That's an interesting alternative to a filtering proxy server! The Religious Right ought to be interested in one that quotes from the New Testament.
BTW: Do they have a version that runs on Linux? I could install it on my kid's computers.:-)
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Yeah, I agree, it seems like the author is focusing on the few negative cases.
I think of the quasi-addiction that was mentioned as something to be conscious of, but I view it the same way I view illicit drugs (and legal ones, too) that you should know what the drug does, understand the dangers involved, and proceed accordingly.
Banning it is not the answer, however. This is why the war on drugs is a failure.
My wife doesn't like Mercedes because she doesn't like the tail lights. Telling her she is an idiot for liking other cars is not the way to get her to buy a Mercedes.
But what if someone were to say, tell her to buy a Landrover instead?:-)
A really cute gal at the Novell booth at LWE asked me to take off my free Red Hat hat and gave me a free OpenSUSE hat. How could I resist? A picture will be forthcoming.:-)
I worked on a project years and years ago where we had many retail stores installed with a network of cash registers tied to a server in the back room.
In the polling code on the server, there was a case in a switch statement which would never ever get executed. There was a comment for the case statement:
/* this should never happen*/
and the actual code for the case statement sent the following text to the registers: "IT HAPPENED".
The funny thing is, after a strange set of power fluctuations at one site, we got a support call where the guy on the other end said, "It says 'IT HAPPENED' on each of our registers."
I was never abusive when I got calls (I have to say "was" because I just don't get the calls anymore--finally a federal gov't program that actually works!:-)).
When called I would politely inform the telemarketer that I do not accept solicitation over the phone and would he/she kindly place my phone number on their "do not call" list.
I can't think of a time I didn't get a polite response, and a "certainly, sir," but often I got a sense of dissatisfaction on the other end. Sometimes the "certainly, sir" came begrudingly.
Just a note: Selling pirated games/software/music in my eyes is always wrong, because there is real money involved. But just copying from friends? I'm not convinced.
I agree. I'm not convinced either that it's evil and wrong.
As an artist http://dooglio.dmusic.com/, I would rather have people playing my songs, for example, than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.
As a software engineer http://vncselector.sf.net/, I'd also rather have people using my software than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.
Okay, so the above stuff is covered under the Creative Commons license and the GPL, respectively. But I feel the same way about my proprietary works [soon to be released].
Ask yourself something: If taxes are so easy to pass on to consumers, why do corporations spend so much money lobbying against them?
Because, it still costs money to comply with taxation. As you mentioned, there is a point where they can no longer pass the tax on and stay competitive. Hence the trend to move businesses overseas.
The income tax system is more regressive than a consumption-tax based system. Most of the tax people pay is hidden. Many people think corporations supplying goods (including food) pay tax, but they don't. They pass the tax onto the consumer. Basic economics, since companies view tax as a cost of doing business.
A consumption tax just makes the tax more visible.
On the other hand, if they screw up on whatever verification they put in (and they haven't exactly got a good track record on crypto implementations) then you've got virus heaven...
I bought a thin-client server for my chiropractor from Gateway, but ordered it with *no* operating system installed. Guess what? He's running Debian GNU/Linux.:-)
Meeting mobsters?! Oh man, I can imagine the initial contact.
Newel: "Mr. Mobsterini, would you do me a favor and meet with me so I can more acuratly portray a mobster in a movie?"
Mr. Mobsterini: "Sure! I'd be happy to interview with you and you can ask me anything you like. And one day, I'll might call you to ask you to do a favor for me in return."
I think the whole education push is a scam, anyway. It used to be that a Bachelors Degree was very well respected--I know a prof at UC Davis who is a full, tenured professor and who only has a Bachelors (not a PhD, which is universally required now).
Not only that, but there is the pervasive notion that you can't get a well paying job without a Bachelors these days. It used to be that a high school diploma was sufficient.
The slippery slope misperception says our education system sucks so we need four year degrees to patch up the holes. Soon a well paying job will require a Masters Degree.
