Training in government shouldn't be that hard a problem as most admins(at least when I was there) don't know how to use Microsoft stuff either. Linux will be just as easy/hard for them to learn.
I'm not kidding. When I worked for Congress, the systems administrator for many offices was usually the receptionist. They passed responsibilities for the job to the lowest rung in the ladder.
When the government leaders start feeling the pain
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They'll start switching over to something else.
A couple years ago I was a sys admin for a congressional office. We had installed a new web-based version of our CMS software. It was buggy as well, half of it because of IE's instability and unwillingness to integrate with WordPerfect and the other half because of the poor programming. It was frustrating to use and we sent numerous bug reports to the company to no avail. Other offices were having the same problem.
When did the House start taking action against said company? Not long after the House Leadership bought the software, the House tech side finally started making legal noises and fixes finally got made.
So when Dennis Hastert's office or Tom Daschle's office starts getting really fucked over by MS, they'll switch to something else, change the tech guidelines and soon the rest of the House and Senate will follow.
There weren't pieces to cover every possible thing you might want to build so you had to learn both creativity and compromise.
I know I can't be the only person who used figurine legs as joints. They work especially well for hatches.
OTOH, the specialized pieces are nice when they're done properly. There's a difference between creating a specialized piece for a castle corner that's used about 20 times in the castle with other pieces and creating a single piece castle. The former gives you new options, the latter gives none.
Lego hit a nice median in the early nineties I think and it's gone downhill from there.
Through my childhood I had this long-running space opera with my lego figures. Had the same heros and villains for years though the story changed. Initially it was a rebellion against evil robots, then it changed into a star trek thing. Later, I constructed a space colony on my city plates and had adventures at the bar on the colony.
I forget how it ended up but I still have some of the better things I constructed set aside. A couple of neat personal craft and an all-grey mech with a variety of weapons.
With my newfound obsession with Gundams, I should pull out my legos and try my hand at building some.
The fact that there are (according to press releases from the EFF) legitimate uses for this software does not mitigate the illegal utility within the software.
So why don't they haul Sony executives into court for selling VCRs? The fact that there are legitimate uses for this VCR does not mitigate the illegal utility within the VCR.
What about a crack to get around Microsoft's Phone Home program? The fact that there are legitimate uses for this crack does not mitigate the illegal utility within the crack.
Wait! Isn't Rot-13 used as "encryption" for some ebooks? I guess that means my newsreader is illegal because the fact that there are legitimate uses for this software does not mitigate the illegal utility within the newsreader.
This case, along with the DMCA, is completely assinine.
Could something else be used for acceleration? Maybe a rocket booster? Once you get up to a nice speed, let the nuclear drive take over to power the rest of the trip?
But the Moon has this big metallic monolith of aureum proportions, which does... ummm... what is it useful for again? It turns monkeys into men and bones into spaceships.
They must have been trying to avoid license fees to Steve Jackson Games, much as Black Isle, who dropped the GURPS system for Fallout in favor of their own S.P.E.C.I.A.L.(?) for those reasons. IIRC, SJG backed out during development so BI had to come up with their own system. That was what I remember at the time anyways.
Speaking of Fallout, does anyone remember a game called Wasteland? It resembled Bard's Tale/Wizardry but with a post-apocalyptic setting. Is Fallout somehow descended from that? Fallout was pretty much *marketed* as Wasteland's spiritual successor. The back of the box more or less says "It's like Wasteland, only spiffier!"
Better yet, get a decent firewall that monitors OUTGOING traffic.
If I unknowingly install adware, ZoneAlarm will pop up and ask me if I want to allow it to access the net. I say "NO" and check the box so that it never asks me again.
I also regularly run programs to search for adware on my computer and remove it.
Friday night, at the Mariner's game, up on the big screen, they ran the preview for the 11 o'clock news. One of the headlines was something to the effect of "Are the Seattle Mariners hypocrites for scalping tickets on their website?" (as they are the ones that pushed for Seattle's anti-scalping ordinance)
you could have bought a computer with OS/2 pre-installed back in the day.
Ask IBM how well that went. Or the makers of DR-DOS.
I'm sorry you're so illinformed about this case, but don't take it out on/.
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How many adventures could link have possibly have before the first game anyway? He was just a kid.
There have been at least three different Links according to the backstory.
You have the original Link from the first two games.
Then LttP orphan Link who was raised by his uncle and is set years before the first two games.
Then OoT Link who was raised by fairies in the forest and is set hundreds of years before LttP.
I don't know where the GB games fall into all this.
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Ditto for the two Oracle games: Past and Present in Ages and the terrain changes(plus Subrosia) in Seasons. Heck, you could include the original Zelda with its second quest.
It would be pretty bad ass to have two worlds like that. Realistic/Cartoon -- Which would be the "dark world"?
