Super cool about your 100 Windows boxes. It points to you being a competent admin. Of course, a competent admin wouldn't leave an unpatched XP box directly connected to the net. Yet there are countless XP boxes that are plugged right in. Why?
Because the majority of Windows boxes are run with Admin level privileges full time, by people who have a difficult time setting their microwave to the 'popcorn' setting.
Does SP2 come slipstreamed in the box that I can buy at Walmart? Will the old 10.0 OS X be auto-hacked in 20 minutes? How many viruses does Windows support? How many does OS X?
Sure, new Dell-ightful computers will have SP2, some Norton thing, maybe some spyware removal stuff too. Why is everyone falling over themselves to pat MS on the back with the recent acquisitions of antivirus and antispyware software? Why not do it right to begin with?
I don't think MS is the Devil for making crappy, hole-filled software, or embracing and extending open protocols and formats, or using their market share to stifle competition, or pushing a DRM-laden vision, or patenting obvious things, or being a charter member in the BSA, or purposely breaking competing software, or EULAing their way out of responsibility, or creating Powerpoint; I think MS is an unfortunate sign of the times, and a giant bloated zombie corpseanimated by the devil.
Why would I wait for new features in Windows, when I can use them 3-5 years before?
My post rambles, I am tired. Congrats on your happy Windows boxes; it's good to hear it can be done.
All I see is a OS that is insecure out of the box, ships with every port wide open, and makes decisions for the user that are not in the best interest of security or usabillity.
How many boxes running Windows need to be owned before MS patches a hole? God only knows - zillions?
How many OS X boxes? None. Yet Apple dilligently fixes them anyhow.
I can't think of any story of an OS X box that has ever been remotely hacked. If you have one that is confirmed (by that I mean, not a random error message or oooh! VNC!), I'd love to hear it.
So, color me retarded. (What is that, a nice brown?) I *don't* worry about my OS X boxes, while my pal is on his 2nd Windows reinstall this week.
The point of all of this is absolutely lost on you. Why is there a law that he's not allowed to see?
Bringing this injustice to light is why he's doing this. You should be fucking thanking him for making this an issue, not considering it a 'waste of time'.
I recommend you jerk your knee into your own forehead in the future. Perhaps, in between the stars and tweety-birds you'll see why people who challenge government abuses should be supported.
You said one thing that was about 1/8th right. Civil liberties and security is a balancing act. Hiding the laws that affect either is extremist and unrealistic.
Can I be a Slashdot editor if I promise never to come back?
It seems that/. could use people who don't even fucking read the blog they're in charge of.
Why is it cool to post the same story 3 times in the same day, but a cook who grabs the crap from yesterday's garbage gets fired?
Most often heard from Slashdot editors wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or inflatable toys:
"This again?"
Seriously, take a moment from inspecting your own balls, and DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Really.
Or go get fired from McFuckingClownBurger. This site is full of people who do more than you appear to do in the first 5 minutes of their 10 hour day. Is it too much to ask of the editors that they actually read, scan, or glance at the site enough to be called 'editors'?
A gas station toilet has a better story queue than you worthless bitches. Is it really TOO MUCH to READ SUMMARIES OF 12 stories? IS IT? If so, I suggest special ed tutoring. Perhaps you'll learn something from the fucking tards that can at least tell me if they've seen the goddamn puppy in the book before.
Why 'edit' this site at all if you're going to masturbate on donuts all day? Fuck, I can do that, and I don't even have a degree.
You know what really blows my teensy mind? That there was four hours between the time you posted your first story, and the time you posted the dupe from yesterday. What where you doing? Playing Minelayer? Eating samitches? Posting to Fark? Please tell me you do this for free, and that OSDN doesn't pay you to smell your fingers for hours on end.
Yeah, I amy be drunk, but I can still recognize a stupid dupe on the front page of the site I edit. Which is not this one. Which is probably why I'm not working there.
(Please note: I am not drunk this time)
Too bad this story didn't have a broadcast flag on it.
why the police are *not* being fined thousands for failing to prevent child porn in the first place. Or automakers, computer and camera manufacturers, hotels, schools, parents, politicians, and Ayers Rock for not child porn proofing their products, and not doing all they can to prevent it.
