Yeah. I'm fully expecting Ubuntu to be the first. They really seem to like fucking with their users... I only used the distro briefly when it was just starting to get decent. Then they pulled a 180 and made one fucked up move after another, degenerating into a distro that seems to thinks that changing for no reason other than marketing or "well, the dumb masses will like it."
Why does DRM matter when Sony has already demonstrated that they'll sue you for revealing the root encryption key to allow things like homebrew games? No matter what, unfortunately these days DRM seems unavoidable. Meanwhile, I wouldn't trust Sony at all after the whole geohot lawsuit.
Well, I guess the one thing this idea has going for it is no more sweaty palms. Unless you happen to be in hell or near a lava pit or something like that, in which case it'll likely just make your palms sweatier.
Sony was always pathetic at innovating in the video game market. I would say that Nintendo (and at one time, Sega) are (or were) the pioneers for decades. Anything Sony does that's not blatantly ripping Nintendo off, it's a stupid idea like this. Along with RIIIDGE RACER!!! And they're certainly not interested in gimmicks...
Thanks--your comment (specifically, the insult) had me laughing for like ten minutes. But I'm not sure I will mod an AC up for what is basically just an insult/troll post.
After the W3C's recent face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam, the the Digital Advertising Alliance plainly said that it "does not require companies to honor DNT," effectively saying it intends to stick to its own self-regulatory approach to user privacy.[
That's okay, Digital Advertising Alliance, because I didn't expect anyone to honor such a less-than-worthless piece of shit that is embarrassingly considered a standard. Fuck, even Apache only honors it purely at their own discretion and completely disregards certain OS and browser configurations. However, I bought and own my own computers, and they will obey their master and honor my rights and privacy that you disregard. I have my own little "self-regulatory approach" already implemented for you, no need for you to waste your time and money creating your own. It consists of such things as the disabling of all third-party cookies, the total blocking of all of your ads with AdBlock Plus and the Element Hiding Helper, the blocking of JavaScript and Flash on all sites that I do not approve of with NoScript, and Do Not Track Plus or Ghostery to further protect myself from you.
Oh, I forgot to add: We're still "indirectly" paying Microsoft for this. Someone had to pay Microsoft the fee for all of us non-Windows users to be able to get the key to write code to "unlock" a machine, on *our* behalf, whether we like or would approve of it or not. So really, we're paying two Microsoft taxes now: for a license that grants us privilege to run Windows on an obnoxiously locked-down system, whether we wanted it or not, and again for the "keys" to unlock the computer to actually be useful and allow us to run what we want, as it should at least by default give the option of in the first place.
So if we choose to run Linux and if in any way it was "unlocked" by the developers by paying Microsoft, we're indirectly supporting Microsoft. As if we haven't already unwillingly been forced to support them just by the fact that we bought a computer with Windows in the first place, which is being specified to require the hardware to work against our wishes. Meanwhile, we lose, as we're forced to support this company not once but twice, and what do we get? A pathetic hack that only adds unnecessary complexity and other problems. The *real* solution? Allow us to disable this "Trusted Computing" bullshit in the EFI firmware. Simple as that.
This is such a fucked up situation, it's disturbing. Hopefully as ARM gains steam, companies like System76 start releasing ARM-based Linux machines so we can completely bypass this shit. Avoid both Microsoft taxes, as well as Microsoft shitting all over our freedom exclusively for their gain. This reeks "abuse of powers" easily as much as or more than anything they did back during the time of their anti-trust lawsuit back in the 1990s.
...now we have to deal with a dummy/shell of a bootloader, which boots the real bootloader, before the OS will even be told to start booting? Come the fuck on--something needs to be done about this, because this is just bullshit. We shouldn't be forced into such unnecessary extra complexity to use our computers that we bought, just because some shitty crooked company decided they want to make everything that runs *their* (read: almost everything) insecure OS a locked-down fortress with the "claim" (hint: yeah, right) that it is being used specifically to stop the spread of malware. There has to be a better solution. Until then, it looks like I will have to stick with x86 machines unfortunately, as much as I would like an ARM-based laptop, until something good is released without Windows... er, I mean, without these restrictions. The Windows tax was bad enough; now we're paying in the form of our freedom to use our computers in the way we want. Thanks, Microsoft. Cocksuckers.
