AdBusters went away, dude, and WhatReallyHappened may not be far behind. Sure, there's people out there that want to speak the truth, but noone wants to provide them with the funds to do it with.
It's adbusters.org, not ".com". And it hasn't gone away.
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Meanwhile, those of us who know how to deal with other people as human beings (as opposed to support tickets) will be having dinner with the new girl from accounting.
"If things go well I might be showing her my O face."
You are so cool.
Sorry. People who think "MCSE" is the foundation of a clever insult tend to be prepubescant, or (a) tend not to be people persons, as you ascribe yourself to be, and (b) tend to only show their O face to the Sears Hoisery catalogs and Cisco press releases.
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I don't care how low your uid is, I still find your referring to employees as drones to be patronising and arrogant.
When Thin-Skinned P.C. Liberal Arts Majors Attack. Tonight on FOX.
Like many domain owners, I have a catch-all email address set up. So when I register I generate a new email address every time. And I link back when I get spam. It's not perfect - sites can leak my address fairly innocently (Salon on its chat pages, for example).
IME, very few ecommerce sites spam. And almost all of those are obviously from the company I gave the email to.
I do something similar. With my domain, I create a mail alias for each merchant and kill it at the first sign of spam.
Some of the merchants are very bad. Particularly the shop.yahoo.com ones. I think that either Yahoo has a leak in its ordering system, or somebody's actively soliciting mail addresses from shop.yahoo.com sellers. Well over half the items I order from there result in spam to the corresponding stores' addresses. Maybe one in seven of the non-Yahoo merchants end up selling or otherwise sharing my address.
Altogether though, ebay remains the absolute worst place to get your address harvested, with usenet a close second.
I'm curious as to how much it matters if most of these packages are yanked out of stable.
Sure, most people using Debian as a server are running the stable release, but I was under the impression that almost all desktop users were tracking unstable for want of the hundreds of packages missing in the age-old 2.2 release.
Having all these things fixed for Woody release would be nice, but I'm guessing there's almost nobody out there who'd be affected by these vanishing.
How many of you Debian folk are using stable for something other than a server?
I'm not complaining/trolling (actually, I'm happy with the news), but it's interesting to notice what Linus is up to recently:
- he is considering to use BitKeeper
- he accepted the preemptive kernel in the kernel
- he did something else I don't recall now (will search slashdot after this post:)
- he accepted alsa on the kernel
Maybe he is finally realizing that Linux is not only "his toy" anymore...
I think you're missing something.
Kernel versions with an even number in the second position are meant to be stable. Nothing risky goes in these.
Kernel versions with an odd number in the second position are development versions. This is where risky and innovative new technology can be introduced and experimented with.
Linus only recently opened the 2.5 kernel series. He's been maintaining 2.4. I believe what you're attributing to ownership is his being aware of the fact that a broken "stable" kernel could do terrible damage, and nifty new sound bits and experimental reworking of the task scheduler aren't worth taking that risk.
OS/2 was sorely lacking in midi/music software. Some (forgot who) company had finished developing a program called "Easy Keys for OS/2" and was on the verge of release.
Microsoft bought the company. "Easy Keys" never was released, and as far as I can tell, the company was never heard from, again.
I believe you're referring to Blue Ribbon Software. They also produced wonderful Amiga MIDI software, such as Bars and Pipes. This was quietly axed as well as a side-effect of the OS/2 blocking move.
... Microsoft has been hiring every political lobbyist, and every law firm, with anti-trust expertise and putting them to work on unrelated projects- anything to make them unavailable to work for critics of Microsoft.
I would base the 99% on the fact that of the 100 or so e-mails I get in a week (about 15-20 a day), only one or maybe two of them are valid e-mails I actually wanted.
You referred to the percentage which had deceptive opt-out schemes in your original post, not the percentage of your mail that was unsolicited. If the opt-out schemes were provably fraudulent, it would fuel more broad scale anti-spam legislation.
If you (or anyone else) has proof that a large percentage of messages have fraudulent opt-out mechanisms, please share it with slash as well as your state representative. I believe what you originally claimed to be largely true, but I suspect we both have nothing better than a hunch, and so shouldn't be stating it as fact if we want to be taken seriously.
I think these senators don't comprehend the reality with spam; that is, 99% of it has false origin information and has an opt-out scheme that doesn't work or only results in more spam.
nvidia still hasn't shared which registers are used to set up a DVI display, which this iMac requires. This is also the reason you can't use the XFree86 group's nvidia driver if you have a DVI display on your PC Linux box.
If nvidia would just share this one bit of info, nvidia users could avoid loading a nasty closed-source driver.
I haven't built the project myself, but if you have enough of an interest in electronics, you can build it yourself quite easily with parts from the local Radio Shack.
Or go to your local Best Buy or similar and pick up a pair of these for about $60.
Granted, this is a bit out of the price range most people are willing to pay, and are overkill if you just want headphones, but the Lightspeed 25K ANR aviation headset is fantastic.
I tried it once in my cubicle (inside a large IBM mainframe style machine room with a couple of rackfulls of machines and 4 large air conditioners) and it almost completely silenced the ambient noise.
