but I'd say that when it comes to protecting children on the Internet
Whoa whoa whoa... How does this PROTECT children? We're giving them tokens that restrict their personal access while at school, right? How does that protect them at home? At the library? At the inet cafe? WHY are their schools allowing connections to chatrooms and lewd material at all? Why should you need a key to designate you can't do that kind of surfing in school?
What the hell is the POINT of this thing? If I had to guess, it's to protect the SCHOOL from lawsuits when timmy ends up on Goatse. "Well, he either didn't use or circumvented his security key, which you all agreed he wouldn't do. We did our part, he didn't identify."
Really? That's funny. I have an XP partition that I rarely boot. After a month of inactivity, I booted it up, and for no reason in particular, it suddenly forgot how to use the USB mouse, and would crash with blue-screen kernel dumps within 5 minutes of boot... EVEN IN SAFE MODE. It somehow got into this state WITHOUT BEING BOOTED.
The "secret" is to make sure you have the desired resolutions in your XF86Config file - if the resolution you're going for isn't there, games usually can't switch you to it.
On another note, how exactly are the studios going to convince the major rental houses (Blockbuster, Hollywood video) that this is a GOOD thing for them? Even if the disks are sold to them for PENNIES, they are automatically losing:
1. Rental Length (Most rentals are like, 5 days now?) 2. Charging for unreterned rentals. 3. Sales of previously viewed movies.
I'll admit, I'm no expert on the economics of running a major rental chain, but this can't possibly be viewed as a positive thing by them... I mean really, what ADVANTAGE do they get? If I ran Blockbuster, I'd see it as the thinly-veiled attempt to screw me that it is, and reject it on that simple fact.
But, I guess we'll have to wait and see on that one...
OTOH, if I *do* have a good enough reason and the boss won't let me go, I'll walk. If the boss really wants me, and he always knows this about me, he won't push it.
Must be nice to work somewhere where you can't be replaced...
Seems to me the quickest way to prove how little postage does for spam would be to sign up a few top-level MS and Yahoo execs for every free catalogue there is... anyone up to posting names and addresses?;)
(Yeah, I'm mostly joking, but wasn't it slashdot that reported it when the "Spam King" got this same treatment?)
I'll admit, I tried out FreeBSD 5 shortly after it's initial release, and was fairly impressed with it. Solid, Stable, Ports rock. I ended up leaving it though, because at the time I was all about WineX...
Anyway, my question is this: How is FreeBSD as a desktop system? I no longer care much for WineX, and am far more interested in how well things like TV Tuners, Digital Cameras, USB/Firewire/CoolNiftyGadgets are handled by it. I was always under the impression that the *BSDs tended to be more conservative than the various Linux distros (Woody excluded;), so I'm curious if anyone has any experience using it as a full-blown multimedia desktop OS.
I'll soon be building a Media Box w/ Tuner, DVD Burner, and USB gamepads for my TV, and a new Workstation with a Scanner, Digital Cam hook-up, etc.
Miller Time's Evil Beaver. Hands down the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV, period. I remember catching it once or twice before it was pulled from US Airwaves, though I believe it was actually nominated for an award in the UK.
If you can find this clip anywhere, you're in luck. So far, I haven't been able to, and I'd love to archive it to show my friends (who never have any idea what I'm talking about).
I'd love to see 5 or more parties, but it will never happen, unforntunately. Most Americans have a mental condition that only allows them to see in two colors: Black and White...
Both the Umbilical Cord and and the Placenta are filled with Stem Cells. They are also both temporary organs ejected from the body after labor (afterbirth). Both are also essentially medical waste.
So, when having our child recently, we said, "Sure, why not donate them to medical science?" and checked the box on her medical forms asking us just that.
Without attaching ANY other arguements, you can reasonably say that if every woman engaging in hospital birth in the US checked that box, there would be more stem cells going around than researchers could use.
I'm mildly curious why I never hear about this tidbit of info in any stem cell debates, since it's the perfect human solution: Group A gets what they want without being in moral opposition to Group B.
I live in Magnolia (just north of downtown Seattle for you not in the know), and there aren't any SeattleWireless APs listed for up here, so obviously it's not big enough yet;)
Spots in Belltown I've tried aren't bad, though. Need more peeps with good bandwidth to open up.
And keep them off it? I think the Internet Community would find it a WONDERFUL holiday gift to be spared yet another blog about mom's canned yams and dad's latest golf scores...
Alright, I think I've had about enough. My first e-mail address was from usa.net, who was purchased by netaddress.com. I liked it because it was free, simple, and had pop access. When netaddress purchased it, and a few months later turned it into a pay service, I decided it was time to switch.
