The 'massive security upgrade' could be that this one isn't run by a goddamn moron....
So true. I was banging my head against the table as details came out. Well figuratively, but not literally.
But lets make one thing clear, this is not THE Silk Road. This is A Silk Road. One of a number of wanna that want to step into the place of the original.
I have good satellite internet.
Now, the lag is at least 700 mS - so no online realtime games. But for all else, I have 5-10 mb/sec down / 1 mb/sec up.
Browsing is good. Downloads are good. Updates to my remote websites are good.
I use Hughes.
No, you only think you have good satellite internet. I thought that too while languishing in the same Hughes net hell you currently find yourself. I was there for 10 years. I did finally get good internet thought, actually excellent internet. I moved.
Any kind of internet with a built in 700ms lag time is horrible. So I think my declaring any kind of satellite internet "adequate" still stands. It is adequate for what you need it to do, but not by any means good for really anything.
Yes, latency may ruin your Skype session, but you know that will happen with any satellite link.
Which completely validates my original statement that you won't find any "good" satellite internets. If the latency is a constant issue with your session then it will never be "good" but only usable.
Then there is the question of download limits. I know of no satellite internet providers that have decent download limits. Most are limited to a few hundred mb a day or a score of gb a month.
Simple answer is you won't. There are no "good" satellite internet for anything. With luck you might find "adequate" or "usable" satellite internet. But don't let any one lie to you and tell you that they have "good" satellite internet. There is no such thing.
You can get a REFURBISHED equal drive that has a higher chance of dying. Oh and the replacement has no warranty. The dark underbelly of hard drives is you get a single replacement, the replacement has a 90 day on it and that's it.
Not true. I had a seagate with a 5 year warranty go out 2 years into its life. The replacement had a 90 day warranty or what ever was left on the original warranty, which ever was greater.
This is simply not true. Not only is it untrue, but solar/wind will be much cheaper than coal in just a few years. The technology is really moving that fast.
You cannot go with something that might be cheaper in a few years. Many times you have to go with what you have here and now instead of waiting for future technologies to mature.
Coal is here and it is now. It's a cheap and reliable source of power that can be put to use. It has issues but lots of those issues can be resolved with current technology.
I myself like Japanese anime and culture, and have read a few doujinshi which feature young anime characters in sexual situations, but...
>The National Crime Agency warned on Sunday that books appearing to legitimise child abuse "might feed the fantasies of paedophiles and in some cases encourage child sexual abusers to commit contact offences".
I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit.
Of course its bullshit. I'm currently reading Lotte no Omocha. I can so with out a doubt I have no desires to go a rape, molest, or otherwise engage in any carnal activity with any underage Succubi.
Yeah, right, the middle-click paste facility is the deal-breaker for people coming from platforms with no middle-click paste.
I usually ignore AC because most of the time they are morons and have no clue what they are talking about.
The middle mouse button will not be a deal breaker to most people. Most people wills simply abandon gnome and move to a new desktop. Like most people are talking of doing anyway.
What removing the middle mouse button is, is an example of the problem. Some developers or developer ignoring standards and doing whatever the hell they want. The middle mouse button has long been a stable of X Windows and Unix environment but now they want to remove it just because they want too. That is part of the linux bullshit.
Its fine to add features and fix bugs, improve some things but you do not remove features that are popular because you think there is a better way. You do not break comparability in library's with with old programs because you think that feature is wrong and serves no purpose.
Bitch about microsoft all you want but retaining comparability with older programs is a good idea. Or at least attempting to do so.
Richard Stalman tried that once I believe. Ignoring standards and going his own path. Look where that got him.
Linux bullshit. I posted a few days ago that linux bullshit is one thing that is keeping linux from taking over the desktop and being a true system for everyone. Someone asked me for an example. Well here it is.
Yes, I know its just gnome doing this and not linux but its a good example of the whole over all behavior that seems to infect the linux camp. Some developer or group of doing whatever the hell they want to and damn standards, tradition, or in some cases common sense.
I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice
I think you are a perfect example. At work I'll shove CentOS 6.4 on a server without even thinking about it. Hell, I use CentOS 6.4 as my main desktop at work too, but I run it in a VM along side windows 7.
At home, windows 7 all the way. Mainly, because when I get home I don't want to deal with linux bullshit just to play a game. I can just click on steam, download, and have a 98% sense of security that its just going to work. An if I do have to fuck with something it will usually be something simple and wont have me crawling through some obscure board to to fix.
