I've gotten someone's tax returns. He like, e-mailed them to himself, but our names are the same, and so he e-mailed them to me instead. I forget what I mailed him, but I was clear that I hadn't looked at it. He seemed appreciative.
I've gotten a few e-mails I wasn't sure what to do with, including mail from some dude's dad about their vacation.
I'm almost ready to get a domain name and run my own e-mail, just so there's no more of this crap.
Does that mean you can go right in and hold em up for cash?
Actually, as a matter of fact, it does. Else the EFF wouldn't have taken the case. The EFF may not be perfect, but they damn sure aren't going around wasting cash.
I have to wonder who thought sending Youtube a take-down notice over this video would be a good idea.
According to the article, Prince apparently thought it was a good idea.
The way that article makes it sound, he's got a bug the size of his platform shoes up his ass about people using his (sub-par IMO) music in any way without his consent, in triplicate, written in the blood of someone taller than 4'3.
The government is already on your internet. They've basically given government-granted monopolies to the ISPs.
That's why I think the government should be able to enforce NN. It's preventing Comcast and other ISPs from committing legalized extortion. "That's a nice website you got there... it'd be a pity if your connection speed was slow..."
Websites pay for their bandwidth. I pay for my internet access for the website. Without websites, the internet is kind of useless for most people.
Without TV channels, no one would buy Cable TV. In fact, cable television companies pay to carry certain channels... and I pay the cable company for cable TV. (Or I would, if I wanted cable TV.)
ISPs already get paid, and websites already pay for bandwidth. End of story. Until they lose their monopoly, and make some sort of restitution for keeping other companies out of the game, then they can deal with it. If they can't take the sudden surge in bandwidth maybe they should reconsider their advertising and pricing schemes...
Generally, anyone who says "code it yourself!" is a useless troll. Unless they're responding to an asshole, there's no reason to say that. I don't know why some people want to be elitist, condescending assholes, but it doesn't help open source in the least.
Again, the archival thing is something Google talks about very openly. Everyone who uses Gmail knows about it. And again, they only archive the data sent to/from their users.
I don't see what you object to if you know better than to send stuff you wouldn't want archived through gmail. If it's private, or if you don't want it sticking around: Don't fucking blog it, don't e-mail it, don't write it down, and don't put it on your damn myspace.
Wait, seriously? GIMP sucks, and so people use Photoshop, and that makes them whores? Wow, I finally met one of those elitist free-software people that I always hear about.
I use Linux almost exclusively. It's the only OS on my laptop, and I only use Windows if I absolutely have to (which is less and less...). Most of my software is free software. I love the GNU GPL (well, v2, I haven't decided on V3 yet). I love the whole freedom thing, and the community, and giving back, and all that.
But if I was expected to do a job, I'd use the tools for that job, and GIMP loses to Photoshop in a big way, especially on the UI and CMYK fronts. And, for the love of God, the name is horrible. Fortunately, I don't have to make that choice; I'm not a photo-editor or in any way graphically inclined.
To suggest someone is a whore because GIMP sucks is pretty much the most absurd thing I've seen today, and if you knew how my day had been up to this point, you'd understand just how insane that statement really is.
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Except they only profit off me if I use their free service, or e-mail someone who does.
Also, gmail or not, anyone who e-mails anything even remotely private is an idiot. Google reading e-mail is the least concerning part of any unencrypted e-mail. It always strikes me as really odd when people complain about what Google does to the equivalent of electronic postcards.
USB Stick: And boy is it annoying in Windows. Especially if you have to tell a non-tech person how to do it.
Codecs: Also, with all that third party software, there's a good chance of getting some sort of nasty, because it's so easy to install spyware in Windows.
As to installing programs: Nothing I've ever used is as cool as Synaptic. Windows isn't even close.
I'll sacrifice games for the security and robustness, plus Synaptic. Also, Gnome and KDE are both prettier than Windows and still feel more responsive.
The usual gamers and most people that spend lots of time on video games and expect deep engaging contents are NOT what Nintendo is aiming the wii at.
I don't know, Zelda was pretty freaking deep.
Thing is, how many of the "deep" games for the other consoles are first party? The reason there aren't matching games for the Wii: Nintendo lost developer support after the N64. It'll come back now that they're making embarrassingly large amounts of money, but "deep" games don't just pop up overnight.
I don't think Nintendo is abandoning the hardcore gamer, at least not entirely. I just think they're putting more effort into new gamers right now.
He was asked to leave an event by event security. He did not. He resisted. I don't particularly like tasers, but the guy was given every opportunity to comply.