Except... this new light-speed release cycle has already proven to create several duds, leading to an official release and then a near-immediate (or in this case, immediate) bugfix "point" release. So it's obviously not working too well. But don't tell Mozilla that, it might just make Asa cry. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I can't say it enough... Mozilla's rapid-release idea is a fucking joke.
The reality is that this should something more like 4.5.12 or something... not version 16.
They already seem to be starting. Just look at their pricing and features for Microsoft Office as a service vs. under the traditional licenses. The traditional licenses are a joke like they've always been, and the pricing and functionality is much different. I would even say it's decent, actually. Too bad you have to pay for it like a service to get the benefits in features and price. That's something I'm not willing to do; when I pay for software, I expect the damn thing to just work and not have a self-destruct timer embedded. Having to pay monthly or annually kind of kills pricing advantage over a one-time payment, because you're then stuck in an endless cycle paying every month and every year just to be able to use the thing. Maybe tolerable for the short term, but not good for long-term savings.
Typing, word processors, spreadsheets, flat-style databases, presentations. The last one I absolutely hated every minute of and didn't gain one fucking thing from. The first three were more useful, but I previously learned them in middle school. The typical office suites/programs they "taught" were Microsoft Works, ClarisWorks, AppleWorks, and just a little bit of Microsoft Office.
Oh, and I learned the basics of AutoCAD in a crappy class with Windows 98 when Windows XP was for a few years the standard. Yay.
I don't remember much else... because there really wasn't much. Honestly, probably the most important stuff I learned was in middle school in the form of how to use web browsers and search engines (ie. web-based research). School sucked, they never taught shit I was actually interested in.
interesting... so you trust your third party security software? and your harware firewall, really?
It's not me you're replying to, but the way I take it, the original poster just doesn't trust the Windows operating system on his network, period. Well, honestly, I barely trust it on my own network unless the machine in question was set up by me with a known good, crap-free installation media, and no one else ever touches the system without my supervision, after first telling me exactly what it is that they want to do. Not even a hardware firewall can help when you've got an infected zombie on the inside spewing shit across the Internet... as well as on your own personal LAN.
I don't run Windows anymore (stopped completely back in late 2006), but I still feel somewhat the same when someone brings over an "unknown" Windows laptop and wants to connect to my network. It's not as bad now, because at least I now run something else and my systems are basically immune to the vast majority of attacks that fuck over Windows machines.
I left Windows due to the impending atrocity that was Vista combined with the road to nowhere that XP was heading on; Microsoft's excessively bad behavior toward the competition and with regards to open standards that seemed to only get worse; to escape vendor lock-in and the inevitable DRM before it got worse; for the security benefits of a UNIX or UNIX-like OS and for more power and control over my machine; as well as to escape having to plop a few hundred dollars down for an OS upgrade (especially when they consist of such duds as Windows ME, Vista and Windows 8). I don't regret it.
Yeah. I did some further reading on the company after my previous reply and came across some articles about that. Sounds great, and looking at their prices I was honestly tempted to find out more. But... I have an Optimus V (Virgin Mobile), so it looks like I will have to wait anyway unless I get a new phone. I do like the fact that they basically just sell Sprint phones that have no further locks in place to prevent the owner from using other providers, and their selection of phones is nice. They don't seem to allow data roaming, so if that's ever a requirement a phone could easily be switched to a Sprint plan--but from the sounds of it, that's the only reason I could imagine wanting to do such a thing.
Honestly, at the very least, I can imagine buying my next phone from these guys. I'd rather pay it outright at the very least, and preferably have a lower monthly phone service charge. I laughed at their phone number (1-855-TING-FTW) but at the same time it made me wonder if they could be trusted. It turns out that, reading some of the employee's responses to customers and potential customers, these guys are no joke... and further proving that is that they're a part of Tucows. So, my initial leeriness about them because they're so new may not even be so big of a deal after all.
