Small ISPs tend to be more flexible. Find a reseller of Bombastic Cable or your local Ma Bell spin off and see what you can negotiate. I run my own web, e-mail, ssh, DNS and VPN server on a 1.5 mb (down) and.5 mb up DSL connection. What I said to my ISP was, "If I get enough traffic that the connection needs to be faster then that's a good indication I need to upgrade the account." They bought it so I run everything through a single IP address on their fixed IP address, business account. And, yes, it costs a little more than a "no servers", consumer account.
BTW, so far the amount of traffic to my server hasn't been an issue. On the plus side, the NSA doesn't have access to my server.
but still hasn't succeeded in making the difficult easy
I'll meet you half-way and suggest that in Windows, it's easier to get something going initially, but in Linux it's easier to make detailed and significant changes later on.
As for Windows admins wishing they had Linux, I've met a few Win admins and they generally consider interest in Linux to be something of a "phase", one which you grow out once you gain enough experience at what actually happens in corporate setup and why Exchange is so widely used (hint: it's fucking awesome how much capability it provides compared to a scattering of similar tools and services in Linux).
My experience is that it seems like Windows admins who worked with Linux (or proprietary Unix) still prefer it but "put up with" IIS when they have to use it due to corporate policy. The admins who grew up on Windows and dabbled with Linux end up back on Windows. The main thing for me is that Linux is easier to troubleshoot since I don't have to go digging for some obscure registry entry that some program messed with and ended up breaking something else. Whoever came up with the registry should be taken out and shot (or have some suitably painful means of execution; shooting might be to easy for them).
I'll grant you that exchange is a pretty amazing tool. Way back when there used to be some competing products (just like there used to be competing word processors and spreadsheets, etc.). They all got plowed under by the Windows/Microsoft Office jugernaught. Now, the only "competition" comes from open source projects that just don't seem to have the understand of the big corporate world. I'm working as a Unix Engineer in a big big telco at the moment and the level of integration (aka, lockin) to Windows as the corporate desktop is amazing and, at the same time, horribly stupefying. I end up using an X emulator under Windows to do my work slowly and painfully when I would easily be twice as productive with a Linux box but that's not the corporate standard.
You basically just admitted that Linux boxes are harder to administer than Windows servers. This makes Linux servers much less appealing for companies when you can find Windows server admins for a dime a dozen, but Linux admins are harder to find and generally cost a lot more.
Er, no. Windows makes the easy things easy (pick what you want from the list rather than, horror of horrors, type something) but still hasn't succeeded in making the difficult easy. This lulls people who think they know what they're doing into jumping into the deep end and finding out they can't swim. Lots of things when setting up a server (web or otherwise) that require an understanding of the underlying networking. The Windows admins who don't know this are the ones who are "a dime a dozen." The ones that do can create a secure, functional site with Windows but wish they had Linux since it's easier and more secure and faster and more flexible and....
Our data are restricted to calls routed through multiple cell phone towers in a contiguous region just outside of a major California downtown area during an eleven day period in 2005. Given the mechanics of call routing and signal switching, the calls could have been placed only by callers in moving vehicles.
I'm a wine drinker and lead foil used to be used over the corks of wine bottles. This ended with California's Prop 65 since it set a threshold of "detectable" instead of what can cause harm for any chemical known to cause cancer or birth defects. Seems a few atoms of lead could transfer from the lead foil to the glass of the bottle and then be carried by the wine into the glass of the person drinking the wine. Since CA is a huge market for wine (not just a producer) lead foil went away and was replaced by either another metal (doesn't have the same feel) or plastic (seems like I'm opening a bottle of Ripple).
Keep this sort of absurd approach to things in mind when discussing issues such as this. Lots of substances are detectale at levels that don't cause harm. In spite of the logic in your discussion, chances are that a detectable amount of lead will remain and thus trigger hysteria.
