Did you even see the video? The guy was on a rant -- his question ended hours ago and he just wanted to hear the sound of his own voice! When the cops finally did tell him not to take the mic back he acted like a 2 year old, all the way out he was kicking and screaming!
What he needed was a swift knee in the gut from the nearest cop so he would go quietly... but in the days of handicams I guess the cops have learnt not to do that in public.
They were threatening him with the tazer, not using it to subdue him. A tazer to the arm is nothing more than an annoyance, usually enough to shut someone up. If they'd wanted to put him down a tazer to the back of the neck would've dropped him immediatly.... I think the cops were showing restraint.
Did you see how many of the audience got up in arms about the cops carrying him away? I didn't see many... maybe because they knew the full context of the situation and were happy to see him carried away so someone could ask a question with the intent of having it answered?
I think it just as hard to give stuff away when you've made your pile,... you're no longer happy just having a car because your neighbour has a bigger BMW than you, so it's time to get a Mercedes.
If you can comfortably eat, sleep and slashdot (basic human rights I think!) then you've got your pile, and you're in just as good a position to be generous as anyone else... don't make excuses for others having more generosity than you -- accept the fact that you're a selfish greedy human, same as most others.
Me, I've got my pile, and you're not getting any of it! Good on Trent for giving his pile away to you undeserving thieves. I always stole his albums!
Okay, I agree with the employers thing... it's in line with our current anti-descrimination laws, and on that basis I'll accept it.
But Insurance?? Really??
I pay more on my car insurance because I am a Male who is under 25. (well I did until I turned 25)... so that would be in violation of both age and sex descrimination laws wouldn't it??
Insurance works on statistics... as a <25 year old Male, I am statically more likely to act like an idiot and crash my car.. so, chances are I pay more insurance than your mother would.
This is 'fair'.. if your mother is 5 times less likely to crash her car than I, why shouldn't she be paying 1/5th of what I do in insurance.
So... if we move onto health insurance, and you have a genetic predispisotion towards obesity, high blood pressure and diabeties you are 4 times more likely to cost the health system more money than a healthy, young male. Tell me why I should be paying the same health insurance premium as you?
Okay, I've resisted the urge to post for a reaction for long enough.
THREE FRAGS LEFT!!!
It seem you yanks had another shot (haha) at trying to beat the record set a few years ago by the infamous Tasmanian named Martin. But yet again you fall short. All you needed was another 3 kills!... Guess that's just proof that 2 heads are better than one.
That kid obviously needed more practice at Quake before he decided to make it real... Well, at least he did a better job than Eric and Dylan those years ago, they only managed a meesly 13 between them.
They haven't released the details of the gunman, but since it's not being called a Terrorist Attack, I'm guessing it's one of your local white christians who went nuts. Sorry.
Anybody who has ever tried to run an Adobe product as a limited-privilage user, rather than as administrator will know why Microsoft didn't give that particular range of products their stamp of approval.
Since *I* need to maintain the integrity of the system above all else, our users need to find an alternative.
The only company worse than Apple for writing software is Cisco.
Global warming won't hurt us, it'll hurt our children.
I don't have children, and I hate your children.
I get to drive an big, comfortable SUV and I know it's hurting those screaming annoying fat little children you lot seem to care so much about. Really it's win-win.
I agree with your sentiment... but isn't this article a complete waste of time?
Checking out a shill bid is as easy as 1 2 3 (4).
1. Sign in with your alternitive, bad karma ebay account. 2. bid $100,000 for the item you want to see what the real reserve is 3. Look at the size of the current bid, it'll be the shill + one increment. 4. Withdraw your $100,000 bid
Don't get mad, get even. People are shill bidding just as much to avoid eBay's reserve fees... You'd think eBay would care about that...
Having worked in a secure environment since NT4 and having to comprimise security for applications which thing that c:\program files\... should be a read/write directory... let me get this straight...
Games creators are complaining that they need to write responsible applications which obay basic security methodology?? SHOCK HORROR!!! THE INDUSTRY IS GOING TO FALL APART!!!
Sorry, the only sympathy you're going to get here is "About F*CKING TIME!!!"
The administrator account is for... ADMINISTRATION.. not normal running of applications and games, once your product is installed, it's got NO REASON to leach for admin rights.
Having decomissioned my TV a number of years ago in favor of a computer running emule, and now having the free upgrade to BitTorrent that allows me to get my american TV shows add-free 2 weeks ahead of the Australian commercial-infected air-date rather than 1 week ahead.. TV Execs should be asking themselves Is there actually a business case for traditional TV?
Now, as for HD-TV...
I just witnessed a 277-run ashes victory against in full SD Digital TV, and the step up from shadowed fuzzy PAL broadcast was unbelievable.
I can't wait to see us beat the Poms in 1080p full color:) I recon' I'd even pay to see that...
