I have often wondered why the senators who say you don't know half the danger don't just get off their ass and tell us? I usually think that they are political creatures, sometime of the weakest sort. They know that Assange and Snowden kicked up a shit storm and had to be expelled from the political conversion by establishment. If they told it all on the floor of the House or Senate they would be bullied out of office and never get the cushy jobs of ex-politicos. You are talking bout people that are on the phone every week raising money for the next run. They are conformable talking to people that can afford to give five thousand dolllars so they can collect a small favor from their congressman if the need may arise. These kind of people who think that their salary of $174,000 is far too little. They should be paid millions and they deserve the cushy job once they decide to retire from the senate.
The answer to the question is they have been domesticated by the rich donors. They want to collect from the donors one last time after they retire. They will not do anything that could mess up the final retirement fund.
For several years in the late 1990's Microsoft literally did not pay any US income taxes. At the time I payed more taxes to the federal government than the makers of Windows 98. I guess that monkey boy remembers the good old days and want to bring them back.
So does anybody know of good tools to measure the total upload/download usage on the three platforms (Mac/PC/Linux)?
There is only two providers here, AT&T and Cox. Everybody knows that AT&T is already disrupting Bit Torrents and metering is coming next. I would like to get an idea on my usage. My guess is about around 300k a day on podcasts and the web but it is only a guess.
Any tools you know of would help me get a handle on it, thanks.
I have wanted one of these table top computer displays since I saw Aliens in 1986. When the marines retreat back to the living quarters after they got beat up in the cooling towers they reviewed the building blueprints on a table top display like this. I was a draftsman back then and I thought that was the coolest display I had ever seen but then a 286 was cutting edge!
The orginal Dante's Inferno is out of copyright but translations to English done in the last 70 years are not. So you have to pay if you want to read it in English or look for a very old translation.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/line_item_veto.html has the background on the ruling. George Bush, the younger, hasn't issued one veto yet. Seems he likes all the debt that the Congress is running up.
The problem with your analogy is that a parasite does not have intelligence. It is a blind random process. If the parasite fails and the host dies it dies too.
In a world of people who crash airplanes into buildings can you say that nobody would see a reason to destroy the host? Can you say for sure that there are no time bombs in the planted parasites? Sometimes intelligent people are evil.
If there is anyone that is more short sighted it has to be a shareholder. After all they can sell it any time, pay a small fee to the broker and take the loss or gain on his taxes.
The shareholders got what they wanted. It probably wasn't the same share holders as the ones when she was hired, but it was the same short sighted jerks saying screw the employees make sure you pay me first. After all the person I bought these shares from, who but these shares from, who bought these shares from... put money in HP and he wants cash out.
There are two different problems. One was the releasing a beta of Tiger by someone who should have known that this is not allowed. The jerk at Apple that let him into the beta program should have gotten fired and Apple should have moved on. The OS will be out in a few months and the CVS version forgotten.
The other was leaking of products before Jobs dog and pony show. Some one need to tell Jobs to grow up. Apple is a lot larger than Osborne, the company will not die if the customers put off buying until the new ipods come out. Anybody with a brain knows the rumors are as likely to be wrong as right.
I was thinking about buying an Mac mini, a strange journey from Windows to Linux to Apple. The actions Apple corporation have put a pause on my decision. The Linux desktop is progressing, no big rush to give my money to the jerks at Apple.
The world's richest college dropout complains that High Schools are poor. He went to private schools thirty years ago that his lawyer father paid for. He will be sending his kids to private schools.
What could be done if coporations like Microsoft payed their fair share of taxes? What could be done if they took their power as taxpayers to the school boards saying they are failing? What if Microsoft made it known that they will not invest in a community because of poor schools?
Instead they get tax breaks that shift taxes onto others. They send their kids to private schools. They only look at what will Bill his next billion and let the communities they are in go to hell. They will buy their way out, screw the rest of you.
