You say "dare I say most" and yet the polls are still firmly 50/50. What gives?
The polls are bullshit. They have as much chance of being wrong as right. It has to do with their methods and the populations they poll. Allow me to summarize.
1) These polls are almost universally conducted over the phone. It's much cheaper than physically interviewing statistically significant numbers of people.
2) As a result, they only poll people with home telephone numbers.
3) Many voters do not have home telephones, including poor families and young people. Young people in particular use cell phones and eschew home phones altogether. Polsters do not have access to those numbers.
4) More young people are expected to vote in this election than ever before. This is evidenced by the fact that voter registration is up 15% over four years ago, with most of the increase coming from young people. Furthermore, a higher percentage of registered voters are expected to actually vote this year due to the complications of 2000 election.
*note: I am discussing broad trends, please don't come back with something like "I'm a student and I have a home phone."
Copyright violation is not theft: not because it isn't wrong, but because nobody has been deprived of an object that was previously in their possession.
When you violate other's copyrights, you have not stolen anything, even though you may have deprived someone of their just reward.
Think of it this way: if I illegally copy one of your protected works, I may have caused you to not received the money due to you (if I would have otherwise purchased it) but that is not the same thing as taking money directly from your wallet. You never owned that particular copy of the work because I created the copy, not you, and therefore I have not committed theft.
Calling it theft is not accurate and should not be tolerated.
Your mom is so fat!
How fat is she? Your mom is so big and fat that we hopped up on her back to get some burgers from Wendy's, but her skates went flat! I got stuck in her butt crack! They thought I was lost but I saved by the g-strap.
I'm trying to follow this issue rather closely, as it directly impacts one of my projects. What I'd really like is a utility or script that monitors uptime for msn messenger. If anybody knows of one, please reply. I am also considering writing one of my own if I can't find something off the shelf. If you are interested in that, again, please reply.
The art of pendantry has taken a giant leap forward today on slashdot. Sarcasm in the forum, sadly, is not so refined, although acrimony and ad hominem attacks remain popular.
Unfortunately, it seems that file extensions do confuse computer illiterates. My own dad, for example, simply doesn't get the filesystem, windows, or desktop metaphors. To him, an icon on his desktop is not necessarily the same as an identical one in the start menu. If the icons get jumbled or change in any way, he freaks out. Worse, no amount of explanation seems to make any difference. It's as if he has a mental block when it comes to things digital. I suspect that many, many users have the same problem.
Let's also not forget that nobody gets rich soley on their own merits. Society also plays a roles in that it allows people to get rich in the first place. This is what justifies taxing the successful at a higher rate than the poor: the rich have benifited more from society's largess and should have to contribute back more in the way of taxes.
For the curious, here is an interesting post that describes the exploit at some length. Essentially, it uses an HTML 'dynsrc' attribute (proprietary Microsoft extension) to allow IE to download the executable, and javascript to use the 'shell:' protocol to execute it. It's not a particularly new flaw, but this is the slickest exploit of it I've seen.
"This here a song, is about John W Smoke Junior
It's about bein' in love and lovin' the love that's hatin' the love
the love and the love and the hate that's lovin with all
It's around the love that's hate that's the hate that's the love
And the love is the love that is the hate that's hatin' the love,
it's lovin' the hate
It's about John W Smoke's mom, it's with his mom
it's about his mom it's about his mom it's about lovin his mom
and bein' without his mom and lovin' the hate that's hatin' the love
and his mom and all the time they're there
Hatin' the hate that's lovin' the hate it's love it's the love that's hate
And it goes somethin' about like this"
Good point, but a lot of the rest of us also have a couple of programs that we like to keep more current than what may be available to our package managers.
Firefox is one of those for me. Having said that, I'm a little late on this one, guess I'll go get it now.
Thanks for the links, but Firefox is intended to be primarily a cross-platform browser and the Firefox team is deeply committed to that goal. Saying that it is primarily intended for MS Windows is just wrong and doesn't help matters. This site has a larger than normal percentage of Mac and *nix users and we don't need FUD like that.
I know we all have our personal lists of the things we'd like to do to spammers;-)
Oh, you betcha. I'm thinking of something out of "A Clockwork Orange." Force the spammer to watch 2000 hours of the worlds worst television commercials and infomercials -- set to Shania Twain, Britney, or something even more insipid if it can be found.
I've reconciled myself to the fact that I will eventually have to take my old Linux server out and shoot it. I simply can't justify buying a new one while the old one still works.
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You say "dare I say most" and yet the polls are still firmly 50/50. What gives?
The polls are bullshit. They have as much chance of being wrong as right. It has to do with their methods and the populations they poll. Allow me to summarize.
1) These polls are almost universally conducted over the phone. It's much cheaper than physically interviewing statistically significant numbers of people.
2) As a result, they only poll people with home telephone numbers.
3) Many voters do not have home telephones, including poor families and young people. Young people in particular use cell phones and eschew home phones altogether. Polsters do not have access to those numbers.