Yes, linux bullshit, and that is reason linux will never take over the game market or the desktop, linux bullshit. Barely any standards and any standards you have are subject to change over know on someones whim. I can't count the number of times I've tried to install something only to find some developer changed a library or added something new because they though it was cool.
You want linux to take away the windows crown, stop the bullshit.
It takes all of five minutes to restore a not-crappy desktop experience on Windows 8. Google classic shell. After you install that, the only thing you really have to use the environment formerly known as Metro for is create a new user.
Or you could simply not use windows 8. Seriously, just stick to windows 7 and call it good. Window 8 bring nothing to the table that you require for games on windows. In fact win 8 just gets more in the way.
Sure most PC now come with win 8 preinstalled. Well if your going to have win 8 shoved up your ass don't buy it. There are still plenty of computer makers that offer win 7 as an option.
Besides most machines you buy that have windows 8 preinstalled are crap machines only fit for keeping grandmaws recipes on. Real gamers know that you roll your own rig or pay someone that knows how to do it for you. Which means you don't buy off the shelf.
Worst-case scenario is pretty much where Windows 8 permanently cripples the PC gaming scene by forcing people to migrate over to consoles or deal with a crappy desktop experience. What it won't do is force them to replace Windows with Linux, partly because even the entry-level Linux distro's all seem to be going the same route as Microsoft with the tablet UI thing.
I doubt window 8 will permanently cripple the PC gaming scene to any degree, and you are correct that it won't push gamers over to linux to any degree. Real games, even gamers like me, are simply sticking with windows 7. Game and hardware makers know this so there isn't going to be any push to abandon 7 as a platform even though it is no longer the "flagship" OS for mickysoft. With this in mind the windows game market is going to do just fine, despite windows 8.
Well I'm not sure since Tux isn't his name. But he is the head penguin, which is more of a title than a name. Other titles would be the Big Penguin Kahuna , Chief Penguin in Charge, and my favorite One Penguin to Rule Them All.
I agree. Enough is enough. All of King's speeches, images, and works should be taken from this greedy family and placed in the public domain. They belong to everyone and not just whoever can pay for them.
What should people like me do to show people like you that we're just as fed up as you are, if not more? Protest? Rebel? Sign some pledge? Comment on Slashdot?
Which will amount to nothing. All this has been done in the past and it amounts to nothing. It's time for a revolution. No, don't go get your gun, not that kind of revolution. But its time to over throw the current government. Its time for the states to remove the current government.
In short it time for the states to call for a constitutional convention and ether rewrite the constitution or amended the current one to remove the sitting government. Its with in the power for the states to remove the entire elective branch and the judicial branch this way. Remove any agency in the current government.
In short once enough states sign on for it there is nothing they can't do in regards to the stopping the current government and there is nothing the federal government can do but watch from the side lines. This is the ultimate power of of the states and I think its time we used it.
Open source office suites are like Chinese knock-offs. They may look similar to the real deal from the outside but once you start working intensively with them they start to degrade quickly.
Not really. I've used MSOffice for over 10 years. I've done so much technical writing that I know pretty much everything there is to know about MS word. Not so much with excel and the rest of the package.
Since I do my work in linux I decided to make the switch to libre office six months ago. With 3.x I was less than impressed, I even stated so a few times on/. posts related. Even saying that libre office will never compete with ms office in the work place.
With the release of 4.1, I'm not so sure any more, at least where it comes to writer vs word. There are still come compatibility issues between the two that needs to be worked out, especially in the area of file compatibilities. With that being said there is a lot of power in writer.
When I'm being forced to work in word now I'm actually wishing I could be back in writer. Over all I like the interface to libre writer better than I do the ribbons in word. I'm at the point in my life where I'm thinking about my next career choice. Making a serous attempt at writing is possibility. I've already chosen to do most of my writing in libre write.
While libre office still has a way to go before it can take the crown from office. But if I was office I would be looking over my shoulder because I'm starting to think libre office might pull it off.
The American people were broadly in support of nuclear power until the 3 Mile incident. This incident brought into stark relief the risk a nuclear accident provided and the shear numbers of people that could be impacted. The "Hippies" had nothing to do with the american people turning
The 3 mile island incident occurred in 1979. Fear mongering by environmental groups, hippies, and media sources blew the event well out of proportion. Bowing to pressure from these groups this lead to a freezing of research and licenses for new plants.