Actually, the HE-111 became a decent bomber (until it had real fighter opposition but that's a different problem) but the FW-200 really didn't. The FW-200 really was designed as an airliner and had a tendency to suffer structural failures pulling the loads that were put on it as a bomber/maritime patrol plane. It still sank quite a bit of allied shipping but it had more than its share of problems.
In the U.S. we call the armed forces "The Department of Defense." Calling a weapon "defensive" leaves lots of room for what you defend and how you defend it.
For any given software project there is an optimal team size. If the project is small enough, you can keep the team size down to what works with an agile development methodology. If the project is bigger than that, things get ugly. I started my career in a company that considered projects of 50 to 100 man-years to be small to medium sized. Big projects involved over a thousand man-years of effort and the projects were still completed in a few years calendar time. You can do the math as to what that means as far as number of developers working concurrently (I remember one project that had approximately 500 to 600 people working on it).
The methodologies and discipline exist to solve such projects. It isn't efficiient compared to a small project but small project techniques can't solve big problems in time. Usually when you attempt to explain what it entails to management you get a response of, "We don't have time for that." So, the project flounders for twice as long before finally getting put out of everyone's missery.
Oh yeah. Been there. Done that. Over and over. Seen it done right when people used the right approach and I've seen more than my share of death marches that only seemed to convince good developers to look for another line of work.
It's managers and executives who make the decisions, and to them whether it's a browser or mobile app or SaaS or whatever the latest trend is, who cares if you're reinventing the wheel as long as profits are up.
That hasn't changed either. Just the specific subject of the idiocy has changed. Idiotic managers are timeless. Lady Ada probably had the same thing to say about Charles Babbage.
...Once the hardware got to a point (the 386) Microsoft had too much backward compatibility to deal with to really make the OS stable...
Then why were Windows/386 and Windows 3.0 so unstable? DOS 3.3 was about the only stable operating system to ever come out of Microsoft prior to XP and XP maintained backwards compatibility with 2K and NT. Try again on excuses for why Microsoft has trouble creating a stable operating system.
Microsoft doesn't get "eaten alive" due to vendor lock in (just try to order a desktop or laptop with Linux instead of Windows from HP, Dell, etc.) and due to IT infrastructure investment at large companies. I'm currently working at a large telecomm company and my desktop system is completely locked down and remotely managed. A lot of effort went into developing that technology and it would take a huge investment by the company to throw out Windows and change it. Ergo, I'm stuck using Windows to work on Unix boxes through an X emulator.
It's easy to follow the big national and international events with on-line sources. If anything, it's hard not to have them shoved down your throat (I'm almost surprised/. doesn't have an article about the Kate Middleton giving birth to the new heir; there has to be a techy, geek angle somewhere). What isn't so easy to get on-line are the local interest articles that you didn't know you were interested in. Things like the local city council discussing a change to zoning that will allow a Wallmart to be built across the street from where you live and road "improvement" projects that will make your currently pleasant commute into a trip through hell. Also, there is usually lots of coverage of local and state level politics that we probably all should pay a lot more attention to. That sort of thing.
What on-line lacks is the ability to flip through the news pages linearly. Most news sites are arranged in a tree-like structure that allows users to drill down to a specific article on a particular subject if they know what they are looking for. What they don't allow you to do is quickly scan articles looking first at the headline and then at the next couple of lines if the headline is interesting to determine if you want or should keep reading. And who goes looking for what local road projects are planned that will mess with their commute before the "road closed" sign shows up?
Ian Flemming worked for William Stephenson and had this to say, "James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is William Stephenson."
Each tower only can report that it "saw" your phone at a particular time and with whatever signal strength. If a tower is saturated, it doesn't have anything. If there are only one or two towers that "see" your phone, they can't accurately triangulate (triangulation needs three fixes). Signal strength can vary a lot depending on intervening ground and other obstacles so two towers ony define an area where you might be (or might have been). Finally, your phone data is mixed in with the gigabytes of data from all of the other phone users whose phones connected to a particular tower and your data has to be extracted and this has to be done for ANY cell tower that might have connected to your phone.