Let me ask you, when someone comes up to you and says "I work at Microsoft" , what is your first reaction?
Is it true that Microsoft employes can hand out a special phone number and code to get people that complain about Windows off their backs long enough to get out the door?
Maybe it is one of those urban legends but I have been told this.
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And these are the people who are struggling to make it in today's media. People don't like the we're-smarter-than-you attitude.
I attribute much of Fox News's sucess to an understanding this. The common man may not be a genius, but he does know when he's being talked down to, and he's a little fed up with it.
Funny I never thought of it you are right, Fox News is dumber and the average American. God I wish it was not true.
The current version of the Hauppauge PVR-350 isn't supported by the Linux ivtv drivers. Some people have gotten the CVS version to work in a limited way.
I bought a PVR-350 in October 2004 and haven't been able to use it when I am using Linux.
The old PVR-350's work great when you are using a 2.4.x kernel but the stable version of the ivtv drivers do not work with the 2.6.x kernel. It has been over six months since the last release of the ivtv drivers and I haven't been able to get the unstable ones to work.
The first thing that Steve Jobs did when he returned was to kill the Newton. We all know that Jobs never makes mistakes, so if it uses a "pen" it will not have a Apple logo on it.
You left out what should be of major players, government. Government has a role to stop fraud. If all the magic pills, pharmacies selling drugs of uncertain quality without prescriptions, sprays to hide my car for radar (sic), and winning lotteries that I never bought were removed my spam would go down 90%. The thing all these have in common is fraud.
What is need is a guy like Elliot Spitzer take on these scams. Spitzer with a group of about a dozen lawyers has done more on Wall Street than the entire SEC. A group of a dozen Federal District Attorneys could shut down the top two dozen spammers that actually send most of this crap.
If the government wanted to improve productivity in business and government it would help to enforce the laws on fraud so the poor user don't have to pick out the real email from the stuff that the spam filter called spam.
I have had some very offensive trash show up in my email, pushing web sites. I have also had trash show up for things that are illegal. If you are proud enough to create it you should be willing to back it up by showing your name and address. If you fear your consumers then pay to hide your name as long as you customers can reach you through the third party.
If no one, even slashdot.org has my real name and email address, has your address then how is the local government to enforce the laws as you suggest. Local governments are hopeless on enforcing this kind of thing. Who's standard applies on offensive content, the senders or the receivers? China has some real interesting ideas on what is offensive.
I think that in the end if you are not willing to sign your name to it then you shouldn't be publishing it. The only exception I can think of is political speech where guy with guns can take you away if you speak the truth.
I have been running an experiment on spam reduction. I have been checking every spammers's whois and filing a report on false data at http://wdprs.internic.net/. If their email bounces or their US address are not in the http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm/ I rat them out. The results are not in yet but it has so far yielded about a 25% reduction. The 15 day waiting period is still pending on my largest sources of spam.
I at least have the pleasure of thinking that I have annoyed some spammer at least as much as they have annoyed me. When the new TV season starts I think I will loose interest in this but it is something to do for an hour when it is too hot outside.
It may annoy you that you have to have a valid whois but it is a useful tool to attack spammers with. No bucks comming in to a web site, not as much spam.
You ever notice that magazines, printed on paper, have several narrow columns instead of one wide one? The eye can read a narrow column quicker and with less strain than a wide column. Web pages don't often do several columns, due to the scrolling problem but a narrow column still reads quicker. Your way is slower and harder on the eyes.
Good design is good design because it helps the user get his task done quickly. One of the points he brought out in the article.
You have good point about fewer privileges in your normal account but I hate the idea of giving up rights to admin my PC. The whole idea of the PC going back to the preinternet 1980's was a PERSONAL Computer. You are probably too young to remember how really horrible professionally managed computers were.
I am despairing the current state, between worms, phishing, and spamming I am wishing that we could just start over again. This time maybe we could do the whole computer/internet thing right, yea as if.