It looks like this company really does have some good things in plan to offer. I'm actually anxious to see how they turn out and will probably try their service out at some point. Really, the more I read--both articles about them, and forum posts and blog entries directly from employees of the company--the more they really seem to blow away literally every other cell phone service provide in practically every way. With all the research I've done on all the other providers, I'm actually shocked. It really seems like a "too good to be true" scheme... yet, it seems like it is legitimately true. Amazing, and thanks again for the suggestion.
And MS has no business imposing a setting onto the user when the user did not explicit set. The standard does specify that the user needs to set the setting.
This "standard" is a joke anyway. A joke that is guaranteed to be laughed at and ignored by advertising companies. Whether or not little "mishaps" (I prefer to such a thing a favor, but maybe that's just me...) occur in the first place.
While MS claims that one can change this during the windows installation, average users don't install windows themselves, but have someone else install it for them.
Yeah. The OEM. People trust the OEM's choice to do what's right for them. If the major OEMs automatically start imaging all of their machines with Firefox set to respect their customers' privacy (ie. DNT ON), does this mean the assholes in the advertising business will start bitching and moaning about that next, and then Apache will use that as excuse to ignore all copies of Firefox now? Maybe by that time Google will finally have built DNT into Chrome and it will be on the same path to pointlessness. Ah, who am I kidding: the standard was a fucking joke right from the start.
There also millons of scenarios where several people share a same computer; in which case, at most one user runs the windows installation.
So? Are you saying that basically ALL implementations of DNT should be ignored now? Because, you know, there's always the chance of one person setting up a machine with five or so user accounts, and doing what he believes is right in protecting their privacy by enabling DNT in the web browser settings of all of their accounts...
"Do Not Track" is a fucking joke. It's about as likely to be followed as a sign on the roads that says "Do Not Speed."
I gave the company's site a quick glance. Wow... that seems pretty impressive. I've never heard of them before... I'm not sure if I want to risk them just yet, hopefully they get bigger and develop a good reputation while keeping true to what they provide now. It's tempting, but I'm not sure I want to rick switching to them, they go out of business, and I get the possibility of losing my number. I will seriously consider them at some point, thanks for mentioning them.
I agree with this method, in fact as a current Virgin Mobile customer, recently I was looking into alternatives that would give me better coverage in certain places out of town (rural areas). I found out that like you said, Verizon is ridiculously expensive, but I was told that they're pretty much all that works in those areas. Sprint is high too, but maybe ten or twenty bucks less, and theoretically it uses the same Sprint towers that my VM phone does... but the fact that they allow roaming on Verizon towers at no extra cost is nice. That would basically do it for me.
Problem is, I walked in and asked if there was any way to eliminate the "unlimited" data and texting and get more... you know, talk time. It is a motherfucking phone, after all, and I have Wi-Fi access almost everywhere I go except for on the road, and I'm even paying for my own home Internet connection. They said they can turn off data completely, but one, I would still have to pay for it (WTF?!) and two, it's all-or-nothing, meaning that for those few times I do want to get online (for example, at a store), I can't. As for text messaging, they can't drop that to, say, 75 or even 150 messages per month either.
Which would leave me stuck with unlimited Web that I don't need (on my current phone, I leave Wi-Fi on practically all the time and keep the data network connection off--it's one of the biggest improvements in Internet speed and battery life I've made on this thing...), as well as unlimited text messaging that I again don't need, because I use Google Voice almost exclusively for that. Tack on the two-year contract, and I decided that I'll just keep on looking. I might just get Sprint at a later time, but I don't feel like getting fucked over by paying all this "unlimited" shit that I don't need, while at the same time not getting the minutes I want. All this... because I want an Android-based phone, and they seem to think that just because you get a "smartphone" they can force all this extra shit down your throat and gouge you on minutes.
Take your pick: Choose whichever one fucks you over the least. And that's the tough part, because no matter what you're bound to get fucked over from multiple directions no matter what carrier you choose. And when you sign a contract, you basically sign yourself to get fucked over for two years straight with no way out of it. If you try to weasel your way out of a contract, you'll get fucked hardcore with an early termination fee.
just look at Me, i allwaze rode My bike when i waz yunger an got in lotsa accdents and dint hert my Head er suffer no drain bamage.
