Oh, come on. Just stand back and look at it. It's almost art, in a Jackson Pollock sort of way. Who does !@#$ like that at 19:19 on a Friday?!? You can almost see his Mom and little brother standing behind him wailing on him with nerf bats and guilt trips.
If I ever decide to off myself, that's the way I want to go out, for sure.
Sometimes, smaller markets (less demand) actually result in higher prices per unit sold...
Otherwise known as the Ferrari vs. Volkswagon Principle. Filet Mignon or Big Mac? Nippon Sikis or Adidas? Cotton or polyester? Virginia or Turkish? Pleistocene or Cretacious?
DRM is more of a philosophical than practical problem. It annoys geeks, but doesn't seem to matter to most normal consumers.
No. I spent most of yesterday and the day before talking/negotiating with Apple tech support trying to fix my parents' Mac. They were all great and wonderful to deal with. I even had a manager call me to inform me that the people who sold it to them sold them the wrong support contract, but he could fix it automatically from their end if that was alright. Great!:-)
Then, I could ask them technical questions. Not before. That's DRM.
I bill corporates ca. C$75.00/hr. for this !@#$.[*] I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for my Mom owning a geekboy son, it never would've been fixed. I like how Macs work. I don't like the price all that proprietary corporate !@#$ sells for. Why do I have to waste a day and a half proving to them what they sold me? The richest corp on the planet *ought* to have this down flawlessly by now.
Nope. Sucks.
[*] I'm considering talking to NCIS. Leon Panetta appears to need my help. Still thinking about it... (http://www.ncis.navy.mil/Careers/Cyber/Pages/default.aspx). Interesting.
This statement is a perfect example of the entitlement psychosis. Why don't you go stand in the corner and stamp your feet and shout gimme, gimme, gimme...
You may be either *the* stupidest person I've ever run across, or you're just another net troll. I don't much care which; I'll just consider you human anyway (don't die). You may be a sad act as humans go, but hope's never lost if you can still breath. See this damnit!. Now you probably need to look up "The Doors", "Woodstock", and "Concert For Bangladesh" too, then Carlos Santana and Ravi Shankar, and Buena Vista Social Club, and Eric Burden And The Animals, and Mike And The Mechanics (okay, I'll stop now). That's where I'm going next. FYI, I've owned legal, paid for, copies of all of them, LPs and casettes...
Make sure you play them LOUD! Crank it up! Joni Mitchell's "Cotton Avenue" too; Jacko Pastorias' bass is to die for. Trust me on this.
GAHD, I loveWho's Next! TURN IT UP! "Who's Next" is forty-one years old, you know?
To say it is the USA only, gives a huge pass to those governments in the EU.
The thing is, though, it seems very much to be USA driven., and the Euros (from what I've read) have been fighting against it harder than pretty much anyone. TPB is Swedish, yes? SOPA, PIPA, TPP, DMCA, yada, yada, yada: USA! When it showed up in Poland, thousands (tens of thousands?) of people actually hit the streets (literally) in lousy weather and scared Polish politicians silly enough to kill it. France is "this close" to killing their "N Strikes" (HADOPI?) thingy. Portugal, Spain,... don't appear to think this's a problem worth their time, or that kind of a solution to the problem is worse than the problem itself.
The US, on the other hand, continues full speed ahead; damn the torpedos! The USA's legacy entertainment industry is definitely the prime mover behind most of this madness.
[I love Poles.:-) This world needs lots more people like them.]
I'm sick of a lot of things. Hearing about "this dude" is nowhere near the end of that list.
kdc's trials and tribulations are very entertaining, especially how he's managed to tie two separate countries' legal systems in knots. We can only dream to get those !@#$%^&* as worked up about us as he's managed to. Good on him.
"How !@#$ed up is the US' DoJ? How incompetent are they?" Well, sic kdc on 'em, and let's find out. Now "That's Entertainment!" From what I've heard, I wouldn't like the guy personally, but he sure puts on a good show. Rock on!
You're not talking about "the basics." We've got the basics down. IETF & RFCs rule.
Not any more. Tell ICANN it's doing something that violates the major DNS RFC's and you'll be told that's not important any more.
Yeah, "rule" was wrong. "IETF & RFCs are the basics", is what I meant. I'll plead $SCOTCH.
Even members of ICANN's BoD have gone on the warpath complaining of the insular way in which ICANN's run, to no effect. I wish I could offer a link to the story I'm thinking of, sorry. It's lost in the vast list of protests over so many of its actions.
If you honestly think China, NK, Iran, or the Pakistani governments are no different than the US government...
