Storm Linux. www.stormix.com. All the nice features of Debian, with almost all of the sharp edges smoothed off. KDE is the default window manager, although you have the option of about 12 different ones. Highly recommended.
Go for it. VA Linux has a couple of under-employed lawyers for just such contingencies.
Really, don't sweat it. The guy's obviously a low-grade scammer. He's only dangerous if he has your credit card number, other than that, he isn't going to make trouble for anyone.
I just beat my Webgear card into submission (yesterday) so I could dual-boot my laptop. It wasn't easy. There is a lot of information out there, howto's, drivers, etc., and I'm a little reluctant to even post links since two seconds of searching will find them for you. Start with the latest version of pcmcia-cs and you shouldn't have many problems.
What I would ask is this: what's the _cheapest_ supported card? A year or so ago, I bought 2Mbit wireless cards from Webgear at $140 per set of two cards. Recently, I don't think I've seen any wireless LAN cards much under $150 for one card. Admittedly, they're 11Mbit cards now, but still... it seems like they should be cheaper than they are. Probably I'm just not looking hard enough.
And while I'm at it, does anyone make a cheap access point? I have an ad-hoc network that works well enough, but I keep wondering if I should get a real access point - and then I keep seeing the extreme price tags on those devices, and shaking my head.
If the privacy policy given to said customers forbade selling on their email addresses, then that couldn't happen (unless IBM broke the law) - and that's partly what a privacy officer's job is: ensure that any services which hold data on people have a well-defined privacy policy. It's up to the customer whether or not an individual privacy policy is to their satisfaction; but anything done with the data within those boundaries is fair game.
The problem is, that isn't true. It's doubtful whether a stated privacy policy actually creates any sort of contract between the company and customer; and there aren't any other legal obligations whatsoever. So a company can simply change their policies to ones that are much less favorable to the customer, and the customer has somewhere between zero and very little recourse. We've seen this numerous times - a half dozen of TrustE's customers have been caught blatantly violating their privacy policies and none of them have suffered any consequences whatsoever. At worst, it's a sort of "unfair business practice", for which there's little enforcement in the United States.
You didn't look at the high-res version of the British bibles - they have thumbnails, low-res, and if you click the low-res versions, high-res, which is quite similar to the German images.
I routinely browse from a static IP with a working reverse DNS entry, and I've noticed that browsing some websites generates a storm of NetBIOS connection attempts (which are logged by my firewall). So, the answer above may be good, but it's incomplete: in at least some cases, NetBIOS requests can be generated for IPs which have perfectly good reverse DNS entries. Why?
Re:Oh, that explains it...
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A sysadmin in New Zealand emailed and said that all of the Akamai downloads were coming from their Akamai servers... It seemed pretty rude to have a zillion people in the U.S. sucking data from New Zealand.
Now, the question of why Akamai's network gave me a link to a New Zealand server when I first looked at the trailer from New York City, well, that's one for another day. Obviously Akamai's system for picking servers "near" to people needs a little work. --
Unfortunately, you're basing all of those assertions about what Gore did on statements made by the Republican party - in fact, you're copy-and-pasting them from an email circulated by the GOP, which I've seen making the rounds. Unfortunately, the GOP has made up those straw men out of whole cloth.
I don't really feel like rebutting this crap right now, but I think you'll find that if you investigate, everywhere you've tagged Gore with some "Fiction", the real story is that Gore told an absolutely truthful statement, which the GOP has tried to turn into a lie.
Don't take my word for it - investigate. Read the actual incidents. You'll find that all of those attacks on Gore are nothing but GOP propaganda.
It's the hard drive. The Vaio picturebooks and 505's have drives that are 8mm thick, and they tend to fail, at least the earlier ones did. If/when the drive fails, it's easy to get a replacement nowadays though, so don't worry about it too much. (Except to backup your data, and if it seems as if the drive is going bad, don't ignore the warning signs.) --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Each candidate must qualify to be on the ballot for each state. Depending on your state, the minor-party candidates may or may not have qualified. I don't know how Robin chose the candidates to direct questions to; presumably the ones that seemed to have any sort of national organization behind them and thus would be on the ballot in a reasonable number of states. If Robin excluded someone you think should be questioned, send him some email. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Who said the arcade doesn't have the right to refuse service? This isn't about the arcade having the right, it's about a city law forcing them to. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Story doesn't have anything to do with buying anything. Read, then comment.
If I posted a story as ignorant as most of the comments on this story, I'd be flamed unmercifully. Should I be nasty to all the people who posted without reading?
(Prediction: this posting will attract 2-3 nasty posts from anonymous cowards.) --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Well, since the article doesn't have anything to do with purchasing video games, I'm just watching a bunch of people shoot their mouths off without reading. It's kind of funny, actually. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Actually the problem is that neither you, nor most of the other posters, have actually read the article. Hint: it doesn't have anything to do with buying video games. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
It's a subject of continuing interest. Legislation was just passed. It isn't going to go away.
