If you expect Microsoft or any company or project to do the work for you -- you will constantly be disappointed.
Although you'd think that the largest software corporation in the world just might have caught a bug of this nature prior to release. Or perhaps that they might be obligated to fix the bug, seeing as how you paid for the software with the reasonable expectation that it wouldn't contain a gaping hole of this nature.
On the other hand, considering MS's security track record it might be argued that purchasers should *expect* security leaks left and right based on past experience and therefore don't have any business complaining when MS screws the pooch.
It's okay for pseudo-intellectual self-righteous litte losers to present an extreme position as the only position allowed or available, completely and utterly disregarding all factual evidence discrediting his delusional assertion and supporting some third (or fourth or fifth...) viewpoint never mentioned.
It's okay for this same litte loser to refer to other folks as "braindead asswipes" or something else along those lines, implying that by holding a contrary opinion he's somehow the intellectual superior of those who don't agree with him. In normal adult conversation we'd recognize the loser as someone who never matured beyond the age of thirteen and is *still* pissed he can't get any pussy without paying for it, but here on Slashdot it's par for the course.
And, of course, it's okay to group everyone who holds a different view into a single disparaged category, like "whiny, communist jackasses". Do remember, however, that the poster is still struggling with the onset of puberty, no matter what his actual age, as are most of the people who applaud him, so we really can't expect any better.
No, it's a disease, pure and simple. And if you want to wander down the road of genetic viability, consider this: it makes far more sense for a woman to have each of her children by different men, than by one man alone. Which hardly supports your argument.
And 'fornication', as you put it, doesn't promote the spread of HIV. It would be 'fornication without using a condom' that risks the individual. Use the condom and the risk disappears.
Mr. Gardner got it wrong. Approximately 99% of the genes in every human being are IDENTICAL; only the other 1% vary.
I think the mixup here is that Mr. Gardner heard "75% of all genes are identical in every person" when in fact it should've been something like "75% of all the genes that SEPARATE HUMAN BEINGS FROM OTHER PRIMATES are identical", etc. Everything else from that point on makes sense.
Old-style eugenics had nothing to do with 'improving the race', but rather with making sure that those deemed part of an 'inferior' breed weren't allowed to propagate. It was nothing more than a pseudo-scientific justification for racism.
I see nothing wrong with using science to improve the race. If I can eliminate any defects in my children, improve their intelligence, strength, and speed, etc. then why not? In any event that's up to me and me alone to decide; nobody else has any business interfering in that.
Just curious, then, where does that put bisexuals?
No one knows, but it doesn't seem to be linked to morphological differences in the brain. And I doubt we'll find out any time soon, since bisexuals are generally treated as deviants by both hetero- and homosexuals (except when it's part of some straight guy's "bi-babe" fantasy).
The AIDS epidemic (and subsequent rush to find a cure) is indicitive of the human desire to do what pleases with no regard for the consequences.
Riiight. Like a flu epidemic is indicative of a human desire to breathe and interact with other human beings. Or the Black Plague was indicative of a desire for human beings to live in cities and coexist with rats.
It was just a matter of time before our own bodies figured out how to survive this virus.
Evolution isn't 'smart'. It isn't directed. It's based upon random mutations, most of which are either bad or neutral in effect. Our bodies don't 'figure out' anything.
It's purely coincidence that some people seem to have a mutation which makes them immune to a disease. If the disease is a doozy and kills off most of the people who don't have the immunity, the survivors will pass on their random mutation through their own descendents and those their descendents intermarry with. Eventually most, or all, of the race will end up with that mutation.
But it's entirely an accident of circumstance, nothing more.
And to think some mutant gene would only have been present in caucasian is somewhat ludicrous.
There are a number of genes which are limited to certain ethnic groups. It isn't ludicrous to think that an immunity to AIDS would be limited to caucasians, without evidence to the contrary.
Yes, let's remember you have a better chance of getting killed in a car wreck than in contracting AIDS. If you're inclined to use a condom even those tiny odds decline dramatically.
Someday all of these will be a thing of the past, and nobody will be able to get anything by having sex. Then the uptight puritanical types won't be able to gloat over STDs as a sign of 'moral corruption', and I'll be able to laugh in their priggish, outraged faces while they stumble around looking for a better justification for abstinence other than "my god doesn't like it!"
...and it's called a 'forum'. No matter how esoteric your equipment or software there's almost certainly a forum somewhere dedicated to answering the technical questions of folks just like yourself. Unlike the FAQs of old you aren't limited to whatever's in the document; you can ask *any* question and most likely will get a half-dozen or more answers. They may not be the RIGHT answers, but then we've all run into FAQs that gave out bad information, so this isn't anything new.