You have a problem with reading comprehension. I didn't say anything remotely like that.
Even the copyright and content related issues are the result of the current laws trying to deny the change over from hard copy to electronic media distribution.
FTFY.
People have adopted an "entitlement" mindset and believe they should have free and unfettered access to any digital content they can get their hands on...
Not all. I advocate boycotting them and their works. The sooner those leaches go out of business and disappear, the sooner we'll be able to get on with life without lawyers breathing down everyone's neck for not paying tithes, or buying special favours from our elected representatives.
ICANN has a very limited mandate which is to manage the top level domain servers and they have did a good job.
Ha. Ha. Ha. $GOLFCLAP.
The UN has shown it is an ineffectual organization that often does more harm than good. It's usefulness has long passed and like the League of Nations it should be shut down and replaced by another organization that better reflects today's world.
I've never thought otherwise, though I do love the blue berets its peacekeepers wear, and the latter have done some damned amazing stuff.
This is better than the COCOT scams of the 90s. I may go back into the ISP business.
What an idea! Buy up all of Amazon's excess server capacity and build a botnet of honeypots. It'd act like a black hole to spam and malware, all paid for by spammers. You could vacuum the net clean.
But the thing is that someone has to have some kind of control, since if people don't agree on the basics then it doesn't interoperate.
You're not talking about "the basics." We've got the basics down. IETF & RFCs rule.
Given that the US is (IMO) better than every single other country in the world...
Good grief. You apparently haven't been watching all that closely. Your humble opinion isn't worth shit. Your MafiAA has bought your politicians, your government is no longer in your control, and in the upcoming election, you have a choice between Demopublican or Republicrat. You swear that voting for anything else will just be handing it all to the other guy. You've allowed your politicians to get away with creating a revolving door between Congress and the DoJ and the MafiAA. ICANN has become it's own money printing machine. Your USTR is utterly out of control openly colluding with the MafiAA with no Congressional oversight. Etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Well, OK, then who should have the final control over the root DNS then? It ahs to reside somewhere.
Does it? I'll use OpenDNS. You use whatever you want to. Iran and China and North Korea and Pakistan... can use whoever they want to.
I don't trust your government nowadays anymore than I trust China's or Iran's or Pakistan's.
All right. Can you send them my way? We're interviewing and almost no one showing up is American (or American-born). I'm talking about 20 - 30+ people a month showing up for interviews. I'd be really thrilled to finally meet an American person working in the IT field here in Silicon Valley.
Simple solution for you: get out of Silicon Valley. The market there for competent staff is way too hot for you to keep up. I think it's been that way for about two decades. I'm surprised you haven't noticed this yet.
If they weren't working in the US they would be doing the same work for US companies overseas.
If that were true, what would be the point of H1-B visas?
The point of H1-B is to tilt the playing field in favour of corporations, and why the !@#$ would anyone but a corporation think the government ought to be doing that to its citizens?
No. He doesn't. He cares about money. "Business" is selling something of value (expertise or products) for something of value (money, gold, cash, expertise,...); an even trade in a willing (on both sides) transaction.
He's just a whore (apologies to whores; nothing meant by it).
I wish you people who are so quick to invoke her name and presume to know what she thought and believed would at least read one of her books. Start with "We The Living." No, you're not going to like it; I didn't either, but I learned from it.
Rand was not the Tea Party or a Corporatist. She hated being fscked around with by connected assholes, just like we do. Romney and Obama probably hate her lots more than you do.
No one deserves a "perfect employee" slave or any employee except what someone is willing to pay for. No one deserves anything from another, except to be left alone when desired. It's on you to pay so much that they'll be willing to sell you their skills and tens of thousands of hours of hard earned experience!
Tell me, why is it OK for employers to not want to compete for talent, but it's the greatest sin when workers want to have fair competition for jobs?
They've been brought up on the mantra, "He who has the gold makes the rules", which is very sad. We could be taking so much pressure off their shoulders for them, but they insist on absolute control instead. They don't want to be partners. They want control over their employees. Considering how fscked up tax and employment law is, I can see their point, but I don't have to like or agree with it.
Politicians vetting networking equipment manufacturers has to be the silliest joke ever conceived by a human. The US Congress accusing Huawei of incompetence or underhanded conduct is Chutzpah, to the Nth degree!
wrt54g FTW. We freetards will be happy to audit the code, for free.
Is it just me, or is the world getting stupider by the minute? Don't bother to answer. I need to go bang my head against a wall now.
They mean it doesn't look enough like Win* or Macs.
True. I was using KDE3, and then KDE4 came out...
