I found out, many years ago, that opting out doesn't work. Of course not! How stupid could you be?
The _only_ thing that works (yes! actually works!) is if you forcefully whip out your credit card immediately upon receiving a spam and order one (1) of the items they are selling.
This seems to appease them, and they respectfully stop sending more E-mails.
Also, after sampling several hundreds of products, you might notice that your penis has become the second largest gravitational attractor in the solar system.
Using images as a PIN-code isn't making things much more secure, if the same images are used every time. The credentials are still sent in a way that can be logged. It's just an extra annoyance for those who want to steal your password.
I use one-time passwords for accessing my home computer over SSH.
Anyone can log my keystrokes, or look over my shoulder how much they want. The password is generated by an OPIE client running on my cell phone, and is valid only once.
OPIE clients run on virtually any kind of device. Just as long as you don't run it on the actual computer which you use to access the server, this is a more secure solution.
Using OPIE on untrusted servers would still present the security problem of initial passphrase synchronization between server and OPIE client - unless the passphrase is sent to the user by some secure channel, unlikely to be snooped.
When a terrorist launches a rocket at civilian targets in Israel from a busy market place in Lebanon, and Israeli army answers with fire at that place, is it the responsibility of Israel to make sure that Lebanese civilians do not suffer [...]
Yes, it is. What people would indiscriminately retaliate against a busy marketplace in the first place, even if a rocket was launched against them from there?
Probably the same kind of people who would accept blowing up 30 handicapped children as "collateral damage".
Depending on foreign stellar radio sources would be a bad idea in the event of an intergalactic war against the Frzznots, as they will immediately toggle the "private" switch on their XPS system, which they installed there in the first place.
Red Hat may be right that we will not see a massive fold in of distros, but we likely are going to see more and more distros building on Ubuntu instead of Debian, because Debian is just dog slow. Ubuntu is exciting.
I run Ubuntu on my laptop, and my desktop will switch from Sarge/Sid to Ubuntu too, at the next reinstall (a reinstall is the best way for me to get rid of old cruft).
But for a server installation, I'd prefer the "dog-slow", conservative, well-tested standard Debian distros over Ubuntu. "Exciting" just isn't part of the vocabulary I'd like to use when my boss or customers comes up with the question "How would you describe the stability of the system you are about to install?".
What Red Hat ought to worry about isn't SUSE, but rather somebody who comes along, takes Ubuntu, tags on support, precompiles it with plugins, extensions, some valuie-added management tools, and takes it to the server. It WILL happen, it's just a matter of whether they have the means and polish to make it worthwhile.
Since Ubuntu is Debian-based, and Debian usually goes through rigorous (hence "dog-slow") testing before release, wouldn't this long work be sacrificed if a distro based upon it switches some of the packages for newer ones? And if the (server-) relevant packages are left unchanged, what would be the difference between the two distros, and the incentive to switch from original Debian on the server side?
I took the photos back in 2000 or so. (This is in Karlskrona, Sweden, btw.) Until then, I had no idea what powerful O/S was running those machines. I ran to borrow the camera when I found out.
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What if they share none of our five senses? Will communication still be possible? Imagine the scenario, where we effortlessly announce our skill in math (know this, alien friends: we can count prime numbers!), but all further communication break down since we share no other common concepts.
Hey, but if they are receiving our signal, doesn't that indicate at least some common knowledge of science? Maybe not. They could be receiving our signal directly into their brains, interpret it as their own sudden, spontaneous idea of counting prime numbers, and with a burst of energy involuntarily reply back the following 200,000 numbers, without ever realizing the distances the communication was spanning, and the scientific impact it made on some small blue planet, which existence they never will know of, or would be able to understand.
I find it sad to the extreme that people will happily post things like "the US president is a clown" with nothing more to fear than being modded down, [...]
Yes, I agree. That's a harsh, unfair, and below-the-belt insult to hard-working clowns everywhere, trying to make their living by bringing joy into the lives of children and adults alike.