So let's use the Cardinals. Their home games are never broadcast in Phoenix because they never come close to selling out.
The Cardinals are in Phoenix? I have got to watch a foolball game more that once a decade or so!
There are plenty of people like me who would wish the NFL would just shut up and disappear. The greed of the corporations will just have to run their course. They will find out that not even the NFL can hold back the tide of change at least I hope so because I don't like the present trends in IP.
Microsoft isn't held legally responsable for flaws in their OS or Web server. Symantec hasn't been held legally responsible for flaws in the Norton firewall product. I am afraid that too many Windows users would not even notice a worm taking over a spyware program. They seem to put up with the popups and loss of bandwith without cleaning up their act. A worm might even improve their internet experience if it stops some of the popups. The only people that would yell would be the spyware companies.
It sounds like you should really look hard at SUSE. SUSE has a fixed release schedule, every six months, at least for the last three years that I had used it. There is good support for closed source stuff like Oracle. It seems that if Red Hat is named to cover the USA market so is SUSE to cover the European market.
The biggest adjustment for a Red Hat user is a more logical file placement, i.e./opt is actually used for something (KDE Gnome Mozilla)/usr/bin only has the command line stuff. I personally like the SUSE layout. The other problem is that if you use YAST you need to use YAST for all of your configuration because it will trash anything you change with a text editor. The other problem is they just became a part of Novell which has a horrid history of screwing up every purchase of software company that they have done. They say they will do it right this time, honest. We will see. The only free download of SUSE is via FTP. That isn't that bad if you have a fast connection, the DVD is great if you don't.
I have jumped to Debian Sid because I have built up my experience with SUSE over the last three years and I like having the latest stuff only a couple of weeks after it is announced for next to no cost. A few bug reports and putting up with few broken packages is OK for home use. You are right about it being Unstable. I guess that is why the official name is Unstable.
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I have often wondered why the senators who say you don't know half the danger don't just get off their ass and tell us? I usually think that they are political creatures, sometime of the weakest sort. They know that Assange and Snowden kicked up a shit storm and had to be expelled from the political conversion by establishment. If they told it all on the floor of the House or Senate they would be bullied out of office and never get the cushy jobs of ex-politicos. You are talking bout people that are on the phone every week raising money for the next run. They are conformable talking to people that can afford to give five thousand dolllars so they can collect a small favor from their congressman if the need may arise. These kind of people who think that their salary of $174,000 is far too little. They should be paid millions and they deserve the cushy job once they decide to retire from the senate.
The answer to the question is they have been domesticated by the rich donors. They want to collect from the donors one last time after they retire. They will not do anything that could mess up the final retirement fund.
For several years in the late 1990's Microsoft literally did not pay any US income taxes. At the time I payed more taxes to the federal government than the makers of Windows 98. I guess that monkey boy remembers the good old days and want to bring them back.
OOPS I should have said 300M, I have about that in podcasts on my ipod right now.
So does anybody know of good tools to measure the total upload/download usage on the three platforms (Mac/PC/Linux)?
There is only two providers here, AT&T and Cox. Everybody knows that AT&T is already disrupting Bit Torrents and metering is coming next. I would like to get an idea on my usage. My guess is about around 300k a day on podcasts and the web but it is only a guess.
Any tools you know of would help me get a handle on it, thanks.
I have wanted one of these table top computer displays since I saw Aliens in 1986. When the marines retreat back to the living quarters after they got beat up in the cooling towers they reviewed the building blueprints on a table top display like this. I was a draftsman back then and I thought that was the coolest display I had ever seen but then a 286 was cutting edge!
Techdirt had the best comment. Will this pass the "morons in a hurry test" that Apple Computer used against Apple Corp?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060814/023249.
Silly boy, everybody knows that this administration beleives in a strict interpretation of the constitiution except when it is inconvenient for them.
Just remember this: "The rules do not apply to me" and you will understand Dubya a lot better.
