giving away bars of gold and blow jobs. I have banned access to any and all google IP's and products. No machine connected to my lan can access anything google has to offer. Boycott google. use Clusty --> http://clusty.com/
Google and doublecrook can eat shit and die in the woods. I have blocked access to ALL google and doubleclick systems on my lan. No machine connected to my lan can access anything related to google or doublecrook. I've installed ad blocking software into my firewall (smoothwall) and ads are blocked at the frontdoor. I despise ads and cookies deeply and I despise the corporations that show them in my face. Now they can shove them up their asses sideways. You want to track my browsing? Track me through TOR you f**king parasite scum.
Refuse to use. Walk away and don't use it. Let the rebels of the world invent something better that's free and non oppressive. Sooner or later people with decide enough is enough but they better make it sooner while they still can. Time for a pitchfork and torch rally up to the mountain...
I have hundreds of old PC's stacked to the ceiling in every room. I have a warehouse full of PC's. I have a fully operational ROLM phone system configured to handle 10,000 (ten thousand) lines. I have a Data General Mini Computer. On and on and on.. So many CRT's I can't count them all. Dot matrix printers the size of golf carts. What ya need that's obsolete? I got ya covered.
You yahoos have been so gung-ho to push M$ off the throne. Running amok screaming LINUX! from the rooptops, singing the praises. You've pushed HARD to make Linux compatible with M$, to be able to run M$ apps on your Linux distro. You folks are wanking off over OO being able to run VBS crap. And Novell/Suse/M$ gives us MONO so we can share the.NET misery.
Oh joy! Glorious day it is! My Linux machine is now more M$ compatible and the scumbag crackers have paid heed to your trumpting and will now service your requests for attention! Oh joyous day!
You stupid bastards. And it's only going to get worse now. You should have just staid STFU and enjoyed Linux as it was, very incompatible with M$ and off the crackers radar. But you had to run around waving bait under the noses of the ne'er-do-wellers and now that they are biting, you run around wringing your hands.
I abandoned M$ for Linux because I was sick and fucking tired of the M$ problems. ALL of them. I converted to Linux because it was INCOMPATIBLE with M$ and didn't suffer the M$ problems. Now, thanks to many loud mouths, I see an increasingly troubled future in the Linux world. With M$ on the warpath to destroy Linux and crackers smacking their lips at the chance to crack a Linux box, plus having now about Linux malware being introduced from the inside, once again we'll be more like the very thing we strove to separate ourselves from. The security through obscurity plan has it's merits. It's not the answer but it worked very well for a long time, at least before everyone started blowing their Linux horns and awakened the demons.
Mod me down as a troll and or flamebait but you damn well know I'm 100% correct.
My friend bought a 1gb thumb drive. He brings it over here from time to time so I can put some program updates on it for him as he is VERY internet unsavvy.
Well, I don't remember what the brand of the thumb drive is but when I plug it into my Linux box it is automounted and shows up as "Secure II" (the volume label).. I wondered what this was supposed to mean because the thumb drive was 100% read/write accessable to me on Suse 10.0 I put his program update on the drive, he took it back to his place, plugged it in to his windows box and updated his programs via a batch files I wrote. I have plugged that thumb drive into several different machines I have here including my Mac OS X box and he's plugged it into several of his windows PC's and it's never behaved as anything other than a normal drive, the full 1 gig of it always has been available. What the hell? How is that secure?
I switched my dad to Linux about 5 years ago too. He was calling me almost every day because his windows 2k PC was locking up CONSTANTLY, it would lock up and he would hit the reset button and get back online (dial up modem). He might get lucky and be able to stay running for 20 minutes, 30 minutes max when for no reason what-so-ever it would lock up again. Total lockup. He called me constantly, pissed about his PC. I would drive 10 miles to his house 2-3 times a week to try to fix it, as hitting the reset button all the time was damaging the file system and corrupting files. What a nightmare.