Computer, camera and auto manufacturers should stop making these items which can be used in the creation and distribution of child porn, hotels house child porn makers and provide a haven for them, schools don't keep the children 24 hours a day, making the children available to pornographers, parents had the children in the first place, obviously leading to child porn, politicans consume most of the child porn, and Ayers Rock hasn't gone and fallen on the pornographers.
It seems rather clear to me that this still has not been taken to extent it needs to be to prevent all child porn. Why aren't lawmakers doing their jobs?
And when is someone going to go after the children? They obviously have something to do with it - they're in all of it. Geez, do I have to fix your big fence too? Get some priorities! Go after the problem, not the symptoms!
can I be a Slashdot editor if I promise never to come back?
It seems that/. could use people who don't even fucking read the blog they're in charge of.
Why is it cool to post the same story 3 times in the same day, but a cook who grabs the crap from yesterday's garbage gets fired?
Most often heard from Slashdot editors wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or inflatable toys:
"This again?"
Seriously, take a moment from inspecting your own balls, and DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Really.
Or go get fired from McFuckingClownBurger. This site is full of people who do more than you appear to do in the first 5 minutes of their 10 hour day. Is it too much to ask of the editors that they actually read, scan, or glance at the site enough to be called 'editors'?
A gas station toilet has a better story queue than you worthless bitches. Is it really TOO MUCH to READ SUMMARIES OF 12 stories? IS IT? If so, I suggest special ed tutoring. Perhaps you'll learn something from the fucking tards that can at least tell me if they've seen the goddamn puppy in the book before.
Why 'edit' this site at all if you're going to masturbate on donuts all day? Fuck, I can do that, and I don't even have a degree.
You know what really blows my teensy mind? That there was four hours between the time you posted your first story, and the time you posted the dupe from yesterday. What where you doing? Playing Minelayer? Eating samitches? Posting to Fark? Please tell me you do this for free, and that OSDN doesn't pay you to smell your fingers for hours on end.
Yeah, I amy be drunk, but I can still recognize a stupid dupe on the front page of the site I edit. Which is not this one. Which is probably why I'm not working there.
Animating Ray Charles corpse to sell box sets and tribute albums. Look at the dead guy dance! Reminded me of last year's "Cash in on Johnny Cash".
The most god-awful rendition of 'Across the Universe' ever. Hey, if I wanted wooden performances, I'd hang out with a drugstore Indian. And Slash, you don't need to lean that far back when you're playing a quietly phased 12 string. Save the rock pose for something that isn't being butchered right before your eyes.
The internet-inspired 'mash-up'. You can't tell me that someone didn't get that idea from searching Livejournals, and thinking, "This is super-hot! The kids will eat this up! LOLLERS!"
Industry fuck talking about the usual, "downloading music is illegal". Unless you don't own the rights to it. Great crowd shot during that speech. So many 'fuck you' expressions on the audience that had been screwed by industry contracts. Or boredom, apathy and 'get this over with'. I would have been yelling, "Michael Bolton called, and he wants his hair back!". Or something funny.
The endless 'we care' about the tsunami or fill in the blank tragedy of the moment' blathering. How about you kids spend more time making a listenable record, and less time pandering to your bleeding heart market share?
Once again, the Grammys show that the RIAA is not relevant. When are we getting rid of them again?
Crap, there are people out there who just barely know that milk come from cows, and couldn't describe one if asked.
In an evermore artificial world, a person can go an entire day without seeing the sky, a tree or any animal, or touching cotton, wood, or anything *real*.
I know that there are kids that live in cities that have never seen the stars, and have no clue to the connection between the stuff that magically appears in the supermarket and the dirt that it's grown in. Gen-modding everything for the sake of fattys who don't want to care for their living landscape is only going to leave us with plants and animals that are not adapted to the natural world, and a weakened ecosystem.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back on my horse so I can cry at sunset when somebody litters.
Just because someone ends up on a porn site doesn't necessarily mean that they'll instantly stop what they're doing and start beating off.
When your name is 'Fear the Clam', I can see why you'd think that.
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Here is something else you might want to consider in today's extra-litigious society. Registering 'look-alike' domains may set you up to be sued for trademark infringement by the very corporation you are helping by your efforts.
