Yeah, that was the point I was making. All this wringing of hands over Libby, Cheney, Rove, Bush, Judith Miller, Bob Woodward, and the retroactive declassification of her (Plame's) status is just smoke, IMO. Novak published her name... he's culpable... send his ass to jail! But no, he's one of their stooges... sigh.
So, when's Gonzo going to throw Bob Novak's ass in jail for publishing Plame's name? Wasn't her name learned through a "leak"? Facists.
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Kudos to this post.
I rarely post here, but read a good bit. This post needs to be saved off for future repostings. Why oh why is it SO hard for people to understand that selling shiny box software is NOT the bulk of current software industry OR what the software industry's history is all about.
It's like some old Trek episode where an entire culture can get lost or lead astray by something shiny. Microsoft has made billions selling "shiny boxes"... they don't employ the bulk of the industry... and yet everytime one of these "OSS model is broken" items comes up, it becomes necessary for a post like this.
So switch banks. Online services for BofA and Wachovia both work with Mozilla just fine. I don't support businesses that require me to use their tools of choice for doing business with them. I can take my meager $$ somewhere else.
Oh, and IE doesn't run on Linux so it's not an option for me, thank God.
Well Leo, you just listed the reasons I never got a handle on coding for the Amiga after having lots of fun with Vic-20/C-64s. It lost all of the instant gratification that had inspired me to learn about these things.
For the last few years PHP has been providing me with some bit of the same kind of satisfaction that one could get from the simple earlier machines.
Can you cite evidence of this other than this article claiming it? I'm suspicious of that claim. I'd think more "customers" would be asking for fewer IN-security features, ie, viruses etc. in windows.
Did you notice that the poll was for the "Sobig Worm"? This in an article about the Blaster (and variants) that does not mention Sobig at all. Clueful staff they have.
Actually, I don't understand this statement. From what I know, the SoBig virus has its own SMTP code (multi-threaded) and sends the emails directly. How is it using bandwidth on any open relays if this is the case?
The fact that the infected PC sends the emails is how we tracked down some of them in other parts of our overall network.
Boy, I'd like to believe your story but it sounds like some saturday morning Fox Sports World infomercial. "Yes Kiddies, with the Internet Treasure Chest we were able to retire to Florida after only a couple of days work."
No offense, I've been contemplating Gentoo for a while, meself.
>"whether it's short term greed or mid term planning."
Maybe it's both! Or maybe it's seat-of-the-pants... we'll do what we can for ourselves now, and, we'll try and position things for our offspring too. Just last night I was kdding with my daughter about "Bush III", "Bush IV", and "King George V", and then "Emperor George I", etc. Yeah, she knows I'm a cynic.;-)
Great post on the analysis of 1984, etc. But, I'm not sure that the "current situation" is as complex as you would think. It seems to me that the motivation is very simple... greed. I never cease to be amazed at how many things come down to the lust for money and of course the power it brings.
Oh, come now... isn't that a bit like asking the judge for a definition of sex? At some point all levels of government "employees" are accountable to citizens... elected, appointed, hired, contracted... whatever.
Hmm... I guess my point was, so do most savvy surfers... such as you'd maybe expect to be reading this forum.
Second point is that even though my wife is a paying subscriber, she wasn't being spared the popups.
We've been visting nytimes.com for several years or so, and my general impression is that they don't have the technical expertise to run their site the way they want to... the authentication servers for the pay crossword servers used to be down every couple of days... and often extremely slow when not down. I also seem to recall them having been compromised a few times.
Oh, thanks for the pointer to privoxy, I'm going to explore putting that on my home network gateway.
>"So yes, unless you consider popup ads as an economic cost, you are viewing the NYT pages absolutely free."
So you actually ALLOW the popup ads? My wife was sooo thrilled when I changed her browser to Mozilla and blocked nytimes.com popups. And, she actually PAYS them a yearly fee so we can have printable access to their crosswords.
>"USL's current version of UNIX, SVR4, melds the most popular variations of Unix into a single operating system "that meets the needs described by various standards committees and vendor organizations." [snip] As aresult, approximately 50% of USL's current SVR4 is comprised of BSD code."
I love this part (from the "AMICUS BRIEF BY DEFENDANT THE REGENTS")... 50% of it was BSD!
>" Regardless, trademarks must be "vigorously defended" or they slip into the public domain. This may just be an attempt on the part of Hormel to ensure that SPAM does not slip into the public domain."
But isn't it too late for this? Haven't they been negligent?
Slashdot Mirror
Edison will always get my disdain for running the most disgusting smear/FUD campaign that I am aware of.
This animal cruelty binge is really all one needs to know to judge the character of the man.
I posted that image on Google+.
Yeah, that was the point I was making. All this wringing of hands over Libby, Cheney, Rove, Bush, Judith Miller, Bob Woodward, and the retroactive declassification of her (Plame's) status is just smoke, IMO. Novak published her name... he's culpable... send his ass to jail! But no, he's one of their stooges... sigh.