Seriously though, I did ride a bike all the time when I was younger. I also *never* wore a helmet and don't recall one single time that I actually hurt my head while riding a bike. And I've done some pretty dumb things too that led into some pretty spectacular crashes. As animals, we have natural instincts that allows us to "see" what danger may be happening on-the-fly in case of accidents, and this allows to adjust our bodies, without any real effort, for such situations. It's hardwired into our brains for survival, and if you don't have that and die in such an accident on a bike... then well, your genes probably don't have much to add to the gene pool when it comes to survival. Instinct says, if your body is heading down to the right and cannot be stopped until it hits the ground, tilt your head the other way and put your arm, elbow, hand, whatever down to take the blow instead. It'll hurt like a bitch and probably burn for a while, but it'll heal. I've had some serious scrapes on my arms and legs and even got blisters, but *never* any kind of head injury.
Also, bicycle accidents never catch me off-guard; I was always quick to notice them and easily adjusted for them before the bike went down, with no need to go to the hospital after. On the other hand, it's easy as hell to slip and fall while in or near in a pool or tub or something. Wet porcelain is wicked slick, and given you've pretty much always got walls and other objects around you (including the side of the tub to stub your toes onto on your way to the floor), there's never a lack of things to make a simple slip really bad in such settings. Even then, I tend to bang an elbow into the wall or catch the toilet before my head strikes anything. The article has a point on the helmet-in-bathtub comparison.
Hmmm... actually, that's probably it. I just checked and the source DVD is over 3 gigs alone. The full package set with sources would require a dual-layer DVD just to fit. Seems like to fit on DVD it was probably a required split.
"Porn is very personal," he said. "You may have been looking for Brazilian midget transsexuals, and you're sitting there at home with your kid or your wife saying, 'Let's go on a holiday to Brazil,' and the next thing, it's suggesting Brazilian midget transsexuals from your previous Google search history."
Yep. All the time. Who doesn't go scouring the web for Brazilian midget transsexuals just weeks before they take a family trip to Brazil for the holiday? Surely every straight man that has ever lived who respects his wife, his family, and his own masculinity has done it...
I mean... since 2004, when I first got serious about finding an alternative to Windows and really started learning a lot about Linux, I've "tested" hundreds of distributions (many of which are no longer developed). Before that--like in the very late 90s or around 2000--I tried downloading Red Hat, but I admit at the time I didn't know what I was doing and didn't get very far after installation once I got to the desktop (heavy Windows user at the time--enough said...). But the major ones, I guess, would be:
Note: An asterisk means I settles on a particular distribution for at least a while at some point. A tilde means that while I haven't actually settled on a distro, I did use and/or test it quite a bit. These are not exactly in order either, and it's definitely not a complete list (I've tried out hundreds of distros, many times serveral versions). It's obvious I'm leaving out countless distros (Ark, for one) and not really putting them in any special order in the list.
I've tried pretty much all the source-based distros just for the hell of it (Gentoo, Sorcerer, Lunar, Source Mage), CRUX, etc. Not to mention BSDs including FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, but I only really had luck with DesktopBSD and PCBsd.
I think your statement is highly insulting to fungus.
Yeah it is. If I ever hear anyone insulting fungus again--yeast or otherwise--I am going to smash a beer bottle over their head. After drinking it, of course. Wouldn't want to waste the precious nectar that yeast has been lovingly fermenting for months for a good, quality, natural beverage.
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Yeah. I'm fully expecting Ubuntu to be the first. They really seem to like fucking with their users... I only used the distro briefly when it was just starting to get decent. Then they pulled a 180 and made one fucked up move after another, degenerating into a distro that seems to thinks that changing for no reason other than marketing or "well, the dumb masses will like it."
Why does DRM matter when Sony has already demonstrated that they'll sue you for revealing the root encryption key to allow things like homebrew games? No matter what, unfortunately these days DRM seems unavoidable. Meanwhile, I wouldn't trust Sony at all after the whole geohot lawsuit.
And on top of that, with Apache's stance on DNT with IE, they won't be winning me over. Go LibreOffice.
