You know, I have a much better idea, which works wonders: Install Firefox, Java 1.5.0_01, and Flash plugin, set it as the default browser, and remove the IE icons from everywhere but the Start Menu (just in case it's necessary to be used). At the repair shop I work at, the only returns we get are people that don't listen when we tell them not to use IE, and those are pretty few and far between.
Well, the aviary branch for Firefox just landed on trunk, which means that the features introduced in Firefox will be available in the Suite as soon as regressions are sorted out.
I have a better idea. How about the parents watch the "inappropriate" material WITH their children and explain it to them during/afterward? Oh, sorry, that would be real parenting. We don't want any of that. (Though actually, I'm not so sure that having children find out about things such as sex independently from their extremist religious parents is such a bad thing -- it's rather sad that so many people think that it is somehow immoral.)
Reminds me of their original press release that said that there were a "small number of users" encountering the stutter bug in HL2. Yeah, real small numbers.
Seriously, I'm tired of people bringing in computers to the computer repair shop I work at running Windows XP with 128 fucking megs of RAM. When will these companies QUIT DOING THAT?! Windows XP simply CANNOT run on 128M of RAM at a rate anything better than 'mediocre'. Add antivirus software, which is a MUST now, and you've got a system that runs like crap because it's constantly paging to the hard drive! I'm sick of it! Then when I call people and tell them they need more RAM, and their bill would be around $250, they start asking why not for a couple hundred more they don't just buy a NEW ONE! Aggravation!!
Had MS done this right from the beginning, the performance hit could have atleast reduced (to say 5%).
Uh, no, it would've just been 10% slower from the beginning. The reason it's slower is because they added buffer checks to tons of the libraries. That would be doing it "the right way".
Except for companies which have people running all over the country and/or world (large corporations, companies such as Insurance that have adjusters running all over the place), in which case they'll all be valid but still will "look" bogus, in your scenario.
I'm sorry, but I find it a bit disturbing that the FTC is likening spammers to violent criminals. As much as we hate 'em, making such correlations is extreeeemely dangerous, and despite how much I hate spam, I'd rather have my money be spent on fixing the system so that it can't be manipulated instead of just finding the people that are manipulating it, because... once one goes down, there will be another to take his/her place.
For the record, child pornography doesn't have to have victims. But because of the moral outrage, even computer-generated child porn and texts are outlawed most places.
This is very true. I host various Japanese "anime-style" art Web sites, most adult in nature. There is actually an entire realm of Japanese art that I am aware of as a result of this called RURI/SHOTA-- the words are defined specifically to define "illustrations of pre-adults," sometimes in extremely lewd sexual positions. They are just drawings, but I still get complaints from people that it is child porn. As far as I'm aware, the only legislation attempting to ban this in the US was the latest AMBER legislation, and the specific clause banning it was ruled unconstitutional (too broad and overreaching; also made illegal Romeo and Juliet -- yeah, the Shakespeare classic). THAT said, there IS still a clause against CG stuff, which is just...bizarre. When did we cross the line from protecting children to defining peoples' morals? I don't particularly like these kind of stuff, but I am not going to estrange a group of wonderful artists whose material, outside of Japan (where conventions and publications of such material are extremely common), is considered immoral (and illegal because of it).
As an aside, mostly toward the people that will say "they must be child molesting paedophiles," many of these artists are women, and none of them (and that includes the men) seem (at least as far as I can glean, what with all of their extremely stiff anti-childporn messages on their Web sites) particularly interested in real kiddies. So yes, this mostly does seem to be discrimination against a group of people's completely harmless interests.
A neat trick they have. Yes their site works fine. But their application submission fucks up, majorly. You get all the way through submitting an app, click Submit, and it tells you that your session has timed out and you need to go back and do it again, when in fact your application has already been fucking sent to them. I discovered this after their slow-as-hell email server started sending me account confirmation emails as I was trying to beat the proverbial (non-existant) clock to get the app submitted. By the end of it I had submitted 4 applications for a damn checking account. When I tried to alert their web development team, "We only support Internet Explorer and Netscape" was their reply. Always, always their reply. How fuckin difficult would it be to fix that one tiny bit where it think it's timing out but it's not? (How many people wanna bet that bug exists with Netscape, too?) Fuckers.