After some research, I found that Yahoo had the largest storage size AND pop access at the time. So, I hopped on and singed up.
And now here we are, a few years later. No more pop access, constant attempts to spam me - I think I've about exausted my patience after getting this e-mail from them this morning. So, I guess I'll do a mini Ask-Slashdot for all the peeps using Yahoo:
What E-mail Service do YOU use/recommend?
Or, alternatively, how much of a hastle would it be to just run my OWN mailserver? I've got a box I could do it on, but I'm worried that it'd be a pain keeping spammers from using it for outgoing if it was found (granted, I know nothing about running a mailserver).
Anyway, for myself and all those like me, suggestions?
To me, this is an easy answer. If I pick up my hammer, bash you in the head with it... I go to jail. If I steal your brother's hammer, and bash you in the head with it... I go to jail.
The computer is an object, a tool, one with thousands (millions?) of legitamate, productive uses. And just as any other tool can be taken and used to break laws or harm others, one cannot hold the owner of a tool responsible when the hands of another are wielding it.
Of course, that makes sense to ME. Which means that it probably has no bearing at all in the way things will play out.
If you've got a linux box, dd's the way to go. Pop the windows drive and the spare drive in, clone.
Of course, before my linux days, we always used a copy of Ghost. Forget which version, but it was small enough to drop on a win98 boot floppy, so you could just boot from the floppy and run ghost. Never gave us any problems in our small little repair lab, and saved our butts on those 30-system custom-build orders.
So? Is it the Free Software Foundation, or the thousands of hackers who have touched the code? Surely, if the FSF is willing to take a cash settlement on their behalf, they'll be cutting checks for the programmers who's work they've effectively "re-licensed" for them, right?
If the FSF is going to uphold the GPL on behalf of the people who release software under it, they should enforce it all the way, and get that source released. Unless they want to get written permission from everyone who's touched the code in question to settle out of court and keep the cash for someone else's work.
Is the Forbes article FUD? No doubt. But it still raises the interesting question of why the FSF would settle in the first place - hardly seems like the "right thing to do".
Interesting Note, aside from Icarus being the stupid Greek boy that flew too close to the sun, I'm reminded of the game Deus Ex; one of the AI Programs that the Govt. developed to spy and gather information from all over the networks was Icarus.
So, being big gamers, I'm guessing they won't care when 90% of there traffic is CS and BF1942?
After reading this article, I immediately checked WindowsUpate... only to find I installed this already a few days ago. This is the positive side of the Auto-updater, being able to set it to tell you when there are new updates available.
I'd never set it to auto-update, and I sincerely hope it never gets forced upon me. But as long as the company I work for has a know-nothing IT guy and a reliance on windows-only software, I guess I'll have to live with patching my 2K install.
(Though don't tell my boss, I've got a Knoppix CD in my desk drawer and am currently exploring how feasible a switch to Linux on my work box might be!)
Incorrect.
The Megaman series of games and the Megaman X series of games are seperate and distinct from one another. The X in Megaman X is the letter X, not the Number 10.
The Classic Megaman series deals with Dr. Light's Boy Robot Megaman taking on the evil Dr. Wily's henchmen to save the world.
The Megaman X series takes place 100 years later, and details the adventures of X, the successor to Megaman who was sealed in a capsule for 100, and is the first robot with true free will, as he battles against Sigma and his henchmen.
While the games are structurally similar in gameplay and concept, the environments and storylines are distinctly different.
For more info, check The Megaman Network, quite possibly the most extensive source of Megaman info on the 'net.
...the point of setting high damages was never to give the victim back that which they lost - it has always been about penalizing the party found to be responsible. I don't know about you, but if I was a spammer, and was told to pay up $300, I'd laugh my ass off and pull out my checkbook. $250,000, though, and I might have to rethink my choice of business.
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Whoa whoa whoa... How does this PROTECT children? We're giving them tokens that restrict their personal access while at school, right? How does that protect them at home? At the library? At the inet cafe? WHY are their schools allowing connections to chatrooms and lewd material at all? Why should you need a key to designate you can't do that kind of surfing in school?
What the hell is the POINT of this thing? If I had to guess, it's to protect the SCHOOL from lawsuits when timmy ends up on Goatse. "Well, he either didn't use or circumvented his security key, which you all agreed he wouldn't do. We did our part, he didn't identify."