I suppose every story you read about the RIP bill after the very first one was a repeat too? No? It was something that actually concerned you, and you wanted as much information as possible? Well, then. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Eh, it's just that people have been submitting it for the past two weeks. "Just wanted to remind you that in two weeks StarOffice is going to be released." Okay, so?
Crotchety Michael, at your service. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
I would like to see Slashdot invite the SDMI crackers for an interview, so that we can get an insight into their ethical framework, and why they chose to save the recording industry's lunch.
Probably the answer is entirely simple: it was a challenge. But hey, we'll try. ATTENTION SDMI HACKERS: If you were one of the people responsible for breaking the SDMI watermarks and you want to be interviewed, please get in touch with Slashdot. Thanks. --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
It is a courtesy in the academic world not to quote from a work labeled as a draft. The process of peer review often finds significant errors or changes that need to be made in a work prior to final publication, and thus it is better for all concerned that those not be disseminated.
I'm not sure what that's an example of. At the page linked, they have a situation where a slight plurality prefers milk, and a majority prefers one of two alcoholic beverages, with their vote split between the two. Under the instant run-off, one of the alcoholic beverages wins rather than the milk. So? That's a not a paradox, that's the system working properly!
A clearer example: let's say that there are two liberal candidates and one conservative candidate in an election. And let's say that the population is 60% liberal and 40% conservative. The "correct" result with a 60/40 population is that they should elect a liberal candidate to represent them, right? Well, with the U.S.'s current system, they might get a conservative: vote ends up 30%/30%/40%, and the conservative wins. Under the instant run-off, they'll get one of the liberal candidates, the "correct" choice - in other words they aren't penalized for having more than one candidate, and they can express a preference between the two without fear.
Okay, so I'm responding to an AC who posted a slobbering adultation of one of slashdot's resident trolls over a commonly known piece of online poetry. I have definitely sunk to a new low here... --
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, those script kiddies would never have found
www.undernet.org
That's a tough one, real inconspicuous.
It embarasses me that someone moderated your post up. It isn't even funny.
Not if you're running linux it isn't. Not unless friends routinely beat you up and leave you for dead, like apmd and apci do.
Um, if you're a logged-in user, you can. And have been able to for at least two years.
Storm Linux. www.stormix.com. All the nice features of Debian, with almost all of the sharp edges smoothed off. KDE is the default window manager, although you have the option of about 12 different ones. Highly recommended.
Go for it. VA Linux has a couple of under-employed lawyers for just such contingencies.
Really, don't sweat it. The guy's obviously a low-grade scammer. He's only dangerous if he has your credit card number, other than that, he isn't going to make trouble for anyone.
I just beat my Webgear card into submission (yesterday) so I could dual-boot my laptop. It wasn't easy. There is a lot of information out there, howto's, drivers, etc., and I'm a little reluctant to even post links since two seconds of searching will find them for you. Start with the latest version of pcmcia-cs and you shouldn't have many problems.
What I would ask is this: what's the _cheapest_ supported card? A year or so ago, I bought 2Mbit wireless cards from Webgear at $140 per set of two cards. Recently, I don't think I've seen any wireless LAN cards much under $150 for one card. Admittedly, they're 11Mbit cards now, but still... it seems like they should be cheaper than they are. Probably I'm just not looking hard enough.
And while I'm at it, does anyone make a cheap access point? I have an ad-hoc network that works well enough, but I keep wondering if I should get a real access point - and then I keep seeing the extreme price tags on those devices, and shaking my head.
If the privacy policy given to said customers forbade selling on their email addresses, then that couldn't happen (unless IBM broke the law) - and that's partly what a privacy officer's job is: ensure that any services which hold data on people have a well-defined privacy policy. It's up to the customer whether or not an individual privacy policy is to their satisfaction; but anything done with the data within those boundaries is fair game.
The problem is, that isn't true. It's doubtful whether a stated privacy policy actually creates any sort of contract between the company and customer; and there aren't any other legal obligations whatsoever. So a company can simply change their policies to ones that are much less favorable to the customer, and the customer has somewhere between zero and very little recourse. We've seen this numerous times - a half dozen of TrustE's customers have been caught blatantly violating their privacy policies and none of them have suffered any consequences whatsoever. At worst, it's a sort of "unfair business practice", for which there's little enforcement in the United States.
You didn't look at the high-res version of the British bibles - they have thumbnails, low-res, and if you click the low-res versions, high-res, which is quite similar to the German images.