So that's as easy and accurate as tapping into "my location is lat xyz, lon abc, elevation nnn"?
Your phone figuring out where it is is a whole different problem from someone who doesn't know where you are trying to find you or track your movements based on which cell towers your phone "sees." Finally, just like with GPS, don't turn on an app that does something like report your location. Typically, the phone won't perform geolocation unless there is something for it to do with the location data. The phone software only wants a cell tower to talk to. If there is more than one, so much the better but that's all the phone needs to operate as a phone.
I didn't say they couldn't or wouldn't. I said it makes tracking you more difficult and less accurate. If your GPS is on and you're doing something really stupid like letting FB or some other social app trackyour location, all "they" need to do is tap into the data stream and they have a pretty accurate location for you with basically no effort at all. Getting log data from a bunch of cell towers and picking out one phone from the mass of data and the reported signal strength and then matching that up to get a location means wading through a lot of data.
If "they" really want to find you they can. I've dealt with cell tower data and there's a lot of it to digest if you want to find out if someone's phone connected to a particular tower. Oh yeah, and if a tower that should see you is saturated, they don't get a report from that tower.
One thing you can do is do not turn on GPS location services on your phone unless you need them. This also saves quite a bit of battery life since processing GPS signals to get a location takes a lot of juice. It doesn't prevent "them" from using cell tower triangulation to track your location but that's more difficult and not as accurate.
Be aware that some apps will "help you out" by turning on GPS services for you and some apps won't function correctly unless they can access your GPS provided location.
Personally, I kind of like the idea that what I've busted my butt working to get is mine and can't be taken away to give to some snivelling, lazy-assed bastard who thinks he or she is entitled to what I've worked for but are too lazy to work for it themselves.
That's fine, but "intellectual property" has nothing to do with that.
Sure it does. If I spend days, months, years coming up with something like a book, it's mine. If I share it with others, I may chose to ask for compensation for the work I put into writing the book. Copyright gives me a mechanism for enforcing that. The same can be said for other forms of intellectual property. Just because the creative effort isn't physical doesn't mean that no effort is involved on the part of the creator. The creator is justified in demanding compensation for their creative endeavor.
Fixed that for the original author but your comment still holds.
Personally, I kind of like the idea that what I've busted my butt working to get is mine and can't be taken away to give to some snivelling, lazy-assed bastard who thinks he or she is entitled to what I've worked for but are too lazy to work for it themselves.
Having been around here for about sixteen years, I can say with some certainty that Slashdot has gone from being extremely libertarian in the past to extremely liberal and conservative in recent years. The comments and atmosphere around here has grown much more similar to the comment section of any news story linked to by drudgereport.com (you know, the "libtard/republithug" bullshit littered with lots of racism and religion and general vile display of humanity stuff). Slashdot has become more political, more hateful, and more split -- but hardly in one direction; in both directions.
/. becoming more extreme just mirrors the country. My take is that the U.S. has gone from a country with fairly uniform political/economic philosophy (back in the 1950s and early '60s) to having fairly polarized beliefs. The "left" wanting to take the country to a more European model of cradle to grave care and the "right" fighting that because they don't agree with the government's choices. This is simplistic but I don't feel like writing a book to explain my position.
Unfortunately, the right wingers have turned what shoulkd be a debate of ideas, philosophy and economics into quoting (or misquoting) the bible./. on the other hand mirrors most college politics where the faculty tend to be more than a little left of center. I'm guessing this comes from most/.ers either being in college working on a technical degree or they have the degree and are working in some kind of technology role. Philosophically, I'm a libertarian so I piss everyone off (e.g., abortion should be legal but the governent shouldn't pay for it).
I find it amusing though that/. has a strong libertarian streak that shows up whenever the question of competence comes up. Kind of, "Everyone should get a chance but don't make me take on some protected doofus in MY data center."