Really? That's funny. I have an XP partition that I rarely boot. After a month of inactivity, I booted it up, and for no reason in particular, it suddenly forgot how to use the USB mouse, and would crash with blue-screen kernel dumps within 5 minutes of boot... EVEN IN SAFE MODE. It somehow got into this state WITHOUT BEING BOOTED.
'Nuff Said.
The "secret" is to make sure you have the desired resolutions in your XF86Config file - if the resolution you're going for isn't there, games usually can't switch you to it.
On another note, how exactly are the studios going to convince the major rental houses (Blockbuster, Hollywood video) that this is a GOOD thing for them? Even if the disks are sold to them for PENNIES, they are automatically losing:
1. Rental Length (Most rentals are like, 5 days now?)
2. Charging for unreterned rentals.
3. Sales of previously viewed movies.
I'll admit, I'm no expert on the economics of running a major rental chain, but this can't possibly be viewed as a positive thing by them... I mean really, what ADVANTAGE do they get? If I ran Blockbuster, I'd see it as the thinly-veiled attempt to screw me that it is, and reject it on that simple fact.
But, I guess we'll have to wait and see on that one...
OTOH, if I *do* have a good enough reason and the boss won't let me go, I'll walk. If the boss really wants me, and he always knows this about me, he won't push it.
Must be nice to work somewhere where you can't be replaced...
Seems to me the quickest way to prove how little postage does for spam would be to sign up a few top-level MS and Yahoo execs for every free catalogue there is... anyone up to posting names and addresses? ;)
(Yeah, I'm mostly joking, but wasn't it slashdot that reported it when the "Spam King" got this same treatment?)
I'll admit, I tried out FreeBSD 5 shortly after it's initial release, and was fairly impressed with it. Solid, Stable, Ports rock. I ended up leaving it though, because at the time I was all about WineX...
;), so I'm curious if anyone has any experience using it as a full-blown multimedia desktop OS.
;)
Anyway, my question is this: How is FreeBSD as a desktop system? I no longer care much for WineX, and am far more interested in how well things like TV Tuners, Digital Cameras, USB/Firewire/CoolNiftyGadgets are handled by it. I was always under the impression that the *BSDs tended to be more conservative than the various Linux distros (Woody excluded
I'll soon be building a Media Box w/ Tuner, DVD Burner, and USB gamepads for my TV, and a new Workstation with a Scanner, Digital Cam hook-up, etc.
Should I give FreeBSD another shot?
Face it, the Inet just isn't about the free exchange of information anymore. It's about the convenient exchange of your cash for their products.
;)
IMO, sad as it is, the Internet as we know it is dead. Personally, I'm looking forward to the underground, WiFi Internet that will replace it
Then again, I've never been known to make an accurate prediction...
Miller Time's Evil Beaver. Hands down the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV, period. I remember catching it once or twice before it was pulled from US Airwaves, though I believe it was actually nominated for an award in the UK.
If you can find this clip anywhere, you're in luck. So far, I haven't been able to, and I'd love to archive it to show my friends (who never have any idea what I'm talking about).
I'd love to see 5 or more parties, but it will never happen, unforntunately. Most Americans have a mental condition that only allows them to see in two colors: Black and White...
Grey? What's that?
Both the Umbilical Cord and and the Placenta are filled with Stem Cells. They are also both temporary organs ejected from the body after labor (afterbirth). Both are also essentially medical waste.
So, when having our child recently, we said, "Sure, why not donate them to medical science?" and checked the box on her medical forms asking us just that.
Without attaching ANY other arguements, you can reasonably say that if every woman engaging in hospital birth in the US checked that box, there would be more stem cells going around than researchers could use.
I'm mildly curious why I never hear about this tidbit of info in any stem cell debates, since it's the perfect human solution: Group A gets what they want without being in moral opposition to Group B.
I live in Magnolia (just north of downtown Seattle for you not in the know), and there aren't any SeattleWireless APs listed for up here, so obviously it's not big enough yet ;)
Spots in Belltown I've tried aren't bad, though. Need more peeps with good bandwidth to open up.
And keep them off it? I think the Internet Community would find it a WONDERFUL holiday gift to be spared yet another blog about mom's canned yams and dad's latest golf scores...
:D
*runs*
Alright, I think I've had about enough. My first e-mail address was from usa.net, who was purchased by netaddress.com. I liked it because it was free, simple, and had pop access. When netaddress purchased it, and a few months later turned it into a pay service, I decided it was time to switch.
After some research, I found that Yahoo had the largest storage size AND pop access at the time. So, I hopped on and singed up.