I routinely browse from a static IP with a working reverse DNS entry, and I've noticed that browsing some websites generates a storm of NetBIOS connection attempts (which are logged by my firewall). So, the answer above may be good, but it's incomplete: in at least some cases, NetBIOS requests can be generated for IPs which have perfectly good reverse DNS entries. Why?
God will forgive you.
A sysadmin in New Zealand emailed and said that all of the Akamai downloads were coming from their Akamai servers... It seemed pretty rude to have a zillion people in the U.S. sucking data from New Zealand.
Now, the question of why Akamai's network gave me a link to a New Zealand server when I first looked at the trailer from New York City, well, that's one for another day. Obviously Akamai's system for picking servers "near" to people needs a little work.
--
As soon as the election is over... as soon as the election is over...
--
Unfortunately, you're basing all of those assertions about what Gore did on statements made by the Republican party - in fact, you're copy-and-pasting them from an email circulated by the GOP, which I've seen making the rounds. Unfortunately, the GOP has made up those straw men out of whole cloth.
I don't really feel like rebutting this crap right now, but I think you'll find that if you investigate, everywhere you've tagged Gore with some "Fiction", the real story is that Gore told an absolutely truthful statement, which the GOP has tried to turn into a lie.
Don't take my word for it - investigate. Read the actual incidents. You'll find that all of those attacks on Gore are nothing but GOP propaganda.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
It's the hard drive. The Vaio picturebooks and 505's have drives that are 8mm thick, and they tend to fail, at least the earlier ones did. If/when the drive fails, it's easy to get a replacement nowadays though, so don't worry about it too much. (Except to backup your data, and if it seems as if the drive is going bad, don't ignore the warning signs.)
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Each candidate must qualify to be on the ballot for each state. Depending on your state, the minor-party candidates may or may not have qualified. I don't know how Robin chose the candidates to direct questions to; presumably the ones that seemed to have any sort of national organization behind them and thus would be on the ballot in a reasonable number of states. If Robin excluded someone you think should be questioned, send him some email.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Who said the arcade doesn't have the right to refuse service? This isn't about the arcade having the right, it's about a city law forcing them to.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Story doesn't have anything to do with buying anything. Read, then comment.
If I posted a story as ignorant as most of the comments on this story, I'd be flamed unmercifully. Should I be nasty to all the people who posted without reading?
(Prediction: this posting will attract 2-3 nasty posts from anonymous cowards.)
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Well, since the article doesn't have anything to do with purchasing video games, I'm just watching a bunch of people shoot their mouths off without reading. It's kind of funny, actually.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Actually the problem is that neither you, nor most of the other posters, have actually read the article. Hint: it doesn't have anything to do with buying video games.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
It's a subject of continuing interest. Legislation was just passed. It isn't going to go away.
I suppose every story you read about the RIP bill after the very first one was a repeat too? No? It was something that actually concerned you, and you wanted as much information as possible? Well, then.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
Eh, it's just that people have been submitting it for the past two weeks. "Just wanted to remind you that in two weeks StarOffice is going to be released." Okay, so?
Crotchety Michael, at your service.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
I would like to see Slashdot invite the SDMI crackers for an interview, so that we can get an insight into their ethical framework, and why they chose to save the recording industry's lunch.
Probably the answer is entirely simple: it was a challenge. But hey, we'll try. ATTENTION SDMI HACKERS: If you were one of the people responsible for breaking the SDMI watermarks and you want to be interviewed, please get in touch with Slashdot. Thanks.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
It is a courtesy in the academic world not to quote from a work labeled as a draft. The process of peer review often finds significant errors or changes that need to be made in a work prior to final publication, and thus it is better for all concerned that those not be disseminated.
All Froomkin is asking for is that courtesy.
--
Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
I'm not sure what that's an example of. At the page linked, they have a situation where a slight plurality prefers milk, and a majority prefers one of two alcoholic beverages, with their vote split between the two. Under the instant run-off, one of the alcoholic beverages wins rather than the milk. So? That's a not a paradox, that's the system working properly!
A clearer example: let's say that there are two liberal candidates and one conservative candidate in an election. And let's say that the population is 60% liberal and 40% conservative. The "correct" result with a 60/40 population is that they should elect a liberal candidate to represent them, right? Well, with the U.S.'s current system, they might get a conservative: vote ends up 30%/30%/40%, and the conservative wins. Under the instant run-off, they'll get one of the liberal candidates, the "correct" choice - in other words they aren't penalized for having more than one candidate, and they can express a preference between the two without fear.
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Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org
You probably thinking of this:
l
http://web.shorty.com/geeks/96/dec/msg00005.htm
(first link that came up, there are many more)
Okay, so I'm responding to an AC who posted a slobbering adultation of one of slashdot's resident trolls over a commonly known piece of online poetry. I have definitely sunk to a new low here...
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Michael Sims-michael at slashdot.org