Remember how goofy and cartoony the Dark World/Golden Land was in Link to the Past? Link starts off as a cute bunny. Talking trees. Intelligent bouncing balls. I'm sure lots of people were like WTF?
If Carnivore can stop someone from shooting up a school where my kid is
Honestly, do you really think Carnivore would stop that? If the Feds had cause to think a kid was going to shoot up a school, they won't need Carnivore to prove it. Or, more likely, they won't be checking the kid's e-mail until *after* the fact.
Frankly, if that helps stop bombs from going off at olympic games
And we all know how well *that* case was handled by the Feds.
There's just a litany of mistakes(and worse) that the FBI has done. Some of them may not have changed things in the end but they do point to a certain attitude of "We don't give a sh*t."
Like the thousands of pages they just sort of forgot to give to McVeigh. If they pull these sort of stunts in a high-profile case like this, imagine what they're doing with anonymous cases involving people who may really be innocent.
Frankly, I'd rather not have people like that have something like Carnivore. The FBI, as an agency, has shown repeatedly it can't be trusted and until it gets cleaned up from the top-down, people have every right to be suspicious.
Witness some of the complete witlessness of what people *think* is true.
Stars in other galaxies can have influence upon our lives.
John Edwards talks to the dead.
Fire, Earth, Air and Water are elements(in addition to the periodic table elements)
A heavy object will fall faster than a light one.
The earth is 6000 years old.
People don't know how the world works and sadly a lot can't be bothered to find out. And even sadder, you've got people who want to foist their ignorance on the rest of us as fact.
Washington state just authorized a college offering a degree in astrology. I kid you not. I took a community college course in parapsychology my senior year of high school. Encouragingly enough, the UW didn't award me credit for the class when I transfered there.
Check out how prevalent Urban Legends are and how easily people believe them, not to mention how difficult it is to shake people free of their belief.
Conclusion: People are stupid. Avoid contact with them at all costs.
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Training in government shouldn't be that hard a problem as most admins(at least when I was there) don't know how to use Microsoft stuff either. Linux will be just as easy/hard for them to learn.
I'm not kidding. When I worked for Congress, the systems administrator for many offices was usually the receptionist. They passed responsibilities for the job to the lowest rung in the ladder.
They'll start switching over to something else.
A couple years ago I was a sys admin for a congressional office. We had installed a new web-based version of our CMS software. It was buggy as well, half of it because of IE's instability and unwillingness to integrate with WordPerfect and the other half because of the poor programming. It was frustrating to use and we sent numerous bug reports to the company to no avail. Other offices were having the same problem.
When did the House start taking action against said company? Not long after the House Leadership bought the software, the House tech side finally started making legal noises and fixes finally got made.
So when Dennis Hastert's office or Tom Daschle's office starts getting really fucked over by MS, they'll switch to something else, change the tech guidelines and soon the rest of the House and Senate will follow.
BTW what is it with the cost of Lego now? The stuff is really expensive.
My parents bought a ton of lego bricks at goodwill stores. Whenever they'd see a bag, they'd snatch it up. As a result, I had a ton of normal bricks.
There weren't pieces to cover every possible thing you might want to build so you had to learn both creativity and compromise.
I know I can't be the only person who used figurine legs as joints. They work especially well for hatches.
OTOH, the specialized pieces are nice when they're done properly. There's a difference between creating a specialized piece for a castle corner that's used about 20 times in the castle with other pieces and creating a single piece castle. The former gives you new options, the latter gives none.
Lego hit a nice median in the early nineties I think and it's gone downhill from there.
How can Australian law be applied to a US based company?
Likely the same way American law can be applied to a Russian company.
Through my childhood I had this long-running space opera with my lego figures. Had the same heros and villains for years though the story changed. Initially it was a rebellion against evil robots, then it changed into a star trek thing. Later, I constructed a space colony on my city plates and had adventures at the bar on the colony.
I forget how it ended up but I still have some of the better things I constructed set aside. A couple of neat personal craft and an all-grey mech with a variety of weapons.
With my newfound obsession with Gundams, I should pull out my legos and try my hand at building some.
The fact that there are (according to press releases from the EFF) legitimate uses for this software does not mitigate the illegal utility within the software.
So why don't they haul Sony executives into court for selling VCRs? The fact that there are legitimate uses for this VCR does not mitigate the illegal utility within the VCR.
What about a crack to get around Microsoft's Phone Home program? The fact that there are legitimate uses for this crack does not mitigate the illegal utility within the crack.
Wait! Isn't Rot-13 used as "encryption" for some ebooks? I guess that means my newsreader is illegal because the fact that there are legitimate uses for this software does not mitigate the illegal utility within the newsreader.
This case, along with the DMCA, is completely assinine.
Coming soon to ESPN2!
That more scary that funny, really.
And where has Connie Chung's career gone? Nowhere.
Though, judging from her interview with Condit, the reason probably has more to do with Connie than Bill.
