"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
Most reports I have heard say that most people from countries outside of the US view many US products (McDonalds, Microsoft, Nike, others) as international producs and don't really associate them with the US. Is that BS?
I'd also like to know if that statement is just a knee-jerk statement or if there is any proof to back it up.
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
Edge flipping was freaking awesome and it is stupid that it was removed. Tons of people used it and loved it..if you don't like it..don't turn it on. Why put it in keybindings and remove it from the mouse? Put it in both. I won't use metashitty just for that.
I know everyone doesn't count it as the end all be all...but many do.
Too many in this area anyhow:) I applied for a position at the company my brother works for and he was told I wouldn't get an interview because I didn't have a degree.
I DO have 8 years of network/support experience, a CCNA, 4-5 UNIX and Linux experience but won't be granted an interview for this job which is for a Solaris/Linux sysadmin position.
I know that is just one example, but I know it happens more often than not.
It happens all of the time. When a company looks at a pile of 50-100 resumes for one position they weed out people based on certain things. Usually one of those is a degree.
I know a ton more about IT and business than MOST CS grads with less experience (and some that have more experience). However, no degree and 8 yrs experience won't get a fair shake against a degree and 3 years of exp.
I don't think that mac users are lowbrow monkeys and didn't mean to convey that.
Most mac users I know (and working in the newspaper industry I know quite a few) are not skilled at computer use. That doesn't mean that macs suck however. I believe that the same people on Windows or Linux would be just as clueless. *I* don't like macs at all. I think the OS is ugly, I've never understood why people think it is so great looking.
My biggest argument with macs is that it takes away options. If the mac doesn't provide a way to do it, then it must not need to be done.
The mac OS is not easy to move around in and generally doesn't make a lot of sense. Now maybe you think it makes sense and looks good because you have used them for a while, but a person just sitting down to a computer for the first time will have just as much trouble with a mac as they will with linux as they will with UNIX.
" I know in my heart that Mr. Christmas is really a PC guy. "
that line from the article is a pretty big clue. And his other rantings about how stupid pc users are. This from a guy that sent a $2900 computer to someone. And HE is calling people stupid. Wow.
I'm glad he busted the guy, however the multiple comments like, "he didn't even know what e-mail was. Definitely a PC user" made the whole article pretty stupid.
I mean, most of the mac addicts around here think OS X was developed from scratch by Apple and get confused when you present them with options on how to do something on a computer.
I'm sure there are plently of intelligent mac users out there, this guy just doesn't seem like one of them.
It doesn't have to be expensive. It can be for hunters who buy 40 stupid gadgets every year and don't really know how to hunt however.
I'd take vacation time anyway, and I wouldn't work a second job while I take vacation time. I get paid for my vacation time so there is no loss on salary.
I bowhunt most of the time. While bows are expensive (I bought a new one this year) they last a very long time with proper maintenance.
I eat less while hunting, for 8 of us this year the cost of food for one week was 45 dollars.
I camp with my family, so I already have camping equipment. It's not an extra expense because I would have it even if I didn't hunt.
It's not too hard to process your own deer if you take the time and learn how.
I get about 250-300 pounds of meat per year and spend about 150 dollars. I'm getting a good deal. Specially cause it's not all hamburger.
I suggest you take some of your resources down to the local food bank and feed some hungry people.
It is not ineffecient at all to kill a deer and butcher it and eat it. If the deer didn't exist and I had to feed it a ton of food for 2 years before I could slaughter it, then maybe.
On the other hand, I don't eat grass. Deer are very plentiful (very overcrowded), eat grass, and taste great. Venison provides nutrition for humans.
I realize you just have some aversion to killing animals for food, and that is fine. Good for you. But don't spread FUD about eating meat. In moderation (like any food product) it is good for you.
Obviously you know nothing about hunting. Most hunters go out to fill their freezer and feed their family.
Hunting is an inexpensive way to feed a family and thin out an overpopulated herd. Why let the deer die of overcrowding and starvation? Overcrowding leads to many types of disease also. I don't know if CWD is due to overcrowding, but it does accelerate it's growth.
Many hunters (myself included) donate meat that won't fit in my freezer to shelters and churches. Solves more than one problem (herd population and feeding hungry).
Also, as any bowhunter knows, deer not far from defenseless.
Hmm, while I do not own a playstation, xbox, or anything newer than my "classic" nintendo. I don't see anything wrong with a company producing a chip that I can put into something I purchased. If I purchased the ps2 or something, I would expect to be able to open it up and plug whatever damn piece of electronics into it that I want.