So, how does one take out a fake religion?
How does one differentiate between a "fake" religion and a "real" one? What's the difference? Surely not the request for money from its followers.
Could we reasonably accuse them of terrorism?
Have they actually conducted any acts of terrorism that you know of, or are you just taking advantage of some very dangerous, loose law in your country that makes it easier to accuse someone of terrorist acts ("witch!") and have them arrested? In the latter case, shame on you for supporting that system by using it, and thus help diluting the meaning of the once properly used word "terrorist".
I'm pretty sure videoconferencing of the future will involve automatically creating 3d models and detailed textures of the participants and their surroundings.
Even though increase of bandwidth will have made the old method of sending bitmap diffs smoother than today, one doesn't have to stretch the imagination very far to see the amazing advantages of going realtime 3d...
...that OSS is sometimes playing catching up with proprietary protocols and file formats, trying to find a way to be interoperable with something that is perversely designed to deliberately be hard to work with in order to lock in customers, and re-inforce monopoly status.
So in that respect, what he says is true. Much like a robber slowly pulling the knife out of his victim, while muttering "this street has become too dangerous".
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I would like a cursor relocation device that turns my left nipple into a trackpoint interface.
Of course, this is not the same as Calcic Image Misplacement, another neat feature of calcium:
(skip to 2:45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL9IVvuNl8
http://www.theonion.com/articles/aw-what-the-hell-heres-the-microwalkman-weve-been,17178/
I found out, many years ago, that opting out doesn't work. Of course not! How stupid could you be?
The _only_ thing that works (yes! actually works!) is if you forcefully whip out your credit card immediately upon receiving a spam and order one (1) of the items they are selling.
This seems to appease them, and they respectfully stop sending more E-mails.
Also, after sampling several hundreds of products, you might notice that your penis has become the second largest gravitational attractor in the solar system.
Good luck, and keep those planets orbiting!
You can prove the Earth is round by looking at a lunar eclipse. Educated people have known [...]
Well, they are obviously educated stupid. The shape of the Earth should be obvious - how do you otherwise explain the 4-corner rotation?
And Screen, used as directed, is absolutely safe.
...but does it boot Linux?
What would you prefer to be?
1) The intelligent creation of an omnipotent being -- or
2) The retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt-sex with a fish-squirrel.
There you go.
Using images as a PIN-code isn't making things much more secure, if the same images are used every time. The credentials are still sent in a way that can be logged. It's just an extra annoyance for those who want to steal your password.
I use one-time passwords for accessing my home computer over SSH. Anyone can log my keystrokes, or look over my shoulder how much they want. The password is generated by an OPIE client running on my cell phone, and is valid only once.
OPIE clients run on virtually any kind of device. Just as long as you don't run it on the actual computer which you use to access the server, this is a more secure solution.
Using OPIE on untrusted servers would still present the security problem of initial passphrase synchronization between server and OPIE client - unless the passphrase is sent to the user by some secure channel, unlikely to be snooped.
How can a public resource not be an asset?
What's the difference? Really?
Penis worm, and Orgasmic. They should never be together.
.. How do you think little cute penis worm embryos are made?
Aw, come on
When a terrorist launches a rocket at civilian targets in Israel from a busy market place in Lebanon, and Israeli army answers with fire at that place, is it the responsibility of Israel to make sure that Lebanese civilians do not suffer [...]
Yes, it is. What people would indiscriminately retaliate against a busy marketplace in the first place, even if a rocket was launched against them from there?
Probably the same kind of people who would accept blowing up 30 handicapped children as "collateral damage".
Depending on foreign stellar radio sources would be a bad idea in the event of an intergalactic war against the Frzznots, as they will immediately toggle the "private" switch on their XPS system, which they installed there in the first place.
Don't blame me.
The screws for the assembly is sorted on-the-spot by a nearby located well-trained team of insects.
[...] satellite relay network [...]
CONFIG_BLUETOOTH=y
And launch a lot of them.
They should patent it ... just to see the Pope go berzerk on television.