Could something else be used for acceleration? Maybe a rocket booster? Once you get up to a nice speed, let the nuclear drive take over to power the rest of the trip?
But the Moon has this big metallic monolith of aureum proportions, which does... ummm... what is it useful for again?
It turns monkeys into men and bones into spaceships.
They must have been trying to avoid license fees to Steve Jackson Games, much as Black Isle, who dropped the GURPS system for Fallout in favor of their own S.P.E.C.I.A.L.(?) for those reasons.
IIRC, SJG backed out during development so BI had to come up with their own system. That was what I remember at the time anyways.
Speaking of Fallout, does anyone remember a game called Wasteland? It resembled Bard's Tale/Wizardry but with a post-apocalyptic setting. Is Fallout somehow descended from that?
Fallout was pretty much *marketed* as Wasteland's spiritual successor. The back of the box more or less says "It's like Wasteland, only spiffier!"
Better yet, get a decent firewall that monitors OUTGOING traffic.
If I unknowingly install adware, ZoneAlarm will pop up and ask me if I want to allow it to access the net. I say "NO" and check the box so that it never asks me again.
I also regularly run programs to search for adware on my computer and remove it.
It's amazing but it happens.
Friday night, at the Mariner's game, up on the big screen, they ran the preview for the 11 o'clock news. One of the headlines was something to the effect of "Are the Seattle Mariners hypocrites for scalping tickets on their website?" (as they are the ones that pushed for Seattle's anti-scalping ordinance)
I nearly busted a gut laughing when I heard that.
If you wore a Nixon mask, they might think you were holding up the store.
Convicted felons is some states can get their voting rights restored.
you could have bought a computer with OS/2 pre-installed back in the day.
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Ask IBM how well that went. Or the makers of DR-DOS.
I'm sorry you're so illinformed about this case, but don't take it out on
How many adventures could link have possibly have before the first game anyway? He was just a kid.
There have been at least three different Links according to the backstory.
You have the original Link from the first two games.
Then LttP orphan Link who was raised by his uncle and is set years before the first two games.
Then OoT Link who was raised by fairies in the forest and is set hundreds of years before LttP.
I don't know where the GB games fall into all this.
Ditto for the two Oracle games: Past and Present in Ages and the terrain changes(plus Subrosia) in Seasons. Heck, you could include the original Zelda with its second quest.
It would be pretty bad ass to have two worlds like that. Realistic/Cartoon -- Which would be the "dark world"?
Remember how goofy and cartoony the Dark World/Golden Land was in Link to the Past? Link starts off as a cute bunny. Talking trees. Intelligent bouncing balls. I'm sure lots of people were like WTF?
Maybe this is the new take on the Golden Land.
If Carnivore can stop someone from shooting up a school where my kid is
Honestly, do you really think Carnivore would stop that? If the Feds had cause to think a kid was going to shoot up a school, they won't need Carnivore to prove it. Or, more likely, they won't be checking the kid's e-mail until *after* the fact.
Then you won't mind if Big Bro installs a GPS device in your car to track how fast you're driving. If you go over the limit, automatic fine!
After all, you're just a law abiding citizen, right?
(FYI, a rental car company(ACME) did just that.)
And if this system helps the government track your movements as a bonus, well, we can trust them to discard this information.
Frankly, if that helps stop bombs from going off at olympic games
And we all know how well *that* case was handled by the Feds.
There's just a litany of mistakes(and worse) that the FBI has done. Some of them may not have changed things in the end but they do point to a certain attitude of "We don't give a sh*t."
Like the thousands of pages they just sort of forgot to give to McVeigh. If they pull these sort of stunts in a high-profile case like this, imagine what they're doing with anonymous cases involving people who may really be innocent.
Frankly, I'd rather not have people like that have something like Carnivore. The FBI, as an agency, has shown repeatedly it can't be trusted and until it gets cleaned up from the top-down, people have every right to be suspicious.
Witness some of the complete witlessness of what people *think* is true.
Stars in other galaxies can have influence upon our lives.
John Edwards talks to the dead.
Fire, Earth, Air and Water are elements(in addition to the periodic table elements)
A heavy object will fall faster than a light one.
The earth is 6000 years old.
People don't know how the world works and sadly a lot can't be bothered to find out. And even sadder, you've got people who want to foist their ignorance on the rest of us as fact.
Washington state just authorized a college offering a degree in astrology. I kid you not. I took a community college course in parapsychology my senior year of high school. Encouragingly enough, the UW didn't award me credit for the class when I transfered there.
Check out how prevalent Urban Legends are and how easily people believe them, not to mention how difficult it is to shake people free of their belief.
Conclusion: People are stupid. Avoid contact with them at all costs.
Unless they're cute and good in bed.
I've been bugging(or maybe that should be "buggering") Yahoo for chat sex icons for years!