It could be that I am missing some grand point here since I haven't been following all of this very well. It just seems to me that some company is creating a product that allows me to void my warranty on a piece of hardware that *I* own. If I buy a Toasmaster brand toaster and a company makes a Toastmaster hack that connects my toaster to the internet I expect to be able to mod my own toaster.
Cute, but no good. It's been a long standing statement of gays and those that support them that normal people who think homosexuality is wrong are either gay themselves or afraid of being gay. It is a bunch of hogwash which is designed to put the person against homosexuality into a catch-22. They can't argue against it anymore because the person then points at them and says, "see! you are just getting more mad cause you are really gay yourself!", and if they don't argue anymore then the person assumes they have won the argument.
Your "definition" sums nothing up, that is a definition wrapped around trying to prove a point.
Men and men or women and women aren't meant to have sex. The first purpose of having sex is a drive to procreate, the good feelings sex produces is an incentive to have sex and procreate.
I am not afraid of homosexuality but I believe it is deviant behavior because it is unnatural. Just as I believe child molesters are sexually deviant (that is another one that a person is "born with") I believe homosexuals are. I'm not afraid of child molesters, but I believe their acts are wrong, I'm not afraid of homosexuals but I believe their acts are wrong also.
You should be sorry. Racists, sexists, and homophobes are not scum, they merely have different beliefs than you. Do you advocate enacting laws restricting anyone who doesn't agree with you? How shortsighted.
You state that, "There is no positive aspect to hate speech, and many of its defenders are closet racists themselves." What a bunch of crapola. First you can't see any positive to people that disagree with you, then you make a generalized, unprovable, and stupid statement to justify your quote. That is pathetic.
While I am not a racist, sexist, or homophobe (see below) and would not choose to visit sites that speak out against certain types of people, those sites should be able to exist.
BTW, a pet peeve of mine. People who disagree with homosexuality are not homophobes. Calling them homophobes is a type of hate speech in itself as it tries to villify a group of people. I think homosexuality is wrong, disgustingly so. I speak out against it. I am not afraid of homosexuals. A homophobe is afraid of homosexuals.
wow, I must be the only person in/.land who isn't annoyed to DEATH by those things. Granted, working second shift wed-sun and having 2 kids + wife I actually only see about 10 minutes of TV a week (there is NOTHING good on before 2PM during the week).
I noticed when the "new TNN" started using them, and they annoyed me for all of 5 minutes. Then I just phased it out...either that or I am being secretly controlled by them by opening some sort of subconcious tunnel thingy.
Yeah, it isn't a silver bullet. But rules can be added to foil any new spam. I agree with you that it is annoying to have to do, but I'm a sysadmin, I spend a lot of my day fixing annoying problems:)
"SPEWS does not run a request or nomination based list, entries in the list come from the knowledge and experience of the people who set up and use the SPEWS lists. "
Interesting, but this quote, combined with your quote about how they identify spammers sometimes "before they start spamming" kinda worries me. How secure is this list system? Who runs it? I like the idea of running spam through an algorithm based system like spamassassin and dealing with it that way, but killing a bunch of mail based on someone elses list isn't for me. What if one of the maintainers is drunk one night and blocks hotmail.com ip's?
It may be a great way to kill spam...I just don't think *I* would use it.
While the above solution that I presented works great (I think) I didn't take into account the fact that you still must download the spam and process it via these rules, this takes up bandwidth and processing power. This point was made in some later posts.
However that kinda stuff is a necessary evil I think. If the port is open then I am willing to accept data on it. I still believe legislation is not the answer, now informing the ISPs where the spam is coming from may be a good solution since it is almost always against thier acceptable use policies. We just don't need more laws, we need to spend more time enforcing the ones we have.
And here is a great HOWto by Mickey Hill on making it all work together.
Legislation is not going to solve this problem, and only ties up our courts/government with drivel. As many people have mentioned, how is this going to work with international spammers? It's not. Just kill the spam.
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"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
Most reports I have heard say that most people from countries outside of the US view many US products (McDonalds, Microsoft, Nike, others) as international producs and don't really associate them with the US. Is that BS?
I'd also like to know if that statement is just a knee-jerk statement or if there is any proof to back it up.
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
So does Solaris, and it HAS for a while.
I have both an Osborne 1 and an Osborne Executive that I STILL use.
I play cranston manor and eliza on them still, and nothing beats wordstar 1.1
The truth is I'm just addicted to the azure glow of the power button.
Then they wouldn't have to spend so much time fighting security holes!
January 26th:
PowerLabs was featured on a ZZZ Article; traffic triples (now at 4000+ hits/day).
