Candy causes obesity and diabetes, so let's sue Jolly Rancher
False - eating too much of ANYTHING causes obesity and diabetes -- notice the key of "too much"
Pornography causes blindness, so let's sue Bambi Woods.
Parently false and you know it. If you're going to try and contradict a factually-based argument you need to use a factually-based argument.
You WAKE UP and take responsibility for YOUR OWN actions. Tobacco is a NTT (non-threshold toxicant) and several of it's carcinogens are non-threshold. That means exposure to ONE, ONE SINGLE MOLECULE, can cause cancer. I don't smoke, my fiancee doesn't smoke, my friends don't smoke. We're however FORCED to by people smoking - smoking on the road, smoking on the sidewalk, smoking outside our appartment when our windows are open [forcing us to close our windows], smoking in a neighboring appartment when their windows are open and so are ours [yet again forcusing us to close our windows].
Then the tobacco companies supressed that information: that vital information so that people knew they were doing something that was going to cause cancer.
I agree with you - people who have started smoking since those cases were won [ie anyone my age that smokes] is a MORON and has NO RIGHT to sue the tobacco companies.
However if I got lung cancer linked to exposure to second hand smoke i have EVERY RIGHT to sue the tobacco companies (and every smoker in america) for exposing me to carcinogens directly against my will in violation of my constitutional rights.
That's a distro problem - not an operating system problem.
Steps for setting up mythTV on Fedora Core 4: * Assemble your computer * Install Fedora Core * Setup atrpms repository (preferably by setting up your yum.conf to be the one provided by fedorafaq) * yum upgrade * Choose to use KDE * yum install alsacore alsautils * alsaconf * install lircd (if you need it) * install ivtv (if you need it) * yum install mythtv-suite (installs frontend, backend, a bunch of plugins) * disable artsd in KDE options * Follow the step-by-step very thorough mythTV setup documentation.
you now have a fully functioning mythTV installation.
Personally I like the appearance of this application and I think it would be _MUCH_ easier to use than the actual web interface - and the offline usage ability is a wonderful feature
It's nice that they offer free copies to members of established OSS projects
if they get $99/copy for this i should write one for trac!
I think this is just an issue with version 1 releases of new heat making cards - wait until the third party manus get ahold of the chips and put more efficient (space and energy) cooling systems on them
yes the majority of all hacks are _old_ code - but the threat severity of most OSS hacks doesn't come near to the threat severity of most Explorer or Outlook hacks since those applications are integrated into the OS.
While the "but open source is supposed to me more secure!" trolls will open their mouths about how this is evidence we're wrong - it's not.
All software and therefore all websites contain vulnerabilities.
The advantage of OSS is that these security holes are fixed promptly.
Thanks to someone posting the origional email announcement we know that this breach was due to poor server administration in that they didn't keep their software patched up to the latest version. This vulnerability is probably fixed in the latest TWiki releases being that someone is out there exploiting it.
It is not intellectual elitism to consider a news source that has been shown multiple times to have subtly deceived it's viewers en masse about important issues in the past a bad news source.
Fox News freely mixes opinion and fact without clearly differentiating between them, and often runs with the "talking points" published by a daily memo from the RNC - this is a known fact, not an opinion and not a speculation.
People who use them as their primary news source have been shown to disporportionately believe inaccurate things about reality that believing the wrong thing on supports the current administration. Such things as "Have we found WMD in Iraq?", "Was there a Link between Al Aqaeda and Iraq?", "Is there widespread international support of the War in Iraq?" - 70% of individuals that use fox news as their primary news source answer atleast one of these three incorrectly. [Source: PIPA Study]. Furthmore Individuals who hold misconceptions on these dispronportionately support(ed) the administion more than individuals who did not. [Source: PIPA Study] The breakdown of individuals holding these misconceptions was also extremely partisan with the vast majority of individuals holding th ese misconceptions being right-wing republicans. [Src: PIPA Study]
I cited the PIPA study because i have much of it's information memorized, but it's not the only study that shows this
or her has a very realistic view of reality that understands government ultimately is answerable to the entire population - but that corporations with vast market shares can get away with shitting on their customers if
A) the competition is no better or B) there is no competition
Kmart/Sears should have been approved - both companies were floundering under the all-owning force of Wal-mart and it's cheap chinese products and it's even cheaper treatment of it's workers.
The very reasons why Wal-mart needs to die and is harmful to the US economy are the same reasons that make them successful (by keeping their prices low). The american consumer cannot have it both ways.
I've worked for both Sears and Wal-mart at various times in his highschool/early college age period (Sears >>>>>> Wal-mart to work at)
That statement makes the presumption that inspection means that bugs won't get into a specific build.
That's a hilarious stupid statement. Bugs are going to get into builds - period. Whether the bug is found before or after an "official build" goes out is irrelevant to whether or not the OSS community around FF is more efficient and active in searching for and plugging bugs and security flaws.
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This review is 100% Bovine Excrement and if the book content actually reflect what is stated in the article then the book is B-E as well.
This biased, scientifically unfounded, completely fictional OP-ED on pornography and censorship [against the former and in favor of the later] doesn't belong on slashdot.
