Probably because Prodigy was never connected to the internet while it was a viable BBS, and CompuServe opened access to the stupid the right way: 25 cents per email. I'm not saying all users should pay more for email, just stupid ones.
With the exception that spam doesn't come from spammers, it comes from millions of innocent zombie machines sending them out.
Good. Fuck 'em. They're part of the problem.
If they can't secure machines under their control, and they insist on connecting it to the network, they deserve whatever consequences they get. And if a law like this eventually gets people who refuse to patch out of society, more power to it!
Then general idea of networking... not arcane TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS stuff... just the idea that other computers can be accessed by your computer and vice versa
...Comcast, Cox and AT&T illegally collude against this new startup, making over $6 billion in new service requests, then refusing to pay, forcing them out of business. Enron will collapse, causing the FTC to backburner the collusion case past it's term of limitation, dropping the case. Comcast, Cox and AT&T divy up the prebuilt network for pennies on the dollar, pocket the difference, then raise rates claiming expanded service...
Didn't they say that about 2000? And before that, didn't they say that about NT? Does it really take more than 20 years and 7 major versions to fix a broken model? Ouch.
The problem with not running as Administrator constantly for most Windows users is they value their own laziness over security. As if the security flaws in the Windows codebase itself weren't bad enough, it also has to compound the problem by encouraging everyone to run as Administrator by 1) making it the default and 2) not providing "Run as user..." in places you might realistically need to run as root, such as control panels instead of the current situation of only arbitrary binaries getting that option...
Let's make radio programs with the world's best audio equipment (micro-powered radios with shitty microphones trying to carry analog data over a digital signal) and expect people to understand what they're saying!
CB radios with bad antennas on noisy channels get better sound quality than mobile phones. This is useless...
BZZT! Wrong! GTalk=Jabber - vCard support. Google's lack of user directory is what's preventing them from joining the IM Federation right now. Jabber has voice support, it's called Jingle. Google contributed it to the XMPP standard.
Covering the entire surface of the United States with shit eating algae sounds like a step in the right direction... can we start in Washington?
Why? California has much more space and a climate far more condusive to growing spineless scumsuckers. Problems only arose when we started letting 32 million of these lower life forms in California vote on federal politics...
I did, but I live in Oregon and abolished the voting booth in 2000; all elections are by mail. The rest of the country voted for Bush a week before all the votes got delivered back to elections to be counted. Sure, we were 49th to certify in the last two presidential elections, but we get six weeks to vote instead of 8 hours. The rest of y'all need to slow down, take your time to get it right, and at least give people a week to vote. And abolish the damn voting booth, take the ballot to the voter. On Election Day, open up polling places (read: people from the elections division with a locked ballot box in places like the town squares and intersections, courthouses, etc) so people can drop off their double-enveloped ballot if they don't want to spend the stamps to mail them) for the non-mailers and the buzzer-beaters. If your DMV doesn't, maybe they should start asking if you would like to be registered to vote with your renewal today. We started setting record high voter turnouts after we brought the system to the people.
They're introducing file system functionality for added security and being ripped apart for it by the same people that scream at them for their lack of security focus?
Are you just generalizing because this is slashdot or are you checking people's posting histories to see what side they're on and finding a correlation?
Apparently I needed to idiot-caption my previous comment for the humor impaired, but since you went there, duh, it's Americentric, but so is Slashdot in general; please understand it's audience. And yes, there were previous examples of breakdowns, but none as extreme as the last decade since the neoconservatives started their mission from GodReagan starting with trying to impeach Clinton over a blowjob on to rigging two elections and looking the other way while fuel supply remains steady but pump prices and oil profits go up. The current administration's overspending doesn't hold a flame to Reagan's, it blows it out of the water entirely: It's borrowed more money than every administration up to it combined, and has the worst approval rating in American history. We're involved in two wars, one of which started on false pretenses by just about everyone's perspective, and preparing for a nuclear strike on Iran because they want to trade oil in Euros instead of USD. All this while the Dollar is going down the toilet against almost every other first-world currency and industry continues to move out of the US.
Get over yourself. If the US survives this decade, it's going to take the better part of a century or longer to undo the damage caused by our traitor-in-chief's campaign of diplomatic and economic harm against the US.
Personally, I wish that most dev's would get off their high horse and offer statically linked binaries in an installer (OO.o and Forefox do so it must not be the end of us all for doing it) to make life easy for everyone... but simply suggesting it here will get me modded -10 flamed and toasted.
Then you'll be complaining of bloat and high swappiness from having the same duplicate stuff open every time you use another process that uses the same library you have statically linked. And you lose all the benefits of package management and get stuck with the stone-age, wannabe-package-management "Add/Remove Programs" control panel type situation that helps nobody.
"I want to learn Linux so I can do desktop stuff" tells me that somebody hasn't even really tried to figure things out on their own.
Aunt Tillie speaks English, we speak Geek. When Aunt Tillie says "I want to learn Linux so I can do desktop stuff," I can probably already surmise that this person 1) knows what Linux is in at least some sense, 2) knows it's free but different, and 3) wants to get started on something better. This puts a good advocate with some patience Note this doesn't preclude you from telling someone to RTFM if you're polite about it and point out the right spot in the correct FM: Give a man a fish, he won't go hungry tonight. Teach a man to fish, and he won't go hungry until the fishery dies off. It also doesn't preclude you from asking clarifying questions.
This thread reminds me that everybody interested in the OS discussion should familiarize themselves with the Advocacy HOWTO.
I read through and a lot of what he was describing sounded like listening to the anonymous cowards on here.
