i really love the OS. a 7 hour battery is the norm for me, and th.e ability to take the thing damned near anywhe,brre has saved my skin several times as im a sysadmin.
Keyboard not so hot though?
Just kidding. I have a 701 and have no problems typing on it.
As in, if you de-peer without giving 45 days advance notice to your customers and allowing them to cancel their contract at no cost during those 45 days, you get sued into oblivion?
Do we need to write into law that anyone gets 1.5 months of free unlimited traffic with anyone stupid enough to enter a trial period with them? Umm, no. If nothing else, that'd instant put an end for 45-day free trials.
Well, I worked hard to get a job I absolutely love. In comparison with the guy who hates his job but keeps doing it to feel victimized, I suppose I look pretty cheerfully optimistic.
Group homes for disabled folk are constantly understaffed because they can't hire people for the wages they pay, same goes for nursing homes. CIL's (Centers for indepentent living, agencies that advocate for disabled folks) are constantly trying to recruit PA's and match them to people who need them, and there aren't enough because it pays crap and the work is hard.
Economically speaking, there are enough. If there weren't, those places would pay more to hire more. There may not be as many as you'd like to help with your shift - and that's a perfectly valid complaint - but your employer has exactly as many as they're willing to pay for.
Folks like me wipe your grannies or your relative with cerebral palsy's ass, lift them in and out of wheelchairs and keep them company so they don't get depressed. [...] It's not low skill
Point, set, and match. But your fundamental misunderstanding is that "low skilled job" is economist jargon for "something the average person can be easily trained in". All of the mental labor aspects you list could be readily learned by most people.
I don't see why what I do should be valued less.
I already answered: because of supply and demand. If there were 1,000,000 unemployed neurosurgeons, you'd be able to hire one for $10 an hour.
I have a job, I work as a PA to the disabled. I made less than $16000 last year. Do you know why it pays so low? Because the majority of people who do it in the cities are african american women. And thusly the work is devalued.
No. The pay is so low because there's a greater supply of would-be PAs there there is a demand for them. Contrast with, say, an accountant: it's hard to become one, so the supply stays relatively low and they get more pay.
Drop the wanna-be victim crap. You chose to work in a low-skill job and can't expect to get paid a lot for it. I won't bother replying to your failed logic tying lesbians to social work.
People dislike change. They will typically go out of their way to avoid change. So, despite Apple's marketing, despite the excellent improvements in OSS, people will stick with Vista.
So which is it: people are afraid of change, or people go with Vista?
No amount of salt makes a broken algorithm un-broken. Imagine the trivial case where the output of a hash function is the unmodified input. The salt wouldn't do a lot, would it?
Well, MD5 is broken. Given that their are freely available alternatives not known to be broken, it's utterly irresponsible to endorse MD5.
Exactly. And reading further, it looks like Sprint and Cogent signed a free peering agreement. Then, Cogent slashed prices to gain a bunch of customers, partially based on the fact that they now had cheap bandwidth via Sprint. Sprint realized that their peering traffic become way unbalanced and wanted to drop the free agreement.
You know, I can't say as how I blame them. If I agreed to split the cost of a meal with a salad eater and they turned around and ordered lobster, I'd be a little miffed. I certainly wouldn't want to continue that arrangement even if they protested that I'd already accepted it.
I'm using the stock 8.10 kernel on my Eee PC with wireless. In my case, I had to blacklist the "ath-pci" module because it tries to attach to my WiFi chip before the correct working driver gets to.
Yes, but Vista+XP+2000 is down 2%. Linux and Windows are both general categories, so if you're going to compare them you need to measure the right things.
So basically it encourages people not to save (because the average price of a home won't get you through retirement), which means banks have less to lend, which means it's harder to grow infrastructure. Nice.
I'll admit that when you admit that your email address idea is stupid. An OpenID identity isn't just some global username, but a global authentication method. OK, so we adapt your half-assed idea and go with an email address. Great! Now how does $RANDOMSITE know how to authenticate me, given just my email address? Send me an email and wait?
It's obvious that you're speaking over your head and don't understand what OpenID actually does. It's alright to be ignorant on a subject, but does not behoove you to wax eloquent on a subject that your audience clearly knows much more about.
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I've always used html-style hyperlinks, which also work fine.
Same here, unless I specifically want to give out the URL for some reason.
Or you could type them like <URL:http://example.com/>, which renders like http://example.com/ and is a standard.
i really love the OS. a 7 hour battery is the norm for me, and th.e ability to take the thing damned near anywhe,brre has saved my skin several times as im a sysadmin.
Keyboard not so hot though?
Just kidding. I have a 701 and have no problems typing on it.
I have three suggestions:
Putting aside any arguments about quality, morality, etc., Cogent keeps a lot of customers because they're by far the cheapest game in town
I don't know. That starts to get pretty expensive when you're offline because they haven't paid their bills.
As in, if you de-peer without giving 45 days advance notice to your customers and allowing them to cancel their contract at no cost during those 45 days, you get sued into oblivion?