On a more serious note that is really irritating the hell out of me right now, what is wrong with RoadRunner's abuse department? I sent an IRCd log that clearly shows someone attempting to circumvent a k:line by using open proxies (which is against their TOS-- circumvention of network security) and the response they send me back is that they "don't monitor traffic" and "you should consider using one of the many available commercial products to restrict access to the Internet from or to your computer". Like they didn't even read the damn letter I sent.
I had problems with IE7.css.6, namely resizing the page width would not move transparent PNG to match the new width, but that's fixed with.6.1 and I've deployed it on 2 sites now without a hitch. These are two sites that would normally NOT work correctly in IE. What exactly is the problem you're having?
Oh man, their project is named Thunderbird. Quick, Mozilla Foundation! Send our your legions of lawyers! We must stop this blatant misuse of your trademarks!!
Oh yes well, yours is 'perfect' so everyone else's must be. It sounds to me like you don't really know or care to know what actually occurs during the procedure, which is, the foreskin which is attached to the glans of the penis (the shrivelled remains which you refer to as glans is nothing compared to what it should be). The foreskin is normally attached to the glans by a membrane called the synechia. The glans and inner lining of the foreskin are still developing in the young child. During circumcision, the synechia must be torn apart.
Wow, that last bit of misinformation links to a site with no actual scientific citations, where the "further proof" is a powerpoint presentation also with no citations, not to mention no AUTHOR, and I'm supposed to take that as fact. Yeah, right. Try perhaps a site that actually cites scientific studies. What? You can't find one because all the studies showing that the benefits of circumcision outweigh the hazards are bullshit? Oh, sorry about that.
Ten times of a miniscual number (in the case of 'serious kidney infections') is still a miniscual number. Why do you persist? If the threat was really as great as you say it is at least ONE of the major children's health organizations would be in favor of routine circumcision, but none of them are.
I'm sure I could think of a better analogy than this but I'm running on 2.5 hours of sleep: You can die by touching hot electrical wires with your fingers. Should we lop everyone's fingers off so that it would be more difficult to be electrocuted, or maybe we should just teach people the proper manner of handling live wires? Perhaps rather than trying to continue to create reasons for a barbaric practice we should instead learn to eduate people to, say, not be fucking stupid with sex and use a condom? Honestly.
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You know, I have a much better idea, which works wonders: Install Firefox, Java 1.5.0_01, and Flash plugin, set it as the default browser, and remove the IE icons from everywhere but the Start Menu (just in case it's necessary to be used). At the repair shop I work at, the only returns we get are people that don't listen when we tell them not to use IE, and those are pretty few and far between.
1,278 web sites and 114 physical locations, probably.
Well, the aviary branch for Firefox just landed on trunk, which means that the features introduced in Firefox will be available in the Suite as soon as regressions are sorted out.
I have a better idea.
How about the parents watch the "inappropriate" material WITH their children and explain it to them during/afterward?
Oh, sorry, that would be real parenting. We don't want any of that. (Though actually, I'm not so sure that having children find out about things such as sex independently from their extremist religious parents is such a bad thing -- it's rather sad that so many people think that it is somehow immoral.)
Reminds me of their original press release that said that there were a "small number of users" encountering the stutter bug in HL2. Yeah, real small numbers.
(P.S. I have no idea why two of those lines aren't lining up, if I add a space then they are one space too far over. I blame slashcode.)
Seriously, I'm tired of people bringing in computers to the computer repair shop I work at running Windows XP with 128 fucking megs of RAM. When will these companies QUIT DOING THAT?! Windows XP simply CANNOT run on 128M of RAM at a rate anything better than 'mediocre'. Add antivirus software, which is a MUST now, and you've got a system that runs like crap because it's constantly paging to the hard drive! I'm sick of it! Then when I call people and tell them they need more RAM, and their bill would be around $250, they start asking why not for a couple hundred more they don't just buy a NEW ONE! Aggravation!!
Too bad that eTrust AntiVirus is just rebranded old McAfee, and eTrust Firewall is just rebranded old ZoneAlarm. Oooooops.
Uh, no, it would've just been 10% slower from the beginning. The reason it's slower is because they added buffer checks to tons of the libraries. That would be doing it "the right way".
Except for companies which have people running all over the country and/or world (large corporations, companies such as Insurance that have adjusters running all over the place), in which case they'll all be valid but still will "look" bogus, in your scenario.
Thinking the same thing. Custom skins were fun. I remember how cool it was to have an actual picture for a skin instead of a drawn smilie.
