For the most part, I agree with the last AC. Not a bad troll at all, a good effort. If you could punch up the whiny-ness a bit, include a couple of links to examples of "good stuff" that/. "used to post" then you'd be in A territory.
Good show. I particularly liked the part " (although personally I think FreeBSD kicks ass all over it)" - it was a nice aside that will surely raise throbbing temples and may branch off into a small flame war in the thread.
Yeah, I think running as root out of the box is kinda Nimrod. However, how many newbies are going to get frustrated trying to do something simple like reset the system clock or install a printer? "What's this root thing it keeps bitching about?"
Shrug. You have to ask yourself how many newbies (and the allegedly experienced) are surfing/. as root right now?
Too stupid not to cc everyone in your company (or your competition) with your trade secrets? No problem, the next iteration of MS Office will protect you...
Double jeopardy is possible in the United States. If you're accused of a crime and prosecuted under state law in the state you reside, then acquitted, you can be tried again for the same crime by the feds.
e.g. You're prosecute for LS XYZ in Louisiana, then acquitted, you can then be prosecuted under US ABC in federal court. So yeah, you can experience double jeopardy in the good ole US of A.
Man, when I played Army we didn't have this cool stuff. Sure, I got to blow shit up and that was a lot of fun. We had MREs, but that was before they started putting M&Ms and tabasco sauce in them. Patches? Hmmm, I'll hang on to 'em, but I'd rather have my freeze-dried peaches.
Imagine you'll get pretty hungry, though.
GI Joe: Trade you my patch for your peanut butter and crackers.
Glad to see some sci-fi turning real-world. Kinda freaky too; guess I know how my grandparents felt about landing on the moon and TV.
Anyway, it's nice to see this kind of technology being developed out of the military budget instead of another variation on the bullet, bomb, etc. It has a lot of potential and I imagine it's not long before we see folks using pharmecutical patches soon - probably tailored for their specific needs/doses.
It would be pretty nice if I could take ALL of my daily meds via a single patch rather than gulp down 10+ "easy-to-swallow if you're a horse" caplets.
Yeah, but it'll be in Chinese markets - not sold in the US. So it won't significantly impact the legacy market here. I'm sure there will be folks who'll want Chinese imports. Also, remember that we're dealing with economies of scale. A hot-selling high-priced cartrige in China might sell for the equivalent of US$4.
Damn, and the first hard drive I owned was 40MB - got it for my IBM XT. Was so bloody happy to have it too, since I didn't have to disk swap to run WordPerfect anymore and could store tons of info and games. *sigh* the good old days.
Before that it was floppies, before that I used a reliable old tape drive carefully marking the counters where each program started.
Good move, hope they don't get in trouble
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Good move, though I hope they don't get in trouble for making the subpoena public. As I read the subpoena, they were specifically instructed not to make the subpoena public to as not to alert the subject(s) of the investigation to the existence of the investigation.
Not that I support the government's position on this: "It's secret - national security, you know. Nothing to see here, move along."
I'm glad that Cryptome deletes log files. Though most here probably support Cryptome's stance, I doubt that today's slashdotting is going to be welcome.
Undoubtedly we'll see headlines like these. Despite many posts here, there's lots of money to be made in modding weather. Agricultural companies that want a certain amount of steady rainfall - more in this area, less in that. Or a region that neglects to pay its "weather tax" can experience the ramifications of unmodded weather as its affected by modded weather.
It would also make a pretty, shiny new weapon in the War Against Terrorism/Drugs/Everything/Everyone. Wanna get rid of those pesky coca plants? Strangle rainfall to regions of Columbia and other growing areas. Wanna impose some "sanctions" with "teeth"? How about burying North Korean in snow?
If you want to reduce noise, use 2.5" drives at lower rpms. Yeah, they're a bit more expensive. But I daresay that a pair of 30GB notebook drives would make a PVR whisper quiet without significantly impacting performance. Smaller unit too, though I suspect size will remain pretty constant even when space isn't really an issue. Crack open your VCR sometime to check out the wasted space.
His post made perfect sense. You assume that no group of like-minded people would exhibit the same or similar behaviours, which is ludicrous on its face. He simply pointed out - amusingly, I might add - that editors (and many readers) share biases.
If you want to argue, try finding something worth arguing about.
I remember when I was 2 1/2 years old, I was fond of playing with pots, pans, and a wooden spoon. The back burners were out on the stove, Mom was cooking fries in my favourite pot, and I wandered into the kitchen as she was answering the phone. I was severely burned and spent a long while in a burn unit at a Navy hospital.
I remember stuff fairly clearly in snippets. I remember being burned and screaming and stuff, but I couldn't see (one of my shut eyes was doused with boiling oil). Remember being dumped into the bathtub but the hot water had been turned on in a panicked mistake. Remember the hospital, the plastic hood over my bed, and being smeared in goop & wrapped. My skin turned black and the nurse joked that I would be going home with her since I was black now. Made sense at the time. Remember getting a Mickey Mouse stamp ring out of a filing cabinet drawer as a parting gift from hospital staff.
