Use Mate Desktop or Cinnamon Desktop they both have been aiming for a sane attractive traditional desktop environment ever since Gnome went nuts. Then there is e17, lxde, just open your repository there are far more that i cant remember the names of.
Using blockchain technology for decentralized consensus. Let's take the power from the corrupt and place it back with the people.
I have looked into using namecoin to due just that but there are several problems; Cost ----- every time I have my IP adress change I would have to spend more namecoin which can be often with dynamic IP. No Docs ----- very little support or documentation, Mobile ----- mobile device name resolution I can setup my own dns server on my pc's and servers to resolve namecoin if i really hack at it but not so easy for phones tablets and the like to run their own dns server Accessibility ----- while I and three other cryptonerd out their could use it, my parent/grandparent/freinds/people i give shit about would not be able to access my server because its not easy nor ubiqutous to use namecoin dsn.
so while i support the concept it won't have work for most purposes without a massive change in peoples opinion so that they care.
Well as Google runs their own public dns servers and is branching out in the being a registrar that could be very hard to enforce as Google could just say we are our own registrar additionally Microsoft would find them selves on the loosing end of the biggest lawsuit and damages claims you have ever seen if they tried that. It is one thing to pick on a small company it another to take on a massively powerful well financed very much more popular equal.
property used to engage in criminal activity is subject to seizure and/or forfeiture. Domains have been seized in the past due to criminal activity but this has usually accompanied a criminal complaint by a law enforcement agency.
In this case, despite what the article may imply, Microsoft hasn't seized ownership of the domains. Rather, they used an ex parte temporary restraining order to seize control of the domains so that they may neutralize the source of the maliciousness. The ex-parte aspect is why no-ip wasn't notified. Microsoft managed to convince a judge to grant the order without informing the other party (most likely to prevent no-ip from notifying the malicious users). This will be followed up by a formal hearing, and full control of the domains will be restored to no-ip eventually.
If Microsoft abuses this, judges won't be so inclined to grant such requests in the future.
Most people I know that use no-ip are people setting up their own minecraft servers its not a hotbed of criminal activivty like MS claims. I use it for my ssh server/freeciv/cloud storage/retroshare and it has been inaccessibly today thanks to microsofts fuckery. claiming that they are a tool of criminal activity is like saying that the internet is a tool of criminal acivity because criminals use it, which is to say anything may be taken away and given to another with this same logic. I wonder seeings as Microsoft has fucked with my servers traffic today thanks to this could I go after in court them for maliciously hijacking my sub domain and traffic and have their DNS entries redirect to me with no warning to microsoft.
Anyone remember Netscape Gold? How long will we have to wait for email client, news reader, and Kitchen Sink(tm) to be bundled back in?
So much for a lightweight browser and codebase (Firefox has already marched past that line in the sand, but this is a monumental increase to the marching speed) Not to mention the potential security implications for managed desktops.
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Of course, being Alabama, they will promptly arrest and jail the Chinese managers who come over to check on the plant unless they can prove they are in Alabama legally.
The person it's deriding gets to decide if it's offensive. That's kind of how it works. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Nigger is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Chink is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Redskin is a bad word. Etc etc etc...
In this day and age, the white guy doesn't get to decide if Cracker is a bad word, either.
As a white guy I have never been offended by "cracker" I thought it sounded humerous to hear someone say it trying to be offensive though.
who gets to decide? Not you, not the assholes below defending it with snark.
The person it's deriding gets to decide if it's offensive. That's kind of how it works. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Nigger is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Chink is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Redskin is a bad word. Etc etc etc... This is plain common sense, and everyone arguing against it is an ass.
I don't know where this scalping thing is from. Natives were (despite their obvious asian heritage) described as being of "red" skin color. Which is as stupid as the "Yellow" skin color, and my peachy gold self is definitely not white, but whatever.
You Ignorant Redneck Honkies. -- See what I did there? Doesn't seem offensive to ME... It's up to YOU to decide, because you're the ones I'm deriding.
The point being missed here is Has anyone actually asked the native american peoples what they think of the term? According to the only polls of native Americans I could find in two minutes of googling was one done by sports illustrated in 2002 in which 75% of the native american respondents had no objection to it and another in 2004 conducted by Pennsylvanian University in which 91 percent had no objection. If the native people are the ones that get to pick whether it is offensive or not then it seems that it should not be offensive as they do not find it to be. This is no just a bunch of white people arguing over whether or not it is as you seem to believe.
"It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?" ---Stephen Fry
They CAN provide the information requested but they have to shutdown the system to do it. Otherwise, they don't have space and the system will auto delete everything over a certain age. There's just no room to keep the system running without delete functionality active. You could argue that they should shut it down until it's audited but that would require you actually read instead of rant.
