If they wanna charge $9.99 a season, fine. I don't care because I don't keep up with baseball (football, basketball, etc) and it's not going to bother me. The thing that *really* pisses me off is when these team owners start demanding things like a new stadium from tax payers. It's one thing if it's an optional fee, like $9.99 a season if you want a sportslink. But it's pretty rotten when money that should be doing some common good, ends up going to the weird sports religion.
No wonder public schools suck out loud in New Orleans.
Those who moderate comments on Slashdot, Kuro5shin and other community-based weblogs may downgrade content they don't find worthwhile in a genuine effort to express their thoughts as readers and participants
Exactly! These moderators have no right preventing the proper attention due to the endless expressions of fp, goatse.cx, Natalie Portman, status quo JonKatz flames, occasional manifesto, ad nauseum...
The moderation system developed here on Slashdot is a first,
Nah. Moderation has been used for years on alt.sysadmin.recovery. I pity the fool that does a "all your base are belong to us" over there.:)
IMHO, moderation != censorship.
Moderation is just a real nice way of cutting through some of the line-noise. You have the right to sat what you want, and I have the right to say you've got a good point or you're simply talking sh*t.
There are two choices of Operating System, either Microsoft Windows Me or 2000. Both these OS have extensive support for Multimedia applications like picture taking, MP3 playback, picture viewing etc.
How typical. Some idiot gets a spam that JavaScripts up a pr0n page and decides that there has to be a law that will put filtres on all computers. Sounds more like this clown got busted surfing for pr0n and is making a lot of noise to make himself look innocent (protesteth too much?). Or he's getting some sorta fat cheque from a filtre ware company
There's no magic filtre that's going to make the world go away, because people will find ways around it (either the spammer or pr0n surfer).
If this Garcia clown is too stupid to either not open mail from questionable sources, or to shut off javascript, what makes him think that he's clued enough to make up some sort of law about it.
Oh, and BTW, it's illegal to paint a duck in Cincinnati, Ohio too.
I don't know why anyone is whining. You can still download Redhat for free, so if you have to set up a box, no problem. Redhat is a company filled with people who have to eat, pay rent, etc. $9.95 is not too bad when you consider the M$ option. If you're going to use Redhat software and expect updates, don't be such a leech by demanding everything free. If you don't like it, then use another distro.
Besides, I feel that if one actively supports open-source software, then they'll be decent enough to put some money into it. Eventually, no money == no open-source software.
Have free speech organizations such as the ACLU had any comment on this?
Yikes! That's the last things we need.
Look, you can talk all you want about free speech and about how SysAdmins can filter their e-mail, but Spammers find some way around it.
The MAIN THING here is that spam is NOT freespeech! They are clogging up bandwitdth and servers uselessly. It's pretty much like if I called you 50+ times a day. Your line would be busy, you have better things to do, etc. and all of this is harrassment, not free speech.
...yielding perhaps millions of dollars in revenues to states and local governments.
No, I'd say that would become Billions. And so what if the computer-illiterate bozos^WLawyers in Washington decide to put up some sort of internet tax nationally. People will just move the point of purchase to another country.
This "Main Street Retailer" sob story is rubbish! It's not the internet that's closing them down, it's the Super Walmart that just opened down the street!
-rant-
My wife & I ended up paying US$34K in Federal taxes this year, and we have a fairly average income. Now Multiply my tax bill by a few million other people. Then add various sales tax for gas, beer, toys, etc. That's a pretty substantial amount. If the gov't can't run decently enough with the grand amount of money given to them, wtf makes them think that more money is gonna cause some kind of miracle.
-end rant-
No doubt! Maybe what's needed is a GUI based tar utility that can extract the files to the correct directory, kinda like WinZip. Hmmm... I always wanted a weird project.:)
Solaris wants to put stuff in/opt, & most Linux distributions prefer/usr/local (as do most GNU programs).
I noticed that StarOffice made an/opt directory when installed on Linux. Personally, I like having some of those sundry programs on an/opt directory, and OS/Server/command line extras in the/usr/local.
Though $whereis is pretty handy for finding out wtf things are on a box, but (IMHO) some sort of agreement on directory structure and where packages should go would be kinda handy. It's really fun trying to find the shell script that runs samba and other packages on different distros, etc.
there are still areas of good stuff on the net, but they're increasingly hard to find. best of luck.
That's because the "Net" has become littered with tons of stupidity and $ales-people. So looking for that much needed "how-to" on the net will be pretty much like swimming in a pool of vomit to reach a drop of honey.
Guttenberg would shit himself!
