literally. I cut the wire at the back of my house/home office and let it fall then walked back to the pole and cut it again. I'm pissed off at SBC and I will NEVER have a land line again, ever. I already had a cell phone so I just changed my biz cards to show my cell number as my business number. I'm saving money and headaches, I never miss calls because I carry it with me everywhere and never power it down. Life is much easier this way, I only wish I had thought of doing this several years before, I could have saved a medium sized fortune in phone bills and would have enhanced my business abilities back when I really needed to be doing so.
This isn't for everyone of course but if you have a small business that you run from a home office it's the way to go. Just set specialized ring tones for your personal friends and a generic ring tone for unknown callers so you know who's calling, friends/family or customers.
It's all about advertising and other evil goals. They develop a technique to track viewers eye movements and a computer helps them improve the commercials to maximize profits by modifying the models (plastic surgery) and hypnotizing the viewers. And all that crap. And then they use the technique to try to take over the government. Pretty deep stuff for 1981.
Is there a way to wget (or similar method) the entire contents of the google earth system to a local server(s) so as to have a local system that can't be taken down/controlled by information supressionists? I'm no fan of google but a local, isolated copy of their google earth system could perhaps prove useful if for some reason it ever falls under some sort of restrictions or is even shut down..
I have no idea how much space the server would consume but I would guess it's a lot. But hey, 500gb drives are regular $129 at newegg now. Building BIG data retention systems is easy and cheap now.
I mean really. WTF does it prove? Nothing. Not one question addresses the M$/Novell situation.
That one single issue is more important to EVERYONE than any or all of the other questions combined. No one gives a crap that X number of people over the age of 50 use Open Suse. EVERYONE gives a crap as to what's going on behind closed doors at M$ and Novell.
Come on Novell, that was exceptionally lame. Who are you trying to impress with your doubleplusgood survery?
The good ship USA is sinking. Just go ahead and abandon ship and get it over with. Fire everyone, close up shop, lock the doors, and move offshore. Oh, and sell your grandmother into prostitution on the way out too.. Then they can outsource to the US and put Americans back to work. It's where things are headed anyway. It won't be too many years from now before America becomes a third world nation at the rate things are going.
What ever happened to "America First" ?? Oh, I know, it's been declared obsolete. The new catch phrase is "Profits First".. No matter who it hurts.
These giant corporations will crush the skulls of a billion babies if it would mean higher profits and a big fat bonus check for the CEO..
One of several things I find intolerable on Digg is the constant barrage of pro-marijuana stories that not only are submitted but end up with a high digg count.
For instance, stories from some pro-drug website proclaiming that studies prove that pot use is not harmful in anyway.
Bullshit! God damn I'm sick of the promotion of illegal drugs on Digg and if you post any anti-drug comments they'll bury you so far down you'll have to have air delivered to you.
Digg has become a place to pimp stories on pro-gay or pro-illegal drug issues. No, I'm not a christian zealot, I'm an atheist. I'm just sick of these assholes waving their flags in my face. Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others. You want to do dope and cook your brain, go right ahead but do it in private. You want to gobble some cock? Go right ahead but do it in your own home and not in the middle of the street.
Obnoxious little pricks.. Yeah, once upon a time Digg was a good site to find news that was TECH related. Now it's just a litter box where all the alley cats go to take a shit.
As for their current little insurrection, ok, fine, you've had your fun. Enough is enough. The genie is out of the bottle. You've proved your point already. Now go to bed.
In case you haven't noticed, Novell = EVIL... I WAS a $$$ Suse customer for several years but their recent M$ antics have pissed me off and I'm converting my systems from Suse to Gentoo.
I lost too much data to Reiser problems, I used it for about two years and I decided it sucks. It's EXT3 for me, at least right now. Like I said earlier, I hope to convert to ZFS sometime this year.
I use EXT3 currently to be specific. I'm looking forward to trying ZFS. I don't need to boot from a ZFS disk, I can boot fine from an EXT3 disk and run everything else on ZFS.. I'm hoping to give it a trial run later this year.
But as to the hardware itself, I don't know why they don't make the size user selectable by jumper or software. "One size fits all" is no longer relevant. Many people have many different needs, uses and applications. Some people have lots of little files. Some people have lots of BIG files. Ok fine. Make it so the user has the option to configure their drive in a way that best suits their needs. What's so hard about that?
It's a brave new world. The 10megabyte hard drive is long dead and gone. Files nowdays are on the average, huge. My HTPC has hundreds of files that are an average of 1 gigabyte and quite often, twice that size.
NOTHING is 512 bytes anymore. Back in the early 80's IE DOS 2.11 it may have seemed a great idea.
They are predatory capitalists and they care nothing about providing useful search results, only profitable results.
Small businesses need not apply.
Mom an Pop are just screwed because they can't afford to play/pay the google game. The whole world has been brainwashed into accepting google as THE search engine.
Boo on google. I've banned access to any and all google sites, links, ads, products, services, holdings, child companies, etc through my LAN. Put a machine on my lan and try to access google and you'll get a nice "access denied" error page..
