Willard? That's my first name (as it's the custom in my family to torture first sons with it for 9 generations now), and I've never heard it on a woman before.
I had to change phone numbers when switching from ISDN back to POTS way back when. The first number we got had been owned by a drug dealer, and we'd get collect calls from prison and people wanting a fix. That lasted for about a day. The next number we got had been the local Alcholics Anonymous chapter, and after a couple of bleary 2AM "if I don't quit drinking I think I might die" calls, we switched again. So far, so good.
I skipped the middleman and now answer "PRIVATE NUMBER" and obviously-forged numbers a little differently. Example:
Me: Nebraska Attorney General John Bruning's office, how may I help you?
Scammer: Ummm, would you... like to cut your credit card interest rates?
Me: If you hang up, I will arrest you. What number are you calling from?
Scammed: [scared expletive deleted] [dial tone]
OK, so I lied. I don't think they're going to file a complaint about it.
I've heard the stories of people flying to america to buy their Macs there, even with the plane tickets it still works out less than buying at a local shop! WTF?
For the record, the home office of Just Some Guy, Inc. just announced its willingness to send you that Mac for half the price of those plane tickets. No, I'm not joking.
When buying a car, do you consider style and "feel" at all, or do you go down a checklist and buy the cheapest model made with the desired horsepower and trunk size? The price difference between a BMW and a Ford is a lot higher than between an Apple and Dell, but people sure get worked up about the latter.
Dell/FreeBSD/Oldsmobile; I don't have a dog in this hunt.
Xbox live and err PS3 online something are basically the ONLY reason why people seem to have stopped mod chipping and pirating. Time was PS2 and Xbox games were pirated so fiercely that the PC pirate industry would blush, thats just not the case anymore.
A more realistic explanation is that you and your friends are old enough to have jobs that pay you enough to buy games. I have never seen a chipped console outside of school environments.
Actually, wouldn't twisted-pair wiring defeat that? I thought that was the whole reason behind the twisting. As far as the Model M, I love mine and would never willingly give it up, but I'm pretty sure the Western Union office across town can transcribe everything I'm typing.
You could argue that Linux is not truly licensed under the gpl2 at all because he changed the license.
You can't, as Linus did not distribute a modified copy of the GPL. Instead, he used his own wording instead of the FSF's suggested suggested phrasing to state that he was releasing Linux under the GPLv2.
Viruses - THis is not a OS problem, its a user problem.
I used to think that to, but really, it's a Windows problem. Viruses could hypothetically infect other systems, just like I could hypothetically spontaneously quantum-tunnel my way through the wall - there's no technical reason why it couldn't happen but it never has. On modern OSes, only Windows has a malware problem. Don't start with that BS about market share either because there's enormous infamy to be gained by being the first virus author to hit Linux or OS X.
Drivers - Add all the drivers to the kernel? So the manufacturers of devices have to wait till the kernel maintainer decides on his own sweet time when to integrate patches. AND THEN wait till picks them up downstream. Nice solution. Doesnt scale, buddy.
Linux has much better hardware support than Windows and this has been true for several years. Let's reverse your argument: I bought a Microsoft Wi-Fi card for an old laptop, but unsurprisingly it didn't come with drivers for OpenBSD. The card was based on a common chipset with a well-supported driver, but no one had told the driver that it should work for that card. So I told it to, submitted the patch upstream, and now everyone using *BSD (or Linux, which I think uses the same driver) now has working support for it out of the box. I'm certainly not a driver expert, but I was able to do the little tweak that fixed the problem once and for all.
Contrast with Windows, where I've had a capable driver installed on a machine but no way to get it to speak to a piece of hardware without invoking a disassembler. You're sitting at the whim of the manufacturers, and until they decide to let you use your hardware, you're stuck. I won't even go into the joy of trying to use older printers on Vista.
I knew a guy who worked airport security pre-9/11. One day they were running a security drill, and pulled him aside when he let a guy through the checkpoint with a two-piece rifle. Why did he allow him to pass? "Because it wasn't a working rifle. It wasn't put together."
You forgot the rest of the equation. A Velociraptor benches at about 104MB/s sustained, so even FireWire 16000turboHD+++ can only do that copy in 8.2 minutes.
It's my understanding that the mafia actually provides the negotiated service, which would more than I could say for the RIAA. Besides, the mafia scares me on a lesser level. They might break my legs or throw me in a river, but as far as I know they can't actually devour my soul.
The difference being that Islamic suicide bombings have been a weekly occurrence on the news for quite some time. You can chalk it up to a matter of degree, but when the degree involves several orders of magnitude you're just deluding yourself.
I'm in no way condoning the abortion clinic bombings and shootings, but they're a world apart from what we're seeing in the middle east. The goal of the anti-abortion killer is to attack a very specific target with the goal of preventing them from doing something that the killer thinks is morally worse than the attack. The goal of a suicide bomber is to spread terror throughout an entire society.
Now, both killers effect the same result: dead people. However, you can't pretend that a targeted attack against someone perceived as evil by the attacker is equivalent to an indiscriminate assault against innocents, including children.
