The USSR wasn't dead, it was all a trick by Putin!
They lured the USA into a false sense of security by faking their economy being in ruins and the overthrow of their Communist government by a Democratic one.
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin weren't even dead, they were in suspended animation via mummification and their mummies just got raised from the dead by Brendan Fraser as he activated an old USSR artifact that started to pump plasma back into their mummified corpses (ala Dr. Phibes) and pump out the embalming fluid and they came back to life and ordered Russian troops to invade Savannah, GA thanks to their sleeper agent there Jimmy Carter, who has a Communist all this time and built houses there for Communist sleeper agents to live in, until they are activated.
They are still ticked off over that OS/2 thing. So much that they have Commander Spock shilling for OS/2 on CNet Forums and sometimes he breaks into that logical fallacy that only OS/2 with Lotus 123 2.0 for OS/2 supports those ERR/IRR economic formulas that 85% of the world banks use to calculate the economic rate of return and international rate of return and no modern spreadsheet since can calculate it correctly or use the ERR function for error trapping instead of economic rate of return so those billions of WK1 spreadsheet files are worthless unless one runs OS/2 2.0/3.0/4.0 and Lotus 123 2.0 for OS/2 to calculate them properly.
What are the odds that Commander Spock still uses an IBM PS/2 model 55SX system with OS/2 2.11 with the TCP/IP plug-in and Microchannel Ethernet card to get on the Internet to make these posts in Netscape 2.0 for OS/2?
clone. I don't really see the point of using Lotus Symphony when OpenOffice.Org does the same thing? Lotus Symphony has more bugs and is prone to crash more often than OpenOffice.org does, because Lotus Symphony is still in beta testing and is based on an experimental fork of OpenOffice.org anyway.
I mean why buy an IBM system with Linux on it with Lotus Symphony installed? You can get any brand PC that runs Linux and download Lotus Symphony from IBM's web site for free.
If IBM puts on Lotus Smartsuite for Linux or Lotus Notes for Linux, then people would have a reason for buying an IBM Windows free machine.
I had an Amiga, but I remember the PC's had a shell to DOS option in QModem and Procom to run those DOS based GIF reader programs. It was not true multitasking like the Amiga had, but it worked.
The Amiga lost due to marketing, it was better than a Macintosh at half the Macintosh price, plus full color which a Mac couldn't do until the Macintosh II series came out. By that time the PC had VGA as well. Amigas never really tried to innovate beyond what PCs and Macs could do, but did have the microkernel advantage of a true preemptive Unix-like OS that boot off a floppy and still had a GUI. By the time PCs and Macs caught up to Amigas, their OSes had to boot from a hard drive to do what the Amiga did from a floppy boot, and were bloated to boot unlike the Amiga.
The original Coleco Adam did that, if you added the Adam keyboard to a Colecovision or bought the Adam computer, it ran Applesoft BASIC programs on it. The AdamDOS was different from AppleDOS but it had a BASIC interpreter that worked like Apple's. But then most Dartmouth BASIC standard programs work on almost any form of BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, etc you just had to change the peeks and pokes or machine language versions to work the graphics and sounds based on what machine it was on, which Compute!'s magazines always had to do for their programs.
In Asia they already have an 8-bit $12 computer, it is the Famiclone series. Based on the Nintendo NES aka Famicom (in Asia it was called the Famicom) and its clones are the Famiclones.
MIT is trying to make a legal version of a $12 8-bit computer, but they already exist.
Some US malls small cubical and cart shops sell the Famiclones really cheap. Although they sell for more than $12 due to import costs.
But in that case, you owned the video tapes. In the article, the librarian does not own the computers and hands them over without even talking to a higher up manager (like a president or chairman/chairwoman) and getting permission to give them over. It is not the library director's computers to give over, and he/she has to follow the chain of command before giving over library property. What if it was two fake FBI inspectors trying to pull a scam via social engineering by posing as FBI officers to scam the library director out of two computers? People do that sort of thing to McDonald's as they pose as police officers and ask the assistant manager to strip search employees. The library director should have at least called the FBI to verify if they sent over two agents and ask what their names are and badge numbers and then given that to his higher ups along with any warrants if they exist.
There is also a federal law of privacy rights of the people who used those computers and aren't suspects. Esp since a library gets funding from the government.
It is just the beginning of a Big Brother Nanny State, where the "Thought Police" violate rights and freedoms left and right. That librarian is a lily livered coffee house hippie liberal who just gave up his/her rights and freedoms and everyone else's to the FBI agents without requesting to see if there was a warrant. Had the librarian been a moderate or libertarian instead, he/she would have read the FBI the riot act and cite the parts of the Constitution that requests a warrant be issued. Had the librarian been a conservative, he would have called the FBI and given them the computers and not thought of rights or freedoms anyway.