And now here we are, a few years later. No more pop access, constant attempts to spam me - I think I've about exausted my patience after getting this e-mail from them this morning. So, I guess I'll do a mini Ask-Slashdot for all the peeps using Yahoo:
What E-mail Service do YOU use/recommend?
Or, alternatively, how much of a hastle would it be to just run my OWN mailserver? I've got a box I could do it on, but I'm worried that it'd be a pain keeping spammers from using it for outgoing if it was found (granted, I know nothing about running a mailserver).
Anyway, for myself and all those like me, suggestions?
To me, this is an easy answer. If I pick up my hammer, bash you in the head with it... I go to jail. If I steal your brother's hammer, and bash you in the head with it... I go to jail.
The computer is an object, a tool, one with thousands (millions?) of legitamate, productive uses. And just as any other tool can be taken and used to break laws or harm others, one cannot hold the owner of a tool responsible when the hands of another are wielding it.
Of course, that makes sense to ME. Which means that it probably has no bearing at all in the way things will play out.
If you've got a linux box, dd's the way to go. Pop the windows drive and the spare drive in, clone.
Of course, before my linux days, we always used a copy of Ghost. Forget which version, but it was small enough to drop on a win98 boot floppy, so you could just boot from the floppy and run ghost. Never gave us any problems in our small little repair lab, and saved our butts on those 30-system custom-build orders.
So? Is it the Free Software Foundation, or the thousands of hackers who have touched the code? Surely, if the FSF is willing to take a cash settlement on their behalf, they'll be cutting checks for the programmers who's work they've effectively "re-licensed" for them, right?
If the FSF is going to uphold the GPL on behalf of the people who release software under it, they should enforce it all the way, and get that source released. Unless they want to get written permission from everyone who's touched the code in question to settle out of court and keep the cash for someone else's work.
Is the Forbes article FUD? No doubt. But it still raises the interesting question of why the FSF would settle in the first place - hardly seems like the "right thing to do".
Interesting Note, aside from Icarus being the stupid Greek boy that flew too close to the sun, I'm reminded of the game Deus Ex; one of the AI Programs that the Govt. developed to spy and gather information from all over the networks was Icarus.
So, being big gamers, I'm guessing they won't care when 90% of there traffic is CS and BF1942?
I can't believe no one else posted these yet! It's just not a Slashdot Thread without them!
"I, for one welcome our new BTX Overlords..."
"All your form factor are belong to us!"
"Microsoft == Evil!"
"In Soviet Russia, CPU cools Front Intake Fan!"
After reading this article, I immediately checked WindowsUpate... only to find I installed this already a few days ago. This is the positive side of the Auto-updater, being able to set it to tell you when there are new updates available.
I'd never set it to auto-update, and I sincerely hope it never gets forced upon me. But as long as the company I work for has a know-nothing IT guy and a reliance on windows-only software, I guess I'll have to live with patching my 2K install.
(Though don't tell my boss, I've got a Knoppix CD in my desk drawer and am currently exploring how feasible a switch to Linux on my work box might be!)
Incorrect. The Megaman series of games and the Megaman X series of games are seperate and distinct from one another. The X in Megaman X is the letter X, not the Number 10.
The Classic Megaman series deals with Dr. Light's Boy Robot Megaman taking on the evil Dr. Wily's henchmen to save the world.
The Megaman X series takes place 100 years later, and details the adventures of X, the successor to Megaman who was sealed in a capsule for 100, and is the first robot with true free will, as he battles against Sigma and his henchmen.
While the games are structurally similar in gameplay and concept, the environments and storylines are distinctly different.
For more info, check The Megaman Network, quite possibly the most extensive source of Megaman info on the 'net.
Sure, we all know that Linux is on more Web Servers than MS.
But consider this: Do people attack the server because it's running Linux, or because it's hosting the SCO website?
I think the CONTENT drives far more hacks than the OS it's on...
...the point of setting high damages was never to give the victim back that which they lost - it has always been about penalizing the party found to be responsible. I don't know about you, but if I was a spammer, and was told to pay up $300, I'd laugh my ass off and pull out my checkbook. $250,000, though, and I might have to rethink my choice of business.
Perhaps this is relevent because Sears is based in Chicago, IL and Ford Motors is based in Dearborn, MI. So it would be significant if these companies were fully adhearing to laws that they may not be subject to at all of their various locations.
Quote:
"Within a few days, the petition calling the European Parliament to reject software patentability accumulated 50,000 new signatures."
Radical New Petition Method: Get everyone who signs to send one dollar. Fight Money with Money! $50,000+ should be able to buy a polititian, right?