Who would use OpenBSD beyond system admins and developers I can't really see.
What's wrong with OpenBSD? The latest release comes with a lot of software, including a recent(-ish) version of KDE. While it's not my first choice for a desktop, I wouldn't cry if someone told me I had to use it.
And not taking the feelings of others into consideration is?
Correct, when that group (specifically the subset of Muslims who constantly get worked into a froth over stupid things like this) continually proves how thin-skinned it is.
So if the game had an audio track that included lines inspired by, say, the Westboro Baptist Church, you'd be okay with that?
The quotes in this story are not inherently offensive. They are morbid, perhaps, but factually true. They could as easily been written anywhere else.
Is that supposed to be offensive to someone? I dare say anyone with the background to understand the words and recognize them as a quote from an old religious tome would be unlikely to get too worked up.
You can't hold the hands of every company. You need to let them mess up from time to time. Encrytion is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Lead reduction is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Proper document shredding is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Proper hazardous waste disposal is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
There are a lot of things that are inconvenient that we, as a society, have decided that our citizens must do. In each of the above cases, including yours, the regulations exist to enforce real, tangible protections. These aren't hypothetical problems that only give legislators something to gripe about, but actual problems that would otherwise directly affect other parties.
As many of the small business are an employee of one and it is their own personal PC.
Install TrueCrypt and be done with it. This isn't something for a small business to panic over.
The one thing nice is that you can protest really bad service. In general, I'm a really good tipper and almost always leave more than the average. Still, there are times when I've deliberately left nothing (or worse: a penny or two, showing that I didn't just forget). I only do this for especially horrible service, like when:
I can see our food in the serving window, but the waiter is chatting on his cell phone for several minutes.
Our order is completely, comically wrong ("I ordered a hamburger. This is fried liver.") and the waitress gets mad at us when we ask her to fix it.
We were seated at a table with a cold air draft and asked to be moved to an empty table further down. The waiter said he'd ask, then went on a smoke break. By the time he got back, someone else had been seated there and my wife sat freezing through the meal (and married guys will understand why this is a Big Deal).
I saw the waitress sneeze on our dessert and then still being it to our table.
I'm really thick-skinned and get irritated at the management, not the waiters, when a restaurant is understaffed and overworked. However, I'm glad I have at least some way to tell them that they did a bad job, and that it's in their best interest to provide decent service.
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Willard? That's my first name (as it's the custom in my family to torture first sons with it for 9 generations now), and I've never heard it on a woman before.
I had to change phone numbers when switching from ISDN back to POTS way back when. The first number we got had been owned by a drug dealer, and we'd get collect calls from prison and people wanting a fix. That lasted for about a day. The next number we got had been the local Alcholics Anonymous chapter, and after a couple of bleary 2AM "if I don't quit drinking I think I might die" calls, we switched again. So far, so good.
I skipped the middleman and now answer "PRIVATE NUMBER" and obviously-forged numbers a little differently. Example:
Me: Nebraska Attorney General John Bruning's office, how may I help you?
Scammer: Ummm, would you... like to cut your credit card interest rates?
Me: If you hang up, I will arrest you. What number are you calling from?
Scammed: [scared expletive deleted] [dial tone]
OK, so I lied. I don't think they're going to file a complaint about it.
I've heard the stories of people flying to america to buy their Macs there, even with the plane tickets it still works out less than buying at a local shop! WTF?
For the record, the home office of Just Some Guy, Inc. just announced its willingness to send you that Mac for half the price of those plane tickets. No, I'm not joking.
When buying a car, do you consider style and "feel" at all, or do you go down a checklist and buy the cheapest model made with the desired horsepower and trunk size? The price difference between a BMW and a Ford is a lot higher than between an Apple and Dell, but people sure get worked up about the latter.
Dell/FreeBSD/Oldsmobile; I don't have a dog in this hunt.
Xbox live and err PS3 online something are basically the ONLY reason why people seem to have stopped mod chipping and pirating. Time was PS2 and Xbox games were pirated so fiercely that the PC pirate industry would blush, thats just not the case anymore.
A more realistic explanation is that you and your friends are old enough to have jobs that pay you enough to buy games. I have never seen a chipped console outside of school environments.
That'd outgross SCO, I think.
Actually, wouldn't twisted-pair wiring defeat that? I thought that was the whole reason behind the twisting. As far as the Model M, I love mine and would never willingly give it up, but I'm pretty sure the Western Union office across town can transcribe everything I'm typing.
You could argue that Linux is not truly licensed under the gpl2 at all because he changed the license.
You can't, as Linus did not distribute a modified copy of the GPL. Instead, he used his own wording instead of the FSF's suggested suggested phrasing to state that he was releasing Linux under the GPLv2.
In btrfs, data structures have "back references", and the fsck can be used while the filesystem is mounted.
Welcome to the party!
Sincerely, FreeBSD 5.0 - 2001
What, it tickles your hard drive to death?
Viruses - THis is not a OS problem, its a user problem.