Every morning it seems, I stumble out of bed hoping to read something like, "You ASSHOLE!!! !@#$%^^&*..."
That tends to wake me up and get me thinking again. Instead, what do I get? "I love KDE!" I hate KDE. Would somebody please shoot me, or at least beat me to death with a stick?
Not your fault. I'm a difficult case. There's six !@#$%^& inches of snow on the gawd damned ground, damnit.
I really ought to take another look at KDE, considering it's been about ten years since I last did, but !@#$, it looked awful then. I think the prettiest X ever looked was DECWindow(s?), and I even liked Motif. Then I'm forced to endure KDE? $PUKE.
"This century's most fatal security disaster"? Sounds pretty flamebaity to me.
Methinks you may be too sensitive. Dipshits say stupid things. Just because he's a dipshit saying stupid things doesn't mean he's evil/playing with your BRAINZ. I'd prefer to extend all the rope I've got to give him the chance to hang himself, if he can.:-) Meh. I'm old. I doubt my opinion's relevant nowadays. "So much, for the glory of Rome." -- Marcus Aurelius; "Gladiator."
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Oh, come on. Just stand back and look at it. It's almost art, in a Jackson Pollock sort of way. Who does !@#$ like that at 19:19 on a Friday?!? You can almost see his Mom and little brother standing behind him wailing on him with nerf bats and guilt trips.
If I ever decide to off myself, that's the way I want to go out, for sure.
Sometimes, smaller markets (less demand) actually result in higher prices per unit sold ...
Otherwise known as the Ferrari vs. Volkswagon Principle. Filet Mignon or Big Mac? Nippon Sikis or Adidas? Cotton or polyester? Virginia or Turkish? Pleistocene or Cretacious?
DRM is more of a philosophical than practical problem. It annoys geeks, but doesn't seem to matter to most normal consumers.
No. I spent most of yesterday and the day before talking/negotiating with Apple tech support trying to fix my parents' Mac. They were all great and wonderful to deal with. I even had a manager call me to inform me that the people who sold it to them sold them the wrong support contract, but he could fix it automatically from their end if that was alright. Great! :-)
Then, I could ask them technical questions. Not before. That's DRM.
I bill corporates ca. C$75.00/hr. for this !@#$.[*] I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for my Mom owning a geekboy son, it never would've been fixed. I like how Macs work. I don't like the price all that proprietary corporate !@#$ sells for. Why do I have to waste a day and a half proving to them what they sold me? The richest corp on the planet *ought* to have this down flawlessly by now.
Nope. Sucks.
[*] I'm considering talking to NCIS. Leon Panetta appears to need my help. Still thinking about it ... (http://www.ncis.navy.mil/Careers/Cyber/Pages/default.aspx). Interesting.
I advocate boycotting them and their works.
This statement is a perfect example of the entitlement psychosis. Why don't you go stand in the corner and stamp your feet and shout gimme, gimme, gimme ...
You may be either *the* stupidest person I've ever run across, or you're just another net troll. I don't much care which; I'll just consider you human anyway (don't die). You may be a sad act as humans go, but hope's never lost if you can still breath. See this damnit!. Now you probably need to look up "The Doors", "Woodstock", and "Concert For Bangladesh" too, then Carlos Santana and Ravi Shankar, and Buena Vista Social Club, and Eric Burden And The Animals, and Mike And The Mechanics (okay, I'll stop now). That's where I'm going next. FYI, I've owned legal, paid for, copies of all of them, LPs and casettes ...
Make sure you play them LOUD! Crank it up! Joni Mitchell's "Cotton Avenue" too; Jacko Pastorias' bass is to die for. Trust me on this.
GAHD, I love Who's Next! TURN IT UP! "Who's Next" is forty-one years old, you know?
WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN ...
Imagine Dropbox with mandatory encryption.
Like https://www.cyphertite.com/
Thanks for mentioning it. Looks cool.
Of course, Big Content doesn't roll over for such technicalities so I expect this to simply spawn more anti-cryptography laws.
They can pass all the anti-cryptography laws that they want. It doesn't mean I'll stop using it. George Washington would approve, I think.
To say it is the USA only, gives a huge pass to those governments in the EU.
The thing is, though, it seems very much to be USA driven., and the Euros (from what I've read) have been fighting against it harder than pretty much anyone. TPB is Swedish, yes? SOPA, PIPA, TPP, DMCA, yada, yada, yada: USA! When it showed up in Poland, thousands (tens of thousands?) of people actually hit the streets (literally) in lousy weather and scared Polish politicians silly enough to kill it. France is "this close" to killing their "N Strikes" (HADOPI?) thingy. Portugal, Spain, ... don't appear to think this's a problem worth their time, or that kind of a solution to the problem is worse than the problem itself.