I'm sorry, but I find it a bit disturbing that the FTC is likening spammers to violent criminals. As much as we hate 'em, making such correlations is extreeeemely dangerous, and despite how much I hate spam, I'd rather have my money be spent on fixing the system so that it can't be manipulated instead of just finding the people that are manipulating it, because... once one goes down, there will be another to take his/her place.
As an aside, mostly toward the people that will say "they must be child molesting paedophiles," many of these artists are women, and none of them (and that includes the men) seem (at least as far as I can glean, what with all of their extremely stiff anti-childporn messages on their Web sites) particularly interested in real kiddies. So yes, this mostly does seem to be discrimination against a group of people's completely harmless interests.
A neat trick they have.
Yes their site works fine.
But their application submission fucks up, majorly.
You get all the way through submitting an app, click Submit, and it tells you that your session has timed out and you need to go back and do it again, when in fact your application has already been fucking sent to them. I discovered this after their slow-as-hell email server started sending me account confirmation emails as I was trying to beat the proverbial (non-existant) clock to get the app submitted. By the end of it I had submitted 4 applications for a damn checking account. When I tried to alert their web development team, "We only support Internet Explorer and Netscape" was their reply. Always, always their reply. How fuckin difficult would it be to fix that one tiny bit where it think it's timing out but it's not? (How many people wanna bet that bug exists with Netscape, too?) Fuckers.
Welcome to the wonderful world of SSH brute-forcing.
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I get several of these a week.
Please read the following ISC diary for more info:
http://www.incidents.org/diary.php?date=2004-07-2
(Under the header "More ssh password brute forcing")
On a more serious note that is really irritating the hell out of me right now, what is wrong with RoadRunner's abuse department? I sent an IRCd log that clearly shows someone attempting to circumvent a k:line by using open proxies (which is against their TOS-- circumvention of network security) and the response they send me back is that they "don't monitor traffic" and "you should consider using one of the many available commercial products to restrict access to the Internet from or to your computer". Like they didn't even read the damn letter I sent.
I had problems with IE7.css .6, namely resizing the page width would not move transparent PNG to match the new width, but that's fixed with .6.1 and I've deployed it on 2 sites now without a hitch. These are two sites that would normally NOT work correctly in IE.
What exactly is the problem you're having?
Yeah, damn HTTP, it should have block-hashes like BitTorrent :)
Here's hoping for HTTP/1.2!!
D'oh.
WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
MD5sum 3f758fa0e7934555d9d70bff137a4299
Oh man, their project is named Thunderbird. Quick, Mozilla Foundation! Send our your legions of lawyers! We must stop this blatant misuse of your trademarks!!
It started at nice 330kB/s, now it's down to a consistent 179kB/s, though I'm not certain that isn't also due to my retardo cable company.
Thanks, mate. Damn useful since torrent downloads are totally fucked on TWC.
Hm, I'm a retard. Please mod that down, since it's actually a German SP1 link (WTF?)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/7/9/5791a e7e-4ae4-4e6d-9813-97763a0e8306/xpsp2.exe
"Share and enjoy."
Oh yes well, yours is 'perfect' so everyone else's must be. It sounds to me like you don't really know or care to know what actually occurs during the procedure, which is, the foreskin which is attached to the glans of the penis (the shrivelled remains which you refer to as glans is nothing compared to what it should be). The foreskin is normally attached to the glans by a membrane called the synechia. The glans and inner lining of the foreskin are still developing in the young child. During circumcision, the synechia must be torn apart.
Wow, that last bit of misinformation links to a site with no actual scientific citations, where the "further proof" is a powerpoint presentation also with no citations, not to mention no AUTHOR, and I'm supposed to take that as fact. Yeah, right. Try perhaps a site that actually cites scientific studies. What? You can't find one because all the studies showing that the benefits of circumcision outweigh the hazards are bullshit? Oh, sorry about that.
Ten times of a miniscual number (in the case of 'serious kidney infections') is still a miniscual number. Why do you persist? If the threat was really as great as you say it is at least ONE of the major children's health organizations would be in favor of routine circumcision, but none of them are.
I'm sure I could think of a better analogy than this but I'm running on 2.5 hours of sleep: You can die by touching hot electrical wires with your fingers. Should we lop everyone's fingers off so that it would be more difficult to be electrocuted, or maybe we should just teach people the proper manner of handling live wires? Perhaps rather than trying to continue to create reasons for a barbaric practice we should instead learn to eduate people to, say, not be fucking stupid with sex and use a condom? Honestly.