Lot of scarring, but not on my face - mostly on arm, neck, and chest. Even progressively got feeling back after 30 years - despite that the doctors said it "wasn't possible". (Since the nerves were dead, I didn't notice when I'd been cut.)
I also remember watching Vietnam on TV and watching Nixon resign with Dad. I was confused and said to my father something like "I thought the President was like God - that he'd always be president." My father replied that "Nixon thought that too, but it wasn't so." Something along those lines.
I remember being younger ~2-ish being pulled in a waggon by Gramps. Everything was covered in snow.
Blackmail is a poor choice for defence. You'll find yourself in jail lickety split. This is certainly what your post infers.
Get a lawyer; if you're a small biz then you should have corporate counsel on retainer. If not, you're going to spend a couple of hundred bucks on a letter that will probably make this go away.
Sure, you might be able to get away cheaper by just licencing whatever they're bugging you about. But that'll hardly keep the wolves at bay. Pay the money for a lawyer and put the pelt on your wall.
"There is no question in our mind that 321 Studios' products violate the DMCA," says Marta Grutka, MPAA spokesperson.
The efficiency of the collective hive mind allows the MPAA and its sister organization the RIAA to pursue an unprecedented number of cases against companies and individuals by using a single Unified Tort Architecture applicable to all cases. UTA, inspired by the success of nVidia's Unified Driver Architecture, remains tightly controlled by the MPAA and its sole licensee - the RIAA.
You cannot prevent another 9/11 type attack. You cannot make America "safe" no matter how many jackbooted thugs you put on the street, no matter how many unconstitutional patriotic-sounding acts you pass, no matter how many citizens you spy on, and no matter how many informants you recruit.
9/11 is a direct result of American foreign policy. The United States funded, armed, and trained the asswipes that planned that attack.
The best way to ensure that something like 9/11 never happens again is to (drum-roll) turn American foreign policy on its ear. Stop invading other countries, stop overthrowing other countries governments, stop murdering their leaders, stop stealing their natural resources.
I'm all for rooting out the ones responsible for 9/11 and seeing them receive a fair trial and just punishment, whether they lurk in a cushy Washington D.C. office or in a dank Afghani cave.
This really burns me up. The American government can spend upwards of $200 BILLION dollars to murder hundreds of thousands of civilians, install a government to do its bidding, and pillage the country for its natural resources.
But we can't spend that same $200 BILLION to open up space. You want to distract folks from the shitty assed economy? Spend that money on a space program. "We'll colonise the Moon!"
Pumping that much green into a space program and supporting programs (like EDUCATION) can fuel a renaissance in science and buck up the economy, realise orbital microwave power stations, and will spawn countless spin-off technologies.
Isn't that something to get patriotic about? Something to unify the country about? Something that will make our neighbors look upon us as friends rather than some dillhole bully that's going to whack them and steal their stuff?
First, you clearly illustrate the fallacy of the parent poster's argument with the mob/church scenario. Glad to see someone's awake out there.
Second - I do not to comment on moderation. However, in this case I feel it's important to make an exception. Reducing an argument to absurity is a tool of discourse going back to the days of Plato - hardly troll material.
An actual quote from someone who wanted me to set up a commerce site for them. Eeek. Never heard Internet used as a verb before.
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Good show. I particularly liked the part " (although personally I think FreeBSD kicks ass all over it)" - it was a nice aside that will surely raise throbbing temples and may branch off into a small flame war in the thread.
So good show.
Shrug. You have to ask yourself how many newbies (and the allegedly experienced) are surfing /. as root right now?
Too stupid not to cc everyone in your company (or your competition) with your trade secrets? No problem, the next iteration of MS Office will protect you...
No, really.
Stop laughing.
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
e.g. You're prosecute for LS XYZ in Louisiana, then acquitted, you can then be prosecuted under US ABC in federal court. So yeah, you can experience double jeopardy in the good ole US of A.
"Vouchers for some, little American flags for others."
Man, with one of these vouchers and my RIAA settlement check, ya think I can buy one of those cool transdermal food patches from ThinkGeek?
Imagine you'll get pretty hungry, though.
GI Joe: Trade you my patch for your peanut butter and crackers.
GI Ethnic: [bitch slaps GI Joe]
Anyway, it's nice to see this kind of technology being developed out of the military budget instead of another variation on the bullet, bomb, etc. It has a lot of potential and I imagine it's not long before we see folks using pharmecutical patches soon - probably tailored for their specific needs/doses.
It would be pretty nice if I could take ALL of my daily meds via a single patch rather than gulp down 10+ "easy-to-swallow if you're a horse" caplets.
Good show, GI Joe.
Yeah, but it'll be in Chinese markets - not sold in the US. So it won't significantly impact the legacy market here. I'm sure there will be folks who'll want Chinese imports. Also, remember that we're dealing with economies of scale. A hot-selling high-priced cartrige in China might sell for the equivalent of US$4.
Before that it was floppies, before that I used a reliable old tape drive carefully marking the counters where each program started.
Not that I support the government's position on this: "It's secret - national security, you know. Nothing to see here, move along."