One day I had enough and I said "Dad, do you want to put an end to this stupid shit?" "Yes." "Let me take your PC to my place for a few days and install Linux on it." "Ok"
Problem solved. There have been one or two minor issues but nothing I couldn't walk him through on the phone, usually it was user permissions changing on/dev/modem for some weird reason. Easy to fix over the phone.
All he does with it is browse a few forums with Konqueror, does some email (Kmail) and programs some G codes for his CNC shop in his garage. ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ )
ZERO viruses, ZERO spyware, ZERO trojans, etc. etc..
Best thing I ever did was putting him on Linux. Made MY life soooo much easier...
They both have pendulums in them that spin when you move. The watch winds a spring, the pedometer spins a gear system to log the distance you've walked. How hard would it be to take that concept and use the pendulums to spin little generators? Put one in your cell phone so that as you walk around it recharges itself. Duh..
There's a lot of ways this could be put to use.
I'm 100% in love with the idea of a pollution free "self powered world" where everything is powered by natural, passive means, runs silently and "fossil fuels" are a thing of the past. Yeah, it's a dream but I like my dream.
I have been a Suse fan and PAYING Suse CUSTOMER for several years. Until recently. This MicroSuse crap has pissed me off and turned me off. I totally abandoned M$ products several years ago (I have about 100+ PC's here) because I got sick and tired of the constant problems. I hate M$. I hate everything about M$, I hate all their products, I hate their tyranical and predatory business tactics, I hate their strong arm threats, I hate their anti small business models. M$ only cares about M$ and increasing their profits. If global domination and total tyrany is required to achieve those goals then they embrace that with a zeal. Ballmer and Gates are scumbags and I hope they both burn in hell for eternity. I do not want any M$ products in my home or business. I now despise Novell/Suse with the same contempt that I despise M$. My problem is now migrating my systems from Suse to Gentoo. And I don't want Mono or Beagle or Open Office with M$ compatibility on my machines. I WANT my all of my computers to be as incompatible with M$ as possible.
Novell/Suse, you betrayed us. This sin can not ever be forgiven, we will hold it against you forever. Please cease and desist your attempts to "poison the well" and keep your code out of the Free Linux world. You fucked up and now you must pay for it. Die already will you?
I know this will get modded down as flamebait or troll but I don't care, you are hearing the voice of ONE very pissed off Suse customer. Novell will never see another red cent from me.
Digg is OK for churning news links to the surface that one would otherwise not see but as a place to hold civilized, rational discussion on important topics, it's useless. Anytime someone says something useful and productive on Digg, it gets buried. That is unless it's about tits, condoms or illegal drugs, all of which seem to be priority #1 on Digg. Commenting on Digg is a total waste of time. Unless you're a teenager.
Just goes to show the level of maturity of the average, typical Digg member.
Easy to fix. Require potential moderators to take a pop quiz on TFA before they are allowed to moderate on it. The quiz would determine if they had really read TFA or not. Fail the quiz, no moderation powers, pass the quiz and you can moderate. Sure would cut down on a lot of stupid shit.
upgrade their shitty equipment? Seems like I have read over and over about how North America is like pretty much at the bottom of the ladder of high speed Internet service compared to the rest of the world with the exception of places in Africa. I think I read places like France and Korea have gigabit service pretty much nation wide.
WHY is the (used to be) world leader of technology and one of the richest nations on Earth (USA) still dragging it's feet and living in the past? I know so many people that are STILL running 54k dialup modems at home but their actual throughput averages around 48k. And they are paying an average of $30 a month for such sorry service! Not to mention, frequent disconnects, busy trunks in the evenings, etc..
How pathetic.
These companies have no interest in providing a quality service, their only interest is milking their customers for as much as possible as long as they can. They'll continue to use antiquated and archaic equipment to provide substandard service until they are FORCED to by either massive equipment failures or court order.
F*ck you scumbag. Big tough guy hiding behind your keyboard. Show your self so I can stick your keyboard up your a$$ with my boot. You f*cking sh|tstain loser.