Even funnier, if you replace "Linux" with "Windows" in that article and vice versa, it's even more true. Except half the time, the Windows zealot in question is on the other end of a long distance phone call you're paying for...
That's all fine and good, but what I really want to do is go to meatspace.google.com and type in "Kia Sportage keys" to get white balloons floating over and pointing out keys that go to a Kia Sportage within an N meter spherical radius. Bonus points if the search algorithm doesn't involve a midget that lives under the porch, rifling through everything while you're not looking. When will this happen?
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Heh, telling your users why something is phoning home is not the time to read from the BoFH callendar...
Ho hum. Caeser ciphers aren't new or ingenious...
Probably because Prodigy was never connected to the internet while it was a viable BBS, and CompuServe opened access to the stupid the right way: 25 cents per email. I'm not saying all users should pay more for email, just stupid ones.
Good. Fuck 'em. They're part of the problem.
If they can't secure machines under their control, and they insist on connecting it to the network, they deserve whatever consequences they get. And if a law like this eventually gets people who refuse to patch out of society, more power to it!
You're forgetting massive biggie: RFC-1855 (Netiquette guidelines), why your email and news readers put the cursor before quoted text, and why you should think critically before using Earthlink's anti-spam. God knows September needs to end already.
...Comcast, Cox and AT&T illegally collude against this new startup, making over $6 billion in new service requests, then refusing to pay, forcing them out of business. Enron will collapse, causing the FTC to backburner the collusion case past it's term of limitation, dropping the case. Comcast, Cox and AT&T divy up the prebuilt network for pennies on the dollar, pocket the difference, then raise rates claiming expanded service...
Didn't they say that about 2000? And before that, didn't they say that about NT? Does it really take more than 20 years and 7 major versions to fix a broken model? Ouch.
The problem with not running as Administrator constantly for most Windows users is they value their own laziness over security. As if the security flaws in the Windows codebase itself weren't bad enough, it also has to compound the problem by encouraging everyone to run as Administrator by 1) making it the default and 2) not providing "Run as user..." in places you might realistically need to run as root, such as control panels instead of the current situation of only arbitrary binaries getting that option...
CB radios with bad antennas on noisy channels get better sound quality than mobile phones. This is useless...
No. BSD/Linux is dying. *duck*
Both. You'd have to be some sort of retard to ignore the standard or ignore how it's rendered.
Yes, and so was I. Jabber has VOIP functionality as part of the standard. It's called Jingle. Read the fucking JEP.
BZZT! Wrong! GTalk=Jabber - vCard support. Google's lack of user directory is what's preventing them from joining the IM Federation right now. Jabber has voice support, it's called Jingle. Google contributed it to the XMPP standard.
Why? California has much more space and a climate far more condusive to growing spineless scumsuckers. Problems only arose when we started letting 32 million of these lower life forms in California vote on federal politics...
I want photographic evidence of such a warning...that's too funny to be true
I did, but I live in Oregon and abolished the voting booth in 2000; all elections are by mail. The rest of the country voted for Bush a week before all the votes got delivered back to elections to be counted. Sure, we were 49th to certify in the last two presidential elections, but we get six weeks to vote instead of 8 hours. The rest of y'all need to slow down, take your time to get it right, and at least give people a week to vote. And abolish the damn voting booth, take the ballot to the voter. On Election Day, open up polling places (read: people from the elections division with a locked ballot box in places like the town squares and intersections, courthouses, etc) so people can drop off their double-enveloped ballot if they don't want to spend the stamps to mail them) for the non-mailers and the buzzer-beaters. If your DMV doesn't, maybe they should start asking if you would like to be registered to vote with your renewal today. We started setting record high voter turnouts after we brought the system to the people.
Are you just generalizing because this is slashdot or are you checking people's posting histories to see what side they're on and finding a correlation?
Get over yourself. If the US survives this decade, it's going to take the better part of a century or longer to undo the damage caused by our traitor-in-chief's campaign of diplomatic and economic harm against the US.
1776-1999. Things kind of broke down after that.
Yes. This was apparent from the time Comcast bought TechTV from Ziff-Davis Publishing. The network was much better under ZD's control...
Then you'll be complaining of bloat and high swappiness from having the same duplicate stuff open every time you use another process that uses the same library you have statically linked. And you lose all the benefits of package management and get stuck with the stone-age, wannabe-package-management "Add/Remove Programs" control panel type situation that helps nobody.
Aunt Tillie speaks English, we speak Geek. When Aunt Tillie says "I want to learn Linux so I can do desktop stuff," I can probably already surmise that this person 1) knows what Linux is in at least some sense, 2) knows it's free but different, and 3) wants to get started on something better. This puts a good advocate with some patience Note this doesn't preclude you from telling someone to RTFM if you're polite about it and point out the right spot in the correct FM: Give a man a fish, he won't go hungry tonight. Teach a man to fish, and he won't go hungry until the fishery dies off. It also doesn't preclude you from asking clarifying questions.
This thread reminds me that everybody interested in the OS discussion should familiarize themselves with the Advocacy HOWTO.
Neither does anybody else, which is why people get testy when you ask a question of humans that would be more readily answered with Google.
Even funnier, if you replace "Linux" with "Windows" in that article and vice versa, it's even more true. Except half the time, the Windows zealot in question is on the other end of a long distance phone call you're paying for...
That's all fine and good, but what I really want to do is go to meatspace.google.com and type in "Kia Sportage keys" to get white balloons floating over and pointing out keys that go to a Kia Sportage within an N meter spherical radius. Bonus points if the search algorithm doesn't involve a midget that lives under the porch, rifling through everything while you're not looking. When will this happen?