It's so funny how people toe the line with their political parties, despite the fact that each party has their faults and, in a lot of cases, do the exact same misdeeds. It's sad that the majority of people seem to never come to the realization that no matter who they vote for of the 2-party system, they get the same thing. As long as their focused on ancillary, unimportant issues, this may never change.
And therein lies the problem, my good sir. How do you get those who enjoy being spoon-fed the horeshit that comes from mainstream media to realize the error of their ways without them first (a) losing interest, or (b) sticking their head in the dirt and singing "la la la" -- in either case losing them before you get them to think critically? We're basically fucked, b/c that won't happen. The vast majority is willing to give up rights, freedoms, etc. as long as they're protected from "turrists" and can go on living their pacified, infinitesimal lives.
It's a damn fucking shame too. But hey as long as they catch those terrorists and let me get back to my [insert sport here] and [insert mindless degrading reality show here], I'm all for it. If you have nothing to hide, what is to fear?
I recall this being due to an ancient impact that blasted away most the atmosphere, etc. I was watching some show (perhaps The Universe) that explained that there in fact lies a huge impact crater on most of the face of Mars that coincides with this theory. Just a quick Google gave me this link -- though I got my information from the aforementioned tv show and not the link.
Indeed. Have a server with Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL+Maia (kinda like a management GUI for spamassassin+clamav) that is doing great so far. Still keep my gmail account up for now until I can get everything updated to point to my new address. Kinda hard to let it go after having it for several years, just feels like I could be missing someone/something important.
"Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL....MySQL has used a testing framework called mysql-test since 1999. Over the years tests have been built for new features and regression tests that guarantee that a bug fix is permanent...It also appears that Oracle pulled the revision history for MySQL...By removing the revision history, Oracle will keep developers guessing about what is fixed and what is not...it appears that Oracle is making its revision tests and histories closed source..."
Look at what they've done already. These are facts, not FUD.
Exactly. I built a not-all-that-expensive system back in 2009 that I'm still easily playing games with on high graphics settings. I'm just now getting that upgrade itch, but it's not entirely necessary even at this point. Though, I'm that type that I don't absolutely need the highest possible settings to enjoy the game.
On the contrary, the real reason marijuana is illegal is due to the huge benefits of hemp and relative cheapness/ease of growth. Corporate lobbying strikes again (or struck, back in the 1930's). Do some research if you're completely lost on what I'm referring to here (I'm sure the majority are).
The FreeBSD folks, for example, don't think it particularly important that you can run it as a desktop OS at -all-, they'll actively discourage people from it if you visit that travesty of an IRC channel
This is just completely false. FreeBSD folks want you to be able to anything you want with their system. Customize it to fit your needs. If you want a pre-built system complete with desktop and plenty of hand-holding -- which is what most new users want -- that's when PC-BSD is suggested. Personally I use FreeBSD on the desktop and I love it (running KDE 4.10.1 atm). It's not really hard to get setup, though time-consuming as a lot of stuff needs to be built from source. But that's what FreeBSD is, and that shouldn't change.
"It may make me a "sheeple" but I find that, by law of probability, I'm usually right about such things when I do it this way."
And you likely will always be "right" if that's your measure. After all, the one's in control of what you perceive as "evidence" aren't exactly forthcoming. Perhaps some critical thinking is in order? As an [albeit wayyyy arbitrary] example, recall geocentric theory? In any case, hopefully one is not basing his facts on evidence alone while keeping in mind the very evidence one seeks is _completely_ at the whim of those one would seek it from...hopefully.
I'm a little surprised the assuie public had the balls to stop it. Most Australians take whatever their politician tries to shoves up their ass (and for the few that don't like it, they get told they must hate the children or something).
Are you sure you didn't mean to s/Australians/Americans?
And yet the vast majority of Americans lap up the excrement that the mainstream media shits out every single day, without much question or critical thought. Lol @ that poll, and you for even using it.
Btw, I agree that FAR too many times race is brought into issues where it does not belong, and I'm African American myself. However, let's not pretend that race is NEVER an issue anymore, as if all racism ceased to exist @12am on 1/1/2000. That's just as dumb and short-sighted as any idiot who tries to bring race to the forefront of every issue.