Why was that modded funny? I'd say it's insightful and just plain true...
Well, I guess the one thing this idea has going for it is no more sweaty palms. Unless you happen to be in hell or near a lava pit or something like that, in which case it'll likely just make your palms sweatier.
Sony was always pathetic at innovating in the video game market. I would say that Nintendo (and at one time, Sega) are (or were) the pioneers for decades. Anything Sony does that's not blatantly ripping Nintendo off, it's a stupid idea like this. Along with RIIIDGE RACER!!! And they're certainly not interested in gimmicks...
Thanks--your comment (specifically, the insult) had me laughing for like ten minutes. But I'm not sure I will mod an AC up for what is basically just an insult/troll post.
After the W3C's recent face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam, the the Digital Advertising Alliance plainly said that it "does not require companies to honor DNT," effectively saying it intends to stick to its own self-regulatory approach to user privacy.[
That's okay, Digital Advertising Alliance, because I didn't expect anyone to honor such a less-than-worthless piece of shit that is embarrassingly considered a standard. Fuck, even Apache only honors it purely at their own discretion and completely disregards certain OS and browser configurations. However, I bought and own my own computers, and they will obey their master and honor my rights and privacy that you disregard. I have my own little "self-regulatory approach" already implemented for you, no need for you to waste your time and money creating your own. It consists of such things as the disabling of all third-party cookies, the total blocking of all of your ads with AdBlock Plus and the Element Hiding Helper, the blocking of JavaScript and Flash on all sites that I do not approve of with NoScript, and Do Not Track Plus or Ghostery to further protect myself from you.
Oh, I forgot to add: We're still "indirectly" paying Microsoft for this. Someone had to pay Microsoft the fee for all of us non-Windows users to be able to get the key to write code to "unlock" a machine, on *our* behalf, whether we like or would approve of it or not. So really, we're paying two Microsoft taxes now: for a license that grants us privilege to run Windows on an obnoxiously locked-down system, whether we wanted it or not, and again for the "keys" to unlock the computer to actually be useful and allow us to run what we want, as it should at least by default give the option of in the first place.
So if we choose to run Linux and if in any way it was "unlocked" by the developers by paying Microsoft, we're indirectly supporting Microsoft. As if we haven't already unwillingly been forced to support them just by the fact that we bought a computer with Windows in the first place, which is being specified to require the hardware to work against our wishes. Meanwhile, we lose, as we're forced to support this company not once but twice, and what do we get? A pathetic hack that only adds unnecessary complexity and other problems. The *real* solution? Allow us to disable this "Trusted Computing" bullshit in the EFI firmware. Simple as that.
This is such a fucked up situation, it's disturbing. Hopefully as ARM gains steam, companies like System76 start releasing ARM-based Linux machines so we can completely bypass this shit. Avoid both Microsoft taxes, as well as Microsoft shitting all over our freedom exclusively for their gain. This reeks "abuse of powers" easily as much as or more than anything they did back during the time of their anti-trust lawsuit back in the 1990s.
...now we have to deal with a dummy/shell of a bootloader, which boots the real bootloader, before the OS will even be told to start booting? Come the fuck on--something needs to be done about this, because this is just bullshit. We shouldn't be forced into such unnecessary extra complexity to use our computers that we bought, just because some shitty crooked company decided they want to make everything that runs *their* (read: almost everything) insecure OS a locked-down fortress with the "claim" (hint: yeah, right) that it is being used specifically to stop the spread of malware. There has to be a better solution. Until then, it looks like I will have to stick with x86 machines unfortunately, as much as I would like an ARM-based laptop, until something good is released without Windows... er, I mean, without these restrictions. The Windows tax was bad enough; now we're paying in the form of our freedom to use our computers in the way we want. Thanks, Microsoft. Cocksuckers.
Except... this new light-speed release cycle has already proven to create several duds, leading to an official release and then a near-immediate (or in this case, immediate) bugfix "point" release. So it's obviously not working too well. But don't tell Mozilla that, it might just make Asa cry. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I can't say it enough... Mozilla's rapid-release idea is a fucking joke.
