with sovereign citizens, has total, ultimate control over what comes in, what goes out, and under what circumstances. The WTO doesn't permit niceties like requiring worker rights or environmental stewardship as a condition of trade. It doesn't care. All it cares about is capital moving into the pockets of the few at the expense of the many. It doesn't care what supreme harm is done to a given country's people by draconian monetary and trade policies. That's just too bad, the WTO wants the money - and damn the health and welfare of the citizenry.
I don't recall ever giving up my country and my control over my government (as a voting member of society) and its policies so a bunch of nasty, heartless, money-grubbing bastards can rack in more money, and damn the torpedos.
This crap, the WTO TELLING us we have to allow online gambling (or anything else that VOTERS don't go for) for the sake of the flow of money into the pockets of a few is unacceptable and, hopefully, is just the very beginning of the end of our participation in that evil organization.
It's for suckers and idiots, in this case one and the same. Only a sucker AND idiot would believe that it is reasonable to assume a company, any company, will last 100 years. It is good for the registrar of the domain, who makes money off the sucker-idiots regardless of how long or short the company actually lasts. It is a sucker play by the sucker-idiot who gives money on the assumption that they will be around in 100 years. Sheesh. Pay for 10 years at a stretch seems much more reasonable for the long end. Simply renew in 10 years if you haven't gone down the terlit.
Well...my future laptops, as far as I can see, will remain squarely in the PC catagory - running linux. I build my own desktop systems (for myself and my wife). That said, when the day comes that I cannot find a non-DRM bios mobo/system geared towards removing my rights and control of my system in favor of software companies and media companies then I will most assuredly become an Apple desktop user. I will jump ship to OS X and linux on the Mac.
So long as Apple stays out of the DRM/take away user rights game, they have a happy future. They will be the refuge of those intelligent enough to NOT go quietly into corporate control of their hardware, media, and, indirectly, their lives.