When you are asked by the security of the place you happen to be to leave, you leave. You don't have a "right" to be just anywhere, especially if you're being disruptive.
Also, more was made of the story than it was because he happened to be slamming a politician and so everyone jumped on the "free speech!" bandwagon. But he was only non-compliant when cameras were on him; the guy set out to make trouble.
And does anyone know whether or not Petraeus asked that his name not be used? Has he ever made any statements to that effect?
Irrelevant. He's a public figure. It was established way back in a lawsuit brought against Larry Flynt by (I believe) Jerry Falwell that public figures are open game for ridicule. And thank God, because otherwise we could never make fun of the morons without risking a hail of lawsuits.
I never said Google wasn't allowed to have different policies, by the way. I simply said that the example OP presented would be actionable by Canonical, and there's a difference between that and the ad MoveOn is having suppressed.
But I think Google's policy is stupid, and I think MoveOn is being underhanded in attempting to quash people criticizing them -- also hypocritical as they exist to criticize others. I'm not making an advertisement or trying to get an ad on Google; I'm not bound by their bullshit policy, I can say what I want.
"There's this company, called... Okay, there's a company that makes an operating system most people use. It's named after a set of glass panes placed in your wall to allow you to see outside. The company... they're called... a word for very small and the opposite of hard. And, see..."
If this was Microsoft running an ad that said "Ubuntu Linux promotes terrorism," and Ubuntu asked Google to remove it, would you get all angry about how evil Ubuntu and Google are?
Outright defamation is not the same as criticism. Microsoft could and would get sued for that ad, and Google could get sued for it, too.
MoveOn made a political ad criticizing a person by name -- so does that mean it'd be okay to criticize those in MoveOn responsible for the ad, by name, in a rival ad? This is a political thing, and Petraeus, MoveOn is a public figure -- they're fair game in the political world.
1. No there isn't. Cite please. 2. Which test subjects? Cite please. 3. What? Cite.
Or what, exactly is your opinion ? (and please don't bring up the lame excuse "it hasn't been proven"... to the satisfaction of just about every psychologist in america it HAS been proven)
I don't disagree with you, but AT&T, or anyone else who doesn't know the girl, would have a hard damn time telling if a girl was 17 5/8 or 18. 16/17/18/19, hard to be sure.
But a 12 year old? 10? 8? Easy to tell she's not 18.
No, I don't think he's responsible for the law, but it falls in with his belief system.
My definition of nut in this case is not somehow mentally incompetent. But anyone who thinks there are no homosexuals in Iran, or that their treatment of homosexuals is somehow acceptable, is a nut. Plain and simple.
The little bastards learned that a stovetop burner would kill them so they started climbing up the wall & onto the ceiling above the pot & dropping in.
That is the most horrifying thing I've ever read in my life... I am now going to stock up on RAID and maybe even a shotgun in the event they try and take over.
Um. When did you use Ubuntu? To get printer sharing, I just had to go into the Printing settings (System, Administration, Printing), clock "Global Settings" and "Share Printers."
Even Myth-TV was a total disapointment with hundreds of megs to download (it needs a lot of extra junky software) and hours to setup.
I'm not sure of the download size, but generally programs in Linux use libraries, so each program itself is smaller -- it sounds like you had to download a lot of libraries for the first time. It avoids duplication. If it took you hours to set up... either your processor is very slow or you didn't look for any help at all (there are dozens of pages explaining how to set it up).
So I switched to Vista, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
That is what made me want to respond. What? I've used 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, and Vista from the Windows family, DOS going back to whatever versions were out in the late 80s, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware, and Ubuntu, and of those, Vista is literally at the tail-end of the list in a good-to-bad ordering. It was bloated, it took way, way too long to start (on a computer that came with it!), and I had to fight with it to get almost everything working.
So I installed Ubuntu over it, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
Windows is about using applications. Linux is about enjoying the OS.
Except in the example of Ubuntu, there are thousands of applications that you can download, for free, that are supported by the operating system, for many, many different purposes. Vista doesn't have that -- hell it still has driver issues.
Sorry, a show with Nancy Grace and Jack Thompson is already at the limit for stupid bitches.
However, if you put Ann Coulter, Jack Thompson, Nancy Grace, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a house, and filmed it, you might have a reality TV show I'd be interested in watching.
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I've gotten someone's tax returns. He like, e-mailed them to himself, but our names are the same, and so he e-mailed them to me instead. I forget what I mailed him, but I was clear that I hadn't looked at it. He seemed appreciative.
I've gotten a few e-mails I wasn't sure what to do with, including mail from some dude's dad about their vacation.