Yup. I loved Arch for it's connection to the "Unix way" until they decided to force systemd on us and then basically silenced and/or censored all naysayers. Sure it's their distro, they can do what they like, however silencing dissenting opinions in that fashion just didn't sit right with me, even more so than the systemd decision imo. Rather than Slack, it's been FreeBSD for me, however. Always been a fan of it on servers, and these days it's been good enough for the desktop in my case.:)
And it's another reason to temporarily lock out an account from logging in, if there's too many wrong guesses at the password in a very short period of time. There might be a Wordpress plug-in for something like that, but I don't think it's in Wordpress's core, and it really should be in the core of any web system. It adds tons of security all by itself.
There are indeed plugins that do this. In fact, I was alerted to a few of my sites being bruteforced from a plugin that does just that. What really helps though, is having a.htpasswd enabled on the wp-admin directory -- I use a plugin for that as well ("AskApache Password Protect"), though admittedly it's not hard at all to implement without the plugin.
I was a Madden fan for over a decade. Finally in '09 I decided I'll no longer buy Madden games b/c it's the same BS every single freaking year, and I'd given them long enough to make me a believer. It's sad really. Unfortunately I'm an avid Battlefield fan -- even though they've fucked that up too since taking over DICE, but at least that's the only game of theirs I continue to buy. I may reach your level though, since BF4 is coming out this year when there is really nothing wrong with BF3 at all and I feel they should just continue adding expansions to that. Oh well:(
Been an avid Opera user for many years now, though I've gone away from it from-time-to-time, I always end up coming back.
The two huge features I'd like to see added are email encryption, and groups for speed dial. Once it gets Blink, I'd consider it the perfect browser! Currently, it's just "better than the rest":p
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Me too! And I'm running 8-stable :) Dual-booted with Windows 7 for when I must BF3.
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From what I read over @Ars, it was [keenly] leaked to a foreign journalist.
It's so funny how people toe the line with their political parties, despite the fact that each party has their faults and, in a lot of cases, do the exact same misdeeds. It's sad that the majority of people seem to never come to the realization that no matter who they vote for of the 2-party system, they get the same thing. As long as their focused on ancillary, unimportant issues, this may never change.
Wow, you've pretty much echoed (or perhaps, vice versa) my entire sentiment...kudos. The root exploit analogy is so awesome, lol!
And therein lies the problem, my good sir. How do you get those who enjoy being spoon-fed the horeshit that comes from mainstream media to realize the error of their ways without them first (a) losing interest, or (b) sticking their head in the dirt and singing "la la la" -- in either case losing them before you get them to think critically? We're basically fucked, b/c that won't happen. The vast majority is willing to give up rights, freedoms, etc. as long as they're protected from "turrists" and can go on living their pacified, infinitesimal lives.
It's a damn fucking shame too. But hey as long as they catch those terrorists and let me get back to my [insert sport here] and [insert mindless degrading reality show here], I'm all for it. If you have nothing to hide, what is to fear?
I recall this being due to an ancient impact that blasted away most the atmosphere, etc. I was watching some show (perhaps The Universe) that explained that there in fact lies a huge impact crater on most of the face of Mars that coincides with this theory. Just a quick Google gave me this link -- though I got my information from the aforementioned tv show and not the link.
In some^H^H^H^H a very limited number of cases...wine/crossover+luck. Sucks to be shackled to MS :/
Indeed. Have a server with Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL+Maia (kinda like a management GUI for spamassassin+clamav) that is doing great so far. Still keep my gmail account up for now until I can get everything updated to point to my new address. Kinda hard to let it go after having it for several years, just feels like I could be missing someone/something important.
"Oracle is holding back test cases in the latest release of MySQL....MySQL has used a testing framework called mysql-test since 1999. Over the years tests have been built for new features and regression tests that guarantee that a bug fix is permanent...It also appears that Oracle pulled the revision history for MySQL...By removing the revision history, Oracle will keep developers guessing about what is fixed and what is not...it appears that Oracle is making its revision tests and histories closed source..." Look at what they've done already. These are facts, not FUD.
Exactly. I built a not-all-that-expensive system back in 2009 that I'm still easily playing games with on high graphics settings. I'm just now getting that upgrade itch, but it's not entirely necessary even at this point. Though, I'm that type that I don't absolutely need the highest possible settings to enjoy the game.