At the very least, you could be hit for 'squatting' and find yourself in court over that.
No good deed goes unpunished. See the girls who got sued for bringing cookies to neighbors, or mikerowesoft.com for various examples.
I find this whole subject to be increasingly moot everyday, as more people use Google or other search pages, type in the first few letters, and click the first result.
Don't get me wrong. Anyone doing something selfless is refreshing. Just don't be surprised if it is misinterpreted as nefarious intent.
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Why would the kids you want to 'protect' be allowed to watch "Desperate Housewives" in the first place?
If you want to spend zillions of your own $$$ on protecting the children, that's your business. Why not spend it on educating parents on how to monitor what their kids look at on the internet?
Treat the cause, not the symptom. Look at the countless "War on _____" the government has failed at for what not to do.
I now tell everyone I know that they can have free support for life if they buy a Mac, and if they would rather spend the Mac money on me, I'll charge them 100 bucks an hour for any PC (read Windows) work.
Unsurprisingly, no one has yet purchased a Mac, and they have taken their PCs to the local shop to be charged roughly 150 an hour. It's almost as if they need to justify the 599 they spent on a Compaq at Walmart, by screwing themselves again and again. Of course, when I quote 100 bucks an hour, that's not 10 bucks an hour, (but we know you!) and therefore no longer a 'deal'. Off they go to the shop - and I don't have to work on stupid PCs.
If Apple would do *some* marketing, and at least let people know that the mindset of 1997 Apple is no longer the case (Hey, people only use Macs for graphics or music - you can't do anything else), I could actually sell them a Mac or two.
Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that people would spend 300 bucks on spyware, virus, and trojan removal every two months, rather than save it, buy a Mac, and have a happy computer experience. People are stubborn morons who ask for my advice, and then don't take it. You reap what you sow.
And I don't have to work on their PCs.
But they did change it! The first season had a slower, more sappy feel - the second season, they added a doubletime jangly acoustic guitar in an attempt to excite the listener. Both sound like a diamond/beer commercial. Ew.
Either way, a surefire way to annoy my wife is me singing, "IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME...." at the top of my lungs.
My G4 has been doing an admirable job of keeping me warm, but I am always looking for something hotter - preferably something I could make iCocoa with while burning my legs.
Here is a great example of an app (nethack front end) I would *LOVE* to see on the mac. I have tried compiling, and following the (unclear) directions, but due to Apple doing a few things 'different', I have yet to make it happen. Nethack with the QT tiles is oogly, Noegnud is nice.
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Fuck that.
Because the majority of Windows boxes are run with Admin level privileges full time, by people who have a difficult time setting their microwave to the 'popcorn' setting. Does SP2 come slipstreamed in the box that I can buy at Walmart? Will the old 10.0 OS X be auto-hacked in 20 minutes? How many viruses does Windows support? How many does OS X?
Sure, new Dell-ightful computers will have SP2, some Norton thing, maybe some spyware removal stuff too. Why is everyone falling over themselves to pat MS on the back with the recent acquisitions of antivirus and antispyware software? Why not do it right to begin with?
I don't think MS is the Devil for making crappy, hole-filled software, or embracing and extending open protocols and formats, or using their market share to stifle competition, or pushing a DRM-laden vision, or patenting obvious things, or being a charter member in the BSA, or purposely breaking competing software, or EULAing their way out of responsibility, or creating Powerpoint; I think MS is an unfortunate sign of the times, and a giant bloated zombie corpseanimated by the devil. Why would I wait for new features in Windows, when I can use them 3-5 years before?
My post rambles, I am tired. Congrats on your happy Windows boxes; it's good to hear it can be done.
No viruses, reinstalls, or paperclips telling me what it looks like I'm doing!
How many boxes running Windows need to be owned before MS patches a hole? God only knows - zillions?
How many OS X boxes? None. Yet Apple dilligently fixes them anyhow.
I can't think of any story of an OS X box that has ever been remotely hacked. If you have one that is confirmed (by that I mean, not a random error message or oooh! VNC!), I'd love to hear it.
So, color me retarded. (What is that, a nice brown?) I *don't* worry about my OS X boxes, while my pal is on his 2nd Windows reinstall this week.
