I want to live in your Utopia. When it is put on the table to be made mandatory, you're too late. People will argue: why didn't you say something when this scheme was implemented in the first place? Think of the children? Are you anti-social/terrorist/communist (pick any one)?
For people like you, there would be the Knoaster, or alternatively, you could buy the Lintoaster at a small premium but with full backward compatability...
Now stop bitching, tongue-in-cheeck or otherwise, and just be glad the damn thing is fitted to the ceiling securely.:-D
If a defendant thinks that any information in those reporters notes can come to his aid, he is the one to ask for them to be released to the authorities. But even then, it is the reporter who took (created) those notes to decide what he wants to do since they are his notes!
I see no reason at all, not in your arguments or anywhere else, for the governement to demand those notes contrary to all protections in place for such notes and the independence of journalism.
"Gotta teach that filter to read more like a human."
No need for another potential Skynet. If you can make the Bayesian filters recognize this type of 'mutilation', have it filter it. I for one wouldn't want to read anything of the kind, not even as a joke.
(Disclamier: I'm against Bayesian filtering and for prosecuting Spammers and for trying to fix the e-mail system.)
I dare to doubt the average US citizen would notice the difference if CowboyNeal would get elected president... (Finally. I thought that poll option would never come in handy!)
A good argument, but I meant wrong in the sence that you wouldn't want it to happen. Wrong in the Murphy's law sense is, in my opinion, therefore not strong enough. An unwanted event only becomes a disaster if it happens at a time that it causes great harm, hence disaster. Murphy seems to have meant 'wrong' much more in line with your reasoning but I think that Murphy's law is currently more used by the general public to express the view that I hold.
I've always thought that "Murphy's law" was not precise enough. There's this addition that is needed to make it really work.
Murphy's law revised:
"If anything can go wrong, it will. At the worst possible moment."
Try that one on for size. Proof? Two examples.
When a wing on an aircraft fails, not too many people will notice, unless the aircraft is flying.
You don't mind getting butter on your suit too badly, except when it's your new suit, that you just bought yesterday for this really important job-interview you're due for in about an hour.
I could go on for hours.:D
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To sour your cream for ya: the ATM has an interface, or it would be useless. The fact that it consists of a numerical key-pad with additions, a screen with buttons to the side and a card-slot for your card and you've been using those all along says more about you than about the machine.
I wouldn't put it past a good hacker with knowledge of the system to use the card-reader to overflow the input system and then use the rest of the interface to his own advantage.
A good point made by another poster: somebody with that type of knowledge probably knows better ways to get at the green.
Which should make for one very easy to sustain complaint against Microsoft. Unfortunatly, I don't think it falls under the two rulings: Tie in through MS office formats. Oh well...
Well, I thought so. Then came along the humorless mod-squad that thinks it's merely karma whoring. Anyway, to further the 'argument': Gnome wins! (It has 5 letters in its real name whereas KDE is merely an acronym, of just 3 letters no less!:D)
p.s. Hmmm, it seems that this is partly redundant. More moderators that see it 'our' way have come along and fixed the situation.
Thank you for the tip, but I'd rather just telnet in and parse the HTML myself, thank you.
(That damn w3c is making life ever harder for us hard-core wankers though. Every new revision of the standards I have to 'update' my parser through a long and painfull flashing process called learning.)
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Awww! Hush my poor little Karma. These bad moderator people just have no sense of humor *growls* AT ALL!
You get $5 Lawyer gets : $642,500... so who really won?
Not that I approve of the legalistic way in which many things seem to work in the US, but consider this: At least the lawyers did real work to earn the money. All that most of the others did was 'board' a pre-existing suit out of opportunistic reasons.
The lawyers' fee does seem extravagant, but again, they take the burden and the risk. My point being: don't complain about the opportunistic behaviour of others, they are merely human too. (Yeah yeah, go on, make the obligatory lawyer jokes if you really must)
How can you tell if a topic is 'historical': You see replies modded up to +5 from users with ID# smaller than 50000. Heck, this is the first time I've noticed more than three replies from users with ID# smaller than 10000...
Fine with me, but the idea of your original post to me was the part about up-times (BSD>Linux>Windows) so I thought it odd that you'd point to most requested pages. Especially since that particular list is currently contaminated by the news. (Windowsupdate being 'run' on Linux).
