Forced local supply (especially for raw materials) ends up being just another opportunity for regulatory capture.
Then, in the case of China's rare Earths supply, they cut off the supply and raise their prices, and you're back wishing you'd never mothballed your own producers for being too expensive compared to the Chinese. It's such a complicated equation.
And here's Clem, with a big smile, singed hair, and a smoking backpack.
You missed the lamentations of the Hipsters. "Aw, man! That's my third iBauble today! !@#$" Everyone pulls the dead earbeads from their ears, cars roll to a stop at the curb, sidewalks fill with pedestrians, and the smog clears up.
More likely, politicos pass a law making it illegal to use tech in public (in self defence).
"The person across from you is in the felon database" What you're looking at here is a personal mechanism to automatically apply the Jewish star. Or any other kind of star you, or other creatives, decide to implement as the witch hunt of the day.
Sure, that'll work to smooth social interactions. Not.
This should be interesting. I look forward to the day that everyone over thirty is packing an EMP generator in their backpack or vehicle. Don't want your tech bricked? Turn it off when you're in public endangering us with your total surveillance society. If no, then talk to your insurance provider. They'll buy you a new one. All your data's in The Cloud, yes?
Good luck to the cops tracking us down when everyone's packing. The whole street will be blanketed with EMP. Their EMP generator detectors will be bricked too. Popcorn!
You arrogant idiots. Our white countries are being destroyed in front of our very eyes, and we still have pricks like you, with only two brain cells, telling us how 'wonderful' it all is, and how 'evil' any white person who speaks out against it is.
I imagine a few Native American braves said the same sort of thing to Tecumseh. Oh, and you're a fool. People are people are people... Try walking a mile in their shoes before setting yourself up to look like an idiot.
Other than not acceding to your implication that Debian is the One True Distro*, I'm with ya, good buddy.
I didn't mean to imply that. I used Slackware for years and from time to time, still do. I've always been attracted to OpenBSD as well. Debian is pretty slick though (once you wrap your head around its oddities).
This is just stupid, effectively slashdot is down for me today.
I think the best part of the joke is seeing people like you whine "It's NOT FUNNY!!!111" ALL. DAY. LONG.
It's sort of like when Ubuntu showed up. It went a long way in separating the true Debianistas from the rest of the flotsam and jetsam. Hopefully, a lot of the whiners here will leave and never come back, and/. will experience a golden age of tech relevant news and discussions.
I wish Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD would implement this. Hopefully, Linux steals this from Microsoft and uses it in the next release of The Colonel v3.1469.
Are you trying for Funny? It's difficult to tell ("Colonel", really?!?).
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why is slashdot in a different language now? what the fuck. the site is in english and all the articles are in some other language...
(0) infidel/home/keeling_ echo 'Nhfgenyvna erfrnepuref unir fhpprffshyyl pbaarpgrq n Gnfznavna pbybal bs snvel crathvaf gb gur vagrearg. Gur erfrnepu rssbeg jnf cneg bs gur Vagrefcrpvrf Vagrearg vavgvngvir, cebzbgrq ol Tbbtyr'f puvrs vagrearg rinatryvfg Ivag Pres naq sbezre Trarfvf yrnq fvatre Crgre Tnoevry va n GRQ gnyx rneyvre guvf lrne.'' | caesar Australian researchers have successfully connected a Tasmanian colony of fairy penguins to the internet. The research effort was part of the Interspecies Internet initiative, promoted by Googles chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf and former Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel in a TED talk earlier this year.
What ad hominem? You saw the italics, yes (as in, no I don't mean it)? We're just talking here. I'd no intention whatever to insult. I'm just sayin' you may be too thin skinned. It's up to you to determine if it's so.
The guy had a valid statement. Yeah, he sounded like a Nazi doing it, but that's just artistic licence. I'm sad that it wasn't seen to be as "profound" as it should have been, and was instead down-modded as "OBVIOUS ANTI-SEMITISM!!!111 BURN HIM ON A STAKE (or crucify him; whatever)"
I'll be happy to let it drop here. No problemo. You know what I'm saying, so no need to belabour the point. HAND.
People who do illegal stuff deserve everything they get. I teach my kids to report all Jews they see.
Yo mods, if I'm not mistaken, that's parody. It was illegal to not report jews in Nazi Germany.