Sorry Verisign. I don't trust you. Period. And I don't want you to have ANYTHING to do with my financial information. Period. Stay away from my bank account. Stay away from my CC. Just stay away. I'm worried now because my Credit Union just sent me a new VISA card for no reason, my current one doesn't expire until late next year but my CU is telling me they are going to expire it this month and I'm compelled to use the new one they sent. What a pain in the ass. Now I have to change all my online accounts that I've been using without problem for the past 2 years. And the new CC they sent me is weird looking, it's CLEAR. WTF sort of feelings of Joy Joy is that supposed to instill in me?
I hope like hell there's an OPT OUT when this rolls out.
Verisign can go to hell. Hands off my bank account assholes.
to have my ashes shot into the sun. Because we all that we are came from the sun and other suns, I feel it would be a genuine continuance of the circle of life to return whence we came. Forget "ashes to ashes", I prefer "atoms to atoms"..
I want to clarify one thing, I meant no disrespect what so ever to the victims or anyone else concerning the VT tragedy, quite the contrary. I am just as deeply saddened by the horrific slaughter that happened as anyone else. I was just saying that if someone had went bonkers in the RIAA offices such as that nut did, I doubt the nation would be in mourning over it, many people would probably be celebrating the incident and it probably would have ended up here on/. with a "haha" tag under the headline.
There are millions of laws and all of them are ignored by the criminals. Honest people obey them but criminals do not.
What it will take is to enact a DEATH PENALTY for computer crimes / identity theft. That's right, strap the bastards down in Ol' Sparky and televise it to the world.
Two or three public executions and the problem will pretty much go away over night. Do it from another country you say? No problem. Send a Special Forces hit team to kill them in the dark of night.
Seriously though, one day someone is going to get really, really pissed off and they'll go get a pound of flesh from the companies that allowed the data breach to happen. It's only a matter of time. There are a lot of unhinged people on the edge as it is now.
This has gone on way too long. Enough with the useless laws, let's start up public executions.
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literally. I cut the wire at the back of my house/home office and let it fall then walked back to the pole and cut it again. I'm pissed off at SBC and I will NEVER have a land line again, ever. I already had a cell phone so I just changed my biz cards to show my cell number as my business number. I'm saving money and headaches, I never miss calls because I carry it with me everywhere and never power it down. Life is much easier this way, I only wish I had thought of doing this several years before, I could have saved a medium sized fortune in phone bills and would have enhanced my business abilities back when I really needed to be doing so.
This isn't for everyone of course but if you have a small business that you run from a home office it's the way to go. Just set specialized ring tones for your personal friends and a generic ring tone for unknown callers so you know who's calling, friends/family or customers.
You should see the movie "Looker".. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker & http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/
scrapetorrent search for Looker torrent http://tinyurl.com/2rzte2
It's all about advertising and other evil goals.
They develop a technique to track viewers eye movements and a computer helps them improve the commercials to maximize profits by modifying the models (plastic surgery) and hypnotizing the viewers. And all that crap.
And then they use the technique to try to take over the government. Pretty deep stuff for 1981.
Is there a way to wget (or similar method) the entire contents of the google earth system to a local server(s) so as to have a local system that can't be taken down/controlled by information supressionists?
I'm no fan of google but a local, isolated copy of their google earth system could perhaps prove useful if for some reason it ever falls under some sort of restrictions or is even shut down..
I have no idea how much space the server would consume but I would guess it's a lot.
But hey, 500gb drives are regular $129 at newegg now. Building BIG data retention systems is easy and cheap now.
I mean really. WTF does it prove? Nothing.
Not one question addresses the M$/Novell situation.
That one single issue is more important to EVERYONE than any or all of the other questions combined.
No one gives a crap that X number of people over the age of 50 use Open Suse.
EVERYONE gives a crap as to what's going on behind closed doors at M$ and Novell.
Come on Novell, that was exceptionally lame. Who are you trying to impress with your doubleplusgood survery?
<sarcasm>
The good ship USA is sinking. Just go ahead and abandon ship and get it over with.
Fire everyone, close up shop, lock the doors, and move offshore. Oh, and sell your grandmother into prostitution on the way out too..
Then they can outsource to the US and put Americans back to work.
It's where things are headed anyway. It won't be too many years from now before America becomes a third world nation at the rate things are going.
What ever happened to "America First" ?? Oh, I know, it's been declared obsolete. The new catch phrase is "Profits First".. No matter who it hurts.
These giant corporations will crush the skulls of a billion babies if it would mean higher profits and a big fat bonus check for the CEO..
</sarcasm>
Do you really want google to know where your car keys are?
That's pretty personal there folks. Think about it.
One of several things I find intolerable on Digg is the constant barrage of pro-marijuana stories that not only are submitted but end up with a high digg count.
For instance, stories from some pro-drug website proclaiming that studies prove that pot use is not harmful in anyway.
Bullshit! God damn I'm sick of the promotion of illegal drugs on Digg and if you post any anti-drug comments they'll bury you so far down you'll have to have air delivered to you.
Digg has become a place to pimp stories on pro-gay or pro-illegal drug issues.