My Mac is the most secure machine of all my systems and now you want me to punch a HUGE hole in my security/privacy by allowing google full, unfettered access to my hard drive and to upload that onto the internet? WTF are people thinking when they do stupid shit like this? And people wonder why hundreds of millions of instances of identity theft happen ever year. I've been a victim of it myself and I don't take it lightly.
Just last week my daughter was again a victim of identity theft, a girl she knows has been going around using my daughters identity (who now lives in London), she even stole her social security number. The girl was arrested several times for impersonating my daughter and ended up on probation. Then last week she was arrested again for public intoxication, she gave the cops my daughters info then even signed a bail bond with my daughters name. As she was bonding out the cops ran a more thorough check and found some flags against my daughters name (because of this girl) so the re-arrested her for identity theft right there. Now she's up on felony charges, repeat offender and violation of probation. She hopefully will get 2 to 5 years in state prison. I hope.. But forever more, my daughter has her name flagged in police databases and if she ever gets pulled over for any reason she's going to have a tough time proving that she really is the real her and not the imposter.
People that use google desktop are STUPID.. You go ahead and let google store your hard drive indexes and god knows what else on some server that's out of your physical control. And when your identity gets stolen and your life turns to shit in a skillet, don't bitch because you won't have a leg to stand on.
I would rather sand paper a bobcat's ass in a phone booth than use google in any way for any thing. Meet the new kid on the block --> http://clusty.org/
my dogs? They damn sure recognize themselves in a mirror, they fully understand what a mirror is and play games in the mirror. The make will sit in front of the mirror and look me directly in the eye via the reflection, he likes doing that. And he knows it's a reflection because as I move my hand up behind his head, he can see my hand in the mirror and he'll tip his head back to meet my hand. And he coordinates it perfectly. He really, fully understand what a reflection is and how they work and he enjoys playing mirror games.
They also play hide and seek and are smart enough to anticipate what the other will do and make strategic counter moves to "cut em off at the pass" when playing in the yard. And they enjoy being petted and tickled, that's obvious to anyone with a brain. And they even have favorite words. Like my puppy, when I call her by her regular name she responds and comes, sits, stays, etc.. But when I call her "wiggly dog" she explodes into a fit of tail wagging like you've never seen, she wags her entire body, like a snake wiggling on the ground. You can tell she takes extreme pleasure in being called "wiggly dog".. The male, his favorite thing is when I call him "big dog", he gets all excited about that just like the puppy.
My dogs are intelligent. I demand they get equal rights too damn it!
Ah yes, those too. And I Spy, Mission Impossible, Space 1999, The Saint, I Dream of Jeannie, Hawaii Five o.. On and on and on. There was so much cool stuff on TV back then. It's just impossible to list it all. Oh and I'll be mixing in some great old movies from Turner Classic Movies and Fox Movie Channel. Here's a link I found that lists a *few* of the many shows from back then. http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv-shows.htm
I'm all for it. I wish they would do it. Matter of fact, I'm building my own "way back machine", an HTPC with a few terabytes and loaded with nothing but old TV shows from the 50's & 60's, maybe a few from the 70's. It will play old TV shows according to a schedule and all the episodes will play in the proper sequence. I'm editing out all the commercials so they won't be tainted by modern crap. I wish I could find copies of the old commercials of way back then too, that would be pretty neat to mix them in. It may take me a few years to gather all the shows I want but I have time. And I'll never grow tired of watching them over and over. Watching TV on this machine really will be like going back in time. Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, ST TOS, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, Addams Family (tos), The Munsters, etc.... Stuff that was on TV when I was a kid. Entertainment without gratuitous violence, sex and cursing. Just good clean fun.
Why? Because I despise 99.9% of contemporary TV programs, they simply suck. Really. I'm stone cold serious.
Slashdot Mirror
giving away bars of gold and blow jobs.
I have banned access to any and all google IP's and products.
No machine connected to my lan can access anything google has to offer.
Boycott google.
use Clusty --> http://clusty.com/
Google and doublecrook can eat shit and die in the woods.
I have blocked access to ALL google and doubleclick systems on my lan.
