Dude totally predicted that 1999 was going to be the last year to party.
2000 was the year of the crash, and the internet has been going downhill ever since.
Soon you'll be prompted by a popup to enter your email address for free information on anti-virus scams every time you type a character into your/. edit box.
Where were you when Carly and your boy Craig were agitating to move jobs offshore at the beginning of this millennium?
You didn't say a fucking WORD when Bush cut the outsourcing tax to let them do it.
You'd better start campaigning against those people, because now that they've ruined their companies and our economy, they're running for public office.
A web browser needs an internet-connection library, a display library, and a parser library for the data between them.
If you put that into your OS, other application developers may suddenly decide they want to use the internet library and some of the parser library, instead of whatever libraries the OS used to have, or whatever code they were planning to implement themselves.
Now someone says "we order you to remove the web browser from the OS."
You say "that is impossible. Parts of the web browser now serve as parts of the OS."
The only thing you can remove is the browser executable itself, which in the extreme case is just a call with particular arguments to a function in a library you can't remove. So you remove the browser executable and convince the issuers of the order that you have done their bidding.
Democrats are actually trying to provide a government, while Republicans are using the imprimatur of government as a means to funnel funds from the treasury to corporations.
Like I said. Anyone who doesn't see that is not paying any fucking attention.
The correct rule is to protect the password at the same level of security as the data you access with that password.
So, writing down a password on a post-it on your desk is not appropriate if you wouldn't do the same with the most sensitive item of data on your computer or network.
Similarly, if you have a sensitive network and a not-so-sensitive network, writing your sensitive-network password into a file stored on your not-so-sensitive network is a bad thing. This includes putting it in an encrypted file on that not-so-sensitive network.
Come on. "America Speaking Out" is not about getting wisdom from people, any more than the White House's solicitation of ideas for the oil spill was. It's about allowing people to feel like they have a voice.
As, these days, are elections.
With a few well-placed Supreme Court decisions recently, America has been turned from a democracy to a plutocracy. But, like the Church, the true rulers will hide behind the trappings of a cult (religion, patriotism, entertainment, opportunity; pick one or more) the true purpose of their decisions, and will allow the "government" to appear to be in charge.
But they aren't, and you aren't really choosing them. Not any more.
I do have ONE regret about my switch: a unified mailbox. There's probably one in the android market...hmmm brb!
Unified mailbox? The email on my Nexus One is my gmail account. Came that way out of the box. I can get to it from my phone or my computer seamlessly. I presume POP3 clients are available for any flavor of Android.
Or do you mean a combined email and voicemail box?
Because "wire up your own infrastructure" requires ripping up the streets, blocking traffic, entering on and using public property (and public easements on private property) to hold your wires, etc.
Local jurisdictions go the "public utility" route to make the net cost to the public low. Having several companies doing the same infrastructure installation would have an economic cost far larger than the economic benefit of direct competition.
To compensate for the lack of competition, the local jurisdiction contracts with the "utility" to provide the services at less than the true monopolistic price.
Of course, this entire system is wide open to corruption of all kinds, including allowing the "utility" to make a few extra shekels off the private subscriber in return for providing "free" service - that essentially costs them nothing - to public subscribers (i.e, government entities like schools).
So it's not perfect, and it's easy to find the flaws, but overall it comes out somewhat cheaper to let one cable company own a city or a county than to let four of them dig up the pavement over and over again.
The trick to keeping it that way is to elect competent, credible, conscientious members to the corporation commission or whatever body regulates the utilities in your 'hood. But of course "election" means "graft", so guess who the CC members really answer to? Hint: it's not you, unless you agitate and vote.
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Dude totally predicted that 1999 was going to be the last year to party.
2000 was the year of the crash, and the internet has been going downhill ever since.
Soon you'll be prompted by a popup to enter your email address for free information on anti-virus scams every time you type a character into your /. edit box.
And your tweets will be taxed.
How dumb do you have to be to be beaten to a pulp and have your emptied wallet thrown down onto your face?
A crime is a crime.
Holy fuck, Andy.
Where were you when Carly and your boy Craig were agitating to move jobs offshore at the beginning of this millennium?
You didn't say a fucking WORD when Bush cut the outsourcing tax to let them do it.
You'd better start campaigning against those people, because now that they've ruined their companies and our economy, they're running for public office.
A web browser needs an internet-connection library, a display library, and a parser library for the data between them.