So, when's Gonzo going to throw Bob Novak's ass in jail for publishing Plame's name? Wasn't her name learned through a "leak"? Facists.
Kudos to this post.
I rarely post here, but read a good bit. This post needs to be saved off for future repostings. Why oh why is it SO hard for people to understand that selling shiny box software is NOT the bulk of current software industry OR what the software industry's history is all about.
It's like some old Trek episode where an entire culture can get lost or lead astray by something shiny. Microsoft has made billions selling "shiny boxes"... they don't employ the bulk of the industry... and yet everytime one of these "OSS model is broken" items comes up, it becomes necessary for a post like this.
Just how well did your mom "know" him?
How OLD ARE you?
Have you looked in a mirror?
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Humor tags to be sure no offense is taken.
So switch banks. Online services for BofA and Wachovia both work with Mozilla just fine. I don't support businesses that require me to use their tools of choice for doing business with them. I can take my meager $$ somewhere else.
Oh, and IE doesn't run on Linux so it's not an option for me, thank God.
Well Leo, you just listed the reasons I never got a handle on coding for the Amiga after having lots of fun with Vic-20/C-64s. It lost all of the instant gratification that had inspired me to learn about these things.
For the last few years PHP has been providing me with some bit of the same kind of satisfaction that one could get from the simple earlier machines.
> Customers requested this feature,
Can you cite evidence of this other than this article claiming it? I'm suspicious of that claim. I'd think more "customers" would be asking for fewer IN-security features, ie, viruses etc. in windows.
Did you notice that the poll was for the "Sobig Worm"? This in an article about the Blaster (and variants) that does not mention Sobig at all. Clueful staff they have.
Actually, I don't understand this statement. From what I know, the SoBig virus has its own SMTP code (multi-threaded) and sends the emails directly. How is it using bandwidth on any open relays if this is the case?
The fact that the infected PC sends the emails is how we tracked down some of them in other parts of our overall network.
Boy, I'd like to believe your story but it sounds like some saturday morning Fox Sports World infomercial. "Yes Kiddies, with the Internet Treasure Chest we were able to retire to Florida after only a couple of days work."
No offense, I've been contemplating Gentoo for a while, meself.
This is an insightful and informative post.
>"whether it's short term greed or mid term planning."
;-)
Maybe it's both! Or maybe it's seat-of-the-pants... we'll do what we can for ourselves now, and, we'll try and position things for our offspring too. Just last night I was kdding with my daughter about "Bush III", "Bush IV", and "King George V", and then "Emperor George I", etc. Yeah, she knows I'm a cynic.
Great post on the analysis of 1984, etc. But, I'm not sure that the "current situation" is as complex as you would think. It seems to me that the motivation is very simple... greed. I never cease to be amazed at how many things come down to the lust for money and of course the power it brings.
>"so...they are not accountable directly to you"
Oh, come now... isn't that a bit like asking the judge for a definition of sex? At some point all levels of government "employees" are accountable to citizens... elected, appointed, hired, contracted... whatever.
>"Of course not. Not only do I block pop-up ads"
Hmm... I guess my point was, so do most savvy surfers... such as you'd maybe expect to be reading this forum.
Second point is that even though my wife is a paying subscriber, she wasn't being spared the popups.
We've been visting nytimes.com for several years or so, and my general impression is that they don't have the technical expertise to run their site the way they want to... the authentication servers for the pay crossword servers used to be down every couple of days... and often extremely slow when not down. I also seem to recall them having been compromised a few times.
Oh, thanks for the pointer to privoxy, I'm going to explore putting that on my home network gateway.
>"So yes, unless you consider popup ads as an economic cost, you are viewing the NYT pages absolutely free."
So you actually ALLOW the popup ads? My wife was sooo thrilled when I changed her browser to Mozilla and blocked nytimes.com popups. And, she actually PAYS them a yearly fee so we can have printable access to their crosswords.
>"a no brainer to target Windows IE"
Yeah, no-brainer... that explains a lot! Except I think you meant "you'd have to be a no-brainer...".
> "So I guess you'd rather have works never enter the public domain, right?"
Er, so that would be a change from what? Not the current situation.
>"USL's current version of UNIX, SVR4, melds the most popular variations of Unix into a single operating system "that meets the needs described by various standards committees and vendor organizations." [snip] As aresult, approximately 50% of USL's current SVR4 is comprised of BSD code."
I love this part (from the "AMICUS BRIEF BY DEFENDANT THE REGENTS")... 50% of it was BSD!
>"39% of Slashdot readers already know that."
And now, thanks to your post, that number has soared to 41%!... good work!
>" You assume that MS wants to translate everything automatically, what about using human translators on the server side? ;)"
Yeah, leave it to MS to take the "Instant" out of Instant messaging,eh?
>" Regardless, trademarks must be "vigorously defended" or they slip
into the public domain. This may just be an attempt on the part of
Hormel to ensure that SPAM does not slip into the public domain."
But isn't it too late for this? Haven't they been negligent?