Different hardware configurations affect things differently. I had a ram module that would only crash in linux. I also had a cpu that would only overheat in Win98.
We have a 12 y/o girl here and we've been dual-booting for about 6 months. When it was up to her linux almost never got booted up. We wanted her to use linux more, mostly because you have to know more than "click next" to change anything. Now linux is used almost 100% of the time. We did it by forbidding internet access from Windows.
People watch sg-1 only because it's on every goddamned day. They say the ratings are up, well no shit the ratings are up. And they've cancelled farscape? The ratings for farscape are down because it's shown only on Friday night's at 10:00 when everyone is either asleep or out getting they're "drink on". I wish I had a billion dollars to buy out the sci/fi channel and fire these people.
I'm in the middle of shopping for a new board. Now I'm afraid to make a decision until I can find a list of boards that are "safe". If anyone finds such a list please post it!
I especially remember the cigarette girls in all the shopping malls passing out cigarettes. I think there'd be some kind of outrage if that happened here though.
Ok, so this is going to be a series of moderated meetings between the Commerce Dept. and the "stakeholders". Why do I suspect the only stakeholders included will be the **aa's? I call bullshit.
Who can represent us? There has to be someone the Commerce Dept. rates as a "stakeholder" that doesn't work for Disney. EFF?
I thought the address you posted was a joke, but Google produces too many results so I guess it's true. However it does sound like the plot for a horror novel. Ever seen what spiders do to each other?
According to Ayn Rand if all CEO's of the world collectively went on strike we would all starve to death. The premise is that our industry leaders are leaders because it takes a rare and special quality to run an industry and the "common" man just doesn't have what it takes. Kind of like if Bill Gates, Alan Cox, and Steve Jobs quit working the computer industry would self destruct.
This is brilliant? In real life if the top (define "top" however the hell you want to) 1000 industry leaders (define..."") all went into hiding there would be 2000 people of equal competence scrambling to take their place immediately.
Ayn Rand's novels are merely an attempt (failed) to prove that the elite are elite because they are more intelligent and capable than anyone else. Being born into a wealthy family or being included in the "good ole boy" network has nothing to do with it. Disgusting.
Think of the article as a press release direct from the DEA. The whole time I was reading the article I was thinking how much it sounded like justification for increasing the budget for DEA operations in South America. As if tripling or even quadrupling the budget would change anything except my taxes.
I'm so sick of the drug war. Mostly sick of spending money on it.
Great idea. Alert the user that he/she will be logged as having accessed site "x", and that he/she may be asked to explain or justifie visiting that site.
"So? How does this affect you? Honestly, Microsoft can never "kill" open source because it's open."
You didn't read the article did you? In order to interact with a system running Palladium your client must be certified. If you're running Linux, the odds are you won't be. For you the internet is reduced your kids that you don't let run windows and the other LUG members of your town, if you happen to have a direct connection to them. You'll need the direct connection because youre Linux box won't make it past your ISP's gateway.
Of course this is and extreme view, but that's the gist of the article. This is what your parent article was illustrating.
Then there is the question of accountablity. What happens when my feed starts providing resticted intellectual property like "Oops!...I did it again"? Just who gets sued. Present laws dictate that ISPs are not liable as long as they take steps to immediately cut the source. Assuming, you would be protected under such a law it seems to me the central feature of the network(relaying others data) is discouraged by legal the standards.
I think it comes down to who owns the antenna. If I own the antenna that's up on my roof and there are many people in my area with their own antenna then who's to stop us from developing our own protocol(s) to share data with each other directly without paying anyone? AOL et al will be trying to get legislation passed that outlaws people from communicating with their neighbor without a license. To get a license you would also have to submit to monitoring by the FBI, CIA, MPAA, RIAA, and maybe the DEA should be thrown in there too.
Exactly how is my response to the parent "flamebait"?
Point (1), the majority of/. readers/posters are biased toward Linux and Open Source. Is this not true?
If the above is true then is it safe to say that these same people have made up their minds that Linux and Open Source is superior in many ways than Windows and closed source?
Are there not numerous examples of grandmothers and small children (there's an 11 y/o girl in my house that can install Suse w/ no problems. She is of average intellingence) who use linux? If and adult cannot perform a task so simple a child can do it then is there a problem with labeling that person a moron/lame?
The entire purpose of the post is to point out that
1)Slashdot is biased and said bias is based on facts and experience. Whenever someone makes a statement that/. users are biased the reply should be "So?"
2)To counter the assertion that Linux is more difficult to use than Windows. It is not.
When are you (people) going to understand that/. is openly and deliberately biased towards Linux and open source? This is something you should accept or go away to some Windows forum. The majority of/. readers/posters are people who have already made up their mind that Linux is superior in many ways to Windows. Also, there are enough grandmothers and small children using linux that I think it's safe to say that if you can't use it you are a moron/lame.