The US, on the other hand, continues full speed ahead; damn the torpedos! The USA's legacy entertainment industry is definitely the prime mover behind most of this madness.
[I love Poles. :-) This world needs lots more people like them.]
I'm sick of hearing about this dude.
I'm sick of a lot of things. Hearing about "this dude" is nowhere near the end of that list.
kdc's trials and tribulations are very entertaining, especially how he's managed to tie two separate countries' legal systems in knots. We can only dream to get those !@#$%^&* as worked up about us as he's managed to. Good on him.
"How !@#$ed up is the US' DoJ? How incompetent are they?" Well, sic kdc on 'em, and let's find out. Now "That's Entertainment!" From what I've heard, I wouldn't like the guy personally, but he sure puts on a good show. Rock on!
Well, OK, then who should have the final control over the root DNS then? It ahs to reside somewhere.
Does it? I'll use OpenDNS.
Sorry, I meant OpenNIC. /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
prepend domain-name-servers 67.212.90.199,216.167.252.197,216.87.84.211,10.0.1.1;
You don't have to use what was assigned to you. You can use what you want to use, as long as it works. Have fun. :-)
Bravo, OpenNIC. Thank you. Keep it up.
You're not talking about "the basics." We've got the basics down. IETF & RFCs rule.
Not any more. Tell ICANN it's doing something that violates the major DNS RFC's and you'll be told that's not important any more.
Yeah, "rule" was wrong. "IETF & RFCs are the basics", is what I meant. I'll plead $SCOTCH.
Even members of ICANN's BoD have gone on the warpath complaining of the insular way in which ICANN's run, to no effect. I wish I could offer a link to the story I'm thinking of, sorry. It's lost in the vast list of protests over so many of its actions.
If you honestly think China, NK, Iran, or the Pakistani governments are no different than the US government ...
You have a problem with reading comprehension. I didn't say anything remotely like that.
Even the copyright and content related issues are the result of the current laws trying to deny the change over from hard copy to electronic media distribution.
FTFY.
People have adopted an "entitlement" mindset and believe they should have free and unfettered access to any digital content they can get their hands on ...
Not all. I advocate boycotting them and their works. The sooner those leaches go out of business and disappear, the sooner we'll be able to get on with life without lawyers breathing down everyone's neck for not paying tithes, or buying special favours from our elected representatives.
ICANN has a very limited mandate which is to manage the top level domain servers and they have did a good job.
Ha. Ha. Ha. $GOLFCLAP.
The UN has shown it is an ineffectual organization that often does more harm than good. It's usefulness has long passed and like the League of Nations it should be shut down and replaced by another organization that better reflects today's world.
I've never thought otherwise, though I do love the blue berets its peacekeepers wear, and the latter have done some damned amazing stuff.
This is better than the COCOT scams of the 90s. I may go back into the ISP business.
What an idea! Buy up all of Amazon's excess server capacity and build a botnet of honeypots. It'd act like a black hole to spam and malware, all paid for by spammers. You could vacuum the net clean.
Go ITU!
But the thing is that someone has to have some kind of control, since if people don't agree on the basics then it doesn't interoperate.
You're not talking about "the basics." We've got the basics down. IETF & RFCs rule.
Given that the US is (IMO) better than every single other country in the world ...
Good grief. You apparently haven't been watching all that closely. Your humble opinion isn't worth shit. Your MafiAA has bought your politicians, your government is no longer in your control, and in the upcoming election, you have a choice between Demopublican or Republicrat. You swear that voting for anything else will just be handing it all to the other guy. You've allowed your politicians to get away with creating a revolving door between Congress and the DoJ and the MafiAA. ICANN has become it's own money printing machine. Your USTR is utterly out of control openly colluding with the MafiAA with no Congressional oversight. Etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Well, OK, then who should have the final control over the root DNS then? It ahs to reside somewhere.
Does it? I'll use OpenDNS. You use whatever you want to. Iran and China and North Korea and Pakistan ... can use whoever they want to.
I don't trust your government nowadays anymore than I trust China's or Iran's or Pakistan's.
Yes, there are exceptions to pretty much every rule. If the H1B program worked like that consistently, I doubt anyone would be complaining about it.
All right. Can you send them my way? We're interviewing and almost no one showing up is American (or American-born). I'm talking about 20 - 30+ people a month showing up for interviews. I'd be really thrilled to finally meet an American person working in the IT field here in Silicon Valley.