And if you're a truly adventurous newbie geek you can jump into that big internet cesspool known as the Usenet and partake in even a greater number of forums covering a wide range of topics, filled with members eager to answer your questions. These people aren't any more likely to be right than the ones you find on the web forums, but they're more likely to wear their arrogance on their sleeves even when they're wrong, which makes the Usenet an inherently funnier place to ask your questions. Even the simplest of questions can spark a flamewar between several complete idiots, and there are few thing funnier than watching a bunch of egomaniacal fools argue with one other.
FAQs have a hard time competing with this sort of flexibility, and don't have the same entertainment value.
Or, let's recognize that email is just the 21st century version of paper mail, and should be treated as such. There's no logical reason why mail transmitted electronically should have less protection than mail transmitted by post.
The per seat cost at retail is about what you would expect to pay per seat with a large volume purchase from MS.
You might want to clarify that you're talking about the per-cost seat of SUPPORT. The per-cost seat of PURCHASE is the price of one SUSE Professional box, divided by the number of workstations you're going to install it on.
Max
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I'm actually surprised by the lemming-like eagerness of many otherwise so privacy-conscious geeks in signing up.
That's just proof positive that geeks aren't any more rational than the average Joe, although they certainly like to pretend that they are. Mention the word 'Google' and they'll get down on their knees and start worshipping at the corporate altar just like anyone else.
There is no such thing as game addiction. The people who get 'addicted' would find some other senseless activity to waste their time and money on if video games didn't exist. Video games are the scapegoat here, not the problem.
Your lack of marriage prospects doesn't surprise those of us who actually interact with the opposite sex on a regular basis without having to pay for it.
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Bungi, king of the college-kid comeback. Someday you might actually post something witty. But today is not that day.
Max
If you expect Microsoft or any company or project to do the work for you -- you will constantly be disappointed.
Although you'd think that the largest software corporation in the world just might have caught a bug of this nature prior to release. Or perhaps that they might be obligated to fix the bug, seeing as how you paid for the software with the reasonable expectation that it wouldn't contain a gaping hole of this nature.
On the other hand, considering MS's security track record it might be argued that purchasers should *expect* security leaks left and right based on past experience and therefore don't have any business complaining when MS screws the pooch.
Max
I was dissappointed with the sequal though. It just wasn't as good a movie.
No, but still...Milla Jovovich. That's something that no red-blooded guy can just walk away from - unless he's gay, of course.
Max
It's okay for pseudo-intellectual self-righteous litte losers to present an extreme position as the only position allowed or available, completely and utterly disregarding all factual evidence discrediting his delusional assertion and supporting some third (or fourth or fifth...) viewpoint never mentioned.
It's okay for this same litte loser to refer to other folks as "braindead asswipes" or something else along those lines, implying that by holding a contrary opinion he's somehow the intellectual superior of those who don't agree with him. In normal adult conversation we'd recognize the loser as someone who never matured beyond the age of thirteen and is *still* pissed he can't get any pussy without paying for it, but here on Slashdot it's par for the course.
And, of course, it's okay to group everyone who holds a different view into a single disparaged category, like "whiny, communist jackasses". Do remember, however, that the poster is still struggling with the onset of puberty, no matter what his actual age, as are most of the people who applaud him, so we really can't expect any better.
Just thought I'd clear that up for the newcomers.
Max
You're assuming that morality has something to do with sexual abstinence. I dispute this. So far as I'm concerned the two aren't related.
Max
perhaps AIDS is in fact a punishment.
No, it's a disease, pure and simple. And if you want to wander down the road of genetic viability, consider this: it makes far more sense for a woman to have each of her children by different men, than by one man alone. Which hardly supports your argument.
And 'fornication', as you put it, doesn't promote the spread of HIV. It would be 'fornication without using a condom' that risks the individual. Use the condom and the risk disappears.
Max
Mr. Gardner got it wrong. Approximately 99% of the genes in every human being are IDENTICAL; only the other 1% vary.
I think the mixup here is that Mr. Gardner heard "75% of all genes are identical in every person" when in fact it should've been something like "75% of all the genes that SEPARATE HUMAN BEINGS FROM OTHER PRIMATES are identical", etc. Everything else from that point on makes sense.
Max
Old-style eugenics had nothing to do with 'improving the race', but rather with making sure that those deemed part of an 'inferior' breed weren't allowed to propagate. It was nothing more than a pseudo-scientific justification for racism.
I see nothing wrong with using science to improve the race. If I can eliminate any defects in my children, improve their intelligence, strength, and speed, etc. then why not? In any event that's up to me and me alone to decide; nobody else has any business interfering in that.
Max
Just curious, then, where does that put bisexuals?