It's amazing. Everytime we take a step forward we take 3 steps back.
On the contrary, the real reason marijuana is illegal is due to the huge benefits of hemp and relative cheapness/ease of growth. Corporate lobbying strikes again (or struck, back in the 1930's). Do some research if you're completely lost on what I'm referring to here (I'm sure the majority are).
zomg if I had mod points...
The FreeBSD folks, for example, don't think it particularly important that you can run it as a desktop OS at -all-, they'll actively discourage people from it if you visit that travesty of an IRC channel
This is just completely false. FreeBSD folks want you to be able to anything you want with their system. Customize it to fit your needs. If you want a pre-built system complete with desktop and plenty of hand-holding -- which is what most new users want -- that's when PC-BSD is suggested. Personally I use FreeBSD on the desktop and I love it (running KDE 4.10.1 atm). It's not really hard to get setup, though time-consuming as a lot of stuff needs to be built from source. But that's what FreeBSD is, and that shouldn't change.
...but really this just seems to be par for the course. In fact I'm thinking he's really just confirmed what we all knew deep down.
"It may make me a "sheeple" but I find that, by law of probability, I'm usually right about such things when I do it this way."
And you likely will always be "right" if that's your measure. After all, the one's in control of what you perceive as "evidence" aren't exactly forthcoming. Perhaps some critical thinking is in order? As an [albeit wayyyy arbitrary] example, recall geocentric theory? In any case, hopefully one is not basing his facts on evidence alone while keeping in mind the very evidence one seeks is _completely_ at the whim of those one would seek it from...hopefully.
I'm a little surprised the assuie public had the balls to stop it. Most Australians take whatever their politician tries to shoves up their ass (and for the few that don't like it, they get told they must hate the children or something).
Are you sure you didn't mean to s/Australians/Americans?
This is why Americans distrust the media, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
And yet the vast majority of Americans lap up the excrement that the mainstream media shits out every single day, without much question or critical thought. Lol @ that poll, and you for even using it.
Btw, I agree that FAR too many times race is brought into issues where it does not belong, and I'm African American myself. However, let's not pretend that race is NEVER an issue anymore, as if all racism ceased to exist @12am on 1/1/2000. That's just as dumb and short-sighted as any idiot who tries to bring race to the forefront of every issue.
It's truly a shame how these things happen, and how so many in the pacified populace fail to put two and two together.
Yup. I loved Arch for it's connection to the "Unix way" until they decided to force systemd on us and then basically silenced and/or censored all naysayers. Sure it's their distro, they can do what they like, however silencing dissenting opinions in that fashion just didn't sit right with me, even more so than the systemd decision imo. Rather than Slack, it's been FreeBSD for me, however. Always been a fan of it on servers, and these days it's been good enough for the desktop in my case. :)
And it's another reason to temporarily lock out an account from logging in, if there's too many wrong guesses at the password in a very short period of time. There might be a Wordpress plug-in for something like that, but I don't think it's in Wordpress's core, and it really should be in the core of any web system. It adds tons of security all by itself.
There are indeed plugins that do this. In fact, I was alerted to a few of my sites being bruteforced from a plugin that does just that. What really helps though, is having a .htpasswd enabled on the wp-admin directory -- I use a plugin for that as well ("AskApache Password Protect"), though admittedly it's not hard at all to implement without the plugin.
I was a Madden fan for over a decade. Finally in '09 I decided I'll no longer buy Madden games b/c it's the same BS every single freaking year, and I'd given them long enough to make me a believer. It's sad really. Unfortunately I'm an avid Battlefield fan -- even though they've fucked that up too since taking over DICE, but at least that's the only game of theirs I continue to buy. I may reach your level though, since BF4 is coming out this year when there is really nothing wrong with BF3 at all and I feel they should just continue adding expansions to that. Oh well :(
Been an avid Opera user for many years now, though I've gone away from it from-time-to-time, I always end up coming back. The two huge features I'd like to see added are email encryption, and groups for speed dial. Once it gets Blink, I'd consider it the perfect browser! Currently, it's just "better than the rest" :p