What I don't get is why mostly conservatives support this kind of thing.
It's because what they aim to conserve is all that is parochial, small-minded and nasty. The trouble is, Britain's Labour party used to have a policy of supporting social justice. Now that has been totally abandoned, and they are dominated by raving Thatcherites. No bloody wonder the actual "Conservative" party hasn't a clue what to do to regain power - their philosophy has been entirely subsumed by their opponents.
Didn't you read the contract? It's in the small print...
Even if it is, who cares?
The point is, if they send you crap, the best way to deal with it is to not respond in any way visible to the spammer. An opt-out is usually seen as a confirmation that you have a valid address. An extra rule or two on your email filter, and/or an extra entry in your hosts file if you want to be thorough about never doing business with the spammer might help.
Or you could get creative: A few years ago, I was getting a load of mail every day from some travel outfit that had got my address from somewhere, and I couldn't get them to stop. So I collected every address of theirs that I could find and put them all (with mailto links) in a little webpage with a title to the effect that "I am willing to accept all bulk mail; please contact me at the following addresses..." and left the webcrawlers to do their job. The deluge stopped within three days.
I started with Slackware at about the same time. Getting a usable system up and running was easy, but it took me some time to get X11 running. IIRC at the time I had a crappy SiS graphics card, and I never did succeed in getting any better than 16-bit colour out of it. I went through a succession of graphics cards until about 1998 when I got my first Riva TNT card, and that was so good, I've stuck with nVidia ever since. Other people had terrible problems with sound, but that turned out to be relatively straightforward for me...
It sometimes seems a bit incongruous that Linux still has a reputation in some circles for hardware support (presumably based on early experience) where now it supports just about everything out of the box - something Windows still fails at.
I realize not everyone has such little dependence on the USPS. I'm just saying that they should.
Sorry to break your bubble, but there are plenty of things that arrive through the mail other than stuff that can be sent digitally. Just take a look at eBay.
...as it is then expected you are checking the thing all the time...
The same also applies to ordinary mobile phones. Some workplaces seem to operate on the principle that if you have a phone in your pocket, you should be available 24/7, even if you are on the loo or bonking your wife.
What is needed is a simple but comprehensive blocking algorithm that tells unwanted callers to just fuck off unless what they have to say is demonstrably important.
No, but you missed the point of the original submission.
Obama is welcome to his new Blackberry, but if it is so fancy that all he can use it for is to tell his lovely wife when he's going to be home for dinner, he might just as well get himself a cheapie Nokia.
I'm not sure what that's got to do with Linux. I'm quite certain that the majority of Linux users pick something other than that unspeakably vile baby-poo brown Gnome theme Ubuntu is so fond of. I know I do. So yes, Ubuntu is fugly by default, but Linux has far too many user environments for any comparison to be meaningful.
Incidentally, my own machines are a MacBook laptop and an Arch Linux desktop machine. The latter has by far the more attractive desktop and UI appearance.
I've been using Linux since the mid '90s, mostly on Slackware (with occasional forays into LFS, Mandrake, Redhat and Gentoo) and occasionally install Ubuntu just to see where it's heading.
Slackware's falling behind a bit as far as the desktop experience is concerned (sorry Pat, I know it's not your fault), but fortunately Arch Linux is similar enough and current enough to fill the void.
But I digress. Ubuntu is probably (in fact certainly) great for newbies, but for those of us with some experience with Linux, some of the developers' more capricious antics can be a bit frustrating. Case in point: why should we have to hunt around to find whatever file has replaced/etc/inittab ?
Encouraging the judge to keep his opinions strictly private isn't going to discourage him from having opinions.
This is inevitably true. But if he is a member of two lobby organizations on the prosecution's side, that should disqualify him from hearing the case. Simple common justice should demand that. Though of course I'm perfectly well aware that justice and the law can be mutually exclusive.
That's what I was thinking. Is there no legislation in Sweden addressing conflict of interest? I had always been under the impression that the Swedish were relatively enlightened or progressive in matters such as these, but perhaps I should reconsider.
Slashdot is woefully selective about which of these entities it accepts. Your example works, but other common codes such as the ° entity are totally ignored. You'll notice I left out the semicolon there - you understand why. [sigh]
It pisses me off sometimes that the developers put so much effort into useless bells and whistles without even glancing at such glaring omissions which have existed since day one.
If your problem is interference from non-hidden networks, chances are they are also set to run on the default channel (here it tends to be channel 6) so you could try setting your router and NIC to use (say) 1 or 11. Some of the others might be worth a try, but there is more overlap. You could also improve your reception by using an antenna like this, bearing in mind that since this "shouts louder" than your neighbours, a bit more care is required to secure your connection.
But it bothers me that you promote how you use linux
Don't let it worry you. My initial reading of the submission came up with the European Committee for Inoperable Systems... which probably sums it up quite well...