Anyway, no serious site can survive on five year old anything, as can no serious service of any other kind. Chalk one down for 'progress'. Hence the futility of any statistic in this department.
I'm much more interested in the amount of 'administering' needing to be done on any one system and the needed scheduled and unscheduled down-time for an o/s+service combination.
The less time I lose on that, the more time I have for new and exciting things. (See? I even like change...)
Beside the link being wrong (it points to the top requested servers, not the top uptime, select that statistic in the menu on the left hand)...
BSD variants may be more reliable than Linux machines. An alternative explanation may be that Linux is more popular, therefore more under attack and therefore more prone to be taken down for a (kernel-)upgrade. In that light, 100+ days seems very good to me.
disclaimer: even though it may be partly security through obscurity, I'll take the FreeBSD solution if it helps uptime. (being pragmatic is the most honest solution).
Most disturbing thing about this picture? That I think the two of them will do a better job than Bush and Cheney...
(Natalie is doing good work for human rights, as for CN... He'll have people vote for legislature through/. Can't be worse than the current system of Brib^H^H^H^Hlobbying.)
Way too late to react but still: I've to meet the first American that doesn't think from himself outwards. In other words, who cares if the guy in the Toyota dies because was too poor to buy anything bigger or he was an environmentalist who thinks all children should live in a cleaner environment, including the children of the SUV driving guy as long as I stay alive through an accident, no matter if it was caused because I can't handle such beast of a car properly.
It is this egocentrism that marks all the US citiziens that I've personally met and that drives me nuts.
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I want to live in your Utopia. When it is put on the table to be made mandatory, you're too late. People will argue: why didn't you say something when this scheme was implemented in the first place? Think of the children? Are you anti-social/terrorist/communist (pick any one)?
In other words: wake up and smell the coffee
How long before it is considered 'suspicious' if, as a bar, you don't use the system. How long after that before a law is passed to make it mandatory?
Slippery slopes and all...
For people like you, there would be the Knoaster, or alternatively, you could buy the Lintoaster at a small premium but with full backward compatability...
:-D
Now stop bitching, tongue-in-cheeck or otherwise, and just be glad the damn thing is fitted to the ceiling securely.
You, Sir, are full of it.
If a defendant thinks that any information in those reporters notes can come to his aid, he is the one to ask for them to be released to the authorities. But even then, it is the reporter who took (created) those notes to decide what he wants to do since they are his notes!
I see no reason at all, not in your arguments or anywhere else, for the governement to demand those notes contrary to all protections in place for such notes and the independence of journalism.
No need for another potential Skynet. If you can make the Bayesian filters recognize this type of 'mutilation', have it filter it. I for one wouldn't want to read anything of the kind, not even as a joke.
(Disclamier: I'm against Bayesian filtering and for prosecuting Spammers and for trying to fix the e-mail system.)
As long as you don't use 'I feel lucky' you should be ok.
I dare to doubt the average US citizen would notice the difference if CowboyNeal would get elected president... (Finally. I thought that poll option would never come in handy!)
:D
Oh well, back to the drawing board I guess
A good argument, but I meant wrong in the sence that you wouldn't want it to happen. Wrong in the Murphy's law sense is, in my opinion, therefore not strong enough. An unwanted event only becomes a disaster if it happens at a time that it causes great harm, hence disaster. Murphy seems to have meant 'wrong' much more in line with your reasoning but I think that Murphy's law is currently more used by the general public to express the view that I hold.
I, therefore, stand behind my ammended law.
I've always thought that "Murphy's law" was not precise enough. There's this addition that is needed to make it really work.
:D
Murphy's law revised:
"If anything can go wrong, it will. At the worst possible moment."
Try that one on for size. Proof? Two examples.
When a wing on an aircraft fails, not too many people will notice, unless the aircraft is flying.
You don't mind getting butter on your suit too badly, except when it's your new suit, that you just bought yesterday for this really important job-interview you're due for in about an hour.
I could go on for hours.
To sour your cream for ya: the ATM has an interface, or it would be useless. The fact that it consists of a numerical key-pad with additions, a screen with buttons to the side and a card-slot for your card and you've been using those all along says more about you than about the machine.