It happened to a friend of mine, but turned out he spilled coffee on the keyboard and then forgot about it and then the next day tried to power it on and saw the same screen.
Then again World of Warcraft is a pretty hardcore program, you might have burned something out on your motherboard in one of them Leeroy Jenkins type scenarios your clan got into a while back. I doubt the GeForce 8600 could handle a scenario like that without having to be replaced later.:)
It is better than you just don't buy a laptop from the company who sold it to you. I bought an HP/Compaq laptop with the same problems, chances are I won't buy from them again.
#1 $35 #2 Internet Access #3 URL of an Internet Detective Web site, which is embedded on many SPAM emails they get from visiting porn sites and getting virus infections. Naturally they are stupid enough to click on that link and buy a background check for $35 for someone like "Steve Jobs" or "Bill Gates" just to see how much money they have.
Anyone with $35 and the right Internet Detective Web Site can do a complete background check on Steve Jobs or anyone else and get all court case, criminal history, medical history, work history, and credit history just by knowing his work phone, email address, home phone, house address, work address, any one of those. Why should shareholders get that info for free, when they can pay for it like many employers do for employees of the company they work for or own stock in?
It makes a good story when someone who doesn't do any research asks Slashdot readers to do the research for them. Stuff like asking if there is a PDF reader that isn't created by Adobe, or if there is an alternative to Windows that runs Unix code, or even if there is an open source alternative to Photoshop, usually are good submissions to Slashdot on a slow news day.:)
Moderation systems do not work when bullies create dupe accounts to mod their own posts up and victim's posts down. Bullies always find a way to abuse any moderation system. Kuro5hin had such a Slashdot moderation system but it was highly abused by dupe accounts and the owners and moderators didn't care that bullies zero rated posts that were not offensive and owned by their victims, and gave 3s or 5s to posts that bullied and trolled people.
Slashdot isn't as bad as Kuro5hin is, but sometimes the moderation system gets abused, which is why the Meta Moderation system was developed to combat that.
To be really effective, you need to appoint people with a Judge Dredd personality moderator powers so that they are very quick on the ban trigger to give justice to evil-doers.
you shouldn't be on the Internet in the first place. Bullies control the Internet, but there is really nothing you can do to stop them. If you ban their account, they create a new one. If you ban their IP address they use a proxy server or Tor. If you ban Tor and proxy servers they will use friend's computers, library computers, Internet cafe computers, etc. They will even use viruses to make a victim's computer act as a zombie and can control Botnets of their own.
You just don't want your web site turning into another Kuro5hin type web site. Originally Kuro5hin was a lot like Slashdot, until bullies started to take it over. Then it chased away a lot of loyal users. Whomever remained was either a troll, a bully, or a victim. Then a few victims committed suicide, and recently one victim got admitted to a mental hospital. In order to deal with it the owner made it so new accounts cost $5 to activate, but bullies would gladly pay $5 to keep being bullies and keep control of the web site.
You either deal with them in an effective way, or you give into them, or you shut down your web site, or you just charge $5 to create a new account and let everyone else suffer and get rich off of the misery that bullies cause. If you know of another way to deal with bullies, let the rest of us know.
like Linux. But every bug I submit is downgraded to a WONTFIX. Why, because they don't think it is important enough to fix. The same is true of Firefox. I get tired of Firefox locking up on me, but Mozilla always downgrades my bug reports to WONTFIX, even if they are critical bugs that lock up the system. I submit lockup bugs to the Linux team as well, and they become WONTFIX.
Someone needs to look at the WONTFIX bugs and fix them so LinuxHaters won't be haters, but lovers.
Not really, Apple made them bury the bad battery reports, etc as part of an out of court settlement. If not the Apple Fanboys accuse the rumor sites of shilling for Microsoft until those rumors are removed.
Non public information is legal, many newspapers do the very same thing. It is called tips and hot leads. But the big difference between newspapers and a rumor site run out of some guy's mother's basement, is that the later does not have an army of lawyers to counter-sue the company the non public information came from under freedom of the press.
George W. Bush isn't the only political leader in the USA who can't balance a budget and is also incompetent and has an incompetent staff. Just look at many state and local governments in places like New York and California. They all want Federal hand-outs to help balance their budgets.
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IBM has always shot themselves in the foot since the day they helped Adolph Hitler with IBM Mainframes to run his concentration camps.
IBM OS/2 was a shot in their foot.
The USSR wasn't dead, it was all a trick by Putin!
They lured the USA into a false sense of security by faking their economy being in ruins and the overthrow of their Communist government by a Democratic one.