True enough, but the tone does not add anything to the discussion aside from confusion.
Objecting to "the tone" is a pretty lame justification for down-modding something you failed to understand on first glance. I've seen dumb-ass two word one-liners modded to +5 Insightful. I'd take creativity any day over worthless !@#$ like that.
FYI, you're just branding yourself a thin skinned member of the World-wide Jewish/Zionist/Illuminati Conspiracy, incapable of tolerating anything that even smells of anti-semitism.
"Fuck the Jews!" "Yeah, and the cyclists!" "Er, why cyclists?!?" "Why the Jews?"
You should read some Russian Soviet era joke books. Black humour is a powerful art.
Archive mail by the year as it gets too big. Use mutt's search for the basic searching and maildir-utils for the heavy lifting.
Agreed, and add OfflineIMAP, grepmail, and ImapFilter. Best is grepmail output to a file creates a new mail file, and mutt can handle gzipped mail files. There's your backup.
Debates on weather in Texas have *nothing* to do with evolution in school curriculum in Texas.
Whether he meant to write about meterorological phenomena is highly unlikely. My guess is his command of English is less than perfect, but he's hardly alone in that boat these days, including among native English speakers. Whether you can weather the storm of yuks related to whether you're a smartass or a dolt (or just trolling; or is that redundant?) is another question altogether.
They are happy to block (oh sorry: list) an entire ISP for having a single problem that may not even be under their control.
I've heard this many times over the years, and every time it turned out that the problem was under their control, yes they had something misconfigured, and Spamhaus was correct in adding them to the list. Look at the present story we're commenting on. Why do we still have so many open relays after all this time that allow this !@#$ to happen?!? Because people are lazy or ignorant.
I want spammers and their botnets to disappear (into the deepest pit in hades!:-). That's not going to happen if we let this !@#$ slide.
So where is the evidence that Cyberbunker has anything to do with this?
You didn't expect to find such detail in a/. article, did you?
I appreciate the things the Spamhaus people do, but they don't exactly have a spotless record when it comes to accurately pointing fingers.
Hmm. That looks pretty spotless to me. Can you offer better evidence that they're bad? I'm not seeing it. Nobody's forcing anyone to use RBLs. If you don't like your ISP using them, you can vote with your feet.
I'm amazed that after all this time ISPs haven't banded together to hunt down and decapitate spam orgs (the Russian Mafia ought to be happy for the business:-). If spammers' marks can find them, why can't the authorities? Follow the damned money!
Yes, it's avoiding paying taxes. No, it's not tax evasion, and it's not illegal.
it may be legal, but is it wrong?
What's that got to do with it? Companies care about morality and ethics when they have PR value; that's all. If you don't like it, you can complain to your elected reps to close the loophole. Then expect those companies to physically move their ops to Ireland, or get their finance types to find another way around it.
Sorry if I gave you a reason to mistake me for a rich guy. I've had two cheapo, second-hand laptops in the last decade. My latest HP Pavilion was bought new, but I can't even afford to replace its now dying battery.
Unlike your mech. friend, I can happily make do with FLOSS and obsolete hardware. Fluxbox screams on hardware where Windows crawls on it. I still have a P4 desktop that I use to try to learn *BSD, but it needs a WiFi card which I haven't yet managed to purchase.
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Forced local supply (especially for raw materials) ends up being just another opportunity for regulatory capture.
Then, in the case of China's rare Earths supply, they cut off the supply and raise their prices, and you're back wishing you'd never mothballed your own producers for being too expensive compared to the Chinese. It's such a complicated equation.
And here's Clem, with a big smile, singed hair, and a smoking backpack.
You missed the lamentations of the Hipsters. "Aw, man! That's my third iBauble today! !@#$" Everyone pulls the dead earbeads from their ears, cars roll to a stop at the curb, sidewalks fill with pedestrians, and the smog clears up.
More likely, politicos pass a law making it illegal to use tech in public (in self defence).
Then there's Clem. "T'weren't me. Good one Mom!"
"The person across from you is in the felon database" What you're looking at here is a personal mechanism to automatically apply the Jewish star. Or any other kind of star you, or other creatives, decide to implement as the witch hunt of the day.
Sure, that'll work to smooth social interactions. Not.