BTW, The 25K's typically go for around $450-$500.
Sony makes a low-end version of these which are enough to cancel out air conditioning and case noises, and which have a standard headphone jack so you can plug in and listen to PC music while working.
You should be able to find them at Best Buy and similar for only $60.
Where do you live? I have the same account you do but I get about 1.3Mb down and 128Kb up AND I only got 2 static IPs. I started in dec 99. Btw I'm in Mpls, MN.
Chicago. I think the deal was only available if you were using Speakeasy/Covad. Don't know about regions for it.
I'm at $93.41/mo for Speakeasy's 1.5 down/384 up package with 4 static IP addresses and all taxes, etc. In the six months since I got it, there's only been one brief trouble period. It's been better and faster than my last employer's fractional T1.
New customers only get 1.5/128 at the price I'm paying, so I guess they've effectively hiked the price. Existing customers are grandfathered in.
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ISP From Hell has been doing what you're doing for years now.
It's still a neat idea, and short of hosting outside of the USA, breaking away from commercial providers like this is the only way to get real freedom, as in Freedom of Speech, from an ISP.
You should exchange notes with other non-profit ISPs. Were a network of non-profit ISPs - free from commercial interests - to spread across the globe, you could change the world.
You would think those $40 CD-ROM drives would be the last place you would see upgrade-capable firmware.
Not so.
Many of the 12x and 16x units wouldn't read CDRs, which would have made them near worthless in today's world. For most of them, the fix was as simple as slowing the speed and trying another pass at reading before giving up.
For many brands, a flash upgrade was all it took to fix these and give them value again. The upgrade was made available to consumers who suddenly had brand loyalty for what's normally a pretty ambigously branded piece of hardware.
For many other brands, the units became bargain bin fodder and left a lot of consumers pissed off at what they thought was broken hardware.
The author spends a lot of time explaining exactly what happens to food as you change the pH, explains what happens on the cellular level when you cook at different heats and for different times, basically reads like a chemistry text at times, all while giving some GREAT recipes.
I first heard the author on NPR a few years ago, and was very impressed. She would be talking your traditional cook-show talk, then suddently dive into these marvelously technical chemistry explanations that would just make Julia Childs fall over, foaming at the mouth.
Because Martin Luther wrote a challenge to the church. He put down his thoughts in 95 points and he invited people to come and debate him on the points. At no point did he advocated burning down the church or that the church itself was even evil.
And what about those who didn't like the English government's rule of our country and waged all out war to change things?
I'm not sure I would say that nailing a challenge to the Catholic Church on a church door equal to posting Anti-Government agenda on commerical websites, planting software and advocating violence.
Why not? The government and big business are every bit the manipulation machines that the old church was.
As a whole, the population is every bit as naive and/or fearful of government and big companies as they were of the old church. The penalties for either action are on the same scale, and the motivations are both for the good of the common man.
I won't say he's a saint, but then again -- neither were Luther nor the US' founding fathers saints, and all were very much in his position.
I'd wager that the announcement of an increase is what's being done for marketing reasons. (Hook, line, sinker for Slash's editors.)
Nothing like being told "This is your last chance! Buy now!" to spur people who wouldn't have bought it in the first place into an impulse/panic purchase.
Why do slashdot editors feel the need to undermine the stories they post with comments such as "real-men-use-apt". If a user posted a comment with that title it would rightly be moderated as flamebait.
You might find them much more humorous if you didn't feel you have to agree with them. They're little unintrusive jokes and quips and you can easily get in the habit of skipping over them if you really must.
Don't let them bug you. Nobody mistakes them for part of the story, and Slash is far enough removed from a news site that the editors ought to be able to relax and have a bit of fun.
It would be nice if the debian crew came up with a release branch somwhere in between stable and unstable. Something that was a little more up to date than stable and a little less bleeding edge than unstable.
Oh wait, THEY ALREADY HAVE. It's called testing and if you had read any debian news within the past year you would know about it.
But testing does still break periodically. Testing is - well - relatively untested.
Debian is a great distribution and definitely has its niches, but it seems fair to ensure that people don't think the testing version is comparable to what RedHat is offering. RedHat releases undergo a good amount of testing. With Debian testing, you're the one doing the testing.
If you can't afford some down time now and then, or if you aren't comfortable doing a bit of command line work when your X server suddenly doesn't come up after an upgrade, you need to steer clear. Stick with ancient Debian 2.2, which may be the most stable release on the planet, or look elsewhere if you need the newer whiz bang stuff without giving up a ton of stability.
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It's adbusters.org, not ".com". And it hasn't gone away.
Sorry. People who think "MCSE" is the foundation of a clever insult tend to be prepubescant, or (a) tend not to be people persons, as you ascribe yourself to be, and (b) tend to only show their O face to the Sears Hoisery catalogs and Cisco press releases.
When Thin-Skinned P.C. Liberal Arts Majors Attack. Tonight on FOX.
I do something similar. With my domain, I create a mail alias for each merchant and kill it at the first sign of spam.