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin weren't even dead, they were in suspended animation via mummification and their mummies just got raised from the dead by Brendan Fraser as he activated an old USSR artifact that started to pump plasma back into their mummified corpses (ala Dr. Phibes) and pump out the embalming fluid and they came back to life and ordered Russian troops to invade Savannah, GA thanks to their sleeper agent there Jimmy Carter, who has a Communist all this time and built houses there for Communist sleeper agents to live in, until they are activated.
They are still ticked off over that OS/2 thing. So much that they have Commander Spock shilling for OS/2 on CNet Forums and sometimes he breaks into that logical fallacy that only OS/2 with Lotus 123 2.0 for OS/2 supports those ERR/IRR economic formulas that 85% of the world banks use to calculate the economic rate of return and international rate of return and no modern spreadsheet since can calculate it correctly or use the ERR function for error trapping instead of economic rate of return so those billions of WK1 spreadsheet files are worthless unless one runs OS/2 2.0/3.0/4.0 and Lotus 123 2.0 for OS/2 to calculate them properly.
What are the odds that Commander Spock still uses an IBM PS/2 model 55SX system with OS/2 2.11 with the TCP/IP plug-in and Microchannel Ethernet card to get on the Internet to make these posts in Netscape 2.0 for OS/2?
clone. I don't really see the point of using Lotus Symphony when OpenOffice.Org does the same thing? Lotus Symphony has more bugs and is prone to crash more often than OpenOffice.org does, because Lotus Symphony is still in beta testing and is based on an experimental fork of OpenOffice.org anyway.
I mean why buy an IBM system with Linux on it with Lotus Symphony installed? You can get any brand PC that runs Linux and download Lotus Symphony from IBM's web site for free.
If IBM puts on Lotus Smartsuite for Linux or Lotus Notes for Linux, then people would have a reason for buying an IBM Windows free machine.
I had an Amiga, but I remember the PC's had a shell to DOS option in QModem and Procom to run those DOS based GIF reader programs. It was not true multitasking like the Amiga had, but it worked.
The Amiga lost due to marketing, it was better than a Macintosh at half the Macintosh price, plus full color which a Mac couldn't do until the Macintosh II series came out. By that time the PC had VGA as well. Amigas never really tried to innovate beyond what PCs and Macs could do, but did have the microkernel advantage of a true preemptive Unix-like OS that boot off a floppy and still had a GUI. By the time PCs and Macs caught up to Amigas, their OSes had to boot from a hard drive to do what the Amiga did from a floppy boot, and were bloated to boot unlike the Amiga.
The original Coleco Adam did that, if you added the Adam keyboard to a Colecovision or bought the Adam computer, it ran Applesoft BASIC programs on it. The AdamDOS was different from AppleDOS but it had a BASIC interpreter that worked like Apple's. But then most Dartmouth BASIC standard programs work on almost any form of BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, etc you just had to change the peeks and pokes or machine language versions to work the graphics and sounds based on what machine it was on, which Compute!'s magazines always had to do for their programs.
The Mega Kid MK-1000 is a lot like it. You can find more Famiclones here.
In Asia they already have an 8-bit $12 computer, it is the Famiclone series. Based on the Nintendo NES aka Famicom (in Asia it was called the Famicom) and its clones are the Famiclones.
MIT is trying to make a legal version of a $12 8-bit computer, but they already exist.
Some US malls small cubical and cart shops sell the Famiclones really cheap. Although they sell for more than $12 due to import costs.
But in that case, you owned the video tapes. In the article, the librarian does not own the computers and hands them over without even talking to a higher up manager (like a president or chairman/chairwoman) and getting permission to give them over. It is not the library director's computers to give over, and he/she has to follow the chain of command before giving over library property. What if it was two fake FBI inspectors trying to pull a scam via social engineering by posing as FBI officers to scam the library director out of two computers? People do that sort of thing to McDonald's as they pose as police officers and ask the assistant manager to strip search employees. The library director should have at least called the FBI to verify if they sent over two agents and ask what their names are and badge numbers and then given that to his higher ups along with any warrants if they exist.
There is also a federal law of privacy rights of the people who used those computers and aren't suspects. Esp since a library gets funding from the government.
It is just the beginning of a Big Brother Nanny State, where the "Thought Police" violate rights and freedoms left and right. That librarian is a lily livered coffee house hippie liberal who just gave up his/her rights and freedoms and everyone else's to the FBI agents without requesting to see if there was a warrant. Had the librarian been a moderate or libertarian instead, he/she would have read the FBI the riot act and cite the parts of the Constitution that requests a warrant be issued. Had the librarian been a conservative, he would have called the FBI and given them the computers and not thought of rights or freedoms anyway.
It happened to a friend of mine, but turned out he spilled coffee on the keyboard and then forgot about it and then the next day tried to power it on and saw the same screen.