I wouldn't put it past a good hacker with knowledge of the system to use the card-reader to overflow the input system and then use the rest of the interface to his own advantage.
A good point made by another poster: somebody with that type of knowledge probably knows better ways to get at the green.
Which should make for one very easy to sustain complaint against Microsoft. Unfortunatly, I don't think it falls under the two rulings: Tie in through MS office formats. Oh well...
It just doesn't have the same interactive feel to it... Damn kids, always more, faster, harder. :D
Call me an (l)user, but I use the Cups web interface. Oops! There goes security! ;) In all fairness, I only use network-printers, no local printers.
Well, I thought so. Then came along the humorless mod-squad that thinks it's merely karma whoring. Anyway, to further the 'argument': Gnome wins! (It has 5 letters in its real name whereas KDE is merely an acronym, of just 3 letters no less! :D)
p.s.
Hmmm, it seems that this is partly redundant. More moderators that see it 'our' way have come along and fixed the situation.
Sure, but which frame-types do you support? ;D
Thanks for the tip. You're a bit late though, lieutenant. My original post is already modded -1 Troll. *grin*
Thank you for the tip, but I'd rather just telnet in and parse the HTML myself, thank you.
(That damn w3c is making life ever harder for us hard-core wankers though. Every new revision of the standards I have to 'update' my parser through a long and painfull flashing process called learning.)
Awww! Hush my poor little Karma. These bad moderator people just have no sense of humor *growls* AT ALL!
:D)
(There's plenty more where that came from!
Blockquote:
Not that I approve of the legalistic way in which many things seem to work in the US, but consider this: At least the lawyers did real work to earn the money. All that most of the others did was 'board' a pre-existing suit out of opportunistic reasons.The lawyers' fee does seem extravagant, but again, they take the burden and the risk. My point being: don't complain about the opportunistic behaviour of others, they are merely human too. (Yeah yeah, go on, make the obligatory lawyer jokes if you really must)
All KDE and Gnome Zealots please board this thread, forsaking all other threads within this topic.
;)
To make this new guideline more comfortable for the really and truly devoted:
- KDE had all of the new features three releases ago. Please get Gnome development out of the way of The One Real GUI(tm)
- KDE whiners: eat our dust! (Gnome, The True Gui for Real People)
A Console/Lynx user... (Yeah, right...
How can you tell if a topic is 'historical': You see replies modded up to +5 from users with ID# smaller than 50000. Heck, this is the first time I've noticed more than three replies from users with ID# smaller than 10000...
Fine with me, but the idea of your original post to me was the part about up-times (BSD>Linux>Windows) so I thought it odd that you'd point to most requested pages. Especially since that particular list is currently contaminated by the news. (Windowsupdate being 'run' on Linux).
Anyway, no serious site can survive on five year old anything, as can no serious service of any other kind. Chalk one down for 'progress'. Hence the futility of any statistic in this department.
I'm much more interested in the amount of 'administering' needing to be done on any one system and the needed scheduled and unscheduled down-time for an o/s+service combination.
The less time I lose on that, the more time I have for new and exciting things. (See? I even like change...)
Beside the link being wrong (it points to the top requested servers, not the top uptime, select that statistic in the menu on the left hand)...
BSD variants may be more reliable than Linux machines. An alternative explanation may be that Linux is more popular, therefore more under attack and therefore more prone to be taken down for a (kernel-)upgrade. In that light, 100+ days seems very good to me.
disclaimer: even though it may be partly security through obscurity, I'll take the FreeBSD solution if it helps uptime. (being pragmatic is the most honest solution).
Most disturbing thing about this picture? That I think the two of them will do a better job than Bush and Cheney...
/. Can't be worse than the current system of Brib^H^H^H^Hlobbying.)
(Natalie is doing good work for human rights, as for CN... He'll have people vote for legislature through
Way too late to react but still: I've to meet the first American that doesn't think from himself outwards. In other words, who cares if the guy in the Toyota dies because was too poor to buy anything bigger or he was an environmentalist who thinks all children should live in a cleaner environment, including the children of the SUV driving guy as long as I stay alive through an accident, no matter if it was caused because I can't handle such beast of a car properly.
It is this egocentrism that marks all the US citiziens that I've personally met and that drives me nuts.