The reality is that this should something more like 4.5.12 or something... not version 16.
They already seem to be starting. Just look at their pricing and features for Microsoft Office as a service vs. under the traditional licenses. The traditional licenses are a joke like they've always been, and the pricing and functionality is much different. I would even say it's decent, actually. Too bad you have to pay for it like a service to get the benefits in features and price. That's something I'm not willing to do; when I pay for software, I expect the damn thing to just work and not have a self-destruct timer embedded. Having to pay monthly or annually kind of kills pricing advantage over a one-time payment, because you're then stuck in an endless cycle paying every month and every year just to be able to use the thing. Maybe tolerable for the short term, but not good for long-term savings.
Typing, word processors, spreadsheets, flat-style databases, presentations. The last one I absolutely hated every minute of and didn't gain one fucking thing from. The first three were more useful, but I previously learned them in middle school. The typical office suites/programs they "taught" were Microsoft Works, ClarisWorks, AppleWorks, and just a little bit of Microsoft Office.
Oh, and I learned the basics of AutoCAD in a crappy class with Windows 98 when Windows XP was for a few years the standard. Yay.
I don't remember much else... because there really wasn't much. Honestly, probably the most important stuff I learned was in middle school in the form of how to use web browsers and search engines (ie. web-based research). School sucked, they never taught shit I was actually interested in.
interesting ... so you trust your third party security software? and your harware firewall, really?
It's not me you're replying to, but the way I take it, the original poster just doesn't trust the Windows operating system on his network, period. Well, honestly, I barely trust it on my own network unless the machine in question was set up by me with a known good, crap-free installation media, and no one else ever touches the system without my supervision, after first telling me exactly what it is that they want to do. Not even a hardware firewall can help when you've got an infected zombie on the inside spewing shit across the Internet... as well as on your own personal LAN.
I don't run Windows anymore (stopped completely back in late 2006), but I still feel somewhat the same when someone brings over an "unknown" Windows laptop and wants to connect to my network. It's not as bad now, because at least I now run something else and my systems are basically immune to the vast majority of attacks that fuck over Windows machines.
I left Windows due to the impending atrocity that was Vista combined with the road to nowhere that XP was heading on; Microsoft's excessively bad behavior toward the competition and with regards to open standards that seemed to only get worse; to escape vendor lock-in and the inevitable DRM before it got worse; for the security benefits of a UNIX or UNIX-like OS and for more power and control over my machine; as well as to escape having to plop a few hundred dollars down for an OS upgrade (especially when they consist of such duds as Windows ME, Vista and Windows 8). I don't regret it.
Yeah. I did some further reading on the company after my previous reply and came across some articles about that. Sounds great, and looking at their prices I was honestly tempted to find out more. But... I have an Optimus V (Virgin Mobile), so it looks like I will have to wait anyway unless I get a new phone. I do like the fact that they basically just sell Sprint phones that have no further locks in place to prevent the owner from using other providers, and their selection of phones is nice. They don't seem to allow data roaming, so if that's ever a requirement a phone could easily be switched to a Sprint plan--but from the sounds of it, that's the only reason I could imagine wanting to do such a thing.
Honestly, at the very least, I can imagine buying my next phone from these guys. I'd rather pay it outright at the very least, and preferably have a lower monthly phone service charge. I laughed at their phone number (1-855-TING-FTW) but at the same time it made me wonder if they could be trusted. It turns out that, reading some of the employee's responses to customers and potential customers, these guys are no joke... and further proving that is that they're a part of Tucows. So, my initial leeriness about them because they're so new may not even be so big of a deal after all.
It looks like this company really does have some good things in plan to offer. I'm actually anxious to see how they turn out and will probably try their service out at some point. Really, the more I read--both articles about them, and forum posts and blog entries directly from employees of the company--the more they really seem to blow away literally every other cell phone service provide in practically every way. With all the research I've done on all the other providers, I'm actually shocked. It really seems like a "too good to be true" scheme... yet, it seems like it is legitimately true. Amazing, and thanks again for the suggestion.
And MS has no business imposing a setting onto the user when the user did not explicit set. The standard does specify that the user needs to set the setting.