Just give it a few minutes Sam. And break out that asbestos suit while you are at it.
Edge flipping was freaking awesome and it is stupid that it was removed. Tons of people used it and loved it..if you don't like it..don't turn it on. Why put it in keybindings and remove it from the mouse? Put it in both. I won't use metashitty just for that.
Are you sure she was an Orthodox Jew? Or was she just pulling some elaborate sororiety prank...
I bet she won.
I know everyone doesn't count it as the end all be all...but many do.
:) I applied for a position at the company my brother works for and he was told I wouldn't get an interview because I didn't have a degree.
Too many in this area anyhow
I DO have 8 years of network/support experience, a CCNA, 4-5 UNIX and Linux experience but won't be granted an interview for this job which is for a Solaris/Linux sysadmin position.
I know that is just one example, but I know it happens more often than not.
I don't think it's a sure ticket, but with my experience AND a degree I think my chances would be improved about a billion-fold.
And yes, I am going to school to finish it, but supporting wife and 2 kids and working it makes progress slow at best.
It happens all of the time. When a company looks at a pile of 50-100 resumes for one position they weed out people based on certain things. Usually one of those is a degree.
I know a ton more about IT and business than MOST CS grads with less experience (and some that have more experience). However, no degree and 8 yrs experience won't get a fair shake against a degree and 3 years of exp.
whats even more depressing is losing jobs to people with a BS but with little or no experience. I don't have a BS but I have 8 years of experience.
yeah?
Wish in one hand and shit in the other...see which one fills up first.
I don't think that mac users are lowbrow monkeys and didn't mean to convey that.
Most mac users I know (and working in the newspaper industry I know quite a few) are not skilled at computer use. That doesn't mean that macs suck however. I believe that the same people on Windows or Linux would be just as clueless. *I* don't like macs at all. I think the OS is ugly, I've never understood why people think it is so great looking.
My biggest argument with macs is that it takes away options. If the mac doesn't provide a way to do it, then it must not need to be done.
The mac OS is not easy to move around in and generally doesn't make a lot of sense. Now maybe you think it makes sense and looks good because you have used them for a while, but a person just sitting down to a computer for the first time will have just as much trouble with a mac as they will with linux as they will with UNIX.
" I know in my heart that Mr. Christmas is really a PC guy. "
that line from the article is a pretty big clue. And his other rantings about how stupid pc users are. This from a guy that sent a $2900 computer to someone. And HE is calling people stupid. Wow.
He needs to be hit with a Clue-by-Four.
I'm glad he busted the guy, however the multiple comments like,
"he didn't even know what e-mail was. Definitely a PC user"
made the whole article pretty stupid.
I mean, most of the mac addicts around here think OS X was developed from scratch by Apple and get confused when you present them with options on how to do something on a computer.
I'm sure there are plently of intelligent mac users out there, this guy just doesn't seem like one of them.
It doesn't have to be expensive. It can be for hunters who buy 40 stupid gadgets every year and don't really know how to hunt however.
I'd take vacation time anyway, and I wouldn't work a second job while I take vacation time. I get paid for my vacation time so there is no loss on salary.
I bowhunt most of the time. While bows are expensive (I bought a new one this year) they last a very long time with proper maintenance.
I eat less while hunting, for 8 of us this year the cost of food for one week was 45 dollars.
I camp with my family, so I already have camping equipment. It's not an extra expense because I would have it even if I didn't hunt.
It's not too hard to process your own deer if you take the time and learn how.
I get about 250-300 pounds of meat per year and spend about 150 dollars. I'm getting a good deal.
Specially cause it's not all hamburger.
Maybe you have plenty of resources.
I suggest you take some of your resources down to the local food bank and feed some hungry people.
It is not ineffecient at all to kill a deer and butcher it and eat it. If the deer didn't exist and I had to feed it a ton of food for 2 years before I could slaughter it, then maybe.
On the other hand, I don't eat grass. Deer are very plentiful (very overcrowded), eat grass, and taste great. Venison provides nutrition for humans.
I realize you just have some aversion to killing animals for food, and that is fine. Good for you. But don't spread FUD about eating meat. In moderation (like any food product) it is good for you.
Well, I'll take a stab at this troll...
Obviously you know nothing about hunting. Most hunters go out to fill their freezer and feed their family.
Hunting is an inexpensive way to feed a family and thin out an overpopulated herd. Why let the deer die of overcrowding and starvation? Overcrowding leads to many types of disease also. I don't know if CWD is due to overcrowding, but it does accelerate it's growth.
Many hunters (myself included) donate meat that won't fit in my freezer to shelters and churches. Solves more than one problem (herd population and feeding hungry).