But I guess I am retarded. RETARDED LIKE A FOX!
Bringing this injustice to light is why he's doing this. You should be fucking thanking him for making this an issue, not considering it a 'waste of time'.
I recommend you jerk your knee into your own forehead in the future. Perhaps, in between the stars and tweety-birds you'll see why people who challenge government abuses should be supported.
You said one thing that was about 1/8th right. Civil liberties and security is a balancing act. Hiding the laws that affect either is extremist and unrealistic.
But I want to get paid for not reading it, just like the editors.
It seems that /. could use people who don't even fucking read the blog they're in charge of.
Why is it cool to post the same story 3 times in the same day, but a cook who grabs the crap from yesterday's garbage gets fired?
Most often heard from Slashdot editors wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or inflatable toys:
"This again?"
Seriously, take a moment from inspecting your own balls, and DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Really.
Or go get fired from McFuckingClownBurger. This site is full of people who do more than you appear to do in the first 5 minutes of their 10 hour day. Is it too much to ask of the editors that they actually read, scan, or glance at the site enough to be called 'editors'?
A gas station toilet has a better story queue than you worthless bitches. Is it really TOO MUCH to READ SUMMARIES OF 12 stories? IS IT? If so, I suggest special ed tutoring. Perhaps you'll learn something from the fucking tards that can at least tell me if they've seen the goddamn puppy in the book before.
Why 'edit' this site at all if you're going to masturbate on donuts all day? Fuck, I can do that, and I don't even have a degree.
You know what really blows my teensy mind? That there was four hours between the time you posted your first story, and the time you posted the dupe from yesterday. What where you doing? Playing Minelayer? Eating samitches? Posting to Fark? Please tell me you do this for free, and that OSDN doesn't pay you to smell your fingers for hours on end.
Yeah, I amy be drunk, but I can still recognize a stupid dupe on the front page of the site I edit. Which is not this one. Which is probably why I'm not working there.
(Please note: I am not drunk this time)
Too bad this story didn't have a broadcast flag on it.
Computer, camera and auto manufacturers should stop making these items which can be used in the creation and distribution of child porn, hotels house child porn makers and provide a haven for them, schools don't keep the children 24 hours a day, making the children available to pornographers, parents had the children in the first place, obviously leading to child porn, politicans consume most of the child porn, and Ayers Rock hasn't gone and fallen on the pornographers.
It seems rather clear to me that this still has not been taken to extent it needs to be to prevent all child porn. Why aren't lawmakers doing their jobs?
And when is someone going to go after the children? They obviously have something to do with it - they're in all of it. Geez, do I have to fix your big fence too? Get some priorities! Go after the problem, not the symptoms!
It seems that /. could use people who don't even fucking read the blog they're in charge of.
Why is it cool to post the same story 3 times in the same day, but a cook who grabs the crap from yesterday's garbage gets fired?
Most often heard from Slashdot editors wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or inflatable toys:
"This again?"
Seriously, take a moment from inspecting your own balls, and DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Really.
Or go get fired from McFuckingClownBurger. This site is full of people who do more than you appear to do in the first 5 minutes of their 10 hour day. Is it too much to ask of the editors that they actually read, scan, or glance at the site enough to be called 'editors'?
A gas station toilet has a better story queue than you worthless bitches. Is it really TOO MUCH to READ SUMMARIES OF 12 stories? IS IT? If so, I suggest special ed tutoring. Perhaps you'll learn something from the fucking tards that can at least tell me if they've seen the goddamn puppy in the book before.
Why 'edit' this site at all if you're going to masturbate on donuts all day? Fuck, I can do that, and I don't even have a degree.
You know what really blows my teensy mind? That there was four hours between the time you posted your first story, and the time you posted the dupe from yesterday. What where you doing? Playing Minelayer? Eating samitches? Posting to Fark? Please tell me you do this for free, and that OSDN doesn't pay you to smell your fingers for hours on end.
Yeah, I amy be drunk, but I can still recognize a stupid dupe on the front page of the site I edit. Which is not this one. Which is probably why I'm not working there.
Or smelling my index finger.
Bitches.