No, I'm not a christian zealot, I'm an atheist. I'm just sick of these assholes waving their flags in my face. Just shut the fuck up and live your life quietly. Don't push on others. You want to do dope and cook your brain, go right ahead but do it in private. You want to gobble some cock? Go right ahead but do it in your own home and not in the middle of the street.
Obnoxious little pricks.. Yeah, once upon a time Digg was a good site to find news that was TECH related. Now it's just a litter box where all the alley cats go to take a shit.
As for their current little insurrection, ok, fine, you've had your fun. Enough is enough. The genie is out of the bottle. You've proved your point already. Now go to bed.
That is the funniest thing I've read since mid September of 2001..
But, sadly, it's pretty much true...
In case you haven't noticed, Novell = EVIL... I WAS a $$$ Suse customer for several years but their recent M$ antics have pissed me off and I'm converting my systems from Suse to Gentoo.
I lost too much data to Reiser problems, I used it for about two years and I decided it sucks.
It's EXT3 for me, at least right now. Like I said earlier, I hope to convert to ZFS sometime this year.
I use EXT3 currently to be specific. I'm looking forward to trying ZFS. I don't need to boot from a ZFS disk, I can boot fine from an EXT3 disk and run everything else on ZFS.. I'm hoping to give it a trial run later this year.
But as to the hardware itself, I don't know why they don't make the size user selectable by jumper or software. "One size fits all" is no longer relevant. Many people have many different needs, uses and applications. Some people have lots of little files. Some people have lots of BIG files.
Ok fine. Make it so the user has the option to configure their drive in a way that best suits their needs.
What's so hard about that?
It's a brave new world. The 10megabyte hard drive is long dead and gone.
Files nowdays are on the average, huge. My HTPC has hundreds of files that are an average of 1 gigabyte and quite often, twice that size.
NOTHING is 512 bytes anymore. Back in the early 80's IE DOS 2.11 it may have seemed a great idea.
They are predatory capitalists and they care nothing about providing useful search results, only profitable results.
Small businesses need not apply.
Mom an Pop are just screwed because they can't afford to play/pay the google game.
The whole world has been brainwashed into accepting google as THE search engine.
Boo on google. I've banned access to any and all google sites, links, ads, products, services, holdings, child companies, etc through my LAN. Put a machine on my lan and try to access google and you'll get a nice "access denied" error page..
Anything BUT google.
Sorry Verisign. I don't trust you. Period.
And I don't want you to have ANYTHING to do with my financial information. Period.
Stay away from my bank account. Stay away from my CC. Just stay away.
I'm worried now because my Credit Union just sent me a new VISA card for no reason,
my current one doesn't expire until late next year but my CU is telling me they are going to
expire it this month and I'm compelled to use the new one they sent. What a pain in the ass.
Now I have to change all my online accounts that I've been using without problem for the past 2 years.
And the new CC they sent me is weird looking, it's CLEAR. WTF sort of feelings of Joy Joy is that
supposed to instill in me?
I hope like hell there's an OPT OUT when this rolls out.
Verisign can go to hell. Hands off my bank account assholes.
to have my ashes shot into the sun.
Because we all that we are came from the sun and other suns, I feel it would be a genuine continuance of the circle of life to return whence we came. Forget "ashes to ashes", I prefer "atoms to atoms"..
The sun is the real giver of life.
I want to clarify one thing, I meant no disrespect what so ever to the victims or anyone else concerning the VT tragedy, quite the contrary. I am just as deeply saddened by the horrific slaughter that happened as anyone else. I was just saying that if someone had went bonkers in the RIAA offices such as that nut did, I doubt the nation would be in mourning over it, many people would probably be celebrating the incident and it probably would have ended up here on /. with a "haha" tag under the headline.
In no way was I trolling.
Well that just goes to show you how deeply hated the RIAA is eh?
that very bad person, the VT bad guy, had just gone off inside the RIAA offices instead, he would be a hero.
No "haha" tag? Someone falling down on the job?
to boycott and block google, doublecrook and any related sites.
Smoothwall + adzapper = happy days!
I disallow anything related to google on my lan.
No machine on my lan can access anything that google owns, operates, controls, manipulates, etc..
Google = EVIL..
so called "Federal Law" from superceding State Law.t ution
Read it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consti
I'm totally out of touch with reality anyway. So it makes total sense to me.
Doh!
when I yawn it doesn't seem to make them yawn.
Maybe it's because I'm always tired and my dogs are always full of piss and vinegar.
There are millions of laws and all of them are ignored by the criminals.
Honest people obey them but criminals do not.
What it will take is to enact a DEATH PENALTY for computer crimes / identity theft.
That's right, strap the bastards down in Ol' Sparky and televise it to the world.
Two or three public executions and the problem will pretty much go away over night.
Do it from another country you say? No problem. Send a Special Forces hit team to kill them in the dark of night.
Seriously though, one day someone is going to get really, really pissed off and they'll go get a pound of flesh from the companies that allowed the data breach to happen. It's only a matter of time.
There are a lot of unhinged people on the edge as it is now.
This has gone on way too long. Enough with the useless laws, let's start up public executions.
you just have to have a pair of sunglasses like Rowdy Roddy Piper to see em..