#RANT
I'm all for public access to the net (and airwaves). I'm all for free speech. But internet communication have been made so easy, any cretin can (and usually does) say "f*ck" on the air (to use a radio metaphore). Not to say that there's anything wrong with ease of use, but don't expect responsibility when you put a powerful tool in a moron's hands.
Yet another indiot who thinks intellectual property should be free for the taking. You think you should have gotten all of microsoft's hard work for free.
Okay, I've got a 1979 Ford Pinto to sell you. The point is that MS sells dodgy SW for inflated prices.
And that does make me wonder if Win95 was just a move to make sure that no other DOS could compete with MS.
Look at KDE and Gnome. Even though they are not commercial products, they keep up with each other in terms of many of the "core" features. There is incentive to expand on the core features because there compititions has offered an enhancement. Microsoft does not have any of that incentive in the desktop market.
IMHO...
That's because Microsoft is no longer involved in technology. They are a stock based company that has to keep their market value up to appease their shareholders. And they have to be quick about it. So instead of taking the time to make a decent product, MS just sends their market droids out to drone on about another of their re-packaged products.
Admittedly, there are problems (such as not having sufficient local gravity to pack the interesting molecules together under correct pressure/temperature conditions to react), but if you have a mix of water and organic molecules, it does beg the question.
So that explains why my Seamonkeys would never come to life.
I set up NATD in an office with cablemodem service. I told the sales person that I was going to set up a gateway, and the sales person went on saying that she could only give me 2 ip addresses and she'd better not see any more, or she'll have to charge the "Business Rate".
The Business Rate is $70 more a month, has the same bandwidth and same amount of IPs. For 1 year and going, they (obviously) haven't seen more than 1 IP address though it's got over 50 users in the building. Of course, the cable company scans the hell out of the gateway, tripping off portsentry all over the place, but no problems. The company is still paying residential rates (US$50.00/month).
Y'know, instead of just selling Business Rate and Residential Rate why don't they just sell by bandwidth?
...That Referee.com has been going up and down with some desperate looking attempts at upgrading their site so that it looks like a legitimate e-commerce site.
I'm sure that if they do some sort of Pay-per-Read, I'd try and figure a way to save the information, or there's gonna be some sort of hack for it, like the Cue Cat hacks, etc.
Besides that, I'd still prefer curling up with a book made of dead trees instead of some electical doo-dad after working with computers all day.:)
By this rational, essentially every media industry could claim a percentage of any number of consumer tools, from a computer to a VCR to a bloody piece of paper and a pencil.
There's just no way to draw a line. Media is reproducable people, get over it!
Quite true. This all kinda falls into the Information wants to be free catagory, because people will do with media as is made possible for them.
OTOH, when the corps send the lawyers out, or try to put protection on some sort of media, then science marches on with some hacker coming up with a crack for it, thus advancing technology. Otherwise, we wouldn't have MP3-cda/cda-MP3 converters, etc.
O'Reilly not providing a FreeBSD book -- you ask, "Shouldn't they"? I think the major reason they haven't is they deem the usage volume of FreeBSD much less then would be necessary for a title regarding it to be a financial success.
If you look here, I don't think that usage volume is a problem for *BSD. There's *TONS* of *BSD boxen out there, so I'm not really sure why O'Reilly wouldn't do a book on it.
Much of the current FreeBSD printed documentation is of poor quality.
I'll have to agree with that, but (IMHO) The FreeBSD Handbook has definitely improved from the first version.
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If they wanna charge $9.99 a season, fine. I don't care because I don't keep up with baseball (football, basketball, etc) and it's not going to bother me. The thing that *really* pisses me off is when these team owners start demanding things like a new stadium from tax payers. It's one thing if it's an optional fee, like $9.99 a season if you want a sportslink. But it's pretty rotten when money that should be doing some common good, ends up going to the weird sports religion.
No wonder public schools suck out loud in New Orleans.
Exactly! These moderators have no right preventing the proper attention due to the endless expressions of fp, goatse.cx, Natalie Portman, status quo JonKatz flames, occasional manifesto, ad nauseum...
Nah. Moderation has been used for years on alt.sysadmin.recovery. I pity the fool that does a "all your base are belong to us" over there. :)
IMHO, moderation != censorship. Moderation is just a real nice way of cutting through some of the line-noise. You have the right to sat what you want, and I have the right to say you've got a good point or you're simply talking sh*t.
-IMHO-
Why bother?
There's no magic filtre that's going to make the world go away, because people will find ways around it (either the spammer or pr0n surfer).
