Many candidates don't even write their own speeches and policy platforms, a weblog can be a valid tool for Joe Voter to get a feel for a candidate... assuming that it is actually the candidate writing and not some hired gun.
Even if is actually written by a hired gun, there's a hardcopy statement there, to which they can later be held accountable. Most politicians avoid this sort of thing at all costs.
The "Kool-aid" comment is a cheap shot and even ironic.
Indeed. I think it is the major party candidates who are drinking the Kool-Aid of Big Business.
The quickest way to get a bunch of Libertarians arguing among themselves is to bring up intellectual property. Half of them will be against it, and half will be for it.
That's not the only issue that will do this. Ask about abortion. The Libertarian party does not take stances on many major issues, leaving individual candidates the liberty to choose whatever viewpoint they want.
This is called "Freedom(pat.pend)". Unfortunately it's too complicated and threatening to be palatable to most Americans, hence we see the domination of the Demicans and the Republicrats.
Yes, that's the core idea. Less Gub'ment, more liberty. A smaller government both oppresses the people less and co$t$ less. Of course, NO incumbent will have anything good to say about such a concept.
Unfortunately this doesn't draw much largesse from big corporations looking for favors, which is today's primary source of campaign funding, so you won't see many Libertarians on TV, or doing well in many elections, either.
Get ahold of and check out the list of contributors to both candidates of any major political campaign. SURPRISE! The _same_ companies are hedging their bets by supporting _both_ sides! No wonder there's not a gnat's ass worth of difference between their policies!
And what about Gates? I don't want to drag the man into everything, but he/they (MS) need to be sued for a huge figure too. He's damn sure not respecting the law. Oh wait, they already paid their hush money.
That's why you may as well leave him outta this. He's above the law now.
'Cuz ALL those are trivially filterable with/.*ADV\s+.*/i Though/ADV\s+.*/i would be easier on the machinery, I suppose.
This could maybe even be done at the ISP level?
Has anybody ever tried a class-action suit against a spammer? What if _everyone_ sued Empire Towers, for a dollar each? Millions of plaintiffs could probably be found.
after the trouble I had _trying_ to beg them to transfer my domain to another (cheaper) registrar, which they, on the bottom line, flat-out _refused_ to do, claiming lack of sufficient verification from me. I wound up renewing my name at their high price. Then they _give_away_ people's domains, and don't expect to be held accountable?
Sue them - clear out of business. Let some competant outfit register domain names, at a reasonable price!
I know mine doesn't. And yes, the package list is certainly growing. Be sure you have a couple hundred MB of swap space. On a 486, the RAM is a bigger issue than the CPU. The CPU will eventually chug through it, but if you run out of RAM (& swap combined) you're gonna segfault.
I'm trying to install Debian on a 486 right next to me, and dselect's been loading the package database for an hour. (I intend to use the machine as a NAT gateway.)
Wait 'til you build the selection list! dselect is the heaviest load that puppy will ever see. I assume you'll stay away from X.... NS6/Moz will overwhelm such a machine, as will Java. NS4, with Java OFF, will actually work but require much patience. You wouldn't want to browse with yer gateway, anyway.
"Better" on older hardware came from someone's imagination. Linux runs 'perfectly well' on older hardware, and would certainly be well-fed on a 1G machine. A 486 _will_ appear lackluster by comparison, but still great for NAT & plenty left for ipchains, too.
Uh, how would such a gizzie be _powered_? Batteries? Pretty unlikely, it'd be online 24/7, leaving notime to charge them. Contacts on the host stations? Induction? Inquiring minds want to know.
I work inside one of Motorola's fab-style buildings (the fab ain't in here, it's next door, but all the buildings on the site share the same architecture) and the whole thing is reinforced concrete with steel siding. There are probably reasons for this, like keeping a huge clean-room basically airtight, ESD protection for the product, security (you would NOT break through the walls with a Cessna), I dunno.
The EEE's call it a "Faraday Cage(tm)". Inside this shielded building there are a couple of hundred Sun & Wintel workstations producing their very own EM spectrum. I can get neither AM nor FM nor CDMA inside. Actually the CDMA problem is more one of getting _out_.
So no, you probably won't get much from their Wi-Fi. Not from outside the fence, and if you even try to hang out in the parking lot the security people will be out soon to interview you.
...becasue having a slashdot account proves ones manliness.
Not really. Anybody can get a slashdot account.
More because you then have _some_ (small) degree of accountability for what you do. I am angry with all ACs because one outed my email address in the clear, for NO reason other than to piss me off (and he was probably a spammer, too). If he'd identified himself, I could be mad at him personally. But his name is "Anonymous Coward". Sorry. All will now suffer for the indescretion of an induhvidual.