With the ammount you dodge the issue and make false claims about the actual effects of microsoft's tactics I can only assume you work in the microsoft PR department.
You are a troll at best, and at worst yet another one of those free-market ignorami who don't know the first thing about economics and yet feel their opinion should be respected.
Learn something about economics before trying to reply again - everything either of us has cited microsoft is doing is a monopolistic tactic - the SAME ones that Standard Oil pulled.
Parent bases his entire argument off presumption, bigotry and blatant falsehood.
You can stop reading the post right here "America is a christian nation founded upon christian principles." as that statement is 100% FICTION.
The Constitution of the United States was written upon ENLIGHTMENT Principles by people that were christian, deist, agnostic and atheist - and the "Seperation of Church and State" [Thomas Jefferson] was universally agreed upon.
So before Parent opens their mouth EVER again I suggest they LEARN HISTORY.
Many of the most important founding fathers were Deists, Atheists and Agnostics. Furthermore even the religious members of the founding fathers all agreed on the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Ammendment to the US Constitution - which Thomas Jefferson described as "erecting a wall of Seperation between Church and State" to preserve the rights of the citizens and the dignity of both organizations
You don't even know the definition of a monpoly and you attempt to argue economics theory? Typical arrogant american [I'm american too so stop that thought there]
You DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A 100% MARKET SHARE TO BE A MONOPOLY. If you have a commanding market share that allows you to engage in anticompetetive practices then you are a monopoly. Microsoft has UNDENIABLY engaged in anticompetetive practices to supress competition in the x86 operating system market.
* Made libelous claims about their competition
* Financially coerced OEMs to only install their operating system
And the list goes on
I have a recommandation for you: Silence your lips until you learn something about economics.
Then you have a clearly incomplete picture of market forces.
Especially specifically related to operating systems and the behavior of Microsoft. Microsoft is undeniably a monopoly and they undeniably abuse their position to supress competition just like Ol' Standard Oil and Ma' Bell
You also forget the opposite side of the equasion: consumers have to be free from abusive behavior by the providers otherwise the market is not free either.
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Candy causes obesity and diabetes, so let's sue Jolly Rancher
False - eating too much of ANYTHING causes obesity and diabetes -- notice the key of "too much"
Pornography causes blindness, so let's sue Bambi Woods.
Parently false and you know it. If you're going to try and contradict a factually-based argument you need to use a factually-based argument.
You WAKE UP and take responsibility for YOUR OWN actions. Tobacco is a NTT (non-threshold toxicant) and several of it's carcinogens are non-threshold. That means exposure to ONE, ONE SINGLE MOLECULE, can cause cancer. I don't smoke, my fiancee doesn't smoke, my friends don't smoke. We're however FORCED to by people smoking - smoking on the road, smoking on the sidewalk, smoking outside our appartment when our windows are open [forcing us to close our windows], smoking in a neighboring appartment when their windows are open and so are ours [yet again forcusing us to close our windows].
Then the tobacco companies supressed that information: that vital information so that people knew they were doing something that was going to cause cancer.
I agree with you - people who have started smoking since those cases were won [ie anyone my age that smokes] is a MORON and has NO RIGHT to sue the tobacco companies.
However if I got lung cancer linked to exposure to second hand smoke i have EVERY RIGHT to sue the tobacco companies (and every smoker in america) for exposing me to carcinogens directly against my will in violation of my constitutional rights.
Actually the cigarette companies are liable for the cancers they caused because they supressed the information that their product caused cancer.
Yes bugless software is possible. It requires more testing, which requires more money. It's a simple economic decision:
Is the additional cost of reliability less than or equal to the decrease in the mean rate of failure multiplied by the average cost of failure
All my expirience with mythTV has been: PVR-150 and PVR-500 are very stable on the ivtv drivers
That's a distro problem - not an operating system problem.
Steps for setting up mythTV on Fedora Core 4:
* Assemble your computer
* Install Fedora Core
* Setup atrpms repository (preferably by setting up your yum.conf to be the one provided by fedorafaq)
* yum upgrade
* Choose to use KDE
* yum install alsacore alsautils
* alsaconf
* install lircd (if you need it)
* install ivtv (if you need it)
* yum install mythtv-suite (installs frontend, backend, a bunch of plugins)
* disable artsd in KDE options
* Follow the step-by-step very thorough mythTV setup documentation.
you now have a fully functioning mythTV installation.
I'm sure i'm going to be moderated troll for saying this - but that kinda system hoggishness is exactly what i've come to expect with java apps
For ease of use and offline usage
Personally I like the appearance of this application and I think it would be _MUCH_ easier to use than the actual web interface - and the offline usage ability is a wonderful feature
It's nice that they offer free copies to members of established OSS projects
if they get $99/copy for this i should write one for trac!
I think this is just an issue with version 1 releases of new heat making cards - wait until the third party manus get ahold of the chips and put more efficient (space and energy) cooling systems on them
yes the majority of all hacks are _old_ code - but the threat severity of most OSS hacks doesn't come near to the threat severity of most Explorer or Outlook hacks since those applications are integrated into the OS.