This should be interesting. I look forward to the day that everyone over thirty is packing an EMP generator in their backpack or vehicle. Don't want your tech bricked? Turn it off when you're in public endangering us with your total surveillance society. If no, then talk to your insurance provider. They'll buy you a new one. All your data's in The Cloud, yes?
Good luck to the cops tracking us down when everyone's packing. The whole street will be blanketed with EMP. Their EMP generator detectors will be bricked too. Popcorn!
You arrogant idiots. Our white countries are being destroyed in front of our very eyes, and we still have pricks like you, with only two brain cells, telling us how 'wonderful' it all is, and how 'evil' any white person who speaks out against it is.
I imagine a few Native American braves said the same sort of thing to Tecumseh. Oh, and you're a fool. People are people are people ... Try walking a mile in their shoes before setting yourself up to look like an idiot.
Other than not acceding to your implication that Debian is the One True Distro*, I'm with ya, good buddy.
I didn't mean to imply that. I used Slackware for years and from time to time, still do. I've always been attracted to OpenBSD as well. Debian is pretty slick though (once you wrap your head around its oddities).
Enough with the fucking retarded ROT13 shite, turn it ff already.
I'm not sure what's funnier; seeing all you whiners kvetch about rot13 all day, or the fact that you got modded +5 Informative for that.
Slashdot, you may have outdone yourselves today.
You are forgetting the giggle value derived from watching you lose your cool.
That's pretty much what I just said in another story. "It's NOT FUNNY!!!111" , ALL DAY LONG! Yuk, yuk, yuk. Poor babies. :-)
This is just stupid, effectively slashdot is down for me today.
I think the best part of the joke is seeing people like you whine "It's NOT FUNNY!!!111" ALL. DAY. LONG.
It's sort of like when Ubuntu showed up. It went a long way in separating the true Debianistas from the rest of the flotsam and jetsam. Hopefully, a lot of the whiners here will leave and never come back, and /. will experience a golden age of tech relevant news and discussions.
I can dream.
I wish Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD would implement this. Hopefully, Linux steals this from Microsoft and uses it in the next release of The Colonel v3.1469.
Are you trying for Funny? It's difficult to tell ("Colonel", really?!?).
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That includes rot13/caesar:
(2) infidel /home/keeling_ echo 'You ninny!'|caesar
Eua totte!
why is slashdot in a different language now? what the fuck. the site is in english and all the articles are in some other language ...
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ echo 'Nhfgenyvna erfrnepuref unir fhpprffshyyl pbaarpgrq n Gnfznavna pbybal bs snvel crathvaf gb gur vagrearg. Gur erfrnepu rssbeg jnf cneg bs gur Vagrefcrpvrf Vagrearg vavgvngvir, cebzbgrq ol Tbbtyr'f puvrs vagrearg rinatryvfg Ivag Pres naq sbezre Trarfvf yrnq fvatre Crgre Tnoevry va n GRQ gnyx rneyvre guvf lrne.'' | caesar
Australian researchers have successfully connected a Tasmanian colony of fairy penguins to the internet. The research effort was part of the Interspecies Internet initiative, promoted by Googles chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf and former Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel in a TED talk earlier this year.
Lamer. :-P
Guilty as charged.
OK, thanks for the ad-hominem.
What ad hominem? You saw the italics, yes (as in, no I don't mean it)? We're just talking here. I'd no intention whatever to insult. I'm just sayin' you may be too thin skinned. It's up to you to determine if it's so.
The guy had a valid statement. Yeah, he sounded like a Nazi doing it, but that's just artistic licence. I'm sad that it wasn't seen to be as "profound" as it should have been, and was instead down-modded as "OBVIOUS ANTI-SEMITISM!!!111 BURN HIM ON A STAKE (or crucify him; whatever)"
I'll be happy to let it drop here. No problemo. You know what I'm saying, so no need to belabour the point. HAND.
Just stop knee-jerkin', please? :-) Have fun.
People who do illegal stuff deserve everything they get. I teach my kids to report all Jews they see.
Yo mods, if I'm not mistaken, that's parody. It was illegal to not report jews in Nazi Germany.
True enough, but the tone does not add anything to the discussion aside from confusion.