Luckily I have a copy of 7.1a for x64 linux. Because this is a great opportunity to release a trojan horse version of Truecrypt and many people would be affected
I wonder was its source in any of repositories for the larger Linux distros? Perhaps Debian, Gentoo,or Arch would have a cryptographically signed copy of it if so that would be a simple matter of grabbing the source with a apt-get source command.
I'm assuming their modems/routers have a way of provisioning a second IP address so that the wifi hotspot doesn't get you in legal trouble (or steal your bandwidth).
If that is the case does that mean I just have to change my mac address and connect to the public wifi rather than my normal ssid, and I can torrent everything I want and not worry about getting hit by a copyright infringement law suite.
If law enforcement needs this type of equipment, then it has long abandoned any pretense of serving the people and has instead reverted to its original purpose of fighting the people for those in power.
While I am generally against the militarization of law enforcement agencies I diasagree that there is no reason for any of them to have these for example my counties sheriffs department has several similar vehicles but It has used them for emergency vehicles during the last three major flood events we have had including, a 100 year flood and a 500 years flood. So these can have other more benign utilitarian uses for law enforcement agencies.
Everyone needs guns. We can have the old west again. People shooting the "bad guys" left and right. Don't try to make society better by helping those that need it. Just arm everyone.
Murder rates in the old west were far lower than most major cities today
But I want to sit back and watch the movie "young guns" and base my knowledge of history on Hollywood and then hate on inanimate objects.
Is there any evidence at all that he had contact with Russia prior to ending up there? As far as I know, there isn't.
Yeah. I'll admit my memory of the topic isn't perfect, but I thought it was the folks at wikileaks that that were trying to help him and suggested Russia was the safest stopover point.
You are correct it was Wikileaks that bought him his plane tickets out of Hong Kong when China was looking like they were about to give him up to the US. Russia was supposed to just be a stop where he was supposed to get on a plane bound for Cuba then Ecuador. But the US state department revoked his passport preventing him from leaving the airport in Russia after sitting in the international lobby for weeks unable to leave, Russia gave him a one year grant of asylum. This is just a bunch of political propaganda to discredit Snowden.
Also remember the US forced a landing of the jet carrying the President of Bolivia because we thought that Snowden might be on board.
The only reason Snowden is in Russia is Because the US government has trapped him there.
More to the point, you are asking them to cross-compile rather than just recompile. And if you don't have the hardware, you can't test the result.
Because no devs anywhere has any x86 or x86_64 units under their desk. And its not like we have dozens of emulators and virtual machines for ever instruction set under the sun. And it is absolutely impossible to buy touch screen after windows 8 was released... oh wait we have all of those more so than ever.
Can anyone tell me why, as a subscriber with the "Disable Advertising" button, I keep getting ads at the top of Slashdot, not matter the status of the button? Only happened the last few days.
Pretty sure the terms of what I paid for say I shouldn't be seeing it, even years after paying.
I have noticed that when browsing with my tablet I thought it was just the general state of brokenness with mobile browsers, because I had the box checked (with it unchecked the animated ads would often crash the browser.) Glad to know its not my browser just slashdots evil dice overlords being evil fucktards. My guess is they are trying to slowly break the traditional view to drive people to BETA.
Why the fuck aren't you, if you think it's such a good idea? You want the meat, you butcher it your own goddamn self. Whining that something should be done, but isn't, and insinuating that you're not doing it yourself == makes you a useless tool. Grow a fucking pair and stand behind your beliefs or shove it.
Because if one or two people that are fed up act on it and they get brushed off, 20 people act up get sent to jail, 200 get still get sent to jail but get a dismissive blurb in the local paper, 2,000 they get pepper sprayed and leader charged with inciting riot, 20,000,000 get a senator or two to half heartedly admit there might be an issue that might need looking into and never do anything substantive, It takes a critical mass to effect change
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Use Mate Desktop or Cinnamon Desktop they both have been aiming for a sane attractive traditional desktop environment ever since Gnome went nuts. Then there is e17, lxde, just open your repository there are far more that i cant remember the names of.
Using blockchain technology for decentralized consensus. Let's take the power from the corrupt and place it back with the people.
I have looked into using namecoin to due just that but there are several problems;
Cost ----- every time I have my IP adress change I would have to spend more namecoin which can be often with dynamic IP.