And I definately do _not_ see ACs being as capable as registered users of having coherent or well thought out comments. Certainly, demunging my email address and posting it required very little serious thought. I will admit that there might be exceptions, and I assume that if one were to post a coherent or well thought out comment, it would get moderated up and I would see it, but I'll ignore it anyway because I'm still a bit pissed and just don't care. In the meantime I certainly don't want to see such scintillating remarks as: "F1rst p0$7, B17ch3$!", so I set my viewing threshold at +1.
Even the ACs themselves agree that they're annoying:
Re:about time! (Score:-1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on 17:52 29 July 2002 (#3975211) And AC's are the third most anoing feature.
But what do you care? You have an account, and use it. A lot. You're free to establish your own preferences and ignore whom you want, even me specifically if you want to put me in your enemy list. Name another online forum that will let you post without at least faking an identity. Rob allows this, but he also (thankfully) allows me to ignore the noise generated thereby.
I also find that an ordinary luser (posting at +1) is at least as capable as a karma whore (with a bonus) of having a coherent, well thought out comment. But I don't know what to do about that.
Is to NOT annoy me enough to cause me to recall your ads when I go to buy.
if you suddenly had a need for a tiny hidden camera... where would you go to buy it?
Ah, I'd start with uBid and search for "tiny hidden camera", but probably wind up at eBay. Failing that, I'd do a Google search for "tiny hidden camera" and be careful to avoid all the results that contain "X-10".
What, you don't expect me to actually _buy_ an X-10 camera, do you? After the millions of their annoying pop-ups that I've had to kill?
My problem with Hotmail is that about half the spam I get comes _from_ there. Of course, this makes it easy to filter. Just don't bother trying to email me from Hotmail. It hasn't a prayer of actually getting in front of my eyes.
This isn't much of an alternative after some AC has "outed" your supposedly spam-munged email address.
Or, of course, if you must, as pointed out, actually seriously _use_ it for any reason.
The address displayed above is to an alias the ISP owns. I've _never_ used it prior to sticking it on my slashdot postings (beginning last week), but I always got plenty of spam on it nevertheless. This to a semi-existant address I'd _never_ disclosed or used. So it's filtered. Anything arriving To:mikebat@getnet.com gets automagically diverted to an extra-special "spam" folder, where it receives "special" handling: i.e. my address is removed and it is posted on news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, where hopefully the Lumber Cartel (TINLC) will pick it up and consign the senders to rot in SPEWS.
So GO AHEAD AND HARVEST THAT ADDRESS, SPAMMER SCUM, you've been warned.
Who's running against him this year? Where do I send a check?
Don't bother. The first thing you'll notice if you start studying campaign contributions is that the People Pumping Out The Graft(tm) are pumping it pretty much equally to both "sides". This is why there's barely a gnat's behind worth of difference between the major policies of the political parties.
If Rep. Berman were to be defeated this fall, his successor would already be bought and paid for, by the same people, for a surprisingly similar amount of money, and would introduce this same shit in next year's session.
I'm certain the fools in question haven't the slightest understanding of the ISP's role in the situation and the potential for damage to them. ISPs aren't mentioned in the bill - at all.
I'm very happy for you. That does no good at all for those of us who have GNU/Linux, *BSD, and other "real" OSsen. Do ya think Jobs paid for the Mac port, or did the Emperor give it to him, out of sheer altruism? ...and I believe there is/was a Solaris version as well.
Yeah, sure and I've discussed this with my admin. She says she's had requests for Exploiter on Solaris (the company publishes most of its internal documents in Imperial "formats", occasionally they'll come up with some sort of required training course in I3O or some other WinBloze-only format), but she values her immortal soul too much to install it. Also, even after she _did_ install Internet Exploiter & WinBloze Media "Player" on one of the Solaris boxen, it still wouldn't play the damn I3O video! Of course it _did_ crash (an exclusive Imperial "feature"), so IE was pulled right off.
For the record, NS4.79 on Solaris plays a _lotta_ shit, much more than any of my NS on Linux installations. I would suppose the admin is better than I am at installing all those plugins, it's her job, after all.
Yes, they're free - for MS OSes.
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what _part_ of IE is "free", when I must pay the Empire for the only OS that it will run on, and that OS is permanantly bolted to IE?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Actually, the way I look at it, the Empire charges money for IE (because people now need it to view lots of websites), then gives you the "OS" on which to run it, mostly to make sure that no one ever runs any other OS.
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Many candidates don't even write their own speeches and policy platforms, a weblog can be a valid tool for Joe Voter to get a feel for a candidate... assuming that it is actually the candidate writing and not some hired gun.
Even if is actually written by a hired gun, there's a hardcopy statement there, to which they can later be held accountable. Most politicians avoid this sort of thing at all costs.