...and, in any case, if you can afford a GigE pipe to the outside world, you are wealthy beyond my wildest dreams. Unless you are running data-intensive operations across a cluster, most people only notice any real latency when copying big files over WiFi connections.
Channel 9 already gets around any automatic recording by grossly misrepresenting their timetable. Anyone who uses it will have a large section of advertising (or the previous program) at the beginning of their recording, and the end will be chopped off. The difference in timing is usually around 12 minutes for primetime, but I have known it stretch to over 20 minutes on occasion.
You sound more like a power user. Perhaps you are not the target for the "Starter Edition" of the OS
Well, who is? If anybody wants a system that limited, they could always dust off their old copies of Windows 3.1. Though I'm probably not being very fair: I remember being able to run more than 3 apps. Hell, Win3.1 would run (or crash) faster than ever on modern hardware...;-)
you also don't want your source of military software to be equally available on all iPhones out there...
Well, that might make their job more interesting if both sides have to game each other for control of a bomb-carrying robot. Sort of like a combination of Russion roulette and arm-wrestling...;-)
If you make a statement like that, you had better be ready for someone to call BS.
According to the most recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics there are 9,799,249 males and 10,056,038 females - a difference of only 2%.
Kyoto is an utter failure on this point, which makes me glad the U.S. didn't ratify it.
The former is a valid point, but the latter has nothing to do with any principle. G. Shrub was simply continuing his (and his Republican Big-Oil-Money cronies') policy of denial that there is/was any problem... on the principle that if you stick your head up your ass for long enough, sooner or later you'll learn to enjoy the view in there.
Of course we can say that, because if they will do exactly what we've been doing for the last couple of centuries, it will be a disaster.
Trouble is, the model some countries (particularly Australia) are adopting is to pretend to out-source reductions in carbon emissions to the developing world, meanwhile writing blank cheques to the heaviest polluters at home to carry on along their merry way. No real change is going to be made through dodgy accounting exercises like this. It's just like moving food around on the plate to make it look like you've eaten more.
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What I don't get is why mostly conservatives support this kind of thing.
It's because what they aim to conserve is all that is parochial, small-minded and nasty. The trouble is, Britain's Labour party used to have a policy of supporting social justice. Now that has been totally abandoned, and they are dominated by raving Thatcherites. No bloody wonder the actual "Conservative" party hasn't a clue what to do to regain power - their philosophy has been entirely subsumed by their opponents.
...it will now let ISPs and telecoms firms store the data themselves, and access it when it feels it needs it.
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou sir, you are too kind, your generosity overwhelms me. Would you like to lash me with that nice whip you have there?
Didn't you read the contract? It's in the small print...
Even if it is, who cares?
The point is, if they send you crap, the best way to deal with it is to not respond in any way visible to the spammer. An opt-out is usually seen as a confirmation that you have a valid address. An extra rule or two on your email filter, and/or an extra entry in your hosts file if you want to be thorough about never doing business with the spammer might help.
Or you could get creative: A few years ago, I was getting a load of mail every day from some travel outfit that had got my address from somewhere, and I couldn't get them to stop. So I collected every address of theirs that I could find and put them all (with mailto links) in a little webpage with a title to the effect that "I am willing to accept all bulk mail; please contact me at the following addresses..." and left the webcrawlers to do their job. The deluge stopped within three days.
I started with Slackware at about the same time. Getting a usable system up and running was easy, but it took me some time to get X11 running. IIRC at the time I had a crappy SiS graphics card, and I never did succeed in getting any better than 16-bit colour out of it. I went through a succession of graphics cards until about 1998 when I got my first Riva TNT card, and that was so good, I've stuck with nVidia ever since. Other people had terrible problems with sound, but that turned out to be relatively straightforward for me...
It sometimes seems a bit incongruous that Linux still has a reputation in some circles for hardware support (presumably based on early experience) where now it supports just about everything out of the box - something Windows still fails at.
I realize not everyone has such little dependence on the USPS. I'm just saying that they should.
Sorry to break your bubble, but there are plenty of things that arrive through the mail other than stuff that can be sent digitally. Just take a look at eBay.
Flying cars == no brakes.
Effective robot wives == x^n nagging quotient.
I'll pass if it's all the same to you...
...as it is then expected you are checking the thing all the time...
The same also applies to ordinary mobile phones. Some workplaces seem to operate on the principle that if you have a phone in your pocket, you should be available 24/7, even if you are on the loo or bonking your wife.
What is needed is a simple but comprehensive blocking algorithm that tells unwanted callers to just fuck off unless what they have to say is demonstrably important.
I don't feel like I should have to cut off all of my friends just to avoid stupidity from the office...
That's what blacklisting is for.
Did I miss your point?
No, but you missed the point of the original submission.
