notice how the pro PC article just rails on and on about the security flaw, but doesn't mention that there isn't any malware going around to exploit it like in windoze. and how it was fixed promptly within a week. and even if there was malware, how far could it really go in a *nix environment????
what about the winbloze bonghorn alpha? ? ? oh, its completely superior to today's mac os and better yet, it will be alpha testing for the next two years to prove it! suuuuuurrrreeeee......
maybe they are trying to do an arthur clarke tribute on that one and release it/rename it WINBLOZE 2010
because everyone knows the netscRape brand and would provide a great service to have a linux installer! had a friend who ditched linux cuz he didn't have a friendly isp. would this be step one in mass acceptance? is aol really that smart anymore? ?? ? i thought they would buy red hat back when the rumor was on slashdot. ho hum. we'll see:)
I RUN ANTI-SPAM PROCEEDURES ON MY MACHINES, AND WORK TO PREVENT SPAM. that said.
spammers are being chased into the dirty market because the white market is closed to them. which in turn drives up the rates, which in turn creates higher profits on the activity for the telcos.
i think it's unethical to harvest drones for spam, but that goes for virii and SPYWARE. i will denounce the evils of drive-by-spyware installs (like using IE holes to install them) all day and night.
again, this is all a result of the market closures. if spam wasn't persecuted, they would send less for the same response levels, instead they act aggresively. just like the war on drugs. doesn't that make you feel bad, to think that you are prohibitionists? ? ? ?
shame on the moderators who killed my parent. try to silence dissent all you want, but its a dirty war on both sides. . . . .
look, i'm not a pro spammer, but lets face it, these are just folks doing something annoying to earn a living, and a meager one at that.
white lists and bayesian filtering is here. email clients that don't display tracking images are here. we should stay focused on those passive, client side techniques, and eventually, the spam will recede when its not profitable any more.
course, this will never happen and the war has its supporters on both sides. just beat each other forever, the bandwidth providers make all the money this way. works for them, right?
not to reply to cowards, but halon isn't used anymore, too many useless geek deaths when the fire and anything else close by is asphyxiated. there are newer human safe solutions for server room fire support.
because our country has a history of thrown elections. the reason for chads and touch screens is to eliminate the (distinct) possibility of corrupt scrutineers. one party systems have risen in every part of our country at one time or another. the safe guards in place are minimal and ensure a fairly fair election. sure, maybe canada is a place filled with more scrupulous people (when they are in canada, they are friggin terrorists when doing business here, canadians have credit reports for only in canada) but i think we would have major issues adopting their system, since what we have is an EVOLUTION of what they are. SHAME ON YOU CRINGLEY for suggesting a move towards DEVLOUTION of the electoral process.
if it works for mexico, lets try it here too . . ....
i'm a digital photographer and shoot all the time. have done film in the past and will only touch a nikon for my money. they are durable, reliable, best optics, great integrated systems and every good other corporate buzzword you can add.
some people (cough, red hat) drop support for things very quickly in the it world. same with some camera makers, a new attachment for each camera to drive up the prices. nikon's F mount has been a standard for over 40 years and those 40 year old (often outstanding) lenses can fit even the newest camera.
bottom line, why buy two cameras, when one good one will do! get a great nikon and never get another rig!
well i liked the way the dems sold us up the river then. if you have to tell people that you're compassionate, it means you're a flaming asshole and don't give a shit.
jesus. i can still here the m-idiots from here saying, "oh, i voted nader, he seemed nice" "oh, i voted for two or three candidates, whatever, my vote doesn't count"
at least, hopefully, nobody buys the brainwashing bs this year. course, that's asking way too much. there is a threshold for how much advertising buys an election, in dollars. bush has $200M right now, more than the last one. we're screwed
i have been running my little raq2 for nearly 2 years now. its upgraded to 192mb ram and 30 gig hd and cookin better than ever!!! those little mipsel processors are just smoothe as butter and how much faster than a playstation do you really have to be to serve web pages anyway? ? ? ? hehe.
this crappy posting has my vote. yeah buddy, two or three years of experience to make a real, functional site out of your pieces? ? ? hahahahha. right, and 100-300 bucks? ? ?? yeah, that sounds like fair compensation for your probably meager 40-80 hours of tweaks, talks and revisions.