Simple solution for you: get out of Silicon Valley. The market there for competent staff is way too hot for you to keep up. I think it's been that way for about two decades. I'm surprised you haven't noticed this yet.
If they weren't working in the US they would be doing the same work for US companies overseas.
If that were true, what would be the point of H1-B visas?
The point of H1-B is to tilt the playing field in favour of corporations, and why the !@#$ would anyone but a corporation think the government ought to be doing that to its citizens?
I don't give a rat's ass about "business".
No. He doesn't. He cares about money. "Business" is selling something of value (expertise or products) for something of value (money, gold, cash, expertise, ...); an even trade in a willing (on both sides) transaction.
He's just a whore (apologies to whores; nothing meant by it).
Ayn Rand would approve.
I wish you people who are so quick to invoke her name and presume to know what she thought and believed would at least read one of her books. Start with "We The Living." No, you're not going to like it; I didn't either, but I learned from it.
Rand was not the Tea Party or a Corporatist. She hated being fscked around with by connected assholes, just like we do. Romney and Obama probably hate her lots more than you do.
No one deserves a "perfect employee" slave or any employee except what someone is willing to pay for. No one deserves anything from another, except to be left alone when desired. It's on you to pay so much that they'll be willing to sell you their skills and tens of thousands of hours of hard earned experience!
Just the converse of your argument.
Tell me, why is it OK for employers to not want to compete for talent, but it's the greatest sin when workers want to have fair competition for jobs?
They've been brought up on the mantra, "He who has the gold makes the rules", which is very sad. We could be taking so much pressure off their shoulders for them, but they insist on absolute control instead. They don't want to be partners. They want control over their employees. Considering how fscked up tax and employment law is, I can see their point, but I don't have to like or agree with it.
Ah, the race card. It took way too long for it to rear it's ugly, ignorant head.
I didn't see any mention of ethnicity or any sort of racial slur in the comment, what are you talking about?
I'll guess "From my experience, the people who oppose H-1Bs tend to be very xenophobic."
Politicians rarely see beyond their own term...
Politicians vetting networking equipment manufacturers has to be the silliest joke ever conceived by a human. The US Congress accusing Huawei of incompetence or underhanded conduct is Chutzpah, to the Nth degree!
wrt54g FTW. We freetards will be happy to audit the code, for free.
Is it just me, or is the world getting stupider by the minute? Don't bother to answer. I need to go bang my head against a wall now.
Is this sarcasm?
Certainly.
Whew. :-|
Emacs (eight megs and constantly swapping) ...
It's just a full featured (okay, bloated!) OS. And you can edit text files (and read News, ... :-) with it.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2301536 2012-09-23 07:40 vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
(0) kiak /home/keeling_ ls -AlF /usr/bin/vim.basic /usr/bin/vim.basic*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1510796 Jul 11 2010
The Linux kernel is 2.3Mb. Modern day vim (basic) is 1.5 Mb.
X11: Unchanged yet still mysteriously slow and bloated since 1985.
Morons. :-P I blew close to C$100.00 for a forty Mb disk in the early '90s.
[Ob: GTFOML.]
Guten morgen. Buenos dias.
They mean it doesn't look enough like Win* or Macs.
True. I was using KDE3, and then KDE4 came out ...
Every morning it seems, I stumble out of bed hoping to read something like, "You ASSHOLE!!! !@#$%^^&* ..."
That tends to wake me up and get me thinking again. Instead, what do I get? "I love KDE!" I hate KDE. Would somebody please shoot me, or at least beat me to death with a stick?
Not your fault. I'm a difficult case. There's six !@#$%^& inches of snow on the gawd damned ground, damnit.
I really ought to take another look at KDE, considering it's been about ten years since I last did, but !@#$, it looked awful then. I think the prettiest X ever looked was DECWindow(s?), and I even liked Motif. Then I'm forced to endure KDE? $PUKE.
[I'll be ok. Go hug your wife/mom/kids.]
"This century's most fatal security disaster"? Sounds pretty flamebaity to me.
Methinks you may be too sensitive. Dipshits say stupid things. Just because he's a dipshit saying stupid things doesn't mean he's evil/playing with your BRAINZ. I'd prefer to extend all the rope I've got to give him the chance to hang himself, if he can. :-) Meh. I'm old. I doubt my opinion's relevant nowadays. "So much, for the glory of Rome." -- Marcus Aurelius; "Gladiator."
"The philosopher; the Warrior; the Tyrant?" Ibid.
See you in Elysium. :-)