This "standard" is a joke anyway. A joke that is guaranteed to be laughed at and ignored by advertising companies. Whether or not little "mishaps" (I prefer to such a thing a favor, but maybe that's just me...) occur in the first place.
While MS claims that one can change this during the windows installation, average users don't install windows themselves, but have someone else install it for them.
Yeah. The OEM. People trust the OEM's choice to do what's right for them. If the major OEMs automatically start imaging all of their machines with Firefox set to respect their customers' privacy (ie. DNT ON), does this mean the assholes in the advertising business will start bitching and moaning about that next, and then Apache will use that as excuse to ignore all copies of Firefox now? Maybe by that time Google will finally have built DNT into Chrome and it will be on the same path to pointlessness. Ah, who am I kidding: the standard was a fucking joke right from the start.
There also millons of scenarios where several people share a same computer; in which case, at most one user runs the windows installation.
So? Are you saying that basically ALL implementations of DNT should be ignored now? Because, you know, there's always the chance of one person setting up a machine with five or so user accounts, and doing what he believes is right in protecting their privacy by enabling DNT in the web browser settings of all of their accounts...
"Do Not Track" is a fucking joke. It's about as likely to be followed as a sign on the roads that says "Do Not Speed."
I gave the company's site a quick glance. Wow... that seems pretty impressive. I've never heard of them before... I'm not sure if I want to risk them just yet, hopefully they get bigger and develop a good reputation while keeping true to what they provide now. It's tempting, but I'm not sure I want to rick switching to them, they go out of business, and I get the possibility of losing my number. I will seriously consider them at some point, thanks for mentioning them.
I agree with this method, in fact as a current Virgin Mobile customer, recently I was looking into alternatives that would give me better coverage in certain places out of town (rural areas). I found out that like you said, Verizon is ridiculously expensive, but I was told that they're pretty much all that works in those areas. Sprint is high too, but maybe ten or twenty bucks less, and theoretically it uses the same Sprint towers that my VM phone does... but the fact that they allow roaming on Verizon towers at no extra cost is nice. That would basically do it for me.
Problem is, I walked in and asked if there was any way to eliminate the "unlimited" data and texting and get more... you know, talk time. It is a motherfucking phone, after all, and I have Wi-Fi access almost everywhere I go except for on the road, and I'm even paying for my own home Internet connection. They said they can turn off data completely, but one, I would still have to pay for it (WTF?!) and two, it's all-or-nothing, meaning that for those few times I do want to get online (for example, at a store), I can't. As for text messaging, they can't drop that to, say, 75 or even 150 messages per month either.
Which would leave me stuck with unlimited Web that I don't need (on my current phone, I leave Wi-Fi on practically all the time and keep the data network connection off--it's one of the biggest improvements in Internet speed and battery life I've made on this thing...), as well as unlimited text messaging that I again don't need, because I use Google Voice almost exclusively for that. Tack on the two-year contract, and I decided that I'll just keep on looking. I might just get Sprint at a later time, but I don't feel like getting fucked over by paying all this "unlimited" shit that I don't need, while at the same time not getting the minutes I want. All this... because I want an Android-based phone, and they seem to think that just because you get a "smartphone" they can force all this extra shit down your throat and gouge you on minutes.
Take your pick: Choose whichever one fucks you over the least. And that's the tough part, because no matter what you're bound to get fucked over from multiple directions no matter what carrier you choose. And when you sign a contract, you basically sign yourself to get fucked over for two years straight with no way out of it. If you try to weasel your way out of a contract, you'll get fucked hardcore with an early termination fee.
Good luck...
just look at Me, i allwaze rode My bike when i waz yunger an got in lotsa accdents and dint hert my Head er suffer no drain bamage.