4) More young people are expected to vote in this election than ever before. This is evidenced by the fact that voter registration is up 15% over four years ago, with most of the increase coming from young people. Furthermore, a higher percentage of registered voters are expected to actually vote this year due to the complications of 2000 election.
*note: I am discussing broad trends, please don't come back with something like "I'm a student and I have a home phone."
Well, you can't really just fling it away, as it is likely to come back -- eventually. However, you can fling it into something we don't care about.
Why don't we just use gas chambers? Low tech, efficient, and proven.
Hmm... I think you'd make an excellent recruit for the movement. Here's your pistol and swastika armband. Zeig Heil!
Copyright violation is not theft: not because it isn't wrong, but because nobody has been deprived of an object that was previously in their possession.
When you violate other's copyrights, you have not stolen anything, even though you may have deprived someone of their just reward.
Think of it this way: if I illegally copy one of your protected works, I may have caused you to not received the money due to you (if I would have otherwise purchased it) but that is not the same thing as taking money directly from your wallet. You never owned that particular copy of the work because I created the copy, not you, and therefore I have not committed theft.
Calling it theft is not accurate and should not be tolerated.
From El Reg: Botched maintenance - not worm - blamed for MS IM glitch.
I'm trying to follow this issue rather closely, as it directly impacts one of my projects. What I'd really like is a utility or script that monitors uptime for msn messenger. If anybody knows of one, please reply. I am also considering writing one of my own if I can't find something off the shelf. If you are interested in that, again, please reply.
The art of pendantry has taken a giant leap forward today on slashdot. Sarcasm in the forum, sadly, is not so refined, although acrimony and ad hominem attacks remain popular.
Unfortunately, it seems that file extensions do confuse computer illiterates. My own dad, for example, simply doesn't get the filesystem, windows, or desktop metaphors. To him, an icon on his desktop is not necessarily the same as an identical one in the start menu. If the icons get jumbled or change in any way, he freaks out. Worse, no amount of explanation seems to make any difference. It's as if he has a mental block when it comes to things digital. I suspect that many, many users have the same problem.
It's frustrating to say the least.
Please don't anthropomorphize Mother Earth. She doesn't like it.
Let's also not forget that nobody gets rich soley on their own merits. Society also plays a roles in that it allows people to get rich in the first place. This is what justifies taxing the successful at a higher rate than the poor: the rich have benifited more from society's largess and should have to contribute back more in the way of taxes.
Yep, exactly right.
For the curious, here is an interesting post that describes the exploit at some length. Essentially, it uses an HTML 'dynsrc' attribute (proprietary Microsoft extension) to allow IE to download the executable, and javascript to use the 'shell:' protocol to execute it. It's not a particularly new flaw, but this is the slickest exploit of it I've seen.
hehe,
;)
http://www.flat-earth.org/platygaea/faq.html
shows what you know
Hmm... unless your house is a monitor or some other light source, you would need RYB and the code would be #00FFFF.
Unless, by green, you really mean yellow.
You misspelled programme
In the immortal words of the Butthole Surfers:
"This here a song, is about John W Smoke Junior
It's about bein' in love and lovin' the love that's hatin' the love
the love and the love and the hate that's lovin with all
It's around the love that's hate that's the hate that's the love
And the love is the love that is the hate that's hatin' the love,
it's lovin' the hate
It's about John W Smoke's mom, it's with his mom
it's about his mom it's about his mom it's about lovin his mom
and bein' without his mom and lovin' the hate that's hatin' the love
and his mom and all the time they're there
Hatin' the hate that's lovin' the hate it's love it's the love that's hate
And it goes somethin' about like this"
Good point, but a lot of the rest of us also have a couple of programs that we like to keep more current than what may be available to our package managers.
Firefox is one of those for me. Having said that, I'm a little late on this one, guess I'll go get it now.
Thanks for the links, but Firefox is intended to be primarily a cross-platform browser and the Firefox team is deeply committed to that goal. Saying that it is primarily intended for MS Windows is just wrong and doesn't help matters. This site has a larger than normal percentage of Mac and *nix users and we don't need FUD like that.
I know we all have our personal lists of the things we'd like to do to spammers ;-)
Oh, you betcha. I'm thinking of something out of "A Clockwork Orange." Force the spammer to watch 2000 hours of the worlds worst television commercials and infomercials -- set to Shania Twain, Britney, or something even more insipid if it can be found.
I've reconciled myself to the fact that I will eventually have to take my old Linux server out and shoot it. I simply can't justify buying a new one while the old one still works.
Hmmm... maybe, but A9 has not yet been shown to actually blow goats.
Funny yes. Works just fine for me.
Konq v. 3.2.0 on MDK 10.0
It's probably something with your particular setup, not anything in Konqueror. It is quality software: perhaps not as nice as FireFox, but still good.
Could we also make them explode spontaneously? You know, like those crappy Nokia phones. That would be a nice trick.
So, are you saying that communists and socialists cannot be patriotic Americans? I certainly hope not.
Grammar checker? We don't need no stinking grammer checker!
Hey, you're right! It goes on the head.