No machine connected to my lan can access anything related to google or doublecrook.
I've installed ad blocking software into my firewall (smoothwall) and ads are blocked at the frontdoor.
I despise ads and cookies deeply and I despise the corporations that show them in my face.
Now they can shove them up their asses sideways. You want to track my browsing?
Track me through TOR you f**king parasite scum.
Refuse to use. Walk away and don't use it.
Let the rebels of the world invent something better that's free and non oppressive.
Sooner or later people with decide enough is enough but they better make it sooner while they still can.
Time for a pitchfork and torch rally up to the mountain...
that Cheney & Co. trolls the DB for more Iraq/n cannon fodder.
I have hundreds of old PC's stacked to the ceiling in every room.
I have a warehouse full of PC's. I have a fully operational ROLM phone system configured to handle 10,000 (ten thousand) lines. I have a Data General Mini Computer. On and on and on.. So many CRT's I can't count them all. Dot matrix printers the size of golf carts.
What ya need that's obsolete? I got ya covered.
You yahoos have been so gung-ho to push M$ off the throne. .NET misery.
Running amok screaming LINUX! from the rooptops, singing the praises.
You've pushed HARD to make Linux compatible with M$, to be able to run M$ apps
on your Linux distro. You folks are wanking off over OO being able to run VBS crap.
And Novell/Suse/M$ gives us MONO so we can share the
Oh joy! Glorious day it is! My Linux machine is now more M$ compatible and the scumbag crackers have paid heed to your trumpting and will now service your requests for attention! Oh joyous day!
You stupid bastards. And it's only going to get worse now. You should have just staid STFU and enjoyed Linux as it was, very incompatible with M$ and off the crackers radar. But you had to run around waving bait under the noses of the ne'er-do-wellers and now that they are biting, you run around wringing your hands.
I abandoned M$ for Linux because I was sick and fucking tired of the M$ problems. ALL of them.
I converted to Linux because it was INCOMPATIBLE with M$ and didn't suffer the M$ problems.
Now, thanks to many loud mouths, I see an increasingly troubled future in the Linux world.
With M$ on the warpath to destroy Linux and crackers smacking their lips at the chance to crack a Linux box, plus having now about Linux malware being introduced from the inside, once again we'll be more like the very thing we strove to separate ourselves from. The security through obscurity plan has it's merits. It's not the answer but it worked very well for a long time, at least before everyone started blowing their Linux horns and awakened the demons.
Mod me down as a troll and or flamebait but you damn well know I'm 100% correct.
this is just a cover for the REAL name, "Farting Monkey".
My friend bought a 1gb thumb drive. He brings it over here from time to time so I can put some program updates on it for him as he is VERY internet unsavvy.
Well, I don't remember what the brand of the thumb drive is but when I plug it into my Linux box it is automounted and shows up as "Secure II" (the volume label).. I wondered what this was supposed to mean because the thumb drive was 100% read/write accessable to me on Suse 10.0
I put his program update on the drive, he took it back to his place, plugged it in to his windows box and updated his programs via a batch files I wrote. I have plugged that thumb drive into several different machines I have here including my Mac OS X box and he's plugged it into several of his windows PC's and it's never behaved as anything other than a normal drive, the full 1 gig of it always has been available.
What the hell? How is that secure?
I switched my dad to Linux about 5 years ago too.
/dev/modem for some weird reason. Easy to fix over the phone.
He was calling me almost every day because his windows 2k PC was locking up CONSTANTLY, it would lock up and he would hit the reset button and get back online (dial up modem). He might get lucky and be able to stay running for 20 minutes, 30 minutes max when for no reason what-so-ever it would lock up again.
Total lockup. He called me constantly, pissed about his PC. I would drive 10 miles to his house 2-3 times a week to try to fix it, as hitting the reset button all the time was damaging the file system and corrupting files. What a nightmare.
One day I had enough and I said "Dad, do you want to put an end to this stupid shit?"
"Yes."
"Let me take your PC to my place for a few days and install Linux on it."