The "Kool-aid" comment is a cheap shot and even ironic.
Indeed. I think it is the major party candidates who are drinking the Kool-Aid of Big Business.
Jim Jones actually used Flavor Aid®
Yeah, that makes sense.
It's cheaper than the name brand stuff, but just as good.
You know how churches are always on a tight budget.
The quickest way to get a bunch of Libertarians arguing among themselves is to bring up intellectual property. Half of them will be against it, and half will be for it.
That's not the only issue that will do this. Ask about abortion. The Libertarian party does not take stances on many major issues, leaving individual candidates the liberty to choose whatever viewpoint they want.
This is called "Freedom(pat.pend)". Unfortunately it's too complicated and threatening to be palatable to most Americans, hence we see the domination of the Demicans and the Republicrats.
libertarian = liberty from excess government?
Yes, that's the core idea. Less Gub'ment, more liberty.
A smaller government both oppresses the people less and co$t$ less.
Of course, NO incumbent will have anything good to say about such a concept.
Unfortunately this doesn't draw much largesse from big corporations looking for favors, which is today's primary source of campaign funding, so you won't see many Libertarians on TV, or doing well in many elections, either.
Get ahold of and check out the list of contributors to both candidates of any major political campaign. SURPRISE! The _same_ companies are hedging their bets by supporting _both_ sides! No wonder there's not a gnat's ass worth of difference between their policies!
And what about Gates? I don't want to drag the man into everything, but he/they (MS) need to be sued for a huge figure too. He's damn sure not respecting the law. Oh wait, they already paid their hush money.
That's why you may as well leave him outta this. He's above the law now.
'Cuz ALL those are trivially filterable with /.*ADV\s+.*/i /ADV\s+.*/i would be easier on the machinery, I suppose.
Though
This could maybe even be done at the ISP level?
Has anybody ever tried a class-action suit against a spammer?
What if _everyone_ sued Empire Towers, for a dollar each?
Millions of plaintiffs could probably be found.
after the trouble I had _trying_ to beg them to transfer my domain to another (cheaper) registrar, which they, on the bottom line, flat-out _refused_ to do, claiming lack of sufficient verification from me. I wound up renewing my name at their high price. Then they _give_away_ people's domains, and don't expect to be held accountable?
Sue them - clear out of business. Let some competant outfit register domain names, at a reasonable price!
I know mine doesn't. And yes, the package list is certainly growing. Be sure you have a couple hundred MB of swap space. On a 486, the RAM is a bigger issue than the CPU. The CPU will eventually chug through it, but if you run out of RAM (& swap combined) you're gonna segfault.
I'm trying to install Debian on a 486 right next to me, and dselect's been loading the package database for an hour. (I intend to use the machine as a NAT gateway.)
Wait 'til you build the selection list! dselect is the heaviest load that puppy will ever see. I assume you'll stay away from X.... NS6/Moz will overwhelm such a machine, as will Java. NS4, with Java OFF, will actually work but require much patience. You wouldn't want to browse with yer gateway, anyway.
"Better" on older hardware came from someone's imagination. Linux runs 'perfectly well' on older hardware, and would certainly be well-fed on a 1G machine. A 486 _will_ appear lackluster by comparison, but still great for NAT & plenty left for ipchains, too.
We do not belong.
"Go sit on that bench over there marked 'Group W'. Now, kid!"
Uh, how would such a gizzie be _powered_?
Batteries? Pretty unlikely, it'd be online 24/7, leaving notime to charge them.
Contacts on the host stations? Induction?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I'd have to agree with that.
I work inside one of Motorola's fab-style buildings (the fab ain't in here, it's next door, but all the buildings on the site share the same architecture) and the whole thing is reinforced concrete with steel siding. There are probably reasons for this, like keeping a huge clean-room basically airtight, ESD protection for the product, security (you would NOT break through the walls with a Cessna), I dunno.
The EEE's call it a "Faraday Cage(tm)". Inside this shielded building there are a couple of hundred Sun & Wintel workstations producing their very own EM spectrum. I can get neither AM nor FM nor CDMA inside. Actually the CDMA problem is more one of getting _out_.
So no, you probably won't get much from their Wi-Fi. Not from outside the fence, and if you even try to hang out in the parking lot the security people will be out soon to interview you.
Not really. Anybody can get a slashdot account.
More because you then have _some_ (small) degree of accountability for what you do. I am angry with all ACs because one outed my email address in the clear, for NO reason other than to piss me off (and he was probably a spammer, too). If he'd identified himself, I could be mad at him personally. But his name is "Anonymous Coward". Sorry. All will now suffer for the indescretion of an induhvidual.
