I have to admit that one of the real "hero" labels should go to the people who make the easier-to-use distros. Mandrake and Redhat.
No, really.
To be perfectly honest, it's Mandrake alone that have worked quite well when I found it to defenestrate a few users. As vilified as they seem to be these days, they make it much easier for the Linux newbie to get involved and get away from Windows. And as crufty as RPM is, gotta hand Red Hat that one; even if apt is better.
Besides, if it weren't for Mandrake, I'd still be using OS/2 Warp 4. =O.o=
All those companies who make things like Mountain Dew, Red Bull, Jolt, Bawls, and any other caffeinaceous beverage, for without caffeine we can't function.
But it makes me wonder if this was more of a move of desperation for Savvis. On the surface, sure - they were threatened with what amounts to a permanent blacklist. But even then.
While I find it wonderful that Real has embraced Linux, your subsidiary, listen.com, seems antagonistic toward Linux, making it quite clear that they have no plans at this time to move their Rhapsody player to Linux. This tells me of a bit of a dichotomy in your company. Are there plans to resolve this?
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Yes, but everyone knows that Micro$oft is all about standards, and since they created all standards, they must be followed.
*snort* At the rate things go with the courts, it'll likely be in the hands of the USSC by the time that Verisign's TLDs go back up for bid. Frickin' drama queens.
Since I'm not a lawyer, here's my question - if the US Dist. courts, which are presumably higher up than the California court, dismissed Verisign's claim, am I right in thinking that CA superior will as well?
The only way to have your data not be hacked out of encryption under any circumstance is to not make your data available AT ALL. As really cool as they seem to think it is, security is not *that* good, even if you get a 2 MB encryption key. It can still be broken, no matter how remote the chances are.
The problem remains though that the alternatives also have holes. Snail mail can also be intercepted, but the worst of that is that the ballot fails to arrive at the intended destination. I suppose you could set up a precinct count over in the warzone, but that's even more risky to the people running the tally.
So frankly, you can't win, you can only reduce the odds of problems.
I guess I'm fully against electronic voting for the same reason that I sneer at places like Petitiononline.com - electronic data in this fashion can be futzed with far too easily, and therefore it can't be considered valid.
Yes, but remember that GPG is a clone of PGP - which stands for Pretty Good Privacy. The author of the protocol has always put strict emphasis on "Pretty Good", noting it was NOT PERFECT.
Keeping in mind that "perfect encryption" is a lot like "flawless birth control". The only way for the prevention of the more fearful result to happen is to not participate in the activity that could get you into the position you're trying to prevent, be it pregnant or having your data hacked.
So frankly speaking, I am wholeheartedly AGAINST email voting.
The reason why this gets more coverage is because it's marketed. Keep in mind that your typical luser is more likely to go andhear about it throuch commercials than hunt around on places like Freshmeat and Sourceforge.
Well, you aren't missing anything - it probably isn't legitimate. IANAL.
But, corporations can get a little personal. If McKesson sees that somebody is drinking Arrowhead brand water instead of Sparkletts on a TV show, but waitasec, there's no mention of Sparkletts anywhere, they take that a little personally for some reason.
I don't call this overkill at all, actually. When I was being taped for a TV bit a few years ago (remember Truth by MTV? A friend and I talked about a road trip during which we bought a furby; but that's another story), they requested that I remove the label from the bottle of water I was carrying at that time for the simple reason that they didn't want to be sued for preferring a corporate entity over another.
Now, don't get me wrong - that they're doing this to please Coke and doing seeming enforcement probably is overkill - but at a sponsored event, it's generally grokked to be A Good Thing to remove your labels.
Perhaps a good solution is to remove the labels from your Coca-Cola branded products as well. =^_^=
Actually, it's as weak as it is not for safety, but for some other weird reason.
Not sure when it happened, but in the middle of the 20th century the seeming fad with coffee was to brew it in such a way that you could see through it. Perhaps it was around the depression as to save money, I don't know. That carried into an ettiquette thing, and nowadays people are accustomed to drinking coffee that, to misquote Monty Python, is like making love in a canoe. Fucking close to water.
Now of all the bile I have for Starbucks Coffee, I have to give them credit for one thing - bringing back strong coffee. Naturally, that part didn't pick up completely - many people find Starbucks to make their coffee too strong. Instead, the "gourmet coffee" thing picked up on that - many people put the word "gourmet" on their labels, so now you have McDonalds selling their exclusive blend. But, nothing has changed, naturally. So you have your coffee houses and your home drinkers that drink coffee strong enough to burn a hole in your plumbing, and you have everywhere else that just brews the same stuff - but had felt the need to expand (7-11) or rebrand (McD's) to compete with the likes of Starbucks.
Now excuse me while I drink a cup of coffee I couldn't see through if you blasted it with arc lights powerful enough to blind.