If you put that into your OS, other application developers may suddenly decide they want to use the internet library and some of the parser library, instead of whatever libraries the OS used to have, or whatever code they were planning to implement themselves.
Now someone says "we order you to remove the web browser from the OS."
You say "that is impossible. Parts of the web browser now serve as parts of the OS."
The only thing you can remove is the browser executable itself, which in the extreme case is just a call with particular arguments to a function in a library you can't remove. So you remove the browser executable and convince the issuers of the order that you have done their bidding.
0.05% of the atoms in my body are replaced by water I drank at the scene of a crime, and the CSIs think they're going to ignore the other 99.95%?
There is such a thing as contempt of court, you know.
Annoy people by leaving it unsecured, but not connected to the Internet.
Mine's like that by default. Thanks, Cox, for sucking in a way that makes me look sardonic.
are you the keymaster?
it is truly sad that you are truly sad.
the moderators identified a nutjob and acted properly.
Such a request would border on extortion.
Pretty useless.
"Did I put the 4 first or the 7? and what the fuck was between years and ago?"
Guaranteed to forget the details in 2.4 months.
Kerry didn't write a fucking word of it.
It was a PNAC product sitting in Ted Olson's desk drawer, and the day 9/11 hit he dusted it off and the GOP ran with it.
Democrats are actually trying to provide a government, while Republicans are using the imprimatur of government as a means to funnel funds from the treasury to corporations.
Like I said. Anyone who doesn't see that is not paying any fucking attention.
This is mine:
"There's nothing more useless than a passphrase based on a quote."
(One Quotation-Dictionary Attack Later)
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
I don't doubt it. The FBI ain't all n00bs, and no doubt can pull up the keylogger logs for the computers of any number of bad-actors.
The correct rule is to protect the password at the same level of security as the data you access with that password.
So, writing down a password on a post-it on your desk is not appropriate if you wouldn't do the same with the most sensitive item of data on your computer or network.
Similarly, if you have a sensitive network and a not-so-sensitive network, writing your sensitive-network password into a file stored on your not-so-sensitive network is a bad thing. This includes putting it in an encrypted file on that not-so-sensitive network.
The Internet would be like that today, if the FCC had owned it from the start.
And it would be about as popular as Ham Radio.
Anyone who says the two major parties are the same isn't sentient.
I think we should make a law mandating that people wear fMRI hats when out in public.
I'd agree, but I only read articles modded to 5, so I missed yours.
Come on. "America Speaking Out" is not about getting wisdom from people, any more than the White House's solicitation of ideas for the oil spill was. It's about allowing people to feel like they have a voice.
As, these days, are elections.
With a few well-placed Supreme Court decisions recently, America has been turned from a democracy to a plutocracy. But, like the Church, the true rulers will hide behind the trappings of a cult (religion, patriotism, entertainment, opportunity; pick one or more) the true purpose of their decisions, and will allow the "government" to appear to be in charge.
But they aren't, and you aren't really choosing them. Not any more.
I don't think they were calling it that, then.
I do have ONE regret about my switch: a unified mailbox. There's probably one in the android market...hmmm brb!
Unified mailbox? The email on my Nexus One is my gmail account. Came that way out of the box. I can get to it from my phone or my computer seamlessly. I presume POP3 clients are available for any flavor of Android.
Or do you mean a combined email and voicemail box?
Because "wire up your own infrastructure" requires ripping up the streets, blocking traffic, entering on and using public property (and public easements on private property) to hold your wires, etc.
Local jurisdictions go the "public utility" route to make the net cost to the public low. Having several companies doing the same infrastructure installation would have an economic cost far larger than the economic benefit of direct competition.
To compensate for the lack of competition, the local jurisdiction contracts with the "utility" to provide the services at less than the true monopolistic price.
Of course, this entire system is wide open to corruption of all kinds, including allowing the "utility" to make a few extra shekels off the private subscriber in return for providing "free" service - that essentially costs them nothing - to public subscribers (i.e, government entities like schools).
So it's not perfect, and it's easy to find the flaws, but overall it comes out somewhat cheaper to let one cable company own a city or a county than to let four of them dig up the pavement over and over again.
The trick to keeping it that way is to elect competent, credible, conscientious members to the corporation commission or whatever body regulates the utilities in your 'hood. But of course "election" means "graft", so guess who the CC members really answer to? Hint: it's not you, unless you agitate and vote.
All we need now is a law that makes blatant lying illegal and we'll be set.
I for one welcome our new Chinese overl...