I'm almost ready to get a domain name and run my own e-mail, just so there's no more of this crap.
I don't think they expected to lose there.
Does that mean you can go right in and hold em up for cash?
Actually, as a matter of fact, it does. Else the EFF wouldn't have taken the case. The EFF may not be perfect, but they damn sure aren't going around wasting cash.
P.S.: Seriously, RTFA.
I have to wonder who thought sending Youtube a take-down notice over this video would be a good idea.
According to the article, Prince apparently thought it was a good idea.
The way that article makes it sound, he's got a bug the size of his platform shoes up his ass about people using his (sub-par IMO) music in any way without his consent, in triplicate, written in the blood of someone taller than 4'3.
Someone who works in Marketing.
I'd like to see them in the same room, if I could somehow convince Fred Thompson to beat the living crap out of Jack Thompson...
Fred Thompson is a fairly big guy, if I recall correctly, and Jack Thompson is not.
The government is already on your internet. They've basically given government-granted monopolies to the ISPs.
That's why I think the government should be able to enforce NN. It's preventing Comcast and other ISPs from committing legalized extortion. "That's a nice website you got there... it'd be a pity if your connection speed was slow..."
Websites pay for their bandwidth. I pay for my internet access for the website. Without websites, the internet is kind of useless for most people.
Without TV channels, no one would buy Cable TV. In fact, cable television companies pay to carry certain channels... and I pay the cable company for cable TV. (Or I would, if I wanted cable TV.)
ISPs already get paid, and websites already pay for bandwidth. End of story. Until they lose their monopoly, and make some sort of restitution for keeping other companies out of the game, then they can deal with it. If they can't take the sudden surge in bandwidth maybe they should reconsider their advertising and pricing schemes...
Point is, they made their own bed here.
Generally, anyone who says "code it yourself!" is a useless troll. Unless they're responding to an asshole, there's no reason to say that. I don't know why some people want to be elitist, condescending assholes, but it doesn't help open source in the least.
Again, the archival thing is something Google talks about very openly. Everyone who uses Gmail knows about it. And again, they only archive the data sent to/from their users.
I don't see what you object to if you know better than to send stuff you wouldn't want archived through gmail. If it's private, or if you don't want it sticking around: Don't fucking blog it, don't e-mail it, don't write it down, and don't put it on your damn myspace.
err, yeah, I meant to say if you e-mail private things unencrypted, but managed to fail at /. and not say that
Some folks are noble, some are whores.
Wait, seriously? GIMP sucks, and so people use Photoshop, and that makes them whores? Wow, I finally met one of those elitist free-software people that I always hear about.
I use Linux almost exclusively. It's the only OS on my laptop, and I only use Windows if I absolutely have to (which is less and less...). Most of my software is free software. I love the GNU GPL (well, v2, I haven't decided on V3 yet). I love the whole freedom thing, and the community, and giving back, and all that.
But if I was expected to do a job, I'd use the tools for that job, and GIMP loses to Photoshop in a big way, especially on the UI and CMYK fronts. And, for the love of God, the name is horrible. Fortunately, I don't have to make that choice; I'm not a photo-editor or in any way graphically inclined.
To suggest someone is a whore because GIMP sucks is pretty much the most absurd thing I've seen today, and if you knew how my day had been up to this point, you'd understand just how insane that statement really is.
Except they only profit off me if I use their free service, or e-mail someone who does.
Also, gmail or not, anyone who e-mails anything even remotely private is an idiot. Google reading e-mail is the least concerning part of any unencrypted e-mail. It always strikes me as really odd when people complain about what Google does to the equivalent of electronic postcards.
I saw how long you UID is, so I looked at your posting history.
/. bitching about Apple?
Don't you have better things to do that troll
--- Someone who has never owned an Apple product
USB Stick: And boy is it annoying in Windows. Especially if you have to tell a non-tech person how to do it.
Codecs: Also, with all that third party software, there's a good chance of getting some sort of nasty, because it's so easy to install spyware in Windows.
As to installing programs: Nothing I've ever used is as cool as Synaptic. Windows isn't even close.
I'll sacrifice games for the security and robustness, plus Synaptic. Also, Gnome and KDE are both prettier than Windows and still feel more responsive.
The usual gamers and most people that spend lots of time on video games and expect deep engaging contents are NOT what Nintendo is aiming the wii at.
I don't know, Zelda was pretty freaking deep.
Thing is, how many of the "deep" games for the other consoles are first party? The reason there aren't matching games for the Wii: Nintendo lost developer support after the N64. It'll come back now that they're making embarrassingly large amounts of money, but "deep" games don't just pop up overnight.