I wonder how long it'll take the sports ground owners to start sueing broadcasters for loss of revinue because you get a better view of the game at home than you do with 10x binoculars from front-row seats?
Yeah, and that's exactly the excuse we're going to hear over and over in 7,994 years when billions of man-hours are being spent on fixing the Y10K bug.
Funny you should say that... We use Microsoft products (ie. windows servers, MS SQL, Exchange etc.) over the open source or *NIX products because in country areas it's *MUCH* easier to find staff who understand Microsoft products.
In small businesses when you have one person who is your network admin / systems admin / dba / tech support it is important to have products that are easy for a (skilled) tech to figure out.
Sure, a MySQL expert can script and use the Open Source tools faster than a Microsoft Expert can Microsoft tools... but what's the learning curve on MySQL's CLI, or X-Windows tool for a systems admin (ie. not dba) compared to Microsoft's SQL Enterprise Manager?
I'm sorry to say it -- it may be slower, but every time I want to create a database I'm going to be wanting to right click on something and select the 'create database' or 'attach database' option... not try to remember if the command is 'create database [databasename] [physcial file] [log file]' or 'create database name=[databasename] file=[physical file] log=[logfile] set recovery=full'
So how does the TCO line up when you compare what your existing tech can do with Microsoft SQL, vs. paying $250 an hour for the _ONLY_ contractors in town who understand *nix or trying to bribe a DBA from the city to move to the country and work for you?
So, this article from the age shows you how forward thinking and open to free speach we are here in Australia. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/19/11638712 72105.html?from=top5
From the article " But because the sex is real, it is classified X18+, a rating that means it is banned from sale in all states." (hey and I probably just broke that new copyright law...:P ) -- Yup, that's right, a consenting adult in australia is unable to purchase from an adult store any pornography that contains real sex. (you can in the ACT though, our capital territory)
Having had access to the internet since I was about 13 as an australian citizin my only reaction is... Really?! Wow.
And if you didn't get that, let me put it another way, STOP TRYING TO IMPOSE YOUR STUPID BACKWARDS LAWS ON MY INTERNET.
If sites aren't viewable by the blind (sorry, vision-impared... as opposed to me after a bottle of scotch) then they are going to loose customers who can't read the site. Simple.
What next, how about you legislate that every american-hosted site must be readable in english to avoid desciminating against the 'multi-lingual-impared'?
My god?! Did anyone actually play that game??!! It was boring and crap! I've sat through Occupational Health and Safety lectures that were more fun and exciting than that.
The only thing that's good for is so the grade three students can have some "educational time on the internet" and play with the computers..
Really, I feel dumber having played that game -- seriously it says someone saying "hey baby - you look hot:) wanna chat?" is a threat?? That's never a threat, that's someone who's just found out they can message anyone in the world and say what they want without consequences.
If the aim is to make kids think that every educational authority wants to make piss weak applications and call them 'games' in an effort to push their conservitive views onto them... JOB WELL DONE!
Who said anything about needing to use the nuke on another country?
Any halfwit -- and even most of our world leaders -- understand that launching a nuke towards any country will result in you being obliterated by nukes from them and their allies.
It's just as effective to setup the nuke in a capacity where it will obliterate your country fully when detonated, then telling the world if you can't have your country, nobody can.
C'mon, surely you've all watched Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
- Call Dell tech support (talk to an indian) - Wait for replacement part - Replace Motherboard - Boot Server - Check everything is working, and step up monitoring on the server.
See that last step? It's a step that any half-worthwhile sysadmin can do at the end of a 16 hour shift with no sleep.
If you've got a problem with software not working after a server change and nobody noticing, that's not a technical problem, that's a STAFFING problem.
Time for your favorite sysadmin to spend some time back in the call centre from which he came.
erm... just while I think of it... This antipiracy thingy... it's in Vista... like, Windows XP's replacement... so, WHY THE F*CK ARE YOU RUNNING A SERVER ON VISTA?!
"We change out motherboards in our servers all the time,..."
Really? What's wrong with them?
Sounds to me like someone's company needs an IT manager to force a rogue sysadmin to start buying reliable servers, not white boxes from the guy at the pub.
Hard disks fail after repeated use... Motherboards fail because of poor workmanship or poor enviornment.
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Did you even see the video?
... but in the days of handicams I guess the cops have learnt not to do that in public.
... I think the cops were showing restraint.
The guy was on a rant -- his question ended hours ago and he just wanted to hear the sound of his own voice!
When the cops finally did tell him not to take the mic back he acted like a 2 year old, all the way out he was kicking and screaming!
What he needed was a swift knee in the gut from the nearest cop so he would go quietly
They were threatening him with the tazer, not using it to subdue him. A tazer to the arm is nothing more than an annoyance, usually enough to shut someone up. If they'd wanted to put him down a tazer to the back of the neck would've dropped him immediatly.