Everyone start sharing your internet connection, even if it's just dialup. Use IPv6 as much as possible. Run cat5 to your neigbors house, wireless, whatever.
We need a routing protocol like P2P where people volunteer to serve as routers and DNS servers.
A new "internet" will evolve, uncontrollable by anyone. Worth doing I think.
A collection of source-only tarballs is not a "distribution". There is directory structure, package management, etc. to consider. The poster you replied to is referring to a distribution, not a collection of sources.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were expected to outline high-profile changes Wednesday at the FBI's headquarters, including closer ties to the CIA and an overhaul of the FBI's outdated computer systems.
Does anyone believe for a second that the FBI's computer systems are outdated? Sounds like a spin job to me....
Later watch the FBI try to attribute their missed tip-offs prior to 9/11 to slow computers. They'll have all kinds of "contributing" factors that'll spread the blame out thin enough so no one loses their job.
Someone who does computer salvage/recycling was telling me that given two power supplies of equal "wattage", the heavier one is the better one. Sounds reasonable and intuitive, anyone know if it actually makes a good rule of thumb?
So you're saying that, due to the lack of competition, the ISP's will all install filtering software because they're afraid of "Christian lobbying groups?" I think you're taking this just a bit too far. The public outcry would quickly overshadow any such lobbying power, be it real or perceived.
The poster didn't describe a direct connection. He described what is likely to happen in a non-competitive environment. And he's right.
When the customer has no other broadband alternatives the ISP will be in a much stronger position to dictate terms. Also it's one thing to try to coerce a single ISP, quite another to try to exert control over 3 or 5. With one ISP you don't even have to pass legislation to regulate or censor the internet. Just a phone call, "Hi, ISP? This is GW..., yeah, well we'd really appreciate a little cooperation on this issue. Thanks, I knew I could count on you." Filtered content follows.
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Well, I did say "effectively". I mean, I don't know anyone who uses Windows and never uses Office or Explorer.
Blender is a good one too. It takes a long time to learn though, we had play some reverse psychology to get her hooked.
"This one's for professionals honey, I don't think you're old enough yet."
The absolute best one: "Girls aren't good at this stuff". Boy did that set her on fire!
Different hardware configurations affect things differently. I had a ram module that would only crash in linux. I also had a cpu that would only overheat in Win98.
Excuse me, the link is referring to a problem with Office, and IE 5&6. This is effectively "Windows".
We have a 12 y/o girl here and we've been dual-booting for about 6 months. When it was up to her linux almost never got booted up. We wanted her to use linux more, mostly because you have to know more than "click next" to change anything. Now linux is used almost 100% of the time. We did it by forbidding internet access from Windows.
oh my god...
People watch sg-1 only because it's on every goddamned day. They say the ratings are up, well no shit the ratings are up. And they've cancelled farscape? The ratings for farscape are down because it's shown only on Friday night's at 10:00 when everyone is either asleep or out getting they're "drink on". I wish I had a billion dollars to buy out the sci/fi channel and fire these people.
I'm in the middle of shopping for a new board. Now I'm afraid to make a decision until I can find a list of boards that are "safe". If anyone finds such a list please post it!
I especially remember the cigarette girls in all the shopping malls passing out cigarettes. I think there'd be some kind of outrage if that happened here though.
I always do this. Even if know that what I'm looking for is on a particular site, I'll still go to Google first to find specific page I'm looking for.
Next I always open the "cached" page so I can quickly scroll down and just look for colors instead of reading all the text.
Question:
Is that "stuttering" scroll thing a bug or a feature? You it doesn't scroll, it steps down. Just curious if you did that on purpose.
Ok, so this is going to be a series of moderated meetings between the Commerce Dept. and the "stakeholders". Why do I suspect the only stakeholders included will be the **aa's? I call bullshit.
Who can represent us? There has to be someone the Commerce Dept. rates as a "stakeholder" that doesn't work for Disney. EFF?
I thought the address you posted was a joke, but Google produces too many results so I guess it's true. However it does sound like the plot for a horror novel. Ever seen what spiders do to each other?
According to Ayn Rand if all CEO's of the world collectively went on strike we would all starve to death. The premise is that our industry leaders are leaders because it takes a rare and special quality to run an industry and the "common" man just doesn't have what it takes. Kind of like if Bill Gates, Alan Cox, and Steve Jobs quit working the computer industry would self destruct.
This is brilliant? In real life if the top (define "top" however the hell you want to) 1000 industry leaders (define..."") all went into hiding there would be 2000 people of equal competence scrambling to take their place immediately.
Ayn Rand's novels are merely an attempt (failed) to prove that the elite are elite because they are more intelligent and capable than anyone else. Being born into a wealthy family or being included in the "good ole boy" network has nothing to do with it. Disgusting.