Let's see. So the/. coverage of Global Wraming, Edward Snowden, Wikileaks and Bradley Manning were strictly from a conservative perspective? Yeah. Right.
Also, in case you hadn't noticed, Ho Chi Mihn was a communist. Communists are generally considered leftists in most of the world. Obviously not in your universe but I kind of wonder about folks like you and which reality you've been in. And, yes, I know he started out as a nationalist/anti-colonialist. He seems to have embraced communism as more than just a way to get support to fight the French.
Of course I do have a political point of view decidedly different than you. I suggested starting a "buy the bullet" campaign to fund buying ammunition for Bradley Manning's firing squad. I'd hate to see the little traitorous bastard not get what he deserves due to something like the budget sequestration making ammunition for his firing squad out of budget.
It is on slashdot because it is a conservative victory, and this is a conservative web site. Any news that proclaims victory for conservatives - even if they are a loss for justice itself - automatically make the front page. Expect to see a front page story here when the Texas governor signs the latest anti-abortion bill as well.
ROFLMAO. The political views expressed on slashdot are usually somewhat to the left of Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung and Ho Che Mihn.
Thanks. I haven't laughed this hard since I saw Jeff Dunham.
I hope he provided a mechanism for people who feel or know that they have been wrongly tagged as possessing dangerous guns to remove the tag. Heaven forbid that some nefarious group like gun owners would stoop to tagging his home and office and classroom as being places where dangerous weapons and/or people can be found. But then again, a loose cannon who considers crowd sourced vigilante justice to be a good thing is far more dangerous than a gun in the possession of a law abiding citizen.
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Small ISPs tend to be more flexible. Find a reseller of Bombastic Cable or your local Ma Bell spin off and see what you can negotiate. I run my own web, e-mail, ssh, DNS and VPN server on a 1.5 mb (down) and .5 mb up DSL connection. What I said to my ISP was, "If I get enough traffic that the connection needs to be faster then that's a good indication I need to upgrade the account." They bought it so I run everything through a single IP address on their fixed IP address, business account. And, yes, it costs a little more than a "no servers", consumer account.
BTW, so far the amount of traffic to my server hasn't been an issue. On the plus side, the NSA doesn't have access to my server.
Cheers,
Dave
I'll meet you half-way and suggest that in Windows, it's easier to get something going initially, but in Linux it's easier to make detailed and significant changes later on.
As for Windows admins wishing they had Linux, I've met a few Win admins and they generally consider interest in Linux to be something of a "phase", one which you grow out once you gain enough experience at what actually happens in corporate setup and why Exchange is so widely used (hint: it's fucking awesome how much capability it provides compared to a scattering of similar tools and services in Linux).
My experience is that it seems like Windows admins who worked with Linux (or proprietary Unix) still prefer it but "put up with" IIS when they have to use it due to corporate policy. The admins who grew up on Windows and dabbled with Linux end up back on Windows. The main thing for me is that Linux is easier to troubleshoot since I don't have to go digging for some obscure registry entry that some program messed with and ended up breaking something else. Whoever came up with the registry should be taken out and shot (or have some suitably painful means of execution; shooting might be to easy for them).
I'll grant you that exchange is a pretty amazing tool. Way back when there used to be some competing products (just like there used to be competing word processors and spreadsheets, etc.). They all got plowed under by the Windows/Microsoft Office jugernaught. Now, the only "competition" comes from open source projects that just don't seem to have the understand of the big corporate world. I'm working as a Unix Engineer in a big big telco at the moment and the level of integration (aka, lockin) to Windows as the corporate desktop is amazing and, at the same time, horribly stupefying. I end up using an X emulator under Windows to do my work slowly and painfully when I would easily be twice as productive with a Linux box but that's not the corporate standard.
Cheers,
Dave
You basically just admitted that Linux boxes are harder to administer than Windows servers. This makes Linux servers much less appealing for companies when you can find Windows server admins for a dime a dozen, but Linux admins are harder to find and generally cost a lot more.