i see at least one new miami posting a week on there that might as well read. make a free website for us, and we'll let you live
damn str8! happens in small ones too. its a human thing, silly hu-mons. just part of nature, tho i'll never understand it. its called self-destructive behavior.
actually, 30 is about the cutoff. can't remember what year drywall was invented, but anything after that isn't fun to buy and live in. well, if you want more than paper for walls. my apt. is a 1924 CBS construction building. very solid, wood floors, wood walls, wood shitters (not). take a look at the new building next door and they all complain that its like living in a zoo.
yep. nasty pattern too. unfortunately, things are only growing worse, and consumers have the taste of cheap goods firmly implanted in their wallets. however, there will always be a market for durables so long as there is a market with intelligent buyers. consumers be damned.
more good points. but honestly, if older elevator systems were so unsafe, wouldn't we have heard more about horrendous deaths due to lost cars? those systems are great examples of durable goods, items built to last.
now, that's not to say we won't ever hear of such an issue in our lifetimes, but until the first poor shmoes bite it, we'll all wander along through the matrix and enjoy the ride . ... .
tru, you're right, it is solenoid, i guess i had a brain fart when i wrote solid state, but didn't feel like correcting it until someone posted intelligently about it. also, they don't have quite that rate of service on the elevators, they go mostly a year and up. as for the age, i will have to snap some pictures and whatnot. no reason to skimp on the documentation of this post. its turned into a doozie:)
great point! however, this illustrates something that has happened over the last 20 years and really excelerated through the 90's. slowly, our society has shifted production from durable goods into consumer goods. what that means is that we have shown a market (purchasing) preference for cheaper disposable goods over high priced long lasting goods.
the most visible (for/.'ers) example of this is Mac vs. PC. my mac is a durable goods purchase. i sold my 3 year old iMac for 400 bucks this past year, 25% of the purchase price. it still runs the latest OS (is the oldest fully supported mac) and does everything my newer G4 laptop does, just slower. whereas a 3 year old PC would have been garbage, and just a hand me down or scrap parts, and that would even be that P III 500 mhz model.
there is still a market for durable goods, and smart consumers choose those over replacements, because in the long term, a durable product is a single purchase, with all the time and thought involved and the consumer good wastes tons of time, along with re-investing the purchase price (which is 70-80% of a truly durable item anyway) every so often. it is the differnce between a long term (durable/ think enterprise here too) and short term (consumer) approach.
i'm sure that's true and there were lots of failed miigrations i'm sure as well. i'm just saying that these folks, as is probably proper, are keeping what works working. that's all. migrating to winbloze for it all would be kinda silly. i mean, if a windoze traffic flood like blaster could affect ATMs running OS/2 Warp by DDOSing them into oblivion, how would a virus or worm directly affect these huge databases of legacy info? ? ? ?
i spoke with a senior VP at alltel, a huge database maker for mortgage servicing companies. he told me that for example, their code creates basically images of punch cards, the same data format as all those years ago. he got shelved after trying to make a modern system and being swamped by corporate feature creep. it wasn't broke, and frankly nobody wants to fix it.
COBOL on big iron will never die. that's for the same reason one of my clients' elevator system is powered by a 100 year old solid state system. he walked me upstairs to show it off. lots of zapping and clicking noises. the thing runs 15 stories worth of 2 elevators and has for 40 years in that building (yes, bought used).
that reason is reliability. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
note, y2k required fresh re-writes on many mainframe systems, and those old COBOL guys had a field day. but notice too, that they didn't go thru the trouble of migration then, even tho the amounts spend would have justified it!
AFAIK, the only scripts that seem to work on windows start with a browser exploit and then generate popups from now to eternity. we call them spyware, adware, worms and virii. funny how the virus writers know how to automate so well, even with a crippled shell.
i feel bad for ya dude. never thought i would ever hear anyone describe themselves as a "fat gay nerd" on this site. that is usually the worst insult thrown at anything around here.
that said, congrats on your atkins! i prefer the john walker hacker's diet myself, but really, its about getting exercise and detaching from the screen for 1 hour a day every day.
In America food is cheap but other things are expensive like housing and healthcare. There's a relative abundance of food here, and so you have the strange situation where it's more common to find poor people who are fat because rich people can afford health club memberships, personal trainers, and they're generally more aware of nutrition and health.