"Ok"
Problem solved. There have been one or two minor issues but nothing I couldn't walk him through on the phone, usually it was user permissions changing on
All he does with it is browse a few forums with Konqueror, does some email (Kmail) and programs some G codes for his CNC shop in his garage. ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ )
ZERO viruses, ZERO spyware, ZERO trojans, etc. etc..
Best thing I ever did was putting him on Linux. Made MY life soooo much easier...
has a BSOD while Bill is on board!
Please oh please have a BSOD!!!
Self winding watches anyone? Pedometers?
They both have pendulums in them that spin when you move. The watch winds a spring, the pedometer spins a gear system to log the distance you've walked. How hard would it be to take that concept and use the pendulums to spin little generators? Put one in your cell phone so that as you walk around it recharges itself. Duh..
There's a lot of ways this could be put to use.
I'm 100% in love with the idea of a pollution free "self powered world" where everything is powered by natural, passive means, runs silently and "fossil fuels" are a thing of the past. Yeah, it's a dream but I like my dream.
Absolutely correct.
I have been a Suse fan and PAYING Suse CUSTOMER for several years. Until recently. This MicroSuse crap has pissed me off and turned me off.
I totally abandoned M$ products several years ago (I have about 100+ PC's here) because I got sick and tired of the constant problems. I hate M$. I hate everything about M$, I hate all their products, I hate their tyranical and predatory business tactics, I hate their strong arm threats, I hate their anti small business models. M$ only cares about M$ and increasing their profits. If global domination and total tyrany is required to achieve those goals then they embrace that with a zeal. Ballmer and Gates are scumbags and I hope they both burn in hell for eternity. I do not want any M$ products in my home or business.
I now despise Novell/Suse with the same contempt that I despise M$. My problem is now migrating my systems from Suse to Gentoo. And I don't want Mono or Beagle or Open Office with M$ compatibility on my machines.
I WANT my all of my computers to be as incompatible with M$ as possible.
Novell/Suse, you betrayed us. This sin can not ever be forgiven, we will hold it against you forever.
Please cease and desist your attempts to "poison the well" and keep your code out of the Free Linux world.
You fucked up and now you must pay for it. Die already will you?
I know this will get modded down as flamebait or troll but I don't care, you are hearing the voice of ONE very pissed off Suse customer. Novell will never see another red cent from me.
if it were free.
Oh wait...
fact that this is only **AA propaganda..
Digg is OK for churning news links to the surface that one would otherwise not see but as a place to hold civilized, rational discussion on important topics, it's useless.
Anytime someone says something useful and productive on Digg, it gets buried.
That is unless it's about tits, condoms or illegal drugs, all of which seem to be priority #1 on Digg.
Commenting on Digg is a total waste of time. Unless you're a teenager.
Just goes to show the level of maturity of the average, typical Digg member.
Easy to fix.
Require potential moderators to take a pop quiz on TFA before they are allowed to moderate on it.
The quiz would determine if they had really read TFA or not. Fail the quiz, no moderation powers, pass the quiz and you can moderate. Sure would cut down on a lot of stupid shit.
upgrade their shitty equipment?
Seems like I have read over and over about how North America is like pretty much at the bottom of the ladder of high speed Internet service compared to the rest of the world with the exception of places in Africa.
I think I read places like France and Korea have gigabit service pretty much nation wide.
WHY is the (used to be) world leader of technology and one of the richest nations on Earth (USA) still dragging it's feet and living in the past? I know so many people that are STILL running 54k dialup modems at home but their actual throughput averages around 48k. And they are paying an average of $30 a month for such sorry service! Not to mention, frequent disconnects, busy trunks in the evenings, etc..
How pathetic.
These companies have no interest in providing a quality service, their only interest is milking their customers for as much as possible as long as they can. They'll continue to use antiquated and archaic equipment to provide substandard service until they are FORCED to by either massive equipment failures or court order.
When you JTAG into a device you OWN the device. This is no breakthrough. It's what JTAG was designed to allow you to do. Jeez..