Then again World of Warcraft is a pretty hardcore program, you might have burned something out on your motherboard in one of them Leeroy Jenkins type scenarios your clan got into a while back. I doubt the GeForce 8600 could handle a scenario like that without having to be replaced later. :)
It is better than you just don't buy a laptop from the company who sold it to you. I bought an HP/Compaq laptop with the same problems, chances are I won't buy from them again.
Sure they can, all they need is:
#1 $35
#2 Internet Access
#3 URL of an Internet Detective Web site, which is embedded on many SPAM emails they get from visiting porn sites and getting virus infections. Naturally they are stupid enough to click on that link and buy a background check for $35 for someone like "Steve Jobs" or "Bill Gates" just to see how much money they have.
Anyone with $35 and the right Internet Detective Web Site can do a complete background check on Steve Jobs or anyone else and get all court case, criminal history, medical history, work history, and credit history just by knowing his work phone, email address, home phone, house address, work address, any one of those. Why should shareholders get that info for free, when they can pay for it like many employers do for employees of the company they work for or own stock in?
They will ask those questions even if they already been answered. Because they won't even bother to look and search for them.
It makes a good story when someone who doesn't do any research asks Slashdot readers to do the research for them. Stuff like asking if there is a PDF reader that isn't created by Adobe, or if there is an alternative to Windows that runs Unix code, or even if there is an open source alternative to Photoshop, usually are good submissions to Slashdot on a slow news day. :)
Moderation systems do not work when bullies create dupe accounts to mod their own posts up and victim's posts down. Bullies always find a way to abuse any moderation system. Kuro5hin had such a Slashdot moderation system but it was highly abused by dupe accounts and the owners and moderators didn't care that bullies zero rated posts that were not offensive and owned by their victims, and gave 3s or 5s to posts that bullied and trolled people.
Slashdot isn't as bad as Kuro5hin is, but sometimes the moderation system gets abused, which is why the Meta Moderation system was developed to combat that.
To be really effective, you need to appoint people with a Judge Dredd personality moderator powers so that they are very quick on the ban trigger to give justice to evil-doers.
you shouldn't be on the Internet in the first place. Bullies control the Internet, but there is really nothing you can do to stop them. If you ban their account, they create a new one. If you ban their IP address they use a proxy server or Tor. If you ban Tor and proxy servers they will use friend's computers, library computers, Internet cafe computers, etc. They will even use viruses to make a victim's computer act as a zombie and can control Botnets of their own.
You just don't want your web site turning into another Kuro5hin type web site. Originally Kuro5hin was a lot like Slashdot, until bullies started to take it over. Then it chased away a lot of loyal users. Whomever remained was either a troll, a bully, or a victim. Then a few victims committed suicide, and recently one victim got admitted to a mental hospital. In order to deal with it the owner made it so new accounts cost $5 to activate, but bullies would gladly pay $5 to keep being bullies and keep control of the web site.
You either deal with them in an effective way, or you give into them, or you shut down your web site, or you just charge $5 to create a new account and let everyone else suffer and get rich off of the misery that bullies cause. If you know of another way to deal with bullies, let the rest of us know.
like Linux. But every bug I submit is downgraded to a WONTFIX. Why, because they don't think it is important enough to fix. The same is true of Firefox. I get tired of Firefox locking up on me, but Mozilla always downgrades my bug reports to WONTFIX, even if they are critical bugs that lock up the system. I submit lockup bugs to the Linux team as well, and they become WONTFIX.
Someone needs to look at the WONTFIX bugs and fix them so LinuxHaters won't be haters, but lovers.
Not really, Apple made them bury the bad battery reports, etc as part of an out of court settlement. If not the Apple Fanboys accuse the rumor sites of shilling for Microsoft until those rumors are removed.
Non public information is legal, many newspapers do the very same thing. It is called tips and hot leads. But the big difference between newspapers and a rumor site run out of some guy's mother's basement, is that the later does not have an army of lawyers to counter-sue the company the non public information came from under freedom of the press.
>In San Francisco, where you think they'd have no
>problem finding competent replacements.
I guess then that you've never been to San Francisco? San Francisco can't balance their budget and had a hiring freeze since 2007 and laid off a lot of people, and only had a skeleton crew running things like IT departments. So things like a network freeze were just bound to happen sooner or later.
George W. Bush isn't the only political leader in the USA who can't balance a budget and is also incompetent and has an incompetent staff. Just look at many state and local governments in places like New York and California. They all want Federal hand-outs to help balance their budgets.
"Swear to Windows MEEEEEEEEEEE!" -Christian Bale as Batman
Ah well, I'll bet you don't even have the CD-Key so it doesn't really count as owning or using Windows ME.
Yeah he also has funny catch phrases like:
"Swear to meeeeeeee!"
Slashdot readers, I served with Bruce Wayne: I knew Bruce Wayne; Bruce Wayne was a friend of mine. Slashdot readers, you are all no Bruce Wayne.