Do we need to write into law that anyone gets 1.5 months of free unlimited traffic with anyone stupid enough to enter a trial period with them? Umm, no. If nothing else, that'd instant put an end for 45-day free trials.
Well, I worked hard to get a job I absolutely love. In comparison with the guy who hates his job but keeps doing it to feel victimized, I suppose I look pretty cheerfully optimistic.
Group homes for disabled folk are constantly understaffed because they can't hire people for the wages they pay, same goes for nursing homes. CIL's (Centers for indepentent living, agencies that advocate for disabled folks) are constantly trying to recruit PA's and match them to people who need them, and there aren't enough because it pays crap and the work is hard.
Economically speaking, there are enough. If there weren't, those places would pay more to hire more. There may not be as many as you'd like to help with your shift - and that's a perfectly valid complaint - but your employer has exactly as many as they're willing to pay for.
Folks like me wipe your grannies or your relative with cerebral palsy's ass, lift them in and out of wheelchairs and keep them company so they don't get depressed. [...] It's not low skill
Point, set, and match. But your fundamental misunderstanding is that "low skilled job" is economist jargon for "something the average person can be easily trained in". All of the mental labor aspects you list could be readily learned by most people.
I don't see why what I do should be valued less.
I already answered: because of supply and demand. If there were 1,000,000 unemployed neurosurgeons, you'd be able to hire one for $10 an hour.
I have a job, I work as a PA to the disabled. I made less than $16000 last year. Do you know why it pays so low? Because the majority of people who do it in the cities are african american women. And thusly the work is devalued.
No. The pay is so low because there's a greater supply of would-be PAs there there is a demand for them. Contrast with, say, an accountant: it's hard to become one, so the supply stays relatively low and they get more pay.
Drop the wanna-be victim crap. You chose to work in a low-skill job and can't expect to get paid a lot for it. I won't bother replying to your failed logic tying lesbians to social work.
Crud. Slashdot's Discussion2 system made that show up under a different parent. Never mind.
Did you know your uid is a prime number when interpreted in base 7 or 11?
Must... resist...
I can't take it anymore. I hoped someone else would point out that his UID has a 7 in it so it can't be a base-7 number.
Gah, you all suck. I'm going to go throw rocks at inanimate objects until I feel less geeky.
People dislike change. They will typically go out of their way to avoid change. So, despite Apple's marketing, despite the excellent improvements in OSS, people will stick with Vista.
So which is it: people are afraid of change, or people go with Vista?
salt
No amount of salt makes a broken algorithm un-broken. Imagine the trivial case where the output of a hash function is the unmodified input. The salt wouldn't do a lot, would it?
Well, MD5 is broken. Given that their are freely available alternatives not known to be broken, it's utterly irresponsible to endorse MD5.
Exactly. And reading further, it looks like Sprint and Cogent signed a free peering agreement. Then, Cogent slashed prices to gain a bunch of customers, partially based on the fact that they now had cheap bandwidth via Sprint. Sprint realized that their peering traffic become way unbalanced and wanted to drop the free agreement.
You know, I can't say as how I blame them. If I agreed to split the cost of a meal with a salad eater and they turned around and ordered lobster, I'd be a little miffed. I certainly wouldn't want to continue that arrangement even if they protested that I'd already accepted it.
Without software patents, it will be much harder for Google (or the next clever startup) to challenge more established companies.
Good. That means IP holding companies can't use stupid patents to browbeat legitimate businesses.
They're just dropped as they're not part of the connection table.
I'm using the stock 8.10 kernel on my Eee PC with wireless. In my case, I had to blacklist the "ath-pci" module because it tries to attach to my WiFi chip before the correct working driver gets to.
I can simply trace what is on the screen. Maybe its just the way I work, but also printing some of my stuff is a pain in the ass.
Printing is more of a pain in the ass than tracing it by hand? Who's your IT guy?
Vista is raising at more than 100%.
Yes, but Vista+XP+2000 is down 2%. Linux and Windows are both general categories, so if you're going to compare them you need to measure the right things.
Starbucks is still trying to charge for WiFi.
Give me a WLAN card with a programmable MAC and at least one paying customer to piggyback, and they can try all they want.
So basically it encourages people not to save (because the average price of a home won't get you through retirement), which means banks have less to lend, which means it's harder to grow infrastructure. Nice.
Does that include savings?
So now we've chucked out email addresses for something that looks like them but isn't:
OpenID: authserver.example.com/tarwn
Your way: tarwn@authserver.example.com
Remind me again what the advantage is supposed to be?
You said no to DNS already, and that's way harder for end users to affect anyway. Anyway, your idea won't work. Thanks for playing.
Admit it, the URL thing sucks ass.
I'll admit that when you admit that your email address idea is stupid. An OpenID identity isn't just some global username, but a global authentication method. OK, so we adapt your half-assed idea and go with an email address. Great! Now how does $RANDOMSITE know how to authenticate me, given just my email address? Send me an email and wait?
It's obvious that you're speaking over your head and don't understand what OpenID actually does. It's alright to be ignorant on a subject, but does not behoove you to wax eloquent on a subject that your audience clearly knows much more about.