And I definately do _not_ see ACs being as capable as registered users of having coherent or well thought out comments. Certainly, demunging my email address and posting it required very little serious thought. I will admit that there might be exceptions, and I assume that if one were to post a coherent or well thought out comment, it would get moderated up and I would see it, but I'll ignore it anyway because I'm still a bit pissed and just don't care. In the meantime I certainly don't want to see such scintillating remarks as: "F1rst p0$7, B17ch3$!", so I set my viewing threshold at +1.
Even the ACs themselves agree that they're annoying:But what do you care? You have an account, and use it. A lot. You're free to establish your own preferences and ignore whom you want, even me specifically if you want to put me in your enemy list. Name another online forum that will let you post without at least faking an identity. Rob allows this, but he also (thankfully) allows me to ignore the noise generated thereby.
I also find that an ordinary luser (posting at +1) is at least as capable as a karma whore (with a bonus) of having a coherent, well thought out comment. But I don't know what to do about that.
if my inbox is to be believed....
Is to NOT annoy me enough to cause me to recall your ads when I go to buy.
if you suddenly had a need for a tiny hidden camera... where would you go to buy it?
Ah, I'd start with uBid and search for "tiny hidden camera", but probably wind up at eBay. Failing that, I'd do a Google search for "tiny hidden camera" and be careful to avoid all the results that contain "X-10".
What, you don't expect me to actually _buy_ an X-10 camera, do you? After the millions of their annoying pop-ups that I've had to kill?
My problem with Hotmail is that about half the spam I get comes _from_ there. Of course, this makes it easy to filter. Just don't bother trying to email me from Hotmail. It hasn't a prayer of actually getting in front of my eyes.
I'm just not careless with my e-mail address.
This isn't much of an alternative after some AC has
"outed" your supposedly spam-munged email address.
Or, of course, if you must, as pointed out, actually seriously _use_ it for any reason.
The address displayed above is to an alias the ISP owns. I've _never_ used it prior to sticking it on my slashdot postings (beginning last week), but I always got plenty of spam on it nevertheless. This to a semi-existant address I'd _never_ disclosed or used. So it's filtered. Anything arriving To:mikebat@getnet.com gets automagically diverted to an extra-special "spam" folder, where it receives "special" handling: i.e. my address is removed and it is posted on news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, where hopefully the Lumber Cartel (TINLC) will pick it up and consign the senders to rot in SPEWS.
So GO AHEAD AND HARVEST THAT ADDRESS, SPAMMER SCUM, you've been warned.
Who's running against him this year? Where do I send a check?
Don't bother. The first thing you'll notice if you start studying campaign contributions is that the People Pumping Out The Graft(tm) are pumping it pretty much equally to both "sides". This is why there's barely a gnat's behind worth of difference between the major policies of the political parties.
If Rep. Berman were to be defeated this fall, his successor would already be bought and paid for, by the same people, for a surprisingly similar amount of money, and would introduce this same shit in next year's session.
I'm certain the fools in question haven't the slightest understanding of the ISP's role in the situation and the potential for damage to them. ISPs aren't mentioned in the bill - at all.
Dipshits.
Somebody mod that parent to -5, oblivion.
IE runs on my Mac
...and I believe there is/was a Solaris version as well.
I'm very happy for you. That does no good at all for those of us who have GNU/Linux, *BSD, and other "real" OSsen. Do ya think Jobs paid for the Mac port, or did the Emperor give it to him, out of sheer altruism?
Yeah, sure and I've discussed this with my admin. She says she's had requests for Exploiter on Solaris (the company publishes most of its internal documents in Imperial "formats", occasionally they'll come up with some sort of required training course in I3O or some other WinBloze-only format), but she values her immortal soul too much to install it. Also, even after she _did_ install Internet Exploiter & WinBloze Media "Player" on one of the Solaris boxen, it still wouldn't play the damn I3O video! Of course it _did_ crash (an exclusive Imperial "feature"), so IE was pulled right off.
For the record, NS4.79 on Solaris plays a _lotta_ shit, much more than any of my NS on Linux installations. I would suppose the admin is better than I am at installing all those plugins, it's her job, after all.
Right. .NOT will be as "free" as IE is.
what _part_ of IE is "free", when I must pay the Empire for the only OS that it will run on, and that OS is permanantly bolted to IE?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Actually, the way I look at it, the Empire charges money for IE (because people now need it to view lots of websites), then gives you the "OS" on which to run it, mostly to make sure that no one ever runs any other OS.
Worked really well for the first tier, and the second, and maybe even the third.
It's the generation X'ers that are gonna get bent over by it.
Of 11,500 customers who trusted you enough to hand you their email addresses, you've alienated 11,489 and made 11 sales.
Hope it was worth it.
Is anyone else going to get really really blasted simply because Woody is finally released? Or am I just weird like that?
I've been looking for a good excuse all afternoon. Thanks.