Matloff points out that the universities profit from this sort of thinking. For example, students out of high school, fearing no work, flock to the universities to get a higher degree to get that "good paying job." This vastly increases enrollment and thus the schools get bigger and bigger budgets.
The whole reason why you have to reboot your computer is really a kludge to get around Microsoft's DLL file locking--that is, when a DLL is loaded in memory, the OS won't allow you to read, write or delete that DLL file.
I think the requirement to reboot is a sort of "catch all" just in case a required DLL is in memroy.
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Taxation is also legalized robbery.
BTW: Do they have a version that runs on Linux? I could install it on my kid's computers. :-)
I think of the quasi-addiction that was mentioned as something to be conscious of, but I view it the same way I view illicit drugs (and legal ones, too) that you should know what the drug does, understand the dangers involved, and proceed accordingly.
Banning it is not the answer, however. This is why the war on drugs is a failure.
Sorry, but I find this post to be offensive and downright rude. I can't understand why it was modded up +5 Insightful.
Oh well. It would have been more newsworthy that way, I think. :-)
Just the hat. I'm into [k]ubuntu these days. :-)
A really cute gal at the Novell booth at LWE asked me to take off my free Red Hat hat and gave me a free OpenSUSE hat. How could I resist? A picture will be forthcoming. :-)
In the polling code on the server, there was a case in a switch statement which would never ever get executed. There was a comment for the case statement:
/* this should never happen*/
and the actual code for the case statement sent the following text to the registers: "IT HAPPENED".
The funny thing is, after a strange set of power fluctuations at one site, we got a support call where the guy on the other end said, "It says 'IT HAPPENED' on each of our registers."
Well, we laughed about it anyway.
When called I would politely inform the telemarketer that I do not accept solicitation over the phone and would he/she kindly place my phone number on their "do not call" list.
I can't think of a time I didn't get a polite response, and a "certainly, sir," but often I got a sense of dissatisfaction on the other end. Sometimes the "certainly, sir" came begrudingly.
As an artist http://dooglio.dmusic.com/, I would rather have people playing my songs, for example, than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.
As a software engineer http://vncselector.sf.net/, I'd also rather have people using my software than not because they couldn't afford it or whatever.
Okay, so the above stuff is covered under the Creative Commons license and the GPL, respectively. But I feel the same way about my proprietary works [soon to be released].
Okay, I feel like a noob, but what is the "Grabber" column for?
A consumption tax just makes the tax more visible.
And a spyware haven too, I imagine.
According to VitalSecurity.org, Bittorrent is on its way to serving up spyware itself, so I wonder if viruses wouldn't be far behind. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/16/15 58229
I agree. I've been using it for years. I love the email feature.
I guess I'm understanding why even Microsoft is asking for software patent reform: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 11/1216222&tid=109&tid=155&tid=123&tid=219
I bought a thin-client server for my chiropractor from Gateway, but ordered it with *no* operating system installed. Guess what? He's running Debian GNU/Linux. :-)
Screw Enterprise. I learned all about wormholes from John Crighton on Farscape. :-)
I wonder what Gandalf...er, uh, I mean Dumbledor would say to that.
Newel: "Mr. Mobsterini, would you do me a favor and meet with me so I can more acuratly portray a mobster in a movie?"
Mr. Mobsterini: "Sure! I'd be happy to interview with you and you can ask me anything you like. And one day, I'll might call you to ask you to do a favor for me in return."
Not only that, but there is the pervasive notion that you can't get a well paying job without a Bachelors these days. It used to be that a high school diploma was sufficient.
The slippery slope misperception says our education system sucks so we need four year degrees to patch up the holes. Soon a well paying job will require a Masters Degree.
Matloff points out that the universities profit from this sort of thinking. For example, students out of high school, fearing no work, flock to the universities to get a higher degree to get that "good paying job." This vastly increases enrollment and thus the schools get bigger and bigger budgets.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, I always say.
I think the requirement to reboot is a sort of "catch all" just in case a required DLL is in memroy.
For your car, there is no elect_sys module because the car company refuses to release their hardware spec to the oss community...