Er, no. Windows makes the easy things easy (pick what you want from the list rather than, horror of horrors, type something) but still hasn't succeeded in making the difficult easy. This lulls people who think they know what they're doing into jumping into the deep end and finding out they can't swim. Lots of things when setting up a server (web or otherwise) that require an understanding of the underlying networking. The Windows admins who don't know this are the ones who are "a dime a dozen." The ones that do can create a secure, functional site with Windows but wish they had Linux since it's easier and more secure and faster and more flexible and....
Cheers,
Dave
WKRP in Cincinnati episode (for those who didn't see it back when).
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Dave
The data is from California. It's not cool to have more than one person in the car.
Actually, you're right. They can't.
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Dave
From TFA:
Cheers,
Dave
I'm a wine drinker and lead foil used to be used over the corks of wine bottles. This ended with California's Prop 65 since it set a threshold of "detectable" instead of what can cause harm for any chemical known to cause cancer or birth defects. Seems a few atoms of lead could transfer from the lead foil to the glass of the bottle and then be carried by the wine into the glass of the person drinking the wine. Since CA is a huge market for wine (not just a producer) lead foil went away and was replaced by either another metal (doesn't have the same feel) or plastic (seems like I'm opening a bottle of Ripple).
Keep this sort of absurd approach to things in mind when discussing issues such as this. Lots of substances are detectale at levels that don't cause harm. In spite of the logic in your discussion, chances are that a detectable amount of lead will remain and thus trigger hysteria.
Cheers,
Dave
Actually, the HE-111 became a decent bomber (until it had real fighter opposition but that's a different problem) but the FW-200 really didn't. The FW-200 really was designed as an airliner and had a tendency to suffer structural failures pulling the loads that were put on it as a bomber/maritime patrol plane. It still sank quite a bit of allied shipping but it had more than its share of problems.
Cheers,
Dave
In the U.S. we call the armed forces "The Department of Defense." Calling a weapon "defensive" leaves lots of room for what you defend and how you defend it.
Cheers,
Dave
For any given software project there is an optimal team size. If the project is small enough, you can keep the team size down to what works with an agile development methodology. If the project is bigger than that, things get ugly. I started my career in a company that considered projects of 50 to 100 man-years to be small to medium sized. Big projects involved over a thousand man-years of effort and the projects were still completed in a few years calendar time. You can do the math as to what that means as far as number of developers working concurrently (I remember one project that had approximately 500 to 600 people working on it).
The methodologies and discipline exist to solve such projects. It isn't efficiient compared to a small project but small project techniques can't solve big problems in time. Usually when you attempt to explain what it entails to management you get a response of, "We don't have time for that." So, the project flounders for twice as long before finally getting put out of everyone's missery.
Oh yeah. Been there. Done that. Over and over. Seen it done right when people used the right approach and I've seen more than my share of death marches that only seemed to convince good developers to look for another line of work.
Cheers,
Dave
It's managers and executives who make the decisions, and to them whether it's a browser or mobile app or SaaS or whatever the latest trend is, who cares if you're reinventing the wheel as long as profits are up.
That hasn't changed either. Just the specific subject of the idiocy has changed. Idiotic managers are timeless. Lady Ada probably had the same thing to say about Charles Babbage.
Cheers,
Dave
...Once the hardware got to a point (the 386) Microsoft had too much backward compatibility to deal with to really make the OS stable...
Then why were Windows/386 and Windows 3.0 so unstable? DOS 3.3 was about the only stable operating system to ever come out of Microsoft prior to XP and XP maintained backwards compatibility with 2K and NT. Try again on excuses for why Microsoft has trouble creating a stable operating system.
Microsoft doesn't get "eaten alive" due to vendor lock in (just try to order a desktop or laptop with Linux instead of Windows from HP, Dell, etc.) and due to IT infrastructure investment at large companies. I'm currently working at a large telecomm company and my desktop system is completely locked down and remotely managed. A lot of effort went into developing that technology and it would take a huge investment by the company to throw out Windows and change it. Ergo, I'm stuck using Windows to work on Unix boxes through an X emulator.