I'm glad that Cryptome deletes log files. Though most here probably support Cryptome's stance, I doubt that today's slashdotting is going to be welcome.
It would also make a pretty, shiny new weapon in the War Against Terrorism/Drugs/Everything/Everyone. Wanna get rid of those pesky coca plants? Strangle rainfall to regions of Columbia and other growing areas. Wanna impose some "sanctions" with "teeth"? How about burying North Korean in snow?
yeah, i own a pvr - it's a hughes tivo unit with built-in directv receiver. some jerk ganked my access card tho, so i need to fetch another :P
If you want to reduce noise, use 2.5" drives at lower rpms. Yeah, they're a bit more expensive. But I daresay that a pair of 30GB notebook drives would make a PVR whisper quiet without significantly impacting performance. Smaller unit too, though I suspect size will remain pretty constant even when space isn't really an issue. Crack open your VCR sometime to check out the wasted space.
If you want to argue, try finding something worth arguing about.
Encumbered by idiots, we pressed on...
I remember stuff fairly clearly in snippets. I remember being burned and screaming and stuff, but I couldn't see (one of my shut eyes was doused with boiling oil). Remember being dumped into the bathtub but the hot water had been turned on in a panicked mistake. Remember the hospital, the plastic hood over my bed, and being smeared in goop & wrapped. My skin turned black and the nurse joked that I would be going home with her since I was black now. Made sense at the time. Remember getting a Mickey Mouse stamp ring out of a filing cabinet drawer as a parting gift from hospital staff.
Lot of scarring, but not on my face - mostly on arm, neck, and chest. Even progressively got feeling back after 30 years - despite that the doctors said it "wasn't possible". (Since the nerves were dead, I didn't notice when I'd been cut.)
I also remember watching Vietnam on TV and watching Nixon resign with Dad. I was confused and said to my father something like "I thought the President was like God - that he'd always be president." My father replied that "Nixon thought that too, but it wasn't so." Something along those lines.
I remember being younger ~2-ish being pulled in a waggon by Gramps. Everything was covered in snow.
Get a lawyer; if you're a small biz then you should have corporate counsel on retainer. If not, you're going to spend a couple of hundred bucks on a letter that will probably make this go away.
Sure, you might be able to get away cheaper by just licencing whatever they're bugging you about. But that'll hardly keep the wolves at bay. Pay the money for a lawyer and put the pelt on your wall.
But it's coming along nicely; one advantage to working on the holidays - no interruptions.
And if the GUIs weren't Windows-like, he'd complain about that too. Folks, Dvorak is a shill. Nothing to see here, move along.
The project I'm doing for work...
The efficiency of the collective hive mind allows the MPAA and its sister organization the RIAA to pursue an unprecedented number of cases against companies and individuals by using a single Unified Tort Architecture applicable to all cases. UTA, inspired by the success of nVidia's Unified Driver Architecture, remains tightly controlled by the MPAA and its sole licensee - the RIAA.
I'll just get a loan against my .com stock and...
We're not safe. We'll never be "safe".
You cannot prevent another 9/11 type attack. You cannot make America "safe" no matter how many jackbooted thugs you put on the street, no matter how many unconstitutional patriotic-sounding acts you pass, no matter how many citizens you spy on, and no matter how many informants you recruit.
9/11 is a direct result of American foreign policy. The United States funded, armed, and trained the asswipes that planned that attack.
The best way to ensure that something like 9/11 never happens again is to (drum-roll) turn American foreign policy on its ear. Stop invading other countries, stop overthrowing other countries governments, stop murdering their leaders, stop stealing their natural resources.
I'm all for rooting out the ones responsible for 9/11 and seeing them receive a fair trial and just punishment, whether they lurk in a cushy Washington D.C. office or in a dank Afghani cave.
But we can't spend that same $200 BILLION to open up space. You want to distract folks from the shitty assed economy? Spend that money on a space program. "We'll colonise the Moon!"
Pumping that much green into a space program and supporting programs (like EDUCATION) can fuel a renaissance in science and buck up the economy, realise orbital microwave power stations, and will spawn countless spin-off technologies.
Isn't that something to get patriotic about? Something to unify the country about? Something that will make our neighbors look upon us as friends rather than some dillhole bully that's going to whack them and steal their stuff?
Second - I do not to comment on moderation. However, in this case I feel it's important to make an exception. Reducing an argument to absurity is a tool of discourse going back to the days of Plato - hardly troll material.
If you want to do balls-to-the-wall hosting on Linux it doesn't get much better than Dreamhost. All sorts of goodies including PHP, MySQL, dedicated hosting available. These dudes know what the crap they're doing and are bloody fast, responsive, and funny. Don't recall their rates offhand, so check out the site. There's a plan for everything and last I checked they're competitive. I'm grandfathered in at low rates, so I'm happy.
If you're an ASP/.Net M$Slave you can't do much better than MaximumASP. They've got tons of components and despite the fact it's shared hosting it's fast and responsive. Support is top-tier as well and it's cheap at $199, 1GB space, 40GB traffic, etc.