No Docs ----- very little support or documentation,
Mobile ----- mobile device name resolution I can setup my own dns server on my pc's and servers to resolve namecoin if i really hack at it but not so easy for phones tablets and the like to run their own dns server
Accessibility ----- while I and three other cryptonerd out their could use it, my parent/grandparent/freinds/people i give shit about would not be able to access my server because its not easy nor ubiqutous to use namecoin dsn.
so while i support the concept it won't have work for most purposes without a massive change in peoples opinion so that they care.
Well as Google runs their own public dns servers and is branching out in the being a registrar that could be very hard to enforce as Google could just say we are our own registrar additionally Microsoft would find them selves on the loosing end of the biggest lawsuit and damages claims you have ever seen if they tried that. It is one thing to pick on a small company it another to take on a massively powerful well financed very much more popular equal.
i wonder if the same court would let you take update.microsoft.com and redirct it to ftp.debian.org using this reasoning
property used to engage in criminal activity is subject to seizure and/or forfeiture. Domains have been seized in the past due to criminal activity but this has usually accompanied a criminal complaint by a law enforcement agency.
In this case, despite what the article may imply, Microsoft hasn't seized ownership of the domains. Rather, they used an ex parte temporary restraining order to seize control of the domains so that they may neutralize the source of the maliciousness. The ex-parte aspect is why no-ip wasn't notified. Microsoft managed to convince a judge to grant the order without informing the other party (most likely to prevent no-ip from notifying the malicious users). This will be followed up by a formal hearing, and full control of the domains will be restored to no-ip eventually.
If Microsoft abuses this, judges won't be so inclined to grant such requests in the future.
Most people I know that use no-ip are people setting up their own minecraft servers its not a hotbed of criminal activivty like MS claims. I use it for my ssh server/freeciv/cloud storage/retroshare and it has been inaccessibly today thanks to microsofts fuckery. claiming that they are a tool of criminal activity is like saying that the internet is a tool of criminal acivity because criminals use it, which is to say anything may be taken away and given to another with this same logic.
I wonder seeings as Microsoft has fucked with my servers traffic today thanks to this could I go after in court them for maliciously hijacking my sub domain and traffic and have their DNS entries redirect to me with no warning to microsoft.
Anyone remember Netscape Gold? How long will we have to wait for email client, news reader, and Kitchen Sink(tm) to be bundled back in?
So much for a lightweight browser and codebase (Firefox has already marched past that line in the sand, but this is a monumental increase to the marching speed) Not to mention the potential security implications for managed desktops.
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Of course, being Alabama, they will promptly arrest and jail the Chinese managers who come over to check on the plant unless they can prove they are in Alabama legally.
its Alabama not Arizona
Is it really the end of all the ridiculous lawsuits between Apple, Google and Microsoft?
More interestingly is will this be used as the final kill shot in the SCO zombies vs Linux legal battle.
The person it's deriding gets to decide if it's offensive. That's kind of how it works. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Nigger is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Chink is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Redskin is a bad word. Etc etc etc...
In this day and age, the white guy doesn't get to decide if Cracker is a bad word, either.
As a white guy I have never been offended by "cracker" I thought it sounded humerous to hear someone say it trying to be offensive though.
who gets to decide? Not you, not the assholes below defending it with snark.
The person it's deriding gets to decide if it's offensive. That's kind of how it works. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Nigger is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Chink is a bad word. The white guy doesn't get to decide if Redskin is a bad word. Etc etc etc... This is plain common sense, and everyone arguing against it is an ass.
I don't know where this scalping thing is from. Natives were (despite their obvious asian heritage) described as being of "red" skin color. Which is as stupid as the "Yellow" skin color, and my peachy gold self is definitely not white, but whatever.
You Ignorant Redneck Honkies. -- See what I did there? Doesn't seem offensive to ME... It's up to YOU to decide, because you're the ones I'm deriding.
The point being missed here is Has anyone actually asked the native american peoples what they think of the term? According to the only polls of native Americans I could find in two minutes of googling was one done by sports illustrated in 2002 in which 75% of the native american respondents had no objection to it and another in 2004 conducted by Pennsylvanian University in which 91 percent had no objection. If the native people are the ones that get to pick whether it is offensive or not then it seems that it should not be offensive as they do not find it to be. This is no just a bunch of white people arguing over whether or not it is as you seem to believe.
"It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?"
---Stephen Fry
You might end up on a fusion center list.
You might end up with a chat down by locals under a federal task force.
You might end up with a real federal chat down.
If your aren't on at least one watchlist your doing it wrong.