Cheers,
Dave
It's easy to follow the big national and international events with on-line sources. If anything, it's hard not to have them shoved down your throat (I'm almost surprised /. doesn't have an article about the Kate Middleton giving birth to the new heir; there has to be a techy, geek angle somewhere). What isn't so easy to get on-line are the local interest articles that you didn't know you were interested in. Things like the local city council discussing a change to zoning that will allow a Wallmart to be built across the street from where you live and road "improvement" projects that will make your currently pleasant commute into a trip through hell. Also, there is usually lots of coverage of local and state level politics that we probably all should pay a lot more attention to. That sort of thing.
What on-line lacks is the ability to flip through the news pages linearly. Most news sites are arranged in a tree-like structure that allows users to drill down to a specific article on a particular subject if they know what they are looking for. What they don't allow you to do is quickly scan articles looking first at the headline and then at the next couple of lines if the headline is interesting to determine if you want or should keep reading. And who goes looking for what local road projects are planned that will mess with their commute before the "road closed" sign shows up?
Cheers,
Dave
A Man Called Intrepid
Ian Flemming worked for William Stephenson and had this to say, "James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is William Stephenson."
Cheers,
Dave
Each tower only can report that it "saw" your phone at a particular time and with whatever signal strength. If a tower is saturated, it doesn't have anything. If there are only one or two towers that "see" your phone, they can't accurately triangulate (triangulation needs three fixes). Signal strength can vary a lot depending on intervening ground and other obstacles so two towers ony define an area where you might be (or might have been). Finally, your phone data is mixed in with the gigabytes of data from all of the other phone users whose phones connected to a particular tower and your data has to be extracted and this has to be done for ANY cell tower that might have connected to your phone.
So that's as easy and accurate as tapping into "my location is lat xyz, lon abc, elevation nnn"?
Your phone figuring out where it is is a whole different problem from someone who doesn't know where you are trying to find you or track your movements based on which cell towers your phone "sees." Finally, just like with GPS, don't turn on an app that does something like report your location. Typically, the phone won't perform geolocation unless there is something for it to do with the location data. The phone software only wants a cell tower to talk to. If there is more than one, so much the better but that's all the phone needs to operate as a phone.
Cheers,
Dave
I didn't say they couldn't or wouldn't. I said it makes tracking you more difficult and less accurate. If your GPS is on and you're doing something really stupid like letting FB or some other social app trackyour location, all "they" need to do is tap into the data stream and they have a pretty accurate location for you with basically no effort at all. Getting log data from a bunch of cell towers and picking out one phone from the mass of data and the reported signal strength and then matching that up to get a location means wading through a lot of data.
If "they" really want to find you they can. I've dealt with cell tower data and there's a lot of it to digest if you want to find out if someone's phone connected to a particular tower. Oh yeah, and if a tower that should see you is saturated, they don't get a report from that tower.
Cheers,
Dave
One thing you can do is do not turn on GPS location services on your phone unless you need them. This also saves quite a bit of battery life since processing GPS signals to get a location takes a lot of juice. It doesn't prevent "them" from using cell tower triangulation to track your location but that's more difficult and not as accurate.
Be aware that some apps will "help you out" by turning on GPS services for you and some apps won't function correctly unless they can access your GPS provided location.
Cheers,
Dave
Sadly, there is a strong correlation between the same psychopathic personality characteristics and people in upper management:
http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/Toxic_managers/psychopath_in_the_corner_office.shtml
Will we just end up selecting for docile personalities and anyone who shows biomarkers for violent tendencies gets "special treatment?"
Cheers,
Dave
That's fine, but "intellectual property" has nothing to do with that.