Now I just need to steal Conscription from the Aztecs...
Highlights include:
Animating Ray Charles corpse to sell box sets and tribute albums. Look at the dead guy dance! Reminded me of last year's "Cash in on Johnny Cash".
The most god-awful rendition of 'Across the Universe' ever. Hey, if I wanted wooden performances, I'd hang out with a drugstore Indian. And Slash, you don't need to lean that far back when you're playing a quietly phased 12 string. Save the rock pose for something that isn't being butchered right before your eyes.
The internet-inspired 'mash-up'. You can't tell me that someone didn't get that idea from searching Livejournals, and thinking, "This is super-hot! The kids will eat this up! LOLLERS!"
Industry fuck talking about the usual, "downloading music is illegal". Unless you don't own the rights to it. Great crowd shot during that speech. So many 'fuck you' expressions on the audience that had been screwed by industry contracts. Or boredom, apathy and 'get this over with'. I would have been yelling, "Michael Bolton called, and he wants his hair back!". Or something funny.
The endless 'we care' about the tsunami or fill in the blank tragedy of the moment' blathering. How about you kids spend more time making a listenable record, and less time pandering to your bleeding heart market share?
Once again, the Grammys show that the RIAA is not relevant. When are we getting rid of them again?
Of course, my right to "fair use" will stand, so I can make backup copies and time and format shift for my own personal use.
You figure it out.
In an evermore artificial world, a person can go an entire day without seeing the sky, a tree or any animal, or touching cotton, wood, or anything *real*.
I know that there are kids that live in cities that have never seen the stars, and have no clue to the connection between the stuff that magically appears in the supermarket and the dirt that it's grown in. Gen-modding everything for the sake of fattys who don't want to care for their living landscape is only going to leave us with plants and animals that are not adapted to the natural world, and a weakened ecosystem.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back on my horse so I can cry at sunset when somebody litters.
When your name is 'Fear the Clam', I can see why you'd think that.
At the very least, you could be hit for 'squatting' and find yourself in court over that.
No good deed goes unpunished. See the girls who got sued for bringing cookies to neighbors, or mikerowesoft.com for various examples.
I find this whole subject to be increasingly moot everyday, as more people use Google or other search pages, type in the first few letters, and click the first result.
Don't get me wrong. Anyone doing something selfless is refreshing. Just don't be surprised if it is misinterpreted as nefarious intent.
If you want to spend zillions of your own $$$ on protecting the children, that's your business. Why not spend it on educating parents on how to monitor what their kids look at on the internet?
Treat the cause, not the symptom. Look at the countless "War on _____" the government has failed at for what not to do.
I would have managed it earlier, but, you know. :(
I would have managed it earlier, but, you know. :(
I crumbled under the pressure.
I now tell everyone I know that they can have free support for life if they buy a Mac, and if they would rather spend the Mac money on me, I'll charge them 100 bucks an hour for any PC (read Windows) work.
Unsurprisingly, no one has yet purchased a Mac, and they have taken their PCs to the local shop to be charged roughly 150 an hour. It's almost as if they need to justify the 599 they spent on a Compaq at Walmart, by screwing themselves again and again. Of course, when I quote 100 bucks an hour, that's not 10 bucks an hour, (but we know you!) and therefore no longer a 'deal'. Off they go to the shop - and I don't have to work on stupid PCs. If Apple would do *some* marketing, and at least let people know that the mindset of 1997 Apple is no longer the case (Hey, people only use Macs for graphics or music - you can't do anything else), I could actually sell them a Mac or two. Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that people would spend 300 bucks on spyware, virus, and trojan removal every two months, rather than save it, buy a Mac, and have a happy computer experience. People are stubborn morons who ask for my advice, and then don't take it. You reap what you sow. And I don't have to work on their PCs.
If 'buts' and 'ors' were filthy whores...I'm still working on this one.
Either way, a surefire way to annoy my wife is me singing, "IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME...." at the top of my lungs.
My G4 has been doing an admirable job of keeping me warm, but I am always looking for something hotter - preferably something I could make iCocoa with while burning my legs.
Mmmm. Second degree burns and marshmallows.....
No.
Anyone out there able to help?
they are smoking a joint the size of a marlin.