Think of the article as a press release direct from the DEA. The whole time I was reading the article I was thinking how much it sounded like justification for increasing the budget for DEA operations in South America. As if tripling or even quadrupling the budget would change anything except my taxes.
I'm so sick of the drug war. Mostly sick of spending money on it.
Score +5 Insightful you should be.
Great idea. Alert the user that he/she will be logged as having accessed site "x", and that he/she may be asked to explain or justifie visiting that site.
But don't block any sites.
"So? How does this affect you? Honestly, Microsoft can never "kill" open source because it's open."
You didn't read the article did you? In order to interact with a system running Palladium your client must be certified. If you're running Linux, the odds are you won't be. For you the internet is reduced your kids that you don't let run windows and the other LUG members of your town, if you happen to have a direct connection to them. You'll need the direct connection because youre Linux box won't make it past your ISP's gateway.
Of course this is and extreme view, but that's the gist of the article. This is what your parent article was illustrating.
Then there is the question of accountablity. What happens when my feed starts providing resticted intellectual property like "Oops!...I did it again"? Just who gets sued. Present laws dictate that ISPs are not liable as long as they take steps to immediately cut the source. Assuming, you would be protected under such a law it seems to me the central feature of the network(relaying others data) is discouraged by legal the standards.
I think it comes down to who owns the antenna. If I own the antenna that's up on my roof and there are many people in my area with their own antenna then who's to stop us from developing our own protocol(s) to share data with each other directly without paying anyone? AOL et al will be trying to get legislation passed that outlaws people from communicating with their neighbor without a license. To get a license you would also have to submit to monitoring by the FBI, CIA, MPAA, RIAA, and maybe the DEA should be thrown in there too.
Exactly how is my response to the parent "flamebait"?
/. readers/posters are biased toward Linux and Open Source. Is this not true?
/. users are biased the reply should be "So?"
Point (1), the majority of
If the above is true then is it safe to say that these same people have made up their minds that Linux and Open Source is superior in many ways than Windows and closed source?
Are there not numerous examples of grandmothers and small children (there's an 11 y/o girl in my house that can install Suse w/ no problems. She is of average intellingence) who use linux? If and adult cannot perform a task so simple a child can do it then is there a problem with labeling that person a moron/lame?
The entire purpose of the post is to point out that
1)Slashdot is biased and said bias is based on facts and experience. Whenever someone makes a statement that
2)To counter the assertion that Linux is more difficult to use than Windows. It is not.
When are you (people) going to understand that /. is openly and deliberately biased towards Linux and open source? This is something you should accept or go away to some Windows forum. The majority of /. readers/posters are people who have already made up their mind that Linux is superior in many ways to Windows. Also, there are enough grandmothers and small children using linux that I think it's safe to say that if you can't use it you are a moron/lame.
Undastando?
Yes, I would like a new free internet.
Here's my proposed order of business:
Everyone start sharing your internet connection, even if it's just dialup. Use IPv6 as much as possible. Run cat5 to your neigbors house, wireless, whatever.
We need a routing protocol like P2P where people volunteer to serve as routers and DNS servers.
A new "internet" will evolve, uncontrollable by anyone. Worth doing I think.
you are such an idiot. read. learn
A collection of source-only tarballs is not a "distribution". There is directory structure, package management, etc. to consider. The poster you replied to is referring to a distribution, not a collection of sources.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were expected to outline high-profile changes Wednesday at the FBI's headquarters, including closer ties to the CIA and an overhaul of the FBI's outdated computer systems.
Does anyone believe for a second that the FBI's computer systems are outdated? Sounds like a spin job to me....
Later watch the FBI try to attribute their missed tip-offs prior to 9/11 to slow computers. They'll have all kinds of "contributing" factors that'll spread the blame out thin enough so no one loses their job.
Someone who does computer salvage/recycling was telling me that given two power supplies of equal "wattage", the heavier one is the better one. Sounds reasonable and intuitive, anyone know if it actually makes a good rule of thumb?
So you're saying that, due to the lack of competition, the ISP's will all install filtering software because they're afraid of "Christian lobbying groups?" I think you're taking this just a bit too far. The public outcry would quickly overshadow any such lobbying power, be it real or perceived.
The poster didn't describe a direct connection. He described what is likely to happen in a non-competitive environment. And he's right.
When the customer has no other broadband alternatives the ISP will be in a much stronger position to dictate terms. Also it's one thing to try to coerce a single ISP, quite another to try to exert control over 3 or 5. With one ISP you don't even have to pass legislation to regulate or censor the internet. Just a phone call, "Hi, ISP? This is GW..., yeah, well we'd really appreciate a little cooperation on this issue. Thanks, I knew I could count on you." Filtered content follows.