I don't think Nintendo is abandoning the hardcore gamer, at least not entirely. I just think they're putting more effort into new gamers right now.
He was asked to leave an event by event security. He did not. He resisted. I don't particularly like tasers, but the guy was given every opportunity to comply.
When you are asked by the security of the place you happen to be to leave, you leave. You don't have a "right" to be just anywhere, especially if you're being disruptive.
Also, more was made of the story than it was because he happened to be slamming a politician and so everyone jumped on the "free speech!" bandwagon. But he was only non-compliant when cameras were on him; the guy set out to make trouble.
And does anyone know whether or not Petraeus asked that his name not be used? Has he ever made any statements to that effect?
Irrelevant. He's a public figure. It was established way back in a lawsuit brought against Larry Flynt by (I believe) Jerry Falwell that public figures are open game for ridicule. And thank God, because otherwise we could never make fun of the morons without risking a hail of lawsuits.
I never said Google wasn't allowed to have different policies, by the way. I simply said that the example OP presented would be actionable by Canonical, and there's a difference between that and the ad MoveOn is having suppressed.
But I think Google's policy is stupid, and I think MoveOn is being underhanded in attempting to quash people criticizing them -- also hypocritical as they exist to criticize others. I'm not making an advertisement or trying to get an ad on Google; I'm not bound by their bullshit policy, I can say what I want.
"There's this company, called... Okay, there's a company that makes an operating system most people use. It's named after a set of glass panes placed in your wall to allow you to see outside. The company... they're called... a word for very small and the opposite of hard. And, see..."
If this was Microsoft running an ad that said "Ubuntu Linux promotes terrorism," and Ubuntu asked Google to remove it, would you get all angry about how evil Ubuntu and Google are?
Outright defamation is not the same as criticism. Microsoft could and would get sued for that ad, and Google could get sued for it, too.
MoveOn made a political ad criticizing a person by name -- so does that mean it'd be okay to criticize those in MoveOn responsible for the ad, by name, in a rival ad? This is a political thing, and Petraeus, MoveOn is a public figure -- they're fair game in the political world.
1. No there isn't. Cite please.
... to the satisfaction of just about every psychologist in america it HAS been proven)
2. Which test subjects? Cite please.
3. What? Cite.
Or what, exactly is your opinion ? (and please don't bring up the lame excuse "it hasn't been proven"
Cite?
I don't disagree with you, but AT&T, or anyone else who doesn't know the girl, would have a hard damn time telling if a girl was 17 5/8 or 18. 16/17/18/19, hard to be sure.
But a 12 year old? 10? 8? Easy to tell she's not 18.
No, I don't think he's responsible for the law, but it falls in with his belief system.
My definition of nut in this case is not somehow mentally incompetent. But anyone who thinks there are no homosexuals in Iran, or that their treatment of homosexuals is somehow acceptable, is a nut. Plain and simple.
The little bastards learned that a stovetop burner would kill them so they started climbing up the wall & onto the ceiling above the pot & dropping in.
That is the most horrifying thing I've ever read in my life... I am now going to stock up on RAID and maybe even a shotgun in the event they try and take over.
With the notable exception of printer sharing
Um. When did you use Ubuntu? To get printer sharing, I just had to go into the Printing settings (System, Administration, Printing), clock "Global Settings" and "Share Printers."
Even Myth-TV was a total disapointment with hundreds of megs to download (it needs a lot of extra junky software) and hours to setup.
I'm not sure of the download size, but generally programs in Linux use libraries, so each program itself is smaller -- it sounds like you had to download a lot of libraries for the first time. It avoids duplication. If it took you hours to set up... either your processor is very slow or you didn't look for any help at all (there are dozens of pages explaining how to set it up).
So I switched to Vista, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
That is what made me want to respond. What? I've used 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, and Vista from the Windows family, DOS going back to whatever versions were out in the late 80s, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware, and Ubuntu, and of those, Vista is literally at the tail-end of the list in a good-to-bad ordering. It was bloated, it took way, way too long to start (on a computer that came with it!), and I had to fight with it to get almost everything working.
So I installed Ubuntu over it, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
Windows is about using applications. Linux is about enjoying the OS.
Except in the example of Ubuntu, there are thousands of applications that you can download, for free, that are supported by the operating system, for many, many different purposes. Vista doesn't have that -- hell it still has driver issues.
Sorry, a show with Nancy Grace and Jack Thompson is already at the limit for stupid bitches.
However, if you put Ann Coulter, Jack Thompson, Nancy Grace, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a house, and filmed it, you might have a reality TV show I'd be interested in watching.