AB SO LUTELY! however it should be duly noted that one might make an argument that this strange twist in human history (the poorer folks growing fatter than the rich) is the cause of America's strong political stability.
I mean, for all the debate, boredom and laughter/tears over the 2k bush/gore floridiot fiasco something that would have certainly happened in less than three months in most other countries would have been violence and possibly armed struggle over the same. instead, we counted, and argued, and debated and judged and a hundred other boring methods. why???
obesity has washed the poorer citizens of America into sheeplike obedience. they have sold out to mcdonalds and their taste buds. obese people lack stamina, speed, and often, after a prolonged spell, the willpower or urgency to change their fortunes. obesity is a choice, first and foremost. poorer people could eat healthier, but that is rarely the path of least resistance.
as a result, the working masses have been placated. i can't honestly see anything wrong with having the choice to be thin or thick and choosing thick. throughout history, rebellions and revolutions have been born in the depths of famine. the french revolution started (the bastille) when the price of bread went through the roof, while simutaneously, the price of wine remained constant. yep! the third grade history books don't mention that the famous mob of Paris was blind, stinking drunk (on empty stomachs).
poor people the world over would kill to be fat and not starving! just their leaders know that if that kind of cultural blight happens to their countries that a) they would be at risk of revolution if america removed the fat and b) obesity is a legitimate problem
personally, i think it will be solved just because there's never obese people in Star Trek;) just kidding!
really though. this issue is close what makes america tick.
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notice how the pro PC article just rails on and on about the security flaw, but doesn't mention that there isn't any malware going around to exploit it like in windoze. and how it was fixed promptly within a week. and even if there was malware, how far could it really go in a *nix environment????
maybe they are trying to do an arthur clarke tribute on that one and release it/rename it WINBLOZE 2010
because everyone knows the netscRape brand and would provide a great service to have a linux installer! had a friend who ditched linux cuz he didn't have a friendly isp. would this be step one in mass acceptance? is aol really that smart anymore? ?? ? i thought they would buy red hat back when the rumor was on slashdot. ho hum. we'll see :)
I RUN ANTI-SPAM PROCEEDURES ON MY MACHINES, AND WORK TO PREVENT SPAM. that said.
spammers are being chased into the dirty market because the white market is closed to them. which in turn drives up the rates, which in turn creates higher profits on the activity for the telcos.
i think it's unethical to harvest drones for spam, but that goes for virii and SPYWARE. i will denounce the evils of drive-by-spyware installs (like using IE holes to install them) all day and night.
again, this is all a result of the market closures. if spam wasn't persecuted, they would send less for the same response levels, instead they act aggresively. just like the war on drugs. doesn't that make you feel bad, to think that you are prohibitionists? ? ? ?
shame on the moderators who killed my parent. try to silence dissent all you want, but its a dirty war on both sides. . . . .
white lists and bayesian filtering is here. email clients that don't display tracking images are here. we should stay focused on those passive, client side techniques, and eventually, the spam will recede when its not profitable any more.
course, this will never happen and the war has its supporters on both sides. just beat each other forever, the bandwidth providers make all the money this way. works for them, right?
not to reply to cowards, but halon isn't used anymore, too many useless geek deaths when the fire and anything else close by is asphyxiated. there are newer human safe solutions for server room fire support.
if it works for mexico, lets try it here too . . . ...
some people (cough, red hat) drop support for things very quickly in the it world. same with some camera makers, a new attachment for each camera to drive up the prices. nikon's F mount has been a standard for over 40 years and those 40 year old (often outstanding) lenses can fit even the newest camera.
bottom line, why buy two cameras, when one good one will do! get a great nikon and never get another rig!
sorry for all the cursing, a bad day here.
where's bill clinton when we need him?
at least, hopefully, nobody buys the brainwashing bs this year. course, that's asking way too much. there is a threshold for how much advertising buys an election, in dollars. bush has $200M right now, more than the last one. we're screwed
i have been running my little raq2 for nearly 2 years now. its upgraded to 192mb ram and 30 gig hd and cookin better than ever!!! those little mipsel processors are just smoothe as butter and how much faster than a playstation do you really have to be to serve web pages anyway? ? ? ? hehe.
yes, it is a pretty flamebaitish thing to say, but . . . .. m$ has done this in the past, but not since the format wars of the early nineties.