I used to think that to, but really, it's a Windows problem. Viruses could hypothetically infect other systems, just like I could hypothetically spontaneously quantum-tunnel my way through the wall - there's no technical reason why it couldn't happen but it never has. On modern OSes, only Windows has a malware problem. Don't start with that BS about market share either because there's enormous infamy to be gained by being the first virus author to hit Linux or OS X.
Drivers - Add all the drivers to the kernel? So the manufacturers of devices have to wait till the kernel maintainer decides on his own sweet time when to integrate patches. AND THEN wait till picks them up downstream. Nice solution. Doesnt scale, buddy.
Linux has much better hardware support than Windows and this has been true for several years. Let's reverse your argument: I bought a Microsoft Wi-Fi card for an old laptop, but unsurprisingly it didn't come with drivers for OpenBSD. The card was based on a common chipset with a well-supported driver, but no one had told the driver that it should work for that card. So I told it to, submitted the patch upstream, and now everyone using *BSD (or Linux, which I think uses the same driver) now has working support for it out of the box. I'm certainly not a driver expert, but I was able to do the little tweak that fixed the problem once and for all.
Contrast with Windows, where I've had a capable driver installed on a machine but no way to get it to speak to a piece of hardware without invoking a disassembler. You're sitting at the whim of the manufacturers, and until they decide to let you use your hardware, you're stuck. I won't even go into the joy of trying to use older printers on Vista.
No. I think that the RIAA employs soul-eating undead in the literal sense, and has satellite offices in R'Lyeh and other convenient locations.
I knew a guy who worked airport security pre-9/11. One day they were running a security drill, and pulled him aside when he let a guy through the checkpoint with a two-piece rifle. Why did he allow him to pass? "Because it wasn't a working rifle. It wasn't put together."
You forgot the rest of the equation. A Velociraptor benches at about 104MB/s sustained, so even FireWire 16000turboHD+++ can only do that copy in 8.2 minutes.
It's my understanding that the mafia actually provides the negotiated service, which would more than I could say for the RIAA. Besides, the mafia scares me on a lesser level. They might break my legs or throw me in a river, but as far as I know they can't actually devour my soul.
The difference being that Islamic suicide bombings have been a weekly occurrence on the news for quite some time. You can chalk it up to a matter of degree, but when the degree involves several orders of magnitude you're just deluding yourself.
Same applies to Christians. Nothing says "I love JHWH" more than a nailbomb in a downtown restaurant.
Has this happened recently?
Nothing says "I love Dawkins" more than cholera in the water supply. Oh, wait, that hasn't happened either.
You see laws and the twisting of science and culture coming from oppressors.
Um, what? What science is being twisted, and how? Be specific.
I'm in no way condoning the abortion clinic bombings and shootings, but they're a world apart from what we're seeing in the middle east. The goal of the anti-abortion killer is to attack a very specific target with the goal of preventing them from doing something that the killer thinks is morally worse than the attack. The goal of a suicide bomber is to spread terror throughout an entire society.
Now, both killers effect the same result: dead people. However, you can't pretend that a targeted attack against someone perceived as evil by the attacker is equivalent to an indiscriminate assault against innocents, including children.
Who would use OpenBSD beyond system admins and developers I can't really see.
What's wrong with OpenBSD? The latest release comes with a lot of software, including a recent(-ish) version of KDE. While it's not my first choice for a desktop, I wouldn't cry if someone told me I had to use it.
And not taking the feelings of others into consideration is?
Correct, when that group (specifically the subset of Muslims who constantly get worked into a froth over stupid things like this) continually proves how thin-skinned it is.
So if the game had an audio track that included lines inspired by, say, the Westboro Baptist Church, you'd be okay with that?
The quotes in this story are not inherently offensive. They are morbid, perhaps, but factually true. They could as easily been written anywhere else.
Is that supposed to be offensive to someone? I dare say anyone with the background to understand the words and recognize them as a quote from an old religious tome would be unlikely to get too worked up.
You can't hold the hands of every company. You need to let them mess up from time to time. Encrytion is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Lead reduction is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Proper document shredding is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
Proper hazardous waste disposal is a good thing however forcing it isn't even for companies.
There are a lot of things that are inconvenient that we, as a society, have decided that our citizens must do. In each of the above cases, including yours, the regulations exist to enforce real, tangible protections. These aren't hypothetical problems that only give legislators something to gripe about, but actual problems that would otherwise directly affect other parties.
As many of the small business are an employee of one and it is their own personal PC.
Install TrueCrypt and be done with it. This isn't something for a small business to panic over.
The one thing nice is that you can protest really bad service. In general, I'm a really good tipper and almost always leave more than the average. Still, there are times when I've deliberately left nothing (or worse: a penny or two, showing that I didn't just forget). I only do this for especially horrible service, like when:
I'm really thick-skinned and get irritated at the management, not the waiters, when a restaurant is understaffed and overworked. However, I'm glad I have at least some way to tell them that they did a bad job, and that it's in their best interest to provide decent service.