Also, as any bowhunter knows, deer not far from defenseless.
Hmm, while I do not own a playstation, xbox, or anything newer than my "classic" nintendo. I don't see anything wrong with a company producing a chip that I can put into something I purchased. If I purchased the ps2 or something, I would expect to be able to open it up and plug whatever damn piece of electronics into it that I want.
It could be that I am missing some grand point here since I haven't been following all of this very well. It just seems to me that some company is creating a product that allows me to void my warranty on a piece of hardware that *I* own. If I buy a Toasmaster brand toaster and a company makes a Toastmaster hack that connects my toaster to the internet I expect to be able to mod my own toaster.
Am I missing something?
Cute, but no good. It's been a long standing statement of gays and those that support them that normal people who think homosexuality is wrong are either gay themselves or afraid of being gay. It is a bunch of hogwash which is designed to put the person against homosexuality into a catch-22. They can't argue against it anymore because the person then points at them and says, "see! you are just getting more mad cause you are really gay yourself!", and if they don't argue anymore then the person assumes they have won the argument.
Your "definition" sums nothing up, that is a definition wrapped around trying to prove a point.
Men and men or women and women aren't meant to have sex. The first purpose of having sex is a drive to procreate, the good feelings sex produces is an incentive to have sex and procreate.
I am not afraid of homosexuality but I believe it is deviant behavior because it is unnatural. Just as I believe child molesters are sexually deviant (that is another one that a person is "born with") I believe homosexuals are. I'm not afraid of child molesters, but I believe their acts are wrong, I'm not afraid of homosexuals but I believe their acts are wrong also.
You should be sorry. Racists, sexists, and homophobes are not scum, they merely have different beliefs than you. Do you advocate enacting laws restricting anyone who doesn't agree with you? How shortsighted.
You state that, "There is no positive aspect to hate speech, and many of its defenders are closet racists themselves." What a bunch of crapola. First you can't see any positive to people that disagree with you, then you make a generalized, unprovable, and stupid statement to justify your quote. That is pathetic.
While I am not a racist, sexist, or homophobe (see below) and would not choose to visit sites that speak out against certain types of people, those sites should be able to exist.
BTW, a pet peeve of mine. People who disagree with homosexuality are not homophobes. Calling them homophobes is a type of hate speech in itself as it tries to villify a group of people. I think homosexuality is wrong, disgustingly so. I speak out against it. I am not afraid of homosexuals. A homophobe is afraid of homosexuals.
Quit spreading your own hate speech.
wow, I must be the only person in /.land who isn't annoyed to DEATH by those things. Granted, working second shift wed-sun and having 2 kids + wife I actually only see about 10 minutes of TV a week (there is NOTHING good on before 2PM during the week).
I noticed when the "new TNN" started using them, and they annoyed me for all of 5 minutes. Then I just phased it out...either that or I am being secretly controlled by them by opening some sort of subconcious tunnel thingy.
Yeah, it isn't a silver bullet. But rules can be added to foil any new spam. I agree with you that it is annoying to have to do, but I'm a sysadmin, I spend a lot of my day fixing annoying problems :)
"SPEWS does not run a request or nomination based list, entries in the list come from the knowledge and experience of the people who set up and use the SPEWS lists. "
Interesting, but this quote, combined with your quote about how they identify spammers sometimes "before they start spamming" kinda worries me. How secure is this list system? Who runs it? I like the idea of running spam through an algorithm based system like spamassassin and dealing with it that way, but killing a bunch of mail based on someone elses list isn't for me. What if one of the maintainers is drunk one night and blocks hotmail.com ip's?
It may be a great way to kill spam...I just don't think *I* would use it.
Not to pick holes in my own argument....
While the above solution that I presented works great (I think) I didn't take into account the fact that you still must download the spam and process it via these rules, this takes up bandwidth and processing power. This point was made in some later posts.
However that kinda stuff is a necessary evil I think. If the port is open then I am willing to accept data on it. I still believe legislation is not the answer, now informing the ISPs where the spam is coming from may be a good solution since it is almost always against thier acceptable use policies. We just don't need more laws, we need to spend more time enforcing the ones we have.
I know it bothers a lot of people...but I mean come on..
MIMEDefang + MCaffee (enter favorite virus scanner here) + Spamassassin makes the spam and viruses pretty much go away.
And here is a great HOWto by Mickey Hill on making it all work together.
Legislation is not going to solve this problem, and only ties up our courts/government with drivel. As many people have mentioned, how is this going to work with international spammers? It's not. Just kill the spam.