i see at least one new miami posting a week on there that might as well read. make a free website for us, and we'll let you live
damn str8! happens in small ones too. its a human thing, silly hu-mons. just part of nature, tho i'll never understand it. its called self-destructive behavior.
actually, 30 is about the cutoff. can't remember what year drywall was invented, but anything after that isn't fun to buy and live in. well, if you want more than paper for walls. my apt. is a 1924 CBS construction building. very solid, wood floors, wood walls, wood shitters (not). take a look at the new building next door and they all complain that its like living in a zoo.
yep. nasty pattern too. unfortunately, things are only growing worse, and consumers have the taste of cheap goods firmly implanted in their wallets. however, there will always be a market for durables so long as there is a market with intelligent buyers. consumers be damned.
now, that's not to say we won't ever hear of such an issue in our lifetimes, but until the first poor shmoes bite it, we'll all wander along through the matrix and enjoy the ride . . .. .
tru, you're right, it is solenoid, i guess i had a brain fart when i wrote solid state, but didn't feel like correcting it until someone posted intelligently about it. also, they don't have quite that rate of service on the elevators, they go mostly a year and up. as for the age, i will have to snap some pictures and whatnot. no reason to skimp on the documentation of this post. its turned into a doozie :)
the most visible (for /.'ers) example of this is Mac vs. PC. my mac is a durable goods purchase. i sold my 3 year old iMac for 400 bucks this past year, 25% of the purchase price. it still runs the latest OS (is the oldest fully supported mac) and does everything my newer G4 laptop does, just slower. whereas a 3 year old PC would have been garbage, and just a hand me down or scrap parts, and that would even be that P III 500 mhz model.
there is still a market for durable goods, and smart consumers choose those over replacements, because in the long term, a durable product is a single purchase, with all the time and thought involved and the consumer good wastes tons of time, along with re-investing the purchase price (which is 70-80% of a truly durable item anyway) every so often. it is the differnce between a long term (durable/ think enterprise here too) and short term (consumer) approach.
i spoke with a senior VP at alltel, a huge database maker for mortgage servicing companies. he told me that for example, their code creates basically images of punch cards, the same data format as all those years ago. he got shelved after trying to make a modern system and being swamped by corporate feature creep. it wasn't broke, and frankly nobody wants to fix it.
that reason is reliability. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
note, y2k required fresh re-writes on many mainframe systems, and those old COBOL guys had a field day. but notice too, that they didn't go thru the trouble of migration then, even tho the amounts spend would have justified it!
if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
AFAIK, the only scripts that seem to work on windows start with a browser exploit and then generate popups from now to eternity. we call them spyware, adware, worms and virii. funny how the virus writers know how to automate so well, even with a crippled shell.
you would call all of these jobs personal assistant positions.
that said, congrats on your atkins! i prefer the john walker hacker's diet myself, but really, its about getting exercise and detaching from the screen for 1 hour a day every day.
AB SO LUTELY! however it should be duly noted that one might make an argument that this strange twist in human history (the poorer folks growing fatter than the rich) is the cause of America's strong political stability.
I mean, for all the debate, boredom and laughter/tears over the 2k bush/gore floridiot fiasco something that would have certainly happened in less than three months in most other countries would have been violence and possibly armed struggle over the same. instead, we counted, and argued, and debated and judged and a hundred other boring methods. why???
obesity has washed the poorer citizens of America into sheeplike obedience. they have sold out to mcdonalds and their taste buds. obese people lack stamina, speed, and often, after a prolonged spell, the willpower or urgency to change their fortunes. obesity is a choice, first and foremost. poorer people could eat healthier, but that is rarely the path of least resistance.
as a result, the working masses have been placated. i can't honestly see anything wrong with having the choice to be thin or thick and choosing thick. throughout history, rebellions and revolutions have been born in the depths of famine. the french revolution started (the bastille) when the price of bread went through the roof, while simutaneously, the price of wine remained constant. yep! the third grade history books don't mention that the famous mob of Paris was blind, stinking drunk (on empty stomachs).
poor people the world over would kill to be fat and not starving! just their leaders know that if that kind of cultural blight happens to their countries that a) they would be at risk of revolution if america removed the fat and b) obesity is a legitimate problem
personally, i think it will be solved just because there's never obese people in Star Trek ;) just kidding!
really though. this issue is close what makes america tick.