SFS said in their email they weren't doing security audits in the TWiki
While the "but open source is supposed to me more secure!" trolls will open their mouths about how this is evidence we're wrong - it's not.
All software and therefore all websites contain vulnerabilities.
The advantage of OSS is that these security holes are fixed promptly.
Thanks to someone posting the origional email announcement we know that this breach was due to poor server administration in that they didn't keep their software patched up to the latest version. This vulnerability is probably fixed in the latest TWiki releases being that someone is out there exploiting it.
i wish i had mod points for the +funny
It is not intellectual elitism to consider a news source that has been shown multiple times to have subtly deceived it's viewers en masse about important issues in the past a bad news source.
Fox News freely mixes opinion and fact without clearly differentiating between them, and often runs with the "talking points" published by a daily memo from the RNC - this is a known fact, not an opinion and not a speculation.
People who use them as their primary news source have been shown to disporportionately believe inaccurate things about reality that believing the wrong thing on supports the current administration. Such things as "Have we found WMD in Iraq?", "Was there a Link between Al Aqaeda and Iraq?", "Is there widespread international support of the War in Iraq?" - 70% of individuals that use fox news as their primary news source answer atleast one of these three incorrectly. [Source: PIPA Study]. Furthmore Individuals who hold misconceptions on these dispronportionately support(ed) the administion more than individuals who did not. [Source: PIPA Study] The breakdown of individuals holding these misconceptions was also extremely partisan with the vast majority of individuals holding th ese misconceptions being right-wing republicans. [Src: PIPA Study]
I cited the PIPA study because i have much of it's information memorized, but it's not the only study that shows this
or her has a very realistic view of reality that understands government ultimately is answerable to the entire population - but that corporations with vast market shares can get away with shitting on their customers if
A) the competition is no better
or
B) there is no competition
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Kmart/Sears should have been approved - both companies were floundering under the all-owning force of Wal-mart and it's cheap chinese products and it's even cheaper treatment of it's workers.
The very reasons why Wal-mart needs to die and is harmful to the US economy are the same reasons that make them successful (by keeping their prices low). The american consumer cannot have it both ways.
I've worked for both Sears and Wal-mart at various times in his highschool/early college age period (Sears >>>>>> Wal-mart to work at)
That statement makes the presumption that inspection means that bugs won't get into a specific build.
That's a hilarious stupid statement. Bugs are going to get into builds - period. Whether the bug is found before or after an "official build" goes out is irrelevant to whether or not the OSS community around FF is more efficient and active in searching for and plugging bugs and security flaws.
This review is 100% Bovine Excrement and if the book content actually reflect what is stated in the article then the book is B-E as well.
/. - not The Fascist Information Network
This biased, scientifically unfounded, completely fictional OP-ED on pornography and censorship [against the former and in favor of the later] doesn't belong on slashdot.
This is
In 1984 it is said "He who controls the past controls the present, and he who controls the present controls the past".
the Theofascist movements of various religions around the world are trying to exercise this concept - grandparent is an example.
With the ammount you dodge the issue and make false claims about the actual effects of microsoft's tactics I can only assume you work in the microsoft PR department.
You are a troll at best, and at worst yet another one of those free-market ignorami who don't know the first thing about economics and yet feel their opinion should be respected.
Learn something about economics before trying to reply again - everything either of us has cited microsoft is doing is a monopolistic tactic - the SAME ones that Standard Oil pulled.
Parent bases his entire argument off presumption, bigotry and blatant falsehood.
You can stop reading the post right here "America is a christian nation founded upon christian principles." as that statement is 100% FICTION.
The Constitution of the United States was written upon ENLIGHTMENT Principles by people that were christian, deist, agnostic and atheist - and the "Seperation of Church and State" [Thomas Jefferson] was universally agreed upon.
So before Parent opens their mouth EVER again I suggest they LEARN HISTORY.
Many of the most important founding fathers were Deists, Atheists and Agnostics. Furthermore even the religious members of the founding fathers all agreed on the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Ammendment to the US Constitution - which Thomas Jefferson described as "erecting a wall of Seperation between Church and State" to preserve the rights of the citizens and the dignity of both organizations
Lying about TCO and using other FUD is a market control tactic
You don't even know the definition of a monpoly and you attempt to argue economics theory? Typical arrogant american [I'm american too so stop that thought there]
You DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A 100% MARKET SHARE TO BE A MONOPOLY. If you have a commanding market share that allows you to engage in anticompetetive practices then you are a monopoly. Microsoft has UNDENIABLY engaged in anticompetetive practices to supress competition in the x86 operating system market.
* Made libelous claims about their competition
* Financially coerced OEMs to only install their operating system
And the list goes on
I have a recommandation for you: Silence your lips until you learn something about economics.
Then you have a clearly incomplete picture of market forces.
Especially specifically related to operating systems and the behavior of Microsoft. Microsoft is undeniably a monopoly and they undeniably abuse their position to supress competition just like Ol' Standard Oil and Ma' Bell
You also forget the opposite side of the equasion: consumers have to be free from abusive behavior by the providers otherwise the market is not free either.