I was alive at the time and I remember the scare tactics and the media coverage. Words like "meltdown" and "china syndrome" where tossed around. I remember one report talking about a cloud of radiation the size of Road Island being release and death tole to be in the millions. Very little of what really happened was ever reported in the news.
The truth is if the hippies had have been ignored 3 Mile Island would be nothing more than a foot note in nuclear history. Equipment failure compounded by human error lead to nuclear reactor coolant being released. The safety features of the 3 Miles Island worked exactly as they where supposed too, despite the human factor.
After all the fear mongering was settle and active research was done it was determined that no substantial radiation was released. The EPA found no contamination of air, soil or water near the plant.
The most damage that 3 Mile Island did was to set nuclear research back over 20 years. If the hippie factor had been ignored and we applied what we learned from 3 Mile Island the events in Japan could have been avoided.
The only reason that happened, and most nuclear accidents, is because the anti nuke freaks started wining about it in the '60. A bunch of clueless hippies sitting around smoking weed and carrying on protests about anything that had anything to do with nuclear anything. Because of this all research on nuclear fission was stopped in the '70s.
If the hippie bunch would have help research the problem instead of being apart of the problem we would have safe nuclear reactors using modern technology today. Crap like Fukushima would never have happened.
Yes. My sleep is more important than getting woken up at 4am with an alert telling me about a missing child in a city the size of NYC. Who is going to be looking out their window at that time of the morning?
Oh horse shit. Your just trying to justify your own selfcenteredness and lazyness. They are not asking you to look out the window at 4 am or go looking for a missing child. They are putting the information out there so you will know a child is missing. So maybe sometime during your travels you will be aware of it and perhaps might notice it.
Fuck the child. No wait. Forget the child, it's going to be fucked anyway (presumably that's why it got kidnapped?).
Fuck the child? No, fuck you. Go back to sleep you self centered bastard.
Let me get this straight? People are bitching because an alert for a missing child woke them up? So a child's life is less important to you then a few minutes of missing sleep?
Wow. That certainly puts some peoples priorities in place.
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The 'massive security upgrade' could be that this one isn't run by a goddamn moron....
So true. I was banging my head against the table as details came out. Well figuratively, but not literally.
But lets make one thing clear, this is not THE Silk Road. This is A Silk Road. One of a number of wanna that want to step into the place of the original.
I have good satellite internet. Now, the lag is at least 700 mS - so no online realtime games. But for all else, I have 5-10 mb/sec down / 1 mb/sec up. Browsing is good. Downloads are good. Updates to my remote websites are good. I use Hughes.
No, you only think you have good satellite internet. I thought that too while languishing in the same Hughes net hell you currently find yourself. I was there for 10 years. I did finally get good internet thought, actually excellent internet. I moved.
Any kind of internet with a built in 700ms lag time is horrible. So I think my declaring any kind of satellite internet "adequate" still stands. It is adequate for what you need it to do, but not by any means good for really anything.
Yes, latency may ruin your Skype session, but you know that will happen with any satellite link.
Which completely validates my original statement that you won't find any "good" satellite internets. If the latency is a constant issue with your session then it will never be "good" but only usable.
Then there is the question of download limits. I know of no satellite internet providers that have decent download limits. Most are limited to a few hundred mb a day or a score of gb a month.
Hardly what I would call "good."
Simple answer is you won't. There are no "good" satellite internet for anything. With luck you might find "adequate" or "usable" satellite internet. But don't let any one lie to you and tell you that they have "good" satellite internet. There is no such thing.
You can get a REFURBISHED equal drive that has a higher chance of dying. Oh and the replacement has no warranty. The dark underbelly of hard drives is you get a single replacement, the replacement has a 90 day on it and that's it.
Not true. I had a seagate with a 5 year warranty go out 2 years into its life. The replacement had a 90 day warranty or what ever was left on the original warranty, which ever was greater.
This is simply not true. Not only is it untrue, but solar/wind will be much cheaper than coal in just a few years. The technology is really moving that fast.
You cannot go with something that might be cheaper in a few years. Many times you have to go with what you have here and now instead of waiting for future technologies to mature.
Coal is here and it is now. It's a cheap and reliable source of power that can be put to use. It has issues but lots of those issues can be resolved with current technology.
I myself like Japanese anime and culture, and have read a few doujinshi which feature young anime characters in sexual situations, but... >The National Crime Agency warned on Sunday that books appearing to legitimise child abuse "might feed the fantasies of paedophiles and in some cases encourage child sexual abusers to commit contact offences". I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit.