F*ck you scumbag. Big tough guy hiding behind your keyboard. Show your self so I can stick your keyboard up your a$$ with my boot. You f*cking sh|tstain loser.
My Mac is the most secure machine of all my systems and now you want me to punch a HUGE hole in my security/privacy by allowing google full, unfettered access to my hard drive and to upload that onto the internet? WTF are people thinking when they do stupid shit like this?
And people wonder why hundreds of millions of instances of identity theft happen ever year.
I've been a victim of it myself and I don't take it lightly.
Just last week my daughter was again a victim of identity theft, a girl she knows has been going around using my daughters identity (who now lives in London), she even stole her social security number. The girl was arrested several times for impersonating my daughter and ended up on probation. Then last week she was arrested again for public intoxication, she gave the cops my daughters info then even signed a bail bond with my daughters name. As she was bonding out the cops ran a more thorough check and found some flags against my daughters name (because of this girl) so the re-arrested her for identity theft right there. Now she's up on felony charges, repeat offender and violation of probation. She hopefully will get 2 to 5 years in state prison. I hope..
But forever more, my daughter has her name flagged in police databases and if she ever gets pulled over for any reason she's going to have a tough time proving that she really is the real her and not the imposter.
People that use google desktop are STUPID.. You go ahead and let google store your hard drive indexes and god knows what else on some server that's out of your physical control. And when your identity gets stolen and your life turns to shit in a skillet, don't bitch because you won't have a leg to stand on.
I would rather sand paper a bobcat's ass in a phone booth than use google in any way for any thing.
Meet the new kid on the block --> http://clusty.org/
my dogs? They damn sure recognize themselves in a mirror, they fully understand what a mirror is and play games in the mirror. The make will sit in front of the mirror and look me directly in the eye via the reflection, he likes doing that. And he knows it's a reflection because as I move my hand up behind his head, he can see my hand in the mirror and he'll tip his head back to meet my hand. And he coordinates it perfectly. He really, fully understand what a reflection is and how they work and he enjoys playing mirror games.
They also play hide and seek and are smart enough to anticipate what the other will do and make strategic counter moves to "cut em off at the pass" when playing in the yard.
And they enjoy being petted and tickled, that's obvious to anyone with a brain. And they even have favorite words. Like my puppy, when I call her by her regular name she responds and comes, sits, stays, etc..
But when I call her "wiggly dog" she explodes into a fit of tail wagging like you've never seen, she wags her entire body, like a snake wiggling on the ground. You can tell she takes extreme pleasure in being called "wiggly dog".. The male, his favorite thing is when I call him "big dog", he gets all excited about that just like the puppy.
My dogs are intelligent. I demand they get equal rights too damn it!
bullshit.
and Commander Draper anxiously await their rescue.
Ah yes, those too. And I Spy, Mission Impossible, Space 1999, The Saint, I Dream of Jeannie, Hawaii Five o..
On and on and on. There was so much cool stuff on TV back then. It's just impossible to list it all.
Oh and I'll be mixing in some great old movies from Turner Classic Movies and Fox Movie Channel.
Here's a link I found that lists a *few* of the many shows from back then.
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv-shows.htm
Ahh, those were the days.
I'm all for it. I wish they would do it.
Matter of fact, I'm building my own "way back machine", an HTPC with a few terabytes and loaded with nothing but old TV shows from the 50's & 60's, maybe a few from the 70's.
It will play old TV shows according to a schedule and all the episodes will play in the proper sequence.
I'm editing out all the commercials so they won't be tainted by modern crap. I wish I could find copies of the old commercials of way back then too, that would be pretty neat to mix them in. It may take me a few years to gather all the shows I want but I have time. And I'll never grow tired of watching them over and over. Watching TV on this machine really will be like going back in time.
Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, ST TOS, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, Addams Family (tos), The Munsters, etc.... Stuff that was on TV when I was a kid. Entertainment without gratuitous violence, sex and cursing. Just good clean fun.
Why? Because I despise 99.9% of contemporary TV programs, they simply suck.
Really. I'm stone cold serious.