Did you see how many of the audience got up in arms about the cops carrying him away? I didn't see many... maybe because they knew the full context of the situation and were happy to see him carried away so someone could ask a question with the intent of having it answered?
You think?
... you're no longer happy just having a car because your neighbour has a bigger BMW than you, so it's time to get a Mercedes.
I think it just as hard to give stuff away when you've made your pile,
If you can comfortably eat, sleep and slashdot (basic human rights I think!) then you've got your pile, and you're in just as good a position to be generous as anyone else... don't make excuses for others having more generosity than you -- accept the fact that you're a selfish greedy human, same as most others.
Me, I've got my pile, and you're not getting any of it! Good on Trent for giving his pile away to you undeserving thieves. I always stole his albums!
I dunno... None have ever tried.
[Not a Troll, just a man with cheap jokes]
Okay, I agree with the employers thing... it's in line with our current anti-descrimination laws, and on that basis I'll accept it.
.. if your mother is 5 times less likely to crash her car than I, why shouldn't she be paying 1/5th of what I do in insurance.
But Insurance?? Really??
I pay more on my car insurance because I am a Male who is under 25. (well I did until I turned 25)... so that would be in violation of both age and sex descrimination laws wouldn't it??
Insurance works on statistics... as a <25 year old Male, I am statically more likely to act like an idiot and crash my car.. so, chances are I pay more insurance than your mother would.
This is 'fair'
So... if we move onto health insurance, and you have a genetic predispisotion towards obesity, high blood pressure and diabeties you are 4 times more likely to cost the health system more money than a healthy, young male. Tell me why I should be paying the same health insurance premium as you?
Okay, I've resisted the urge to post for a reaction for long enough.
... Guess that's just proof that 2 heads are better than one.
.. Well, at least he did a better job than Eric and Dylan those years ago, they only managed a meesly 13 between them.
THREE FRAGS LEFT!!!
It seem you yanks had another shot (haha) at trying to beat the record set a few years ago by the infamous Tasmanian named Martin. But yet again you fall short. All you needed was another 3 kills!
That kid obviously needed more practice at Quake before he decided to make it real.
They haven't released the details of the gunman, but since it's not being called a Terrorist Attack, I'm guessing it's one of your local white christians who went nuts.
Sorry.
Wow, news for nerds. Recycled every 4 weeks.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08
Absolutly agreed...
Anybody who has ever tried to run an Adobe product as a limited-privilage user, rather than as administrator will know why Microsoft didn't give that particular range of products their stamp of approval.
Since *I* need to maintain the integrity of the system above all else, our users need to find an alternative.
The only company worse than Apple for writing software is Cisco.
Should spend $500 on some PC hardware with Vista OEM installed and get over it.
Tell me again why a MAC user would _want_ to run vista on their MAC?
Maybe this guy knows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvYETWVK6M
Baah! Who cares!
Global warming won't hurt us, it'll hurt our children.
I don't have children, and I hate your children.
I get to drive an big, comfortable SUV and I know it's hurting those screaming annoying fat little children you lot seem to care so much about. Really it's win-win.
I agree with your sentiment... but isn't this article a complete waste of time?
Checking out a shill bid is as easy as 1 2 3 (4).
1. Sign in with your alternitive, bad karma ebay account.
2. bid $100,000 for the item you want to see what the real reserve is
3. Look at the size of the current bid, it'll be the shill + one increment.
4. Withdraw your $100,000 bid
Don't get mad, get even. People are shill bidding just as much to avoid eBay's reserve fees... You'd think eBay would care about that...
Hang on?!
... ADMINISTRATION .. not normal running of applications and games, once your product is installed, it's got NO REASON to leach for admin rights.
Having worked in a secure environment since NT4 and having to comprimise security for applications which thing that c:\program files\... should be a read/write directory... let me get this straight...
Games creators are complaining that they need to write responsible applications which obay basic security methodology?? SHOCK HORROR!!! THE INDUSTRY IS GOING TO FALL APART!!!
Sorry, the only sympathy you're going to get here is "About F*CKING TIME!!!"
The administrator account is for
Fine :), the exact quote from wikipedia (he was talking about desert storm)...
... we looked at the receipts."
You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know. During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out:
"Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons."
"How do you know that?"
"Uh, well
And it's posted on slashdot!!!
Damn, the North Korean secret minister for secret affairs must be having a pretty bad day.
Well, to quote the late Bill Hicks...
George Bush: "We know they've got weapons of mass destruction"
Public: "How do you know?"
George: "Uhh... we looked at the reciept..."
Having decomissioned my TV a number of years ago in favor of a computer running emule, and now having the free upgrade to BitTorrent that allows me to get my american TV shows add-free 2 weeks ahead of the Australian commercial-infected air-date rather than 1 week ahead.. TV Execs should be asking themselves Is there actually a business case for traditional TV?