Of course its bullshit. I'm currently reading Lotte no Omocha. I can so with out a doubt I have no desires to go a rape, molest, or otherwise engage in any carnal activity with any underage Succubi.
No. Leave the old design alone.
Yeah, right, the middle-click paste facility is the deal-breaker for people coming from platforms with no middle-click paste.
I usually ignore AC because most of the time they are morons and have no clue what they are talking about.
The middle mouse button will not be a deal breaker to most people. Most people wills simply abandon gnome and move to a new desktop. Like most people are talking of doing anyway.
What removing the middle mouse button is, is an example of the problem. Some developers or developer ignoring standards and doing whatever the hell they want. The middle mouse button has long been a stable of X Windows and Unix environment but now they want to remove it just because they want too. That is part of the linux bullshit.
Its fine to add features and fix bugs, improve some things but you do not remove features that are popular because you think there is a better way. You do not break comparability in library's with with old programs because you think that feature is wrong and serves no purpose.
Bitch about microsoft all you want but retaining comparability with older programs is a good idea. Or at least attempting to do so.
Richard Stalman tried that once I believe. Ignoring standards and going his own path. Look where that got him.
Linux bullshit. I posted a few days ago that linux bullshit is one thing that is keeping linux from taking over the desktop and being a true system for everyone. Someone asked me for an example. Well here it is.
Yes, I know its just gnome doing this and not linux but its a good example of the whole over all behavior that seems to infect the linux camp. Some developer or group of doing whatever the hell they want to and damn standards, tradition, or in some cases common sense.
Linux bullshit. That is what this is.
I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice
I think you are a perfect example. At work I'll shove CentOS 6.4 on a server without even thinking about it. Hell, I use CentOS 6.4 as my main desktop at work too, but I run it in a VM along side windows 7.
At home, windows 7 all the way. Mainly, because when I get home I don't want to deal with linux bullshit just to play a game. I can just click on steam, download, and have a 98% sense of security that its just going to work. An if I do have to fuck with something it will usually be something simple and wont have me crawling through some obscure board to to fix.
Yes, linux bullshit, and that is reason linux will never take over the game market or the desktop, linux bullshit. Barely any standards and any standards you have are subject to change over know on someones whim. I can't count the number of times I've tried to install something only to find some developer changed a library or added something new because they though it was cool.
You want linux to take away the windows crown, stop the bullshit.
It takes all of five minutes to restore a not-crappy desktop experience on Windows 8. Google classic shell. After you install that, the only thing you really have to use the environment formerly known as Metro for is create a new user.
Or you could simply not use windows 8. Seriously, just stick to windows 7 and call it good. Window 8 bring nothing to the table that you require for games on windows. In fact win 8 just gets more in the way.
Sure most PC now come with win 8 preinstalled. Well if your going to have win 8 shoved up your ass don't buy it. There are still plenty of computer makers that offer win 7 as an option.
Besides most machines you buy that have windows 8 preinstalled are crap machines only fit for keeping grandmaws recipes on. Real gamers know that you roll your own rig or pay someone that knows how to do it for you. Which means you don't buy off the shelf.
Worst-case scenario is pretty much where Windows 8 permanently cripples the PC gaming scene by forcing people to migrate over to consoles or deal with a crappy desktop experience. What it won't do is force them to replace Windows with Linux, partly because even the entry-level Linux distro's all seem to be going the same route as Microsoft with the tablet UI thing.
I doubt window 8 will permanently cripple the PC gaming scene to any degree, and you are correct that it won't push gamers over to linux to any degree. Real games, even gamers like me, are simply sticking with windows 7. Game and hardware makers know this so there isn't going to be any push to abandon 7 as a platform even though it is no longer the "flagship" OS for mickysoft. With this in mind the windows game market is going to do just fine, despite windows 8.
Well I'm not sure since Tux isn't his name. But he is the head penguin, which is more of a title than a name. Other titles would be the Big Penguin Kahuna , Chief Penguin in Charge, and my favorite One Penguin to Rule Them All.
Hey Hey people its just a dead SSD.. You people are getting ready to bury the head penguin with it.
I agree. Enough is enough. All of King's speeches, images, and works should be taken from this greedy family and placed in the public domain. They belong to everyone and not just whoever can pay for them.
What should people like me do to show people like you that we're just as fed up as you are, if not more? Protest? Rebel? Sign some pledge? Comment on Slashdot?
Which will amount to nothing. All this has been done in the past and it amounts to nothing. It's time for a revolution. No, don't go get your gun, not that kind of revolution. But its time to over throw the current government. Its time for the states to remove the current government.