If this Garcia clown is too stupid to either not open mail from questionable sources, or to shut off javascript, what makes him think that he's clued enough to make up some sort of law about it.
Oh, and BTW, it's illegal to paint a duck in Cincinnati, Ohio too.
Besides, I feel that if one actively supports open-source software, then they'll be decent enough to put some money into it. Eventually, no money == no open-source software.
Yikes! That's the last things we need.
Look, you can talk all you want about free speech and about how SysAdmins can filter their e-mail, but Spammers find some way around it.
The MAIN THING here is that spam is NOT freespeech! They are clogging up bandwitdth and servers uselessly. It's pretty much like if I called you 50+ times a day. Your line would be busy, you have better things to do, etc. and all of this is harrassment, not free speech.
No, I'd say that would become Billions. And so what if the computer-illiterate bozos^WLawyers in Washington decide to put up some sort of internet tax nationally. People will just move the point of purchase to another country.
This "Main Street Retailer" sob story is rubbish! It's not the internet that's closing them down, it's the Super Walmart that just opened down the street!
-rant-
My wife & I ended up paying US$34K in Federal taxes this year, and we have a fairly average income. Now Multiply my tax bill by a few million other people. Then add various sales tax for gas, beer, toys, etc. That's a pretty substantial amount. If the gov't can't run decently enough with the grand amount of money given to them, wtf makes them think that more money is gonna cause some kind of miracle.
-end rant-
No doubt! Maybe what's needed is a GUI based tar utility that can extract the files to the correct directory, kinda like WinZip. Hmmm... I always wanted a weird project. :)
I noticed that StarOffice made an /opt directory when installed on Linux. Personally, I like having some of those sundry programs on an /opt directory, and OS/Server/command line extras in the /usr/local.
Though $whereis is pretty handy for finding out wtf things are on a box, but (IMHO) some sort of agreement on directory structure and where packages should go would be kinda handy. It's really fun trying to find the shell script that runs samba and other packages on different distros, etc.
That's because the "Net" has become littered with tons of stupidity and $ales-people. So looking for that much needed "how-to" on the net will be pretty much like swimming in a pool of vomit to reach a drop of honey.
Guttenberg would shit himself!
#RANT
I'm all for public access to the net (and airwaves). I'm all for free speech. But internet communication have been made so easy, any cretin can (and usually does) say "f*ck" on the air (to use a radio metaphore). Not to say that there's anything wrong with ease of use, but don't expect responsibility when you put a powerful tool in a moron's hands.
I don't think so
Just because there are more people on the net, doesn't mean that they are clued.
Refer to The September that never ended.
Yes. Now that the source is had, let's get RMS to GPL it. :)
This could make a hella update to Tradewars 2000? :)
Okay, I've got a 1979 Ford Pinto to sell you. The point is that MS sells dodgy SW for inflated prices.
And that does make me wonder if Win95 was just a move to make sure that no other DOS could compete with MS.
IMHO...
That's because Microsoft is no longer involved in technology. They are a stock based company that has to keep their market value up to appease their shareholders. And they have to be quick about it. So instead of taking the time to make a decent product, MS just sends their market droids out to drone on about another of their re-packaged products.
So that explains why my Seamonkeys would never come to life.
It's pretty common here on earth too.
The Business Rate is $70 more a month, has the same bandwidth and same amount of IPs. For 1 year and going, they (obviously) haven't seen more than 1 IP address though it's got over 50 users in the building. Of course, the cable company scans the hell out of the gateway, tripping off portsentry all over the place, but no problems. The company is still paying residential rates (US$50.00/month).
Y'know, instead of just selling Business Rate and Residential Rate why don't they just sell by bandwidth?
Besides that, I'd still prefer curling up with a book made of dead trees instead of some electical doo-dad after working with computers all day. :)
There's just no way to draw a line. Media is reproducable people, get over it!
Quite true. This all kinda falls into the Information wants to be free catagory, because people will do with media as is made possible for them.
OTOH, when the corps send the lawyers out, or try to put protection on some sort of media, then science marches on with some hacker coming up with a crack for it, thus advancing technology. Otherwise, we wouldn't have MP3-cda/cda-MP3 converters, etc.
Y'know that none of this tax will ever go to any recording artist. And if so, how will they determine who gets what?
If you look here, I don't think that usage volume is a problem for *BSD. There's *TONS* of *BSD boxen out there, so I'm not really sure why O'Reilly wouldn't do a book on it.
Much of the current FreeBSD printed documentation is of poor quality.
I'll have to agree with that, but (IMHO) The FreeBSD Handbook has definitely improved from the first version.