The orginal Dante's Inferno is out of copyright but translations to English done in the last 70 years are not. So you have to pay if you want to read it in English or look for a very old translation.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/line_item_veto.html has the background on the ruling. George Bush, the younger, hasn't issued one veto yet. Seems he likes all the debt that the Congress is running up.
The problem with your analogy is that a parasite does not have intelligence. It is a blind random process. If the parasite fails and the host dies it dies too.
In a world of people who crash airplanes into buildings can you say that nobody would see a reason to destroy the host? Can you say for sure that there are no time bombs in the planted parasites? Sometimes intelligent people are evil.
If there is anyone that is more short sighted it has to be a shareholder. After all they can sell it any time, pay a small fee to the broker and take the loss or gain on his taxes.
The shareholders got what they wanted. It probably wasn't the same share holders as the ones when she was hired, but it was the same short sighted jerks saying screw the employees make sure you pay me first. After all the person I bought these shares from, who but these shares from, who bought these shares from... put money in HP and he wants cash out.
There are two different problems. One was the releasing a beta of Tiger by someone who should have known that this is not allowed. The jerk at Apple that let him into the beta program should have gotten fired and Apple should have moved on. The OS will be out in a few months and the CVS version forgotten.
The other was leaking of products before Jobs dog and pony show. Some one need to tell Jobs to grow up. Apple is a lot larger than Osborne, the company will not die if the customers put off buying until the new ipods come out. Anybody with a brain knows the rumors are as likely to be wrong as right.
I was thinking about buying an Mac mini, a strange journey from Windows to Linux to Apple. The actions Apple corporation have put a pause on my decision. The Linux desktop is progressing, no big rush to give my money to the jerks at Apple.
The world's richest college dropout complains that High Schools are poor. He went to private schools thirty years ago that his lawyer father paid for. He will be sending his kids to private schools.
What could be done if coporations like Microsoft payed their fair share of taxes? What could be done if they took their power as taxpayers to the school boards saying they are failing? What if Microsoft made it known that they will not invest in a community because of poor schools?
Instead they get tax breaks that shift taxes onto others. They send their kids to private schools. They only look at what will Bill his next billion and let the communities they are in go to hell. They will buy their way out, screw the rest of you.
Let me ask you, when someone comes up to you and says "I work at Microsoft" , what is your first reaction?
Is it true that Microsoft employes can hand out a special phone number and code to get people that complain about Windows off their backs long enough to get out the door?
Maybe it is one of those urban legends but I have been told this.
And these are the people who are struggling to make it in today's media. People don't like the we're-smarter-than-you attitude.
I attribute much of Fox News's sucess to an understanding this. The common man may not be a genius, but he does know when he's being talked down to, and he's a little fed up with it.
Funny I never thought of it you are right, Fox News is dumber and the average American. God I wish it was not true.
The current version of the Hauppauge PVR-350 isn't supported by the Linux ivtv drivers. Some people have gotten the CVS version to work in a limited way.
I bought a PVR-350 in October 2004 and haven't been able to use it when I am using Linux.
The old PVR-350's work great when you are using a 2.4.x kernel but the stable version of the ivtv drivers do not work with the 2.6.x kernel. It has been over six months since the last release of the ivtv drivers and I haven't been able to get the unstable ones to work.
The first thing that Steve Jobs did when he returned was to kill the Newton. We all know that Jobs never makes mistakes, so if it uses a "pen" it will not have a Apple logo on it.
You left out what should be of major players, government. Government has a role to stop fraud. If all the magic pills, pharmacies selling drugs of uncertain quality without prescriptions, sprays to hide my car for radar (sic), and winning lotteries that I never bought were removed my spam would go down 90%. The thing all these have in common is fraud.
What is need is a guy like Elliot Spitzer take on these scams. Spitzer with a group of about a dozen lawyers has done more on Wall Street than the entire SEC. A group of a dozen Federal District Attorneys could shut down the top two dozen spammers that actually send most of this crap.