Obama is welcome to his new Blackberry, but if it is so fancy that all he can use it for is to tell his lovely wife when he's going to be home for dinner, he might just as well get himself a cheapie Nokia.
I'd like to see a court strike down their obvious abuses of the legal system.
Don't hold your breath. Justice is for those who can afford it, and the RIAA have a nearly unlimited amount of money to throw at this issue.
I'm not sure what that's got to do with Linux. I'm quite certain that the majority of Linux users pick something other than that unspeakably vile baby-poo brown Gnome theme Ubuntu is so fond of. I know I do. So yes, Ubuntu is fugly by default, but Linux has far too many user environments for any comparison to be meaningful.
Incidentally, my own machines are a MacBook laptop and an Arch Linux desktop machine. The latter has by far the more attractive desktop and UI appearance.
I was close to dumping Ubuntu personally.
/etc/inittab ?
Then you're probably luckier than me.
I've been using Linux since the mid '90s, mostly on Slackware (with occasional forays into LFS, Mandrake, Redhat and Gentoo) and occasionally install Ubuntu just to see where it's heading.
Slackware's falling behind a bit as far as the desktop experience is concerned (sorry Pat, I know it's not your fault), but fortunately Arch Linux is similar enough and current enough to fill the void.
But I digress. Ubuntu is probably (in fact certainly) great for newbies, but for those of us with some experience with Linux, some of the developers' more capricious antics can be a bit frustrating. Case in point: why should we have to hunt around to find whatever file has replaced
Encouraging the judge to keep his opinions strictly private isn't going to discourage him from having opinions.
This is inevitably true. But if he is a member of two lobby organizations on the prosecution's side, that should disqualify him from hearing the case. Simple common justice should demand that. Though of course I'm perfectly well aware that justice and the law can be mutually exclusive.
That's what I was thinking. Is there no legislation in Sweden addressing conflict of interest? I had always been under the impression that the Swedish were relatively enlightened or progressive in matters such as these, but perhaps I should reconsider.
Slashdot is woefully selective about which of these entities it accepts. Your example works, but other common codes such as the ° entity are totally ignored. You'll notice I left out the semicolon there - you understand why. [sigh]
It pisses me off sometimes that the developers put so much effort into useless bells and whistles without even glancing at such glaring omissions which have existed since day one.
If your problem is interference from non-hidden networks, chances are they are also set to run on the default channel (here it tends to be channel 6) so you could try setting your router and NIC to use (say) 1 or 11. Some of the others might be worth a try, but there is more overlap. You could also improve your reception by using an antenna like this, bearing in mind that since this "shouts louder" than your neighbours, a bit more care is required to secure your connection.
But it bothers me that you promote how you use linux
Don't let it worry you. My initial reading of the submission came up with the European Committee for Inoperable Systems... which probably sums it up quite well...
...and, in any case, if you can afford a GigE pipe to the outside world, you are wealthy beyond my wildest dreams. Unless you are running data-intensive operations across a cluster, most people only notice any real latency when copying big files over WiFi connections.
If you were going really retro you would have said 3 mbit/s :)
No, 300 baud should be enough.
Channel 9 already gets around any automatic recording by grossly misrepresenting their timetable. Anyone who uses it will have a large section of advertising (or the previous program) at the beginning of their recording, and the end will be chopped off. The difference in timing is usually around 12 minutes for primetime, but I have known it stretch to over 20 minutes on occasion.
You sound more like a power user. Perhaps you are not the target for the "Starter Edition" of the OS
;-)
Well, who is? If anybody wants a system that limited, they could always dust off their old copies of Windows 3.1. Though I'm probably not being very fair: I remember being able to run more than 3 apps. Hell, Win3.1 would run (or crash) faster than ever on modern hardware...
you also don't want your source of military software to be equally available on all iPhones out there...
;-)
Well, that might make their job more interesting if both sides have to game each other for control of a bomb-carrying robot. Sort of like a combination of Russion roulette and arm-wrestling...
Australia is predominantly female.
If you make a statement like that, you had better be ready for someone to call BS.
According to the most recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics there are 9,799,249 males and 10,056,038 females - a difference of only 2%.
Kyoto is an utter failure on this point, which makes me glad the U.S. didn't ratify it.
The former is a valid point, but the latter has nothing to do with any principle. G. Shrub was simply continuing his (and his Republican Big-Oil-Money cronies') policy of denial that there is/was any problem... on the principle that if you stick your head up your ass for long enough, sooner or later you'll learn to enjoy the view in there.
Of course we can say that, because if they will do exactly what we've been doing for the last couple of centuries, it will be a disaster.
Trouble is, the model some countries (particularly Australia) are adopting is to pretend to out-source reductions in carbon emissions to the developing world, meanwhile writing blank cheques to the heaviest polluters at home to carry on along their merry way. No real change is going to be made through dodgy accounting exercises like this. It's just like moving food around on the plate to make it look like you've eaten more.