...And in a related discovery, it was found that working on your forehead with a cheese grater induces skin cell growth.
Red Hat may be right that we will not see a massive fold in of distros, but we likely are going to see more and more distros building on Ubuntu instead of Debian, because Debian is just dog slow. Ubuntu is exciting.
I run Ubuntu on my laptop, and my desktop will switch from Sarge/Sid to Ubuntu too, at the next reinstall (a reinstall is the best way for me to get rid of old cruft).
But for a server installation, I'd prefer the "dog-slow", conservative, well-tested standard Debian distros over Ubuntu. "Exciting" just isn't part of the vocabulary I'd like to use when my boss or customers comes up with the question "How would you describe the stability of the system you are about to install?".
What Red Hat ought to worry about isn't SUSE, but rather somebody who comes along, takes Ubuntu, tags on support, precompiles it with plugins, extensions, some valuie-added management tools, and takes it to the server. It WILL happen, it's just a matter of whether they have the means and polish to make it worthwhile.
Since Ubuntu is Debian-based, and Debian usually goes through rigorous (hence "dog-slow") testing before release, wouldn't this long work be sacrificed if a distro based upon it switches some of the packages for newer ones? And if the (server-) relevant packages are left unchanged, what would be the difference between the two distros, and the incentive to switch from original Debian on the server side?
[...] and costs nearly $100 to boot?
Boot manager menu (please type in credit card number and expiry date, then press listed key to boot):
F1 Windows XP ($10)
F2 Debian Sarge ($1)
F3 Zeta ($100)
Money will be drawn from your account upon successful boot. Reboot due to system crash within 3 minutes comes FREE OF CHARGE (Only applies to key F1)
Certainly looks that way.
I took the photos back in 2000 or so. (This is in Karlskrona, Sweden, btw.) Until then, I had no idea what powerful O/S was running those machines. I ran to borrow the camera when I found out.
Bah.
A real ATM should run a real Operating system.
This is an interesting question.
What if they share none of our five senses? Will communication still be possible? Imagine the scenario, where we effortlessly announce our skill in math (know this, alien friends: we can count prime numbers!), but all further communication break down since we share no other common concepts.
Hey, but if they are receiving our signal, doesn't that indicate at least some common knowledge of science? Maybe not. They could be receiving our signal directly into their brains, interpret it as their own sudden, spontaneous idea of counting prime numbers, and with a burst of energy involuntarily reply back the following 200,000 numbers, without ever realizing the distances the communication was spanning, and the scientific impact it made on some small blue planet, which existence they never will know of, or would be able to understand.
I find it sad to the extreme that people will happily post things like "the US president is a clown" with nothing more to fear than being modded down, [...]
Yes, I agree. That's a harsh, unfair, and below-the-belt insult to hard-working clowns everywhere, trying to make their living by bringing joy into the lives of children and adults alike.
So, how does one take out a fake religion?
How does one differentiate between a "fake" religion and a "real" one? What's the difference? Surely not the request for money from its followers.
Could we reasonably accuse them of terrorism?
Have they actually conducted any acts of terrorism that you know of, or are you just taking advantage of some very dangerous, loose law in your country that makes it easier to accuse someone of terrorist acts ("witch!") and have them arrested? In the latter case, shame on you for supporting that system by using it, and thus help diluting the meaning of the once properly used word "terrorist".
I'm pretty sure videoconferencing of the future will involve automatically creating 3d models and detailed textures of the participants and their surroundings.
Even though increase of bandwidth will have made the old method of sending bitmap diffs smoother than today, one doesn't have to stretch the imagination very far to see the amazing advantages of going realtime 3d...
...that OSS is sometimes playing catching up with proprietary protocols and file formats, trying to find a way to be interoperable with something that is perversely designed to deliberately be hard to work with in order to lock in customers, and re-inforce monopoly status.
So in that respect, what he says is true. Much like a robber slowly pulling the knife out of his victim, while muttering "this street has become too dangerous".