Some of the merchants are very bad. Particularly the shop.yahoo.com ones. I think that either Yahoo has a leak in its ordering system, or somebody's actively soliciting mail addresses from shop.yahoo.com sellers. Well over half the items I order from there result in spam to the corresponding stores' addresses. Maybe one in seven of the non-Yahoo merchants end up selling or otherwise sharing my address.
Altogether though, ebay remains the absolute worst place to get your address harvested, with usenet a close second.
Sure, most people using Debian as a server are running the stable release, but I was under the impression that almost all desktop users were tracking unstable for want of the hundreds of packages missing in the age-old 2.2 release.
Having all these things fixed for Woody release would be nice, but I'm guessing there's almost nobody out there who'd be affected by these vanishing.
How many of you Debian folk are using stable for something other than a server?
Has this changed? If not, is it really wanted in the stock Linux kernel yet? Have any used ALSA with non-PC hardware yet?
I think you're missing something.
Kernel versions with an even number in the second position are meant to be stable. Nothing risky goes in these.
Kernel versions with an odd number in the second position are development versions. This is where risky and innovative new technology can be introduced and experimented with.
Linus only recently opened the 2.5 kernel series. He's been maintaining 2.4. I believe what you're attributing to ownership is his being aware of the fact that a broken "stable" kernel could do terrible damage, and nifty new sound bits and experimental reworking of the task scheduler aren't worth taking that risk.
I believe you're referring to Blue Ribbon Software. They also produced wonderful Amiga MIDI software, such as Bars and Pipes. This was quietly axed as well as a side-effect of the OS/2 blocking move.
Now that's ballsy!
If you (or anyone else) has proof that a large percentage of messages have fraudulent opt-out mechanisms, please share it with slash as well as your state representative. I believe what you originally claimed to be largely true, but I suspect we both have nothing better than a hunch, and so shouldn't be stating it as fact if we want to be taken seriously.
What are you basing this 99% on?
nvidia still hasn't shared which registers are used to set up a DVI display, which this iMac requires. This is also the reason you can't use the XFree86 group's nvidia driver if you have a DVI display on your PC Linux box.
If nvidia would just share this one bit of info, nvidia users could avoid loading a nasty closed-source driver.
Or go to your local Best Buy or similar and pick up a pair of these for about $60.
Sony makes a low-end version of these which are enough to cancel out air conditioning and case noises, and which have a standard headphone jack so you can plug in and listen to PC music while working.
You should be able to find them at Best Buy and similar for only $60.
Chicago. I think the deal was only available if you were using Speakeasy/Covad. Don't know about regions for it.
New customers only get 1.5/128 at the price I'm paying, so I guess they've effectively hiked the price. Existing customers are grandfathered in.
It's still a neat idea, and short of hosting outside of the USA, breaking away from commercial providers like this is the only way to get real freedom, as in Freedom of Speech, from an ISP.
You should exchange notes with other non-profit ISPs. Were a network of non-profit ISPs - free from commercial interests - to spread across the globe, you could change the world.
Not so.
Many of the 12x and 16x units wouldn't read CDRs, which would have made them near worthless in today's world. For most of them, the fix was as simple as slowing the speed and trying another pass at reading before giving up.
For many brands, a flash upgrade was all it took to fix these and give them value again. The upgrade was made available to consumers who suddenly had brand loyalty for what's normally a pretty ambigously branded piece of hardware.
For many other brands, the units became bargain bin fodder and left a lot of consumers pissed off at what they thought was broken hardware.
The author spends a lot of time explaining exactly what happens to food as you change the pH, explains what happens on the cellular level when you cook at different heats and for different times, basically reads like a chemistry text at times, all while giving some GREAT recipes.
I first heard the author on NPR a few years ago, and was very impressed. She would be talking your traditional cook-show talk, then suddently dive into these marvelously technical chemistry explanations that would just make Julia Childs fall over, foaming at the mouth.
And what about those who didn't like the English government's rule of our country and waged all out war to change things?
Why not? The government and big business are every bit the manipulation machines that the old church was.
As a whole, the population is every bit as naive and/or fearful of government and big companies as they were of the old church. The penalties for either action are on the same scale, and the motivations are both for the good of the common man.
I won't say he's a saint, but then again -- neither were Luther nor the US' founding fathers saints, and all were very much in his position.
Nothing like being told "This is your last chance! Buy now!" to spur people who wouldn't have bought it in the first place into an impulse/panic purchase.
Don't let them bug you. Nobody mistakes them for part of the story, and Slash is far enough removed from a news site that the editors ought to be able to relax and have a bit of fun.
But testing does still break periodically. Testing is - well - relatively untested.
Debian is a great distribution and definitely has its niches, but it seems fair to ensure that people don't think the testing version is comparable to what RedHat is offering. RedHat releases undergo a good amount of testing. With Debian testing, you're the one doing the testing.
If you can't afford some down time now and then, or if you aren't comfortable doing a bit of command line work when your X server suddenly doesn't come up after an upgrade, you need to steer clear. Stick with ancient Debian 2.2, which may be the most stable release on the planet, or look elsewhere if you need the newer whiz bang stuff without giving up a ton of stability.