Objecting to "the tone" is a pretty lame justification for down-modding something you failed to understand on first glance. I've seen dumb-ass two word one-liners modded to +5 Insightful. I'd take creativity any day over worthless !@#$ like that.
FYI, you're just branding yourself a thin skinned member of the World-wide Jewish/Zionist/Illuminati Conspiracy, incapable of tolerating anything that even smells of anti-semitism.
"Fuck the Jews!"
"Yeah, and the cyclists!"
"Er, why cyclists?!?"
"Why the Jews?"
You should read some Russian Soviet era joke books. Black humour is a powerful art.
Somebody needs to read Les Miserables.
People who do illegal stuff deserve everything they get. I teach my kids to report all Jews they see.
Yo mods, if I'm not mistaken, that's parody. It was illegal to not report jews in Nazi Germany.
By committing suicide all he did was show that he lacked the courage of his convictions.
You do know what the "C" in "AC" stands for, yes? WTF are you calling someone else a coward!?!
Archive mail by the year as it gets too big. Use mutt's search for the basic searching and maildir-utils for the heavy lifting.
Agreed, and add OfflineIMAP, grepmail, and ImapFilter. Best is grepmail output to a file creates a new mail file, and mutt can handle gzipped mail files. There's your backup.
I wouldn't be surprised if they replace the kernel next ...
It's been done. I know of at least two distros that offer the FreeBSD kernel instead of Linux.
Wouldn't it be nice if the system had some security built into it to exert control over what tower their subscribers' phone connects to.
It does have security! The DOJ is absolutely secure in the knowledge that it can have control over what tower a cell phone connects to.
Yeah, about that ... Hail Caeser! :-P
Wouldn't it be nice if the user had some visibility and control over what tower their own phone connects to.
Wouldn't it be nice if the system had some security built into it to exert control over what tower their subscribers' phone connects to.
It's not like this is a brand new problem that's just popped up in the age of cell-phone connectivity. Those who refuse to learn from history ...
Debates on weather in Texas have *nothing* to do with evolution in school curriculum in Texas.
Whether he meant to write about meterorological phenomena is highly unlikely. My guess is his command of English is less than perfect, but he's hardly alone in that boat these days, including among native English speakers. Whether you can weather the storm of yuks related to whether you're a smartass or a dolt (or just trolling; or is that redundant?) is another question altogether.
They are happy to block (oh sorry: list) an entire ISP for having a single problem that may not even be under their control.
I've heard this many times over the years, and every time it turned out that the problem was under their control, yes they had something misconfigured, and Spamhaus was correct in adding them to the list. Look at the present story we're commenting on. Why do we still have so many open relays after all this time that allow this !@#$ to happen?!? Because people are lazy or ignorant.
I want spammers and their botnets to disappear (into the deepest pit in hades! :-). That's not going to happen if we let this !@#$ slide.
So where is the evidence that Cyberbunker has anything to do with this?
You didn't expect to find such detail in a /. article, did you?
I appreciate the things the Spamhaus people do, but they don't exactly have a spotless record when it comes to accurately pointing fingers.
Hmm. That looks pretty spotless to me. Can you offer better evidence that they're bad? I'm not seeing it. Nobody's forcing anyone to use RBLs. If you don't like your ISP using them, you can vote with your feet.
I'm amazed that after all this time ISPs haven't banded together to hunt down and decapitate spam orgs (the Russian Mafia ought to be happy for the business :-). If spammers' marks can find them, why can't the authorities? Follow the damned money!
Yes, it's avoiding paying taxes. No, it's not tax evasion, and it's not illegal.
it may be legal, but is it wrong?
What's that got to do with it? Companies care about morality and ethics when they have PR value; that's all. If you don't like it, you can complain to your elected reps to close the loophole. Then expect those companies to physically move their ops to Ireland, or get their finance types to find another way around it.
So while its nice you have that kind of money ...
Sorry if I gave you a reason to mistake me for a rich guy. I've had two cheapo, second-hand laptops in the last decade. My latest HP Pavilion was bought new, but I can't even afford to replace its now dying battery.
Unlike your mech. friend, I can happily make do with FLOSS and obsolete hardware. Fluxbox screams on hardware where Windows crawls on it. I still have a P4 desktop that I use to try to learn *BSD, but it needs a WiFi card which I haven't yet managed to purchase.