In short it time for the states to call for a constitutional convention and ether rewrite the constitution or amended the current one to remove the sitting government. Its with in the power for the states to remove the entire elective branch and the judicial branch this way. Remove any agency in the current government.
In short once enough states sign on for it there is nothing they can't do in regards to the stopping the current government and there is nothing the federal government can do but watch from the side lines. This is the ultimate power of of the states and I think its time we used it.
Open source office suites are like Chinese knock-offs. They may look similar to the real deal from the outside but once you start working intensively with them they start to degrade quickly.
Not really. I've used MSOffice for over 10 years. I've done so much technical writing that I know pretty much everything there is to know about MS word. Not so much with excel and the rest of the package.
Since I do my work in linux I decided to make the switch to libre office six months ago. With 3.x I was less than impressed, I even stated so a few times on /. posts related. Even saying that libre office will never compete with ms office in the work place.
With the release of 4.1, I'm not so sure any more, at least where it comes to writer vs word. There are still come compatibility issues between the two that needs to be worked out, especially in the area of file compatibilities. With that being said there is a lot of power in writer.
When I'm being forced to work in word now I'm actually wishing I could be back in writer. Over all I like the interface to libre writer better than I do the ribbons in word. I'm at the point in my life where I'm thinking about my next career choice. Making a serous attempt at writing is possibility. I've already chosen to do most of my writing in libre write.
While libre office still has a way to go before it can take the crown from office. But if I was office I would be looking over my shoulder because I'm starting to think libre office might pull it off.
The American people were broadly in support of nuclear power until the 3 Mile incident. This incident brought into stark relief the risk a nuclear accident provided and the shear numbers of people that could be impacted. The "Hippies" had nothing to do with the american people turning
The 3 mile island incident occurred in 1979. Fear mongering by environmental groups, hippies, and media sources blew the event well out of proportion. Bowing to pressure from these groups this lead to a freezing of research and licenses for new plants.
I was alive at the time and I remember the scare tactics and the media coverage. Words like "meltdown" and "china syndrome" where tossed around. I remember one report talking about a cloud of radiation the size of Road Island being release and death tole to be in the millions. Very little of what really happened was ever reported in the news.
The truth is if the hippies had have been ignored 3 Mile Island would be nothing more than a foot note in nuclear history. Equipment failure compounded by human error lead to nuclear reactor coolant being released. The safety features of the 3 Miles Island worked exactly as they where supposed too, despite the human factor.
After all the fear mongering was settle and active research was done it was determined that no substantial radiation was released. The EPA found no contamination of air, soil or water near the plant.
The most damage that 3 Mile Island did was to set nuclear research back over 20 years. If the hippie factor had been ignored and we applied what we learned from 3 Mile Island the events in Japan could have been avoided.
the nuclear people piss in their own soup http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/fukushima-137-billion-cost-has-tepco-seeking-more-aid.html
The only reason that happened, and most nuclear accidents, is because the anti nuke freaks started wining about it in the '60. A bunch of clueless hippies sitting around smoking weed and carrying on protests about anything that had anything to do with nuclear anything. Because of this all research on nuclear fission was stopped in the '70s.
If the hippie bunch would have help research the problem instead of being apart of the problem we would have safe nuclear reactors using modern technology today. Crap like Fukushima would never have happened.
So thank you very much flower children.
Now all we have to do is wait for the anti nuclear hippies to show up and piss in the cereal bowl.
WTF people! I was joking. I'm the last person you should take seriously most of the time!
Yes. My sleep is more important than getting woken up at 4am with an alert telling me about a missing child in a city the size of NYC. Who is going to be looking out their window at that time of the morning?
Oh horse shit. Your just trying to justify your own selfcenteredness and lazyness. They are not asking you to look out the window at 4 am or go looking for a missing child. They are putting the information out there so you will know a child is missing. So maybe sometime during your travels you will be aware of it and perhaps might notice it.
Fuck the child. No wait. Forget the child, it's going to be fucked anyway (presumably that's why it got kidnapped?).
Fuck the child? No, fuck you. Go back to sleep you self centered bastard.
I got a new girlfriend, she is much easier to inflate, so I've been getting laid more. Mellowed me out some.
Let me get this straight? People are bitching because an alert for a missing child woke them up? So a child's life is less important to you then a few minutes of missing sleep?
Wow. That certainly puts some peoples priorities in place.