Sure it does. If I spend days, months, years coming up with something like a book, it's mine. If I share it with others, I may chose to ask for compensation for the work I put into writing the book. Copyright gives me a mechanism for enforcing that. The same can be said for other forms of intellectual property. Just because the creative effort isn't physical doesn't mean that no effort is involved on the part of the creator. The creator is justified in demanding compensation for their creative endeavor.
Cheers,
Dave
That's the whole idea.
Fixed that for the original author but your comment still holds.
Personally, I kind of like the idea that what I've busted my butt working to get is mine and can't be taken away to give to some snivelling, lazy-assed bastard who thinks he or she is entitled to what I've worked for but are too lazy to work for it themselves.
Cheers,
Dave
Having been around here for about sixteen years, I can say with some certainty that Slashdot has gone from being extremely libertarian in the past to extremely liberal and conservative in recent years. The comments and atmosphere around here has grown much more similar to the comment section of any news story linked to by drudgereport.com (you know, the "libtard/republithug" bullshit littered with lots of racism and religion and general vile display of humanity stuff). Slashdot has become more political, more hateful, and more split -- but hardly in one direction; in both directions.
/. becoming more extreme just mirrors the country. My take is that the U.S. has gone from a country with fairly uniform political/economic philosophy (back in the 1950s and early '60s) to having fairly polarized beliefs. The "left" wanting to take the country to a more European model of cradle to grave care and the "right" fighting that because they don't agree with the government's choices. This is simplistic but I don't feel like writing a book to explain my position.
Unfortunately, the right wingers have turned what shoulkd be a debate of ideas, philosophy and economics into quoting (or misquoting) the bible. /. on the other hand mirrors most college politics where the faculty tend to be more than a little left of center. I'm guessing this comes from most /.ers either being in college working on a technical degree or they have the degree and are working in some kind of technology role. Philosophically, I'm a libertarian so I piss everyone off (e.g., abortion should be legal but the governent shouldn't pay for it).
I find it amusing though that /. has a strong libertarian streak that shows up whenever the question of competence comes up. Kind of, "Everyone should get a chance but don't make me take on some protected doofus in MY data center."
Cheers,
Dave
Let's see. So the /. coverage of Global Wraming, Edward Snowden, Wikileaks and Bradley Manning were strictly from a conservative perspective? Yeah. Right.
Also, in case you hadn't noticed, Ho Chi Mihn was a communist. Communists are generally considered leftists in most of the world. Obviously not in your universe but I kind of wonder about folks like you and which reality you've been in. And, yes, I know he started out as a nationalist/anti-colonialist. He seems to have embraced communism as more than just a way to get support to fight the French.
Of course I do have a political point of view decidedly different than you. I suggested starting a "buy the bullet" campaign to fund buying ammunition for Bradley Manning's firing squad. I'd hate to see the little traitorous bastard not get what he deserves due to something like the budget sequestration making ammunition for his firing squad out of budget.
Cheers,
Dave
If he only did "Achmed the dead terrorist" he would be a comic genius. On a personal level, I relate to Walter but what the hay.
You seriously need to get a sense of humor.
Cheers,
Dave
It is on slashdot because it is a conservative victory, and this is a conservative web site. Any news that proclaims victory for conservatives - even if they are a loss for justice itself - automatically make the front page. Expect to see a front page story here when the Texas governor signs the latest anti-abortion bill as well.
ROFLMAO. The political views expressed on slashdot are usually somewhat to the left of Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung and Ho Che Mihn.
Thanks. I haven't laughed this hard since I saw Jeff Dunham.
Cheers,
Dave
I hope he provided a mechanism for people who feel or know that they have been wrongly tagged as possessing dangerous guns to remove the tag. Heaven forbid that some nefarious group like gun owners would stoop to tagging his home and office and classroom as being places where dangerous weapons and/or people can be found. But then again, a loose cannon who considers crowd sourced vigilante justice to be a good thing is far more dangerous than a gun in the possession of a law abiding citizen.
Cheers,
Dave