Seriously though, I did ride a bike all the time when I was younger. I also *never* wore a helmet and don't recall one single time that I actually hurt my head while riding a bike. And I've done some pretty dumb things too that led into some pretty spectacular crashes. As animals, we have natural instincts that allows us to "see" what danger may be happening on-the-fly in case of accidents, and this allows to adjust our bodies, without any real effort, for such situations. It's hardwired into our brains for survival, and if you don't have that and die in such an accident on a bike... then well, your genes probably don't have much to add to the gene pool when it comes to survival. Instinct says, if your body is heading down to the right and cannot be stopped until it hits the ground, tilt your head the other way and put your arm, elbow, hand, whatever down to take the blow instead. It'll hurt like a bitch and probably burn for a while, but it'll heal. I've had some serious scrapes on my arms and legs and even got blisters, but *never* any kind of head injury.
Also, bicycle accidents never catch me off-guard; I was always quick to notice them and easily adjusted for them before the bike went down, with no need to go to the hospital after. On the other hand, it's easy as hell to slip and fall while in or near in a pool or tub or something. Wet porcelain is wicked slick, and given you've pretty much always got walls and other objects around you (including the side of the tub to stub your toes onto on your way to the floor), there's never a lack of things to make a simple slip really bad in such settings. Even then, I tend to bang an elbow into the wall or catch the toilet before my head strikes anything. The article has a point on the helmet-in-bathtub comparison.
Flash is not utter shit on Windows? That's news to me, and I haven't touched that OS since 2006...
Hmmm... actually, that's probably it. I just checked and the source DVD is over 3 gigs alone. The full package set with sources would require a dual-layer DVD just to fit. Seems like to fit on DVD it was probably a required split.
I second this name. Booble.XXX.
Or Yaboob! But that one doesn't have as good of a ring to it...
Maybe AltaTitsta? Or how about Wang? (Bing)
"Porn is very personal," he said. "You may have been looking for Brazilian midget transsexuals, and you're sitting there at home with your kid or your wife saying, 'Let's go on a holiday to Brazil,' and the next thing, it's suggesting Brazilian midget transsexuals from your previous Google search history."
Yep. All the time. Who doesn't go scouring the web for Brazilian midget transsexuals just weeks before they take a family trip to Brazil for the holiday? Surely every straight man that has ever lived who respects his wife, his family, and his own masculinity has done it...
I mean... since 2004, when I first got serious about finding an alternative to Windows and really started learning a lot about Linux, I've "tested" hundreds of distributions (many of which are no longer developed). Before that--like in the very late 90s or around 2000--I tried downloading Red Hat, but I admit at the time I didn't know what I was doing and didn't get very far after installation once I got to the desktop (heavy Windows user at the time--enough said...). But the major ones, I guess, would be:
Red Hat Linux 9, SUSE Linux 9.x*, Slackware, Zenwalk*, KateOS*, Arch, Damn Small Linux~, Feather Linux~, Ubuntu*, Debian*, Linux Mint~, Dreamlinux, KNOPPIX~, KANOTIX, Mepis, Parsix~, Pardus*, Sidux~, Aptosid, PureOS, Absolute~, CDLinux~, Salix~, Slax~, Vector~, Wolvix~, Fedora, Kororaa~, BLAG*, CentOS, Scientific, Stella, Foresight~, PCLinuxOS~, Frugalware~, Mandriva~, Mageia, openSUSE*, Puppy~, Slitaz, Tiny Core, SolusOS, CrunchBang*, Dream Studio, Spri, MoonOS, Trisquel~, ArchBang, Chakra, Kahel, Manjaro
Note: An asterisk means I settles on a particular distribution for at least a while at some point. A tilde means that while I haven't actually settled on a distro, I did use and/or test it quite a bit. These are not exactly in order either, and it's definitely not a complete list (I've tried out hundreds of distros, many times serveral versions). It's obvious I'm leaving out countless distros (Ark, for one) and not really putting them in any special order in the list.
I've tried pretty much all the source-based distros just for the hell of it (Gentoo, Sorcerer, Lunar, Source Mage), CRUX, etc. Not to mention BSDs including FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, but I only really had luck with DesktopBSD and PCBsd.
I think your statement is highly insulting to fungus.
Yeah it is. If I ever hear anyone insulting fungus again--yeast or otherwise--I am going to smash a beer bottle over their head. After drinking it, of course. Wouldn't want to waste the precious nectar that yeast has been lovingly fermenting for months for a good, quality, natural beverage.