:) I recon' I'd even pay to see that...
Now, as for HD-TV...
I just witnessed a 277-run ashes victory against in full SD Digital TV, and the step up from shadowed fuzzy PAL broadcast was unbelievable.
I can't wait to see us beat the Poms in 1080p full color
I wonder how long it'll take the sports ground owners to start sueing broadcasters for loss of revinue because you get a better view of the game at home than you do with 10x binoculars from front-row seats?
Yeah, and that's exactly the excuse we're going to hear over and over in 7,994 years when billions of man-hours are being spent on fixing the Y10K bug.
Funny you should say that... We use Microsoft products (ie. windows servers, MS SQL, Exchange etc.) over the open source or *NIX products because in country areas it's *MUCH* easier to find staff who understand Microsoft products.
In small businesses when you have one person who is your network admin / systems admin / dba / tech support it is important to have products that are easy for a (skilled) tech to figure out.
Sure, a MySQL expert can script and use the Open Source tools faster than a Microsoft Expert can Microsoft tools... but what's the learning curve on MySQL's CLI, or X-Windows tool for a systems admin (ie. not dba) compared to Microsoft's SQL Enterprise Manager?
I'm sorry to say it -- it may be slower, but every time I want to create a database I'm going to be wanting to right click on something and select the 'create database' or 'attach database' option... not try to remember if the command is 'create database [databasename] [physcial file] [log file]' or 'create database name=[databasename] file=[physical file] log=[logfile] set recovery=full'
So how does the TCO line up when you compare what your existing tech can do with Microsoft SQL, vs. paying $250 an hour for the _ONLY_ contractors in town who understand *nix or trying to bribe a DBA from the city to move to the country and work for you?
So, this article from the age shows you how forward thinking and open to free speach we are here in Australia. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/19/11638712 72105.html?from=top5
:P ) -- Yup, that's right, a consenting adult in australia is unable to purchase from an adult store any pornography that contains real sex. (you can in the ACT though, our capital territory)
... Really?! Wow.
From the article " But because the sex is real, it is classified X18+, a rating that means it is banned from sale in all states." (hey and I probably just broke that new copyright law...
Having had access to the internet since I was about 13 as an australian citizin my only reaction is
No. Seriously. No.
... as opposed to me after a bottle of scotch) then they are going to loose customers who can't read the site. Simple.
And if you didn't get that, let me put it another way, STOP TRYING TO IMPOSE YOUR STUPID BACKWARDS LAWS ON MY INTERNET.
If sites aren't viewable by the blind (sorry, vision-impared
What next, how about you legislate that every american-hosted site must be readable in english to avoid desciminating against the 'multi-lingual-impared'?
lol!
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. That reminds me of almost every bloody subject -- but I did go to a public school in the country.
My god?! Did anyone actually play that game??!! It was boring and crap! I've sat through Occupational Health and Safety lectures that were more fun and exciting than that.
:) wanna chat?" is a threat?? That's never a threat, that's someone who's just found out they can message anyone in the world and say what they want without consequences.
The only thing that's good for is so the grade three students can have some "educational time on the internet" and play with the computers..
Really, I feel dumber having played that game -- seriously it says someone saying "hey baby - you look hot
If the aim is to make kids think that every educational authority wants to make piss weak applications and call them 'games' in an effort to push their conservitive views onto them... JOB WELL DONE!
The answer to an idiot holding a bomb isn't to give another idiot a bomb.
The answer is to shoot the first idiot.
Who said anything about needing to use the nuke on another country?
Any halfwit -- and even most of our world leaders -- understand that launching a nuke towards any country will result in you being obliterated by nukes from them and their allies.
It's just as effective to setup the nuke in a capacity where it will obliterate your country fully when detonated, then telling the world if you can't have your country, nobody can.
C'mon, surely you've all watched Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Amen to that!
It's not hard:
- Call Dell tech support (talk to an indian)
- Wait for replacement part
- Replace Motherboard
- Boot Server
- Check everything is working, and step up monitoring on the server.
See that last step? It's a step that any half-worthwhile sysadmin can do at the end of a 16 hour shift with no sleep.
If you've got a problem with software not working after a server change and nobody noticing, that's not a technical problem, that's a STAFFING problem.
Time for your favorite sysadmin to spend some time back in the call centre from which he came.
erm... just while I think of it... This antipiracy thingy... it's in Vista... like, Windows XP's replacement... so, WHY THE F*CK ARE YOU RUNNING A SERVER ON VISTA?!
"We change out motherboards in our servers all the time,..."
Really? What's wrong with them?
Sounds to me like someone's company needs an IT manager to force a rogue sysadmin to start buying reliable servers, not white boxes from the guy at the pub.
Hard disks fail after repeated use... Motherboards fail because of poor workmanship or poor enviornment.