They CAN provide the information requested but they have to shutdown the system to do it. Otherwise, they don't have space and the system will auto delete everything over a certain age. There's just no room to keep the system running without delete functionality active. You could argue that they should shut it down until it's audited but that would require you actually read instead of rant.
you say that like it is a bad thing
Luckily I have a copy of 7.1a for x64 linux. Because this is a great opportunity to release a trojan horse version of Truecrypt and many people would be affected
I wonder was its source in any of repositories for the larger Linux distros? Perhaps Debian, Gentoo,or Arch would have a cryptographically signed copy of it if so that would be a simple matter of grabbing the source with a apt-get source command.
I'm assuming their modems/routers have a way of provisioning a second IP address so that the wifi hotspot doesn't get you in legal trouble (or steal your bandwidth).
If that is the case does that mean I just have to change my mac address and connect to the public wifi rather than my normal ssid, and I can torrent everything I want and not worry about getting hit by a copyright infringement law suite.
How could anyone be fooled by cleverbot let alone 59% of people.
My conversion with cleverbot
me: What is your name.
cleverbot: Cleverbot.
me: Would you repeat that?
cleverbot: I did not ask for your name, Richard.
Lack consistent self narrative and replies with nonsense and randomly makes up a name for me. I could tell it was computer with two queries.
If law enforcement needs this type of equipment, then it has long abandoned any pretense of serving the people and has instead reverted to its original purpose of fighting the people for those in power.
While I am generally against the militarization of law enforcement agencies I diasagree that there is no reason for any of them to have these for example my counties sheriffs department has several similar vehicles but It has used them for emergency vehicles during the last three major flood events we have had including, a 100 year flood and a 500 years flood. So these can have other more benign utilitarian uses for law enforcement agencies.
Everyone needs guns. We can have the old west again. People shooting the "bad guys" left and right. Don't try to make society better by helping those that need it. Just arm everyone.
Murder rates in the old west were far lower than most major cities today
But I want to sit back and watch the movie "young guns" and base my knowledge of history on Hollywood and then hate on inanimate objects.
an example: Saskatoon(pop ~260k) has a murder rate than NYC(pop ~8.4m).
than what? greater, lesser...
Is there any evidence at all that he had contact with Russia prior to ending up there? As far as I know, there isn't.
Yeah. I'll admit my memory of the topic isn't perfect, but I thought it was the folks at wikileaks that that were trying to help him and suggested Russia was the safest stopover point.
You are correct it was Wikileaks that bought him his plane tickets out of Hong Kong when China was looking like they were about to give him up to the US. Russia was supposed to just be a stop where he was supposed to get on a plane bound for Cuba then Ecuador. But the US state department revoked his passport preventing him from leaving the airport in Russia after sitting in the international lobby for weeks unable to leave, Russia gave him a one year grant of asylum. This is just a bunch of political propaganda to discredit Snowden.
Also remember the US forced a landing of the jet carrying the President of Bolivia because we thought that Snowden might be on board.
The only reason Snowden is in Russia is Because the US government has trapped him there.
Probably half the /. readership has edited HTML source in vi or emacs depending on religion.
Does using nano for text editing then mean I am an athiest then?
Clearly we just need a small set of POSIX apps to do 'git, 'make' and 'gcc' on your phone.
Download the signed source code from the app store.
like a gentoodroid
More to the point, you are asking them to cross-compile rather than just recompile. And if you don't have the hardware, you can't test the result.
Because no devs anywhere has any x86 or x86_64 units under their desk. And its not like we have dozens of emulators and virtual machines for ever instruction set under the sun. And it is absolutely impossible to buy touch screen after windows 8 was released... oh wait we have all of those more so than ever.
Great,
Can anyone tell me why, as a subscriber with the "Disable Advertising" button, I keep getting ads at the top of Slashdot, not matter the status of the button? Only happened the last few days.
Pretty sure the terms of what I paid for say I shouldn't be seeing it, even years after paying.
I have noticed that when browsing with my tablet I thought it was just the general state of brokenness with mobile browsers, because I had the box checked (with it unchecked the animated ads would often crash the browser.) Glad to know its not my browser just slashdots evil dice overlords being evil fucktards. My guess is they are trying to slowly break the traditional view to drive people to BETA.
Why the fuck aren't you, if you think it's such a good idea? You want the meat, you butcher it your own goddamn self. Whining that something should be done, but isn't, and insinuating that you're not doing it yourself == makes you a useless tool. Grow a fucking pair and stand behind your beliefs or shove it.
Because if one or two people that are fed up act on it and they get brushed off, 20 people act up get sent to jail, 200 get still get sent to jail but get a dismissive blurb in the local paper, 2,000 they get pepper sprayed and leader charged with inciting riot, 20,000,000 get a senator or two to half heartedly admit there might be an issue that might need looking into and never do anything substantive, It takes a critical mass to effect change