No one knows, but it doesn't seem to be linked to morphological differences in the brain. And I doubt we'll find out any time soon, since bisexuals are generally treated as deviants by both hetero- and homosexuals (except when it's part of some straight guy's "bi-babe" fantasy).
Max
The AIDS epidemic (and subsequent rush to find a cure) is indicitive of the human desire to do what pleases with no regard for the consequences.
Riiight. Like a flu epidemic is indicative of a human desire to breathe and interact with other human beings. Or the Black Plague was indicative of a desire for human beings to live in cities and coexist with rats.
AIDS is a disease, not a punishment.
Max
It was just a matter of time before our own bodies figured out how to survive this virus.
Evolution isn't 'smart'. It isn't directed. It's based upon random mutations, most of which are either bad or neutral in effect. Our bodies don't 'figure out' anything.
It's purely coincidence that some people seem to have a mutation which makes them immune to a disease. If the disease is a doozy and kills off most of the people who don't have the immunity, the survivors will pass on their random mutation through their own descendents and those their descendents intermarry with. Eventually most, or all, of the race will end up with that mutation.
But it's entirely an accident of circumstance, nothing more.
Max
And to think some mutant gene would only have been present in caucasian is somewhat ludicrous.
There are a number of genes which are limited to certain ethnic groups. It isn't ludicrous to think that an immunity to AIDS would be limited to caucasians, without evidence to the contrary.
Max
Yes, let's remember you have a better chance of getting killed in a car wreck than in contracting AIDS. If you're inclined to use a condom even those tiny odds decline dramatically.
Max
Someday all of these will be a thing of the past, and nobody will be able to get anything by having sex. Then the uptight puritanical types won't be able to gloat over STDs as a sign of 'moral corruption', and I'll be able to laugh in their priggish, outraged faces while they stumble around looking for a better justification for abstinence other than "my god doesn't like it!"
Can't wait for the day.
Max
...and it's called a 'forum'. No matter how esoteric your equipment or software there's almost certainly a forum somewhere dedicated to answering the technical questions of folks just like yourself. Unlike the FAQs of old you aren't limited to whatever's in the document; you can ask *any* question and most likely will get a half-dozen or more answers. They may not be the RIGHT answers, but then we've all run into FAQs that gave out bad information, so this isn't anything new.
And if you're a truly adventurous newbie geek you can jump into that big internet cesspool known as the Usenet and partake in even a greater number of forums covering a wide range of topics, filled with members eager to answer your questions. These people aren't any more likely to be right than the ones you find on the web forums, but they're more likely to wear their arrogance on their sleeves even when they're wrong, which makes the Usenet an inherently funnier place to ask your questions. Even the simplest of questions can spark a flamewar between several complete idiots, and there are few thing funnier than watching a bunch of egomaniacal fools argue with one other.
FAQs have a hard time competing with this sort of flexibility, and don't have the same entertainment value.
Max
FAQs for Dummies
Wouldn't this be the Slashdot FAQ?
Max
Or, let's recognize that email is just the 21st century version of paper mail, and should be treated as such. There's no logical reason why mail transmitted electronically should have less protection than mail transmitted by post.
Max
That is completely stupid and one of the oldest, most easily disproved arguements used. I'm sick of it, so stop using it.
Actually, you missed the point. But it's okay, because your completely off-topic rant was hilarious.
Max
The per seat cost at retail is about what you would expect to pay per seat with a large volume purchase from MS.
You might want to clarify that you're talking about the per-cost seat of SUPPORT. The per-cost seat of PURCHASE is the price of one SUSE Professional box, divided by the number of workstations you're going to install it on.
Max
I'm actually surprised by the lemming-like eagerness of many otherwise so privacy-conscious geeks in signing up.
That's just proof positive that geeks aren't any more rational than the average Joe, although they certainly like to pretend that they are. Mention the word 'Google' and they'll get down on their knees and start worshipping at the corporate altar just like anyone else.
Max
The major downside of all prior webmail was the lackluster UI
The UI is still pretty lackluster, just different.
Max
Man, google gives you 1GB of free space, and you want free forwarding too?
Size is everything? Then I've got some penis enlargement pills I'm sure you'll be interested in....
Max
You need to have Opera ID itself as Opera.
Still doesn't work for me. First a warning about the browser not being supported, then a blank page.
Max
there is no such thing as video game addction.
There is no such thing as game addiction. The people who get 'addicted' would find some other senseless activity to waste their time and money on if video games didn't exist. Video games are the scapegoat here, not the problem.
Max
Your lack of marriage prospects doesn't surprise those of us who actually interact with the opposite sex on a regular basis without having to pay for it.
Max