Calling it the next COBOL, though, is pretty much damning it with faint praise. MOst of the people I've known who even admit to knowing any cobol either do so while blushing, or don't work in that environment - and yet like it.
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I call Godwin's Law! =^_^= OK, next thread.
No, really.
To be perfectly honest, it's Mandrake alone that have worked quite well when I found it to defenestrate a few users. As vilified as they seem to be these days, they make it much easier for the Linux newbie to get involved and get away from Windows. And as crufty as RPM is, gotta hand Red Hat that one; even if apt is better.
Besides, if it weren't for Mandrake, I'd still be using OS/2 Warp 4. =O.o=
All those companies who make things like Mountain Dew, Red Bull, Jolt, Bawls, and any other caffeinaceous beverage, for without caffeine we can't function.
But it makes me wonder if this was more of a move of desperation for Savvis. On the surface, sure - they were threatened with what amounts to a permanent blacklist. But even then.
While I find it wonderful that Real has embraced Linux, your subsidiary, listen.com, seems antagonistic toward Linux, making it quite clear that they have no plans at this time to move their Rhapsody player to Linux. This tells me of a bit of a dichotomy in your company. Are there plans to resolve this?
Yes, but everyone knows that Micro$oft is all about standards, and since they created all standards, they must be followed.
*snort* At the rate things go with the courts, it'll likely be in the hands of the USSC by the time that Verisign's TLDs go back up for bid. Frickin' drama queens.
Since I'm not a lawyer, here's my question - if the US Dist. courts, which are presumably higher up than the California court, dismissed Verisign's claim, am I right in thinking that CA superior will as well?
The problem remains though that the alternatives also have holes. Snail mail can also be intercepted, but the worst of that is that the ballot fails to arrive at the intended destination. I suppose you could set up a precinct count over in the warzone, but that's even more risky to the people running the tally.
So frankly, you can't win, you can only reduce the odds of problems.
I guess I'm fully against electronic voting for the same reason that I sneer at places like Petitiononline.com - electronic data in this fashion can be futzed with far too easily, and therefore it can't be considered valid.
Keeping in mind that "perfect encryption" is a lot like "flawless birth control". The only way for the prevention of the more fearful result to happen is to not participate in the activity that could get you into the position you're trying to prevent, be it pregnant or having your data hacked.
So frankly speaking, I am wholeheartedly AGAINST email voting.
Yes, and it's also a ring tone now =O.o=
Beats the hell out of Banana phone any day, I suppose.
The reason why this gets more coverage is because it's marketed. Keep in mind that your typical luser is more likely to go andhear about it throuch commercials than hunt around on places like Freshmeat and Sourceforge.
Imminent death of the net predicted, film at eleven.
Pretty soon though...well, just read the subject.
OK, so it's really corundum. But you know, that's pretty fricking hard stuff anyway - last I checked, only a diamond could cut that stuff.
But, corporations can get a little personal. If McKesson sees that somebody is drinking Arrowhead brand water instead of Sparkletts on a TV show, but waitasec, there's no mention of Sparkletts anywhere, they take that a little personally for some reason.
Now, don't get me wrong - that they're doing this to please Coke and doing seeming enforcement probably is overkill - but at a sponsored event, it's generally grokked to be A Good Thing to remove your labels.
Perhaps a good solution is to remove the labels from your Coca-Cola branded products as well. =^_^=
frigidaire xeroxes kleenex. kodak at eleven.
Not sure when it happened, but in the middle of the 20th century the seeming fad with coffee was to brew it in such a way that you could see through it. Perhaps it was around the depression as to save money, I don't know. That carried into an ettiquette thing, and nowadays people are accustomed to drinking coffee that, to misquote Monty Python, is like making love in a canoe. Fucking close to water.
Now of all the bile I have for Starbucks Coffee, I have to give them credit for one thing - bringing back strong coffee. Naturally, that part didn't pick up completely - many people find Starbucks to make their coffee too strong. Instead, the "gourmet coffee" thing picked up on that - many people put the word "gourmet" on their labels, so now you have McDonalds selling their exclusive blend. But, nothing has changed, naturally. So you have your coffee houses and your home drinkers that drink coffee strong enough to burn a hole in your plumbing, and you have everywhere else that just brews the same stuff - but had felt the need to expand (7-11) or rebrand (McD's) to compete with the likes of Starbucks.
Now excuse me while I drink a cup of coffee I couldn't see through if you blasted it with arc lights powerful enough to blind.
Hey, you just removed the humor by explaining it! =)
What you said, sir. =^^= And I'll have that .5L of bavarian somethinorother over the shite they have here in the good ol' USA.
Calling it the next COBOL, though, is pretty much damning it with faint praise. MOst of the people I've known who even admit to knowing any cobol either do so while blushing, or don't work in that environment - and yet like it.
FP!
I dunno, he looks more like Daffy Duck on steroids.