If the government wanted to improve productivity in business and government it would help to enforce the laws on fraud so the poor user don't have to pick out the real email from the stuff that the spam filter called spam.
I have had some very offensive trash show up in my email, pushing web sites. I have also had trash show up for things that are illegal. If you are proud enough to create it you should be willing to back it up by showing your name and address. If you fear your consumers then pay to hide your name as long as you customers can reach you through the third party.
If no one, even slashdot.org has my real name and email address, has your address then how is the local government to enforce the laws as you suggest. Local governments are hopeless on enforcing this kind of thing. Who's standard applies on offensive content, the senders or the receivers? China has some real interesting ideas on what is offensive.
I think that in the end if you are not willing to sign your name to it then you shouldn't be publishing it. The only exception I can think of is political speech where guy with guns can take you away if you speak the truth.
I have been running an experiment on spam reduction. I have been checking every spammers's whois and filing a report on false data at http://wdprs.internic.net/. If their email bounces or their US address are not in the http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm/ I rat them out. The results are not in yet but it has so far yielded about a 25% reduction. The 15 day waiting period is still pending on my largest sources of spam.
I at least have the pleasure of thinking that I have annoyed some spammer at least as much as they have annoyed me. When the new TV season starts I think I will loose interest in this but it is something to do for an hour when it is too hot outside.
It may annoy you that you have to have a valid whois but it is a useful tool to attack spammers with. No bucks comming in to a web site, not as much spam.
You ever notice that magazines, printed on paper, have several narrow columns instead of one wide one? The eye can read a narrow column quicker and with less strain than a wide column. Web pages don't often do several columns, due to the scrolling problem but a narrow column still reads quicker. Your way is slower and harder on the eyes.
Good design is good design because it helps the user get his task done quickly. One of the points he brought out in the article.
You have good point about fewer privileges in your normal account but I hate the idea of giving up rights to admin my PC. The whole idea of the PC going back to the preinternet 1980's was a PERSONAL Computer. You are probably too young to remember how really horrible professionally managed computers were.
I am despairing the current state, between worms, phishing, and spamming I am wishing that we could just start over again. This time maybe we could do the whole computer/internet thing right, yea as if.
The Cardinals are in Phoenix? I have got to watch a foolball game more that once a decade or so!
There are plenty of people like me who would wish the NFL would just shut up and disappear. The greed of the corporations will just have to run their course. They will find out that not even the NFL can hold back the tide of change at least I hope so because I don't like the present trends in IP.
Microsoft isn't held legally responsable for flaws in their OS or Web server. Symantec hasn't been held legally responsible for flaws in the Norton firewall product. I am afraid that too many Windows users would not even notice a worm taking over a spyware program. They seem to put up with the popups and loss of bandwith without cleaning up their act. A worm might even improve their internet experience if it stops some of the popups. The only people that would yell would be the spyware companies.
It sounds like you should really look hard at SUSE. SUSE has a fixed release schedule, every six months, at least for the last three years that I had used it. There is good support for closed source stuff like Oracle. It seems that if Red Hat is named to cover the USA market so is SUSE to cover the European market.
/opt is actually used for something (KDE Gnome Mozilla) /usr/bin only has the command line stuff. I personally like the SUSE layout. The other problem is that if you use YAST you need to use YAST for all of your configuration because it will trash anything you change with a text editor. The other problem is they just became a part of Novell which has a horrid history of screwing up every purchase of software company that they have done. They say they will do it right this time, honest. We will see. The only free download of SUSE is via FTP. That isn't that bad if you have a fast connection, the DVD is great if you don't.
The biggest adjustment for a Red Hat user is a more logical file placement, i.e.
I have jumped to Debian Sid because I have built up my experience with SUSE over the last three years and I like having the latest stuff only a couple of weeks after it is announced for next to no cost. A few bug reports and putting up with few broken packages is OK for home use. You are right about it being Unstable. I guess that is why the official name is Unstable.